Domo and The Kid's Grand Escapades, Pt. 1
12/02/08 04:00 PM Filed in: Stories
Jenna got me Domo for
Christmas (yes, we did Christmas early this year at
my house), so I decided to take him around with me to
my classes and such.
Since Jenna has also granted me permission to guest post on her blog on the second of every month (in correlation with the fact that my birthday is on the second of November, I guess), and since today is the second of the month, I decided to photograph Domo’s and my adventures and blog about them for my post. You can view the first two chapters of our many escapades HERE :).
Since Jenna has also granted me permission to guest post on her blog on the second of every month (in correlation with the fact that my birthday is on the second of November, I guess), and since today is the second of the month, I decided to photograph Domo’s and my adventures and blog about them for my post. You can view the first two chapters of our many escapades HERE :).
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In Which I Hack Jenna's Blog
11/21/08 08:19 PM Filed in: Stories
Current Status: Causing
Mischief!
That’s right, folks. Ashley and I took Jenna’s blog hostage. After hacking her account, we decided we would write a blog post (from her perspective) while she and Joey were in the car on their way to Iowa. After doing some preliminary research (i.e. reading old blog articles by her, stealing perviously used pictures of Henry, thinking up stories Jenna would tell, etc.), we recalled her aforementioned affection for the cows near the Kansas Turnpike. This was our target.
That’s right, folks. Ashley and I took Jenna’s blog hostage. After hacking her account, we decided we would write a blog post (from her perspective) while she and Joey were in the car on their way to Iowa. After doing some preliminary research (i.e. reading old blog articles by her, stealing perviously used pictures of Henry, thinking up stories Jenna would tell, etc.), we recalled her aforementioned affection for the cows near the Kansas Turnpike. This was our target.
That’s
right, Jenna. We’re both on your blog right now!
We sat on the Grandparent’s couch and hammered out a
post for JennaWoestman.com in less than thirty
minutes.
Our soon to be infamous blog post is
HERE!
Crazy 8s! (Jenna Made Me Do This ...)
11/13/08 12:26 PM Filed in: Indiscriminate
It appears as though
I’ve been randomly selected to do one of these survey
things by none other than my annoying sister, Jenna.
Alright, here goes nothing. (After reviewing this, I
realized Jenna and I wrote the same thing before
starting ... That was not intended and has officially
creeped me out.)
8 TV Show I Love to Watch:
And I’m not tagging anyone else in this. Just because I don’t feel like it :).
8 TV Show I Love to Watch:
- The Simpsons
- The Office
- Arrested Development
- Lost
- 30 Rock
- Family Guy
- Gilmore Girls
- Stella
- Panda Express
- Red Robin
- Panera Bread
- Chipotle
- Cheesecake Factory
- Fazoli’s
- Zio Johnos
- Pizza Hut
- Kicked a Java exam in the butt
- Had a Caramel Latte
- Went to chapel
- Blogged about my free coffee from Dr. Miller
- Ate lunch
- Discussed plans for Dave and I’s movie
- Went to work
- Watched The Office
- Graduation
- Passing Calculus
- Moving back to Iowa
- Getting a full time job
- Listening to music
- Dave and I’s movie
- Turkey Break
- Christmas Break
- Working on a project that changes the way we use technology
- Working with the youth at my church
- Making a difference in a High Schoolers life
- Working for Apple or Google
- Being arrested for something I didn’t do. Just because the experience would be sweet, but I don’t actually want to break the law.
- Going to a Coldplay or U2 concert
- To be an Uncle
- The dress code to be dropped (or at least significantly lessened) at Cedarville
And I’m not tagging anyone else in this. Just because I don’t feel like it :).
My Claim to Fame
11/08/08 10:09 PM Filed in: Indiscriminate
So, today I posted on
Jenna’s blog. It was my very first guest appearance,
and it was pretty great. She totally doesn’t even
know what I wrote yet, which is the best part. (It
pays to know your sister’s password, I tell you
what.)
Don’t worry ... I was actually doing her a favor, since she needs to post every single day during the month of November to be eligible for something thing. I noticed she hadn’t posted yet today, so I posted for her. It’s as easy as that.
Here’s my post.
Don’t worry ... I was actually doing her a favor, since she needs to post every single day during the month of November to be eligible for something thing. I noticed she hadn’t posted yet today, so I posted for her. It’s as easy as that.
Here’s my post.
