My Titanium Spork
There has been so much to blog about since my last post. I have planned to blog several times everyday, but I haven’t been on my computer much in the last week. In fact, I’m not on my computer right now. I’m at my Grandma’s house, on her laptop, suffering from the slowness of dial up. I could instant message you right now, and If I am lucky, you might recieve the message by 1800. My Grandma got HBO back sometime, so I’m watching “Along Came Polly” right now. THe movie kind of sucks, but it is good entertainment for someone who is trying and failing, to blog.
I’m really into this whole light gear thing for Philmont. After my latest shakedown at Mt. Monadnock, I am willing to do anything to lighten the load. One of the things I have decied to get rid of is my cuttlery. Those Scout forks and spoons must weigh ten pounds each. To hell with them now. I have something better… a Titanium Spork. This spork is the best thing since… coffee… and that means a lot coming from me. It is deep enought to eat soup, yet forky enought to… use as a fork.
A local dance group has a recital in our school auditorium every year around this time. Previously, Craig has run lights and sound alone, but he was unable to attend one of the performances and got me to cover it. Thursday and Friday were rehearsals they went about five hours each. The actual performance was on saturday and sunday and lasted three hours. On friday, we finally put ALL the rows of house lights on their own faders. Blinking each row sequentially gives a pretty cool effect… Now we just need to get the odd numbered lights in the 25-44 grorup working. ( the square ones… ) At the end, my cut of the pay was $160. Unfortunaltely, I have spent most of it on textbooks for math. ( I like reading textbooks more than I like reading… fictional stuff. )
Last Wednesday at the troop meeting, all of the little people were kept busy making another troop sign ( we have a corner site at Yawgoog. ) In the short time they worked on it, they made a ton of mistakes. My whole week thusfar has been spent finishing it, and fixing the mistakes. Its actually coming out quite well. ( I should be working on that now. )
Josh had threatend to sick Andre on me if I didn’t write this post… He lives about 200 paces east/south east of my Grandma. The idea if stabbing finally got me into a sort of blogging mood… OH, how I love stabbing. In other news, I haven’t bothered with that whole poweroff/reboot thing since school ended. I have about six days of uptime now. Not bad. I only wish Firefox didn’t consume so much memory. ( if you’ve ever seen it’s memory usage, you understand. ) As I mentioned, I haven’t been on my comptuer lately and am thus quite far behind on wordrpess updates. Ugh. Speaking of wordpress, I am about done version two of my LiveJournal Plugin. I completely rewrote everything, made it object oriented, and gave it error handling/logging abilities. Reporting erorrs is annoying during the posting process. The action hooks I am using run after wordpress sends the redirect header. Standard output thus never reaches the browser. I’m kind of annoyed with livejournal. If you don’t explicity specify that a backdated post is… backdated, it will throw an error. If the time stamp is before one’s latest post, it is obviously backdated. I think it should have the brains to figure that out. From what I have observed, it doesn’t matter if I just set the backdated option to true everytime I post… I’ll proofread this insanity later. I might even blog again later… Just for those of you who were nearly dead from lack of me blogging. Edit: If this shows up on my LiveJournal, it is all thanks to version 2. Version one stopped working with wordpress 1.6 after the last upgrade I did…