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History - Catch Up on Past Daily Logs
[Sept. 2000 : Oct. 2000 : Nov. 2000 : Dec. 2000 : Jan. 2001 : Feb. 2001 : Mar. 2001 : Apr. 2001 : May. 2001 : Jun. 2001 : Jul. 2001 : Aug. 2001 : Sept. 2001 : Oct. 2001 : Nov. 2001 : Dec. 2001 : Jan. 2002]

1-31-01

This morning I took my mom to my aunt's house so they could go to Tunica today. I got to school and tried to find Mitch Graham so I could get another Bawls. I found him right before first period, so I had a little comfort as I took a huge English test followed by a second period calculus test. Right before second period I saw Mitch again and had a breakdown in the hallway trying to get him to sell me more Bawls. He said I was addicted and that he wouldn't sell me any more today. Soon enough I'll be rich, though, and I'll buy crates upon crates of the stuff. I spent an hour or so in the darkroom with Brandon Vaughn while he made some prints and I developed my pictures from the swim meet. After that I went around to several different classes just to see what everyone was up to. After school, my sister got a ride home with her friend Andrea, so I got to come home by my very own self. The infamous Rocky, with no last name, ran up to me in the parking lot and pulled out some glass chalk. He started to write something on my back windshield, but I pulled away before he could get any more than "got" written. After school I got to rest a little, but I still had about a dozen things to do, so I'm keeping busy.

1-30-01

School was fairly busy today. I got to rest a little bit more, but I still have a lot of work coming up this week and next. With a little luck I might be able to raise my GPA over a 4.0 this semester with AP calculus. So far I'm doing alright, but it seems like the busiest times in each of my classes come around at the exact same time. I could really use a spring break or two right about now. I did receive a bit of happiness this morning though, when Mitch Graham showed me that he had brought some Bawls to school. I bought a bottle from him because I've been wanting to try one for quite some time now. Not only did it taste quite good, but the thing was loaded with caffeine. I did a little research, and there are 80 mgs of caffeine in each little 10 oz. bottle. I was set for the day after that bottle, although I was left wanting more after I had drained the bottle. It was quite fun going around the school and showing people my Bawls. At lunch I left my normal group, who had for some reason been split into two different tables, and went to sit with my geek friends with Bawls. After school I got a call from our friendly, neighborhood military group. He wanted me to join the army, and I wanted him to visit my website. Don't think I'm going crazy with my site though. I wouldn't have said anything about it if he hadn't asked first. It never helps to have a little self-promotion though. It's time for bed. I have a big English test tomorrow. I need to stay up and study. I need Bawls.

1-29-01

My cough is still here. It's taken up permanent residence in my body. I've been packing cough drops to take with me everywhere I go. Classes were fairly busy today, and this week looks like it's going to be about as busy as the last one. I really need a spring break right about now. Lunch was fairly quiet, and nobody seemed to want to talk to me at the table, so after I finished eating I wondered out towards the commons to see some of my other friends. I saw Cassie Hilgerson sitting out by the windows, so I just followed her around for the rest of lunch, and then walked her to class on the way down to journalism. Nobody did much in there today because they were all tired from working last week. After school I went upstairs and talked to Kerryn Johns for a little while, and then walked out to the front of the building with Cassie. My sister came along, and I guess they've made up now and don't hate each other. My sister said they sat together on the bus on the way home on their forensics trip. I don't know what happened between them, but I'm glad I didn't get any blood on my clothes today. I gave Thomas Hollingsworth a ride to his dad's store, and then came home. I tweaked a couple things on my computer so all of my programs have alpha blending. It's kind of neat to have transparent windows. Off the topic of, well, everything - I think a good goal for the future of this site is perhaps less text and more images. I'll worry about that when I have time though.

1-28-01

I'm feeling a bit better today. My cough is starting to go away, but I've still got a bit of a tickle in my throat. I did very little today other than watch TV and play a little computer. Jared Fitzgibbon and I played a nice little game of Starcraft against quite a few computer opponents. He's gotten quite good at the game, while I'm probably still very low in skill level. Later in the evening, a few people stopped by to see my sister. Sam Bishop and Lyadonna Haddar were the only two that I heard for sure, but I assume David Benefield was with them just as they were together yesterday evening. I stayed hidden in my room doing physics homework, so nobody came in to bother me. After a couple hours of staring at the worksheet blankly, I've finally figured out how the universe works. Now if I could only figure out how to get my stupid TI-Graph Link to work so I could send some nice little programs to my calculator.

