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My last couple of days have been a combination of fun and rememberance.

As Jeremiah heads off for his destiny, I reminisce back through all the incredible times we, as best friends, had together. God definitely blessed me with the most inspirational and amazing best friend. Although we’ve run into each other on a few issues (pun intended, relating to our mutual car destruction) our friendship has been incredibly helpful in my life and I’m sure to him. Enjoy San Diego, bro, and take care.

Friday night was spent at Mark’s house with some friends. We started the Power’s marathon and watched Dumb and Dumber while digesting our food from the great Applebee’s. Great Times.

Saturday was interesting. Got four hours of sleep. Went to work…fun. Went to Stringfellows, Lynchburg Music Center, New Life, and Best Buy. Bought guitar strings, a nice new pair of 2BH Vic Firth’s, and some cds. Returned home to restring my guitars for Thursday night. Relaxed before

I went to Mark’s house again late Saturday night. While Mark’s iMac copied my 10GB of mp3s, we (Jeremiah and I) watched Ocean’s Eleven. Great movie even the second time through. So well plotted out and intriguing. We ended the Power’s marathon also. That night marked the last time I will assumably see Jeremiah for many months. But still, lots of fun, like the good old days.

Speaking of Thursday the 19th. See You At The Pole rally at Straight Street Blue Ridge. 6:30PM. Incredible music and…let’s just say there will be a lot of laughs. Stop on by.

After the unforgetable anniversary of 9-11, life continues on, not in sequence, but in memory.

I attended Lynchburg’s own ceremony at City Stadium with a large selection of special guests. Honestly, I enjoyed it very much: an appropriate memorial with adaquate performances from a select portion of L-Burg’s best in the arts.

Following the memorial, I hauled it over to Mark’s place where a few of us celebrated Jeremiah’s last chance to officially party before leaving for San Diego. Good luck Bro, and God Bless!

My lack of updates has been due to a strenuous early week schedule combined with a lot of good shows on FoxNews to view. So I’ve been…preoccupied temporarily.

Congrats to my best friend, Jeremiah, for being chosen as a Mac-daddy finalist for the Switcher campaign with Apple!!! Everyone look out for da Co-[h]ick to air on major tv stations throughout the US and check out his feature at Apple.com as well.

My first [considered] week of school was nominal. Classes are fitting into place and I’m actually getting some homework done. Although I’ve been ravaged with AP Calculus homework, I can get it done in the comfort of my couch watching Cavuto ramble on about the day’s interesting stories and topics. Goodtimes.

Movies. Theme of this weekend. Friday was Eight Legged Freaks. One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. Never in my life have I wanted to just get up and leave the theater (which I almost did). At best the plot was even aligned together, and the realism of the physics and chemisty of the basic story line was just so bad I just…blah. I’m being nice here: 1.9 out of 10.

After purchasing the DVD, I watched Ocean’s Eleven today. Wow, this definitely helped my movie-craving and aided the fight against all my wrath I wante to spill out upon Eight Legged Freaks. Ocean’s Eleven is just incredible. A plot that just screams thorough and acting that just blows away all other comparisons. It’s like Minority Report all over again. Great movie guys, 8.6 out of 10.

Yet another flick I witnessed today: SwimFan. The first movie I’ve seen for more than $1.50 was not as good as expected. I won’t even mention how much I was charged just to breathe the movie theater air let alone "enjoy" the film. An average plotline, but lacking in easy transitions. A few confusing scenarios that I tried to look too much into and therefore just threw me a curve ball for the time. Just plain average, but I have to admit, better than most. 5.1 out of 10.

On a minor note. Thanks to BestBuy (my favorite corporate monopoly) for being a great aid in my search for the right audio/video direct box for my home theater. Much Love!

First days of school impressions: being a senior is just as normal as anything else. Although it is an interesting feeling knowing that there are no older kids around. But overall, classes are good, yet going to be a great challenge for me (at least I get one challenging year out of twelve).

I’m forced to make a decision between the intriguing work of Latin IV and the mind-dulling work of Spanish I. This decision must be made within 36 hours and will determine a great change within the difficulty of my senior year. My decision has yet to be made due to a complete confusion over the way I want to approach my last year at JF.

Cavuto has won my heart. John Gibson used to get much of my brain time, but now that Cavuto is coincidentally placed in an open part of my day, I am watching his show much more, and enjoying it just the same more. But regardless of who I watch and when I watch it, FoxNews is just another synonym for my t.v.

After an intense talk on O’Reilly last night, my day today was completely full of the same debates. THP even included a talk very closely associated to the topic. Maybe I should go into law and not acoustical engineering…

After much pressure to watch it, I, only because it was on sale, went to Circuit City and purchases the Ocean’s 11 DVD. I’ll watch it soon, hopefully to my enjoyment. While there I played around with the SonyPEG-NR70V handheld, which also hopefully will become my next purchase. It’s definitely all I had expected, and more at that.

Spending Sunday night at Matt’s house with Jeremiah was interesting. After watching
AntiTrust (7.2 out of 10) and Coyote Ugly (7 out of 10) I was involved in some intriguing conversation for a time. The next morning we headed off to Cracker Barrel for some "niblets", goodtimes.

My lack of rest was never fully satisfied before I left for the First Priority leader cookout. Good food and some *hilarious* games of Catch Phrase. A nice preparatory before the task of smacking into the ever-near school year.

Speaking of which, I am in the last few hours of what I consider my "summer." In just a couple more moments I will be sitting in a classroom being introduced to the wonderful world of being a senior, and be getting loaded down with stacks of non-liability papers to sign…