HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!!!!!

Well everybody, I figured I should put in my last post of this year.

The new year is just a short while away, but (yaaaaaaauuuuuuhhhhhnnnnn) I think I'll enjoy passing into the new year from the warmth of my bed.

We just got home from a newyears program at the local church, the other people are going to be there well into the new year but fortunately we escaped before their controll over our minds was complete. It was mostly a bunch of singing and little speeches and stuff. Ahh well, I'm tired and ready to lay down in bed and listen to a little more of "Out of the Silent Planet" on my Ipod. Then I'll roll over, say "happy new years" quietly to myself, and let my mind dissapear into the absolutely crammed nothingness that is dreaming.

Well, the fat lady has almost sung on my conciousness. Oh, my little sister insists that I say that she got to exchange presents withkids in her sundayschool class. I dont know why she wanted me to say that but I figure I should humor her a little.

Ok, Good night Happy new years! May God bless us in it.

A very tired Fiish

Funny

I created this blog but whats funny is I'm alwase woundering who in their right mind would read it. Why on earth would anyone just pop up and say "OOo a blog by someone who claims to be a missionary kid, I think I'll read it". It just never works that way.

I've seen what some bloggers do to get hits on their sites, they put up a post with nothing but terms that are frequently searched on google or dogpile. I cant belive that that works very well, but hey! Some moron will probably click on it at least once a day!

I only know of like five people who have seen this blog, and I dont know if any of them have come back to read any more. But who cares? I'll just keep typing untill my fingers go blue and then I'll type some more. Y? Cuz I gotta!

The Fiish

Jumping Ten Feet

Hey I found this picture I though I'd deleted. Its of me jumping and touching the rafters in our house, the lowest of wich is ten feet off the ground. Pretty cool huh? Just eat your veggies and do alot of jogging/ other exercises aimed at the legs and you could do it too.

New Years

Well, New Years is day after tomorow!

My family had somthing that we liked to do and have done for the past few years, but wount be able to do this year due to an obligation that we have sunday morning.

We would all pile into the car at about 4 AM and drive out to the East-most point on the island, then we would stand in the dark, listening to the waves crash on the rocks, and watch the sun rise on the first day of the new year.

Here's a picture of me during one such outing with the sun of the new year shineing under my arm:




I'm kinda sad that we wount get to go this year, it was always a cool experience in the past.

The Fiish

Thousand Foot Krutch

Have you ever felt abandoned
Felt so lost that you were stranded
Just like all the walls were closing in
And you were stuck inside

Have you ever felt like your days were numbered
Stuck under a tree in thunder
Seems to be no way out
But there is one when in doubt


I didn't write this, it's part of the lyrics from a Thousand Foot Krutch song called "When in Doubt". Their music is awsome, check out their albums: Phenomenon, Set It Off, Art Of Breaking.

Firefox

Since I've been posting alot about what I like I might as well say that I also use the Firefox web browser.

Firefox is great, plus it dosnt have that image problem that Internet Explorer has that lets hacckers have access to you coputer through a gap in the code. And you can outfit Firfox with all kinds of stuff like new skins to make it look diferent and extensions and stuff.

Like I got an extension that makes it so that all you windows are turned into one window with tabs under your book marks bar. That way my screen dosnt get as cluttered as it used to when i use Explorer or Safari. And for those of you who blog with this site you can get an extension so that you can right click and get a thing in the right-click menu that says "blog this" and it pops up a window so you can write a post without having to go to blogger.com. Cool huh?

Got to go eat.
Latter

The Fiish

I love my Ipod

Ipod's are awsome!

Sony and whatever can make thier imitations of it but it will alwase be better and cooler. I got mine last summer after I left my uncle's farm with a wopping 900 dollar paycheck. I havent ever regretted buying it. I got the 20 gigabyte one because I figured I could never use all of the 60 gig one. That one is the size of the harddrive in my computer! any ways I have 17 hours or music on my Ipod and still have 18.7 gigs free, so if I wanted to I could put like 3 days and a few houres on it.

I have an audio book on it that I'm listening to too. It's by C.S. Lewis, first book in his "space trilogy". Great story as I remember, I was like 5 the first time I heard it.

Also, my ipod has solitare on it! How cool is that? =P

Macs Rule!

Ok I'd like to say something:

People who think that Mac users are weird are just plain wrong! I'm a Mac user and hope to be till the day I die. I can't stand using Windows, compared to Mac it's just bogusfully hard. Ok Mac isn't all that much of a cake-walk either because most companies make software and junk exclusively for Windows. But the pros outweigh the cons in my opinion.

First: There aren't that many viruses and spywear programs for Mac so it's safer.

Second:I haven't seen any computer that looks as good as a Mac. You might try and argue this but let me say that I don't go in for all the "computer bling" that people put on their companeys. I hate flashing led lights and all that neon stuff people put all over the computer case.

