AND THE LACK THEREOF*

*we put the "mmm" in communism

about

This is the personal blog of Tim. Here, Tim writes on anything he has enough inspiration to finish a post on. That usually ends up being matters of science, pop culture, technology, religion, and philosophy.

This blog is around nine years old, which is over a third of Tim's current age. Back in 2003, it was called "Of Tim: Tim's life - or lack thereof", and it was as bad as you might expect the blog of a freshman in high school to be. Tim hopes that his writing is a little better, these days.

Tim welcomes any input that you, the dear reader, might have. Comments are very much appreciated, especially if you have a dissenting opinion. If you'd like to learn more about Tim, you might want to see his facebook or google+.

Also: Tim is a very avid consumer of various sorts of music. You may be interested in his playlists!

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Today was pretty good. Church was weird, but I had Jesse, Benjamin, Nolan, and Daniel over to shoot some airsoft. My MP5 hurts like CRAP! I have half a dozen welts all over my body. War wounds, shall we say. Despite an awesome day, I've experienced another low.

I just can't take school. It feels like I'm holding my breath all week and I don't get air until the weekend. But I develop a growing air deficit, and I don't get the air I so badly need until a break. It's a weird metaphor, but it's how I feel. The depressing thing is, I know I can be a 4.0 student. But it takes so much work! I can just slack off and maintain a 3.4, so I just do that, when I know I can do better. I know I've hardly had any school the past two weeks, but I know what's coming. There's isn't a single break in all of March. I pray the Lord will keep me going for that long.

Please, pray that I can use the gifts God has given me. I know I can do better, but I just feel like it's for naught.
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::sigh:: Back to school. Though I feel quite rested, but that's not saying a whole lot.

I spent yesterday home doing homework and memorizing stuff, until about 1:00. After that I watched TV, then Daniel came over and we played withour OUR NEW AIRSOFT GUNS! Everything worked better than I expected. My MP5 rocks. We shot off about 400 rounds worth in total, and it was a lot of fun. I now have a cardboard dude as a target in my bedroom. It's soooo cool!

I won't bother racking up the score for the Colorado trip. It was below -10, to be sure. Though my homeroom/DDP teacher started throwing floppys at me when I told him where I'd been. It was funny though.

Anyways, off to read up on HBO.
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We leave from here tomrrow afternoon, but we don't get on our fl;ight until Tuesday morning. I really don't want to spend more time than I need on this computer, so I'll be brief with the scoring. Last time it was at -6.

We went skiing Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. That was cool. +2.

Went skiing with Claire on Saturday. +1

Mrs. Johnson has a thing about cooking whatever I like! +1

Nothing to buy, anywhere, and nothing to do, except play on my GBA. -1

Altitude sickness is gone. +1

Sarah's dad is kinda weird. -1

Had to spend 4 or 5 hours at a church where i knew nobody, and then to a dinner afterwards for church people. -1

Apparantly the airsoft has either been a) stolen b) delayed or c) not shipped. -1

Lots of homework to do. Memorize a german conversation, write a short story, and read a little in a book. -1.

The score remains at -6. Not fun.
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I'm in Colorado. And it's not all that great. I have altitude sickness, which apparently won't wear off till tomorrow morning. And there's nothing to do.

For those of you who don't know, altitude sickness happens when you go above 8000 ft. It has somehting to do with the lack of oxygen, and air pressure. I threw up last night, and I'm pretty nauseated right now. Sarah's parents are nice, but they're pretty much what I expected. We go skiing tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday, which might be fun, but I just don't want to get sunburned. Yes, you can get sunburned. You're actually more likely to get sunburn than in Hawaii furing the summer.

Let me start a little point counter here, for how the trip is going.

I met Tim Hume yesterday, and he's kinda cool, though I expected him to be like 30-ish. He's like 40-something. IF I get to see him later in the week and talk to him and stuff, that would be a +1.

I got to see Claire, my dead cousin Pete's wife. She's pretty cool, in a spunky kind of way. She reminds me of Allison Hogue, for those of you who know her. If I get to see her more often, that would be a +1.

The Rockys are beautiful. You can see for like up to 250 miles, depending on where the mountain line is. +1.

Altitude sickness sucks. I've had it for like 24 hours now, and it's really making things miserable. -2.

I was never able to get those CDs. I completely forgot when we went to best buy, so I all; I had to bring that I had room for was JoC and RotK. I also wasn't able to get a charger for the GBA, which my mom is yet again trying to revive. I have batteries, but they'll run out. -1.

I got forced to spend 3 hours with Sarah going around town. -1.

I had to give up spending the night at Jesse's house on Sunday night. -1.

The plane ride(s) were pretty bad. We woke up at 6:00 to drive for 1.5 hours to Rochester, to ride a plan for an hour, to wait for 3 hours in Newark, to ride a 4 hour plane to Denver, to drive 3 hours to here. Half the time we were carrying luggage or stuff on our laps. *mutter* -1.

