Guitars, Stupidity, and Laughs

Recently, I have been doing a lot of really dumb things, that in retrospect I have been getting a kick out of. For example, I had to change a string on my new electric guitar for the first time. I looked at it for a while before deciding that I had to remove the entire back of the guitar to do so. I did that, and successfully changed the string. The next day, looking at the back of the guitar, I noticed a grill through which you can change the strings without utterly dismantling the guitar. Maybe that is a bit of an overstatement, as I only had to remove five screws and slide the back plate over, but all the same it was kinda funny. The insides of my guitar are really interesting though: (to me at any rate) there are three really big springs (for the whammy bar) some wires (...) and six slots for the strings to fit through. I might dismantle it again just to fool around with the insides... nah, probably not, I paid to much for my baby, but you get the gist of what I'm saying.

It Was Stupid Alright

I don't think I need to say anymore, but I will. I had the moderate comments on, and I hadn't given it my e-mail address. When I fooled around with Google help I figured out what I was doing wrong. I think that three comments vanished into cyberspace all the same, but I don't think that I will have that problem again. Sorry if yours was one of them.

Internet and Birthday Catastrophes

Well, this is indeed uncool. My dashboard says that I have 8 posts, and I can't see any of them. I am probably doing something really dumb with the settings or the template or some such nonsense. I am not an old know nothing when it comes to computers, I can program in C++, I have, in fact written my own (unbeatable due to some glitch) computer game that all my friends hated me for, network computers, and play games with great alacrity, but when it comes to the internet, I am toast. I recently printed off a page of html code lingo so that I could get the gist of what my template was doing, but it was still mostly lost to me... While I am listing all the bad things that ever happened to me, I might as well inform you all about all the catastrophes that my birthday party went through before it even happened: I was going to have an Age of Empires II fest with seven other kids wirelessly, but the network crashed and so the entire party has been reworked. Tomorow I am going to have a movie, and there are no good movie rental stores in Yemen, and there are no theaters unless you want to watch Indian kickboxing with Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and French subtitles (no english), so I asked several friends if they had any good movies they were willing to watch again, and it turns out that they have all been loaned off somewhere.

Random Recollections

Yesterday was kinda whacked: it was a random collection of lucky and unlucky events. Firstly, it was my birthday, and my school had school canceled for the Islamic new year, which was nice: I got to sleep in for the first time in several weeks that I got to sleep in. AP chemistry has been eating my weekend sleep for the past month now. The down sides were that I got sick and the computer deleted my latest in music composition. I started over, because I liked it, but it is going to take a while to get the mess back to its former "glory." I think I used a different beat, but I think the tune and chords are roughly the same. At any rate, I have AP chemistry tomorrow (bleuagh! Run in terror for your life! It is after you, and this time you have reason to be paranoid!) and youth group tonight, so I'm going to have to hype myself up on caffeine to survive all four hours of it tomorrow.

I borrowed a book called the Opal Deception from a friend of mine recently, fourth in the Artemis Fowl series (I'm not sure I spelled that correctly). At any rate, it is a good simple read, better if you need a laugh, but I would recommend that you get the first one first, because it is sort of a single long story: you need to know everything that went on beforehand to understand this book. The other books were just as good though, so don't worry if you really want to read this one but are terrified of having to slog through pages of dull future classics material.

I wanted this on the side bar really tall, and this looks horrible, but I'll leave it for now... 

Pingpong Problems

I have forgotten how to play pingpong. I switched styles from spinning with my backhand to slamming with my forehand, but that didn't work so well, and when I switched back to backhand, that didn't work so well either. The result was that I was completely wiped out by my friend when I played him.

The Edomites

while buzzing my friend Andrew's blog, I found a link to the Edomites, and in curiosity, I clicked it, only to get one of the best laughs of my life on their apparently half serious parody of the constitution of the US: the constitution of Christain Bloggers. If you need a good laugh, you should try it. I have the site linked, but just in case I change everything and forget to put it back in, it's http://www.edomites.blogspot.com

Commenting Success

I just tried posting a comment again, and the crazy thing worked. Here's to internet *quaffs an imaginary beer* the thing is nuts, but it sure can be some fun. (Untill Dad finds that you spent your afternoon blogging, playing online games, and reading when you should have been doing homework...) At anyrate, I am rather enjoying this blogging buisness, although I will probably drop it in two weeks or so just like almost every single last hobby I have ever had when I get bored of it...

Computer Musings

I have been using Google for a lot of things recently. Search engine, e-mail, blogging, etc., and they know what they are doing. It almost looks like they are preparing to take over the world: they are some sort of society that is run by some alien mastermind on pluto who knows humanity inside and out, and is running all other communication systems off of the net, so that when the aliens are ready to take over, all they have to do is crash all their programs and the world would be there for the taking. (I only sound paranoid and delusional, I am not really, I simply have an "over active imagination".) At any rate, whoever they are and what ever they are trying to do they certainly know their computers. I have recently had computer problems cleared up by their comprehensive help site which is so much better than Microsoft's that I have now officially given up on Microsoft's help system (which I have hated for years.)

They are not without their problems though, I can't post comments on other people's sites and at the moment, they can't post on mine, which ranks upwards of the top ten uncool things for my computer to do. It may have something to do with me being in a different country (Yemen for those of you unaware of my history and shortcomings), and it could be that I have some settings on my computer set too high or it could be some other plethera of problems, or it could be some combination of errors. It is amazing that computers work at all considering that they work in binary, and a single digit change can crash certain programs...