School is going well so far.. I hope. Report cards come out Wednesday so I'll know then.

Oh, if anyone has some ideas of stuff I could put on here... please tell me because I have no idea. You think after a year and a half of keeping this thing up I would've had at least one cool idea, but no.

Now I must say something very important... I hope you're ready for this because it's very important.... Danielle is amazing!

Now to lesser important stuff. College. College. COLLEGE! Is lame....  I haven't worked on any applications yet. All I have is one essay and one recommendation letter.

Umm what else is new? Hmmmmm let's see. This past Saturday I broke 1 million on Sky Shark finally. My previous record, which was also the world record, was 948,130. On Saturday I got 1,041,130 after an extremely stressful 35 minute game. My next goal is to play 1 hour on a single quarter, not sure where that will put me point-wise though, 1.7 mil - 2 mil roughly. Something really funny happened when I was playing too! Either my 3rd or 4th plane I lost at exactly 999,990 points.....can you imagine how mad I would've been if it had been on my last plane.

Ok what other random things can I possibly talk about... my dad bought two Amphicars. I'm going to add a page with pictures and stuff sometime. I might make him a website just for that though, not sure yet.

Shout out to my Saturday night crew for being the coolest group of friend's ever.

I'd like to point everyone in the direction of the greatest video of all time. I was to lazy to actually host it on my site so here are a couple links to it. Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeerooooooooooooooyyyy Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnkiiinnnsss!!!!!
That's a link to the actual file, if just clicking it or right-click and save as doesn't work try the links below.
Warcraftmovies
Fileplanet
iFilm

Ummm.... Van Halen rules.... haha (that's what I'm listening to right now...)

Ok so I have a couple things planned for this thing. Mostly I need to take down a ton of crap that is really old and just plain lame. Then hopefully I can put up new stuff....

It is times like this one I am sitting here, doing practically nothing, but having so many things to do that I don't know what to do. And consequently I ramble like this and nothing gets done.

It is getting harder for me to find music that keeps me interested. I'll find a new band, listen to them for a little while, then I need something else new. I have listened to so much music now (because that is all I do nonsto)p that I am starting to fear not being able to find new music I like.

I don't know how I managed to break the A string on my guitar considering it is the second thickest one. Can't play until tomorrow when I get new strings, oh well.

Video games have been better then ever lately. Playing lots of WoW nonstop at home. Putting a lot more time into the classics at Funspot. I finally broke 300,000 on Sky Shark tonight. I also got 3,172,930 on Grand Lizard. Crazy bells and lights and stuff were all going off while I was playing, it was really neat. Practicing Lode Runner. Haven't played Hot Rod much since the tournament. I'm still just 1,000 from the world record.

Oh yea...I'm buying Jason and Anna's Sky Shark machine for $175. I'll probably have some pictures of it up in a few days.

Lack of updates.... I guess I've been busy or something. I'm always doing something or something else.

Guitar has been going well...I haven't played anything except the same riff over and over for a couple months now. But it's fun and something to do.

Getting a lot better at hacky sack... I want to get a video me doing all the tricks I know, in a row. We'll see...

That reminds me. I have to express my love for Saturdays and my gamer friends. Whether or not I'm working, I'm always at Funspot on Saturday. Saturday night all my friends come up. Jenn from in town, Jason, Anna, Shawn, Christian and David from Maine, Mike from... Mass. someplace, I'm not sure where Greg or Donald are from and I think Dave is from Milford. But anyways, they play games from sometime shortly after noon till close. Then we go to Dunkin Donuts until 1 in the morning. Then Levitt Park until 3 AM to play hacky sack and just hang out. It's so much fun.

We finally named our cat. Her name is Peach, as in Princess Peach from Mario.

I don't know what Mr. Mathis is up to. I e-mailed him a few times but no response. I don't know.

I got my wisdom teeth taken out. It was.. an interesting experience. They stuck a needle in my arm and put a brace thing on it so it didn't move. 5 seconds later I start laughing... I don't know why, nothing was funny, I was just laughing and couldn't control it. The next thing I know, I'm in a different room. I'm laying there half asleep half awake. I asked my mom when they were going to start and she said they already finished. Apparently after they finished, they had helped me walk to this room to rest. I had no memory of any of it. I have no memory of walking out of the place, no memory of the ride home and no memory of getting out of the car, but somehow I ended up on my couch. I turned on my iPod and rested for a couple hours. Mom fed me some Italian ice. I watched the Matrix. Then life just continued as normal except with some pain in my mouth. Don't worry about getting your wisdom teeth pulled.... it was fun and it hardly hurts at all.

I've been visiting a lot of colleges lately. I'm almost certain computer science is what I want to go for.

