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| 02/10/05 7:56 PM Today, Casey and I played MTG after school, and he was declared the Freeport District Champion. I played my deck based on the Nuts and Bolts deck from Fifth Dawn (but better, with infinite life, mana, damage, or take control of all permanents on the board combos), and he played his Affinity deck. I called it the Freeport District Championship because it was a game that required much more strategy than the usual "kill Skipper and Chris" strategy. We also weren't restricted by time, and we both had fairly good draws. I was gaining about 5 or 10 life almost every turn, thanks to Auriok Salvagers, Leonin Elders, and Sunbeam Spellbombs, and was trying to kill his Cranial-Plated flyers (Ornithopter and Somber Hoverguard) with my Voltaic Construct-Viridian Longbow combo. On the decisive turn, I left two mana open, and had a Leonin Bola equipped to one of my creatures with my Construct equipped with the Longbow. He attacked me with an Ornithopter, two Hoverguard Observers, and with two Cranial platings in play with 4 black mana to pay the equip-as-instant abilities. My plan was that when he attacked, I would block one attacker with Ornithopter, kill one with the Voltaic Construct, and tap the other one with Leonin Bola, because if any one got through, he would equip both of the Cranial Platings to it with around 15 artifacts in play, and I would take lethal damage. As planned, I tapped one, and blocked another, but I could not kill the other, because I only had two mana and as a result, my Construct could only deal two damage to the Hoverguard. I had forgotten that he had Scale of Chiss-Goria in play, and he gave it +0/+1 until end of turn and equipped both Cranial Platings to it, dealing 30 damage to me and winning the game. If you read that and knew exactly what it meant without having to look a single card up, you are a nerd. Anyway, that's how Casey won the game. 02/04/05 10:18 PM I went to Wal Mart the other day, and so did Casey. We both could've saved the other 10 bucks, too. I bought Coheed and Cambria's first CD, Second Stage Turbine Blade, and Casey bought Green Day's American Idiot CD. I already had American Idiot, and he already had Second Stage Turbine Blade, so we wasted $20. It seems like everyone has been sick the last few days. Today, there were six teachers out, and a lot of the students who were here obviously weren't feeling well. One of these was Charlton. Poor fellow. (He really is a good chap, that Charlton is.) The school also gave out the Yellow and White Cards for A and A/B students. Well, they call them Gold and Silver, but they're yellow and white. We applauded for Charlton as he recieved his awards for being such a jolly good fellow. In case you think I'm British, or if you think someone British killed me and acquired the password to my Yahoo account, that's not true. Everyone knows Charlton. If you don't know who Charlton is, ask me at school, because if you are on this website you are obviously a student at FHS that sees me every day. War is Peace Freedom is Slavery I Like Pie -James Griffith (I bet you weren't expecting it to say "I like pie," were you? You thought it would be something more meaningful and original. Well it's not, so go sue someone.) 01/15/05 5:22 PM Sorry for the delay. My computer went on strike and stopped giving us Internet access. But I'm back now, and with a plan: to waste your time!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!! 12/12/04 4:09 PM Yay! It's finally done, and I have one week of school left! Starting tomorrow. So now I just have to survive one more week of school and then I have time to...do absolutely nothing. But hey, at least it's nothing on my own terms! 12/11/04 9:31 PM It's Saturday, and tomorrow is a free day. OK, I take that back, it was a free day. But I have a history paper due. Fast. So I'll finish that and try to get all my other stuff done and maybe then this shit will be over with. I bagged groceries today from 1 to 3, while some of the other people there stood and looked happy and sold baked goods. We were raising money for the history club's trip to DC. I ended up being our most valuable customer, and spent my last $3.62 on a plate of some kind of pecan thing whose name has been forgotten. Every last penny went into that plate. At 6 I went to play trumpet for the church enesemble. There were about five people there. We have moved from several different churches in the ensemble's history, probably because churches can't afford to feed me. People think, "Hey! We don't need to pay these guys, they just come and play for free!" But I always end up eating my weight in gold (or food, actually.) Then there was the dance yesterday. I would say it was a waste of my time, but the hours from 9 to 12 aren't the most productive anyway, so anything I did would be a waste of my time. Instead, it was a waste of my money! So, why was it a waste of my money? Because I, by definition, am a self-rejecting nerd with low self-esteem. And I don't intend to ruin my reputation by being "cool" or "popular"...or "normal." And why is it that MTV is convinced that the only music anyone of my generation likes is rap? I can't stand 90% of all rap, the exception being the "controversial" Eminem. The only reason that Eminem is controversial is because he's white. Eminem critics haven't a clue what they're talking about when they think he's "controversial." OK, I'm done with my pointless thoughts that nobody reads for the day. James out. 12/07/04 9:53 PM I just got back from a quiz bowl meet. It demonstrated just how quickly a place can change, and then change back again. The first round, we wound up just over what we started. It usually ended up that I would answer a 5-point question right, someone else would answer a 5-point question right, and then I would answer a 10-point wrong, for the most part. Through 2 2/3 rounds our score was 110, just 10 points above the starting score. But then, I answered three 15-point questions in a row, bringing us up to 155 and just 10 points away from the first-place team. We went to eat, got back, and totally blew it. It looked good through the 5-points, but then we just really shot ourselves in the foot with wrong answers. By the end of the round we were 4th place by a long shot, but not any longer than where we were to start with. But hey, things happen, and I was still one of the highest scorers in the county, even though I shot the team in the foot. Oh yeah, and 63 years ago, Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor, and when they were finished it looked like our quiz bowl score. :) 12/04/04 3:44 PM Today is pretty boring so far. I went squirrel hunting this morning and fishing this afternoon with my dad, but wound up with nothing. So now I have to finish my research paper for history and I have 300 words out of 1500. It wouldn't be so bad if I actually stopped and DID it, but, as you can see, I am a procrastinator and I'm sitting here typing this instead. Christmas is just a few weeks away, and I'm really not excited, because I have everything I want, more than what I need, and far more than I deserve. I still play my guitar every day, and I'm trying to learn how to play "Jesus of Suburbia" by Green Day. .|,,| (Umm...that's a hand doing the "rock sign.") 11/30/04 4:52 PM Umm...Not much to say right now. I still have some history stuff to catch up on, but I'm not working on it now. Too lazy. I'm just kind of passing the time. While I'm building my new site, I remember old stuff from the old site and my friends' old websites, which they don't update much anymore. It reminds me of all of last year, when I was a freshman and "life was good" and all of that. Now, it's like I'm just spending each day wasting time. I really don't mind the whole time-wasting concept; I've turned it into an art form. The problem is that I waste most of my time by myself. My house is a very boring place. But I do have my guitar, and it's worth a lot more to me than the price I bought it for. I occasionally try my hand at songwriting, but haven't accomplished anything yet. I'm going to be bored again over Christmas, so perhaps I'll write a good song and some major record label will sign a contract or something. And then I can go on tour and get out of this redneck town in the middle of nowhere. |
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