Happy almost June!

OMG. hi. I ONLY HAVE TWO MORE FRIDAY'S LEFT OF SCHOOL. *goes crazy* guess what else is really great? I'm getting a camera. Remember in those older posts where I said I was saving up? I have enough now and I found a really great one. I dunno if it's the "perfect" one I was looking for, but It might be. I need to give it a test run.
In English class I'm reading a book called "Flowers for Algernon". It's one of the saddest/strangest books I've ever read. Here's the Low down: Charlie is a 33 year old "special" person. He is very slow and tends to miss the bigger picture of things. A few scientists ask him to try a operation that will make him smart. That's what he's always wanted to be so he agrees. The brain surgery doesn't have any affects at first but soon Charlie changes. He begins to see the "bigger picture" and understand many concepts/ideas. You would never know he was a mentally retarded individual. The book is sad in a way and also very fascinating. The fact they changed him so much ( this is fiction by the way) is really amazing and wrong. When I say wrong, I mean there's nothing wrong with Charlie he's just slower and tends to miss concepts and then they change him. I haven't finished it yet.
I agree with Frank. We need a challenge to keep the blog hoppin' so I'm going to make one!

CHALLENGE: June 7th is National Chocolate Ice Cream Day. So we will be celebrating all next week starting on Monday and ending with Friday. Then on June 7th ( I think a Saturday) I'll get chocolate ice cream and we can all eat some. For the challenge you have to write a poem the topic being chocolate ice cream.

p.s. Anyone who cares I'm going to the coffee house tonight with Abbey. Should be a BLAST!

-Liz

Phrank: Feeling the Strain

We're into our tenth week on the blog. We've also missed two posts, so far, hopefully Liz won't make it three before this week closes. 2 out of 50, well 2 1/2 if we count late posts. That comes out to be about 5% of the posts not far. Out of a 56 week year, with 5 posts a week, that's 280 possible posts. 5% percent of that is 14 posts. Which means we each can theoretically miss two posts and everyone except one of us can miss three and maintain a 95% posting rate. Or a 5% failure rate, it's up to you whether the glass is half full or empty.
We all agreed to do this for a year, but barely into our fourth month and we're already getting tired of posting. Granted, the last week or two were particularly busy, but that's going to be the case at any point in the year. We're still going to have to post during the week of Christmas and that's gonna be crazy busy. I'm just worried that we don't have what it takes to make it through a year of posting. Perhaps we need a few more rules, to make sure people are engaged in the blog. Stuff like a minimum of three comments on other people's posts, or a rule that what you post about has to be remotely interesting. We need to make rules for challenges as well, like when a challenge is issued, it begins on Monday, not on the day issued. Then it ends the same week with Elizabeth's post. So for an example, if I issued a challenge today, the only opportunity to attempt it would be next week, starting with Greg on June 2 and we each get one try at it, ending with Elizabeth's post on June 6. The short story post dragged out for three to four weeks if not more and when the challenger finally posted his story, it was about time.
Anyways, I'd just like to see the blog be a more fun and exciting place. We would enjoy posting and reading each others post more. Then posting wouldn't be a duty, but an honor.
So glad this isn't Greg's job!
Bill, you could brown, blue or purple skies!
Anne's favorite band!
Phrank, it's so true!
Elizabeth better not end up like her!
Champ's favorite song!


These are six of the songs I've been youtubing while playing KoL, also add in everclear's Father of mine and I will buy you a new life, and colbie caillat's Realize and that's pretty much the only thing I've been listening to. Seeing Lisa on Friday, which will be good. Also acquiring DBZ season five by friday as well, which is good, but not as good as seeing Lisa. Going to a grad party on Sunday, looking forward to that as well. I need a job! Putting in more applications this afternoon and fixing my car!

Anne wants to be in bed

Alright kids, this is going to be a short one. Unfortunately for you, I am feeling like crap and just want to curl up in bed.

So Greg posted late, and Bill missed a post. And I think Liz missed one too? When I am feeling clever I will come up with something for them to do. For now, they can plead their case in the comments and maybe I'll be nice.

Frank, I grant you the ability to comment more than once in this post, as long as it pertains to their punishment and you don't swear.

Don't do drugs kids. And wear sunscreen.

Love and Harmony to you dirty hippies,
~Anne

Alaska

So this past weekend I went down to the cape with my friends wife while he is deployed. I can also say that I slept in her bed. But she was on the floor above me with her sister in-law in the room they shared. But on the plus side I did go fishing. I will say this i am not the worlds best fisherman, but I am a lot better than the people in the show I saw something about Alaska Experiment. Stupid people couldn't even catch a fish that just sat there until they used their hands. While the net was right there. Why they went in the water to bare hand a fish instead of using the net, beyond me. I would of made fish corral which is illegal, but used if needed to survive. I'd take a fine to stay alive. And then eat the fish at will instead of taking time out of other needed things. I'll let you know how the rest of the show goes. I think one out of four teams will actually survive.

A Reflection on Memorial Day

My grandfather entered into the Air Force as America went to war against Japan and Germany. He worked his way to a role as a navigator on a bomber. Knowing him, he did whatever he could to get that position. Thankfully, the war would end before he saw combat. I still don't believe that he's gone. So Memorial Day is a bit hard this year.

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This week is going to be interesting. I'm revamping one of the classes I teach now that I have an idea what I need to do as a teacher. I'll also find out what the school will reimburse for travel to North Carolina. Heck, if I get free parking at Manchester-Boston, I'd be happy.

There's a short story - children's story competition open for New Hampshire residents. I have two ideas that I'd like to try to develop. The first one is "Where the wind blows". I recently saw a old science video made by IBM called the "Powers of Ten". The video is on youtube here. The site is science - oriented place, so if there's any science content in either story, I should be okay.

Yea, I was late last week. Frank managed to tell me past midnight I hadn't posted. I'm curious what my siblings are going to ask me to do.