1-27-01

If anyone has a secret family recipe for a magical serum that will rid a person of a cough, please feel free to share this holy recipe with yours truly. I found a little cup full of cough drops, so I've been taking them five at a time trying to calm my throat. I got up really early this morning, I assume because of how much I napped before I actually went to bed. I was supposed to go to the Tech pool to take pictures of a swim meet for yearbook. It was an interesting experience, but I started to get a little bored during the diving. After I finished there, I came home where I spent the rest of the day playing on the computer and watching TV. Mallory McKinney called and we talked for quite a while. Later on in the evening, Sam Bishop, David Benefield, and Lyadonna Haddar dropped by to see my sister, but they all wound up hanging out in my room. After a while they went home and I resumed my night of computer and TV.

1-26-01

I'm still not feeling any better today. It's starting to be quite painful for me to cough. I got to school quite late today after a little trouble I had getting out of the house. I was walking to my class just as the tardy bell rang. My English teacher, Mrs. Hubbard, was out watching the halls, so I followed her to the classroom after the bell rang. She saw me and let me into the room, but just as I had started setting my stuff down at my desk, she called me back up and gave me a note to go down to the journalism room. Lynn Wink apparently wanted me to skip my first period class to work on my EAST Lab spread, so I went down there to work. The rest of the day went by as usual. Now that I've got this EAST Lab deadline off of my back, things should ease up a bit. I'll have a ton of stuff to do for other people next week for the next deadline, but now I have a weekend to relax a bit. After school my dad brought me some medicine, so I took a shot of NyQuil that put me down for a while. Now I just need some rest before I have to go take pictures of the high school's swim meet tomorrow morning.

1-25-01

Today was a pretty slow, yet busy day. I spent about 2 and a half hours in the darkroom making prints for my EAST Lab spread. Then I stayed after school for a couple hours to write up my EAST Lab story. Nothing happened after I got home. I had a bad cough, so I didn't feel like doing much. I laid in bed, watched TV, and napped for a little while. I'm getting low on medicine, which doesn't seem to help anyway, but I'm hoping I'll be rid of this cough within the next couple of days. I tried to get my TI Graph Link to work so I could put some programs on my calculator, but no matter how hard I tried, it refused to do anything. I'm glad tomorrow's Friday so I can finally have a weekend off.

1-24-01

I felt better when I woke up this morning. I had a temperature of 100.2º, which I'm sure was quite mild compared to what I had yesterday, so I decided to go to school today without a doubt. I still had a bad cough and was really congested, so I couldn't breathe well. Luckily, most of my classes just had slow days with little work. Before I got to school, I had to drop my dad off at the Wal-Mart parking lot to catch the bus to Tunica. He had to take my mom's purse to her since she forgot it at home. Nothing really special happened all day. After school my sister told me she had a ride to school, so I walked Rachel Trusty out to her car and talked for a little while, and then came home myself. I took my sister to her private flute lessons, and then we went to my aunt's house to eat the food she had cooked for the Chinese New Year. Hopefully I'll be feeling a lot better tomorrow so I can finish up my work on the yearbook.

1-23-01

I was feeling worse this morning than I was yesterday. I thought about not going to school, but I figured I had too much stuff that I had to do to be missing any. I could barely walk to each of my classes because I was so weak. Obviously I didn't get any work done anyway, so there was really no point in being there. I brought my yearbook stuff home to work on, but after I got home all I did was sleep. I finally got up enough strength to eat something and watch a little TV, but I'm still exhausted. Tomorrow I'll probably feel quite a bit better, but I won't have the work I was supposed to do tonight because I wasn't feeling well. C'est la vie.

1-22-01

I spent all of today with a bad cough. I'm getting sick, and it's not fun. I did have a pretty good day though. My classes were alright, and I had some yummy stuff for lunch. After I finished eating I walked around to the commons to see Cassie Hilgerson. I hadn't talked to her in four or five days, so I thought I'd go see how she was doing. I spent some time in the darkroom with Brandon Vaughn, making some last minute prints for people. I still need to write a couple stories to have in for the deadline on Friday. After school I went upstairs and gave Rachel Trusty a big hug because she wasn't feeling well again. She's been really depressed over something, but she never feels like talking to me about it, so all I can do is just hope everything turns out alright for her. She didn't really want me around much after I hugged her, so I went to talk to Cassie again for a bit. When Rachel was ready to head home, she stopped by for a second as if she wanted me to come along with her. As I walked her out to her car, neither of us said much of anything, but I think all she really needed was a friend by her side. After that, I went on home myself and watched some TV in my room. That's about all I felt like doing since I'm so sick. A few people visited the Cow Cam to watch me, as I'm sure I was very entertaining just laying there in bed with a cough and a headache. Mallory McKinney called and we talked for a while. That was probably the longest call I've ever had on my new phone, and we didn't even talk for that long. I just don't use my phone that much. I've worn myself out today. I think now all I really need is some good old fashioned sleep.

