Fur Justin and Lauri

It's interesting that Elise was never found......
How has everyone been? I don't know if you know but my Mom's aunt passed away on Monday early so we went down there on Tuesday and came back today. I don't really enjoy funerals. They're overrated. Two t's? Or maybe overmiced? On to happier stuff: We get to do school again on Monday!!!!! Wait. Tomorrow is three services. Count 'em. Three. I think that that's kind of dumb but we don't want people leaving 'cause there's no place to sit. Lauri and Mom are both of the verge of being sick. Mom's pushing it a little closer than Lauri. I still need help on my buttons Lauri. Somebody, I can't mention any names, I can say that he still hasn't seen Episode III, needs to help me on that. Has anyone ever heard of Berries and Cream Dr. Pepper? It's weird. It's about four in the afternoon on my mental clock and only one o' two on the 'puter. I hope we get to go to Walskees this afternoon. To wrap this post up, I'll ask: How many bananas does a banana slug eat daily. So, how many bananas does a banana slug eat daily?

Monday!!!!

Don't you love 'em? Actually for me it hasn't been that bad. We got back from Redding after having a fun time and an uneventful drive. We picked Daisy up last night and gave her one of those toothbrushes to chew on. Kind of like a treatish thing you know. On the package it said edible. This morning, we woke up, Mom fed her and she didn't eat. She was being very sluggish and suffice to say, she's at the vet to see if she's okay. I wish vets weren't so expensive. Another Mondayish (another one of those words for you Uncle Randy) thing is that Lauri's sick. So that's a bummer. On the bright side, we are home and Dad is going to be back in the states again tonight so hopefully we'll get to talk to him this evening. I really don't have any questions for you so that I can rack up the comments but I thought that I'd post because I've been held to my eight comment rule. I hope work went well for all of you and Uncle Randy, I guess I wasn't specific, how were those books? Merry 13rd of March!

The Caped Crusader Strikes Again

I don't know, I couldn't come up with a title. Well, old pap's gone to Haiti. He is offically in Haiti today after having spent a day in West Palm Beach. We on the other hand are stuck here doing school. However, only for three days this week.... On Thursday, we're going to Redding to see Zachary and Brenda and their new house! Let's see: Sibling's new house to school. Which one will win out? Yeah, so we figure it'll rain and we'll enjoy that with them and probably Chuck. At least I think we'll see him. Things have been pretty normalish around here with the possible exception of Laurie and her painted room. We're excited about that trip and I think that I'll probably buy Nintendogs for the ten hours. The only bummer about the drive is that I'll probably have to drive seeing as how I now have my permit. And no, it doesn't derserve it's own post because that's bad news instead of good. So, to end my post I have two questions for you. You may answer one or the other, preferably both. Firstly: Have any of you read C.S. Lewis' science fiction trilogy? The second is, of all of the Star Wars movies, which character is your favorite. Scrap the only answering one of the questions, answer both. Please.

I'm told that people actually enjoy my posts

So I guess that I'll just fill you in on my wild and crazy life. We got finished with school early today so I had time to post. As most of you know we went to the Mt. Charleston Lodge and stayed there Sunday night. That was really fun. There was some snow up there and we got to mess around in that. One time we got out of the car to play in the snow while Dad and Mom rested. And boy, they rested. We got some snowballs and, as is our common practice, we threw them at the car. They both almost keeled over and breathed very heavily the next couple of minutes.
Totally new subject, I got my first issue of Star Wars Insider in the mail today!!!!!!!! It has this really awesome article that pretty much all of you couldn't care less about. It is all about the clone troopers of Episode III and the EU books surrounding it. I'm very excited.
Another totally new subject....... nope, that's about it. But I guess I'll put a picture on here to appease you I'll let you try to figure out what it is and there is plenty of stuff to comment on this time so have at it.

And Now, For the Moment You've All Been Waiting For.....