I need to put up pictures of my cat. She is so addorable. I'll save it for tomorrow.

Thursday I went to a 3 Doors Down concert. Staind, Breaking Benjamin and No Address opened for them. It was extremely awesome and extremely loud. Breaking Benjamin had the best music in my opinion but 3 Doors Down put on the best show. They had lots of fire shooting up everywhere, lots of loud explosions, fog, pretty lights, cool sparkly things that looked like raining fire and even fireworks (yes, inside a building). Live music is truly amazing.

Saturday I worked in the morning then went to Funspot that night. Went to JT's for dinner with everyone. Played games the rest of the night. Sunday I  hung out with Renee and then worked until 12. Went to the Weirs with the Saturday night crew to watch the fireworks. Turned out to be the best fireworks show I have ever seen. The finale was literally 5 minutes of nonstop, rapid fire sonic booms and bright lights. Went to the Half Moon arcade after the fireworks for a while.

Let's see...what else. Undoing Ruin is excellent. Love the album artwork and the lyrics to the songs.

I have to work 7 days in a row. Blah. On a brighter note though, Funspot now has an XBox hooked up in the golf center on a 12 foot screen. Makes for great Halo 2 fun.

You can check out the trailer for the album, as well as the video for Convalescence here! The trailer is extremely cool. The video would be a ton better if it were in a bigger resolution.

Here are what some reviewers have said about the album:

So anyways, summer has been rockin it hardcore. Been hanging out with Renee a lot which is awesome. At the same time though I have had a ton of time to play games. Halo 2 with Estes every night rocks. Been playin some WoW too. Tons of guitar shredage has been shaking the house.

Ordered two more of Darkest Hour's older CD's. I'll be buying their new one the day it's out. I love good music....

Barbeque on Saturday! My dad's side of the family will be there. Relatives coming from Washington and Alabama...as well as Laconia of course. It'll be the first really big party we've had at our house.

We still don't have a name for the cat. Any ideas would be great. It's a she by the way...

School is pretty much done.

Got a mega huge amp for my birthday. Marshall MG50DFX. Very very awesome.

We still haven't named our cat...after a whole week. We're still calling her kitty.

I put up 3 random pictures.

I'll spend some time tomorrow maybe consolidating all this news into the archive because this page is way to big.

On a side note I found the new DH album, Undoing Ruin, online. The album isn't released until June 28th but I have all the mp3's so ha! But seriously, it's a great album.

And another thing. Saturday night at the Saturday night crew's cabin, Jason and I played a game of Ant Pong. We were flicking around a live ant on the floor. Just back and forth at first. Then we had a cup and the first to get it in the cup had the world record. So I have a world record on Ant Pong also. That poor ant almost broke in half though...I felt bad for him.

Also on Saturday, Shawn and I played hacky sack for a while, not sure exactly how long. It was great though because we both usually have a hard time finding people who can keep up with us. It was perfect. He showed me a few tricks that I learnt right off the bat.

Also, on the way back to Funspot from Patrick's, Dave rolled down his window, stuck his head out and was waving his tongue around like a dog. Then he was barking at people as we drove by. We had slowed to a crawl in the Weirs because of traffic and instead of barking he was just growling and people would look at him funny. We were behind Donald, and we were going to pass him and have Dave bark at him while passing him. But there were too many cars coming the other way to pass him.

I woke up and dreaded going to work. It wasn't so bad though because I got to wear jeans and just hang out all day. It was the most laid back day of work ever. The only difference between what I do there when I'm not working and when I was working today, was I played less games today. Yea, I played some while I was working...shhhh. All day I was just hanging out and cheering for my friends to win.

Pinball was a hot item today. Two new guys showed up this morning. They seemed kind of wacko and stuff, but one of them absolutely creamed TWO of the three the pinball scores. Later in the day, Dan Howard came back and creamed one of the other guy's scores. Then Mike Sao Pedro comes over and DOUBLES Dan's score. Mike either has the most amazing skills ever, or had mad luck. He was by far the most watched and cheered on player. He was doing excellent at first in the tournament seemed a win was inevitable, but fell short after awhile. Today though his comeback was incredible.

Sadly, no one met any of Billy Mitchell's challenges. Donald Hayes was on a roll for his perfect Pacman game, but died about 3/4ths into it. He gave up because he didn't have enough time to give it another shot. Steve Wiebe just didn't have it going for him today I guess. Looked like his game ended in the 600 thousands on Donkey Kong. He looked pretty sad the rest of the day...considering he didn't make $10,000 bucks I would've been sad too.

