Crud

It seems as though the fates are against me. Every time one of my favorite bands goes on tour in my state and esspecially when the place is near to me somthing alwase happens so that I cant go see them. It's like I'm cursed to not be able to see them live.

Well life still goes on. Got to shave with my stright razor today, it's alot of fun once you figure out how not to cut you jugular open. It's kinda like scrapeing rust off of somthing, you take little swipes untill the hairs are cut down to the skin. And you cant have the blade at too high or low of an angle. Too high wouldcause you to rip the hairs out and too low would cause you to have too re-apply your neck to your shoulders with super glue. :P

Incidentally this is my 84th post. Man I can't belive that this blog survived two weeks let alone 6 months. That's half a year!

The Fiish

Setting Up

Here's the moment you've all been waiting for: MY FIRST POST!!!!! Huh? Oh oh OH! MY FIRST POST ON MY NEW COMPUTER!!!!!!!!!

Yes indeed, here it sits before me in all its 20", white, all-in-one, Macintosh glory. I'd put up a picture but the camera is built into the top of the screen so it'd be kinda hard.... I'd need a mirror or somthing.

I've been spending the last few days setting it up and customiseing all the chat programs, web browser, media viewers, and it's been doing a superb job of impressing me.

Oh wich reminds me I need to apply for my printer rebate. So long for now.

The Fiish

If the heat dont kill ya..............

Bah, you Americans are heat wimps! :P

But then again us island people are cold wimps so I guess it averages out. I'm sitting here freezing my legs off because the only free outlet at my granparents house is in the basment and I'm too tired to get dressed up just to use the computer.

Life is boring here. And when life is boring the last thing you want is a house full of clocks that all tick at slightly different intervals. Theres like a constant techno beat in the house. It's like TICK-a-lick-TOC-tick, sooooo anoying.

Oh well. I graduate next saturday. Everyone that reads this blog is invited! If you cant come please send your thank you note written on a fifty dollar bill and you'll be excused.

The Fiish

Requests?

I'm currently takeing writing requests. If anyone has somthing they'd like to get satirized of just written up, besides term papers and the lot, I'd be glad to help out.

I'm accepting for these catigories:

-Character sketches
-Satirical work
-Commentary as long as it can be brief
-Short story if the details are provided (don't ask me to write you a story on the fly)

The Fiish

Pictures of the razor

Ok since I dont have any other material to really write about tonight I'll just post two picts of my razor and avoid all punctuation effectively creating a very long run-on sentence.












Ok there are the blade and the whole razor, I do use it on the parts of my face I shave and am thinking about taking off my beard and mustach just for the fun of shaving with it.

The razor and the box are not from the same companey though wich kinda takes away from the value of selling it as an antique with origional box. Oh well, I got what I wanted never the less, a real razor at a good price.

The Fiish

Got one!

A while ago I posed about my intrest in aquireing and learning to use a straight razor. Well today I find myself the proud owner of a vintage peice. It needs to be cleaned up and strilized but thats no problem. Got it at a local antique store for a very resonable 12 bucks. I'll post some picts latter maby if I have the time.

The Fiish

Customer support.

Wow! I actually had a positive experience with customer support just now!

I was looking at the computers I was thinking of getting on the apple website and it sent me like an in window pop up that asked if I would like to talk to a live representative. So I figured it would be nice to consult a person about what computer to get. And it was a real person belive it or not.

So the final Tech Specs for my computer:

• 2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB
• 250GB Serial ATA drive
• ATI Radeon X1600/256MB VRAM
• SuperDrive 8x (DVD+R DL/DVD+RW/CD-RW)
• Keyboard & Mighty Mouse + Mac OS X - U.S. English
• Accessory kit
• AppleCare Protection Plan for iMac - Auto-enroll
• 20-inch widescreen LCD
• 2GHz Intel Core Duo
• AirPort Extreme
  
• Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR

I will be ordering it probably by the end of the week.

The Fiish

Well

Ok, Monday. hmmm........ monday. Got my teeth cleaned this morning then we went out for pizza and to pick up another car. Found out that my Grandparent's neighbor has a wirless broadband internet connection, so using my intimate knowlege of the Macintosh network modes I am leaching off of his wirless connection and hence can use the internet.

On anoother note, I didnt sleep much last night because I was freezing. I dont know how you Americans can take it, last time I was here I was comfortable wearing a black leather jaket all year.

Well I talked to my dad about the computer I hope to procure this summer and he gave me the green light to get it on a loan from him. So I think I'll be ordering that this week or soon after. Gona get me a 17" dual processor iMac with 2 Gb RAM and a 250 Gb Hard Drive. It looks like it will run about $1800 for the lowest modle I could stand, or $2200
fo rthe awesome modle.

I gotta run here because my siter is pestering me about rollerblades.

The Fiish

Here I am America

Hello every peoples!

It is I, The Fiish, reporting live from Powelton Ave. in PHILADEPHIA! Amehica vaht a count'y!

Got in at 10 somthing PM last night after the typical hell of flying. First plane was alright, got to sit in the exit row so I had room to streach my legs. After grabbing our 6 checked bags in Puerto Rico, we boarded the second plane for the last leg of the trip. I got to sit right behind the exit door so there was a little more room thank goodness. I put my bag under the seat i was sitting on and started to relax. Then hell broke loose. Stuardess "Cratchet" walked down the isle and somhow noticed my bag. She yelled at me "You can't put that there! It has to be in an overhead bin!" Well since its a Federal offence to not heed the plane staff, I reluctantly handed my bag over. Guess where she put it? In an overhead bin in first class..... Passengers get yelled at for moving through the "mystical barrier" that exists between fist class and coach. So there I was, stuck in the window seat with my bag in first class for a 4 hour flight. Joy.

