Hows my little summerfuntasticness?

While taking a homework break I decided I would wirte off a quick entry. In the past I have written of things that I would like to accomplish during the summertime and then go back at the end of summer to see what exactly was accomplished in a new entry. Here is my list of summerfuntasticness: (in bullets!)

*Make some new wines including: onion, strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, and dandelion.
*Make a new batch of wine, this will be a red one.
*Go camping with laura.
*Fish once or twice.
*Climb or boulder somewhere.
*Ride my bike to the beach.
*Take lots of pictures.
*Create a decent website for myself.
*Drink some rum.
*Fire on wisconsin point.
*Naked swimming.
*Rollerblades?
*Make a few adventures to the Cities.
*Stay out of the hospital.
*New computer? or upgrade lappy Both?
*Grill ribs for no less than 3 hours.
*Recieve an A in my may photo class.
*Bring Laura to a concert.
*Not to spend all of my money.
*Play my Djembe on the beach at least once.
*Enjoy my last summer in Duluth to the very fullest of its capacity.
*Broccoli



Very sweet video:

Hows my little Quiz?

You Are 9 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

While taking a putzing break I took this quiz. I took it a couple of years ago and I was a year older.

Hows my little Hypertext Markup Language?

This summer I need to learn three things more than I do now.

XHTML
CSS
Flash

Four things If my legs fall off:
AJAX

These things are to create more opportunities for one thing:

A Job.

This job would be for designing web pages, It seems like just about every description I've read in the past few weeks requires some knowledge of one of these acronyms (flash not included). Sadly while in class right now my bare knowledge of HTML is really killing me while making my various portfolio sites. A portfolio that needs work I sadly found out last night..oh dear. I have a lot to do before I finish school next year.

Hows my little came to grip?

I am still a growing boy.
Don't you forget that.
About a year and a half ago I wrote This Post.

You'll have to read that for most of this to make complete sense, just so you know. Because this is my testament to how I feel like I am growing (a little more) mature, in relation to that older post.

I am no longer scared of life happening, in fact life has been happening all of my life thus far and I am turning into a big fan of it. I kind of like the older slightly wiser 2007 me vs the young nervous 2005 me. I actually do work ahead of time now, and require sleep to function properly, I am thinking into the future with my career as well as my relationships with the people around me that I love.
I've been growing up.
About damn time.

I can not wait for graduation, this is a very old topic for everyone so I'll leave it at that. The idea of beginning a career that I am going to hopefully enjoy is thrilling! College was great, but now its more serious, I need to do things, I need to develop a portfolio, I need to get a job. I have a year left to come up with something that will get me a job. Thank God the end is in sight. What exactly I want to do with my life is still mainly unclear, I just want to get paid for it.
When I grow up I want to do something in Graphic Design or the marketing business both sound super interesting to me. Although a sex slave still doesn't sound too bad.

As for how I dress myself now, I've been shopping for clothes maybe a grand total of 4ish times since the referenced entry, one or two of those times were to get me some clothes I could wear while I worked at the Edgewater, at my new job I have to dress business casual and I have absolutely nothing, well, two polos, lame. I could use a pair of board shorts still.

Music. This is still a hard subject for me, I definitely have fallen out of love for punk, I have no desire to go out of my way to find more but if some happens to fall into my lap then hurray for it. I am in a music loving limbo right now and am still stuck to Stadium Arcadium. I did get a whole bunch of new stuff on my computer but it broke literally the same day, which is/was stupid.

The 21 thing is not a big deal, I really enjoy meeting up with friends and a drink at a drinking establishment. moot point.

Now:

What inspired this post, life has definitely taken me on a little loop that I for sure was not foreseeing in my 2005 self. [warning: very mushy] My love life. I have found a person who I honestly find to be a perfect match for me. Things between Laura and I have grown so quickly when I go back and look at it, as many of you probably know, but I don't feel like we have rushed our lives together in any way. We started things off in January and since then I have gotten to know Laura, her life, as well as her family quite a bit. And it has been really really great. She has really helped me feel like a happier person as a whole and I am looking forward to the future with her. She has helped me find some direction after college, I am starting to think of things like where we are going to live, what kind of dwelling we will reside in. And a couple of other grown-up things too. She is even moving in with me for a couple of months this summer, and I don't even have the slightest reservation about it because of how many things I look forward to with her and how well we get along with each other now. Basically I have never felt this way about someone. Ever.

It hasn't been until this past month that I have really realized I am growing more mature, but the people around me and my thoughts have all shaped what I do and I am trying my best to do it well.

I would like to call myself a mature adult now who can make some decisions, but don't worry mom and dad you're still going to be getting the advice phone calls for quite awhile.
Oh, I no longer have my scooby-doo boxers.

Hows my little Uncle?

More bad news.

