Weird Finds

Alright so to start things off lets talk about some of the strange things I have found while I was at Hillcrest. To start things off lets look at half a Nintendo Gamecube with nothing to go with it. I was actually baffled with what to do with this thing at all. The first reason is that I never work on consoles or anything gaming related over there unless you count Leapfrog educational systems in which case I work with a lot of consoles but none of the fun kind. Other then the half Gamecube I ended up having so many cords piled up in my station today all I need was some tomato sauce and I could have a miscellaneous metallic noodle spaghetti. I did not have time to sort them myself but I did manage to clear off my table which is almost impossible most of the time.

Luck seems to be on my side every once in a while in some bizzare ways. For example today I left my lunchbox at the house and we did not have time to go back and get it so I thought that I would need to go and buy lunch that day. I am so thankful that I didn't though because while I didn't know I found out that we were having a potluck that day because the shop would be shut down for tomorrow and Thanksgiving. While I'm not sure why tomorrow since as I have been told most of the people there are not doing any prep for Thanksgiving but despite that they seem to all be some amazing cooks considering what was being served over there including lasagna which was definitely homemade and other assorted things that people must of spent a long time making.

I don't have much to talk about other then my job right now but thats because there isn't that much going on. Thanksgiving prep around the house is going really smoothly thanks to Kristi and being able to wake up at 4:00 in the morning and get started on all of the work for the day. I kinda want to save what I am doing tomorrow in order to have something to type about at all because it isn't going to get anything without something going on and if I spoil whats going to happen then you aren't exactly being informed your just being reminded. Anyway I'll see you all tomorrow and I hope to see you tomorrow with some fresh info for everyone.

Techincal difficulties included.

Lets jump right on in and describe how my weekend went right off the bat. I did not do that hot this weekend because me and dad decided to sit down and work on fixing my problem with my Nerf gun project. I don't think I have explained what happened yet but if I haven't or then it turns out that most of the parts that I had for my current Nerf gun design were just not going to work at all. Because of this me and dad went out to all of the nearby hardware stores to look for the right parts. We found just about everything except 3in. diameter pressure rated PVC. This is certainly an odd item to ask for but the fact that no one had it is kinda sad to see for me because now I need to order the parts off the internet. Because of this it might be a while before I post anything about how to build the gun because I want it to be that the gun can be built by anyone easily from items found at their local hardware store. I don't like the outcome that this provides but the point is that I will be building the gun again in a smaller scale to make it easier to build.

Very sorry to everyone who read this before it was finished I accidentally published this before it was ready. Anyway this weekend was rather peaceful except for one little event which happened to be dinner. Yep another restaurant review here from Missouri and this one is easily unique from others. Strouds is the name of the place and it serves American comfort in a very country like home. This may not sound very interesting but first off all of the pots and pans are cast iron which means that since they have been opened for a long time those cast iron items would be worth their own weight in gold for some of the best cooks out their. Next up they serve everything family style instead of say one person gets one plate they provide endless sides and main courses are what you primarily buy. I also have like 3 meals worth of leftovers in the fridge right now from ordering for 3 people and all of us eating until we were full and maybe even a little bit more. The atmosphere is also unique for the one that I went too because it was set up in a large house with a very homey feel with just a lot more tables then the average house. It feels very nice to be in and it is defininetely unique but my only recommendation is that if you want to go their for dinner get their at about 4:00 or 4:30 to avoid dinner rush because it gets bad over there.

Busy week though but the problem is that most of it will not be spent on school and will be spent based around the families favorite holiday which is Thanksgiving of course. Tomorrow I'll be volunteering over at Hillcrest like usual. On Wednesday I'll be having a doctors checkup which will also be the day that I go over to my moms for Thanksgiving in order to enjoy the day with the other side of my family. Then I will be back on Friday at maybe noon or somewhere in there so there isn't going to be much time for writing until maybe Friday and probably Wednesday as well but we'll see how things go and then judge accordingly.

Hammering at the space

While I may not have everything I need to finish my Nerf gun project at this point I have a good chunk of my supplies and hopefully these will do for now. I'm not going to be able to finish it and this will most likely not be the final product what I do start on. Either way I will start on my project but when my next blog entry comes around do not expect it to be finished because a lot of the work is waiting for the primer and glue to dry before continuing with the project.

