I was very VERY surprised to hear that this happened. So I've known this guy named Jenner Roberts since 7th grade. He was always in some of my classes and we both really knew each other well but never really became friends because he was rather critical towards me. He was also kind of a strange guy, like two years ago he randomly stopped coming to school because he didn't feel like it for about 6 weeks and got home schooled instead. Then, the next year, he got home schooled full time and sometimes showed up at school randomly as if he still came here. And as of this school year, I saw him once, at a school football game, and said hi to him. I was pleasantly suprprised to see him. That was in early October. Anyways, I heard that after that at some time, he was sent to a facility of some sort in Provo, Utah and on the 22nd of November he ran away from there and is nowhere to be found now. It stinks. I wish I could help his family out but he ran off in Utah very under the radar. So for now my thoughts and prayers are with them. Here is his missing persons report. I hope he comes back...

Okayyy, to start this off, I went to my friends house a few days ago and he just got Guitar Hero World Tour for 360.  We played that for a few hours and I was very impressed to say the least.  I only had one major complaint though.  I have a very VERY good resume on past Guitar Hero games, especially GH3, but the WT engine felt so... different.  I can do one-hand trills and HOPO sweeps at crazy speeds on GH3 but when I attempted to do such playing manuevers on WT I missed notes left and right.  Oh well, because other than that I was satisfied with the overall gameplay, especially as a full band .  Secondly, I had an interesting Turkey Day and an even more interesting Black Friday.  Turkey Day was okay, I was expecting a riot of my mom's friends over at my house but a considerablly less amount of people showed up, which I didn't mind at all.  My mom recently got a PS3 (YEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!11) to use as a Blu-Ray player, but she also got Metal Gear Solid 4 (heckz yess) with it.  I popped it in there and started playing it and was blown away.  The graphics were friggin unbelievable and the overall gaming experience for the few hours I played was quite rewarding.  I am going to look forward to continuing playing that when I can get more time to do so .  After having an intense gaming session of that, I went to bed at about 1 AM and woke up at 4:30 AM so I could go to the mall to get muchas cosas para viernes negro (get a dictionario ).  I wasn't surprised because the mall was packed, especially with 'soccer moms' and crazy shoppers.  I went with my sister and cousin and ended up waiting about 3 or 4 hours on them while they shopped for clothes...ugh.  Oh well, when it was my turn we headed to GameStop and I ended up looking like I worked there because I was telling a lot of the mommys there the best gaming deals they could get .  And while I was there I snagged the Force Unleashed to add to my PS3 collection (I would've gotten Assassins Creed too, but they check, and I'm not of age for another 3 months or so ).  So that was my Black Friday, and I'm going to look forward to the rest of the Christmas/Holiday season as I attempt to a) add to my PS3 collection and b) get some more goodies for others and maybe myself.

Yay, first level up in forever!  Seriously, it's been a long time, I don't really care though, I just thought I'd blog about it.

Oh yeah, 

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Ello everyone.  I've returned again.  I've been so swamped with everything so I thought I'd just schpeel what's been goin on in my life since May... and if you're iowastate, fishdalf, or an older guy I can trust, I'm in some need of some serious insight here.

-I'm semi-00ber at GH3 now.  The highest I've gotten on any song is 580K and my high score on TTFAF is 443K, and I've gotten 100% on 25-6 songs on expert mode... ya I'm a dork.

-The D-Land trip was bomb.  I couldn't blog about it though because it would've taken 3 hours which I didn't have because of finals.  

-I got my crappy Samsung replaced with a Blackberry Curve 8310... nice trade-off.

-I got to go river rafting on level 3 rapids and jumped off a 35-40 ft cliff.  Fun stuff.

-Didn't go to Warped Tour...dawwwww, oh well.  BUT, I got to see Journey, Cheap Trick, and Heart live on the 26th of September, that was an amazing night.  

-I'm a junior now. Yussssssss.  It's way cool, people start to notice when you're the big(ger) man on campus.  And status doesn't mean anything to me at all now, I have a bunch of cool, diverse friends that you wouldn't imagine togeher unless they were with me.  And, if I can get my PreCalculus grade up, I'll end the semester with a 3.8 or 4.0.  Yay.

-I GOT MY PERMIT!!!!  Finally!  And my mom is willing to let me drive her 2007 Mercedes C350 around. 

-I got to go live in Aurora, Colorado for about 2 weeks and also went down to New Mexico and up to Wyoming for a little bit.  Denver and Albuquerque were amazingly cool places to be.

 -Muahahahahahaha I've converted to the dark side now.  I've been a registered user of MySpace for 2 months now .

-Finally took a dip in Lake Tahoe.  It was like 40 degrees .

-I was Guy Faux aka V for Halloween.  It was friggin amazing.  I didn't trick-or-treat though .

-Just today I spent 11 hours in a car because my friend and I tried to go to Magic Mountain, but it was closed due to some crazy fires going on down in LA County.  