Third: When have I ever needed to upgrade my Mac? Never. I don't have to worry about the latest graphics card and all that because Mac's don't go out of date until the next model is released. So it takes a load off my mind. And even when a new Mac comes out the old one doesn't become obsolete for about 3 or 4 years or never, my grandpa uses one of the first Mac laptops that ever came out and can still do all that he wants to do with it.

Fourth: My dad uses a Mac, as does his dad. So I'm going to use one.

I could go on but I'd rather go play Star Craft and listen to my Three Day Grace CD.

Also my Bro in college just logged into AOL so I want to talk to him.

Vacation is BORING!

At least when I'm in america I can say "lets go to the mall" or "I think I'll play XBOX" or "let's do somthing other than sit here drooling".

But here in the back-water of civilization, THERE IS NOTHING TO DO!!!!

Ok yah, I'm on an island that has one of the most beutiful beaches in the world according to "experts", but that's about the extent of what there is to do.

I can't play xbox because I loaned my CD binder to the neighbor kid and he hasnt given it back even though its been two weeks. All my games were in there and a couple of my best DVDs. (note to self: kick that kid next time I see him). Plus even if I did have my games and my DVDs I couldent probably use them because of my little sister. I'm trying not to corrupt her by letting her see me plink an alien in the head in HALO, or let her see Aragorn do some super-head-cutting-action on an Uruki. She dosnt need all that going through her head yet.
She's too young.

But anyway, It gets soo boring just sitting around the house. When I had a project undeway, like building my guitar, it wasnt soo bad. But when there's no mall to go to or anything interesting to do around the house, I just wish that vacation was over and I had somthing to do. But then anagin, once school starts again I'll be wishing it was vacation. So there is just no being happy anymore. Ha Ha ha. Muha hahahahah (devilish laugh).

Ok enough of that. I need to find somthing to do.

In conclusion: vacation is good in small ammounts, but the bordome factor increases exponentially with the time factor.

Btw: The equasion for exponential increase is: ammount at end= ammount at begining times e raised to the constant times time.

Html code

Man! I need to get a book on html code or something. It is so complicated!

I just wanted to figure out if there was a way to put a picture up without having to go through the "put picture up thingy". So I looked at the code to put a picture in to the left of the page and it was all like "< img "style:float left" src=" and about five more lines like that. I mean I get that all the parentheses and quotes and stuff denote commands but to memorize all that would be hard.

I now have a greater respect for my friend's dad, who builds websites from scratch using nothing but code.

Guitar Building

Hey every peoples!

The Fiish is back with another post.


Ok if you looked at my profile you might have seen that I put "guitar building" as one of my intrests, and if you didnt see it there you know it now.

So yah, I'm into wood work and stuff and I like guitars. I'd been looking into buying an electric guitar for a while. But I realized that I'd never get a 300 dollar guitar past my dad without getting a classic "dadism" like "You could save that money for latter" or "That's a lot of money". So I looked into what I'd need to build an electric guitar. Amazing how big the internet is and how you cant find all that much on the building of electric guitars in it! So I finally ended up getting a book on the subject. After reading it a few times I was a little confused but still wanted to do it. So I went to a musical instument parts supply web site and got most of what I needed all in one shot. Then I proceeded to make the gutar body and neck and all that.

I wount go into the whole detaild process unless someone asks me to, but sufice it to say for now that I built my first electric guitar and that it actually worked on the first try!

Here's a picture for those who doubt:



It does have defects and a few minor electrical flaws, but I can never the less say that I pulled it off.

If any of you are interested in this subject, either comment or email me and I'd be happy to talk about my experience.

Press Pass for Bloggers

So I heard that a blogger can get a press pass and all the benifits that go with it, like being able to get into gun shows and stuff free and junk like that. So I figured I'd look into it.

I havent found anything yet on getting a free one, the first place I looked wanted 450 euros (like 500 to 600 dollars) for the pass and you got ten buisness cards free. RIP OFF! Apearently you can apply to news papers and stuff to get one but I still need to do a little more research.


(Latter)

Well from what I see my friend who has a press pass must have gotten it forged or somthing. The requirments for a "ligit" pass are very restrictive. Mostly you have to allready be published in another place like a local newspaper or a news letter or somwhere. Then you have to be accepted by the organization as being an asset to them if they give you a pass.

So in other words: A press pass is really hard to get, and if you not seriouse about working to get it it's not worth thinking about. I would be seriouse about getting one, but I'm not in the States and I dont think maney people who are are interested in this little po-dunk island.


Also, the bloggers that got press passes aperantly stirred up quite a hornets nest in the media. They are now a matter of some controversy.

LEGOs

Where would a Missionary Kid be without his trusty LEGOs?