Another early morning but this morning was rather sad for me because Winter has shown its face finally but right when the leaves fell and looked amazing from Autumn. In other words Winter cut our Autumn abruptly and it just isn't as pretty as it could be. I may like Winter but the seasons lately have been running into each other head long and destroying the smaller seasons before they even start. For example this year  I can honestly say that we didn't have Spring but we did have a very long Summer. We'll see what happens but what the first signs were the ice covering the ground and everything pretty much died over night. Certainly sounds like Winter to me but there isn't any snow or anything but there might be some soon.

I feel awesome for finally getting stuff together and accomplishing something but the question remains for me ifr after my Nerf project is finished would I be able to do it again. I am seriously enjoying getting the project done and the final result will definitely be worth it but I have been known to stop doing something even when it is good and hit helps me out or is just plain enjoyable. This is simply a concern that I have and not a guarantee that this will happen but a problem that I'm hoping to avoid at my own discretion.

Down Through Town

To start off today I went on a ride with Made to Serve again after so long. It has been a long while before I have been with them on one of their runs but unlike the last time I went today was slow and cramped due to the cold and the rain. The reason behind these being a problem is that Made to Serve helps feed people in down town Kansas City which means that most people do not want to be outside at that point in time unless they are really desperate to get some help and because of this the day went by pretty slow in the beginning. Later on things went by faster and we ended the day well with the few people that were outside needing help having received help.

After Made to Serve me and Kristi went to this little restaurant that Kristi is absolutely in love with at the moment. I now understand why she loves the little restaurant known as #Chai Shai so much. When you walk in you instantly realize just how different the place is with the casual but somewhat formal nature of the area. The smell of spices that hit your nose were pleasant and added to the atmosphere that much more. When we ordered we both got items off of the appetizer menu which included Papdi Chaat and Samosas. You can find the link to their small but delicious menu here which will help you understand what I'm talking about. The interesting part about his place is that it it started by distributing samosas to other restaurants with a similar purpose and finally grew into a small but extremely delicious restaurant that is driving other business out of the area entirely. If you ever have time in Kansas City then this is one of the places that you should not pass up at all costs. I'm rating this place higher then Rusty Horse on my list because no matter how good both of them are there is just some small charm about Chai Shai that has kept Kristi going there to eat twice a week and has me falling in love with it.

When I got home from Made to Serve and Lunch I sat down with Leif for my tutoring for the week. While I did do some tutoring this Monday with Leif we still wanted to schedule for this Thursday to get in the full amount of time. Also this week was in continuance of last weeks linear equations and the work happened  to be graphing linear equations and then moving on to quadratic equations. This means quite obviously that next up I will be working on graphing quadratic equations which I may not be looking forward to but I can't say that they don't help either. All in all between helping those in need to working with Leif through my problems in math Today has been an awesome day so far.

Progress is Awesome!

Today I have finally started to get all of the materials for my #Nerf gun project. I do not have all of them yet but it is so satisfying to think that I finally have something to show for the weeks before all of this. Because of this I will be able to at least start looking into building the gun when I get to Hammerspace this Friday. This means that my project is finally coming together and other things can be focused on here soon after this.

 While on the subject for explanation for things lets continue with the inspiration for my actual gun. This link is the very first part and main inspiration for the overall gun. I still feel like I am copying his work but there is still the fact that I am doing a lot of work on the side in order to make it work. Along with this video though I had gone through large amounts of Nerf blogs which helped out a lot and through this I learned that no one had even done something like this or even attempted to create a Nerf gun like this before. Because of this expect the building of the gun and a list of materials to be added to my blog when all of this is finished. I hope to be the first person to to truly make this gun and hopefully I will expand on it to make it better in the future.

Along with project talk I have to thank everyone out there that has allowed to make my blog expand so much because today I have had at least 120 views today alone which is more then my average amount of views per week. As I have mentioned before I may not be that popular and because of this I am that much more happy when people show up on their own to my blog. Just have to say I really appreciate the support guys and have a good day.