The award ceremony was held down in the restaurant. So many awards were given out, about 30 maybe. Awards were given to Jason Cram for the color games, Dave Nelson for the monochrome games, and Dan Howard for the pinball games. Mike Sao Pedro got the award for player of the year. Adam Wood won the Alien Hominid championship. A few bounties were given out by Rob Mruczek. Funspot now has 4 new arcades. Indiana Jones and Doubles Pong thanks to Mruczek. Radical Radial donated by the Saturday night crew. We each donated $20 so it was fairly cheap for us to donate. And Gary fixed up Lode Runner which was sitting out in the back shop for a year.

Well anyways...I added a few more pics. I made them all a smaller size so they don't take as long to load.

And thus ends one of the most spectacular weekends I have ever had. In my next life though please let me be born in the late 70's! Thank you Dave, Jen, Shawn, Jason, Anna, Christian, David, and Mike for being such awesome people.

I leave you with...important stuff:

And something REALLY important:

Billy Mitchell (the perfect Pacman guy) was not at the tournament this year, but he sent a super secret video for everyone there to watch. The tape was of his new world record Donkey Kong score, but we didn't know that at the time. We knew it was just a tape of his game but didn't know the outcome yet. Well, it turned out this tape had the first ever Donkey Kong game to go over 1 million points. And to top that off Billy killed his last two guys on purpose, and here's why. Walter Day made the announcement right before watching the tape that Billy would pay anyone $1,000 to break 1 million points on Donkey Kong by the end of the tournament. Everyone was amazed by that amount of money. But then Walter continued and said that Billy was going to pay anyone who broke the score on the tape by the end of the tournament $10,000!!! He's also going to pay $1,000 to anyone who beats the Q*Bert record by the end of the tournament.

Around 30 or 35 people went to Patrick's for supper. Had a great time.

Got the world record on Hot Rod.

Won a raffle thing at the end of the night. Got Atari Anthology for XBox.

Lots of media coverage at the tournament. I guess the Boston Globe was there for a bit along with other newspapers of course. I also heard CBS was there and Channel 9 people. I wish I could get some of the TV stuff taped. Some guy interviewed me for about 2 minutes. I hope I didn't look too goofy.

Ok so anyways. I'll be bring my camera to the tournament and to bike week in the weirs so expect some pics.

10 days until I'm 17.

Hey, sorry bout the lack of updates. Lots of stuff is going on lately. I have been playing guitar mad crazy amounts! Justin Hayes and I have also started a band, possibly to be called Obstreperous. So far we are on guitar, Even Benoit on bass and hopefully Matt McKeen on drums. I hope this goes well. It's kind of been my dream to be in a band.

My day just totally rocked just like yesterday. Didn't do much in school except take a history test...which I think I did really good on. Skated till 4:30 or so then went home for a quick supper and come back for the show. I guess we can't skate after school anymore though, some police dude came by when I was gone and told everyone if he saw them get on a skateboard he would take it. The show just outright pwned everything ever. Props to everyone who showed up and rocked out...Brian n Jess, Mike n Anny, Renee, Colby, Eric...a bunch of other dudes too who I don't feel like listing cause there's too many. Special props to Geoff for getting kicked out due to moshing and to Henry for getting kicked out due to jumping up on stage. By the way... mosh pits rule! I bought NSN hoodie which is like.... uber sweet. The very last band, the bassist, threw his tie and I caught it, and then later I traded (if they were a metal band I wouldn't have traded it) for a wickid sweet black n pink studded belt that one of Jess's friends had. Oh yea! After the show all of us went to LHoP for some sweet pizzage. Thanks to Jess for supplying most of the pizza money.

Oh and btw...    <3

Peace out.

I have started skating again! I pretty much didn't skate at all last summer. I skate after school with a bunch of other dudes. I even brought my rail today, which I'm glad fits in my wagon, which I am thinking about putting some better speakers in. I've stayed till about 4:30 which is when girls lacrosse practice gets out, so I give Renee a ride home.

I've been playin guitar a lot lately too. Doesn't feel like I'm getting any better at that though. I don't mind, it's fun anyways.

I have barely touched video games in two days!!! O_O  I think I'm going insanse....tonight I think I'll finally play some WoW.

Friday = Battle of the Bands. It's at LHS at 6 PM and it's $6. You ALL better go cause Never Say Never is going to be there and they are going to r0ck y0ur s0x 0ff!!!11!one!!1  And don't forget your neck brace cause after a night of headbanging to them you are going to need one!

Today has been good. Watched the season finales of two of my favorite shows. Except dad cut off the last 10 minutes of one of them.........................

Work tonight. I hope it isn't busy. If it's not it'll be a lot of fun. If it is busy it will just be normal but it should go by fast.

