| 05-30-01 |
12:42PM |
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I
forgot to mention that I was able to
partake in the goodness that is Code Red
for the first time this weekend. I
must say that I am already addicted to
this stuff. It tastes like a combination
of Hawaiian Punch and Mountain
Dew. You should try it if you
haven't already! |
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| 05-30-01 |
11:36AM |
Back from long weekend and
ready to update I guess. So how was my
four day break you might ask? Well it
started damn well, gained some suckage toward
the middle, but ended up really well in the
end. My early mystery, super-secret, everyone
knows but me birthday gift was revealed on
Saturday and all I can say is WOW! Lisa
blindfolded me and drove all the way to Michigan's
Adventure, where Rae, Mike, Matt, and Chris
all showed up to add to the festivities.
We rode our hearts out on Saturday and ended up
leaving early because Shivering
Timbers had taken its toll on us. But
with that visit I now have a new
#2 wooden roller coaster for my list.
What a haul ass day it was...you can read all
about it in my trip
report.
HYDROPLANING
IS FUN
Well...okay,
in a controlled environment it can be! But
how about when you are trying to execute a merge
onto I-475 from I-23, just above Toledo.
As I started to round the curved bridge I
watched a Ford Explorer attempt to stick its
entire front end up the ass of a Honda
Accord. Needless to say it didn't work and
the SUV caused a nice little accident.
I'm, of course, approaching just as this happens
and so, in an attempt to avoid the situation,
braked hard and turned to steer around the
cars. My Jeep didn't like that idea,
though, and decided it would rather start some
hydroplane action. I got almost a whole
revolution in before my back end hit the
wall. I corrected myself rather quickly
and pulled over to examine the damage. My
bumper is crushed, my taillight cover is busted
out, and the plastic molding is hanging by a
screw (look for pictures soon). So I rip
the molding off, toss it in the back, and am on
my way....not without stopping to see if they
want any witnesses first, though. I wasn't
really shaken by it all as there was nothing I
could do to help it and I admit that the
spinning was fun :o) So the car is at home
getting some repair action as I type this.
I learned a
little euchre action at the cottage and spent
quality time with the family. Monday was a
nice break and Tuesday was spent driving back,
with a side trip to Lisa's. We hung out
and watched High
Fidelity... give it a six maybe. And
that was long weekend for me.
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| 05-25-01 |
12:18AM |
This whole daily update thing is something I
need to get better adjusted to :o) I
apologize for the delay in updates, but work has
been going on with the site in the
meantime. Most noticeably, the Pictures
page is really starting to take shape now.
All that's left is to get some photos to put on
the page. Also, if you watched even one
hour of Nickelodeon a week as a kid you need
to check out this
website. Talk about a nostalgic trip
back to your childhood! God those were
some good times.
Tonight
consisted of a little bit of DVD action in the
dorm room. Beercheck
came over and we went to hit up
blockbuster. The guy working the counter
provided some good humor as we check out with a
conversation that went like this:
ME:
I got laid off from a co-op job in Southfield.
HIM: What's in
Southfield?
ME: The ghetto
mostly.
HIM: I'm sure it
wasn't the ghetto.
ME: Well it was
pretty bad there.
HIM: Son, we're in
Flint. THIS is the ghetto. I grew up
here and you don't get any worse than
this. It's the only thing we will ever get
on a top ten list for.
ME: Isn't this the
second worse city in the country to live in?
HIM:
Correction...it's now the sixth. We even
lost the title of being able to say we were
number two. I hate Flint.
So we laughed
and check out Antitrust.
Two hours later and some mad DVD action we
finished a moderately good movie. I give
it maybe a 7 out of 10 I think. I would definitely
watch the movie again, although I am not ready
to run out the door and buy my own copy.
So that was the big major highlight of the day.
