Spontaneous Scholar: daquell

But that is all behind us.

Whew, what a great ten days it was! In the past week and a half or so, we’ve almost squashed a dog, woke the neighbourhood screaming, set a time for my graduation, and on and on the list goes.

The dog we almost ran down is a very lucky beast. We were trolling down a state route in the van when here he comes barrelling out into our intersection. He missed being hit by a speeding car, dodging by only a few inches. He never saw the SUV… but then, it only rolled him around and didn’t run over him directly with a tyre. Evidently, the dog was in a lot of pain because he sat in the middle of the intersection and yelped. We slowed as we went through, which he took as a good opportunity to run under our vehicle. Of course we stopped, and mom opened the door to see where he was.

The dog was off-white, about the height of a small aquarium, and he smelled like he hadn’t been washed since he was born. I’ll refer to him as Charles. Anyway, Charles thrust himself up through the open door, over the gas-pedal (which took us for a little frightening ride), and down to lay at my feet. He just lay there, staring up at me with anguish. The van was full of kids (we were going to a local church function for kids), and naturally they all were yelling.

By this time, the person who had hit Charles had stopped and come over. He and a lady took the dog out of the car and we drove on to the church. I think Charles’ll do alright… I hope so, anyway. And perhaps he’ll come out of this a little wiser.

And a relevant, hands-on, real-world Valentine’s day (sorry, I keep getting college applications that say that their college is more relevant, hands-on and real-world than any other, so I figure that those adjectives are really good ones to use).

To compensate for the fact that I can’t give out Valentine’s day gifts over the internet… here’s some eye candy for everyone:

Forgive me for a little childish activity, but I only get one shot at being a kid. Therefore, I am glad to announce the finished audio-novel, The Boxcar Children - The Pizza Mystery. (note to licence owner… this isn’t being sold or distributed, it’s for personal use)

While the reading level of this book, or the series for that matter, are under my level, recording the book was an great deal of fun. If you ever want to learn how to manipulate sound files, edit voice recordings, or mix vocal and sound files, recording an audio book is a good place to start.

Thanks sis, for wasting endless amounts of time putting up with my antics and producing this book!

Pardon my obsession with the up-and-coming website that I’ve been feverishly working on, but today I was informed that it, my incomplete site, is at the top of Google’s page listing if you search for certain terms! I’m elated; Google usually puts sites on a backlog that takes months to even get a decent rating, and here I am with a top score! Parfaits all around!

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In the five minutes or so since I’ve published this, my site has been knocked down the Google chain to rest somewhere in the middle of the ranking page. Still, it’s there, which is more than I could say yesterday!

NITEGames - Google Search

Reading back through my blog, I realized than many of my posts were geared towards to future. As much as I hate it, my life seems to be following the same pattern that all youth go through… all people, for that matter, whether young or old. We start young and want to get older, and get old and wish to be younger. Even knowing that, I still want to be older.

There seem to be so many advantages to being a man, as opposed to ‘young man’, or youth, or whatever. As a young man, people tend to not trust you, they tend to misjudge your wisdom, and they often avoid you. Adults don’t seem to have this problem.

Ah well. It will come soon enough, and I’ll be on the other side of the fence looking back.

Continuing my ongoing posts on cake, I’ll comment on the special chocolate poundcake my older sister made tonight. It was rich, richer than can possibly be imagined. Actually, it even put cheesecake to shame.

What happened was actually a mistake. From what I can figure out, there were so many chocolate-chips in the batter that they prevented the mixture from fully cooking. The crust, on the other hand, baked mightily and hardened like a rock. After sawing through the rich outside, the gooey inside was too much temptation to resist… after two pieces, I’m never eating chocolate cake again… urgh.