1-21-01

My alarm must not have gone off this morning, because I didn't get up as early as I wanted to. When I did get up, I had a headache, so I didn't really feel like going into school to work on the yearbook. My three spreads are due this week, so I've got to pick out some pictures and get a lot of work done. Jared Fitzgibbon said he got a new TV, so he sold me his old one. I can finally watch TV in my own room instead of having to go out into the living room. I'll never leave now. My parents were surprised because I didn't tell them I was going to get it. My mom just walked into my room and saw it up on my desk. I'm happy with it though, and I'll be even happier when I get the thing hooked up to my computer so I can have sound through my nice speaker system. After that, Sarah Hindsman called asking if I could go fix her computer for her. Somehow some drivers got removed and she couldn't even boot up Windows. I fixed that and then came home to watch some more TV. I'm not feeling well now, but I hope I'll be feeling well enough to go to school all this week. I've got too much stuff to do for the yearbook. You'll notice (or maybe you won't) that the Cow-Patty Link of the Week has not been updated today. Due to the lack of interest in the page, I've decided to discontinue the project for the time being. It may return at a later date, but I simply don't have time to look for really bad sites to put on it every week, and nobody ever submits any. The Cow Cam seems to be a big hit though, so at least there's something interesting on this page.

1-20-01

I woke up this morning when Lynne Wink called to request my presence at the school to work on the yearbook. She still thinks I never do any work in there. I got quite a bit of work done until she said we had to leave, so I came home. Dad had picked our cat back up from the veterinarian, minus the gender indicator. I guess there'll be no kittens around here. After a little while, everyone went to my sister's band concert while I opted to stay home. When they got back, they brought along my mom's brother and his wife from Florida. I had no idea they were coming to town, so it was quite a surprise to me. Then everyone left to go to my aunt's house to eat. I stayed behind for a little while to finish up a game before I left. We had a pretty good time talking about random, unimportant topics like politics. After a few hours there, my sister called us with the sound of many voices in the background. My parents sent me back home to keep an eye on her. When I got home, she had 4 guys, two of which I had never seen before in my life, and a girlfriend over. I called my parents back at my aunt's house, and my mom made the two guys I had never seen before leave. I was fairly satisfied, at least having the strangers out of my house. I went back to my room to play a game. My sister came in and said they were trying to watch a movie and shut my door. After a bit of playing, my game suddenly crashed and just disappeared. I decided it was time for a break, so I went out to discover my sister and Sam Bishop laying on the couch in the front room with the lights dimmed and the radio on. I didn't actually see her friend Lyadonna or my friend David Benefield, but I assumed they were hidden under the blanket on the floor right in front of the couch my sister was on. After that nice little scare, I went and got a drink of water (or rather threw it on my face hoping I was just having a bad dream) and went back to my room. Later, my friend Ellen Hurd from Pennsylvania messaged me and told me she was watching me on the Cow Cam. After making a few faces at her, I went to take a shower. My hand is numb, I'm tired, I played a lot of Quake III Arena and MDK2, I have to go to school again tomorrow to work on the yearbook, and I'm in the mood to whip out a very large gun and scare away some really stupid people.

1-19-01

I had a fairly easy day today, but most of the day during school wasn't fun. I spent a couple hours in the darkroom again and got a bunch of film and pictures developed. After school I walked and talked with Kerryn Johns down to her Mrs. LaFevers's room so she could make up a test. After that I went back up and saw Rachel Trusty looking quite the opposite of happy. I didn't say much to her because she was talking to Bethany Raines. I just sat and waited several minutes until she was done and then walked her out to her car. Later in the evening I went and met Mallory McKinney at the basketball game to take pictures for the yearbook. After that she mentioned something about social events, which I'm having slightly mixed feelings about. When she left, I went to meet Sarah Conley at the coffee shop to listen to Michael Levesque sing again. I sat with Sarah and her little friend Megan Levesque, Michael's daughter. Several people came by while we were there, including but not limited to Christi Bauer, Ashley Hardin, Eric Moore, Nikki Barr, Brandon Vaughn, Laura Post, Eliesha Sears, and Eric Savoie. Others came by, but I didn't really know them that well. Ashley came and sat in my lap a couple times, so I just sat back and pretended I knew what I was doing. After Michael Levesque finished, Sarah, Megan, and I went to take Ashley home, and then the three of us that remained went to Sarah's house for a little while to hang out. We played around and had some fun, and then I decided it was time to go home. Now that the caffeine's worn off, I think I'll go sleep for a couple days.