Explanation required

I don't know if I have ever talked about what Hillcrest does for people and what makes them any better then someone like Goodwill. The basis behind Hillcrest Thriftshop is to help raise money for the main part of Hillcrest which their job is to help people get on their feet and start working on building a life for themselves. For a start they help you get a job if you don't have one and help you start managing your money and look for a new home outside the temporary house that you get when you join the program. I was introduced to the program through my Grandma Cindy who had attended the program her self in order to become independent again which helped her out immensely. I now enjoy helping out around the place and what makes it even better is that every item that I test and put out on the shelf is helping someone get back on the right track.

I have access to a lot of material down at Hillcrest but most of it requires a bit of explanation behind it. For example I thought it was interesting that today I worked on a set of Gateway computer products of everything other then the monitor and computer. The main reason behind this is that Gateway computers is out of business and has been for a while. I know this for a fact because my dad has told me that he used to work at Gateway computers even before I was born which is probably why it came to mind. I know that I don't give very much as I could with my job at a place such as the thrift shop but lets see if that can change.

Today things have been a little bit different with a brand new schedule starting up at the dojo. I am not exactly a fan of it but it comes with so many different perks that I don't have a reason to be annoyed at all.  For example I don't have to scarf down all of my food in order to be out the door at time. I also get all of the time after class to myself which is very nice to have because usually I don't have anything but at least an hour after class until I have to go to bed. It is getting late so for the first time in ever I'm going to end the blog here because its time for bed. Have a good day when you read this because I don't think that anyone will be reading this until tomorrow later in the day. Anyway if that's the case here's a second blog for you to enjoy for the day.

Pigs in pain and people in need.

This weekend was pretty darn busy and while it may not be the busiest one yet it certainly had a lot of good content. My brother Nate was in town this weekend who got to help out with the family project which took up some time this Saturday. The family project was to go over to one of the parent's friend's houses and start doing the final touch ups around the house. This sadly could not happen very easily because much of the house was still not picked up so we did what we could and headed out. Because of this family day though we spent some much needed time after the project together starting with lunch. I have eaten barbecue before but very few places bring back memories like Rosedale's intoxicating meats. I have eaten here once before and funny enough that was around the beginning of last years school year after going out with Kristi to watch Queen of Versailles which is still a movie I recommend watching if you have the time.

After lunch though we went shopping over at Costco and then dropped everything off at home. What happened next is whats awesome and that happens to be that we all went out to see the new movie Enders game which I know I had been wanting see desperately. I always enjoyed the book as I had read it on the side of my work earlier this year. When the movie was announced I was ecstatic and looking forward to going to see it. I enjoyed the movie which is a good way to get started on reading the books but like many book to movie conversions the book was much better due to the amount of detail that was left out. This does not mean that the movie was not worth watching and in fact I enjoyed many parts of the movie. I just recommend going and reading the book afterward.

While that was just Saturday lets continue on to Sunday. I usually don't do anything on Sundays but this weekend was an exception. This weekend we have scheduled me another field trip and this time I went to a local butchery known as the Local Pig for a lesson on sausage making. They also do a class on pig butchering but I am too young still in order to participate in that class. Still, the sausage class was an experience on its own. While I was apart of the group that made the breakfast sausage there were three other groups. One group made a beer bratwurst, another made a garlic and rosemary sausage, and the final one made a kinda spicy Chorizo sausage. They make some much more interesting stuff as well including a spicy Thai peanut sausage which I absolutely love. The most amazing thing about Local pig though is that it is all local just like in the name. They even post up where they get their meat from on the walls and then who supplies it and where they are located at. In other words this place is amazing and Local pig is dedicated to bringing its clients fresh meat right from around your area.

I still have a little bit more to talk about today so this calls for an extra paragraph. I have been working very hard lately on getting my work done and catching up to speed on my work. This week though is going to be somewhat interesting. For example this week I will be riding with Kristi this Thursday with Made to Serve. If you don't remember who Made To Serve is then they are people who work here in Missouri who are dedicated to feeding the homeless around Kansas City. Along with this busy Thursday I will checking out Kristi's favorite restaurant at the moment which I will be going into further detail when Thursday rolls around.

 have also been working with Leif recently on my math more then anything which is good because this means that I am catching up where I need to while also keeping my project moving to still be on time. Leif is primarily focusing on Algebra due to the fact that I will have to take this class as one my very first classes for the year or else I cannot continue on my math classes very easily. Starting things off we have been going over basic algebra where you use letter in substitution of numbers and afterwards we started going over graphs, slopes, y intercepts and more. This is helping out so much that things are going rather smoothly and I hope that things don't get too out of hand this week.