Cedar Monster
This afternoon, as
Caitlin, Moses, and I sat down to Lunch in Chuck's,
something outside the large glass windows caught our
attention. Something was swimming in the waters of
Cedar Lake. From our perch on high, it was hard to
make out exactly what it was; to me, it appeared as
though it was a snake swimming in the water, sticking
it's head above the surface every few minutes, just
to look around. Moses admitted that she had seen it a
day prior.
The "thing" appeared to have glossy rubbery skin that was difficult to look at because of the suns bright reflection off it. I guessed that it was black, or at least very dark gray. When it first caught our attention, I thought it was a piece of plastic bobbing in the water, floating to the surface every once in a while. But Moses told me she had seen it on the other side of the lake yesterday and earlier that day. After watching it slither (or so it appeared) through the water, I was next convinced that it was a snake. This assertion made Moses angry, because she kept pounding her fist on the table insisting "it has a fin!" Finally, we realized from our far away position, behind glass, we weren't going to be able to figure out what it was. We decided to clean up our dishes and go down to the water to check it out.
We strolled out of the SSC and up to the water's edge at about the same time that Alberto (henceforth referred to as Bertrude) arrived on the scene. He threw his bike on the ground and joined us lakeside. We all stood there for quite some time observing the finned creature; Moses was right. It was no snake. It certainly had both a fin at it's "rear side" and along the top of it. It looked like a shark, I now thought. Quite honestly, it was about the size of a baby shark. Bertrude made an offhand and completely illegitimate claim that the monster was some type of "carpe." What does he know.
We had three major suspicions. Either it's a baby shark, a dolphin, or the Loch Ness monster. Our only doubt was that we weren't sure if the Loch Ness monster had a fin on it's back or not. Upon consultation of a far more reputable source, Jenna Woestman, we learned that "the Loch Ness monster could have a fin. It pretty much looks like whatever people want it to look like when they think they see it."
I still think it's a baby shark. No matter what it is, consider yourselves warned ... the Cedar Monster lives in Cedar Lake, and it actually ate Bertrude while we were there (may he rest in pieces in it's tummy). Clearly, this must be the cause of the apparent "climate of fear" on our campus, because I can't think of anything else that would be causing it.
At one point as we stood on the grass beside the lake, a group of four girls was walking by on the sidewalk behind us as we stared in awe (crossing ourselves after Bertrude had been eaten). One of the girls said to the others, "Look at the size of that thing! What is that? A fish?" I turned around and looked at the group. "It's not a fish. It's a shark." One of the girls got such a terrified expression on her face that I nearly felt bad for saying it.
The "thing" appeared to have glossy rubbery skin that was difficult to look at because of the suns bright reflection off it. I guessed that it was black, or at least very dark gray. When it first caught our attention, I thought it was a piece of plastic bobbing in the water, floating to the surface every once in a while. But Moses told me she had seen it on the other side of the lake yesterday and earlier that day. After watching it slither (or so it appeared) through the water, I was next convinced that it was a snake. This assertion made Moses angry, because she kept pounding her fist on the table insisting "it has a fin!" Finally, we realized from our far away position, behind glass, we weren't going to be able to figure out what it was. We decided to clean up our dishes and go down to the water to check it out.
We strolled out of the SSC and up to the water's edge at about the same time that Alberto (henceforth referred to as Bertrude) arrived on the scene. He threw his bike on the ground and joined us lakeside. We all stood there for quite some time observing the finned creature; Moses was right. It was no snake. It certainly had both a fin at it's "rear side" and along the top of it. It looked like a shark, I now thought. Quite honestly, it was about the size of a baby shark. Bertrude made an offhand and completely illegitimate claim that the monster was some type of "carpe." What does he know.
We had three major suspicions. Either it's a baby shark, a dolphin, or the Loch Ness monster. Our only doubt was that we weren't sure if the Loch Ness monster had a fin on it's back or not. Upon consultation of a far more reputable source, Jenna Woestman, we learned that "the Loch Ness monster could have a fin. It pretty much looks like whatever people want it to look like when they think they see it."
I still think it's a baby shark. No matter what it is, consider yourselves warned ... the Cedar Monster lives in Cedar Lake, and it actually ate Bertrude while we were there (may he rest in pieces in it's tummy). Clearly, this must be the cause of the apparent "climate of fear" on our campus, because I can't think of anything else that would be causing it.
