Wednesday, November 22, 2006

   The turkeys are coming!!!
What looks like thanksgiving is almost upon us once again and I'm really excited because it means mashed potatoes, gravy, turkey, ham, Brussels sprouts, stuffing, cranberry sauce, butter roles and much much more electable thanksgiving cuisine. well as for my plans for turkey day it looks like I'll be having everyone from my mom and then debts side over to our house for thanksgiving dinner and then for the weekend after where heading out to the ocean for three days like we've done in years past and I can't wait. of course going to be auctioned means I definitely won't forget to bring the fishing equipment because I never miss a chance. School: while it's been going well. I got my report card the other day and I've got straight A's currently YAHOO! In pottery were working on mosaics and then in marine technology we've been fine tuning resumes which I already did last year so I've been pretty bored in that class. as for my internship at the hatchery things have been going a little crazy now that the floodwaters have subsided they have left a huge sandbar in front of our upstream weir which is causing some problems and our main holding pond is almost 3/4 full of sentiment that washed down during the flood and then we had to pull 78 half dead salmon out of our out with pipes for our smult pen released pipes and, holding tanks which was a rather smelly slimy job which I've gotten pretty used to buy now so it didn't bother me. Also is it just me or has a lot of people not been on for commenting on the because I've only been getting about two comments if I'm lucky where is about a month ago I was getting five to ten and I've been returning all my visits and I've been visiting people like crazy. Oh well it must be the busy holiday schedule starting to affect every one and the fact that it's almost the end of the first semester and that's always a crazy time in school and therefore people just don't have as much free time as they used to. Finely I've been trying quite a bit lately and I should be posting some new art soon and does anyone know how to make a thumbnail link of your artwork that you can add to your post 'cause I'd like to know how to do that that way you all can see my artwork without having to dig through my portfolio. will if you can help me just PM me the info or leave it in your comment and I would much be appreciated it.
Sincerely your pilgrim, ~DJ~
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Monday, November 20, 2006

   Time waits for no man!
Well I haven't been on since I think Thursday or was it Wednesday any way I've been pretty busy lately and really haven't had a chance to go on an update. Well here's what I've been up to....
Thursday: I went to the Pacific marine expo to work with a company I met at that same expo three years ago because they hired me to work for them for three days. The first day wasn't bad I just spent most of my time walking around telling people about our product which just happens to be a long line and grabbed bight which consists of squid from the East Coast and Argentina and hearing from the East Coast as well as sardines from Oregon and we also had on display some of the Bering sea true COD which are caught using our bait. It is all frozen solid and sits on a table and people come by and check it out and then at the end of day we give it away to those people who want to take it home and eat it because it's all food quality. I personally took home 60lbs. of herring and mackerel and another 15lbs. of squid and I carried all of this in a box in in a backpack all the way home on a bus which wasn't exactly that these easy. Friday: I did more of the same of sitting in front of the boutiques planning to people the pros and cons of our product where we get it the prices and so on and also walked before some more and picked up a bunch of pool free stuff at the different booths which consisted of everything from a waterproof fanny pack two pats of no paper and ballpoint pens and baseball caps and a myriad of other things. After I got off of work at 5:00 I headed down the street to my favorite sporting goods store which my friend works at and he gave me a ride home and then we went down to our local fishing spot and tried to catch a few squid and turns out we had just missed a decent run which means the season is starting to kick up finely. Saturday: it was the last day of the expo on Saturday so I only worked from 10:00 to 3:00 and on all the other days I work from 10:00 to 5:00. I continued soliciting our product and telling more people about it and the other guys in our group handled the marketing. after the expo ended at 3:00 we packed everything up and the boss of international marine industries (the company I worked for) paid me which he was posted to me in cash but the company didn't have the budget so instead he just paid me by buying me a new fishing real and told me to e-mail him the details of what kind of rod I wanted and he would ship it to me from Rhode island which is where the company is based. Most likely I will order something specific to his area that I can't get around my area. I wish they would have paid me in cash because I was counting on a cash checks for the upcoming anime convention ,at least I'm still getting something out of the deal. on my way home I had to sit and wait for a bus for almost two hours and I'll occupied by self by shooting the ball with a couple of bombs that were hanging out near the bus stop and in turn may showed me how to play a game of Ratgolf which you play using a golf club and a broom and you run around smacking one of the thousands of rats that run around downtown Seattle after dark and tried to hit them or shoot them into their whole with one stroke and you get an extra points if you kill one. I know you all must be thinking I'm crazy now but it was really quite fun and it passed that I'm quite quickly and who knows maybe I will return and play with Willie and the guys again (Willie was the name of the main guy in the group) finally I headed over to the bus stop to find out that the bus I had been waiting for doesn't run on Saturdays so I had to call my mom on my cell phone and have her come and pick me up. After I got home since it was my dad's birthday and he turned 57 we took him out to see a animated movie which has become a tradition which started with Toy Store 1 and the movie of choice this time was Flushed Away which I highly recommend seeing if you like watching gut busting animated movies.
Well all try to get around and visit everyone this week but I can't promise anything because I don't know my schedule this week.
Sincerely your bomb under a bridge,~wonderkid~ P.S I hope everyone likes the my new theme song by Eiffel 65 because it's the only song I still like from the boyban era.
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