Weekend events

Starting off my blog is some more good news for me and my family and that is that my brother Nate is coming from Job Corps to spend the weekend at home. Since he has not been able to do this for a while this is going to be the first time in a couple months that I will get to see him after a long time. I know that I am certaintly looking forward to seeing him again but even better is that the family will also get to see him again when Thanksgiving rolls around.

For the weekend, While Nate is in town I have a pretty busy weekend. Some of the work includes helping out one of the parents friends with cleaning up their house to help them with moving out. Next up I will be attending a sausage making class over at the Local Pig. I understand that the parents are close with the owner of Local pig but other then that I myself have never been there. This means that when the weekend is done then I will have something new to talk about.

Of course I happen to be writing all of this in the morning so nothing has really happened yet but I do have something to do later today. Yep, its Hammerspace day again and today I aplan on finishing up my bill of materials, prices, and a printed schedule to be presented to the parents this Saturday  For me this is huge because I can't continue to actually getting the parts and making the Nerf gun until the presentation is finished. Either way things will work as long as I keep on top of things today.

The Hashtag

As many might know if your into spreading the word about your posts is that the almighty hashtag is a good place to start. Since so many people are willing to read my #blog nowadays I think that I will start employing this technique in my blog in order to get some new people reading as well. The reason for this is that today has had the most views ever in all of my blogs history of 89 views in one day. This may not sound like much to those that have a large blog that they mantain but to someone as small as me I am absolutely astounded to get this amount and hopefully I can keep new people coming over to look at my blog and add to the ranks of people that read my blog.

I am currently concerned about what will happen when I get back into public schooling. I hope to continue my blog but  if I were to stop then it means that right when my blog is starting to get popular then I will have stopped blogging right when the most people in ever will be let down to know that my blog is no longer being maintained and is instead being neglected and everyone reading it will be let down. I have a very good feeling that a chunk of people reading now will quit when I get back into public schooling due to how boring it can be but for people that want to continue reading I have always had a nasty habit of forgetting important tasks involuntarily and because of this I might end up forgetting to write my blog for long periods at a time. Whatever happens I hope that something of what I have described can be diverted.

What is the most hated subject in school for most people out there? I don't know myself but from how much I have heard complain about math I would say that math is the most hated subject in school. I know that there are people out there that love math and the infinite possibility that it holds but for people that are learning the art of working all of the problems out there then they will most likely not enjoy it. I fall into the category of people that do not enjoy math very much and would rather be doing something completely different. That means its a good thing that I have a good teacher for my classes otherwise not only would I feel stupid in comparison to him I might just all around dread the moment where I would have to work on math in general. This is the reason why I enjoy Leif as my teacher. He isn't some kind of professional teacher that has to read rules to me out of a book but instead teaches me what I need to learn alongside with me and answering any questions that I have for him. I look at Leif and he is the teacher that I want to see when I get back into the public school system. I know I can't get one that won't read out of a book directly but I hope it isn't too much to ask for a teacher that works alongside his students and makes the class enjoyable because if there is someone like Leif in the world then there has to be someone in the world that can teach somewhere at least near to this.

And Pumpkins!

I have been for a while begging kristi to make her pumpkin spice muffins and she has finally made them. I absolutely love these pumpkin spice goods so much that when last year that she forgot something in a batch I just ate the extremely dense muffins right up and loved every bite. The main thing though is that this is the start of the beloved baking season which is right when things start getting cold outside and everyone starts wanting cookies. I don't actually know what makes late Fall and Winter so good for baking but I honestly don't care very much and always look forward to this time of year due to just some of the awesome stuff that is only brought out around this time of year.

