So... Let me know or comment if you do still check this (or any of the old blogs) anymore.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Anyone there?
Just testing to see if anyone even checks these blogs anymore. If I have free time I may resume. But that's under the very large assumption that I'd have free time to waste posting once and a while.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Going 2 Touche Tourney...
Not exactly 'going' in the traditional sense of the word. Attending, not traveling....
See most of you tommorow...
See most of you tommorow...
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Best lego youtube movie....
found this on youtube. Great animation, pretty funny....If you have time 2 waste, that is.
Yeah...pretty dumb...
Yeah...pretty dumb...
Friday, March 7, 2008
Concordia Part 2
Day 2, or Tuesday, was rather uneventful at first. We prepared. I went over LD with Jonah. We went out to lunch with some friends from the area. Our Grandparents were around so they went to the first 2 days of the tournament. Before we knew it it was time to head over to the University, which was only a couple blocks down. Despite that fact we still made every wrong turn possible. The first LD round was to be at around 7 or 8, I think. So it was already getting dark. After meeting everyone from last year, standing around some, and standing around some more, postings went up. Jonah was hitting Te G, from Scarlet, and I was hitting Scarlet WK. ( I don't know if they'd appreciate me posting their full names.... I don't know...) Jonah walked up to me- "Hey, we're both committing debater's suicide first round!" While those of you reading may not know these people, Jonah spoke the truth. Will debated Holly in quarters at Point loma, and won this tournament. Teddy won first speaker. So we were both in for quite a round.
If we got to the round, that is. Jonah found his room, but will and I ran into each other searching for ours. We ran all over the campus looking for the nonexistent room, which turned out to be so. The judge's number was mixed up with the room number. We found the right room, in which a policy round was still occurring. So someone came up to us and said it'd be fine if we used an empty room.
Needless to say the round didn't go well. Worse still I realized after checking and rechecking Jonah's stuff, I had 2 neg cases- one of which was an old, unedited version, the other of which I didn't bring support for.....I tried to mesh them, but spent so much time thinking of that that I didn't think of anything for cross ex.... The round went downhill from there. It got interesting before the end, but the winner was clear. I heard someone else from scarlet say Will thought he lost, but he was probably the only one who thought so...
We ate crab cooker that night- and if you haven't eaten it you need to. It is the best clam chowder ever made.
Sleep awaited.
But of course I wouldn't end a post on a cheesy line like that. The fact is sleep had to awake. I had spent so much time finalizing Jonah's brief case, that he had the correct versions of my cases. I thanked him for bringing the laptop and started typing it all up. I then finished another aff. case I was working on....extremely impromptu, but I wanted to get the most out of the tournament, and I wouldn't have another chance to run it. I had no idea how to print it, but that would wait. Once it is 1:30 am, a lot of things can wait.
Now sleep awaited.
If we got to the round, that is. Jonah found his room, but will and I ran into each other searching for ours. We ran all over the campus looking for the nonexistent room, which turned out to be so. The judge's number was mixed up with the room number. We found the right room, in which a policy round was still occurring. So someone came up to us and said it'd be fine if we used an empty room.
Needless to say the round didn't go well. Worse still I realized after checking and rechecking Jonah's stuff, I had 2 neg cases- one of which was an old, unedited version, the other of which I didn't bring support for.....I tried to mesh them, but spent so much time thinking of that that I didn't think of anything for cross ex.... The round went downhill from there. It got interesting before the end, but the winner was clear. I heard someone else from scarlet say Will thought he lost, but he was probably the only one who thought so...
We ate crab cooker that night- and if you haven't eaten it you need to. It is the best clam chowder ever made.
Sleep awaited.
But of course I wouldn't end a post on a cheesy line like that. The fact is sleep had to awake. I had spent so much time finalizing Jonah's brief case, that he had the correct versions of my cases. I thanked him for bringing the laptop and started typing it all up. I then finished another aff. case I was working on....extremely impromptu, but I wanted to get the most out of the tournament, and I wouldn't have another chance to run it. I had no idea how to print it, but that would wait. Once it is 1:30 am, a lot of things can wait.