   THANK GOD FOR YOU TUB!
Well yesterday was a pretty boring day so I decided to head over to youtub.com and see if I could find something interesting to watch and wouldn't you know what somebody has uploaded the FAM inning English. Boy was I excited I have been wanting to see that movie since he came out a couple of weeks ago where should I say a month ago. Anyway I went ahead and watched it and I must say it was very emotional and very well done and probably one of it's not the best anime I've ever seen. It had breathtaking action and it even put a lump in my throat with sadness and drama. I highly recommended if you haven't seen it yet and especially if you've seen the series you absolutely have to watch the movie. I'm not going to say anything more about the movie and I'm not going to give anything away because you'll just have to watch it and see everything for yourself. Also the other day I watched the newest DBZ movie Wrath of the Dragon on youtub.com as well and get totally kicked butt also those it definitely didn't beat the fma movie and I strongly doubt I'll ever see anything that will. I highly recommend it to anyone who is a big DBZ fan though because it's definitely worth watching.
Above all despite it being kind of illegal to upload such things to the Internet thank heavens for people that do with the anyway because it saves me buttload of the money not having to go out and buy the movie myself or having to take the risk of uploading and myself,so thanks again to everyone who takes a little chance and uploads things anyway. Finally I'm sure I will find moreexciting stuff to watch there in the future and until then I'll just be patiently waiting for more.

Sincerely your uploaded movie junkie,~wonderkid~
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Monday, November 13, 2006

   A CHUMTASTIC DAY!
As I said yesterday I’m finally back after a couple of days and as I said I was on a fishing expedition and it went really really well to say the least. I went to a place known as Hoodsport on hood canal in my grand state of Washington. I spent the entire day Saturday Fishing in front of the hatchery on the canal for chum salmon. I got on the water at 8:00 in the morning and I didn’t get off the water still almost 4:30 that evening. I must say that I haven’t had that much fun fishing since sometime last year And my whole body is sore because I swear I must have caught it least 60 or so and hopes probably 100 more. To give you an idea of the fish were so thick that’s when I cast my line it couldn’t even reached the bottom and was bouncing off the backs of all the fish. I’d say there were probably 60 to 100 people or more crowded around the bank trying to catch one of the crazy fish and needless to say with that many people there were tangles and all kinds of other mass is going on the entire time so you can see why we call this type of fishing combat fishing though it’s one of my favorite types it can be a bit of a pain at times. I will post below is a description of a terms than one so those of you who don’t know or just would like to know more will get the idea and I will also close some photos five found around the net. Sadly I couldn’t get any pictures of myself with any of the fish because we didn’t bring a camera which really sucks because I wanted to get some pictures to show you all my incredible time. Well I’m going to take it easy for the next couple of days and let my shoulders relax considering there are so worn out from all those crazy salmon. Finally I can’t wait to do it all again next year and hopefully this time I’ll be able to go out and doing more than once.

