2010

What a year; so much has happened and so much has changed. Here's to next year!

Catch-Up Mash Up Part Two

 Part 2 of hiatus catch up!

Catch-Up Mash Up Part One

Busy Month, lost of hiatus stuff inside that got shelved. Time to brush off the dust...

My Host Family!

I have just recived details on my host family!

Winter's First Snow

End of Fall

and the beginning of winter.

Sidartha and 5 Dollers

Today I read Siddhartha and some other stuff.

Dia de los Muertos and French Onion Soup

Yeasterday we celebrated the Mexican holiday Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) at school.

Happy birthday, Mother!

Today was my mothers birthday, Today she is 48! Happy Birthday Mom!

Halloween and Malaysia

One is never too old for free candy!

A Most Delayed Wedding

Sorry for the wait! Sideshow & pictures within!

Resources For Students

Are you a Student? Are you looking to learn a thing or two? More info within.

More Catch up

Here to give an update for last two nights, and Updates for a couple of things.

Catch-Up and Dogs

Catching up on yesterday's missed post, and a video within.

Cornbread with Grape Jelly

These are just some photos of food that I just had, I applied grape jelly and honey to some cornbread to get an interesting flavor.

PSAT and Five dollers.

Today I took the PSAT, and then went to get lunch. So I go to Ming's Great Wall and get in line. Shortly after I enter the queue a man comes in and gets behind me, seeing my binder. A couple seconds after that we have a short conversation.

Filler! Filler Night!

Still no Internet! Today I will Re-rout some Ethernet cables and clean my room. May do some more digital organizing too, and makes some backups.

German Alcohol and Norwegin Chanting

Not much has been going on, but when looking for resources for a communications I came across some interesting resources.

first off is an interesting German musician who releases his works under the Creative Commons non-commercial licence. Most of his songs are about (Hopefully) unlikely romances, but I like his style, and since the songs are in a language I don't understand the content dosen't phase me that much. It's certainly worth a look.

If you are into Internet Radio and classical music than I also recommend the Norwegian station NRK Alltid Klassisk, which can be found as a streming MP3 here.

Forest Walker

Photos Here! I don't have much time to write but I do have a sideshow within!

Spanners in the Works

Today we canceled our Internet Service, so updates will be erratic for a while
We took an awesome walk at the van buren park and got lots of cool photographs, but when I got to Grandma's The camera cable was gone. Bummer. I'll update soon though so stay tuned!

Dietsch Pumpkin Ice Cream

Just Popping in!

I had Dietsch Ice Cream that was flavored pumpkin, It was so good. I also took Chester on a two and a half mile walk through the University of Findlay, which I think looks pretty cool at night. (In addition to being a safe place to walk)


Tonight I plan on cleaning my room and This weekend I want to Improve my skils in French and Home Networking as well as install Ubuntu 10.10.

Hotdogs, Pumpkins, and Ubuntu too

What A Beautiful Day! The beauty of Fall with the air of Summer!
A interesting day too, Details within.

Documentation and Education

Today I got a link to my AFS documentation... So much to read... Yet I am progressing!

Did you Know?

Wikipedia has sister projects called Wikibooks, and Wikiversity.
Go learn something!

Reading old Books

Today at the school library I checked out "Festivals of Western Europe" by Gladys Spicer Fraser.

Crafts, Printers and Jalapeño Bread

Today yielded some very nice photos, Foods, and crafts. Details within.

Dogs'n Cupcakes

My Cousin Jolie has been Hard at work making Cupcakes again!

These cupcakes were made in support of NBRAN.

If you ever need to get a dog, please consider adopting a dog from NBRAN.

Photos within!

Major Blog Redesign

I thought that the design of the blog could use some rethinking, So this is the blog as it stands. I fixed the commenting problem so give Feedback!

A Scholarship, Parades, and Dancing Too!

Quite a lot happened yesterday so I didn't get around to posting last night. Details within.

Birthday, Tokyo Stake House

Happy Birthday to Me!

