Band Practice

Band practice was very hard. With me being in percussion, we have a lot of extra practices. The cadences we are doing are very hard and we marched around for a bit. Basically, it's not very fun, until the football games.

Another Day of School

Lunch took forever today. I had to wait a half-hour to get my lunch!!! Also, some other news: we were going to play "Conqesta" and "I'm a Believer" in the Fair Parade, but now instead of "I'm a Believer" we are playing "Hey Ya!". That's all I have to say.

New Blog!

I am taking Spanish class in high school this year, so I have decided to translate my blog. You can find it at villageidiotrandomthingsespanol.blogspot.com. There are just a few things that are not in Spanish, and those are template related. I have been in the class less than a week, so until I learn enough to form some decent sentences, I am using Google to translate my posts.

"Around the World in 80 Days" Review

This movie was much better (than Princess Diaries 2), didn't follow the original "80 Days" story, but it was better. It had lots of cool action scenes with ninjas and all that, and evil and corrupt Science Minister, and did I mention ninjas? It was good, with lots of funny gags. Basically, the team of Disney/Walden Media, comes up with another winner (they made Holes together, among other movies) getting an 9/10, for having a fast paced, action-filled comedy.

Plot Synopsis (in 1-100 words): Inventor Phileas Fogg is known for his nuttiness, but things get crazy after he breaks the 50 MPH barrier with the help of Passpartou, his new valet, who is really a fugitive who stole a Jade Buddah from the Bank of England, because it rightfully belongs to his Chinese village. The go around the world, picking up a French lady along the way whom Fogg falls in love with, and getting chased by all sorts of bad guys who are trying to take the J.B. Basically, they make it by flying in, and Fogg becomes the Science Minister.

Word Count: 98 for the synopsis. I couldn't say everything though, so go see the movie.

"Princess Diaries 2" Review

I'm not going to lie. It was SLOW. It did have some funny parts, but it overall moved too slow, with little/no action. Also, it was extrememly predictable. Of course, there has to be a snag before she can be queen. I would NEVER have guessed that someone would try to steal the throne (picking up on the sarchasm?). And, most predictably, she falls in love. Basically 4/10, for some humor, but overall, a very generic movie.

Plot Synopsis (in 100 or less of my own words): Princess Mia is living in Genovia after graduating from college. During a session of parliment, she overhears that she will have to marry, or else she will lose the crown to a parliment member's nephew, who is from the royal line too. Basically, they set up an arranged marriage with a duke from England and then worries about the wedding, while being taunted by the nephew (whom she likes). Basically, she says no on her wedding day, convinces the parliment to repeal the wedding rule, the nephew (who like Mia too) asks her to marry him, and she is crowned.

That is 100 words EXACTLY!

More movie reviews...

Ah, the drive-in. I love it so. Even though it got a little bit chilly last night. Wait, better word, downright COLD. I live near the Milton-Freewater, Oregon "M-F Drive-In Theater". It's really nice to have a drive in, when they are really a thing of the past. And last night they had a family friendly movie. Not one, but two. The drive-in here always shows a double feature, for just $9 a CAR. Last night (and this weekend, if anyone from the SE-Washington, NE-Oregon area is reading this) they showed "The Princess Diaries 2" and "Around the World in 80 Days." Next, two individual post about these movies.

Templates, and the woes about them

Alas, templates...I HATE YOU!!! Just as I am about to finish with my templates, BLOGGER ADDS ANOTHER FEATURE THAT ISN'T SUPPORTED BY THEM. But I will finish them. Soon. That's all I'm saying. Also, I had a lousy day today, so I'm happy to scream at my readers.

First day of School!

Well, the first day went well. That's all I have to say on that topic. Stop the broadcast. Now I have to begin on my next post...wait, it's still going! Off. --~~END OF TRANSMISSION~~--

So close, yet so far...

Well, I am almost done with the basic dark template. I just haven't gotten the images to work...yet. Also, I need to redo the website to make it all standardized-like and, well I have to do that with the templates too. The version 3.0 of the templates will include:

• A Readme File
• An "Is there an update" URL
• (for Custom templates only) Several drop in place searches and cool places to link to

I will hopefully get them finished this weekend, or at least by the time the fair rolls into town.

Also, I had to deal with my templates not being compatible with the Blogspot ads, and now the Navbar (that thingy up at the top). However, the Navbar was a simple fix. A couple of <.br.> tags and the problem fixed itself! I am also adding an <.//INSERT. ADSENSE .HERE//.> tag into the template in response to Blogger's invitation to make money off your blog. I probably will not decide to do that, but anything is possible! (Money is ALWAYS a good thing)

Bad news, at the time I finished this post (4:30 PM PST) school begins in 14 hours and 10 minutes or so (it begins at 7:45 AM tomorrow, feel free to correct my countdown if you so wish).

(Remove the . s from the tags)

Note (added on 8/30/04): I can't add Adsense to my blog, you must be 18 or older, and (if you read my profile), I am only 15.

So Close...

I am so close to finishing the template, just need a little more time.

Feedburner

I have now run Feedburner for this blog. Basically, the "Add to My Yahoo!" link now links to a feedburner feed of this blog. It will automatically configure the feed to the best format for your reader. You can just view the feed by clicking the button (or clicking this one!)

Tomorrow I will try to do the dark Yahoo! blogger themes. I will prepare the website today.

Sidebar Changes

I was bored, so I decided to quickly add a link to download Mozilla Firefox to the sidebar. Click it, download it, use it, throw IE out the virtual window. Do it, NOW! (Actually, keep IE. Some programs depend on it being there.)

Click here...

[Weird Zombie-Like Voice]Click here, you will be glad you did. [end voice]

IF YOU ARE A MYST SERIES FAN, YOU MUST CLICK HERE.

CLICK HERE

IF YOU AREN'T...CLICK THERE ANYWAY.

Time to get down to business.

Well, I haven't been blogging as much as I have wanted to, but I have finally made a new post. The important thing is...Here were my goals for the summer:

• Do all 4 templates (Basic/Custom Yahoo! Light/Dark)
• Make "The Epic Journey of the Village Idiots"

Here is the status:

• Two templates done (Basic/Custom Yahoo! Light)
• Less than one map done for EJVI

Oh well. *sigh*
I'll do them during the school year. This will be my last post before school begins. Hurray! (NOT!!!)
I just enrolled today. It took as long to stand in the line as it did to get everything done.

Myst IV: Revelation

I like the game Myst. I wish I had the other games in the series: Riven, Myst III: Exile, and Uru: Ages Beyond Myst. But what I REALLY want is Myst IV, coming out next month. I have been following it avidly for the last week. The Mac demo can be downloaded now via BitTorrent, from a link on Mysterium. The windows download of the demo comes out tommorow on Gamespot. You can get it the moment it comes out with Gamespot's Secure Delivery (IE ONLY). Click here to see the news about it and get the subscription to the demo. This is going to be great!!

Camp

Well, camp was very fun. Now, as I promised, I shall do a day by day rundown of it, but on my other site, villageidiot.squarespace.com, click on "Camp Log."