CHUM SALMON (Oncorhynchus keta) or "Dog Salmon"
Color: Dark metallic blue on top with silvery sides, white belly in ocean
Spawning colors are a deep red with dark green bars and purple blotches
Size: 20 - 30 inches, 7 -18 lbs
Up to 30 lbs
Method: Cast and retrieve tackle / flies, drift eggs in current, ocean trolling
Gear: Medium- to light-action spinning and fly rods
Range: Fresh and saltwater nearly statewide
Season: Peak June to October, ocean year-round
Taste: Edible near saltwater, traditionally an oily subsistence fish, good smoked
Recipes

Record: 32 lbs., Caamano Point, by Fredrick Thynes, 1985

Sincerely chum salmon slayer, ~wonderkid~

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Sunday, November 12, 2006

   well I'm back from my fishing trip and very tired
I'M back after being gone for a couple of days and I will fill you all in on my little fishing trip that I took on Friday and Saturday tomorrow because right now I'm really tired from the whole thing and it's 1:30 in the morning plus I don't have the energy to write a large a detail post and I'll try to get around to visiting everyone sites tomorrow. In the meanwhile I hope you all had a good weekend and all see you all soon. Sincerely a very exhausted fishermen,~wonderkid~
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Wednesday, November 8, 2006

   Rain Rain go away !
Let's see here for the last couple of days or should I say weeks it's been raining almost all day every day and the Rivers are flooding and salmon are swimming across streets and people's houses are washing away and it all just keeps coming down. I swear I'm going to have to take a bow to school for submarine at the right things are going. Though things are close to settleing down over the next couple of days even if the strong winds continue to persist.

Hatchery internship: on Monday this week I spent from 8:45 in the morning until five o'clock in the evening working like a dog at the hatchery spawning salmon ,removing tags,getting more salmon for spawning,picking up the steelhead and many other tasks and if it wasn't hard enough it was raining buckets and the river was trying to flood the entire time. The most surprising thing about all the rain was the fact it was almost 61° which is very warm for this time of year in Washington state and two to that fact I was sweating profusely the entire time. Despite all of a hindrances of beings short handed on staff and everything else working against us who still manage together and fertilize nearly 1.2 million eggs and capture and put in holding tanks 12 summer run steelhead. any case all of you are wondering I did bit again ,but don't worry didn't get infected.
SCHOOL: Life in school is good except that in my marine technology class are holding on for our salmon at the hatchery filled up with sentiment to to all the rain therefore are salmon spawning program for the school hatchery is canceled this year which really sucks ,but you never can tell what mother nature will throw at you.
OTHER: There's a very good chance that I will be going to one of my favorite fishing spots this weekend if everything goes according to plan and I'm really excited about that. I just found out today that one of my friends that I knew during my sophomore year has drowned in the recent flooding when his truck fell off a embankment and slid into a river and was washed away. I didn't know him very well but it still saddens me and I feel sorry for his close friends and family members and will probably have a lump in my throat from it for the next couple days ago I'll get over it because I always and may god rest his soul.

Sincerely your thoroughly rain soaked, ~wonderkid~
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Sunday, November 5, 2006

   Energy drinks are evil!
Friday was a very crazy day reading the fact five down almost two full rock star energy drinks and I’m talking the 24 oz can. The result was I was so high for that I was thinking faster than I could talk and my hands were shaking and I can walk about 5 miles an hour and was just plain hyper psychotic the whole day. After school was over I went over to my friend’s house where I stayed the night and play video games tell three in the morning with his brother and friend. On a side note I slept on a rather small cramped uncomfortable couch.

I awoke Saturday morning at 8:00 To his brother’s alarm because he had to go to work and the this say I was not exactly ready and raring to go. So I tried to go back to sleep but it’s kind of hard to sleep when you have a sugar hangover and are seriously lacking, she and other for what is due to the fact I didn’t eat much the day before because my stomach was so upset the energy during and the mound sugar I consumed. I spent the rest of the day at about 50% with one of the worst sugar hangovers I’ve ever had or should I say the only one I’ve ever had. I guess I still have it as I write this post at 1:00 AM this morning.

