... for approx. 29 dollars

On wednesday i went to canobie lake park with radka (17$ admission) it was soooo much fun. we got people to say HEY! on the cattapiller, were trendsetters on the phychodrome, banged heads on the matterhorn, scared people into silence on the corkscrew, made fun of the preppy army, and, of course, ate. (4$ for the fried dough)

then on friday i went and bought 3 bags of marshmallows, 12 chocolate bars, and 2 boxes of gram crackers for only 8 bucks! oho whos the cheapskate now?! the party was awesome! we did all the campy stuff, since the theme for the party was outdoors and we didnt use electronics!

No one knows when the Internet will fail. It could happen at any time, leaving you bereft of your e-mail, your sports scores, and your Blogs. Therefore, it's important that you and your family have a contingency plan for just such an emergency. If your connection to Cyberspace were to ever get severed, you should at least be prepared. We have included a few key points that should assist you if that were to happen.

1. Panic! An excited, agitated state will give you that heightened sense of awareness and will increase your thought processes allowing you to come up with rational solutions. Panic is just nature's way of putting your body into over-drive. It's a defense mechanism that gives you an edge when dealing with potentially harmful situations, such as a severed arm or the loss of your Internet.

2. Find A Telephone Do you have access to a telephone line? Early computers connected to the Internet using a dial-up device along with a hardware device known as a "modem." Since this technology is obsolete, it will be of no use to you. Instead, use your telephone to call your friends to see if their connection is also down, as you will have lost the ability to send an email or an instant message. You can also use a telephone to call 911, an emergency service that will first tell you to calm down, and then will send out specially-trained technicians to find the source of the Internet's failure.

3. Use Your Back-Up Computer It's always good to have an emergency laptop handy, in case you need to harry over to a buddy's place where the Net is still up. If there is still no Internet at that location, at the very least you could connect to a small network or LAN (Less-than Adequate Network). Laptops can also be placed on tables at coffeeshops, while you sit around with a latte, nervously waiting for your connection to be restored.

4. Install A Game In emergency situations, installing a single-player computer game can occupy your down-time. While it won't replace the adrenaline rush of intense networked multiplayer action provided by the Internet, a quick game of Sim City or Flight Simulator may distract you long enough for your connection to return.

5. Perform Routine Maintenance While programs such as Norton Antivirus have removed most of the tedium of computer system maintenance, nothing could help pass the time faster than cleaning out your hard drive, emptying your cache, or organizing your celebrity fake porn collection. Take the time to stare at your screen while you perform a defragmentation. The time will literally fly while you barely notice your separation from the Internet.

6. Turn On A Television Or Radio Televisions, strange boxes that sit in your parents' living rooms, were once used to provide entertainment, long before DVDs and Playstations were invented. Televisions have the capability of broadcasting streaming information similar to the content on multimedia websites. With a "remote control," a wireless device that is like a small one-handed keyboard, you may be able to surf a limited number of "channels," while you deal with the loss of your connection. Unfortunately, television is only a one-way media.

In ancient times, radios were also used to entertain. A radio allowed you to listen to news, sports, and music, much the same way that you listen to live streaming audio on a Shoutcast server. Like the television, a radio will only have a limited selection of listening stations, and no video. Hopefully your separation from the Internet will be brief.

7. Read People in pre-Internet times used to read "books" and "magazines", written materials once created in printable format to pass the time. Some e-books are still available on paper, and may offer a short-term solution until your power is back and your broadband is restored. If reading is not an option, as a last resort, you may wish to try doing "chores," or try your hand at cooking. While these activities cannot replace the Internet, they may be able to make the down-time a little more tolerable.

8. Go Outside The idea of leaving your workstation may seem a little extreme, but you can perform errands that you normally get parents or spouses to do: grocery shopping, drycleaning, etc. Leaving your dorm room, basement, or above-garage apartment suite, may be risky, but again, the time may afford an effective distraction from your Internet woes. NOTE: Be careful to avoid the sun, because your pasty white skin will not be used to the exposure.

9. Spend Time With Your Spouse Communicating with your wife or girlfriend may seem like a radical suggestion, but the time investment may offer long-term rewards. Spending any amount of time talking about your "relationship" may free up more Internet time for you later on, when your ADSL or Cable link to the World Wide Web has been restored. WARNING: These will probably be the longest hours of your life.

10. Use Your Emergency AOL Disk If you find that your connection to the Internet is going to be longer than you can possibly stand, as a last resort, pull out an emergency AOL CD, the one with 910 free hours of connection to the AOL service. Take the CD in one hand...and slash it across your wrist! Suicide will probably be a better alternative than connecting to that service.