They are, or more precisely were, the coolest toys I ever had. I say "were" because they took a turn downhill where I was about 10 or so. I think the last LEGO set that I really liked was the Insectizoids or whatever, the ones that were giant insects. Those were great and the ones preceeding them were better. But of late I feel that the crativity going into LEGOs has deminished. It used to be that they had a variety of parts that could be used for alot of different things. Now, however, they make a new part for everything and those new parts dont do anything else. For instance, Bionicles, I remember when LEGO branched out into thos types of things, they werent even called Bionicles, they were called "Disc Throwers" i have a few of those. Then they put out a new line of the "Bionicle" name. Now I think that they could have made them a whole lot better if they had made it easyer to take the th9ings apart and build somthing yourself with them whitout having to have an engeneering degree.

My brother and me spent hours makeing everything imaginable out of LEGOs. We made space ships, cars, tanks, hand guns, we even built a few variations of the Starship Enterprise. My Brother was a veritable genius with those things, he was the brains of our duo. And the best part came after we had buit all our stuff, we played with it. We had such cool imaginary worlds and plots and stuff, it would keep us entertained for hours! We ran a space station, a Private Investigator office, and an intergalactic peace keeping force, all from the comfort of our bedroom!

I miss those days. Now my brother is gone to college and my little sister is a little annoying at times, but I know she loves me deep down iside her .............somwhere. And I'm growing up and forgetting how to be a kid *sniff*.

Ah well. Such is life.

Basketball

I dont knoow about anyone else, but for me sports should be played with friends and just for fun. I dont go in for this whole competition thing, and I especially hate playing infront of people.

I get togather about once a week with about 4-5 other guys and we play about 8 twelve point games. Its all cool. When we get tired we quit; no competition, no spectators, all fun.

Now dont get me wrong, I do watch basketball on tv. But I dont know who anybody is, where they came from, how many steps they make a minute, and frankly I dont care. My veiw of how sports should be is like in the movie "The Sandlot", or as my 3 year old cousin calls it "My Bene Wideo", where the kids dont keep score, they just play for playings sake.

Who I am

Greetings to all my fellow internet surfers. My name, for all practical purposes of concealing my identity for fear it will get stolen, is The Fiish.

I'm an MK, or for the non church going crowd a Missionary Kid, who lives on the island of Guadeloupe in the caribian. Here's a picture so you can see where it is. Guadeloupe is a small tropical island in the Caribian chain that was the product of a valcanic erruption long ago. It's French ruled but the French never talk about it and for good reason. The local inhabitants of the island are mostly Africans that were French slaves during the Colonial period. They are now a royal pain in the side to the French and I think that the latter would like nothing more than to give them independace and be done with it.

I'll break down life on the island in a few short points:

1. Hot. It has never snowed on the island but it very nearly did once on the higest peak of the tallest mountain, wich concequently is the volcano that made the island and is also still active. The average temperature is up in the eighties on a cool day and up to hundreds on hot days.

2. Expensive. Everything you can buy that is not locally produced is very expensive. A sony walkman that you could get at the local Wall Mart for $19 costs 70 to 100 euros, a euro being like a $1.60 or somthing. This is mostly due to import tax and the corruption in the economy. For all you Xbox and PlayStation fans, a video game here costs about $125 even if its an old one.

3. Anoying. In America there are laws about workers going on strike. Here there are laws preventing people from interfeering in strikes. In other words your right to go on strike is protected. So the dock workers can go on strike and all food, electronics, medical supplys, everything stops comeing in. It's all there on the ships but the people refuse to unload it. So the supermaket shelves clear out, the hospitals dont get any supplys, it turns into a regular desert everywhere. And you know why the workers were on strike? Because they wanted another day of paid vacation. That's it! While on the subject of strikes I want to point another thing out. These strikes can be much more harmful than just a lack of food. The hospital and the Water, and electric companeys can go on strike. A friend of mine had a heart attack while the hospital was on strike. His famly rushed him to the emergency room and they sent him away. Half his heart died all because some stupid people wanted more money or more vacation or more coffee. Thats my little rant on that. By the way the guy who had the heart attack is still alive and is in France right now for heart observation.

4.Most of the time, Fun. Ok there are bad sides to living here but I have to admit that it is pretty neat! I mean I live on an island. Thats somthing that most Americans wish they could do. The beach is a little drive from my house, I eat great food, and I've seen some awsome stuff.


Ok so that's my list. Now a little more about me:

I was born on the island I now call home. I am an American citizen because my parents are Americans. I have lived about 4 out of 17 years of my life in the States, and studyed in French and American public schools. Currently I'm Home schooled. I'm going to turn 18 in January (YAY!) and will be comeing to the America For college next year. I'm going to Thadeus Stevens College Of Technology in Lancaster PA to study Mechanical Engineering.

My intrests include: Guitar playing and building, forgeing, knife collecting, and a bunch of other stuff that you'll find out about as I continue to blog.

The reason I started a blog is because the forum that I was a member of shut down recently and I needed somwhere else to express myself.

So I gess that is good enough for a first post. It says Who I am,What I am, Where I am, Where I'm comeing from, and Where I'm going. And thats all for now.

Tootles