I can't believe people actually read this...

But then I got back, and I was hoping to talk to her and tell her how I felt and stuff...but it didn't work like that I guess...

Oh yea...my confusion is slowly going away I think...

Oh yea! I don't think I ever posted this, but here is my world record on Time Crisis! Keep in mind that is just Stage 1. I gotta keep practicing 2 and 3.

Every time I forget my worries and I'm just like...normal...something happens. He is always at her house now and I should just get used to it by now but somehow I can't. Every time I hear that he's at her house it's just...bam! No more good. Something needs to happen and soon because I can't take this. Either I need to get over her or... I don't know. I don't want to...but this is just hurting so much and that's why I want to.

And then there is Renee. If she is still there after all this crap I will be truly amazed. Seriously, either you've got to be sped, really stupid or just really crazy in order to put up with me. Monique did for awhile, I guess she got sick of it finally. I'm not doing it anymore....seriously because even I am sick of it.

This thing is really long now. And can you believe people actually read this?! Since August 9th it has gotten 578 people. I should find a way to do polls on here. Or thingers for comments like all them live journals have. That would be a clever feat on my part I think, I've never done anything like that before. I think website design would be a neat thing to get into as a possible job? I don't know...

Tonight is my ramble night I guess. I have had a lot of things on my mind lately. Spring is awesome. No more cold. No more wet. I wake up every morning, walk out my door and hear the birds! It's wonderful. Don't have to warm my car up anymore. No more slipping around on the roads either.

Every day that goes by means one day closer to someday and one day closer to my sanity. Keep those days comin'!

I need something to do to pass the time. Sure video games. But that isn't enough anymore. I love driving, I would drive more but I don't feel like wasting money on gas. I love music...which reminds me...my stereo died. Now I have to buy a new one. My speakers are still good though. I'll have twice as many speakers soon...righteous!

I have been playin guitar a lot lately. Matt showed me this thing called tapping. It sounds like this! That's me playin if you didn't know. Since the day I got my first guitar I have wanted to just go all out and do crazy solo stuff. Every day I come closer to achieving that.

April 1st - Battle of the bands at LHS. Going to be very rad if Never Say Never makes it. They're an awesome band, I've seen them live.

Seriously though, music rocks. It gets you pumped. It makes you forget your worries. Just turn it up and rock on! That's what I do at school and people yell at me! Haha screw them. I'll listen to my music whether you like it or not.

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*End Stupidness*

It was nice to finally write a lot of this stuff down I guess. Today was long and tedious but in the end well worth it. I feel so relieved with this project out of the way. Let's see what's next on my list of things to worry about...Funspot is going to tell me to cut my hair, reading a stupid English book...do I dare say prom? I have gone back to disliking it I guess. Well I don't know... there is a .0001% chance that it will turn out how it would in say...my dreams. But maybe there isn't even that chance. But it would mean so much so I must wait n see. I don't get it everyone says that you HAVE to go and then next thing you know they're saying oh it's JUST a dance. Make up your mind pleeease. To me, it's more. It's just one of those magical nights you don't forget. I'll remember it either as dancing with the girl of my dreams all night or... gunning stuff down in Halo 2. That's always fun. Yes, yes it is. That wasn't sarcasm either.

Every time I try to end this I think of more to say. Mr Mathis will be so angry if he knows I didn't read for his class. I'll just read in study hall before his class since I have no homework to do. Or I could just sit and listen to some tunes while playin some Metroid. Tough choice.

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That felt good. Read this if you don't understand what that says, or you could read it just for laughs because it's pretty funny.

You must be from the short bus if you are actually still reading this. Get a life! I should take my own advice.

Ok, when it gets to a point where I feel like I'm just talking to myself it is time for bed. I'm gonna go insane within the next 5 minutes if I'm not asleep.

Demetri: Shut up!!!
Me: Mom, tell him to stop saying that.
Mom: Demetri don't say that.
Demetri: But...
Interrupted by Dad: Don't say butt, say but.
Mom: Hun, you're supposed to engage your sons in intelligent conversation...
Us 3 guys laugh for a sec...then...
Mom: OK You guys are on clean up duty, I'm going to play solitaire!

K people here's the deal. Renee and I broke up. No one thinks I care about her, but I do...I'm not THAT inhuman. I care about people. So get it straight. Just because I broke up with her doesn't mean I don't care. And don't think that life is all fine and dandy for me now because it's not.

Some of you know that I e-mail Mr. Mathis a lot and tell him what's going on in my life. Well if you want to know what I have been thinking lately here's my latest e-mail to him. Well, at first I just sent him one that said "life sucks" and he asked me why? This was my response: