Running Start

I won't make this post be about Earth Day, because I feel that it would just become a lame excuse to make a joke about Captain Planet. Instead, I'll inform you that I took the test for Running Start today, and I'm fairly confident that I'll be accepted.

Hizorer

Here is a direct quote from a grammar worksheet I got from English class (bcus kids txt 2 mch):

"A personal pronoun must agree in gender with its antecedent. When a singular antecedent refers to a category of persons that may include both males and females, you may avoid sexist language by using the phrase his or her, rather than his."

That just reeks of political correctness, doesn't it?

Reunion

Last night right as we arrived home from the dance, we noticed an expected visitor arrive unexpectedly early. I knew that David was up around here because one of his old friends was getting married, but I expect him to arrive today. Either way, the time at which he arrived didn't matter, but rather the implications of his arrival.

It was the first time we've all been able to be together for two years and could easily be the last time for two (or more likely three or four) years. Nathan just got home from his mission, Andrew will be leaving in July, and with any luck I'll be leaving before he gets home.

We took advantage of this by inviting Stephanie and her family over, and taking family pictures. Dinner basically amounted to Thanksgiving in April. Unfortunately, David couldn't stay very long, because he had to leave right after dinner.

Cooling Down

Earlier today I was playing Smash Bros with Danny, his friend, and his friend's friend. It was pretty fun and enjoyable, but eventually they left, and I was left with no one to play with. I figured I could complete one of the challenges the game presents: beating the Boss Battles mode on Intense difficulty.

Intense is a misnomer. It's freaking Impossible.* I managed to get to the final boss once, but failed to dodge one of its umpteen instant-kill moves. That's about when I gave up for the day. I didn't see the point of trying over and over only to end up failing. You can probably imagine how I felt.

Fortunately, there was a stake youth dance tonight, which was the perfect way for me to cool down a little by dancing a ton to make myself sweat several gallons of water. I liked most of the songs, and I actually danced with some girls.

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* I've actually completed that game.

Wasted Opportunies

Sorry I haven't blogged for a while. I've had plenty of blog-worthy things happen since I last posted, but I've been lazy. To make it up for you, I'll compile them into a list.

• Nathan came home
• Missionaries came over for dinner
• Learning about dating and hygiene at scouts
• I started flossing nightly
• WASL late start days
• Working extra hours for Ceramics
• "Cooking Show" in Japanese class
• Andrew got his mission call
• It's snowing

Zero Days

Worst case scenario.

One Day

Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,

Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

Two Days

Two is the number of views that it will take for your mind to be blown be this video.

That is all.

Three Days

According to Wikipedia, three is often the largest number written with the same number of strokes as the number it represents. This was true with the Romans, Chinese, and Brahmin Indians.

Three is also:

• Considered lucky in many cultures
• The centimeters of hair cut off of my head.
• The average number of movies people can name starring Charlton Heston:
  
• The Ten Commandments
• Ben-Hur
• Planet of the Apes
• The hours of conference I was able to pay full attention to.
  

Four Days

I reckon that I dozed off about four times during the afternoon session of general conference, and I can give you four reasons why:

1. My parents were at the Republican county caucus.
2. Andrew was at work.
3. Danny decided to watch it downstairs.
4. It'd've been a pity to see the couch go to waste.

Five Days

Five is the number of sessions of General Conference I'll be seeing of the weekend. It's also largest number of consecutive posts that I've made past 8:30 PM. Additionally, five is the number of sides on a pentagon, and there are 12 pentagons on a soccer ball. Maybe they represent the 12 apostles that will be speaking at Conference.

As long as we're on the subject of soccer, I might as well mention that I I played soccer during Japanese class. The World Language teachers like doing this every year or so, but it was cold and raining today. However, since most of our class wanted to play, our teacher let us play, but let the three wimps that didn't want to play stay in class. As for the game itself, I didn't even slip once in mud, which was better than half the other players and all my matches in Smash Bros. Overall it was pretty fun, even if my hands were practically frostbitten by the end of the game.

Five is also the number of points that I should have gotten on the extra credit problem on the Physics test. Even though I got the right answer, I made an assumption about the scenario that was incorrect, due to my poor knowledge of American football. The assumption led to a slightly difference value for a variable, but it ended up canceling itself out, means that I could have put a cheesecake in its place and still have gotten the right answer. Then again, it's not like it matters, considering the fact that I got 110%, which was only one point away from a "perfect" score. There's also the fact that the test was about five times harder than the test that the other Physics class took.

Bonus Question: Find out how many points the test was worth, assuming that I got a perfect score on all the other problems (which I did).

Six Days

I'm too lazy to think of anything related to the number six that has an significance (sans 666), so I'll just rummage through the Wikipedia article on the number.

Rummaging...

...

Six:

• Is the atomic number of carbon
  
• Is the day God created man
• Degrees of Kevin Bacon
• Is the number of inhabited continents
• Is the number of dots in a braille character
• Is the number the poster attached to this video

Seven Days

I suppose I should start counting down to next Wednesday. I forget exactly what happens on that date, but my Mom seems to have been doing the same thing for the past couple weeks. As long as it provides content for my blog, I'm perfectly willing to jump on the bandwagon.

So to kick it all off, it's seven days until April 9th (unless you live in New York or half of the globe east of it). Curiously seven is also the number of days in a week.

Closing Shop

I've decided to end this blog right here and right now. It was a good ride, but I don't feel like what I've got out of it exceeds what I put into it. Maybe I'll eventually start a new one, but honestly, this takes far too much effort to maintain. Farewell. If anybody wants to take over this blog and pretend to be me, just remember that my password is "Sloof Lirpa". That shouldn't be too hard to remember.


Notice: If this post didn't make you chuckle, then I doubt that this would either.