Save Often

Recently I have been addicted to that game Morrowind, and I'm having trouble peeling myself away from it to do other (and I suppose) more important things. Now one thing I have realized about the game is that sometimes you run into some bumps, as in, glitches. For some reason, there are NOT that many glitches in MY game, but on my cousins's game, there were glitches right and left. Flying above the world, and just walking in the sky, falling through solid groud, etc. Now the only way to combat these is to save often, and if you bump into a glitch, load your game from a recent save. I have also learned the "save often" lesson from the internet. I'm writing a post like this, when I get an internet error message, and the only option is to... CLOSE. AOL shuts down, and has to restart, and all my progress is lost. Same with text documents on the computer. Mom was just writing an e-mail, and I turned off the monitor by accident (the computer was still on, but for some reason the monitor is on a different outlet thing, and I steped on the switch... in the middle of the floor) anyway, she started to freak out because she had been working on an e-mail for the past 2 hours and had not saved it, even though she was about to send it.

So, a word of advice for gamers, e-mail writers, people doing homework that uses word processor, SAVE OFTEN, KEEP YOUR PROGRESS!!!

Some Blog Advertisement and Morrowind

A big thanks to Tori S. for advertising my blog on her own blog, found at torinoodle.blogspot.com and also for finally pushing me back into updating my blog because, uh well... I haven't updated in forever. Oh, and more thanks to Tori for NOT being one of those people who have Xanga. It's nothing personal against Xanga, it's just that everybody that I have met prior to Tori had Xanga and were like, "wow, u use blogger? ur stupid" or something like that. But anyway, thanks Tori.

So now onto more (or maybe less) important things like... school, starts the 25th I think for me (though some start earlier, lucky them). And while the majority of my summer has been spent at a... how should I put this... "fitness camp" wouldn't really be the right word... 'cause it was more intense than that, and not really a "camp" it was basically intense physical exercise classes that were... intense. Anyway, it was really good, I got stronger and faster, but it was hell, and before every class I wanted to skip out, but after every class I was glad... but anyway, it closed, not enough money. That and I started Tae Kwon Do at my friend's school, which has actually been really fun. And Japan class ended, I guess last week. I have a lot of catching up to do before the next semester class starts... but anyway, that's what I've been doing over the summer, that and video games.

See when Sean came over (he's my cousin) he brought up some cool games for Xbox (the only games I had for Xbox prior were Halo 2 and the Golf/Football demo game that came with it). But while he was up here, we went to EB games and he bought Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Game of the Year Edition. Sufficed to say, I love it. It's one of those huge, open ended RPG's, similar I guess to MMORPG's, were you create any type of character you want, pick your skills, and do quests and stuff. But the thing with MMORPG's is that 1) my computer sucks 2) my internet connection sucks 3) most of them have fees 4) by the time I actually managed to log on to the server-type-thing-whatever-it-is my computer would kick me off. So in short, this is the MMORPG that I love that isn't an MMORPG. Actually, I find it somewhat more fun than other RPG's (but slightly different RPG's) like Final Fantasy and stuff... but maybe they're in a different genre altogether and I'm just a moron. Maybe later I'll give a more in-depth review of the game, but here's the website-> elderscrolls.com <- now that's a creative website name. But anyway, you can get info there, and probably try gamespot.com for a longer review.

Now this post is a lot longer than most posts, probably because... I haven't posted in a long time. I dunno if I'll be able to find much time to post during school, depends on how hard my classes are (going to Raleigh Charter, for those who know it, over-achieving school).

Nerd and Geek

This is something that I pondered over the course of the past year (that being my freshman year). It is similar in the way people discerned the difference between "newb" and "n00b".

I would pull out webster's dictionary and define each of these words... but I will not. And I'm too lazy (and my computer is too dumb) to get onto dictionary.com so... I won't look up either one. A nerd, as best I can describe is this: one who takes calculus AB/BC as a freshman, but who also skipped a grade so is younger than all the other freshmen, can sit through two period AP biology and enjoy it, even after taking biology, and so on and so forth. Nerds are also the people who found the tangent, sin, and co-sin of every angle to put into your calculator to help you on your geometry exam. Nerds are people who change the world.

Geeks, however, want you to think they ARE nerds, but are, in all actuality, failures. They have no life, and what I mean by that (as you could say nerds have no life) is they do nothing productive. They are people who fail in school, don't suceed in making friends beyond the internet, watch anime, play video games, surf the web and... well, not much else. Geeks are the people who... well... don't change the world.

