Sunday, March 28, 2004

Ski Trip Musings
Stuff I wrote during the weekend. It will have to suffice for now. :p

"Well, we got to the Round Hearth at about 7:00. We had dinner a few minutes away at a very nice pizza place. I had a “South of the Border” pizza. It had Jalapeños, peppers, onions, cheese, salsa, and...olives. Even though we specifically asked for no olives, they put olives on. Not many, but still; I don’t like olives. I slept most of the way up. Our bus is very comfortable. It’s 12' 4" tall, and so the perspective alone is entertainment to me. We have a great bus driver by the name of Maurice, or Mo. I owe my parents for the trip, I think about $38. Added on to the $197 I already owe them....and you get a troublesome amount of money. I’m babysitting next Sunday for the St. Louises, and I’m probably going to re-instate my “Pay half to mom and dad” rule for whenever I get money. I do not like being in debt; it ruins my fun. >_>

I was just confronted by some random Counter-Strike zealot. He, of course, told me that I should install Counter-Strike on my laptop. From the way he said it, he thought it was imperative. It sure seemed like her was telling me that I had to. Apparently my multitude of Flash games didn’t suit his tastes. Idiot.

I’ve already spent most of my change on the House of the Dead video game. The same thing happened this time in the exact same spot as it did last year. In the middle of a fight with the second boss, the timer ran out before I could get my money out. Whoever makes these video games ought to put more than ten second on the time limit. :p So, I wound up starting the whole game over again. I managed to get to the final boss, and I got him down to the point where maybe two attacks would have beaten him. Then he unleashed his ridiculous attack and killed me again. I reached into my pocket and discovered that I was out of quarters. I had a half dollar and a few golden dollars, and some dimes, but nothing the machine would take. I am done for the weekend. :p

I dueled Robert twice. I won both times. My Deck remains superior for now. I’ve had some juice and a few cookies. My dad has gotten the ring to the hook 100+ times tonight already. I’m content with my two for now. *nod*

I brought my Confirmation questions along to work on, as well as my Theology books and my Bible. Hopefully, with the free time on my hands tomorrow, I’ll be able to find an outlet and plug in my laptop. That way I can type up the answers to all of my questions and be done with them for the Monday after next. I think that I can answer them with the materials I have, and if I can’t I can ask Mr. Leone some other day.

I am determined to watch the Princess Bride this weekend. I may just start after writing this. It’s 11:30, though, and lights are out at 12:00. I don’t remember if that applies just to the upper level or if we have to get out of the downstairs as well. We shall see, I suppose.

Most of us are in the TV room watching the Illinois-Duke basketball game. I’m off in a corner, with my laptop plugged into an outlet. We have breakfast at 7:10 tomorrow morning, and the next group has breakfast at 7:20. I think that that’s ridiculous. We’re expected to get food for twenty-something people and all eat it in ten minutes? Chances are, it’s not going to happen. Especially not when everyone is going to be tired after staying up late tonight.

So far, things have been fun. I look forward to tomorrow, but particularly I look forward to going to bed. :p That’s all for now. To watch the Princess Bride I go.




Well, it’s Sunday afternoon. I’m at the ski resort, listening to music, playing Flash games, and watching people play cards. We’ve already had lunch. Sandwiches, as planned. My dad got a new record for the ring and hook thing at the Round Hearth; 600 rings.

We had a dance thing last night at the Round Hearth; a DJ came and was blaring music as loud as possible. The girls of our group were just about the only ones dancing; this is including my mom and aunt. I scrounged around for change to play House of the Dead. Remember, I had reached the final boss of the game and I had him down to about two attacks worth of life before I ran out change. His final attacks are so darned frustrating. He spins around, you can get a shot or two in there, and then he flings about a dozen orbs of energy into the air. If you don’t shoot all of the orbs, you will get damaged. Which is cheap, because you can’t shoot them until they get within a certain range. By the time they’re in that range, there is little possibility that you can shoot them all in time. Like I said, cheap.

Anyways, I hopped in beside a kid from another group and we managed to get to the final level. He died at the first boss replay and I was left on my own. I beat the first boss for the second time, and then I went into the next room to fight the bat guy again. He is still a major pain in the butt. His darned bats and him killed me. If it weren’t for his darned bats, I might have had a chance.

We have a great bus driver, a guy named Mo, or Maurice. Oy...I don’t really think that I’ve got much more to talk about. I can’t go outside, because I get a headache from the brightness. So I’ll just sit inside, playing games, listening to music, and giving vague replies when people ask me what I’m doing. “What are you doing Ben?”

“Writing.” or “Just writin’ something.”

I could probably answer a few more Confirmation questions, but I feel a strong desire to procrastinate. I still have quite a few to do, and they’re due next Monday. If I want enough time to go to the Yu-Gi-Oh tournament next Saturday, and then to the St. Louis’ house, I’ll have to get them done on the way home, at home, or sometime this week. I don’t really know what we’ll be doing in school this week, but we’ll probably be getting report cards. As usual, I don’t really know how I’m going to do. My Chemistry grade is a 99%, so that will probably boost up my average, I hope. Theology should be good as usual, I think. I don’t recall anything that could really pull it down, considering Mr. Leone’s policy of dropping the lowest grade. Photography will be, to my knowledge, good. I don’t think we’ve done much towards grades besides our ethical collages and essays. I hope that she liked the way I did mine. I could have done it better had I put some extra effort into it. Algebra II = Excellent, as always. English I think will be good; I’ve been doing well on my quizzes and tests, and my paper and presentation were good. History will most likely be bad. I’ve been slacking off on my homework in History. That will probably hurt my grade significantly. >_< Hopefully my Chemistry grade will make up for whatever I get in this class; good, average, or bad. French is good, an 85. B or B+. Satisfactory. That’s it. All I have to do now is get the Report Card itself. I’d bet that Mr. Lacey put a comment about my homework. I would too. The rest should be the usual positive comments, I expect."

There. Be happy, gosh darnit. :p Some of it may not make much sense, but you can just leave questions in the form of a Comment. ^_^ Or catch me on AIM.

There's an old Brazilian saying,
"The oven is warmed..."

"...through its mouth."
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