1-18-01

Today was an average day. I spent a couple hours in the darkroom making prints and developing a couple rolls I had. I went to Mr. Lonon's class for a little while 6th period to return a thermometer I had borrowed the period before, and talked to Rachel Trusty for a little while. I got her to put her hair up with a short length of Cat-5 cable I had. It didn't work as well as the pencils she usually uses because it was too flimsy, but it was still pretty cool. After school I went upstairs to hang out a little while before I went home. Cassie Hilgerson walked right by me and totally blew me off, so I guess I'll just leave her alone for a couple days. I guess she hasn't been feeling well for some reason. After I got home I did a little work on my page to make the Cow Cam better. After talking with Jared Fitzgibbon for a while, we said a few things that were worthy of being immortalized on the Funny Cud page. This is only a mere beginning of what is soon to come!

1-17-01

I took my mom to the Wal-Mart parking lot this morning so she could go to Tunica. Getting from there to the school was utter hell, but luckily I made it into my classroom right before the tardy bell rang. The rest of the day went on as usual. I mixed some chemicals for the darkroom. After school I talked a bit with Rachel Trusty. After I got home I did a little work on my page. As you can see, I've added the two new links to your left: "Cow Cam" and "Funny Cud." The Cow Cam is fairly self-explanatory. I've set up my web cam to take a picture every 5 seconds and post it online. The Cow Cam page will refresh itself every 5 seconds, so you can sit back and watch what I'm up to at any moment of the day that my computer's on. Funny Cud is quite a different idea, but should also turn out to be a nice addition to the site very soon. I've decided that I have many interesting conversations with a lot of people. Many interesting, funny, and whacky things are said at times, so I'm going to start the Funny Cud page to document the most interesting lines from these conversations. You'll get the idea once everything's set up right. The possibilities are endless.

1-16-01

We got out a little slow this morning, but I made it to class on time. Things went on as usual in every class. We had water again by the end of the day, so I'll be mixing chemicals for the darkroom tomorrow so we can develop our film again. I went to Mr. Murdock's Spanish class a couple times to see what he was up to. On my way out the second time, some girl whose name escapes me (or rather - whose name I never knew in the first place) mentioned seeing my page and said she liked it. I'm getting more and more famous every day. This is so cool! After that I went with Kerryn Johns to gather some quotes from the art class for yearbook. She's not even on the staff, but she was helping Janine Randles get her work done. I stayed in the art class and talked to Jared Fitzgibbon and Rachel Trusty until the end of the period. Near the end of 6th period I went to see Cassie Hilgerson. We sat and talked for a little while in her classroom, and then went to check out the darkroom with its new hole in the wall. Apparently they needed to get to some water pipes in there. Then I walked her on upstairs towards her next class. On the way up, I saw Matt Duffield and immediately had to hit his Dr. Pepper bottle with my Sprite bottle. He told me to write about that in today's log, so there it is in all its glory. After school I met up with Cassie again and talked for a little while before I headed home myself. I didn't do much after school, although I did get a new program working to upload pictures from my web cam every 5 seconds. Pretty soon I'll have a page up for it, which should be pretty cool. I had probably five or six different people watching me at one time. It was pretty cool. I can only imagine how dumb I must look in some of those pictures. Stay tuned for some more good ideas. I'll be adding a couple more features to the site within the next couple of weeks. The Cow has only just begun to Gallop!

1-15-01

I woke up this morning when some saleslady called for my parents. I had planned to wake up earlier, but someone came in and turned down my music that I had set for my alarm. After waking up late, I got ready and went out to see that my dad had taken my car to work. Extremely disliking the idea of driving the mini-van around, I decided to go switch cars with my dad. Then I went and spent all afternoon at the high school working on the yearbook. We still didn't have running water, but we're hoping to have some by tomorrow so we can develop film. After everyone finished there I stopped by Sarah Conley's house to fix her computer. For some reason both of her CD ROMs had disappeared. It didn't take too long to fix it, so then I went to Whattaburger to get a strawberry shake since I hadn't had anything else all afternoon and I was going on an empty stomach. Coming down my street to go home, I saw my parents leaving somewhere, so I raced to catch up with them and find out where they were going. They both griped at me for switching cars, and then we went home to drop off the Mustang and took a family trip to Wal-Mart. I went to Staples and got my $10 back for the coupon I had for my Intellimouse Explorer. We went shopping around for crap and then came home. After dinner I got on and Susi LeMaire got on ICQ and griped at me for a little while about some really dumb stuff. That was the extent of my day. Maybe school tomorrow will brighten up my week.........don't look at me like I'm a fool, darnit.

