Went to the local Toys R Us earlier tonight. As I somewhat expected, there were no series 2 minifigs left. However they had a bunch of the impulse alien scape ship from the Toy Story line so I picked up on of those and I got an impulse jester set.
I didn't a have enough money along to get the Bricktober magnet so I may go back next week to make a slightly bigger purchase.
It's been almost a week now since I started getting shin splints. So far they haven't gotten any better. At this rate I won't be able to run again this season. The season ends in less then two weeks.
I want to finish out the cross country season, but it just seems like I won't be able to. My one big worry is that if I try to run before I really should, I could end up doing even more damage to shins. And then that could possibly hurt my final high school track season this spring.
I'm
The physics test went really well. I thought it was pretty easy when I did and I guess it was. 98% and top of the class. Class average was about 60%.
What really makes me mad, was that I could have had 100%. I somehow circled the wrong answer for one of the multiple questions though. I knew the correct answer, but the letter I circled didn't go with that answer.
It looks like my cross country season could be coming to a premature end. I thought I would be able to manage the season with out getting them, but yesterday's meet proved other.
It was the worst run of the season, at 22:31. And this is less then a week after my PR a 21:23. I was limping a bit this morning so hopefully some icing, rest, and stretching, will get me back into running soon, since there's less then 3 weeks left in the season.
First meeting to plan the local homeschool group's graduation ceremony was tonight. It doesn't look like there will two different ceremonies this year. That will make stuff work a lot smoother.
Basically we have nothing done except a couple possible places to hold the ceremony. We also know we don't want to have a band thing like a group two years ago had. Hopefully it will pull together a little more over the next couple of months.
Rained most of today. Luckily it didn't rain as much as the forecasters originally predicted otherwise, the area outside my basement door would have flooded. There was still a huge puddle there, but it didn't get up to the house.
The cross country practice was also better then expected, since the coach didn't make us run in the rain. Hopefully it's all past by this weekend because an all day cross country meet will not be fun in the rain.
Last week was my third Cross Country Meet. The course was a golf course that was pretty level. It worked out nice and I got 21:43 for a time, a new PR if only by a few seconds.
The fourth cross country meet, two days ago, didn't work out as well. The course was also a golf course but there were a lot more hills. My time ended up being about 21:48. Time was roughly the same as my other races but I know I was working a lot harder for this one.
I another meet this Saturday. I'll hopeful
Well, I finally convinced my dad to let install Firefox on one of the family's Vista computers. I need to have for my computer science class since we're covering Javascript and HTML and it works for debugging a lot better then IE.
My computer has been off-line since one of the computer moniters died and that was the only onw with Firefox. So it was either I get my moniter back, leaving one computer for the rest of the family, or install Firefox.
My Boy Scout council had their annual Fall Camporee this past weekend. It wasn't a council wide camporee though since the venue was changed from one of the council camps to a (much smaller) county park. It was a rather fun time. I got to be acting SPL for the weekend since no other older boys went. I also got to work with the Griffins patrol , which included myself and three first years.
We worked on the Signaling merit badge in the morning, and I also got to shoot a black power rifle. M
I guess this is essentially my "sleeper" class. Up until yesterday, I probably could have slept through most of the classes. None of the stuff we covered up until that point was new to me. Maybe now it get a little more interesting. We're starting on Java Script so that should be a little bit useful at some point.
We got start building our web pages today. My professor is going to get introduced to LEGO when she checks mine, as I linked to a couple of LEGO blogs, and my Brickshelf.
Al
I finally got caught up on all of my school work so I thought I try to get something creative done. After a bunch of false starts, I think I have a reasonable story idea to work with.
It's about BZPower, although it's not set in a Bionicle reality like most other BZPower stories. I'm going more towards a LEGO System reality, although I'm not sure that it really comes out. I'm not sure if I should post it in LGD or COT, although I probably could get away with either place.
