Soccer and Spanish

HSU Soccer
Originally uploaded by CameronMagee

After class today I had two things on my ToDo list.

1. Study for my Spanish test.
2. Photograph rainy soccer.

I got out of class at noon, got some lunch, and hit the Spanish. Here's an hourly spread:

1pm-4pm - Spanish
4pm-5:45pm - Soccer
5:45pm - 6:30pm - Dinner
6:30pm - 11:45pm - Spanish

I had the song "Lazy Days" by Spanky & Our Gang stuck in my head all day. Anybody remember that song?? Pretty random.

This is the first test of the class, and my first Spanish test altogether. I didn't take Spanish in high school. They told me it would be useful for college, but I told them I wasn't going to college. Then I got the opportunity to go to college. Now I'm at college. Now I'm in Spanish. Now it's hard.

I should have taken it in high school. Oh well, as much as I had my nose in that book tonight, I feel fine for the test tomorrow.

I've started doing Twitter. Twitter is a nerd tool, a website that allows you to publish thoughts throughout the day, as often as you like. I typically use it as just lame "what am I doing right now" updates, which are then logged into Twitter's records, for me to look at in a few months as sort of a "history book" of what I did that day.

You can view my useless Twitter updates on the right side of the blog, a few inches from the top. I'll leave the poll from yesterday live for another 24hrs, and see what we get. Thanks for voting!

NYC Blogging

A month from today, I will be in New York City, and it will be Saint Patrick's Day. The entire city will be drinking, the bars will be packed, and hopefully all the tourists will be: packed into the bars and drinking.

This gives me the perfect opportunity to get some alone time to do what I want to do in the city. Since the only cool thing to do on March 17 is to drink, and I'll be one of the few who isn't cool, the cool places that I want to go will momentarily be un-cool for one night.

This will be the night to do whatever would normally have the longest lines. Such as... "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" or "The Empire State Building" or "The Statue of Liberty".

More importantly, this blog. I want to document the trip, and I want to document it really well. It's not everyday that I get to go to New York City, so I would like it to be in the History Books, (the blog archives) of what happened.

I've done a couple of different blog forms on here. Some people just post photos. Some people never post photos. Some people only do video blogs. I like them all, and pull different tools out of the blog toolbox for different jobs.

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Burger King LOL

After church today, Aubrey had a fever, and had no interest in eating lunch. The poor girl went back to her dorm and crawled into bed. Praise the LORD, she broke the fever late in the afternoon.

This left me hungry, thankful for my health, and lonely. I proceeded to stop at Burger King on my way to return our RedBox DVD.

The Burger King sign is advertising the company's new "Angry Whopper". [Laugh Out Loud]

It's about 11:30am, and there is hardly anybody in the dining area. I walk up to the counter, and put in my order. $4.54. I love America.

I begin to analyze the situation... thoroughly. We've got three employees behind the counter.

1. LOUD and CRAZY manager lady, on front counter.
2. 12yr old boy/girl mystery child, on drive-thru.
3. Un-ID-able kitchen man, cooking everything.

Clem pulls up to the drive in. They've got the whole headset system routed to some kitchen loudspeaker system. "not bad," I think "so the crew can hear... nice."

"GIMME TWO WHOPPERS, NO ONION, ADD MUSTARD"
Our 12yr old turns on her mic and "SCREEEEEEEECH" feedback goes nuts. Nobody even flinches, this has been happening for weeks. When they routed the drive-thru mic to these speaker things, they routed the headset mic too, resulting in immediate and un-avoidable feedback every time she turns the mic on. LOL

12yr - "SO YOU WANT TWO WHOPPAAAWS, NO ONION, ADD MUSTARD"
Clem - "NAW, MAKE IT ADD PICKLES TOO"

The 12yr old starts arguing with the customer, "you can't change it now, it's too late for that". She/He was serious. They wouldn't change it. LOL

A family with two kids pulls up. The manager turns to the cook, "I hope them kids ain't coming in here planning on playing and such".... "mmhmm". (I turn and see the playground is 'closed for repairs', and looks perfectly fine) LOL

I get my food. My fries were crazy cold, and tasted way too much like potatoes. They dropped some fresh ones. The fresh ones come up, and the manager reaches for the salt, when...

The phone rings. The manager picks up, "YEAH WHAT!?". LOL

She turns the salt upside down, and it begins POURING out of the shaker. She is on the phone, and has forgotten that her hand is upside down. The fries get salted for about 30secs straight. They sure don't taste like potatoes now. LOL

I finish eating. The food was really good, and I'm pleased with my dining experience. Fresh fries, a hot burger, and laugh after laugh of live entertainment. I've been in here 25mins. I stand up to leave, when...

The men's bathroom door opens, and out walks employee #4, making his first appearance of the day. He has been in the bathroom since before I entered the store, almost half an hour ago. I didn't even know he existed. LOL LOL LOL

I had a great lunch.

RedBox Movie Rentals

My friend Austin rents a lot of movies, and told me about RedBox DVD Rentals.

I'm not a movie renter. I'm a movie buyer.
I'm not a new-release buyer. I'm a used movie buyer.

Instead of pouring $4.50 into a movie rental, I go and buy a used DVD copy of it from a place like Game Exchange for $7.50. Sometimes I'll get lucky and find one for $5. I adopted this policy because it didn't make sense to sink $4 into a film, when for less than $8, I could own it.

RedBox has now begun to erode this principle of mine.

RedBox is a relatively new company, with a totally revolutionary way of renting DVDs. Instead of going to your local rental store and paying $4 for a movie, you go to a RedBox dispenser, and pay only $1 a night.

The dispensers are all over the place, because there is one at almost every major McDonalds in the country.

Aubrey and I have been wanting to try this new system out, because

a. We watch my same movies over and over, and
b. our friends have tried it, and it sounds pretty cool.

So, yesterday, we tried it. McDonalds had the giant ATM-like thing sitting outside. There were three people in line, us being the third, taking about 3mins each to get their DVDs. The process was quick and easy, and the selection of DVDs was shocking.

We got "Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist". Some love story that was supposed to be pretty good, from what we saw on the credits. It was horrible.

We didn't like the movie, but that's not RedBox's job. You can return the disc to any RedBox location, it doesn't have to be the one you got it from. (my favorite part of the whole deal). I returned the disc today right after lunch. The RedBox dispenser has this big red button that says, "Return a DVD". I hit that, slid my disc in, and walked away. Seven feet later my phone chirped. An email receipt from RedBox, that was quick.

RedBox is pretty cool. DVDs, for just a dollar a night.

Valentimes 2009!

For Valentine's Day, I have decided to shut up for once, and let the photos speak their "thousand words" that they're always bragging about. Enjoy the jumbo photos.

I tried to just rest the camera on my bed, on a timer. Didn't work too well. LOL

That's probably enough JUMBO photos for one entry. All couples photography by Taylor Loy. You can see the others, like always, on my Flickr page. The link is at the very top-right of the blog. Thank you for reading! I hope everyone had a Happy Valentine's Day!