1-14-01

I looked out this morning and the sun was gone. I turned on some music to start my day. I lost myself in a familiar song. I closed my eyes and I slipped away. Today was my dad's magic club meeting in Fort Smith. My parents, sister, and her friend Lyadonna were all gone for the whole day. Around 2:00 I called Kerryn Johns to make sure she was awake and then went over to her house to help her with some algebra. She has been really sick for the past week, so she had a lot of makeup work to do. I spent all afternoon there with her, and actually had quite a bit of fun. After we finished that, we both decided to come back to my place to watch a movie and just hang out. After we finished the movie, she went back on home and I spent the rest of the night laying around the house half asleep. The new Cow-Patty Link of the Week is up, but I don't know why. The only person that ever goes to that page is Sarah Conley. You'll notice that for almost every week, she's the only one that has voted on any of the links. Maybe I'll scrap that page and try to come up with something else cool to do. Any ideas are welcome.

1-13-01

I woke up late today. I got to the recreation hall at around noon instead of 7 or 8 like I had originally planned. After I woke up I found out I had to take my dad to the Wal-Mart parking lot so he could get the other car. While I was there, I picked up some really good headphones that I could use at the tournament. After I got to the recreation hall, I got things set up ready to play. My computer's performance seemed really good for some reason, so I was proud of it. Just for fun, we decided to have a 5 on 5 game of Counterstrike with people against the staff of the tournament. For a prize, the winners could get $50 to split up among the players, or 128 megs of RAM for one of their computers. Since we did that, the third place prize for the Quake III tournament was taken away. Unfortunately, we lost the Counterstrike match. Later when we actually played Quake III Arena, I fought my way through pretty well. I would up in third place, of all things. I didn't get a prize, but a bit earlier I had won a card cooler for a door prize. In the end, Michael Hotz won first place and chose $100 over a GeForce 2 and then won an Intellimouse Explorer for a door prize, Jason Lee won second place with a Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer, and I made third with nothing. When everything was all done and we were packing up, I decided that since I didn't have any use for the card cooler, I'd just give it back to Thomas Hollingsworth. In exchange, and plus the fact that I sort of got cheated out of a third place prize, he said he would get me another Intellimouse Explorer. I helped clean things up a little bit and then headed home where I continued to wrestle with my computer for a while trying to get any of my video cards' drivers to work. Neither my Rage Pro Turbo or Voodoo3 2000 will work correctly for some reason. I'm too tired to continue working on anything now though. It'll be hard enough just finding a new Cow-Patty Link of the Week since nobody ever submits any to me. Not to invoke any feelings of guilt, but if any of you faithful visitors ever run into some really badly made sites, or sites with really horrible content, I would greatly appreciate it if you would submit those links to me.

1-12-01

Nothing special happened today during school. They got some big water bottles with little cone cups out all around the halls now since we haven't had running water in most of the school since last week. Classes were taken pretty easily. Janine Randles was feeling a bit better, so she showed up again today. After school I tried to fix my computer since ever time I reboot it, it starts with 16 colors in 640x480. I still haven't been able to figure out what's wrong with it. Jared Fitzgibbon got a new motherboard, so his replacement video card is working. He got quite upset when he had problems with it, but everything seems to be working now. His new motherboard doesn't have any ISA slots, so he borrowed my newer Turtle Beach PCI sound card since I have a new Sound Blaster Live! Platinum. I have my Voodoo back, so I'm happy about that. I took my new computer on over to the building where the Quake III Arena tournament will be. I helped set things up some and had a great time. I'll be going back early tomorrow to get in some practice before I actually have to play. Hopefully I'll either win a cool door prize or maybe even a tournament prize. Wish me luck!

1-11-01

I don't have much to say about today. I can only think of one exciting thing that happened. I was wandering around looking for stuff to take pictures of during my journalism period. Janine Randles wasn't feeling well, so when I saw her starting to walk down the hall to go do some stuff, she asked me to go with her in case she got too weak to walk. We got upstairs fine, but after a little while she could barely walk. After a little while she thought she was feeling a little better, so she wanted to try to walk on her own. I stood back a bit and she had a little fall. I caught her about halfway down, but she still wasn't feeling well. She couldn't walk and she said she felt like she twisted her ankle or something. We were right outside the EAST Lab, so when Mrs. Hill saw us out there she got a couple rolling chairs from the lab and we rolled Janine out to the front office since the nurse wasn't there. I spent the rest of that period and about half of the next period with her out in front of the main office. Eventually the evil Mrs. Robinson came out and made us move, despite the fact that Janine had to be rolled around in a freaking chair. She moved her to the empty nurse's room to lay down and told me to get back to class, completely ignoring the fact that I had study hall and Mrs. Little knew where I was. I found out what materials Janine would need from her locker and went to get them for her. On my way back up to give her stuff to her, I saw her attempting to walk along with someone who had come to pick her up. She gave me a hug and then headed on home. The next period I had a physics test and then it was time to go home. Nothing happened after school. I just came home and got on my computer. Thomas Hollingsworth called me while I was reading a couple sections from my history book. We talked about what was going on about the Quake III Arena tournament this Saturday. I'll be going sometime tomorrow just to help them set things up. For such an empty day, I sure have written a lot!

