Freecell

I think my addiction to Freecell is slowly being replaced by a new addiction to Minesweeper...

It all happened that day when I did absolutely nothing except play on my laptop...I think that was the week after midterms. It was when I finally figured out how to defeat Minesweeper, and I also won 12 games of Freecell without stopping. Then I lost one and haven't really played since. So sad.

I realized why I loved Freecell so much in the first place. My grandpa (my dad's dad who went crazy almost 6 years ago) and I played all the time when I was little.

And now, after typing this rant, I revealed how much writer's block I have been having.
-Cai

Type Tees

So, there's this cool sight where if you submit a slogan for a shirt, and enough people like it, it becomes a short. And you get $500.

That's pretty much been my obsession this weekend. That, and entering instant win games...no luck yet... Here are some ones that I've submitted: (nobody seems to like them. And I don't blame them..I'm getting less creative by the hour..)

• Put on your snuggie!
• Daddy's gonna kill Ralphie!
• Waldo and Nemo should be on Lost.
• I'd like an awesome blossom. Extra awesome.
• Dug! Quit bothering Kevin!
• I'm a big kid now! You're a big fat cow!
• Cottonheadedninnymuggins!
• Be excellent to eachother. Party on, dudes!
• What are you doin' in my neck of the woods?
• But I'm not gonna talk about that...in my monologue!
• 3 words that describe me? Happy. Sad. Contradicting.
• What? I thought we were talking about pancakes.
• Pigs don't fly. But swine flu.
• Awww crap.
• Of course not, no! No, no, no, no, no! Well, yes.
• I google me all the time.
• This church does not believe in Buddah!
• White people don't come in jars. Crackers come in boxes!
• I like that Google is a noun and a verb.
• No Bing, I will stay loyal to Google.
• God created the chicken, which then laid the egg.
• I put the me in mess.
• I liked Michael Jackson's music before he died.
• Now that's what I would not call music.
• The strongest letter in the alphabet is P. Not even Superman can hold it.
• Procrastinators unite!..tomorrow..
• Ugh. He is so dead. WHAT?? He's dead??
• There are 3 types of people in the world: people who can count, and people who can't.
• I don't talk to strangers..unless they offer me candy!

The most popular ones are Google, Procrastinators, Snuggie, Waldo and Nemo, and Party on Dudes. Pretty much all the others, people have voted "Um..stupid."

Hah.

-Cai

Superbowl Sunday

Every year, my theory test is on Superbowl Sunday. I don't know why--it's not like anyone wants to be there on that day, but it is. Always.

It actually wasn't that hard, thankfully. The only hard part was the teacher, who went too fast on the ear training stuff. Sigh. There's a lot riding on this--I have to get a 101. (There's a bonus point.) I can't break my streak. :/

Well, how about those Saints?

There was some freebie where some company (in Louisianna) would send everyone a free bottle of hot sauce if the Saints won. I need to hurry and sign up for that...

Poor Peyton Manning threw the interception and pretty much threw the game away after that.

This rant is poorly written...

Anyway, if you want to be disloyal to Google and use Bing Video, MSN is showing all the superbowl commercials again..hmph.
-Cai

The Lovely Bones

Last week, I read the book The Lovely Bones.

Dane is saying I should write that he is super cool and awesome.

Anyway, the book made me cry twice, it was so terrible! It was a well written story, but a 14 year old girl gets lured into an underground "clubhouse" thing her creepy neighbor built. (He makes dollhouses for a living and lives alone.) He rapes and murders her, and the rest of the story is narrated by Susie (the dead girl) in her heaven. It shows how everyone is dealing with the grief of her death...it's so sad--the dad and sister know it's the creepy neighbor, but the mom (after having an affair with the detective) leaves. SPOILER ALERT: (Don't read if you're planning on reading the book or seeing the movie!) Mr. Harvey, the murderer, moves away and never gets caught--but he does get killed by an icicle.

I'm kind of deciding what I thought about the movie. I liked the book (I like scary things), but the movie..I dunno. The actors, I thought, where all really good. They didn't go very in depth with the other characters (like Susie's crush and friends), and it showed so much of Susie's happy heaven that it didn't seem as sad on earth. The guy that played Mr. Harvey did a really good job of portraying what a creep he is. Gah. He makes me angry.

I think I liked it...the way it was actually filmed was kind of...annoying? I dunno. I recommend the movie if you're into that sort of thing..

Migraines and Musicals

I love alliteration.

Haha...first, funny thing-- I'm sitting here typing my rant, and my mom is asleep in bed, and Dane was standing out in the hallway, when my mom yells, "Cai!" And Dane says, "What mom?"
"Tell Cai to stop it!" (Me not doing anything.) "Stop it, Cai." "Sorry Mom."

Anyway, today was a painful day. I stayed home because of my stupid migraine..I still went to seminary, and I was the only one there. So go me! I went to the doctors, and he gave me a prescription, which I took in a tiny dose and slept for 4 or 5 hours. Then when I woke up, I was super dizzy...
Gasp! And I can't eat grapefruit! :(

Later, I went with my friends to Little Women, which Ashley and AJ were in. It was awesome--our school is really good at Fine Arts. You would never imagine that the school that put this on is 6 million dollars in debt..hmm..

Oh, and I love the name Fitz! Or Fritz? I dunno. Whatever the professor's name is. Bhaer?

-Cai

Number 1 Pencil

In these pass few days of testing, I've been wondering about the #1 pencil. They always say to use a #2 pencil, which makes me wonder if either the #1 pencil is just horribly neglected, or it was something evil drawn up by the Canadians..hmm..



Here is what I have learned from a GOOGLE (not Bing) search:



Apparently, the number has something to do with the hardness of the lead. Number 1 is too...soft? So it smudges. Number 2 is the clearest, and scantron machines can read it. That's why you have to take all your tests with it.

Thank you, Google, I feel more educated.

Anyway, I'm staying home from school tomorrow because I have a terrible migraine that has lasted 3 days. I'm about to chop my head off. But that means SLEEP! And lots of it!! :D

Stupid Benchmarks

First, any test that lasts for 3 hours is not a good one. Every single time we take one, I get a migraine. Not because it's hard--it's so friggin boring and long. I swear.

Today was our reading TAKs benchmark. And GAH! It was crazy.

So probably in 6th...grade? Maybe? We did a practice benchmark and it had a story about a girl who sucked at sports but trained to play marbles. I distinctly remember how idiotic I thought that was. MARBLES is not a sport. It requires no athletic ability--it is a game. Not a sport. Plus, most TAKS stories are poorly written, and require no knowledge or skill.

In this story, the nerd girl "trains" by squeezing an eraser. And apparently, her thumb gets freakishly buff, and her mom tells her to show her dad. This line, no joke, has run through my head for the past 3 years. (You know when that happens? When something either really sad, weird, scary, happy, or random continually runs through your head? Forever??) So when the dad asks what happens, she says, "I've been working out dad! I've been squeezing an eraser!"

I don't know why that stayed in my mind for so long. Maybe it's because it angers me that TAKS people (or whoever writes these terrible stories) think squeezing a stupid eraser is working out. Or that it could make your thumb so buff to make others think it was broken.

So the point? THAT WAS THE STORY on our benchmark today.
Gah.
-Cai