News (5/14/07)

Not much happened today. I found out that the five car pile-up I blogged two days earlier wasn’t really that bad. There were no major injuries, only a few minor ones.

Also, Happy Belated Mother’s Day!!! Yesterday, we also didn’t do much, however we did go to the Olive garden for dinner. That was a real treat. The entire family stuffed ourselves full of bread sticks (with Alfredo sauce!) and salad. By the time the food came we were completely utterly stuffed. We left the restaurant with a shopping bag of food.

Another note, this Wednesday I’ll be helping with the 5th grade orientation at the Middle School. We’ll be giving tours and just talking. Unfortunately, we’re not allowed to tell horror stories. Aw…

MASSIVE Car Accident!

Holy Crap!!! There was a massive 5 car pile-up on the highway behind my house today! One of the cars flipped!

Wow. I was outside, mowing the lawn, when I heard this loud screech, like when a car is going very fast, and then I heard it skid. Right after that came this huge bang/smashing noise. My brother and I went to the backyard and, using a ladder, climbed on top of the wall. From there we had an OK view of the 5 cars. Ouch. It was painful to look at. Anyway, as we watched, 2 ambulances, 3 firetrucks, and 5 police cars came up to the scene. At this time, traffic was backed up about two miles.

The collision had repercussions. The entire area around the Middle School was bumper to bumper since nobody could use the highway.

Anyway, this isn’t the first time it’s happened. Usually, however, the person in the accident simply busts a tire or bumper. In this case, however, somebody was going way too fast and hit other cars.

From what I can see, the strip of highway is an invitation to speeders. It’s basically a straight strip of highway, like a drag strip — no turns, bridges, exits — and therefore you can drive at high speeds for miles. As you can see, that is not a good situation.

Sorry + News

I haven’t posted in a while, sorry! I kind of forgot about this thing so I’m going to try to post more often from now on.

Anyway, not much has happened lately. I got Pokemon Diamond a couple days ago and have been playing that non-stop. Its not very innovative, much like the previous “real” Pokemon games, but the new Pokemon do add to the fun.

I’ve also been playing a lot of Pokemon Blue Mystery Dungeon. Very difficult. It takes some 2000 experience points to get your guys up a level. I’ve really just been testing the starters, trying to find one that suits me best.

On a different note, there was a massive five(5) car pile-up on the highway behind my house. I didn’t see it happening but I heard the car skid. From what I saw the highway was backed up two(2) or three(3) miles. Ouch!

Well that’s about it! I’m going to go on a posting spree so stay tuned!

Stock Market Simulation – Spring Session

Well, the deadline for the Democrat and Chronicle Stock Market Simulation (SMS) is set for February 16. Trading dates will be from the 2nd of March to the 17th of may. The SMS is an excellent opportunity to learn about the Stock Market and is a lot of fun.
Some features of the SMS:

• A program that fits your class schedule
• Make trades via Internet or Fax to a toll-free number
• Statewide competitions
• Great learning opportunity and teaching tool

Happy New Years!

Happy New Years!!!

To celebrate the New Year a Jack Sparrow unit was released for Civ 3 on the Civ Fanatics forums, get it here.

Jack Sparrow: Parleley, parlelellyleloooo, par le nee, partner, par… snip, parsley…
Ragetti: Parley?
Jack Sparrow: That’s the one. Parley. Parley.
Pintel: Parley? Damn to the depths whatever man what thought of “Parley”.
Jack Sparrow: That would be the French.

[Before Jack steals the Interceptor]
Norrington: That is, without doubt, the worst pirate I’ve ever seen.

Mullroy: What’s your purpose in Port Royal, Mr. Smith?
Murtogg: Yeah, and no lies.
Jack Sparrow: Well, then, I confess, it is my intention to commandeer one of these ships, pick up a crew in Tortuga, raid, pillage, plunder and otherwise pilfer my weasely black guts out.
Murtogg: I said no lies.
Mullroy: I think he’s telling the truth.
Murtogg: If he were telling the truth, he wouldn’t have told us.
Jack Sparrow: Unless, of course, he knew you wouldn’t believe the truth even if he told it to you.

Casualties Exceed 9/11

As of December 26, 2006 the death count in Iraq has, finally, exceeded the amount of deaths in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. As of today, there have been 2978 deaths, just five more than those killed in the terrorist acts on 9/11 in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

Of course, this does not mean that Bush (curse you) will remove U.S. troops from Iraq. What are we waiting for?! The 123222 casualties to equal World War 1? Or are we going to wait for the 415522 casualties to make this equal to World War 2? Hey! How ’bout this! Let’s leave the troops in Iraq until we obtain the 617025 casualties to equal the Civil War (American)! Isn’t that the bloodiest war in American history? It’ll be monumental!

But I digress. Point is, when is Bush, the Bush Administration, as well as the military officials here in the U.S. going to realize that the war isn’t worth it. How do we know that Iraq was behind 9/11? If Bush wants to combat terrorists then he can attack known terrorist groups and, most likely, get us bombed all over again.

Info from Yahoo news: here.