I attended another weekend of Boy Scout camp over last weekend. It wasn't really camping, per say, since we slept in barracks and we didn't do any cooking, but it was a council run event.
It didn't live up to expectations. It rained all saturday, and none of the other participants were really prepared for the rain, except me. They ended up pulling everyone inside from my program right after lunch. After that we basically had a huge party in the barracks. The SPL for my Jamboree Troop was
Last track meet was on Thursday and somehow I crushed my old time in the 800 M. I ended up getting approx. 2:30 which tops my old record by 12 seconds. At the very end I was all out sprinting.
I'm going to attribute the time to the guy from another school who tried to pass me on the final hundred. I heard him come up behind me fast and something just clicked in my mind. That's when I hit the turbo. I doubt I've ever run hat fast in my life. He cam close to passing me twice I think but I
I really haven't been on here very much over the last month or two. I don't know. It just seems like I've got too much stuff on my plate. I some how get the feeling that I should move on, from BZPower and forums in general, but I just don't feel ready to do that.
I might be that I'll have more time once classes end at the beginning of next month, but will I really? Track is also entering full swing now with our first outdoor meet tomorrow. After this season I'll have to make some hard ch
I recently got a new MP3 player. My old one is probably on its last life right now.
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The old one is black and the new one is the nice teal color. The old Nextar has a number of problems. It seems like the components behind the big silver button have shifted so the button is at a funny angle. Although you can't see it in the picture, the slider thing used to switch songs is also pretty much broke. It's jammed so that unless your concentrating when you try to switch songs you'll
I finally got around to purchasing the new Tobymac album, Tonight. I listened to most of the music on Yahoo right before it got released and I like some of the music. It seems like it's a pretty good album although there's no way it will be able to top Portable Sounds.
I also ordered the Joshua Rifkin Scott Joplin album. So much good music on there. Scott Joplin wrote some amazing songs. I think my favorite has to be Bethena. It's not as well known as the Entertainer or the Maple Leaf R
Someone send me a PM tomorrow before I get on and let me know what to expect. Whether it's a back to normal BZPower or some unrecognizable post-apocalyptic landscape. If it's the latter, let me know where a safe haven is.
For anyone wondering why I've been so inactive, no posts or blog updates.
Track has started now so I have about 2 hours of practice every afternoon. I now past the point where I'm dead tired after practice but that doesn't change my work load.
I also work about 10 hours a week so that's taking up time.
School work is also taking up a lot of my time. My trig class is ending next week so I need to make sure all my homework and stuff is all in line for that. I'm getting started on the f
The first track practice of the season was today. Appearently I wasn't technically suppose to practice. The coach let me practice anyway though. That should be resolved tomorrow though.
I think it's going to be a good year. Even through I'm not in the greatest shape right now, I'm still in a lot better shape then I was at the start of the last two seasons. I think for this year I stat running the mile. Previously I've only done the 800m.
When I hopped on BZPower at about 3:25 this afternoon I got a suprise. When I tried to access LGD I got an IPS Driver error. When I scrolled down to the bottom of the home page It turned out there were only two people logged in. Myself and one other guy.
Something was up, since I had never seen that few of people on. When I refreshed the page the forums had been turned offline. Another refresh and I got a forum maintenance page. The next refresh brought up the forum offline page agian
Last night was the opening night for the musical the local homeschool group is doing, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. I'm not doing anything with, but two of my siblings are on the stage crew. It was pretty good although there were a lot of set changes, almost to the point of being too many. This will go down as another great Homeschool Theater production on of all the other great plays they've done in the past.
Next year I'm going to be on the stage crew of what ever play they decide to
I was going to post my thoughts on my recent Skrall purchase but that's going tohave to wait.
I was walking along the hall in the basement of my house that runs along on side and stepped in something wet. No problem I thought, one of my brothers probably spilled something. Turns out they didn't.
The ground on that side of the house has never had good drainage. There's a hill that gently slopes down, then there's a door into the house, and then there's another hill that slopes back up.