Recently I have started up a couple of new books. One of them is called the Book Thief and it is another book that takes place in Germany during the Nazi regime. The story follows a child who had stolen a small book and is hiding it from the Nazis which is big deal considering that books are outlawed at this point in time. The second book is a nessecity for me going back to high school and this book is called Strategies for Teens. This book is pretty much not supposed to tell you how to live your life but instead help you be who you want to be as a teenager. I certainly have already found it interesting and I look forward to continuing.

Thanks to everyone out there that is giving me a chance by the way. For a while my views have been higher then usual and I'm trying to wrap my home schooling well for the audience. This does not mean that problems are being ommited but Thank yous all around because my page will have over 5000 views before end up going back and this may not seem like much to some of the people out there with the bigger blogs but I have been looking forward to this for a while. The main reason for a lack of expansion is my fault and that is because I don't work hard enough to expand my blog and seem to rely on everyone else to spread the word. This has been working well enough but work can be done to make this all better and who knows I might try to employ a couple here soon in order to introduce some new people to my blog.

Clean house

Today the house has gotten more then just a little spring cleaning. Instead the house got the carpet cleaned by professionals which means that the floor looks awesome. Along with the floors though in preparation the entire house needed to be picked up and because of this the house is looking really nice right now. In other words the house got its spring cleaning really early this year.

Along with the house my day was spent over at the Thriftshop and I had a pretty good day over there while helping clean up the electronics table. Also loading miscellaneous stuff onto a truck to be taken to other stores was really fun out in the coldest part of the day reaching around 30 degrees Fahrenheit. Anyway other then the heavy lifting most of my day was spent just fixing electronics and enjoying the company of my co workers over there.

I don't have very much to talk about today honestly so sorry if todays blog entry isn't that good. I just needed to put something up to keep track of my days. I am sorry if today isn't that good but I honestly didn't have that much left to write about today. I honestly was starting to lose most of my focus by this point in the night and couldn't think of anything to really write about that would make this blog anything special. Because of this I really need to apologize to everyone.

Change of pace.

Usually by this point I would be going over most of the stuff that I have been working on today like my project progress but I'll get into that later and instead start out with how my weekend went with my time at my moms. I spent my time this weekend over at my moms which unlike my usual lazy weekends included quite a bit of work to do. Starting out the weekend with some yard work in the mornings included collecting sticks around the yard to have them chipped into mulch which went into the gardens in order to prevent weeds from sprouting. That was before noon but later in the day I went over to my grandmas house who I call Grammy and helped out with some yard work in preparation for hanging up Christmas lights around the house. The reason for the yard work is that Grammy has some huge oak trees in her yard and they rain acorns all over the yard and it wouldn't have been safe to work with so many of them in the driveway. The family always works together to hang up the lights and we all have a good time half the time as long as we do it before Thanksgiving so that it isn't freezing cold outside when we put them all up.

For Sunday I was helping my mom get her dryer out of storage which was no easy feat because she has quite a bit in storage and then getting it up the stairs was no fun. Got to go to the hardware store while looking for a new vent pipe and clamp so I got a chance to check out some of the parts for my Nerf gun project so I have a better idea of what the parts are going to look like. Anyway after the dryer was out of storage and set up properly I got everything together and went back home to get ready for the week to come. I know that this whole weekend doesn't sound like it was that good but there were many good aspects about it that I haven't explained yet. First I got to try out of couple of new restaurants which I will probably review at a later date and I got to spend some much needed time with my mom this weekend which I haven't been able to do for a while now due to some unforeseen  circumstances. Either way it was a good weekend which has left me with a lot to think about during my free time.

My project is coming along really nicely and this week is going to be the hardest of all of my weeks because this weekend is the presentation for my project to the parents. Now they obviously know about my project already and they are already willing to contribute money but this is supposed to be treated like a buisness project for the most part and in order to do this I must properly present my budget, materials, schedule and overall knowledge of project in order to start building and accumulate my materials that I will need in order to continue with my project any further. The thing is that I am refineing my actual list of things currently and a good chunk of it has to be done at home but considering that I have a good week to get these things done there is no reason not to have everything completed.