Finally who hear saw Eureka Seven last night or should I say this morning the name on your time zone. Anyway I must say that it’s getting quite interesting and rather emotional and I’m loving every minute of it. I’d say the thing that disturbs me the most about the most recent episode was the fact that Ray going crazy after Charles was killed.
Also on your watch bleach because it was a really good show and I can’t wait to go further into the series and see how things turn out.

Sincerely your early saucepan and sugar hung over, ~ wonderkid~

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Friday, November 3, 2006

   Teachers !?
SITE: first of all I'd like to say thank you to everyone who came in, and yesterday because now I am officially pass 600 hits and the next stop is 700. The next thing you know I'll be out of 1,000 and I'm looking forward to that big time and I'd like to try to make it there by new year's but I doubt that will happen because I'll have to get almost 400hits in the next two months which is quite a bit in such a short time ,but who knows maybe I will make it.

SCHOOL: In my world issues class we presented our political energy drinks and I'd say that me and my partners presentation went really well and it looks like we'll be getting in a as I expected. also in the same class my teacher decided to be a little crazy and dirty minded because he thought that the drawing that one of my friends did of their energy drink can resemble certain things that I may not mention ,but I will say that the jokes were so bad in so funny he got laughing so hard that he fell off of his stool and I almost stopped breathing. In pottery it was pretty routine I just worked on my slab pot for the entire period. Then in marine technology we did more mapping and working with charts and plotting courses. As well as it was raining rather hard today tide was high and a couple of salmon started showing up in front of our latter and it won't be long until we have fish to work within our hatchery and I can't wait.

LIFE: as for regular life I just spent the afternoon on the computer and took a two hour nap because the weather was really rainy and miserable. Though I'm actually very glad it's raining now and is close to for the next couple days because it will really help the river conditions and hopefully fishing will improve because of it all.

OTHER: I should hopefully have a new drawing posted today or tomorrow and it was in honor of Halloween so it will be a little late but I hope you will all like it just the same and I'm not saying what it is not just have to go see for yourself.

sincerely you're lazy bomb, ~wonderkid~
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Thursday, November 2, 2006

   Once again I'm almost there!!
SITE: Once again and I am only one hit away from reaching my next goal and this time the its 600hits and I must say it's got me pretty excited. *YAHOOO* Next I'd like to thank everyone who comes to visit me every day or just every once in awhile or if you only have come once thank you has every little bit helps.

SCHOOL: Well schooled last couple days has been pretty boring except in my first piered Where we have been designing political energy drink labels for the upcoming election. When I get the label that me and my friends have been working on done I will post it so you can all see. as for marine technology and pottery they've both been pretty boring and I've been finishing the products in pottery and learning how to chart and map and plot courses in marine technology also I found out that I got 100% on my most recent test emerging technology and that makes 4 in a row I've received 100% on.

LIFE: as for regular life I haven't been fishing much because I've been too busy as well as currently all the salmon runs nearby have been really really slow and as for the squid fishing I usually do this time of year it's been really slow also. Hopefully things will pick up sometime in the near future. This week and I'm hoping to get out to one of three places I've heard that are actually having a decent salmon run and hopefully me and my friend will be able to catch a few because I really need dates for later on in the season for steelhead. OTHER STUFF: finely in other news if you all have a notice already I've changed my team to Eureka Seven which is my current favorite of the series I'm currently watching on TV. Though I've already received a few suggestions already if anyone has been song suggestions preferably rock please tell me when you comment or send me a PM.
Sincerely you're ever diligent fishermen, ~wonderkid~
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Wednesday, November 1, 2006

New theme
I hope you all enjoy my new theme as it is the current show that I'm biggest into and I'm sorry I have to cut the short but I have to get sleep as well as I hope you all had a great Halloween and I'll see you all later and I'll try to get to every one site today!
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