I know.  Life sounds great for me right now, doesn't it?  The truth is (WARNING: I'M GOING TO BE BLATANTLY HONEST HERE), I've never felt so... dead in my life before.  Why?  So, just before school started, I met this girl.  She's sooo cute, sweet, awesome, etc.  I won't go into too much detail but, I really liked her and all and started to notice her more and more every day.  Then, one day in late September I decided to do something about it so I asked her to Homecoming.  She did the craziest thing I could imagine... she very, very happily accepted.  Then I got her number, some flowers for her, and started talking to her more.  It turned out she couldn't go to HC because of some school issues but that sincerely didn't bother me.  We continued talking anyways, hung out a lot, and less than 3 weeks later, I asked her out.  It wasn't quick or hasty, though, because we already felt like a couple for over a week at that point .  She also happily accepted here and things were going better than well, they were going absolutely perfect... we hung out, dated, etc.  I don't think I ever felt so sincerely happy about anything.  Then, about three weeks ago (from today) she just out of nowhere told me that we weren't "connecting" and felt uncomfortable around me, and to top it off she broke up with me on the spot.  I didn't do anything to cause it, she just told me that.  And now she pretty much won't even talk to me anymore and I think she hates me for no apparent reason.  So the reason it absolutely sucks is because I was really attached to her and spent a lot of time and money for her and she pretty much abandoned me.  To make it worse, I see her around sooo much.  She goes to the same school and youth group as me and even lives on the next street down.  The reason I need help is because there's only one way out of this, and that's to put her behind, which is going to be one of, if not the hardest thing I've ever done.  I seriously hope I can get over this horrible situation... 

Thought I'd have a Poison reference there...

I'm gonna be gone all weekend, again. Why?

BECAUSE I'M GOING TO DISNEYLAND!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1

I've NEVER been so excited. I haven't been there since September 1998, almost ten years. The bus ride's gonna be fun too. Leave at 7 AM so we can beat the LA traffic on Interstate 5 at around 5-ish PM-ish. Satruday morning when the park opens I'm wind sprinting to Space Mountain, California Screamin', and Soarin' Over California. Oh yeah, after that, only two weeks of school left not counting finals week. If having fun was illegal, I'd be on death row right now!

Awesome...another week in the books. Five more till summer and eventually junior year.

Anyways, as I have been for the past 2 years or so now, I've been checking every band I've heard of out. Recently, a friend in one of my classes told me about this metalcore band called Killswitch Engage. Eventually, I saw they had a pretty sweet song of theirs on GH3, so I gave them a listen. They basically pwn every other band in their genre (metalcore) that makes so-called "music". They're pretty sweet, check 'em out if you haven't heard of them already, unless your ears bleed when you hear some screaming .

I wasn't tagged (yet), but I just felt like sharing 5 things you didn't know about me from my somewhat recent past (around 1997-2000).

1. From as early as I could remember to about when I turned 5 or so, I was the proud owner of an NES system. I remember playing classic Mario, Paperboy (as in Level 4), the Simpsons and a few other games for it. When I was 5, my parents didn't want me to play it anymore because they wanted my focus on school . Their mindset has obviously changed now, though. I haven't seen it since, but it was because it broke.

2. I was completey reckless and lost when I was younger. I couldn't go to kindergraten the first week (around August of '97) without my mom . I grew fine without her though .

3. Sometime when I was 5, I was almost kidnapped. The doorbell rang and without a jolt of hesitation my parents told me not to open the door. I looked out the window and two of the creepist people imaginable were at my doorstep. It weirds me out to this day (thankfully, I don't live there anymore).

4. I LOVED some of the old school anime shows that were on around then, like Pokemon, Cardcaptors, Sailor Moon (YES, I just said it), etc.

5. My half-brother used to be around back then. He is 20 years older than me and dropped out of Chico State when I was born and worked as a truck driver and was a HUGE video game and Star Wars junkie. I remember watching Episode I with him back in '99. He'd always hang around the house and play with me, but I haven't seen him in 8 years now...

Happy April Fools Day everyone!

Anyways, yesterday I was thinking, what would be an epic April Fools prank for tomorrow? Then I thought about YouTube and all of a sudden I was thinking that if they RickRoll'd all their video links that would be the craziest thing ever. Funny thing is when I came back from school today, I went to j00t00b's home page and ALL of the Featured Videos were autolinked to three and a half minutes of Rick Astley pwnage. I must be Nostradamus or sumpthin'... If you checked the comments, they averaged about 2-3 new ones every SECOND. It was insane. I think they're still doing it right now, so if you haven't, you should check YouTube out right now, it's crazy!

edit: I you don't care at all for that, I HAVE to get Rock Band PSP as well as that new Guitar Hero game with songs only by Satch, Steve Vai, Dragonforce, Malmsteen, and Dream Theater. Sounds like arm-swelling fun!