Now sleep awaited.
Concordia Part 1
as many of you know, Jonah and I went to the Concordia tournament last week- in LD. So here follows the best of my recollection.
I'd been wanting to go to an LD tournament all year, or well, at least since the modesto round robin, which was my first LD tourney this year (in Dec.). I've been rather disappointed that my second tournament of the season, first qualifier of the season, would be my last (Can't go 2 biola), so I wanted to make the most of it.
Since it was being held at Concordia university, in Irvine, we would drive down Monday.. The drive, which we have done quite a bit, was a bit more hectic than usual. We left at around 5 am, but still hit the inbound traffic to Oakland. Most likely because of last minute stuff, like Jonah grabbing the laptop at the last minute. Since it was early and dark, it was hard to drive. I wouldn't really know, but that's what I'm told. A car ahead of us abruptly slammed it's brakes and we came inches from it's bumper, while the two cars behind us hit (not much, but still scary)
God was watching...
The rest of the drive was the same monotony. At a gas station we saw a chipmunk, which was rather exciting, you don't see those too much... It was interesting until we found out we were deceived and it was an ordinary squirrel.
We were nearly hit again when we got to Irvine. Construction work was stalling us, and we were rather frustrated with the slow time already. But as we went around a bend (we're on a 2-way street now..) a minivan zoomed around, evidently crashing into us had we not been stalled.
God still there...
Needles to say the drive alone was an adventure.
We got to where we were staying -a beach house my mom's side of the family shares. We walked to the beach and ate dinner. Several jellyfish washed on shore so we didn't swim. Water was really col anyway. Jonah and I did an empire competition. Instead of sand castles you make sand civilizations. You start out with huts, hovels, etc., then show the progression of the city until you have aquaducts, amphitheaters, palaces, seawalls, and eventually other cities connected with roads. We were never challenged by the sea, close as we were to the ocean, so we never needed seawalls. That was disappointing. Constructing perfect sea walls is a difficult task.
And so ended day one.
I'd been wanting to go to an LD tournament all year, or well, at least since the modesto round robin, which was my first LD tourney this year (in Dec.). I've been rather disappointed that my second tournament of the season, first qualifier of the season, would be my last (Can't go 2 biola), so I wanted to make the most of it.
Since it was being held at Concordia university, in Irvine, we would drive down Monday.. The drive, which we have done quite a bit, was a bit more hectic than usual. We left at around 5 am, but still hit the inbound traffic to Oakland. Most likely because of last minute stuff, like Jonah grabbing the laptop at the last minute. Since it was early and dark, it was hard to drive. I wouldn't really know, but that's what I'm told. A car ahead of us abruptly slammed it's brakes and we came inches from it's bumper, while the two cars behind us hit (not much, but still scary)
God was watching...
The rest of the drive was the same monotony. At a gas station we saw a chipmunk, which was rather exciting, you don't see those too much... It was interesting until we found out we were deceived and it was an ordinary squirrel.
We were nearly hit again when we got to Irvine. Construction work was stalling us, and we were rather frustrated with the slow time already. But as we went around a bend (we're on a 2-way street now..) a minivan zoomed around, evidently crashing into us had we not been stalled.
God still there...
Needles to say the drive alone was an adventure.
We got to where we were staying -a beach house my mom's side of the family shares. We walked to the beach and ate dinner. Several jellyfish washed on shore so we didn't swim. Water was really col anyway. Jonah and I did an empire competition. Instead of sand castles you make sand civilizations. You start out with huts, hovels, etc., then show the progression of the city until you have aquaducts, amphitheaters, palaces, seawalls, and eventually other cities connected with roads. We were never challenged by the sea, close as we were to the ocean, so we never needed seawalls. That was disappointing. Constructing perfect sea walls is a difficult task.
And so ended day one.
Monday, February 25, 2008
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