Hopefully some of these Internet alternatives will be able to assist you during an offline crisis. Emergency radio broadcasts will likely advise you of the state of the Internet and be able to predict when your bandwidth will be restored, but remember to have an emergency plan in case your digital detachment is longer than you expect.

http://www.thetoque.com/031118/internetdown.htm -Ciao Hilaryys Helpful Hint: Report to the government the dangers of not having a set of special codes and plan of action to take if the internet goes down

Laziness is the key to success. Here are the rules of being lazy: 1. Never do anything. If you wait around long enough, someone else will do it. 2. Don't move. Moving is overrated. 3. Never run. Running is the worst thing you can do. I had to run once.. big mistake. 4. If something is not in your reach, you don't need it. Before you get up to get something across the room next time, think. Do you really want to get up and walk all the way there and all the way back to get it? Yeah, I know. I felt stupid for moving all those times. 5. Don't have an opinion. Opinions are thoughts, and thoughts are work. 6. Don't work. Working is for suckers. Be a CEO if you can, they never do anything. 7. If you have to move, fuss about it. Make it well known that you're pissed off because you have to move. Sigh a lot. Drag your feet and arch your back at 60 degrees (bad posture helps you to conform to the shapes of couches when you sit down, and it makes you look tired). 8. Sleep as much as you can. Contrary to common sense and popular belief, sleeping is very productive. 9. Don't talk. Talking requires the movement of your jaw.. way too much work. 10. If you have to work, do a half-assed job at it. Example: If you have to rake leaves, push them out into the road or into your neighbor's yard. If you have a riding lawn mower, run over them a few times until the pieces are small enough to hide in between blades of grass. check out http://maddox.xmission.com if you are up for some more entertainment and arent easily offended. -ciao hilaryys helpful hint: if you do choose to follow that link do not let your parents in the room while your looking

Praying for arianna

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i seriously do not like having a little brother right now. if any of you saw the last entry "i" made (its now deleted) you probably noticed it was even more pointless random and stupid than my normal ones. and, unfortunatley, there is a reason for that. on my computer i have a document where i just jot random things down, like this blog except way less formal, if that is even possible. for some reason my mom decided to let my brother use my computer. gee how stupid can ya get. you just dont let someone use a computer that is not your own without askthing the owner and while the owner is not even there. somehow, despite my password, my brother actually got on and started going through my files, etc. etc. then he goes online my automatic sign in homepage and realizes wouldnt it be great if i just put up random things and see how long they go unoticed?! soooo anyway, even though i changed all my passwords, dont automatically assume that i was the one that put them their.

-ciao

hilaryys helpful hint: (this one is pretty easy to guess) DONT LET ANYONE ON YOUR COMPUTER!!!  EVER!!!!

blah. my stupid computer is officially broken. i cannot go onto windows at all.. grrrrrr.... and my parents wont believe me that i havent downloaded anything. if anything was downloaded it would have been by my stupid bro..bleh.... oh, im writing this on my parents computer, in case that confused anyone. so i probably wont be on aim for like..ever... bleh. in other news, did anyone else watch the live 8 thing the other day? for anyone who has totally missed the whole purpose, it was basically a whole group of concerts with influencial bands around the world. they were promoting the g8 (group of 8) which is a meeting of the eight most influencial leaders around the world to make the world a better place etc. etc. i think thats a good idea for all those musicians that have so much money and fame to put it to good use....ya Go here: Optical Illusions Tell me what you thought... go there before you read comments! ummm ya. i think thats it! -ciao Hilaryys Helpful Hint: trust no links thoust findeth on my page

Havent really updated truly in awhile...nothings has really happened though.. thats my excuse

it definitely does not feel like only the first week of summer vacation. more like the third. but thats just me... if you really care how i have amused myself over the week read on.. if not... why are you on my blog? (also, where ever there is a break in the day insert: played mindless computer games for a couple hours)

i was going to write a nice long happy entry.. but now im not.

today was not all that bad. actually it was quite good seeing as how we didnt really have classes and we spent the whole day cruising around boston harbour. it was kinda weird though because most of the eighth grade spent the whole time inside on the "dance floor". i put the dance floor in quotes because it really wasnt a dance floor, more like a small space where they managed to cram most of the eighth grade. kinda scared me. however (haha i can use that word as much as i want now miss mick! hehehe) however, i have 3 good reasons why i did not want to dance. #1 it smelled really REALLY bad. someone really forgot about deodorent this morning. #2 as i mentioned earlier there was about 6 people per square inch. and #3 whats the point of being on a boat if all youre going to do is stay inside and dance? i personally had never been on a boat but i have been to many dances, and plan on going to more. so i stayed outside on the deck most of the day with the only person i could find that wanted to stay outside most of the day, christina. we basically stood outside and tried to get as many things as possible to wave at us. our final count was 11 including that duck. and yes the duck waved.... IT DID!! we also stared at jellyfish, saw stuff floating in the harbor (poor fish), had our titanic moments (IM FLYING!!!) and saw, get this, A PIRATE SHIP!!! THAT WAS ALMOST FASTER THAN US!! EVEN THOUGH WE HAD A MOTOR AND THEY DIDNT!!! YAYY! the worst part of the day today were the stupid buses. we had to go by homeroom (blech their is no one in my homeroom that im good friends with) and it was a long ride to and from boston with no one to talk to. and when we finally got back they were supposed to hold the buses (which of course they did NOT) and since i had to drop of my stupid medecin at the nurses office i almost missed my bus. i ended running after it, trying to get it to stop, looking like a complete idiot. but i made it so =P to all you people on the bus that were probably laughing at me!

-ciao

hilaryys helpful hint: Know that ducks can wave. If you dont believe, dont make fun of people that do.

yet another new layout. i wonder how long this one will last before i get bored... at any rate i designed all the stupid little pics and all... just want your comments even if you think its awful.. yep.. ok im done even though that was really short because its almost 12:00 on a monday eve....

-ciao

hilaryys helpful hint: never ever ever go shopping with your dad EVen if you are in desperate need of buying something and you friends and you mom cant. undoubtedly everyone you ever knew will happen to see you at the mall.