At one point as we stood on the grass beside the lake, a group of four girls was walking by on the sidewalk behind us as we stared in awe (crossing ourselves after Bertrude had been eaten). One of the girls said to the others, "Look at the size of that thing! What is that? A fish?" I turned around and looked at the group. "It's not a fish. It's a shark." One of the girls got such a terrified expression on her face that I nearly felt bad for saying it.
Site Stats
04/21/08 11:04 AM Filed in: Indiscriminate
I thought it would be
interesting to report the site statistics since
relaunching AlexLaird.net (finally) on February 17th,
2008 with a new look and feel. I also switched
servers on my blog, instead of hosting via blogger at
blogspot.alexlaird.net, the blog is now hosted
via Surpass Hosting
(as is the rest of
my site) and managed directly by ... Myself :D. No
more limits! I can do whatever I want with it now.
Two whole months have elapsed, and I finally got around to checking my site meter. Here are the fancy-pants statistics.
That's all for now. Thanks to all the viewers of the site and readers of the blog in just these two short months! Hopefully I'll be able to post more when school's out and beautiful Summer has set in!
On a final note, if you use Google Reader or some such subscription service to view this blog, the name of the blog may still appear as "Define 'Cool'" when, in actuality, I have changed the name to "Alex's Musings." You may have to rename it manually since some RSS readers update only post feeds and not the name of the feed.
Two whole months have elapsed, and I finally got around to checking my site meter. Here are the fancy-pants statistics.
- There have been over 2,500 unique page visits to AlexLaird.net/blog. Even more have read from the Feed, so that would be all you faithful Facebookers and Google Readers out there who read it the lame way without actually visiting my site.
- Surprisingly, over 6% of these visit last longer than an hour!
- Over 400 of these hits come from Cedarville University's campus. There also appears to be a large cluster of readers in Virginia State, San Fransisco, Germany, Australia, Canada (sorry about that one post, guys ...), and Amsterdam. I don't know how I acquired such a reader group, but thanks for showing interest.
- I'm proud to report that 40% of my visitors view this site with a Mac. Only 38% use Windows, and, sadly, only 0.2% have viewed while on Linux.
- Still, and going to show that Safari is not the most popular browser on Mac, only 27.4% of you Mac users are using Safari. 31.8% of visitors use Internet Explorer.
- The largest amount of Search Engine references for me comes from, you guessed it, Google!
- From other sites, Jenna is my biggest supporter :). I get the most referrals from her blog. I also get quite a few viewers from Ben Berberich's blog, Facebook (both Notes and on my Profile), and Ashley's blog.
That's all for now. Thanks to all the viewers of the site and readers of the blog in just these two short months! Hopefully I'll be able to post more when school's out and beautiful Summer has set in!
On a final note, if you use Google Reader or some such subscription service to view this blog, the name of the blog may still appear as "Define 'Cool'" when, in actuality, I have changed the name to "Alex's Musings." You may have to rename it manually since some RSS readers update only post feeds and not the name of the feed.
Vote for Me
04/09/08 11:09 AM Filed in: Indiscriminate
Nah, I'm not running
for any political office here at Cedarville. However,
I am currently attempting to get more votes than
Barack Obama and John McCain (I'm not even worried
about Hillary) on a poll, so you should go vote for
me! It'll take two seconds.
Just click here and cast your vote on the right! That's all there is to it :).
Just click here and cast your vote on the right! That's all there is to it :).
The Day That Bites
10/30/07 04:14 PM
It was all going good
and well until approximately 5 o-clock. We had even
attained FREE Tacos from Taco Bell (thanks to the Red
Sox doing something cool relating to Baseball and the
World Series ... whatever)!! However, when we were on
our way to the SSC, on our way to Chucks to stuff
ourselves even more (welcome to America), we saw a
LLAMA!!!! TWO llamas, actually. In front of the DMC.
We were amazed, so we took a picture.
We continued our journey to the SSC
to eat. Upon arriving at the SSC, we saw ANOTHER
LLAMA!!! I think it's a rare event to even see one
llama in or around a building in one day, but today
we saw THREE. And this final llama was actually IN
the SSC!! I whipped out my camera again and started
taking pictures.
Don't get me wrong, these llamas
were amazing. I loved seeing them in all of their
beauty. The part that bites is that Jenna is still
grounded from me, so I couldn't immediately send the
pictures to her and call her and tell her about my
rare sitings!!
This is the worst day ever ...