Look to the Horizon

I have been working very hard on my few subjects but the one that I have been focused on the most happens to be my Nerf project which is taking a while considering how I have to do this. I am writing this early in the morning so I haven't accomplished anything other then planning what I am going to do on my project. What I do plan to do is start working on my prelimenary drawings and finally get my materials down to the proper measurements that is needed to make the design work and all around more flexible for firing ht preferred ammunition. Later on during the project I will start posting links and pictures to help people who are following me out there that are interested in the results and where I am coming from with each idea.

I will also be going out to visit my mom this weekend which is the primary reason for me writing my blog so early in the morning. By doing this I can spend more time with my mom and I don't really know if she has a computer available over there that I could use to post this. The final reason why I can't do this later in the day is that I absolutely despise the keyboards over at Hammer space and because of this it makes it very hard to type anything up over there making my blog more complicated and frustrating for me to write out.

Its going to be really cool to see my mom this weekend because I haven't seen her in a while and that is mostly my fault. The main reason why I can't see her often anymore is because of the fact that she has a new job and is trying to set up a steady position at the job and because of this I can only really get in contact with her on weekends. which leaves me pretty lazy about all of it because usually I would look at the weekends and hope to leave them completely open for me in order to enjoy the weekend that much more. That has changed recently and now that I have been setting up my weekends to have more things included in them it won't hurt me much at all. Besides, my weekends have always been sporadic with so much stuff going on without me noticing that I don't think that I will have much free time on the weekend for a while.

Pushing forward

Today I met up with Leif again and I went over one of the subjects of math that I missed out on completely. This happens to be square roots and for some reason I never learned them. I think that I never managed to learn them because they were always taught when I was sick or away from school which did not happen often which makes that much more interesting that I never once learned them up to this point. The good news is that I now know that they are the opposite of squaring an number but to think of all of the tests I might have failed because of such a simple process is maddening.

Along with my work on math I have continued on my work towards a proper project. By a proper project I mean one that requires time, research, materials, and most of all a plan. My plan is to take something that already exists and make it even better for the most part because I am not creating a brand new design to launch the small darts hundreds of feet away but instead utilizing one design and making it possible and more available for a smaller dart. I am using a design that was made by someone else but I have to make the conversions of the original plan to make it more accessible for this type of ammo as well as modify it so that it is more efficient and eventually something completely different with several major modifications that I already have in mind for it.

I know that by the sounds of the last paragraph I am simply taking someone elses ideas and using them to make something exactly the same but smaller. Well yes you are correct for the most part and the reason for me doing this is because first of conversion of something so big to something small enough to fit in your hand is hard enough for someone with no experience in this. And that leads into my second point which is that since this is my first project and due to how limited my knowledge is I don't have nearly enough experience to be building the entire idea from scratch by the end of the year and have it built before the next semester.

looking into Extracurricular

With the upcoming public school transition I have been told that I can enter an extracurricular activity and while I have been looking at them there isn't that much that to do after school but there might be something a little bit more interesting. here are a few that I am interested in. First off is debate which is just awesome and leads to quite a few opportunity and scholarships along with some interesting arguments to go through. Next up is French club which sounds interesting but with my experiences with French in the past I wonder if it would be a good idea. Finally there is Anime club which is purely for the sake of looking into what makes it so popular with people. Other then that though there isn't that much that I'm interested in.

Continuing with my books like usual and have been given the task to write a comparison with the book known as the Grapes of Wrath with the great depression and the Dust bowl. The comparison was certainly interesting because of the fact that the book takes place during both of these events is even more interesting. The story of The Grapes of Wrath is that there is this family who is trying to make a living for themselves and during there struggles they arrive at a farming community in which they try to make a life for themselves and in order to do this the father gets a job on a grape farm during the dust bowl which is terrible due to the amount of work that is required to keep the crops alive is just amazingly difficult.

I'm planning on getting a preliminary drawing for my project for hammer space. The problem is that I will need a little bit of help with it. Like last time with Leif I hope to get some help with it during our work with our next subject I have two hours with him and during this time I only have a few subjects in my day and apparently along with his tutoring on the side he does design and planning work which I didn't know but helps me out a lot so I have to give a big thanks to him for his help and also for his work with me on making my schedule

Cleaning House

Today we are having guests over along with Kristi who is finally back from her job and brought home another dog. Besides that though we have been preparing our house for company while Kristi is making an awesome meal. I have been working my butt off to help Kristi make the house presentable before even getting to start my blog. Doesn't matter now though because now I am working on my blog and I hope to have it done before company comes here so that I can truly enjoy my time.