Yes, today I am 17 Years old! One more year to voting, and the draft registration!

AFS, Retro 70's, Dragons, and Groovy Colors

Today was 70's Day at Findlay High School! Thus many students dressed like Hippies or wore fros. Tomorrow is "Traffic Light Day" so I have a little plan for my wardrobe. See if you can guess!

New Sponsors, and Orginizing

Announcing my new Sponsors!

Shirlee Jo And Dave L. Thomas

who have donated Via a check in the mail, along with a birthday card!

Thank You Shirlee and Dave!

Right now I am in the process of organizing many of my families photos into one, easily distributable, backup-able, and usable collection. Finding a solution that works just right is harder than it seemed but my trial and error will not go to waste. After I am done doing some organizing in the real world (much needed, maybe I should write an article on this too!), I will certainly write about the many ways that you can organize your photographs in ways that not only make finding the pictures you want simpler, but also add information and context.

It recently occurred to me that some of you might not have a very fast Internet connection, and my blog might take a long time to load. So I have been making some improvements. When an article contains Images, Videos, or a lot of text, I will insert a link in the bottom left hand corner of an article that says Read More.
Try it now!

Oktoberfest! Pumpkin Pie!

Today was Pretty Uneventful, But a couple things happened that I though would be worth sharing.

As you may or may not know, Today was the first day of Oktoberfest in Findlay.
Although I was not there for very long, I was able to get a couple snapshots of the Event, including the Budweiser Clydesdales!

A Little Treat

The Hiatus Continues! Will it ever end? Yes! When? Who Knows!

In the mean time, Here is a sneak peek on what I've been working on.(Besides School!)

Sorry, Parties, Sorry, and Findlay

Sorry for the Hiatus! I have been very busy with school and other duties, but I have though about this blog each day, yet I feel no content is better than filler. To day, However, was a very eventful day.

 Before we begin Todays story, please check out todays bike path.

 So, for some time I have wanted dearly to photograph Findlay and make a sort of "Findlay Guidebook", A compendium of the Stores, History, and Activities that one can do in Findlay. Riding my bike around Findlay to take photographs of has been a significant time user next to AFS and school. Today, however, my bicycles Derailer has started to act erratically about halfway through my ride so now that project is on hiatus.

The Fair, Fish, and Handlebars

It is a little tradition in our family to get fried cheese at our annual county fair from a particular stall, since the quality is never bad. However we found that a steep entrance fee left us with four out of five dollars needed to buy the fried cheese. In search of a ATM that would accept a failing credit-card (We found none) we passed through the merchants and crafts buildings. Surprisingly the carving "An alien from Avatar carved in a stump of wood" seemed to wow the judges. I think the piece "Kitten wearing a hat carved into a log" was much cuter, but what do I know about etching images into a logs?

Levi's Wedding Recption, Fire Hydrents, and 400 Bucks

Before I go on, I won a $400 AFS scholarship for my family's previous work with AFS! This is relatively small compared to my total goals, yet is a very significant, and much appreciated amount.

It's been dry for a while now, but it should rain soon. I hope it won't stop me from visiting the Fair! Speaking of the weather, in AP European History we briefly touched upon why Canada is as cold as it is and Europe is relatively warm (For the same latitude). Turns out we get polar water and that pushes warm water up, towards Europe! Crazy huh?

Personal Notes: Hancock County

Houcktown is a small hamlet located just outside of Findlay. It is administered by Findlay, Arlington, and Mount Blanchard. Instead of joint administration, it is partitioned into thirds and city addresses are dedicated to the partition the occupy. Houcktown is the home of William "Dummy" Hoy, a baseball player famous for being mute.

See Today's Bike Path! (Done in less then 35 minutes!)

I bike for my Comunications project and rant about an Explosion

Today I rode from Findlay to about halfway up Slippery Elm bike path (North Baltimore to Bowling Green) so I could get information off of a historical marker. For those interested the plaque reads-