More Info On My Vacation

Well I'm using my grandmother's old typewriter to type this original copy. It is almost out of ink so I want to keep this short and sweet. I love my grandmother's house. My dad grew up here in the summer. I am really, really excited about this vacation. It has been really, really fun so far. I'm going to put some pictures of Harbor Springs(the town) on this blog. Harbor Springs is a fun little town. *They have a new Internet Cafe which is how I am publishing this post.

Heading Upnorth

As I type this post, me and my family are driving up to Harbor SSprings for our annual vacation up north. My sister is sitting right next to me listening to her iPod Mini. My dad is driving, and my mom is resting. I have been keeping a watchful eye on my laptop's battery. I love the Mac, partially because of the battery life. Apple claims that my battery will last 4 hours at most, so I was questioning the battery gauge as I left the house. It said nine hours. Here I am six hours later. I have already outlasted Apple's maximum rating in their tests, but I still have 50 percent of my battery left. I am totally baffled about this. When I first opened up my laptop the battery gauge said I would have 288 hours. Even after this success, I know that 288 hours is not even possible. It only showed 288 for about half of a second before changing to 6 hours. I have also been powering my sister's iPod which has also been going on continously. We are probably 1/3 of the way there which means that it will be about 3 or four hours until we get there. I am really excited to go on this vacation. I love Harbor Springs, Michigan. We usually stay at my grandmother's house, but this year we won't. It will be great to get up there. The Harbor Springs marina has WiFi(WiFi is wireless internet), so I can keep posting my thoughts while on vacation.

Other Blogs

I have recently surfed through some other blogs on blogger, and I am surprised at what I have found. I feel like I've traveled the world after reading blogs from literally all over the world. I read a blog that a boy in Africa made, and I learned that in Africa, people make their own paint. How? I learned that they scraped off dirt from termite nests, ground it up, and finally added water to the powder to make paint. I never knew that. Un fortunately I also found a lot of blogs that were probably made by robots. They were nothing but ads. I wish that those people just wouldn't do it on blogger, so I reported them all to Blogger. Hopefully, the ad websites will be taken off Blogger. To put unauthorized web ads on Blogger is actually a violation of the Terms and Conditions. Oh! Another blog that I ssaw was a website that was for some town in Louisiana. It was giving lots of information to residents about the hurricane, Hurricane Katrina. It wasn't really useful to me, because it was so local. It was still interesting to see towns having a blog.

Sadness

Have you ever had one of those days where everything just goes wrong. I had that today. Despite the blank, emotionless expression on my face, there are lots of thoughts swirling around in my mind. Some are good, but most are bad. I guess that I am just having one of those days. But it feels more strong then the generic down-in-the-dumps feeling. I... don't know. I'm sure that I'll feel better later. Since this is a journal, I thought that I would mention my feelings, even though this journal is accessible to anyone who has a computer. written: friday august 26, 2005 at 7:38 p.m.

LocalMotion

My mom works at LocalMotion. For the people who don't know what LocalMotion is, I'll gladly tell you all. LocalMotion was founded in August of 1999, and their mission is to Inform the public about the dangers of environmental toxins. LocalMotion has helped to pass a law in Michigan that now makes it illegal to put chemicals on school lawns without first sending a mailing to all of the parents of the students at that school. LocalMotion is low on funding so please donate to them. This is not an ad. I just want to help LocalMotion as much as I can, so please if you have some extra dough, donate. You can visit LocalMotion's website to donate at www.local-motion.org

Less Then Perfect

"Less Then Perfect" is a great show which appears on TGIF. It is office humor which is great. It is almost like a TV Dilbert. Some of the characters are Geb, Lydia, Will, and Claude. It comes on at 9:30 every Friday on ABC (Channel 7). Happy reading!

Woodward Dream Cruise

The Woodward Dream Cruise has some to Detroit. By the time that this is published, it will probably be after the Woodward Dream Cruise has ended. The Dream Cruise is a big event for Detroit, because cars come from all across America to cruise down Woodward Avenue. In Detroit Woodward Avenue is the dividing line between the East side of Detroit and the West side of Detroit. Both sides are great. Anyway back to Woodward. Classic cars are the cars that are in the Dream Cruise. NOTES AFTER THE CRUISE: We had a lot of news coverage this year. Channel 7 (ABC) called themselves the offical Dream Cruise Station. They had constant coverage of the Dream Cruise which was fun to watch. The news helicopter showed traffic back to back like it is in cities like New York. In Detroit, we don't have as bad of traffic as some other cities. We're lucky that way. :) TTFN Ta Ta For Now!

Tech Prices

It boggles my mind how expensive technology is! Recently I went to Circuit City and spent $10 on a game that wasn't even new! I thought that that was a bargain. Some computers cost thousands of dollars and most servers cost at least $10,000! I just thought that I would write this post because I had nothing else to talk about.

TGIF

Have you ever heard of TGIF? If you haven't, keep reading. If you have, skip to the archives of this blog. (You haven't gone to the archives yet! :] ) Ok. They are gone. Now then on to TGIF. TGIF is a special on ABC (Channel 7). It appears every Friday night at 8 o'clock, and goes until 10 o'clock. (Two hours) The first show that appears is "8 Simple Rules" and that goes until 8:30. The next show that comes on is called "Hope and Faith" which is followed by another episode, so it's on for 1 hour. The last show is called "Less Then Perfect" which is really office humor. That is the TGIF lineup. You should really tune in this Friday. You won't be sorry :)

The DYC

This is the logo for the DYC!!