First off, we had a crazy hail storm last tuesday. I could tell right away that this was no ordinary storm. The clouds were actually falling before it was raining, kinda of like when a twister forms. It started with huge gusts of wind that blew a lot of junk outside my house pretty far; it carried our recycle bin about 20 feet. Then, there were heavy but short bursts of rain. After that, the rain came down even harder and it started to hail. The hail came down harder and harder, and we feared that our vehciles would get a lot of damage or that the windshield would shatter. Luckily, they held together, but I got hit in the face and stomach by hail when I was recording the storm; the hail actually bounced off the porch and van - it hit THAT hard. Yes I suffered greatly to bring you those videos - which leads me to my second topic.

I updated the site with many new videos and 3 new pages. The videos are stored on my myspace so if you have a myspace feel free to leave comments. The 3 pages I added are restricted pages for my friends, my family, and the media. They contain pictures, videos, and links; if you wish to view them then click on Request Account next to the log in boxes, go back to the site and visit then contact page, or contact me on myspace and ask me for the passcode, I will gladely give it to you. I am also working on a myspace section, I'll let you know when it's done. I will put more work into the site tomorrow.

Third, we made the top four in the State meet in Track. I hope to do better and make state next year to achieve my dream. That would be an awesome graduation present to myself. I have been training extra hard these past few weeks so that I can keep getting better, but I just recently got sick which slowed me down some. Its not really smart to run when I'm sick, but I can't help it I need to practice. I took a break today though just to see if I get better; I had to take off of school today because it really got bad. But, when this passes, I will have to train even harder to compinsate for lost time.

Fourth, It's E3 week! Yup, E3 or Entertainment Electronic Expo is being held all this week; I'v been watching G4 for live coverage. I know I'm not much of a gamer anymore, but I'm still interested to see what's going on. And guess what...the new HALO 3 trailer was shown! It looked awesome!...but told me hardly anything about the game. I will put the trailer on my blog and/or the public video section soon. They also put a bunch of videos from E3 on the XBox Marketplace, so I might upload those too. Halo 3 is supposed to come out in 2007, but its rumored that they just lied about that so that sony would launch the PS3 and they would launch the already finished Halo 3 to counter it. And since PS3 is supposed to come out in november, as they said on myspace and at the conference, this novemeber will get interesting.

Fifth, there was a crazy stunt by David Blaine yesterday where he spent a week in a human aquarium and then tried to hold his breath for 9 minutes, ya 9 MINUTES! But, there was a problem with the chains holding him down so he had to use his muscles which ate up precious oxygen, so he only made it to 7 minutes and 5 seconds I think. Plus, he injured his kidney and liver in the process. But, he wants to try it again so we'll see what happens. I still am skeptical of his abilities, could magic like that really exsist in this realisticly rule-set world where life is boring and magic is just an illusion? Hey, its still pretty cool that he can hold his breath that long, I can only hold it for a maximum of 2 minutes. But, even though he didn't pass his target and almost died, he has still inspired me again to keep going and pushing myself. He met with Evil Kenevil who told him that he couldn't do it, that we are what we are and that we must accept that. But, David showed that he could hold his breath for 5 minutes which shook up Mr. Kenevil and changed his mind. So has David Blaine really found the secrets to breaking the rules of reality which keep us sane? If so, then why couldn't he make 9 minutes, why did he leave 15.7 million people dissapointed, why does he leave the hospital with a damged kidney and liver which could be perminant? Did God intervene to show that we are who we are and that we must accept that? Or mabye HE wasn't the person to show us? I leave you to ponder that.

cu ltrZ!