I just got a FaceBook the other day. I've never really said anything about so feel free to add me if you have one (be sure you tell me you know me from GS though). Just thought I'd tell you guys.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1189824882

I'm currently in the midst of writing a thrilling action story.

Why?

It started back to last year, I had a creative writing assignment for English. I turned it in, it had an excellent plot line, but I really seemed to rush writing it, so I was...dissatisfied to say the least. And then just recently, I looked at my draft and decided, what the heck, why don't I completely rewrite the beginning to this, touch it up, and maybe even find a publisher so I can say I actually put my imagination to use for once. Anyways, I finished a rough copy of the first Chapter the other day and here it is:

It seemed that the next Cold War had begun. It was just past 2 AM in an isolated area of Western Russia about 700 miles south of Moscow, just north of the Caucasus Mountains. The area was unusually flat and grassy, but lacked trees, and human inhabitation for miles.

All of a sudden, the ground began to shake vehemently. A giant, bright orange spark emerged from the ground and headed upwards at supersonic speed. The spark stayed in a constant forward motion for about 10 seconds and then suddenly plummeted, gyrating back to the ground and in a split second resulted in a violent, resounding flaming burst that tainted the previously unblemished night sky around it. Billions of tons of earth were instantly displaced and the surrounding area was completely charred for countless miles.

The only blast that ever had more power than this one was the Tunguska explosion in Siberia, some 100 years before, and like it, there were only a few witnesses to this one.

Minutes into the night began to pass, as scores of men and women dressed in white protective suits emerged in large, armored beige humvees that came from a sealed underground facility about 60 kilometers away. About 80 or so of them came to the epicenter of the blast where they saw a depression that was over two miles in diameter and hundreds of feet deep, and then they unanimously agreed on one fatal concept: the launch was a dud.

I posted this just for the sake of

a. just to share it, and

b. I'm looking for some constructive critcism. If it's lacking anything, what could it be? So far I've spent several minutes on my story just trying to make sure that this plot could sound somewhat accurate.

Sorry about the title. It seems like it would be the title to a Fall of Troy song it's so long and random... Anyways, I decided to wait until after church and stuffing myself to say happy Easter, so happy Easter everyone! Unfortunately all good things must come to and end...school starts again tomorrow. Ugh. On a slightly different note, (hope you don't mind if I borrow your idea elmo) I'd like to encouarge all of you to check out a good local band with three of my good friends in it called Strawberrier. They've bean jammin' mon for about a year now and they just played played their first real gig back on the 14th (they have live footage on their MySpace). Unfortunately, they haven't sold a record yet, but the way they're going, they probably will soon.

Also, here's a crazy good ska band that's from my school as well.

Blog Speaks For Itself...Hey Everyone, I'm back!! Again...

If you didn't get the prarie dog thing shame on you...naw j/k, this is what I meant.

Here are some of thie epic things I've accomplished since mid-January of this year:

-I tried skiing for the first time (up at Sierra Tahoe, sweet, SWEET place), I also got pwned down the slope by a n00b's sn0wb0rd.

-I played ambassador to several foreign kids as I had a foreign-exchange student from Costa Rica stay at my house for 10 days.

-I've finally gotten enough text messages that I have to constantly manually delete them every time I get new ones (my phone is 2.5 years old now).

-I won a $700 scholarship in a band competition.

-I have a 3.86 GPA right now, gotta work just a little bit harder.

-I've developed a liking for Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series (which is friggin' hilarious BTW)

-I turned 16 less than 2 weeks ago (3/11 is my b-day), which resulted in me having an insane house partay (thx for the help iliekmuffinz).

-I got Brawl for my birthday which pwns Galaxy, PWNS. I haven't played long enough to get any new unlocks though.

And today, I finally broke the 400K point barrier in GH3, I got 407K on Cherub Rock on expert. I've also gotten 100% on 2 songs on expert so I'm rolling along fine. The highest song I've passed is Knights of Cydonia, and the song after, Cult of Personality, has two of the trickiest solo sections in the game. I'm spending quite a bit of time on it on practice mode and I'm going to get there eventually. Also, I've been able to get 72% on TTFAF on expert, so I'll try it for real soon.

It's been a very long time (I think the first time this calendar year) that I've accessed my profile. Ever since AlexN was relieved of primary duties at GS and since they gave up on the unions, part of me gave up too... Sorry to hoop_hard and everyone at the NBA Union Site if it seemed like I had ditched you in a time of need, because I felt I had done so. I was caught up with other things, BUT, I don't have ADD so for those of you who think I do...

Oohhh pretty butterfly!

Tonight is going to be ridiculous. I live about 3 minutes away from where I go to school, I say this because tonight the Division II California High School Football State Championship game is going to be at school. Sooooo many people are going to be there. As for me, I was going to go with a huge group of friends but I got something else going on ...

Oh yeah, my profile views have now surmounted 7000. w00t!