Other then getting home and helping out around the house I did help out around the Thriftshop again today and while this house was getting cleaned I was making sure that the shop was clean as well. What I mean by this is that I was helping trying to clean up the back room and get stuff out on the floor which is extremely difficult for where I work. The reason for it being so difficult is that for the most part anything remotely related to electronics is instantly thrown into the pile of electronics. Fore example on the table today we found a handkerchief that had the blackberry logo on it. I understand why it was on the table but I don't have to like myself but either way it gives me work to do.

I didn't get to finish my blog before eating dinner but it gave me a good idea for a blog and that was the dinner itself. I enjoy a good dinner and I am under the firm belief that dinner is the most important meal of the day due to the ability to bring together friend and family for one meal that everyone can enjoy. Anyway for dinner it consisted of roasted beef short ribs with risotto, duck fat roasted brussels sprouts with bacon, and five spice glazed carrots. The meal was amazing and what makes it even better is that it was at home with friends. Mind you this if the first time I have met the guest but it doesn't matter very much to me because a friend of the parents is a friend of mine. I wish I could've learned more about our guest but I didn't even manage a name before Zoe started jumping down her throat with a bunch of stuff about herself.

Making some decisions

Recently I have started working on getting back into high school which is going to be something new for me while also another trial I have to go through. While going through the stuff that I will be having to do in order to go back into the public school system I have been looking at the A+ program which is used to help people who are willing to work for it to get into college using scholarships provided from the A+ program. The interesting fact is that if I actually try to work on the A+ program I will be able to have the first couple of years payed for college which is just so important nowadays which makes it important for me and my family that I at least attempt to get through all of my years in this group.

Along with making some decisions for my future back in the public school system we have also been working on giving me some more things to do during the week. One of the reasons for this is the amount of use my computer gets from me even though I should not be on it as much. Also just so that I can get out and do something else around the community instead of sitting at home and not getting to meet anyone. Because of this I will be going to Hammerspace on Fridays which helps keep me occupied on such a laid back day. I will also be going to Hillcrest on both Tuesdays as well as Saturday which will get me out of the house on the weekends. In other words I won't be sitting at home doing nothing during the weekends anymore.

With the thought of going back to public school is the fact that I will be going to see some of the people that I used to be in classes with before. Whether I liked these people or not I will be seeing them again and this raises a very hefty question for me and that is how will I deal with seeing friend and foe alike. I wasn't exactly a nice person when I left. Not to the point of being a bully but still not exactly the person people would hang out with. I don't know how it is going to end but I look forward to the consequences because all of them come from what I have done in the past and in the end it should all work out.

Short day

Today I was supposed to go over to Hammer Space but due to the fact that dad couldn't bring me over today I didn't really do very much today. I did make sure  that the parents both got some of my schedule even though I had wanted to wait to make it look nice and present the schedule on paper but I see the reason why they would want me to email it too them. Either way I have continued my work for today as well which was some reading but that was about it for the day otherwise I just sat around the house and read a book for most of the day.

I have had my very first casual Halloween and I actually enjoyed sitting down eating Jambalaya and watching Dr. Horribles sing a long blog with dad and Zoe. While Zoe did go trick or treating she came home home within reasonable time with a large supply of candy which she accumulated from a nice well kept neighborhood nearby with her friends. I don't know if I would really go back out and do Halloween again but who knows it is a welcome break from doing the average day but I still find it the most mediocre of all of the holidays do to how many people will actually celebrate is pretty small around here.

The reading I did today was primarily my Charles Dickens book that I have and it is going well. A Tale of Two Cities is a pretty awesome book and while his writing makes it harder for me to read it just means that I have to slow down in order to read it properly. Due to me having to slow down it  makes it so that I have issues finishing it on time each day which means that my days last longer then usual which isn't a problem as I have learned but it does mean that I have a lot less time to go out and visit my friends most of the time and over time I have found that they even end up waiting on me a good chunk of the time because I'm usually busy when they come over. Work comes first though as we all know.