Paul’s Blogging

As you may have noticed, I haven’t blogged in a good long time.

Why? Well, as I usually say, I’ve been busy….. very busy.

So, I’m going to give you a quick update on what I have and will be doing.

I lost my wallet…..

This is a big problem.

Contents of wallet:

License/photo ID

Credit-card

Social-security-card

Important business-cards

Library-card

Money/Cash

Without my photo ID, I can’t go to college, ha, sorta makes sense.

Without my credit card I can’t really buy anything (thank goodness I at least have my checkbook).

Not having my social security card is ……not cool……

I need the phone numbers off of some of those business-cards (I know, I should have programmed their numbers in my blackberry).

Library-card…. I haven’t been there in fr’ever so who cares.

Cash…. I need that monies.

I’ve looked high and low for that thing…. but still, nothing comes up.

So, it looks like I’ll have to call the bank for another bank-card, call the local social security office for another social security card, take my passport into the DMV, and…. there’s not much more I can do for the rest of the stuff.

Moving on….

My grandpa came from AK and stayed with us a few days; it was great to see him. He is a very talented musician. While he was here, he taught us how to play different songs on our keyboard and broken guitars. It was a lot of fun because we were all making sense… that is, the music actually sounded….. good. Guitar is great but nothing beats the bass. I’ve always wanted a bass; it’s one of the two instruments I’ve *always* wanted to play (the other being the drums), ha. By the way I played the guitar, we could sorta tell that the bass was in fact the instrument for me. Sooooo…. we went out and I bought a bass……

Yep, that’s right, I bought a 5 string Ibanez GSR205, an excellent bass!

It’s a candy-apple-red with black accent wood grains. It plays so smooth… man, it’s awesome. I bought my bass on 06/26/08 – so…. Tuesday.

:D

After buying it, we all went back home. Levi jumped on the piano, Luke – the guitar, Grandpa – my guitar and I sat down with my new bass …oh, and Julie had the other little guitar. Wow, that was fun. We were all playing together and it sounded really good. Grandpa showed each of us our rolls for certain songs and we all sorta “found the beat”.

We played:

Pink Panther

Songs About Rainbows/Rainbow connection

Golden Eye theme song

And a few more

In the last 3 days, I’ve learned how to play the Mario theme song (fun), LOTR theme song, My City Was Gone, And I’m working on a few more. I’ve been practicing a lot. It is by far the coolest instrument. Any of you play bass? What songs have good bass solos? Any suggestions?

Here are some pictures:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That is a nice bass!

Look at its color!

 

See the black wood grain?

I love the perspective and lighting on this one.

 

 

 

 

 

Hello…..

 

For all you camera geeks out there criticizing my camera…… you’re right, your cell camera is probably better. :D

 

 

Good brand.

 

Look here:

http://www.ibanez.com/BASS/guitar.aspx?m=GSR205

 

 

Thanks Grandpa for helping me pick out the perfect bass.

 

It’s Grandpa!

 

 

And now for some random pictures:

 

 

Luke props her up like that…. so funny……..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And that’s it!

 

Later!

 

 

 

Ok, so here I am blogging again.

Thanks for your comments; as you’ve seen from my posts, I’ve been really busy and unfortunately, I haven’t had time to reply to any of them. But yes Jake, I’ll be blogging about my new (used, but new to me) laptop a little here and more in a later post.

Anyhow, we got back from our FL trip on the 9^th, had Mom’s birthday on the 10^th (like I blogged), and left for IN on, I think, the 11^th. So, everything was pretty busy. Right before we left from FL, this artist drew a cartoon version of the kids. And this is what we got…

LUKE

 

LEVI (Beav)

 

JULIA

 

 

Haha, pretty funny… scary…weird…

I really like FL. It’s on of my favorite states.

Anyhow, onto the IN trip…

Like I said, we left somewhere around the 11^th for IN. We went to meet with some new TOS staff and we also got to see the Dixons (YAY)! We had only enough time to meet up for a few hours. So we chose to meet somewhere, where we could catch a WiFi signal (I was going to help Amanda customize a laptop from Dell so we needed to be online) like, Panera! Although we love Panera, after walking in, we quickly realized that this was not the place for a party of 16 to eat. Ha, the place was jam packed. Bummersville… Quickly thinking of a solution, err, better said, an alternative, I suggested we all eat at BestBuy! :P They got, like, bubble gum… and chips, …right? But alas, after a bit of confusion, the group settled on the idea of driving over to Olive Garden and seeing how long the wait would be. Amazingly, they quoted a 15 minute wait which turned out to be a convenient 3 minute wait. Oh, and by the way, this was right around lunch time (1:00pm or so). I, wondering what was wrong with their food to produce such a void of customers (the place was pretty empty), decided to secure a mint from their front podium thing, just in case.