Uncle Loui's had a fire and is no longer open, damages estimated to be $100,000. This is bad for a couple of reasons. One is that I am cheap, and so is Uncle Loui's. The food there is really really greasy fantastic and I love it. It is also very affordable, I have eaten there and felt full for 5$ with tip more than once. Reason two, Uncle Loui's is by far and away the best post-drunk food that Duluth has to offer, no competition. Uncle Loui you will be missed I hope for our sake that you get a fat insurance check and build yourselves a nice new fireproof home.

Hows my little war critic?

I'm just flat out mad right now.
I have a class where everyone gives presentations about some sort of piece of art, today's presentation was about john Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In for Peace It was a good presentaion and bla bla, but what upset me is that we are in a war that is wearing worse on our soldiers than vietnam, with the biggest difference being they are dying less often, and there is no one outstanding political figure, celebrity, or icon activily outspoken for peace.

WHY!?

Is it because nothing is going to happen until this president is out of office?
Is it because people care more for themselves than those who should be protecting OUR country.
Is it because people think its hopeless?
Is it because people think their one voice doesn't count?

Nearly every single combat ready soldier is in training for the middle east, returning from there, or actually risking their life there right now. This upsets me shouldn't they be here ready to protect us? Rather than policing the world?

I want to protest, I heard of a big protest in Madison soon. I want to go. My voice may not be heard there but my presence will not be missed. I want Duluth to protest. I want someone to want to protest I want people to be angry like me. I am for peace, Our soldiers are for peace, and the Iraqi goventment is for peace. SO DO THE PEOPLE OF THE USA. Why can't we just begin to leave? Why? WHY?? WHY!?!?! can't our troops leave?

There needs to be a greater movement for peace in our nation. We are looked down upon throughout the world as a place of our own freedom, a freedom to push our ideas and problems into other countries.

Instead when we disagree with something how do we try to change it? Join a facebook group, write on your myspace page, complain that our president sucks without facts, we blog about what needs to happen, But no one acts.

What happened to pictures like these:


Thank god the country finally voted for a change and got it. Now we just have to wait for it to come.

Tony, if you're so mad why don't you do something?
Well I like to think that as an undergrad college student surrounded by mostly apathetic college students there isn't much I can do, but I would like to consider myself an informer, or a teacher of my peers on current events. If I can tell people what is going on in the world around them, maybe, just maybe people will begin to form their own thoughts and opinions about what is happening in the world around them, rather than the current follow the leader trend that I see daily.

Be unique, be yourself, but above all try to do your part. If enough people care about something, change will happen, right now the trick is to get enough people to care. Above all, we need a new peace spokesman, A new Lennon, a new Yoko, a new MLK Jr., a new Gahndi, anyone to get the movment started.

That said I feel a little better I will leave you with the hand out the presenter gave us at the conclusion of her lecture.

Dear World,
I think we should have peace. Why don't we have it? I would like it today - so would my wife.
John Lennon of Ascot and many others

Hows my little newsworthy?

OK.
This morning I got up read the news online and get this, I saw that there was another school shooting, this time at a college. I instantly did two things:


I said, oh this time its at a college.
I skipped past the article and read about Steve Jobs making only one dollar this past year. (he has over a billion in stock options)

The 'Wow' started after I went back and realized that I just skipped it like it was nothing. Officially I am insensitive. So I did eventually go on to read (as of this writing 31 reported dead) the article. Its sad that something like this happened again. Why does it only happen here in america? What are we doing different?

If Manson, Video games, or Violence on TV are mentioned in the next few days of investigation, I am going to flip shit and might go on a rampage of my own in the CNN headquarters. I watch Violent TV and movies, (and enjoy them). I happen to enjoy a select range of Manson Songs. I'm not about to kill a bunch of strangers at school.

Yay world. Lame.

Hows my little sprung?

Today I made another candle and I didn't have to use the fire extinguisher. YEAH ME! I did learn that liquid wax floats on water, even if there is way more wax than water.

I broke out my bike for a little ride around town and that was stellar. I forgot that when you ride your bike for the first couple of times in the season my butt really hurts, lame. This summer I've vowed to try some piddly mountain biking for some extra adventure, Laura knows a couple of hot spots i can get my feet wet with. Sweet.

Also in most excellent news there is going to be a disc golf course in Duluth that should be completed in the early summer sometime which is SWEEEEEET because I really love huckin some discs and Duluth was lacking in that category. yay!


I might have a job soon, it sounds pretty promising, hurray!

Hows my little Def.?

Looking up words for their definition in the dictionary is absurd when:
first, you are looking up a long unfamiliar word
second, the definition is equally enigmatic

People who are more nerdy than me scare me.

my template looks nice I've decided.
The placement of the comments section is off, but I can't figure ot how to fix it, live with it.
Check out my round corners!!

Hows my little construct?

The template is a work in progress, I switched to new blogger's templates, all the HTML is new and fun yay!

Hows my little dumb winter?

