Captain's Log:
I started reading my new Shannara book this week. This is an awesome book, as Terry Brooks' always are. I also received the new book from Bernard Cornwell in the mail. That is next on my list...well next after The Elves of Cintra, The Children of Hurin, and Hood.
Our Lady Crusaders won their first game of the season (aside from the Heritage Prep forfeit) last night! The girls won a close second game after a disappointing first. The third game went to 26-24 and put our girls one game back; however, they came out soaring in the fourth and nearly prevented the other team from reaching double digits before the game was over. Down to the final game, Sarah Bizub served for 12 straight points, which so utterly destroyed whatever moral the other team still had. A few trades of serve and our girls had won.
The girls will have two games in a row next week and the guys have a soccer game on Tuesday.
Another round of European 2008 Qualifiers was played today and England decided to assert themselves. They beat Israel 3-0. Germany shut Wales down and out with a 2-0 victory; both goals coming from Klose.
I have more school work to do before the day is done. I will return...
Lorimer
9.08.2007
9.04.2007
Stardate 070904.8
Captain's Log:
Sorry, but no day eight today. Maybe tomorrow. I do have other news though...
Latest weird news: A Rhode Island man was charged with kidnapping and demanding $20,000 ransom from his mother for her cat. Wow…what an idiot.
Yesterday was Labor Day, and as usual the government took the day off. This was nice. I slept in and then rode my bike to my parent’s house so that I could spend the day there with Luke before he left for college. Mostly I just sat in a chair and read, because he was packing for the next three months. For dinner we all went to Longhorn Steakhouse, which was quite good. Luke and my dad left this morning to travel up to Pensacola.
I did not ride my bike home in the night, but drove the Cavalier. I avoided a ticket, but risked my life nearly as much driving that car. It is making some funny noises, which sound dangerous.
I have been using my Zune for nearly a week now, and I have come up with many new ideas that Microsoft can implement to improve the software of their product. I am going to email them near the end of this week once I get all of my ideas down in writing. Maybe they can write the code for these changes fast enough so that they come out with the 1.5 version of the firmware. One can only hope…
I picked up the new Shannara book from the library today, and I am going to be reading that heavily over the next few days. I have not finished The Children of Hurin yet, but it is very good. The next book in the Saxon series is being published in January in the US; however, it came out this week in the UK, so I ordered it from amazon.uk and I will be getting it by the end of the week. Yet another book to read. John Grisham's new book is the last one in September that I want, and then there is only one more this year, I think, that I am going to get. Orson Scott Card is publishing his new book at the end of October.
Done for tonight…Boom!
Lorimer
Sorry, but no day eight today. Maybe tomorrow. I do have other news though...
Latest weird news: A Rhode Island man was charged with kidnapping and demanding $20,000 ransom from his mother for her cat. Wow…what an idiot.
Yesterday was Labor Day, and as usual the government took the day off. This was nice. I slept in and then rode my bike to my parent’s house so that I could spend the day there with Luke before he left for college. Mostly I just sat in a chair and read, because he was packing for the next three months. For dinner we all went to Longhorn Steakhouse, which was quite good. Luke and my dad left this morning to travel up to Pensacola.
I did not ride my bike home in the night, but drove the Cavalier. I avoided a ticket, but risked my life nearly as much driving that car. It is making some funny noises, which sound dangerous.
I have been using my Zune for nearly a week now, and I have come up with many new ideas that Microsoft can implement to improve the software of their product. I am going to email them near the end of this week once I get all of my ideas down in writing. Maybe they can write the code for these changes fast enough so that they come out with the 1.5 version of the firmware. One can only hope…
I picked up the new Shannara book from the library today, and I am going to be reading that heavily over the next few days. I have not finished The Children of Hurin yet, but it is very good. The next book in the Saxon series is being published in January in the US; however, it came out this week in the UK, so I ordered it from amazon.uk and I will be getting it by the end of the week. Yet another book to read. John Grisham's new book is the last one in September that I want, and then there is only one more this year, I think, that I am going to get. Orson Scott Card is publishing his new book at the end of October.
Done for tonight…Boom!
Lorimer
9.02.2007
Stardate 070902.8
Captain's Log:
Many things have happened over the past two weeks to keep me way too busy to post, but I have finally found time. This will probably be a long post because of the many things about which I must write.
To begin with, classes started last week, and I am signed up for five. Three at UCF and two at BCC, which will transfer to UCF immediately after the semester. My three UCF classes with be very interesting as well as slightly challenging; however, my BCC classes are almost a joke. I am taking Microcomputer Application II (Office 2003) and Windows XP... My UCF classes are Electrical Circuitry, Applied Operating Systems I, and Computers/Network Security. Should be an interesting semester.
Our Wade volleyball team is doing quite a bit better than last year; much improved. They are 1-3. They nearly beat Liberty, but lost in the fifth game by 8 points. So close. Our soccer games do not start until this Friday.
My sister left for college at Crown last week, and my brother leaves for Pensacola on Tuesday. I wish both of them good luck. They will be fine, for they are both very intelligent.
I finished 9 books in the month of August. This includes the entire Charlie Bone series. These books were actually not that bad. The first one was kind of lame, but they got better as the series progressed. I have moved back to reading books on an adult level. The Children of Hurin is quite good, though I am only 52 pages in at the moment. The new Shannara Book came out, and I will be starting that soon. Also, Scarlet came out, which means that I have to finish Hood so that I can read Stephen Lawhead's newest book. So many things too read, and not enough time.
Now I shall post the next day of my trip that I took over a month ago and have not finished relaying to the public...