So earlier today I bought the Sea Jet Atlantis set. That means that I have three of the smaller Atlantis sets. The only small one I'm missing is the Manta Warrior but I'm not too interested in getting it.
I also got the Skrall Stars. Now my Golden Bionicle will be balanced. I've got Tahu and the Rahkshi. I also got the armor piece from Gresh from my brother since he doesn't have Tahu. I'm still looking at getting Takanuva and Nektan but I'm not sure if I'm willing to spend the money on
It feels sort of a breath of fresh air. After being really busy for I don'tknow how long it feels good to have almost nothing to do.
I have a some math homework but I'm already over half way done with it. I also have a paper I need to finish. That paper is probably going to be the hardest thing to finish. I don't even want to think about it right now.
I also want to try to learn Morse code. That's going to be a challenge, although I've learned the three letters that I need for my firs
Lately the weather has been really nice out. Upper 30's, lower 40's. All the snow is starting to melt. The only downside to this nice weather is that the sidewalks around the college have all turned into ice. While normally don't have a problem with I don't really like it.
Running has gotten off to a good start too. If it stays nice like this should have no trouble getting ready for track.
Most of yesterday and today was spent painting the two largest rooms of my house. Actually it would be one room, but the fireplace breaks it in to two rooms. The top of the two rooms is pretty high, over twelve feet. It was pretty interesting crawling around on boards that we had set up, trying paint.
For some odd reason our large (and overfilled) living room looks smaller when there is nothing in it.
Another Track season is fast approaching. There's going to be a parents meeting on March 1st. The first practice is going to happen on March 15th.
This year they're not going to have morning practices during spring break, probably because they only had half the team at the spring break practices last year.
Hopefully I'll be able to participate in the pentathlon the team is doing. Last year everyone in my family had the stomach flu, which wasn't fun at all.
It will be interesting to
Yesterday was my Jamboree Troop's February meeting. I don't think we covered much. Maybe we did but it was mostly going over old stuff.
Some of the trips have been set now. Apparently we're going to be getting on the road at 3:00 A.M. to drive to the airport the day we're flying out. That should be fun. We may also get to tour the White House although we won't know if that will happen until a couple weeks before we leave.
They also made clear that no electronics, except cameras if you
So goes another contest I've failed to enter. I thought about entering but most of my Technic pieces are white (NXT). A lot of my older stuff is black but apparently it doesn't count as Technic, which it is.
There are a lot of cool MOCs this time, but nothing as amazing as the friction pin cycle from the last contest. I'll look forward to vote, if I remember it this time.
I went for my first run of the season today. I was testing the waters, both figuratively and literally.
I think it went pretty I'm no where near the shape I was in at the end of last year but I'm still in a lot better shape then the beginning of last year.
I ended up going through a puddle. I thought I would be able to get through it. Turns out it was deeper then I thought so my shoes are soaked. Hopefully they'll be reasonably dry by the end of this week.
The two things I need most
Last night was my troop Centennial Celebration Court of Honor. It was originally scheduled for last Monday, but the local weather conditions had other plans.
To start off we had a bunch of old scouting stuff set up around the room for people to look at. One Assistant Scout Master brought in his Boy Scout Hand Book collection. He is only missing the first two editions. Another ASM brought in a bunch of old Boys Life Magazines.
Old Boys Life Magazines
Hand Books - The Blue one is the th
On sunday I had to go to the copy store to get copies of the program for my troop's court of honor. While I was there I got the poster that was released recently printed out.
Personally I would have like it a little bigger. Right now I have it as a 11x17. The only problem was that there was an almost $20 difference in price between the size I got and the next largest size. It would have also been about 24 hours before I could have gotten it.
It doesn't look too bad even though the aspe
This is the reflective essay I needed to write for English class. Normally I wouldn't post papers here but this one is sort of a personal narrative. I'm going to claim it's a great piece of writing and I know it doesn't get everything across that I wanted to, but I think it has a few moments that just click.
The Camp that Enthralled Me
When I first visited Many Point Scout Camp in northern Minnesota, it was a new experience. Previously the only camping trips I had gone on had been w