I leave
tomorrow for long weekend (woohoo!) and will be
back to update on Tuesday. Friday and
Saturday will be spent at Lisa's,
Sunday through Tuesday morning at the cottage
with family, then a quick side trip to Cedar
Point perhaps, and then back up
here. It all makes for a good weekend if
you ask me! And on top of that, Saturday I
get my early mystery, super-secret, everyone
knows but me birthday gift. Can't wait!
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| 05-21-01 |
9:32PM |
I'm back from a long weekend and in need of
updating the website I guess. There was
some Clockwork
Orange going on down in the Unit
12 lounge that I just checked out. Ten
minutes was too much for me and I pulled a
little slip away while no one is looking
move. So it's back to the hideout in Unit
41 for me, and a website update for you.
So today we
had a little bit of tornado
action going on at KU. Around 2:45 we
were called away to the tunnel for some hiding
out as the Flint sirens were warning of
tornados. Sirens in Flint and they weren't
coming from police vehicles...go figure!
So I got to spend a good half hour down there
waiting the storm out. Apparently one
tornado touched down in Fenton and another right
near the interchange between I-75 and I-69.
I spent the
weekend hanging out at Lisa's and had a little
bit of change of scenery going on. Her
house has the most kick ass yard I have ever
witnessed...all ten acres or whatever she has
there. The stars were out in full effect
at night as well...an added bonus.
Speaking of bonuses though, Lisa and I had the privilege...nay,
the pleasure to see A
Knights Tale on Friday. It was one
of the better movies I have seen in a long time
and gains a 9 out of 10 from me. That goes
to say a lot as less than five movies have ever
gained a 10 from me.
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| 05-17-01 |
7:28PM |
Stupid ass FrontPage
decided to crash in the middle of writing my
update for today. Anyway, to make it
short, I spent most of the morning with a
migraine. The headache action continued
well into the afternoon and still persists even
now. I spent most of the afternoon working
on the site. More specifically, the
coasters section received a lot of
attention.
FrontPage
just
crashed again so the update shall end
here. It's time to open some restart
action whoopass on Windows and show it who the
boss is!
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| 05-16-01 |
7:08PM |
The website is
really starting to come together I guess.
The front page is pretty much done, other than
the updates of course. Other than that I
have to work on the links and get some photos
online and such. But I am excited about
the applet I found to rotate that little image
in the upper left corner. You can try
it out and see what I mean if you
like. Also, and this is important, I
am switching screen names on Monday, the 21st.
My new name will be WoodenLegend.
The remote messenger on the left has already
been updated accordingly.
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| 05-16-01 |
1:59PM |
I've been working
on the website some more and added a few things
here and there. The trip to Stark Raven
Mad was simply insane.
I'm working on some video clips and will post
those online as soon as they are finished.
Otherwise, check out some nice
photos I took the second day while at Six
Flags St. Louis. I think I will continue
to work on the site here and there and hope to
have it into some kind of good form sometime
soon.
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05-09-01
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12:31AM |
Okay...so I
decided to work at this all a little more and I got the
'About Me' page up and running. I hope you all enjoy the
photos I took just for that section. Jeff
has politely informed me that tomorrow we both leave for
Stark Raven Mad and I couldn't be any happier about
that. Soon the SRM action will be in full effect and it
will be all good. It's off to bed for me now as this
whole website thing has me all tired and in need of the
yummy yums my bed has to offer. I can hear it calling my
name when I listen hard enough.
So this is
the first official entry on Draegs
Web. I've spent far too long reading other
people's pages of this sort and telling myself that I
should create my own little niche on the web. Soon I may
find the motivation to fill this site with all sorts of
odds and ends as I feel it necessary. Maybe with luck my
site can catch on in popularity and gain some sort of cult
following. Yeah...I'll keep dreaming about that one. Today
sucked and not too much happened other than a little bit
of physics lab action. Tomorrow I hit up my last two
classes and then I blow this joint for the weekend. Stark
Raven Mad calls me and soon I will be riding Legend
and Raven
like mad in the pitch black. So close yet so far away
still.
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