How I Write Reminders

This is how I wrote down a reminder the other day:
<?php
if ($time) {
move('48', beginning); }
?>

It means: If I have time ($time) then move picture ‘48′ to the begining. However if I don’t have any time, don’t do it.

+10 geek points. :D

The Worst Day of my Life

Wednesday was arguably the worst. I had to go to town because I promised someone that I would make print out pictures that she had made using my sister’s digital camera. So we went to town saying that we would go to Sonic after we get through in Wal-Mart, where I was going to make the copies. We entered the store and Jessie went off to find the objects that Mom wanted us to buy also (only a hadful of things really) as I stood in line at the Kodak Photo Maker thingy, which is where I stood for over 30 minutes. Why? Because someone else couldn’t make up her mind how she wanted a photo rotated and printed. To top if off, she didn’t even make a copy! She just left. So in that incident 30 minutes lost.

Later, Jessie had finally gathered up all the items which included a roll of hamburger meat. While I was waiting, I told her to go put it back so that it wil stay cold because it was already getting pretty warm which she did. After I go the photos, I told Jessie to go get the meat again. She just sat there, taking her sweet time to get up and off; she thought it was a time to joke around. As she slowly walked off, I waited in the check-out line where she scanned the photos and the other items: oatmeal and cocoa (for making cookies), and cookies (why Jessie bought those I have no idea) and the meat (after she finally came back). I was so angry about that woman and Jessie being so slow that I just grabbed the stuff and left. We got back in the Explorer and left to go to Sonic.

After getting in the Sonic “parking lot”, I pulled up into one spot, only to realize that that one spot doesn’t work. So furious was I from my horrible day, that I just backed out without even noticing how I should, in fact, back out. So I tore the bug guard off my explorer, a $40/50 fix.

After that incident (and several phone calls from the folks), I calmed down enough to order and eat and drive home safely. Though on a final note, the drive-through spot that I thought doesn’t work? It does. *sigh*

Why I don’t “lol”

If you’ve ever been in an online discussion with me before, you know that I try to refrain from using “lol”. Why? A little history behind this term is needed:

LOL traces its roots back to Usenet. It has grown in such popularity that everyone from the biggest n00b that believes that the only sites on the Internet are Facebook and Google to the hacker that uses Google to find vulnerabilities in other websites knows this term. It usually means “laugh out loud” though some definition variants include “laughing out loud” and “lots of love” while acronym variants include “lolz”, “ROFL”, and “lawl”.

To begin with if someone does say something funny while I’m online, never do I actually laugh; I might smile, grin, or (going to the extreme) chuckle. But I will never laugh. “lol” is way overrated.

This is not to say that I don’t actually laugh; I just don’t actually laugh at loud when talking to someone via Instant Messaging.


Bowling/Rock Band

Last Friday, on June 20th,  our youth group left the church and went to Starkville for Bulldog Lanes, the closest bowling alley around. While there we split up and got into three different lanes. Colby performed many tricks for us, including:

  • Bowling the ball through his legs
  • Me holding the ball while he slides on the ground and pushes it That didn’t work two well; the floor wasn’t as slippery as we thought
  • Bowling two balls at once
  • Rolling one ball slowly and then bowl another one fast, so that by the time the first ball knocks down pins and the lane resets, the slower ball would get down there just right to knock them over as soon as the machine comes back up.

After bowling we went back to the church where we proceeded to play basketball and Rock Band. I played Rock Band for almost 5 hours straight. Needless to say, I was hoarse and my throat ached.

And that’s what we did. :P

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