I first want to say a big Happy Birthday to my girlfriend, She turned 18 yesterday and got to have her own party and everything like she wanted :). I got to play apples to apples while I was there, and that was great fun!!! The second part of my good news is that my parents went on vacation/on a fishing trip last weekend up in michigan and scored a buttload of salmon!!! So now we can eat like kings, off the fillets of salmon, for the month or even longer if we wish :). The third and final piece of good news is that the haunted forest starts next weekend and I am stoked to scare some kids!!!

Now the bad news, my haunt is not set up yet and I don't think I will have it done by tomorrow so I hope dad can get it set up in time!!! This is the first year I'll be doing the haunted forest as an adult and I'm bringing my friend Spenser to help me scare them good!!! So this week I'm off then I go clothes shopping for something weird and out of place, wish me luck!!!

I have to head outside and get to work, I will update you again sometime soon, peace!

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."
-Aristotle

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So it is OCTOBER, which is a great month for me! my beautiful girl friend turns the big 18 this month, its my mothers birthday, Halloween is this month which = awesome!!!, and like during every great October the Edon Ohio Boy Scouts has a haunted forest, which I am privileged enough to be able to do my own haunt. This year I'm still a little unsure as to what I should do but I'm definitely up for suggestions if anyone has any!!!

In other news my Xbox 360 is beginning to take a dump on me so I need to start saving my money for either a new one or to send this one in. I believe the disk drive is going out of it, because I will load a disk into the slot, close it and it will not notice the disk is there, but if I open and close it a bunch of times, eventually it recognizes the game and will let me play. Also Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 comes out in a couple weeks, I'm still debating buying it, so we will see what happens there.

Have you ever had a class that you have to take and be there every time? And then when you are in the class you just sit there and listen to what the teacher is saying, for the whole period, and at the end of the class you just want to scream WHAT??? Well I have and I'm really starting to hate the feeling.

A little piece of advice for anyone that reads this, make sure when you are going to classes you read the assignment that you are supposed to, get friends to help you study, and don't procrastinate, you'll only dig yourself a hole if you do. And for all of you struggling to learn something, I feel your pain, your best bet is to ask for help!!!!!

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
-Arthur C. Clarke

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So I had a long weekend, during which I did not do my physics take home test or my calculus 2 homework, both of which are due Tuesday, so I will be doing it fast tomorrow. I don't know why I'm in this funk, but I don't like it, I'm starting to get panicky about my grades, calculus is getting harder by the day and I still keep waiting until the day before to do the homework. I think I'm going to go back to the homework that was assigned since the beginning of school and do it again, by myself this time though, I hope that I can catch up before its too late!!!

Well now since the bad parts of the weekend are out, the good parts can come out too. I bought a garden torch for my parents this weekend and got to use it. The garden torch is a flaming tube that is hooked up to a propane tank and all you have to do to use it is hold it over the plant you wish to get rid of for a couple seconds and ka-blamo weed goes away. So with said garden torch I went around the house and burned all the weeds, which made me feel awesome lol (I'm sort of a pyro). I also got to hang out with my girlfriend and my see my Great Aunt and Grandma from around Akron Ohio, which was awesome!!!!

Well I'm going to hit the hay, I'm super tired for some reason.

“To have begun is to be half done; dare to be wise; begin!”
-Horace

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I don't understand why I always feel tired, I get through 2 REM cycles ( REM = rapid eye movement, which are for 3 hours a piece) and I still am ready to fall right back to sleep. I'd also like to note that I have lost ambition to do just about anything. I would rather play xbox 360, from when I get home to when I go to bed. This is rather inconvienent for things like my homework, grades, and hanging out with friends.

In other complaints, my cat has moved back to only eating soft food, which is killer on my whole monthly budget... thank god for aldi's, cheap food!!!

Now the good side of life, Saturday my girlfriend and I went to the movies and watched Gamer (btw, it sucks!!! I won't watch it again). We also went to Pizza Forum, which is right up the road from IPFW, and got some awesome pizza. I've been there a half dozen times and I have to say it rocks, not one bad meal! Pizza Forum also has a discount for IPFW students, which is 10 % off your whole meal, or a 12" peperoni pizza for CHEAP!!! Like I said, amazing place.

Other other news, I'm starving!!! I'll let y'all go now.

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
- James Joyce, 1882-1941

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So it has been a long week and I'm glad it is finally over! I am of course ready for a knap like the title states. I also hate crickets!!! There is two of them under my house and they cricket everyday, every second, and yada yada yada, I'm ready to get a lighter out and burn them, or drown them. Then I'll have to seal the house up with silicone to ensure they can't get under there again and from the sounds of it I might have to spray pesticide down there too.

So I want to inform everyone that at the end of October the Boy Scouts of Edon, Ohio are going to be hosting a haunted forest at the Walts Park Forest. I don't have an exact date, but when I do get the info I plan to give it out to everyone I can. I know it'll be good because I'm going to work it, as I have every year thus far. The trail is going to be upgraded compared to every year, so we will have actual bridges for people to walk over instead of mulched over stackes of logs.

Other news: I have homework to do so I will chat everyone up later, peace!