The following
My room is currently in process of being cleaned. It has really needed it since there is still stuff lying around from a couple of months ago, when I cleared out my dresser so I would have more room for clothes.
My LEGO collection is still a mess, however. Sets are still piled up from the beginning of this year and I have partially disassembled MOCs stuck in random totes around my room. This is one mess that I won't be tackling anytime soon.
It seemed like it was a grey day out today. If I didn't have such a full schedule, I probably would have curled up with a blanket and a good book. As it was I pulled out a notebook and did a little writing during my open hour this morning.
I want to write something, but I'm not sure where to start. I have some ideas and I've put some stuff down on paper, but it seems like I get stuck after a couple of pages. I wanted to do something for the Short Stories forum, but Bioncle writing really
The second Cross Country meet of the season was earlier today. The temperature was pretty much perfect, I'm going to say it was mid to low 60's. It was cloudy and it was sprinkling on and off, but it didn't really start raining until the last race finished, which was the girl's race for some reason.
I ended up getting about 22:12. 26 seconds more then my previous race. I don't know, I haven't really felt fully "recharged" since that first race, so that may be part of it. We were also run
Why didn't someone try to talk me out of taking college level Physics?
I'll probably survive, but this is the first class that will probably take this much work. At least the rest of my classes are relatively easy. Yeah for having almost no time for BZPower and the internet in general.
For the first time ever, I have the house completely to my self. It's only going to be this way for one night though. I get to drive up to my grand parents cabin tomorrow after work. It should be pretty interesting.
I know the way to get up there, and it's a pretty straight shot (get on a road and don't get off it), but I don't think I ever driven up there before, even with my parents. I rode up there a lot, but being a passenger and drive are completely different. I'll probably get the
Is it really September already? It seems like it was yesterday that I was finishing up with track and starting my summer.
I really haven't blogged enough lately and that probably won't change. School started on Monday last week and I've been pretty busy since then. Physics, Microeconomics, and Intro to Computer Science have me pretty swamped. Not to mention work, cross country and Boy Scouts.
Cross Country has also been keeping me pretty busy. First meet of the season was yesterday.
On Sunday night I got to see Big Daddy Weave in Concert. Andy Kirk and Aaron Shust also performed.
Andy Kirk was the first performer. He was decent I guess, but I'm not too impressed. Aaron Shust was pretty good. He has a good voice and some of his songs are pretty good.
Big Daddy Weave was also really good. I saw them probably 4 or 5 years ago when they toured with Mark Schultz on his Broken and Beautiful Tour. They were a lot better this time. They use a sax for some of the songs,
School Started for me on Monday. Bad news was that I still didn't have all my classes lined up.
I orginally was registered for a calculus class, but it wasn't the right one. I had to drop that and none of the classes for the claculus class I need to take fit my schedule. Well, there was one, but the fact that about half the people on a professor review site used the word evil to describe the professor scared me off.
I ended up adding general physics. That didn't really fit my schedule
Well, in ten days my summer officially ends. Classes start for the fall semester and I'll be swamped with homework and cross country practice.
It sort of feels like this summer has been a washout. But that's not really true. I've done a lot of stuff, most of it wasn't stuff I was really planning on doing though. I had my trip to DC and the National Scout Jamboree. I also had a long vacation at my grandparents cabin over the week of the 4th of July.
I didn't really get stuff done tha
I'm pretty much done unpacking, I have to reclean my room though so that could take a while.
I want to get pictures up, but I just maxed out my basic Flickr account. Now I need to decide if I want to pay $25 to have unlimited use or if I'm going to have find something else.
I finally back from my trip to Washington DC and the 2010 National Scout Jamboree. I officially set foot on MN soil at about 12:30 pm central time yesterday. The whole trip was amazing. I have a few regrets about not doing some stuff, but really I couldn't have avoided it. I don't have time to do a full write up now, but I have a few things to say.
To those of you who were at the lunch kiosk at 12:30ish on Tuesday, I was also there, but I didn't see you. I still have some of my JSPs left