1-10-01

Today went by fairly easily. We didn't really do much work in any classes. I brought my new Intellimouse Explorer, Glowbie, to school with me. I didn't want to leave her at home all by herself since she's only a day old. I tried to use her in the EAST Lab at school, but she wouldn't light up for some reason. She did work on the nasty iMacs in the journalism room though. The juniors were gone to future fest today, so the halls were extremely clear and easy to navigate through, although I did miss seeing a few of my friends. The whole school just seemed kind of empty. I found out I have three different two page spreads to do for the yearbook in two weeks. I've got two computer related, and one for foreign languages. This will be a lot of fun, because not only will I have to make those three spreads, but I'll also have to take pictures for myself and just about everyone else that's doing a spread for this deadline. I'm going to be insanely busy for the next couple weeks. In physics during 7th period, we all sat around and talked about different things. We had a great time, but we didn't get to review much. After school I went to the journalism room to talk to Mrs. Little for a little while. After that I went upstairs and saw Chris Sanderock who had come to visit Rachel Trusty. I went up and sat on the stage with them and we talked for a little while. I had to wait for my mom to come pick me up at 4:00 since she's got training for tax season all week, and my parents have taken control of the cars. Later in the evening, a couple of my faithful fans tried to contact me a few times on AOL Instant Messenger. One finally got a hold of me, and we had a nice little chat for a while. After that I succeeded in royally screwing up my computer. I was stuck with 16 colors at 640x480 for a very long time. I eventually got some drivers working well enough that I'm back to 32 bit color at 1024x768. Now I'm exhausted from the day. I need an early retirement plan.

1-9-01

Today was a slow day. I just wanted to crawl into a very deep, dark hole and sleep for a very long time. I did my best to finish all the work that was given to me so I wouldn't have homework. Overall everything went alright, but I still wasn't feeling great, and was completely and utterly exhausted. After school I came home for a while and called Staples to see if they had gotten any Microsoft Intellimouse Explorers in. The lady I talked to said they still didn't have any. A little while later, Sarah Hindsman and Eric Duerr came over for a little while to check out some of my cool computer stuff. I loaned Sarah a CD, and then they were off. After dinner I went to the high school to take pictures of the basketball game. I saw Mallory McKinney, who was there to take a few practice shots. I guess she took photography last semester and is an aid or something this semester. After that little bit-o-fun, I decided to go to Staples or Wal-Mart to see what they had in the way of headphones. I want something better than the cheap ones I've got around the house for the Russellville Quake 3 Arena Tournament this Saturday. I didn't get any headphones, but I did see a single Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer on the shelf. I had forgotten my $10 off coupon at home, but the lady said I could bring the receipt back sometime with the coupon and I would get a refund. I guess this mouse had been returned by someone else, but it works fine for me. Her name is Glowbie. She's the sweetest little mouse I've ever had. I love her.

1-8-01

Aside from a few things, today was a fairly laid back day for me. I went to classes, did some work, and then came home. Makeup work from Friday wasn't a problem. I went around the school taking some pictures for yearbook during 5th period, and then spent most of 6th just relaxing in the journalism room. I got to wander around VoTech for a bit to take some pictures for Olin Rankin's spread in the yearbook. Physics was fun, and then after school I ran around to talk to some different people. On the way out I saw Ryan Roberts standing there talking to a few people. I stopped to shake hands, but then took off again after Cassie Hilgerson, who was wandering around by herself. We talked for a little bit, and then I walked out to the parking lot where Rachel Trusty was just getting into her car. We talked for a couple minutes before my mom got there to pick me up, and then I went home. I wasted most of the evening just relaxing, but after dinner I went to Staples with my dad to get a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer. They still didn't have any in stock, so I was a bit upset. We stopped by Kroger on the way home, so we didn't come home completely empty-handed I guess. While I was gone, apparently one of my old site visitors had tried to message me. Hopefully next time we'll get to actually talk some. I worked on some homework until Sarah Conley came on and we had a little squabble. It wasn't a bad squabble in my opinion, but a squabble of any type is never good. I'm not completely sure what to do now, but to set the record straight I'm not upset at her over anything. I'm simply trying to sift out what I do know from what I think I know. With any luck, all will be well soon.

