"No spelling errors found."

Sure, we all strive to see this. But what about this?

"No major fundamental errors in logic detected."

Oh man, logic checking... Spellcheck V.2

"What shape is France?"
"Just a general, amorphous country shape."

"Most teachers just teach, but I teach how to get an education and how to prove it's absolutely wrong!"

Word of the day; pugililistic. It means I punch you in the face.

Oh man... I remembered that the rants are all screwed up. From one of them back, the html just got messed up. Not only does there appear to be a side margin, but the words are also put together randomly with no regard for spaces. Yeah, I'll get right on it.

Oh man... There's a whale beached on an Oregon shore again...

Oh man, school's almost over. But that's not what I'm here to talk about. So, during the school year, I constantly wrote little notes in my planner about cool things. Now that the year's almost over, I'll have some time to do more pointless things. Like updating this blog.

So, just a hint of things to come... Although, you know how I am with promises...

Mr. Driller Rocks

So, I recently got Gametap. What is this, you ask? All the video gaming you can take for less than $10 a month. The selection is around 924 games.

Now, eventually I'll find some real classics that I let slip by me. Like...

Mr. Driller. I'm talking about the Dreamcast version, but really, it's all the same. This is one heck of a puzzle game. Not only does it require action, but it also requires prediction and split second decisions. So, if you want something suitably awesome to play, play Mr. Driller.

In the new Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego game, people tell you what the thief looks like. You need to fill out a warrant for their arrest based on this information. However, the witnesses only tell you one piece of information apiece! Come on! If they saw the person, why can't they tell me more? Geez!

Of course, in the older version, you filled out a warrant based on personality traits. Now that makes a whole lot more sense.

On Carmen Sandiego;
"Dude, anyone who steals the grand canyon deserves to keep it."

k.d. Lang, 9th wonder of the world?

Sometimes she looks like a girl, sometimes she looks like a guy.

Darn Canadians...

This is near my millionth key press.

The key counter I use tells me it's more like the 956,000th, but it's also been reset and missed quite a few key presses. So, it's essentially my millionth key press.

Well, I guess I'm going to be on my way for the millionth word written eventually, too. Oh well, hundred pages of bad prose for every good book...

Palm OS's era has ended. It shall go out "not with a bang, but with a whimper."

Shame. It was colorful, easy to use. Not quite the perfect eulogy, but still... It had something to it. I liked it.

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So, I left off with the rest of the season to go. Well, here's how we did. We got promoted, that's for sure. We kept our spot at the top of the ladder. Yeah, take that. Of course, the second place team also got promoted, so we had someone to compete with. They were one of the only familiar teams in the second division.

This was the last time I simulated a significant amount of time since. Why? Apparently we lost Adam Tann over the off season. Now, he was our rock to the defense. We really could have used him. Now, in the end, it all turned out okay, as we got a replacement. Apparently good defenders are a dime a dozen. But still, it put me off of simulating for quite some time.

Oh, Stirling. Now, East Stirlingshire and Stirling sound like they come from the same place. And they must, because they have a sort of rivalry. In most of our meetings, we were billed as the supreme underdogs. We were consistently kicking their ass through the season. I would get messages from my chairman saying he thought it was awesome that we owned them. That's a prelude to...

Our performances in the second division. For a very brief moment of time, we were number one. That's right, we were almost promoted. Then we started losing some games. We found ourselves in a mid table position. Around 4-5th. (Out of 10) Then near the end of the season, we rallied to win fourth. We were set for the promotion playoffs.

Now for the brief segment about our cup games. We were knocked out of two cups very early on, so there was no winning those. But there was one cup left, and we kicked butt. Our final match was against a premier league team. No, not just any; the premier league team. And we did okay against them. They won, but they had to fight for it! Man, even the pundits were surprised. Even better, we got $110k for our cup performances. Now that was awesome. And on another note, Hearts (The team we played) went on to win the thing. So we definitely left it to the right people.

Of course, there was no way we could have been 1st in our division. Ross Country earned that honor, and they were pretty good. We beat them once. Actually, twice, but I'll get back to that. Either way, they had quite the pile of points for them. It would have been harder than heck to beat them. So we didn't. We just earned our place in fourth. Then, with the last two games approaching and our scores being so close to the others, we were able to make it to third place. I have to mention that our last game was against Ross Country. Yes, they were good. And we won! It actually meant nothing, but it was a nice note to end our season with.

Well, not actually. There still were playoffs. So, we played against one of the better teams. It was tough. I forgot how it went, but at the end we lost. It's okay; we'll just get promoted next season. No need to be quite so ambitious.

So, that's how the season went. Stand by for the next one.

"All glory be to the hypno-toad."

Don't you hate it when people post a photo of them with someone else, and you're like "who's who?"

Then, for a brief moment, you picture the person as a fusion of both faces.

My internet came back to my laptop.

Oddly, the day I finish my AP test... Perhaps it was hanging over me in more ways than I can imagine?

No, I'm not stagnating. My internet is down and I didn't accomplish much in Football Manager.

Also, I have an AP Test. So I'm a bit busy with that.

But I will add more to here eventually.

You know, eventually.

So, more about my foray into Scotland. So I joined a team that was looking to fail. And fail they did. I just simulated the season, but it didn't look too good for them that year. But there was one good side to all of this; they didn't get relegated. It was awesome. Normally joining a club halfway through would be certain relegation, but these people were at the bottom of the food chain. So, when the season started, the pundits figured we focused too much on offense. This inspired me to make one of the most impacting changes to the team. I bought a few good defenders. Apparently this was enough to turbo boost my team into first place in devision three Scotland. Seeing as how they were 10th (absolute bottom) last year and their expect position was another 10, this is big stuff. I even had some of the best games ever. I had this one game that was 3-0, our favor. A game or two later, I had a 4-0. Two games later it was a 5-0. It was impressive. Of course, I ran into some trouble. Apparently our two best strikers wanted new contracts, so I gave them some. I think that demoralized the team, because they're playing like crap. I mean, it's okay because they're at the top, but still. We can't get promoted if we don't keep on winning. Those other teams are catching up. Also, we aren't doing so well in cup games. But it's not like we were going to win anything significant, so that's okay.

Well, that's that, with more to follow.

Apparently playing football manager is not my strong suit. So, I last left off with me joining Tiverton, the mysterious team in yellow. At first, being there seemed to give me hope. It looked like I could turn them around. In the offseason, I found some good signings. I talked to my assistant and most of my players had five stars. It looked bright. But then the games started. Yeah, it didn't work out so well. Although, there was one bright shining star. See, every Conference North and South team gets entered into the FA Cup. Apparently we got some easy teams, because we made it to the third round. Now, I don't quite know what that means, but we beat at least three other teams. We also beat our initial team in the FA Trophy cup, but we lost to the next one. Darn you, Bath (Conference South)!

However, I did make one new change. Instead of just having one poor coach have to coach everything, I bought quite a few people. It was pretty cool. Of course, since the club was a bit rich, it worked out, but still.

So, like I was saying, we were losing. I figured my team was tanking, so I split. How did I leave, you ask? I had previously asked my board to improve training facilities. So now I issued an ultimatum. After the continue, I was looking for a job. It worked like a charm.

So now I'm going to make a little foray into Scotland. Perhaps this will be my lucky break. Perhaps this will end in failure. The short of it is, I have a job.

A Police officer received an award from MADD, then got a DUI!

For those of you who don't get it, a man who received an award from a group that disencourages drunk driving was found drunk driving. Oh man...

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