my flick reviews

Hey again! Over this last week I posted on my Facebook page that I was working on a special project that did not involve school. I am now unveiling it and it is called "my flick reviews". It is a movie review blog that I am running and updating as new movies are released. You can share it with other people if you would like.You can also leave comments and opinions as much as you please. Each review comes with the background of the film, my review that includes pointing out any questionable content, and also a star rating with 5 being considered "a classic". This project is currently up and running but it is also still under construction as I add more to it. Hope you enjoy it and if you do please let me know so I will continue the work.

Camporee

Last weekend I took a trip to the Santa Fe dam for a camporee with scouting. I am pretty sure that I have explained what a camporee was before on my blog so I wont bother with what it is again but each on is usually themed and this one was Space Exploration themed, as you could earn the merit badge there (which I did). Vince and I only went this time, as Simon went with dad on another camping trip with cub scouts about 30 minutes from where I was. That was actually Simon's first camping trip with scouting.

After going through the days competition, my patrol got together and a few of us started to cook dinner. One of the scouts (I don't think anyone figured who did it) screwed in the hose that attached the camping stove and propane tank together. After seeing that it was hooked up, the propane was turned on as I helped a new scout lite the stove since the built-in ignitor does not work (they never do). As soon as the lighter had its flame close to the stove, FFFWHOOOOSH! Almost instantly a huge geyser of fire appeared from a connection between the hose and stove and probably burnt some of my arm hairs off. Everyone scattered and panicked as I yelled to turn of the gas and I found a fire extinguisher and gave it a little squirt and it was out (I have never had to use one, but apparently I know how.) Everything on the small table was covered in white dust but no damage was done. The connection may have been fine, but there may have been a hole in the hose, so it will be inspected for a problem.

Later that night, the whole camporee regrouped and did some trivia questions as well as watching a movie called "October Sky" on a projector. The substitute would have been "Apollo 13" but in my opinion "October Sky" is a way better movie. Plus I have seen "Apollo 13" quite a few time now but that was my first time seeing "October Sky".

On Sunday we packed up camp quickly and headed to a different part of the dam that had an open space to launch small rockets for part of the merit badge. There were rockets of all different powers, shapes, and sizes. Noticeable ones included an X-Wing and also...... a portable restroom rocket.

Toy Story 3 Trailer

It looks so much different now! The humans are so lifelike! I've seen the first movie like 1 bazillion times and this looks a lot better in animation than the first 2.

Update

I have not mentioned this yet but I got a job!!! I'm not going to post on here exactly what or where it is but I am going to say a few things about the retail job. Today was actually my first working day so I got to stock the sales floor tidy things up, help customers and even use a cash register a few times!

My new excuse for no blog posts of any kind have been directly a problem with my laptop but actually the power cord. Bad cord=no power=no laptop use=no blog posts. I bought a new one about a week ago and received a few days ago and everything seems to be fine now.

In the time gap of my recent blog posts I have also not talked about 2 major recent events. The first one is about Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize. I don't get why in the world they gave him it when there are so many more people that deserve it waaaaaaay more than he does. He can say all the peace loving stuff he wants to do but it does not mean it will happen. If I got to choose who got it I would actually choose the creators of the "Invisible Children" movies. They have done a lot of promoting to stop war and is really a good organization that has a lot of respect from notable figures.


The second major event that has happened is NASA bombing the moon. It sounds like a big waste of money to me but whatever. Before this event happened or was even really known about to the public there was a Christian band called "We Shot The Moon". I just find that a little funny because we now actually did "shoot" the moon! Here is a creative video by the band of their best song "Sway Your Head".If at this point you are starting to wonder if I can relate anything to music, why yes, yes I can.


Tomorrow should be a cloudy cold day followed by the first rain of the season later this week. I am also selling popcorn as a Scout fundraiser tomorrow in front of a store, which I am pretty sure that it was raining last year when I did this. Also on the topic of scouts is the choice of my last two merit badges I will most likley be taking. They will be Photography and Computers, the computer one looks fairly easy as the requirements look pretty much like what I am already doing in my college class. After the 2 badges I can go in for an Eagle Board for a palm, that is not exactly a rank higher but something to add on to the Eagle Rank. After that my time in scouting will be up, although I am not 18 yet. I will still be helping out every now and then and going to Vince's award ceremonies and such but I will not be an active member when I am done.

This week looks like its going to be a good one and I even have a work night in there too! You can expect some more blogging from me soon and also you can check up on http://heyyoulookatthesepictures.blogspot.com for some of my creative updates.

Aglet

I lost an aglet on my shoe today...........

Nelson, Hawk

On this last Tuesday I backed up all of my laptop files and then reset it to factory settings because a stupid virus had somehow found its way on Hawk Nelson(the laptop's name) and infected any Internet browser I tried to open. Everything is fine with Hawk Nelson now though and the files are all back on and I can continue blogging. Unfortunately as I said in the previous post that I could take pictures again because the camera was fixed, but it ran out of batteries and now I am out until I pick up some more so the pic blog is still on hold.


On that same Tuesday that I had fixed my laptop, one of my favorite bands named Hawk Nelson (what the computer is named after) came out with a new CD called "Live Life Loud". My laptop is actually named after the band because so many people get it confused as someones name, even to the point of the band putting out shirts saying "Hawk Nelson is my friend".

I decided to go to my local Best Buy since it seemed to have the lowest price in the area for it. As I looked under the new releases I found that it was not there or under the Hawk Nelson nameplate that had their other albums in that spot There was even a sale tag for the new album sticking out of the shelf. Finding nothing, I asked an employee if he knew if there were any in stock. He checked and found about 5 copies but as he even searched himself he could not find the album anywhere, even in the Christian music area. After he gave up on looking for about 7 minutes, I was about to leave when I had one last idea. I looked under the H section and then followed by the word Nelson. Sure enough, I found that 5 copies of the new CD had been placed under Nelson, Hawk as if it were someones name. I found this very amusing but I still took all the copies and the nameplate and stuck it were the sale tag was under Hawk Nelson. I also got to leave the store with that CD which I can say is pretty awesome and I like the whole 3D cover idea!

Camera is fixed!!!!

Hey there! I just accidentally fixed my digital camera today so now I will try to get my other blog of pictures back up again soon. After having my lens come out of the camera and then back in again saying that there was a "lens error". Frustrated I grabbed the lens when it was sticking out and twisted it slightly and apparently that fixed the problem because it started working immediately after that. That just saved a bunch of $$$ on repairs!


In other news in my life I helped drain the pool in the backyard today and make the ants VERY, VERY, VERY MAD! Also it got so breezy today I got to wear a long sleeved shirt, yay for fall! I'm also going to Disneyland tomorrow to celebrate Annabel's b-day which should be not very crowded since pretty much every school in the area is back in session and Summer is ending. Should be able to get a bunch of rides/shows in and probably fireworks! On yet another off-topic topic, I will be recording and putting up the Tenth Avenue North Cover up soon, I just need to get around to it.