1-7-01

Today was an interesting day, and in certain ways it's one that I hope I'll soon forget. Sarah Conley, Susi LeMaire, and I all had a nice little squabble. It was all quite stupid, but now I'm not sure who I can trust. All people are stupid to a degree. It's just that some people are rated at a higher magnitude of stupidity than others. Apart from all the negativity, a couple good things actually did happen today. Yesterday I told Jeff Green that I saw Rachel Trusty driving down the road head-banging to Marilyn Manson. He told her what I said, so she finally added me to her MSN Instant Messenger list. Today was the first time in a very long time that I had talked to her away from school. She was quite comforting during my battle with Sarah and Susi. I also did a little looking for a new Cow-Patty Link of the week. I didn't feel like doing a lot of searching, so this week's link isn't nearly as bad as some of the others I've had. Maybe if some of my visitors would start submitting sites I wouldn't have to look so hard for bad sites by myself. Just a thought. You can get to the submission form from the CP-LOTW page. If you don't feel like filling out the form, feel free to contact me via any of the many methods on the Contact page. That's about all I have for today. Bless you all, and may your lives never be as strangely complicated as mine seems to be.

1-6-01

I slept late today, and it felt good. I was way too tired from our three day school week. I sat around for most of the day. My dad said he saw an old computer at the high school that he thought they were going to throw out, but when he told me they were inside I figured it was stuff they were going to auction off, so we didn't even go in. After that we were going to go to Wal-Mart, but the place was simply too full. We didn't feel like finding a place to park and then fighting through the crowds of people. It's sad that Wal-Mart is the cool place to hang out on Saturdays. On the way home I saw Rachel Trusty driving down the opposite direction. I have no idea where she was headed, and she never talks to me online any more, so I didn't get to ask. Later in the afternoon Susi LeMaire called me to tell me she was in town, but then said I couldn't go see her, so I just kind of sat and thought about that for a while. I don't know why she bothered to call me in the first place if all she had to say was that she was in town. Later in the evening Nikki Holbrook, Christi Bauer, and I were going to go out just to hang out and get out of the house. Christi had another friend along with her, but she decided she didn't want to stick around for long, so she left with Christi and a couple other guys to go get her car at McDonald's. Nikki and I sat in Higher Grounds for a while waiting for them, and when they finally got back they all decided to split up and go along their way. I started to go home, but then decided to go back to Higher Grounds to hang out with Sarah Conley and some other friends I saw in there. Kendon Lawrence was playing there in a band, so we all sat in the back listening to them. It was great fun. After that, Sarah, Erin Ashley, and I decided to go over to McDonald's to eat and hang out for a while. We saw Eric Duerr there, so we sat around for quite a while talking and having a great time. Erin left, so Sarah and I sat for a while more to talk. We got bored of that, so we came back to my place to hang out for a little while, but before long she had to go back home. It's been an interesting and tiring night, but I keep thinking I'm missing something. Oh well.

A correction from last Thursday's log: "Jo Anna Jackson" is really Joanna Jackson. Her name was incorrect in the yearbook I had checked.

1-5-01

For the most part, today was a fun and interesting day. The only class I went to the entire day was second period calculus, and Mrs. Heflin wasn't even there, so we didn't do anything. I didn't really have much to do in the way of helping with club pictures, but it was more fun than regular class. I sat up there and watched all sorts of different people come in for all the different clubs. We all got to fool around and just have a good time while we were up there. During first lunch I got to run around and see all the people I never get to see during regular class schedules. I went over and stole Rachel Trusty's purse and ran around the Commons with it. After a little while she chased after me, but I just kept running around. I didn't eat lunch, but I wasn't really hungry anyway. I was running around having a good time and I just never felt like going through the line to get food. Cassie Hilgerson came through to take several club pictures, so she came over to talk any time she was around. During 6th period she came up just to visit some more, so we sat at a table and just talked about random things that came to our minds. A little while before the end of the period I walked her back to her class. We and a couple other people in her class stopped at the bottom of the stairwell to talk for a bit. I hadn't been feeling so great for a little while, so just out of the blue Cassie gave me a little peck on the cheek to cheer me up. It's not every day that something like that happens. After that I went back upstairs and we finished club pictures, so we all went down to the journalism room with the photography students. We had a bunch of fun down there until school was out. I went back up and walked around a bit with Rachel Trusty, and then went out to find Cassie again. After I found her, we talked for a bit until her mom came to pick her up. Then I went back inside and talked to Rachel a bit more until my sister decided it was time to go home. After school I laid around barely able to stay awake. I think it's time for some real sleep now.