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

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It has been an interesting week thus far. I have had little time to myself to think, let alone get a blog in, until now. I have recently started an on-campus work-study job, where I sit at the front desk of the Dean of the Engineering Technology and Computer Science (ETCS)'s office, and at the desk, when one first walks into the ETCS success office. I mostly work on homework, answer the phone, and help anyone who comes in with a question, so it's a cool job.

What else is new... Um, well I got sick from my girlfriend and I now have to do my best not to breathe on anyone, I cough into my shirt, and I keep sanatizing/washing my hands in the best effort not to get anyone else sick.

Verizon shut my internet off, it's very sad. Unfortunately my parents missed the invoice so the bill hasn't been paid and thus I have no internet.

Math is somewhere between difficult and understandable, although I need to put a lot more effort into it if I plan on having a nice grade when I pass. Physic is difficult to explain, the prof is the type of guy that won't tell you the answer, instead he expects you to learn it from the material and will answer your question with another question. In class we don't have lectures, we have class discussion where we answer problems out of our learning manuals and he expects everyone to participate. This is a lot different form the classes where I could give an unclear definition and the teacher clears it up for me. The thing is even though I can complain about all this I know this class will be a good thing for me, because I won't have only the "make up an answer" mentality, I'll also have the "think it out" method to use at my future job.

I think I'm a rambler- which is a trait I inherited from my father because he can talk and talk lol.

Well I think I'm going to get off of here and probably go home, these long days on campus are crazy, or at least for this week :)

Take care all

"He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet."
- Joseph Joubert

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So it is my first week back and I have noticed a huge change in me, I have noticed that I am extremely more social this year than I was even back in high school. I also have more confidence in myself to get things done and I don't notice if people are staring at me, like the "shy" state I used to be in. Last year I had a hard time doing tours because I could never make small talk with the prospective student, and that was the biggest part of the job. Now I could make small talk with about anyone I wanted. And through the STARs program in the admissions I have made a handfull of new friends. I would advice you to try and get a job as a STudent Admissions Representative (if there is one available for you), and share all of your stories.

In other news I have been able to use the knowledge I gained from high school physic,in my college physic class, which means I have a fighting chance to get close to an A in it and this makes me very happy. I also feel really bad for my girlfriend, who has a ton on her plate for this semester, and she is struggling to find the time, I hope she can do it and still have a good senior year (she's a high school senior in the grand ol' bomber country :) ).

Exciting side note: I'm borrowing "gears of war 2" (xbox 360 game) from a friend and i love playing horde on multiplayer! If you are on xbox live and you want a person to play with, drop me an invite, my gamer tag is: NightlyDragon7.
p.s. I also play Call of Duty: World at War, Mercenaries 2, Fuel of War, and Call of Duty 4; I have more games, so just invite me and I'll tell you if I have it.

"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke

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This week is the first week back, which means... FREE FOOD!!!!!! oh and classes but mostly FREE FOOD!!! :).

So my classes have started, along with everyone else's, and this semester I am taking calculus 2, Physics 152 (mechanics), Engr 199 (engineering design), and Engr 221 (C and C++ Programing). My goal for this semester, which will be HARD, is to get an A in every class, but I need a B or higher in Physics and Calculus to keep my scholarship, which shouldn't be hard for the B, but I want the A...

In other news, Today on campus we have the velcro wall (I believe) and for sure Nelson's grilled food like hambergers and hotdogs (YUM YUM!) for the masses to eat! I also met up with a girl that used to go to the same high school as me, which is cool because I'm no longer the only edonight (sounds like E-don-knight) in Fort Wayne!

well I need to run, I believe my project partner is here, so it's time for a paper airplane simulator :) don't you just love nerds...?

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
-Thomas Jefferson

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It has been a long couple of days for me here in the little lossed town of Edon, so far I have moved all the stuff from the basement to the living room upstairs, cleaned the walls and floor in the basement, poured a cement pad in the basement, painted the basement walls with a sealant, moved boxes of stuff back into the basement, and I've also started filling cracks in the walls with hydrolic cement. All this is in an effort to stop the water from coming through the walls downstairs so that it isn't a sest pool of molds and bacteria. I also got a lesson in organizing my house from my mom and got a good deal of it picked up.

Now on my list of to do: I need to make a popcorn holder, make a stand to expand the rain catcher, plumb the rain barrels onto it, paint the basement floor, and I'm sure my 'rents will find something else for me to do.

And I can't wait until school starts, I'm so BORED!!!! And I just want to get this semester over.

Well I'm off to watch Bones and I'm sure I'll have to do something else that a 'rent will ask for. Good night all.

"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)

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So the basement work that I was procrastinating on earlier is mostly done, I had to gutt it out so we could see the water damage and everything else that is wrong down there. Our next task is to spray the walls with a chemical "killer" to kill all the mold and then wash the walls down with water and clean up the mess. Then we have a plan of starting a root cellar to store the potatoes and onions we just got out of our garden. Then eventually we would like to make a gray water watering system, which is where we would take the water from our bath and put it into storage. The water is from that point pumped outside to the garden where it is use for watering. This would save us money because we wouldn't have to pay for the water we use when we garden. I hope to complete this job within the week before I have to go back to school.

Well I'm taking off for my nice warm bed, take care all.

"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."
- W.B. Prescott

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