Well as you can see I survived. And am currently crashing at my bro's place untill we can find lodgeing.

The Fiish

Drawing to a close

Yep, in another day and a half I'll no longer be living here. Sorry all my posts are about traveling but that's basically what my will is being bent to by my parents.

I packed up my Xbox this afternoon. That's usually the point where it finnaly hits me that time is running short, because my xbox is like the only thing I never move in the house. It just sits there most of the time collecting dust, dont play it much anymore except if I get a new game or have nothing relatively constructiveto use my time for. For the most part I'm packed, a few odds and ends left to shut in the boxes. Mde shure my Leatherman wasnt in any of my carry-ons. That would stink to loose somthing that cost $75 to the customs agent, who would probably pocket it. Got my clothes packed, that's a funny experience to go through your clothes and select the ones to travel with, that's when you see wich ones you really like.

The ingratitude of people here is amazeing. If somone asks you to do somthing for them and it's not perfect they hold you responsable. Example: I bought a CD player this last summer and used it at the farm (the white one I carryed around for those of you who were there), the neighbor kid had asked me to get him a CD player and since this one was fully loaded I gave it to him upon my return. The next day he comes to me and says that the screen dosnt work. I assured him that it did when I gave it to him and he said it did but died abruptly after the first day, he gave it back and told me to get him a different one. Now this kid is my age, and the adults are worse. Thank goodness I bought it at Best Buy and got a BBY warrenty with it. My dad took it back on one of his trips and exchanged it. When I gave it to him I made it clear that I was only going to work a miracle once and he had better take care of it. Bahh. Kids these days. Espesially here where arrogace is indoctrinated into yougsters.

I started a rubber-band ball tonight. Got a large buckeye marble and put about 60 rubber-bands on it to start. Cant wait till my dad asks where all his rubber bands are :P

Monday I played in another Basketball tournament like the one I posted about a month or so ago. This time, to genneral annoyance of the basketball players, we arrived and found out that it was a whole "sports day" and basketball was not in the morning starting at 8 AM (in a town it took us an hour to drive to and we hurryed to get there on time) but in the afternoon starting at 2 PM. So what could we do? GO TO THE BEACH OF COURSE!! And we did, and had a most excellent time. I had a nice, probably my last till Christmas vacation, nap on the beach and whent back to the tournament pumped. We got there about 15 min before the games started and found out that we had a new coach that had never been to our practices and to my knowlege had never seen us play. And, drat my luck, I got picked for the first match. Well we played and creamed the first team 24 to 14 or somthing. We lost the secound match but it was because my team stinks at blocking long shots and that was the other team's speciality. But what really made it worth it was after all was done the coach said that I played very well. And I'm the happyer for it.

Ok this is like three posts worth. Hope you enjoyed reading it.

the Fiish

Cold Shower, Root Beer, and U.S. Citizenship

Well I whent to basketball practice tonight and as usual me and this one other guy were there a good half hour before the rest. So we warmed up, took some shots, and played a little one on one. I kid you not, it did me in. The humidity here isnt usually extreemely high, but today was one of those days where rain clouds just hang in the sky and do nothing but frown at you. Those are the days where the humidity is terrible. Ok so, extreem humidity + raising body temperature + sitting at the doctors office all morning then walking two miles to get home and takeing the oth to be an American citizen (more later) and standing around the shopping mart all afternoon = Instant dehidration through ppersperation and fatigue. So in half an hour all the other guys showed up all fresh out of the airconditioning in thier cars and we're standing there looking like we need to get wrung out and hung up to dry. But we both still played in all the practice matches.

So I get home, take a cold shower, and have a tall glass of ice with root beer in it. Mmmmm, make that TWO glasses of root beer. No, you can't buy root beer here. No, I the humidity did not short circuit my brain. We get these root beer concentrate things at some grocery stores that still seel them. You mix it up with 4 gallons of water, some yeast, and a heap of sugar. It makes about 9 1/2 coke bottles full. Then you set it some place that you don't mind having covered in root beer and wait a few days for the fermentation to start. NO! I'M NOT MAKING BOOZ! :P. The yeast produces carbon dioxide as it dies, thus carbonateing the root beer. The stuff ain't bad. Just as long as there's enough room in each bottle to handle the pressure of the carbon dioxide as it formes. That's why I said we dont let it set anywhere we don't want covered in root beer. Fortunately we have a shower that's like a hall that's tiled and has a shower head and a depression at the back with a drain. Very nice setup, oh and it does have a door, we're not total barbarians. Ba-Ba-Barbarian!

Also today I got the paper work done for my passport, which means that I wount be forced to become a Frenchie. And then I swore the oth that I didn't lie about the stuff on the form. So now I am offically set for my U.S. citizenship. Wich, I might add, starts a week from tomorow.

This is getting long, and this is the end......... THE END!

The Fiish

Yes Mom....

Ok so today is like the day that all my homeschool grades need to be sent in. And my mom is after me to start packing stuff that I want to have in America. And I'm worried about some health issues. But too top it all off it really hasnt sunk in that I'm going to be leaving this island in less than two weeks, and from that point on, I'm just a tourist.

Oh well it'll hit soon enough, and I hope not too severely.

The Fiish