But first a word from our sponsers: Oh wait, I don't have any sponsers yet. Many pictures have been put on blogs of many things close to the hearts of my family. Most notably, a dog that is most of the time very loud and annoying, however cute she is. So, I know that yall like pictures on posts so I put the picture of the best thing since sliced bread, nay, the best thing in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!! So here it comes: I present to you, OUTBOUND FLIGHT!!!!!!!!!! Admire it in all of its hardcover goodness. Now, not to demerit my book any but you'll probably notice that I have a new song. We kind of have a history together. Back in the old country, Mom and Lauri always made me accompany them to Mervyns and this song played every time I was in the trying on room, the worst part of it all. Hope you like it and don't feel obligated to unmute it after the first time. I'll change it after a while. Just to make sure that you don't for get what this post is about:

I'm Overwhelmed

Man, talk about my admiring public! Dad and Mom got home yesterday and today we went to the Sparks-O-Rama. It was really weird, they had five participating teams and didn't want to have three teams competing or only two, so they invented the AWANA pentagon. It was really weird and our Sparks team received fourth place ribbons. I don't know why, we were beat by all of the other teams and one of our kids got a second place ribbon. I don't think the AWANA of the greater Las Vegas area can quite handle a pentagon. The weekend is nice. I'm glad about the lack of school even though we had to get up at 6:30ish to be at the church at 7:00 to leave "promptly" at 7:15. We didn't get gone 'til 7:31. Not that I was constantly checking my watch or anything. The AWANA is almost kind of organized here. Someone found our new geocache. Ok, I'm scraping for things to say here. I'm not into things continuing on after it's already lost it's coolness. Sooo, whenever you want an update about my wild and crazy life, just push the eight comment line. :) Here's your chemistry question for the day: Without cheating, what is a more common name for Magnesium Sulfate or MgSO4?

We're all alone, there's no one here besiiiiide us.

Normally, I try to let my post accumulate at least eight comments before my next post. But I understand that commenting on a tag might be hard.
So, as my title suggests, and for those of you who frequent Lauri's blog, Dad and Mom are gone on a mini-conference and we're stuck here doing school. Last night at the Suttons (who picked us up terribly early) we watched a "Monk" episode and started "The gods must be crazy". It's a pretty weird movie but I guess is Mr. Sutton's favorite. Apparently he likes the slapstick. Oh well...
I got Star Wars monopoly saga edition. Lauri and I played it today and it was great! (Did you like that exclamation point I put in there for you Zachary?) It was good stuff.
Pictures of dogs merit comments, and so do questions about shelves, so what do I do? I don't know. Ummmmm... Feel free to express your feelings on anything in my post or something else having something to do with......dihydrogen.........monoxide?

Fine

I'm sorry that I couldn't make it bigger or more readable. What can I say? I'm no Zachary. Anyway, this is what I thought of when I heard of tagging. Soooo, to please Lauri, Katie, and Zachary, here it is:

4 jeeooorrrbs that I've had in my life:

Yeah, I'm gonna go for the job that I am currently doing: Cleaning the Church on Fridays
I guess that feeding cats on a semi-regular basis constitutes as a job

6 movies that I could watch over and over:
The Hunt for Red October
Jerimiah Johnson
The Music Man
Kuzcooooooooo (that's his name)
I don't really know if I could stand Mark Hamill over and over again, but the thought
of any Star Wars movie should be in there
Alex and Emma

4 places that I've lived:
Blanca, Colorado (I was born there and lived there for a year and a halfish)
Worthing, South Dakota (six yearsish)
Anderson, California (eight yearsish)
Pahrump, Nevada (what must be at least fifty years)

4 tv shows that I love to watch:
Whose Line is it Anyway?
Mythbusters
The Fairly Odd Parents
The Dick Van Dyke Show

4 places that I've been on vacation:
Four Faces (although I was relatively young)
The Northern Coast of California
San Diego
The Grand Canyon

4 websites that I visit daily(ish):
www.homestarrunner.com
www.starwars.com
www.ebay.com
For my forth (you can scold me if you wish) I'll just put blogs 'cause those three
are it and then not much else

4 of my favorite foods:
Way up there, high above all else: Leftover Pizza
Baked Potatoes with bacon bits and butter
Astro Pops, the best popsicle in the world
I do love my sweet cherry peppers

4 places that I'd rather right now:
Skiing (I don't mean to be a copy-cat but that sure comes to mind)
On the coast
With all my family
Certainly not at Olive Garden
Ouray

Some of my friends called (and still do to my knowledge) the game of tag, chase. So I'm going to chase the two who never check blogs or post but are both due for their two month check up: Ben and Jay. I hope you enjoyed my ridiculous post.

Long Live the Schnez!

