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Saturday was filled with stuff and whatnot. Oh yeah, and it stopped raining, at least temporarily.

Work was interesting. Around 9AM the fire/basic evacuation alarm went off. So I went outside for a few minutes then since it was not deactivated, I just went back in to continue my work. Well it ended up staying on for a long time, almost an hour. So I instinctively crammed my ears with anything available to snuff out the horriblly raucous ringing.

After I reached the threshold of ultimate pain at work, I went to New Life because they were having their hugely amazing sale. Got plenty of nice music for a even better price.

Later in the evening I went over to the "Blue Ridge Festival of Bands" (aka the Brookville marching band competition). It was ok, not the quality or level of excitement that I witnessed in the past, but still a good way to spend the early evening.

Today was the groundbreaking ceremony at 1st Assembly; however, I didn’t go so I couldn’t inform everyone how it went.

Even though I wasn’t in a movie mood, I watched The Count Of Monte Cristo this afternoon. My mood quickly changed. That is one great movie. The plot is in-depth yet not so thorough that the average person would get lost. Great acting as well. 7.4 out of 10. A definite DVD buy. I would have used one of the quotes in the Connotations place, but I’ve forgotten them already and my brother took the DVD back to school. Maybe next time.

End of 1st 6-weeks at school. Not bad so far, but all my teachers warn of things to come.

Wednesday night I had dinner with Mark at Applebee’s. Good times.

Started raining Thursday evening and hasn’t stopped since.

FP morning meeting went great. Being his usual rebel-self, Cliff (FP leader mentor) blew straight through one of the basic guest rules. But I’m not complaining. More good times.

Tonight I saw Spiderman with Mark. After hearing so much great feedback from other viewers, I was shocked at the whole thing. Honestly, people, the plot is shallow. When MaryJane said "The truth is…" regarding her secret hidden love over Peter Parker…ugh…come on. It was Cheese. Although the graphics were incredible thanks to some advanced Sony geniuses. As a whole, the movie was no different than me sitting down and reading a comic book from the original, same stupid villains and same supernatural good guys. Realism even in the basic parts of the movie was just not compatible with…reality. 5.1 out of 10 (but the graphics are worth it all, just great graphics).

Shout to Jennifer Bing who kindly allowed me and Mark admittance into the sold out show. Technically it wasn’t sold out, but they weren’t offering more tickets to be sold, maybe that makes more sense.

Afterwards another meal at Applebee’s. I fixed up Mark’s surround sound "problems" by rearranging his array of inappropriations. Sounds much better now. Looks better too.

Thanks to Jeremiah for his PhotoShop 7 work of the famous "Pudn’s Place" logo.

Monday night was the regular FP meeting. Things are going great and events are being scheduled. A seemingly profound step for us

Immediately following the FP meeting, Stacy, Alyssa, and I rushed over to the PTSA meeting at JF regarding the post-vote initiative. FYI: the vote, taken several weeks ago, decided 4-3-1 not to build a new JF; there is much controvery over this decision because some of the School Board members did not vote with their constituents but rather what would profit themselves. So naturally this meeting produced some mutual volatile spirits, but it was kept in a reasonable manner because this was all JF people in this particular meeting. I was very intrigued by a few comments, particularly when someone mentioned how the Bedford City Court House was basically quarantined until renovations were finished but they are going to allow students to remain in JF while renovations occur…ouch. A nice time, lots of town-meeting-fun.

This weekend may easily be quite busy for me. There’s still plenty left to do in L-Burg up until the time I can get out of here.

I think it’s incredibly amazing how I can look back on my past archives of Live[d] and just see how I’ve grown through life. For example how I’ll be all worrysome over whatnot and it ends up being nothing. Thank God for…well…God.

[Forced] Shout Out to Tabitha because she incessantly complains that I never mention her on my website even though I specifically told her she won’t get a shout out unless she does something noteworthy.

No movies this weekend. Too many other cool things to worry about.

First, Friday night I went to Ms. JF. Very interesting. I’ve never been to a pageant before, and it was quite the experience. Shout out to Rachel who did fantasticly well!

This morning I woke bright and early for a time at Tech. Open House was from 8:30AM-12:30PM for me; I could have stayed longer but the rest was stuff I already knew. But…I learned a lot of things. Tech obviously supports its students to be fluent not only in Windows but also in the Mac OS’s. They have these "computer labs" everywhere just filled with iMacs, Cube G4s, and PowerMacs. Tech also owns a study facility called the Math Emporium. Literally the size of a grocery store (or more easy to contemplate…a football field) this lab contains, easily, 500 computers: all new iMacs. As far as the eye can see, it’s beautiful. And not to mention the ethernet and wireless compatible buildings everywhere. Sounds like I’ll be applying for early decision; might as well give it a shot.

So I return home from an exhausting day of being thrilled to death, and I find out some particular news… Sony NX70V is now for sale!!!!!!! And….it now is capable of video recording!!! This is too kewl. Somehow I need to keep myself from diving into this so fast (or maybe I should pray for a flood of cash at my door). Anyways, it’s some great news from the first Sony Clie running 5.0 OS.

Two days of College English release is nice. Such a quaint time to get stuff done. Speaking of school, it’s been not bad lately, although the tests and quizzes have been getting shallow…

Saturday is the VT Open House, so I’ll be waking up at the *crack* of dawn for that one. Hopefully this little visit will influence me more, or at least support my hopes that VT has a strong mechanical / acoustical engineering school.

I’ve been doing some emphatic search for a PDA. Right now, because I’ve been forgetting things left and right, I’m just looking for a easy-to-use cheap one until I get either the NX70V or NR70V. Any suggestions would be great.

After a brief conversation about a certain song, I was asked to go to a certain website regarding Avril Lavigne. After reading it, and after hearing several of her songs, I must agree that she is quite the poser in punk music. Her image is created by "Sk8tr Boi" and not supported with any other track on her cd. Ouch. Talk about bad management. If you’re gonna go punk, then go punk; crossing over is bad.

College admissions time is here. ::Screams:: I’ll have fun though. Looks like Tech and WM are my top choices. Acoustical Engineering or Law.

Grow up Torricelli. For those of you who aren’t up to date on current topics: New Jersey Senator Torricelli has resigned from the election race because he just didn’t think he’d win, meaning the race would be won by the Republican candidate. So he wants the New Jersey State Surpreme Court to allow a "replacement" candidate for him because he still wants the Dems to have their chance at the Congressional seat. Get a life.

As school goes on, I find that my surprising "liberal" score in an AP Gov activity-thing is becoming truer. Am I really this liberal, or am I just paranoid?

After a nice little cleaning of the clutter of my Buddy List, I am much uncommonly annoyed by random people popping up while I’m online. Goodbye to the 30some I dropped!!

October is Car-Care month. Take great pride in your transportation and treat it with the utmost respect and compassion. You need them, they need you. Take a hint from work on my car.

Shout out again to BestBuy. Your monopolization of electronic retailing is grotesque, but your prices are beyond resonable. And you now carry the Apple iPod, so much love due to you.

Congrats to Matt on his recent purchase of a Master’s Edition Yamaha 6-stringer. Pounding lows has never sounded so…rawk.