I had a whole entry about broccoli, but I deleted it.
Apparently my blogs have lost their sass and wit, maybe it will come back.
If that bothers you read this page until mine comes back

I need to get out of duluth.
I need to get away.
I need spring or summer to happen
I need my extracurricular activities to change.
Soon.

The student show opens this weekend, I have something in it, so I am going to go.

Hows my little 2,000+ mile weekend?

I thought driving here was a long ass haul for a weekend, but to drive my ass to Indiana for a weekend...borderline too much driving.

This weekend I grabbed Laura my Sister and her friend Clare and we road-tripped ourselves down to Indiana for some good ol fun family, and food. It was a big step for Laura because it was meet the parents weekend, She did really well for herself, yay!

We headed down to the cities Thursday night and woke ourselves up at 4:30 Friday morning and headed down through empty corn fields and that was fun. My leg of the driving was pretty uneventful. The sunrise was very nice. Laura picked up the driving at the Illinois border and promptly got us headed in the wrong direction (if you ask her though she would blame me for not telling her where we were going)

In Indiana we met with my Grandpa and had dinner, i ordered a drink called a 'Peachy Pooh' and my Grandpa wouldn't let me forget that the whole weekend. We played a hardy game of trivial pursuit and although Laura and I made an excellent comeback we lost to arch-rival 'douche-ball' Clare and Amanda. Mom and Dad are not good at pop-culture we learned. The next day we putzed around for awhile waiting for Jon and Peter to show up, after they got there we kids decided to take my Dad's new 4-wheeler toy out to play.

I took Laura around this little ATV play area first then I went back to get my sister and Peter for their round, peter and I hopped off and I instructed Amanda on how best to manage this little turn on a hill and sent her on her way. I am starting to think we should have practiced driving a little bit more before this because she went a little too fast and turned not quite enough and ended up getting thrown off the 4-wheeler, rolling like a professional stunt double into a tree all while sending the barreling (two week old) ATV smashing into a tree. It was quite a spectacle, I thought for sure she was going to be breaking the ATV's roll but it stayed up and thanks to her helmet and excellent rolling skills she managed to come out with a bruise the size of a quarter, and a really stiff ass.

After this little adventure I found out that I don't enjoy pushing 4-wheeler's as much as I like riding them. I also learned that a winch is probably the greatest invention ever when you pair it with an 800 pound 4-wheeler with a very long, steep, and loosely packed hill.

After we got back to the house we had an egg hunt and laura kicked my ass in her findings so she is going to take me out to a movie. Then we poured some drinks to calm Amanda's nerves back to normal and had our delightful dinner with some very hilarious company.

Driving back was not eventful, except that I re-affirmed that I hate stopping every hour for bathroom breaks. I hate it a lot.

Altogether Indiana was good, Laura managed to impress my parents, my dad now has a new project to fix at the house, and we are all a little fatter from eating so many desserts and crappy junk food in the car. Good 'ol family weekend.

Hows my little stunned twice?

Holy crap read this:

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Five fifth-grade students face criminal charges after authorities said four of them had sex in front of other students in an unsupervised classroom and kept a classmate posted as a lookout for teachers.

The students were arrested Tuesday at the Spearsville school in rural north Louisiana, authorities said. Two 11-year-old girls, a 12-year-old boy and a 13-year old boy were charged with obscenity, a felony. An 11-year-old boy, the alleged lookout, was charged with being an accessory.

"After 44 years of doing this work, nothing shocks me anymore," said Union Parish Sheriff Bob Buckley. "But this comes pretty close."

Authorities said the incident happened March 27 at the school, which houses students from kindergarten through 12th grade. A high school teacher normally watches the fifth-grade class at the time, but went to an assembly for older students and the class was inadvertently left unattended, Buckley said.

The class, which had around 10 other students, was alone for about 15 minutes, he said.

"When no teacher showed up, the four began to have sex in the classroom with the other elementary students in the classroom with them," he said.

It took a day for authorities to find out about the incident. A student who had been in the class told a high school student about it the next day, Buckley said. The student told a teacher, and school officials notified the sheriff's office. Detectives began questioning students Thursday.

School officials did not return calls seeking comment.

The students, who were not identified because of their age, were released to their parents after their arrests, Buckley said. They will next be arraigned in juvenile court.

A message seeking comment from the district attorney was not immediately returned.

Buckley said it was unclear what penalties the children could face.


OH.
MY.
GOD.

I wasn't even sure how all that worked down there ON ME!!! Let alone with someone else too. Jesus, I can't believe this. I'm speechless...oh wait, yeah only in the south...

Hows my little stunned?

Because I know you're interested, here is the start of my cork people, this is preliminary, not final, any more ideas there were some great ones already that I shot or just haven't gotten around to yet, keep em coming!!!




Ok this is ridiculous, this picture was taken today this is stupid, our snow WAS all gone. Now I'm just mad