Schnezoslovakia is one of the coolest countries to date. I'm sure that there's a lot of cool stuff about it but the only thing that I know about it is the name. Schnez. It has a nice ring to it, don't you think? Surprisingly, everyone does not pronounce it like I do. It's real name is Czechoslovakia. When I saw the word Czech as a young boy, I read it Schnez. Face it, which sounds cooler: Schnez... or check. That's what I thought. The reason for this post is the fact that there is a Schnez store between Dallas and San Antonio and Katie and Justin stopped by there on their way back from Nanny's house and got me some souvenirs. They looked and looked and finally decided on these: They are awesome. Thanks Justin and Katie. Also, there is a www.czechstop.net that looks pretty cool.

A Whole lot of Nothing

I didn't really have anything new to update about,but I kind of needed to update. I've been told that pictures really enhance your blog. However, as I was going through iphoto, the only picture that caught my eye was a picture of the whale at Marine World. I kind of thought that that wouldn't be a good blog-type picture. I watched Kronk's New Groove. It was ok except for one thing, the girl that Kronk hooked up with was a stinkin' Brit. (The first Kuzco was awesome for those of you who don't know. You should see it.) The funniest parts of this one were the very few scenes with Kuzco actually in them. I'm sure that nobody really cares about my review of this movie, but if I don't add ramblings, my posts would be incredibly short. By the way, y'all should really check out Grand-mom's blog and encourage her to post more often, or should I say again.

Happy New Year!

Is there an "s" on New Year? Some places have on their signs: Happy New Years'. Happy New Years' what? Happy New Years' potted plant? Maybe not. Anyway, I'm very unup to date on blogage. Not to be mispronounced as rhyming with montage unless of course you are a mom. The trip was great. It was great to see everybody, everybody doesn't include those whom I didn't see. But I had a great visit with those that I did. If you can make any sense of those two last sentences, you get extra points. On our trip, the number of geocaches we've done topped two hundred. Thank you, thank you. Harvest Moon was all that I wished for and more. Lauri might like it more than me but it's great. I got some good farming advice from Aunt Carey. I hope that everyone elses vacation went well to. In short, it has been a great Christmas vacation and even though it's hard to get back to the old grind, it's the grind that God gave me. And I'll grind it 'til it's good and ground. Or would that be grunded?

Merry Christmas (Eve)!

The reason the Eve is in parentheses is because today is our Christmas but for everyone else it's an Eve. Many of you were confused about my last post. That was the desired effect. Tomorrow we embark on a perilous journey. Well maybe it's not perilous but it sure will be dang long. Thankfully we will have many distractions. Dad got a thing (I forget the technical name for it right now Zachary) so that we can watch movies on his compy during the drive tomorrow and Monday. As you know, unless you don't read my blog, I have a couple of games for the drive as well as six new books. I got Kronk's New Groove for Christmas so maybe we'll watch it on the drive. I haven't ever seen it before but it looks fun. Now, I talked before about how to end a post. I still don't know, but my posts always seem like they don't really require comments. I suppose to end I should ask a question: How much ground, Could a ground hog hound, If a ground hog could hound ground?

The Figures

These were the diagrams:
Eating one Battery

Eating five batteries

A well thought out post

Normally, I'm not the one to post two time so close together, but I will make an exception today. If you haven't read my last post yet, I strongly suggest that you read that one as well. I wrote a paper and I thought that you might enjoy it.




“A Well Thought-Out Englilsh Paper”
by: Kyle “The Yellow Dart” Smith



Since maybe like the Middle Ages, there have been many differing opinions about


hustle and bustle. This cannot be denied. It is my intention to sit down and play video


games for several hours.



First, moving around quickly, and with purpose, is a true sign of character.


Secondarily, bustle(e.g. hustle) yields more product for the working types. “Hustle and


bustle are like my right and left arms,” said Li’l Spicy in his famous “Hustle and Bustle


Are Like My Right and Left Arms” speech. Webster’s defines bustle as “excited and


often noisy activity; a stir.” A stir, indeed. Finally, sometimes gross stuff can be funny.



In conclusion, I, “The Yellow Dart,” think I have done a great job illustrating the


many differing opinions about hustle and bustle, may they both rest in peace. Also, I


think Strong Bad should decrease The Cheat’s allowance.





“Eating One Battery”

fig. 1


“Eating Five Batteries”
fig. 2
I'm really sorry if the diagrams don't show up. They're great and if you ask I'll tell you where to see them.