Whipping out my laptop, I quickly learned that my charger obviously hadn’t been working, for my battery was as low as my expectations for this restaurant. And to top it off, there were no WiFi’s within range anyhow. Feeling a bit irritated (this was the laptop I had inherited, which I will blog about in the next entry), I quickly closed it up and made my attempt to socialize with the group, only to feel a weird sensation within my nose… Assuming I had somehow instantly caught a cold which was making my nose run, I made my way to the bathroom… *Ahem* luckily, I had no cold; unfortunately, I had a slight bloody nose. TMI??? (My mother is glaring at me)

I’ll spare you the details.

Ok, moving on…

To my surprise, I found that the Olive Garden food was most excellent and to a degree that I even felt a bit ashamed for doubting and necessitating that mint before dinner. Getting over it, I ate the satisfying food and talked to Jocelyn about her goats, which was quite an interesting dialogue. Something about her goats possibly kidding soon and maybe her making a lot of money off of them or something like that. Sounded cool whatever it was.

Anyhow, our meal was soon over and after shamelessly eating quite a few more mints, we had to say “good bye.”:(

So, we left and headed to Indianapolis from Fort Wayne. In Indy, we got to see the Badgleys again. They are so fun. We got to hang out with them just about the whole rest of the day. Mr. Badgley is really funny. Even when he says a pretty goofy joke that deserves an awkward silence it’s still funny. He should be a talk show host or something…

Ha, here are a few pictures of their little daughter holding our fat Sani. They look like they’d weigh the same, hahahaha….

 

Here are some pictures of Sani taken a couple days ago – she’s showing us how she can smile. :D

 

 

 

 

Well, after a ton of pizza and the right amount of Cherry Coke, we hit the road runnin’. We drove as far as we could, stayed the night in, I think, Cincinnati, got up the next morning, and were home by 4:00pm on the 14th. Yay, but of course, only to get up the next day and leave again. Fortunately, it was only for a birthday party in Knoxville, TN.

Ok, about my really cool shoes! And, my really cool skaterboard! *echoes three times like the car commercials*

Yes, it’s true, I finally, after two years, got some really nice skate shoes that I’m pretty well pleased with. It’ll take a while to break them in but once they’re there, they’ll be… there, err, yeah, wait, what? Ok, never mind. Anyhow, I got a few pictures of my old, broken skaterboarder board and some of my new shoes, board, and them in a sweet combo. Take a look…

I broke it landing my highest Ollie ever! Hey, if I was a skaterboard, that’s how I’d want to die…

 

 

I think I like my new one better…

 

And look what it says! :D

 

 

 

New trucks! :P

 

 

What yellow stuff???

 

Oh, that?

 

That, is yellow duct tape. I’ll show you why in just a sec…

I put the tough duct tape on my leading/flipping foot. That way it won’t wear my shoe down. As long as I keep duct tape on that part of that one foot, my shoes should last forever.

I

Fakie-Flip in our basement

Me, attempting a TRE-Flip, which I did not land but it was a good shot. I wear white socks, see?

 

Hmm, not sure what I was doing there, but, I tell ya, it wouldn’t be possible without my awesome shoes. :P

 

Grab trick? Yes Dixons, I just realized, but that is the same shirt and, I think, probably the same sleeve that is pushed up… no explanation…

 

That was a good Ollie…

 

Fakie Pop-Shuvit 360.

 

 

 

Now, Levi’s a Skaterboarder in training….

 

 

 

 

 

OoooOoo, aaahhhh…..

:P

 

 

 

Dylianos, sorry but, I have to throw this in here… I can skate better IN REAL LIFE than you could at Tony Hawk! Hahaha…. (sorry people, inside joke) :D

 

Ha, alright, that’s it! Sorry it took me forever… it aways does. It’s my birthday the day after tomorrow, so, I’ll tell you about that… some other time. Hint: see this basement? It’s *the* place for Lan Parties — and my birthday is here Saturday. This basement is about to become a war zone….more later.

 

 

 

 

Laterooski!