1-4-01

Today was another somewhat slow day as far as classes went. We didn't do much in any of my classes. I spent most of 5th journalism out of class. I followed Brandon Vaughn around for a little while because he was taking some pictures of random classes doing things. First we dropped in on physiology and watched people play with dead rats. Then we went up to the stage to check out what drama was doing. They had some seniors from last year return for some activities, and they gave quite a show of games. Cassie Hilgerson came over and stood next to me to watch the show and talk a bit. Eventually she got called up to the stage for one of the games they were playing. It all looked quite fun. After that period was over I went back down to the journalism room since I didn't really have anywhere else to go. About halfway into the period I was wandering the halls and caught Jo Anna Jackson running off somewhere looking quite upset about something. After she came by the second time I took her into the journalism room where there wasn't a class that period and talked with her for a while. She calmed down some and then went back to her class. The next period in physics, several of us gathered around one table to work and talk, so it turned out being quite fun. After school I went upstairs and saw Cassie again, so we walked around for a bit. After she headed on home, I started to come back in when I saw Rachel Trusty and company heading towards the door. I walked her out to her car to talk for a little while. After that I came home and life got boring again. Tomorrow I get to wake up extra early and spend the day helping with club pictures at school. Second period I'll be going back to calculus so I don't miss too much, but then I'm back up taking pictures for the rest of the day. It should prove to be quite entertaining.

1-3-01

I woke up this morning at 6:00. I could have slept another 45 minutes or so, but my sister insisted on waking up at 6:00 and playing her music loudly in her room next door. After laying in bed with a twitch in my left eye from pure hatred for my sister, I decided trying to go back to sleep was worthless and started getting ready for school. We didn't do much in any of my classes, so it was a nice day to get used to the school thing again. I'm on the final stretch now. This is my last semester of regular old public schooling. After this I take off into the world on my own wings and such and such. It's a boring story, I know. After laying around classes all day, it was finally time to go home. Rachel Trusty was kind enough to let me have the "divine privilege" of walking her to her car. That didn't last too long, but it was quite interesting when Beth Scott's boyfriend, Josh Whitlow, came out with a dead duck. I'm still not quite sure why he had it, but I refuse to ask. After that bit of excitement I gave Brian Connerly a ride home and then headed home myself. Right before I hopped into bed I figured I should check my Hotmail account, since it had 20 new messages (18 of which were spam). To my absolute excitement and glee, I found an E-Mail from someone I didn't know. This would be my third fan, unless of course this is just the Hotmail account of one of the other two kind people that messaged me on AOL Instant Messenger a couple days ago. I can barely contain myself. I'm so happy. I know how all this information must have you all on the edges of your seats in excitement, but today's story must come to an end. Goodnight, my faithful readers.

1-2-01

I'm having to write today's log a little earlier than I'm used to, on account of school starts back up tomorrow and must get my beauty sleep. Today was one final "lay around the house" day before it's back to the grindstone tomorrow. I got a Christmas postcard from a friend of mine in Sweden. Now I feel bad because I didn't send her anything. I'll have to think of something quickly. This evening I got another message on AOL Instant messenger. This time it was a friend of the girl that messaged me yesterday. He said she was freaking out because I mentioned my conversation with her in yesterday's log. I figure if I can freak her out, I can freak this guy out too by mentioning our conversation. I seem to remember something about mopery and a light bulb in our conversation, but there's no sense in going into great detail. After that brief conversation, I went to my aunt's house to get a haircut. My cousin Randy and I played with some Legos while we waited for my aunt's shop to warm up. That's about all that happened today. Time for some rest.

1-1-01

Happy friggin new year, everyone. As I mentioned in yesterday's log (now on the history page), I didn't get to go to Sarah Hindsman's party last night. For once in my life I actually had somewhere that I wanted to go on new year's eve, but couldn't because of some stupid snow. To make things even better, school starts back up in two days. I just can't wait. On a lighter note, not long after I woke up this morning I got a message from someone on AOL Instant messenger. We talked for a while about random things such as licorice and this web page. She explained how she and her friend keep up with my daily ramblings. I've got the beginnings of a fan club. Now all I need are some T-shirts to give away and I'll be in business. Move over, Yahoo!, because the Galloping Cow is on a roll!

Other than that, nothing happened today. I just spent all day laying around the house since I had nothing better to do. My chat this morning and writing today's date (01-01-01) were the high points of my day. This year and the next 11 years to come are the only years that have dates like that. It's strange what kinds of things you can think of when you have nothing better to do. I've been talking to Kasey Garrison about random things. Kasey Garrison said Kasey Garrison was looking at this page, so I think I'll try and get Kasey Garrison's attention by saying Kasey Garrison's name in today's log at least 5 times. Now that I've achieved that goal, I can go to bed. Good night everyone.