Day Seven - 25 July 07
On this morning over breakfast, the members of my team gave each other nicknames, and then called me over to the table at the end of breakfast (I was not able to eat with them this morning, because we had a small coach's meeting at another table) to tell me the names. I had already memorized all of their names the second day of the trip, and I was not about to learn new names for them all, so I told them I would be using their real names, but they were welcome to use whatever names they wanted for each other. It did help the team to bond, so I thought it was a great idea.
After breakfast, we left the hotel on our bus and went to Amsterdam for our canal tour. While on the boat, we got to see things like the oldest houses in Amsterdam, the skinniest house in Amsterdam, the mayor's bicycle, a floating Chinese restaurant, hundreds of house boats, and a replica of a 17th century ship named the Amsterdam...oddly enough.
Once the tour was concluded, we drove to the fields and played our one game of the day. We lost to the Swedish team in our bracket; however, we held them scoreless in the second half after some big changes at half-time. After the players had cleaned up, we watched a couple of the other games going on around our field. We left for dinner shortly thereafter, and went to a place called the Pancake House (well, that is the English translation...). The "pancakes" turned out to be crepes, and they were quite good.
After dinner, we watched a local city team play another club team (I have no idea where they were from) and that proved to be a one-sided affair. The visitors came in and won 6-1. Throughout the entire game, Jeroen (a Dutch guy who was in charge of the Delegation Managers at our hotel) and I talked about Holland and America, and I asked him quite a few questions about his country. I found out many things, among which was the amount of trouble one has to go through to get a driver's license over in Holland. First of all, you have to be 18, and then you have to take about 30-40 one hour lessons along with multiple tests. He said the whole process costs about 1500 Euro, which is about 2100 dollars. It is very difficult to get a license there.
The day ended at the hotel when I fell asleep, quite happily, in my room.
***
In conclusion, I bought a Zune the other day on Woot.com; half-price. Picture...
I got the white one. As soon as it was charged, I loaded it up with an episode of the Office, Season three. It looks great on the screen, for it plays video in wide screen format. I am very happy with it.
That is going to be all for this dreadfully long post. Until next time...you stay classy, Melbourne!
Later,
Lorimer
Many things have happened over the past two weeks to keep me way too busy to post, but I have finally found time. This will probably be a long post because of the many things about which I must write.
To begin with, classes started last week, and I am signed up for five. Three at UCF and two at BCC, which will transfer to UCF immediately after the semester. My three UCF classes with be very interesting as well as slightly challenging; however, my BCC classes are almost a joke. I am taking Microcomputer Application II (Office 2003) and Windows XP... My UCF classes are Electrical Circuitry, Applied Operating Systems I, and Computers/Network Security. Should be an interesting semester.
Our Wade volleyball team is doing quite a bit better than last year; much improved. They are 1-3. They nearly beat Liberty, but lost in the fifth game by 8 points. So close. Our soccer games do not start until this Friday.
My sister left for college at Crown last week, and my brother leaves for Pensacola on Tuesday. I wish both of them good luck. They will be fine, for they are both very intelligent.
I finished 9 books in the month of August. This includes the entire Charlie Bone series. These books were actually not that bad. The first one was kind of lame, but they got better as the series progressed. I have moved back to reading books on an adult level. The Children of Hurin is quite good, though I am only 52 pages in at the moment. The new Shannara Book came out, and I will be starting that soon. Also, Scarlet came out, which means that I have to finish Hood so that I can read Stephen Lawhead's newest book. So many things too read, and not enough time.
Now I shall post the next day of my trip that I took over a month ago and have not finished relaying to the public...
Day Seven - 25 July 07
On this morning over breakfast, the members of my team gave each other nicknames, and then called me over to the table at the end of breakfast (I was not able to eat with them this morning, because we had a small coach's meeting at another table) to tell me the names. I had already memorized all of their names the second day of the trip, and I was not about to learn new names for them all, so I told them I would be using their real names, but they were welcome to use whatever names they wanted for each other. It did help the team to bond, so I thought it was a great idea.
After breakfast, we left the hotel on our bus and went to Amsterdam for our canal tour. While on the boat, we got to see things like the oldest houses in Amsterdam, the skinniest house in Amsterdam, the mayor's bicycle, a floating Chinese restaurant, hundreds of house boats, and a replica of a 17th century ship named the Amsterdam...oddly enough.
Once the tour was concluded, we drove to the fields and played our one game of the day. We lost to the Swedish team in our bracket; however, we held them scoreless in the second half after some big changes at half-time. After the players had cleaned up, we watched a couple of the other games going on around our field. We left for dinner shortly thereafter, and went to a place called the Pancake House (well, that is the English translation...). The "pancakes" turned out to be crepes, and they were quite good.
After dinner, we watched a local city team play another club team (I have no idea where they were from) and that proved to be a one-sided affair. The visitors came in and won 6-1. Throughout the entire game, Jeroen (a Dutch guy who was in charge of the Delegation Managers at our hotel) and I talked about Holland and America, and I asked him quite a few questions about his country. I found out many things, among which was the amount of trouble one has to go through to get a driver's license over in Holland. First of all, you have to be 18, and then you have to take about 30-40 one hour lessons along with multiple tests. He said the whole process costs about 1500 Euro, which is about 2100 dollars. It is very difficult to get a license there.
The day ended at the hotel when I fell asleep, quite happily, in my room.
***
In conclusion, I bought a Zune the other day on Woot.com; half-price. Picture...
I got the white one. As soon as it was charged, I loaded it up with an episode of the Office, Season three. It looks great on the screen, for it plays video in wide screen format. I am very happy with it.
That is going to be all for this dreadfully long post. Until next time...you stay classy, Melbourne!
Later,
Lorimer
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