Meebo...

Well a while back I gave a link to www.meebo.com well unluckily I gave the wrong link. But now that’s fixed and I added a thing so that you can chat with me!!! Unfortunately you can’t chat with anyone else unless you sign up with meebo. But it is pretty cool so if you do just add magicfap to you buddies list. I’ll talk to you soon if you try it out.

Cheers, Forrest

PS if you want a better name than just meeboguest38123394 then just type it in where it say nickname!

Chrismahaunakwanzica and beyond

Since before chrismahaunakwanzica I have had lots of fun. As a present, I got a new cellular...=] yay! Now I can spend money on lots of useless things like games. Another thing I got was a subscription to a magazine called "MAKE: technology on your time" it is a really cool magazine that is kind of like a magazine of instructables projects. It is really fun and I'm looking forward to building that ornithopter! Anyways I hope that everyone celebrating this holiday season had a good holiday and was satisfied.

cheers, forrest

Hair cut.. this time its for real

So, I finally cut my hair. and i photo documented the whole thing.. so here they are.. in time order... THE PICTURES!!!!




ahh the hair is eating my face



i just found a new recipe for Jello salad!



mullet...need i say more



before the shower



and after the shower!

hope you like it =]

Free Geek

Yesterday I walked downtown with a friend. We went to free geek (a local company) to volunteer. The company is built around the idea that anyone without the money to buy a computer should get one for free. I really like computers so when I learned about the place I was thrilled. Yesterday I spent my day doing "triage". Triage is basically taking apart CPUs and replacing the parts that don't function with parts that do. For instance when I was there I replaced a CD drive in one computer that would not eject. After I had replaced it I tested the computer by hooking up a monitor a keyboard and a mouse. Also I got to help set up the company's router. All I did was installed a few network cards and hooked up a hard drive. I am lucky because I am coming in at the start of the Olympia branch. I hope that that means that I will be able to learn early and teach others that come to the business how to do some of the things that I have learned to do. If you live in Olympia or in Portland then you should check it out.

cheers, Forrest

Ebooks

Lately (for the past 2 days or so) I have been enthralled by a book... Ender's game... I have spent most of the past few days listening to this book on my Mobiblu cube (the world’s smallest mp3 player). I am able to do this because I learned from my mom that the library offers mp3 sound books which can be found for anyone living near me here). I learned that with a click of a button and not much time at all I can download up to 4 books from the online catalog. There are some pretty good titles. If you don't live near me you should check out your library website or tell your library about the program...the one downfall of it is that it doesn't play on iPods. Anyway that’s what I've been doing lately... It is very interesting to listen to a book on tape again (I used to do it all the time). Check to see if your library has something like this... It’s great because you can check things out without going all the way to the library.

firefox

I just remembered that I have Firefox. My favorite thing about it is all the add-ons. I just downloaded greasemonkey! It’s so awesome. I just learned how to remove all of the ads on the web, and it really works. I really enjoy everything that Firefox can do...so if you don't have it you should get it because it rocks.

cheers, Forrest

earth chapter2

Here’s the start of chapter 2 =]

Johan and Tessin slowly walked down the road. I had been four days since they had left the house. Johan knew of an inn that was not far away, four miles or so, he thought. He was light hearted thought because of being away form the man. He felt as free as a bird, but he needed to get away even farther than where they were now, even miles away. He could feel in his heart that the man was too close.

“How are you doing?” he asked his mother

“Fine, I bet we can make it to the inn by night fall” she replied

Johan realized that he had never been this far away into the woods before. He started to notice how dark and dismal it was in the forest. It seamed that it had never felt this uninviting before. He shook off the feeling of uneasiness and went on. At just before dark they came into a clearing of the forest and saw a good sight, the Inn. Together they walked up to the door of the inn and went inside.

Inside sat a tiny dwarf of a man behind the counter. He glared at the two strangers and asked them what they wanted. Johan replied that they were looking for a place to stay the night. He thought for a minute and asked them what they could give him for a room. Johan was about to get the money when his mother touched his arm to stop him.

She said “We will work, if you need it.”

The man thought for a while and then said “All right…take the room downstairs.”

Johan and Tessin went down the stairs to the room below.

It was a dank room, cramped, with just room for a sleeping mat and a small chair. There was a single candle in the middle of the room.

“Why did you stop me from paying?” Johan said.

“Because you must save what little we have for a worse situation.” Tessin replied

Johan thought about what she had said and offered Tessin the bed. She accepted, wearily, and they both fell asleep.

Johan woke up to the sound of a bell.

He jumped out of the chair that he had slept in. It took a few seconds to realize where he was. He then bent down and softly woke his mother. They would need to get up as fast as possible.

hope you like it, forrest