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July 08, 2005

iPod trouble....

In school i noticed i almost always carried around 3 items: my cell phone, my iPod and my ID. All three are very important, I could always call friends if I had a bad or good test or to see where they're going to be for lunch; my ID was my passport to food, and I am often hungry; and my iPod lets me escape between classes or sooths me during homework time. So you could understand if one of them failed me, i'd be able to get along, but it would not be fun. I've noticed this problem with Scarfus (my iPod) for a while, the "scroll wheel" has had a little trouble. Usually it would start working fine after a minute or so, but now it's not working at all. Luckily it's still under the 1 year warrenty (I bought it on July 17th though!) and I hope they replace it with a new one because all the new iPods have color screens now :) Becca sent hers in earlier and everything is very quick. I ordered a box last night and it came this afternoon so I had mom drop it off at DHL when she went to work. I'm excited, but hope that I'm not without one for too long!

Posted by agutwin at 03:41 PM | Comments (0)

July 04, 2005

FirEwORks!! (and fire-field)

OK, here's a letter i'm going to be submitting to our town's newspaper. It was a pretty interesting night :P

The Williston Fireworks were good, but what they started was even more entertaining. After the start of the show the gentle wind picked up a bit, causing a little concern for the viewers on the bike path behind Allen Brook School. Glowing embers were soon seen scattering the near-by field after a particularly large blast. After many shouts of "fire in the field" a handful of brave citizens were inspired to run to the corner of the field, reportedly stomping the four to five foot in diameter flame to embers and then dousing it with a water bottle. The fire had been sucessfully extinguished when an official came driving by on the bike path, and, despite having directions given by an onlooker, proceeded to speed past the location and drive in the wrong direction. After some time a truck entered the field equiped with people searching the grounds. A fire official reported seeing the flames when they started. However, one would think that live embers landing in a dry field would cause the fire department to be on high alert. If any official had been watching for fire common sense would suggest they would be the first ones to contain the flames. I think it is inappropreate for citizens (who were supposed to be watching the fireworks) to react quicker and more efficiently than those paid to watch for fires. That being said, I have a great respect for our Country's firemen and there was no point during the evening that I felt any real danger. I believe we had a great display of pyrometrics, but a poor show of our town's professionalism and responsiveness.

I bet there are a ton of spelling and grammatical mistakes in there, but i'll fix it tomorrow. All right, i'm wicked tired, i think i'm going to bed.

Posted by agutwin at 11:23 PM | Comments (0)

"Traffic in the Sky" by Jack Johnson

I really like Jack Johnson's music. I think a lot of it is rather obscure, and you can enjoy it differently depending on what mood you're in. For example, some songs or bands are purely depressing theames, or extreamly up-beat ones. But I think this guy's got a good mix. Anyway, here's one of his songs:

There's traffic in the sky
and it doesn't seem to be getting much better
There's kids playing games on the pavement
Drawing waves on the pavement
mm hm
Shadows of the planes on the pavement
mm hm
It's enough to make me cry
But that don't seem like it would make it feel better
Maybe it's a dream and if I scream
it will burst at the seams and
this whole place will fall into pieces
and then they'd say...

Well how could we have known?
I'll tell them it's not so hard to tell
na na na
if you keep adding stones
soon the water will be lost in the well
mm hm

Puzzle pieces in the ground
but no one ever seems to be digging
Instead they're looking up towards the heavens
with their eyes on the heavens
the shadows on the way to the heavens
mm hm
It's enough to make me cry
but that don't seem like it would make it feel better
The answers could be found
we could learn from digging down
but no one ever seems to be digging
instead they'll say...

Well how could we have known?
I'll tell them it's not so hard to tell
na na na
if you keep adding stones
soon the water will be lost in the well
mm hmmm

Words of wisdom all around
but no one ever seems to listen
They're talkin 'bout their plans on the paper
Building up from the pavement
mm hm
there're shadows from the scrapers on the pavement
mm hm
It's enough to make me sigh
but that don't seem like it would make it feel better
The words are all around
but the words are only sounds
and no one ever seems to listen
Instead they'll say...

Well how could we have known?
I'll tell them it's really not so hard to tell
na na na
If you keep adding stones
soon the water will be lost in the well
lost in the well
mm mm mm

Posted by agutwin at 07:03 PM | Comments (0)