Notes of News

Wal-Mart Trip..

So wandering around Walmart the other night my roommates and I stumbled across a sad example of just how feeble american people can be. The picture on the right is a "water purifying straw". and if you can't read the instructions on the right let me just sum them up here:

     1. collect water from safe water source

     2. clean water by boiling it

     3. Drink water. Straw filters out debris and     

          improves taste

Anyone see anything wrong here? First off the water comes from an already 'safe source' than becomes purified from boiling. So what does the straw actually do?! The companies also soon to be sued, as there is no comment about letting the water cool down first.. pathetically embarrassing.

 Props for trying soo hard

So one of my roommates (Bo) tried ambushing me the other day with one of his nerf guns. after dodging the first three I realized he wasn't coming close enough to me to even have to dodge so I didn't. Wasn't until 5 shots later that he was actually able to hit me while standing almost five feet away! Needless to say 1 in 8 is not a great batting record. Atleast he has all year to improve :)

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Math isn't everyone's thing

While interviewing a kid he decided to try to tell me how many points his team had in the potscrub game they were currently playing and this was his attempt...

"well we have 3 frying pans and we get 50 for each so.. 50 and 50.. lets see.. drop the zero 5 and 5 is ten and they get kicked over by the big guy on the end so.. WE HAVE 100.. then there's another 50.. big guy on the end hogs the space.. 5 and 1.. SO WE HAVE 600 POINTS!"

I thought about helping.. but he was trying so hard and it was kind of cute, so I just let it slide.

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 So.. The other night Ben, Kyle, and I were just sitting in bed talking around 11pm when Kyle decided to attempt to tell a joke. Being the person I am I thought it would be funny to just start laughing WAY before he got to the punch line just to be funny so right after Kyle had started saying, "so there was this one guy" I just started hysterically laughing. Surprisingly enough Ben started doing the same thing at the exact same instant, which of course caught me by extreme surprise so I started laughing for real. It was only 4 minutes later, when Ben and I finally were able to breathe enough to speak that we realized we were laughing about two completely different things. Apparently, according to Ben, Kyle started his joke with a 'female like' voice. This, naturally caused us to start laughing again all the while Kyle was completely lost! Oh good times!!

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 So after finally wanting to get a group of guys together to play ultimate frisbee my RA did it himself. We got a few guys from our dorm as well as some from another dorm and, after politely asking about 15 girls to move their sun tanning somewhere else, we were playing one good game out on the center campus field. We had a few trees in the way but we didn't think they'd cause that much of a problem... boy were we wrong! After a very nice full field throw from one of frisbee club members one of my teammates ran off to catch it. Unfortunately he was paying to much attention to the frisbee and less about the 7 foot tree standing ever so peacefully in his route. after a few of us yelled tree, just before the collision, he ran smack into the tree and instead of just somersaulting over it, he actually grabbed the trunk and did more of a flip over it. Needless to say the tree stood erect with only a slight tilt indicating the event while the human body laying on the ground had little red lines all over his stomach from the branches. After running to see if he was ok, which he was, we were all bent over in hysterical laughter! That's some dedication!

 So... I had just gotten out of Symphonic Band and was heading out the door when older lady and, what looked like, her son stopped and asked how to outside to the parking lot. Maybe it's just me but, that sounded like a really dumb question seeing how there was a door on both ends of the hall. so.. somewhat stunned by the, what seemed to be, idiotic question I answered... "Well, there's you could use the door at the end of the hall?" Sadly enough she didn't angry at my somewhat obvious answer, but instead just said, "oh ok thanks!"

I never would have thought that exiting a building via this apparently new invention called the door would have been such a hard thing to grasp.

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 So though the main event of this particular weekend should've been the 2nd Colts audition, it definitely wasn't! Almost 25 minutes away from Dubuque my dad and I see two cop cars, literally, fly by us going what seemed to be at least twice our speed of 70mph. After traveling another 5-10 minutes we came up, to what seemed to be, the incident in which they were traveling to, because of the stand still traffic. Being somewhat in a hurry and having a side road right by us we decided we might as well see if we could go around it and, if anything at least see what's going on. we traveled a short distance to the top of the hill when we came about to the first set of police cars which gave us a perfect seat to watch the interestingly unexpected scene unfold. There were 10 police cars lighting up the highway, and around 4-5 police men with a range of shotguns and fully automatic rifles pointed at the drivers seat  of the car leading the parade. My dad was a little anxious to turn around, however I was definitely wanting to stay and watch. Though I know it wouldn't have been fun to see someone get shot at the moment, I really wanted to see it happen for bragging purposes. Though to my disappointment it didn't happen. On the way home from the Colts camp my dad informed me that this incident was the successful arrest of a serial killer from Colorado, that had been tracked across the states. Give it up to those still fighting for justice!! I'm lucky to know one personally, of whom I have a very high level respect and admiration for!! He's definitely my favorite cousin of all time!!

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 So this is less of a story and more of a warning to those technologically advanced souls. Though you may feel texting is vital to your existence so is not falling downing stairs, which contains side effects such as bloody noses, broken faces, black eyes, and in some rare instances death. As I was texting I was confronted with this new thing 'not to do'. After making it down 2 flights of stairs while texting I thought I was good, but apparently those last few steps had something else in mind. After feeling like I had reached the bottom I took another step! The floor was mysteriously not where it was suppose to be. after stumbling down the last two steps and luckily threw my hands out to refrain the wall from inflicting it's wrath upon me. Lucky for me, for the first time in a while, I did something embarrassing without anyone there to witness the scene!

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 Just a example of what our director was probably thinking as he listened to the playback

 RECORDING ANNOYANCES!!

so... we've been recording our marching band shows for the last month. last week was the last one of the season (which is a good thing). After working for about an hour people, apparently, started getting a little crazy. While recording one of the drum line cadences we ended right on cue when someone, not calling any names Swope, yelled the vocal at the end even after our director had told us not to. However the best thing about it was the way he did it. HUUUUUha!! Later on while recording another song another drumline member decided to join in the disruption. We were all playing..and playing.. and playing.. and than the cut off... CRASH!! followed by laughter through out the band. Needless to say some how we got everything done that we needed to, even after taking multiple re-recordings because of mishaps!