You can all return from the edge of your seats

Some of you might know that I was debating which game to get for our twenty hour drive. I knew for sure that I was going to get a certain one. That one was Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time. I played the first one and I really liked it. It is kind of a Mario rpg. The reason it's called "Partners in Time" because they somehow go back in time and meet up with their younger selves:
The two games I was considering were Mario Kart Ds and Harvest Moon: Friend of Mineral Town. Mario Kart is, of course, is a Mario Kart game and is rated the best Mario Kart game ever. Harvest Moon is a virtual farming game and is rated the best Harvest Moon game ever. As many of you probably know, Mario Kart isn't amazing as a multiplayer game. Harvest Moon, on the other hand, is said to be very addicting and addicting is kind of what I need for a twenty hour drive. So after alot of other things that I considered, I decided on Harvest Moon. I hoped you liked all the pictures and all my words.

The Year Without a Santa Claus

Now, some might call it lame.
And some might call it dumb.
But I think that it's great
And I think that you all should come
And watch one of the greatest movies
That was ever played
As a Rankin-Bass special on one quiet winter day.

So much for my rythming ability. Anydangway. This is probably my favorite Christmas movie. I got it on DVD this year and got Mom and Dad to watch it. They didn't care for it as much as I do. I don't know why......
The only reason that I watch it is for Snow Miser: and Heat Miser:" If you listen to my entire song (which I strongly suggest that you do) then you'll learn about them.

In addition to my movie, another thing more than deserves a post:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURI!!!!!!!!!
I hope that you have a wonderful day and that you enjoy all of your nice presents.

Happy Birthday Chuck!

For your birthday, I got you your very own blog! All of the expenses of the blog are paid for! I know that you want your own template and everything so I haven't designed it yet. Just click on the big "B" up top to start your gift that will last all year.(No, it's not the one in the title of this page.)

And Now, The Rest of the Story.

I always struggle with coming up with snappy titles and closing comments for my blog post. This post isn't really a continuation of anything but it's kind of a good title. If the G-Padges get around to reading this, Lauri and I have decided that you have trouble reading my font because your screen is a little darker and it isn't a flat screen. Do any of the rest of y'all continue to have trouble with reading my font? I just watched Episode III last knight (sorry, night.) It was sad and good just as it was the last three times I saw it. I need to watch it of Granddad's tv. Fifty inches. Man, that thing's big. Star Wars HD. Whoa.............. That'd be awesome. I don't have a fancy widget but here's what y'all could get me for Christmas. http://www.jedigear.com/Doublehelix.htm If you all worked together.. Who knows? It could happen

Hey Y'all

Happy Thankgiving! I hope you got lots of presents and remembered that Jesus is the real reason of the season. I suppose half of that statement is incorrect. I was thinking that maybe we should get like one Thanksgiving present. Not that I'm saying that we should get docked one present at Christmas or that other people should spend on us money that we don't have, but it would be fun. Say hi to the Binghams for me if they haven't already left. Around here we played pool and ate and played gameboy. I think I heard something about a football game too. Charlie Brown Thanksgiving was on at seven but, heaven forbid, that we watch anything while Surviver was on. So Paul and Granddad and Lauri and I played pool while it was on. We did get to watch Charlie Brown Thanksgiving because Granddad has Tivo. Anyway, I'm really excited because we are going to Zoo Lights tonite! The tonite is for you Katie 'cause I know that you miss England so much. Mom asked If I was being philisophical so here's the last thing:
How much chuck,
Could a Woodchuck chuck
If a Woodchuck
Was actually a Wolverine?



4:16 p.m. Phoenix time

About time.

Today's lesson is about time. One o'clock is forty-five minutes after twelve fifteen. Remeber that. Meditate on it and get back to me. I haven't written in a while because I really haven't had anything to talk about. And I still don't really but y'all are getting mad at me. I tried to pull ideas from other's blogs. So I shall update you on my tv shows. Um. Hmmm. Yeah, I forgot. I don't watch tv alot these days. In my thought process, I came to the subject of houses. For all some of you know, our house is the newest one you have ever seen. Jobs.... no. Computer degrees.... no. Scrapbook pages and blankets.. DEFINITLY NO. To update all of you on my life, I feel like Jay (yes he has finally updated). I do school. We watch a movie in the evening. Then we go to bed. Today however, Wal-Mart had a new Star Wars action figure display. Commander Gree, yeah, there was like five of him. But I did get a new guy and he was the other one that I wanted. His name is Commander Bly. I also got another guy that does not have a proper name but is known as the Clone Commander. I can't get a picture of him but he is cool too. Some of you may ask why Clones need names anyway because they're are clones. And I have an answer for you: I don't know. If you are bored or curious enough to find out, you'll get extra points.