D.C. Trip

Well my dad, my little bro. , my little sis. and myself all went up to Washington D.C. this past weekend to see the relatives and that other stuff that's at D.C. After about 4 hours of driving, we finally arrive at Embassy Suites... just at 12:30 and we can't check in until 3. So we decide to head over to my Uncle Ramone's house (I don't know how to spell his name...) in D.C. (we are still in VA). We put the car in hotel parking and walk across the street to the metro. After 20 minutes of waiting, dad finally realizes that I have been right about the fact that we have missed two trains we were supposed to get on.... yeah.... so we get on, follow the directions we get, and we get to my uncle's house, located down the street from the capitol building.

There, at his house, is him, my aunt Rachael, aunt Carmen, and my grandmother, whom I have not seen since I was a wee lad and she's about 95 right now. And we get greeted kindly, and they were very nice. After a while of visiting, we head over to what everybody in the family wants to see most, the Museum of Native Americans... at least, I think that's what the name was. It's about Native Americans. So I, my dad, my brother, and uncle Ramone took the metro-rail and everybody else got to ride the car. The race was on! Well... it was a tie.

At the museum we went through security, then we sat there and waited 15 minutes for a tour guide. To accurately describe the humor of this little piece of the visit, I must give the dialogue. But let me first say that I saw this particular tour guide yawn as he came out... and that's the one our family was with.
Old lady (who asked a lot of pointless questions): What is that window on the ceiling for? There's a kind of design on it.
Guide: Oh, uh, that. Well, it uh.... um..... well it represents a lot of things. It uh... represents the sky. oh, and if you notice how the stairs and the ramp from the two front doors go down... that symbolizes... going down.... into the earth. Because the uh.... native americans always showed signs of the earth in uh... building.

Yeah... the moral of that particular story is, never get stuck with an old lady who asks stupid questions, and more importantly, never go with the tour guide who was seen yawning. The family followed the tour guide, and after ten minutes of... well... "the steps going down symbolize uh... going... down..." I decided to look a the interesting exhibits. Of course, I had to explain to the family that I actually WAS paying attention to information about my ancestors, and not being lazy. They thought that me repeating how that guide acted was pretty funny.

So concludes PART ONE or... THE FIRST PART or.... THE FRIDAY THAT I GOT THERE or... well that's enough. More parts coming whenever I post them.

D.C. Trip!

I have been lazy... I know... I was just talking to Mary (friend from last year) and I linked her to this blog, and I relized I had no posts... told her I felt like I was talking to a wall... I guess I don't get enough people in here. If I were more of a forum junkie I'd probably link in my signature or something like that... but I'm not (a forum junkie) so I won't (link in sig.). ***sigh***

So my workout at Velocity is leaving me... beat.... sore.... But not really tired. I have plenty of energy left, and I would get up and do something if I could, but that's the problem... my body... won't... move... period. And if it does move, the PAIN. Yeah. I have Japanese class today, and don't really feel like going because tomorrow... I have to get up early and leave for my trip to... D.C.!!!!!

Apparently I am meeting dad's side of the family up there, and the last time I saw them I was 5 or 6 I guess, and I don't remember anything at all... I just can't remember that far back! Apparently grandma (dad's mom) doesn't like me taking Japanese, she says, "does he (that's me) know who started world war II???" Yeah so... probably gonna get chewed out... eh, whatever, who cares? I'll do what I want.

Just as a random note, I got bored and was looking for descriptions of Chinese Zodiac and stuff, looked up mine, I'm a snake, by the way. Some websites give you a ton of info. on each animal. I'd give a link, but I lost a site I found that gave about 5 pages for each ;_; So anyway, I was looking through snake, and I always thought, since I was little, "man... snake is so not cool..." and if anybody has ever seen The Adventures of Jackie Chan or whatever that comes on Sat. morning (yeah, I watch Saturday morning cartoons! is there a problem? Xiaolin Showdown!!!), the powers of the snake were... invisiblity... rather than say, I dunno, shooting fire blasts out of your hands with the dragon talisman!!!! Yeah, so anyway, I was reading my description on that big website (the one with 5 page info) and found out how cool the snake personality is. Funny thing is... it was all true!!!! AAAAAHHHHH!!!! Fate? I dunno... one site said snake personality was superstitious (don't think I spelled that right...) but... if the personality is true, the personality is true, what can I say?

So yeah, gonna try my best to get out of Japanese class, without actually looking like I'm trying to get out of it... gotta use the ol' noodle. I haven't played Final Fantasy as much as I've wanted... yeah, random thought. That's all... bye... no really... that's all.....