Overall stuff affecting my mood about the trip:

I'm missing my incoming Airsoft shipment. -1.

I'm missing two days of school for this trip. -1.

None of my friends are going anywhere. -1.

Overall score: -6. Not very cool.
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Friday....finally...

Nothing of any great importance has happened since Wednesday. But I'm going to best buy tomorrow, to trade in Medieval + Expansion and Deus Ex, and I'll save myself 50 bux when I get the Medieval Combo. I'll get some headphones, and the Revolutions soundtrack, and the first Bond CD. Hopefully that will be enough to give me something to do in Colorado.

Oh well, we shall see....
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Alright, I've got to rant about two most women I know. Sarah and Mary. Yes, it's a new post title! This signifies an extreme feeling, happy, depressed, rant-mode, you can find from the post.

I'll start with Mary. She's my German teacher, who supposedly knows German fluently. I can't stand her. She singles out random people and picks on them for stupid stuff, like wearing hats and chewing gum. Get back to the 5th grade, woman. I haven't learned an ounce of German, and I'm not becoming a better writer, supposed from her tactics. She hands me a German workbook I can't read to help me learn German when I tell her this. The books she hands out are hnot level 2 books - none of us can read them without a dictionary on-hand. She dances and makes up rhymes which we can't make up. She's always sinigng and dancing and quoting plays none of us have seen - and they aren't German plays. She's always talking about what she did in her other classes - especially the AP class. She never manages to stay on topic. Her games designed to help us learn are embarrasing when we don't understand and don't make sense. The homework she gives - which is rare that she give shomework - is impossible or unrelated to German. She doesn't know some of our names - halfway through the year. And that's Mary for you.

Now's Sarah. She lives in my house, she goes to our church, and is renting from my parents. My parents are always saying "She's a part of our family." and "She's like our daughter.". I don't really mind this, but two brothers is fine for me. I liked having an empty house, but now it's gone. I know she means well, but whenever I come home, she pesters me with questions, and I'm NEVER in the mood to talk when I get home from school. There's a reason I don't log on AIM till 5:00 anymore. She's kind of like the example my parents are always pointing to - "Be like Sarah, she worked day and night for her pHd!". She makes mom and dad happy, so I suppose that's ok, but it's still kind of aggravating.

As you can tell, a lot of these rantings are selfish and stupid, but it's what I think about them.
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Just finished all my homework in school, using my last 20 minutes to post. Had to wake up at 6:00 to take the trash out...d'oh.

The week's been going extraordinarily well. I got the airsoft guns ordered, minus one mag. I got my router configured to support hosting Warcraft 3! No more waiting in crappy rooms! Muhahaha. Had some help from Benjamin, and had to go to the old XBConnect page to remember where to go. I feel much refreshed in my knowledge of computers. Yay.

I went outside today in a T-Shirt. It's really warm, only like, 20 degrees?

I think I've decided not to do anything social for at least two hours after I get home. I have this really big down fall for about an hour or two, until I get used to being home. It makes everything kind of annoying...but you know, you deal. Stupid mood swings.

Anyways, off to go read up on the comics.
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Sometimes I wish I weren't a human....then I'd at least have something to differentiate me from everyone else. That might at least explain why I'm now slightly emaciated and my hands are forever blue. Oh well, I dream on...

These past few days have held few suprises. I won't detail the Sam situation, because I doubt it concerns many of you. Suffice to say it is resolved for the time being. I've finally gotten to a semi-regular posting point, so I hope I've appeased all of you.

Colorado arrives in exactly one week now, and it's gonna suck. Plans to have Daniel come along fell through, so now it's just me, in Colorado with my parents with epople I don't know and possibly won't like, with only two things to do: skiing or nothing. Colorado is great, but not when there's nobody there. Skiing's great, but not when nobody's there. I won't even have full access to a computer there. It definately will suck....only way out is to pay 180 dollars which right now is reserved for the airsoft guns I will hopefully order today or tomorrow, optimally arriving the day I get back.

http://www.airsoftatlanta.com/images/xxmp5sd3bx_jpg.jpg

http://www.airsoftatlanta.com/images/xx_uhc_hw_usp_box_jpg.jpg

Pictures for those curious ones.

Awesome Halo theme released at HBO today. Check it out. It's now my startup theme.

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/hail117anthem.mp3

Cool stuff.
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Ah, another day. I keep having his weird image when I wake up - of DNA seperating into strands.....then, as I try and put the strands back together, I realize this is a metaphor for sleep. It's really very strange.

Not much has progressed since last. Decided on the guns and accessories that I will be buying, but my dad has become a hazard. He's asked Mr. Mcconnell about it, and Mr. Carcich too. Both of them weren't opposed, which is indeed a good thing. However, I have to wait for Mr. Mcconnell to give the thumbs up to Jesse. Another week or two to wait. ::mutter::
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Waking up. So tired.

I've decided somewhat on which Airsoft guns I'm going to buy. It came to be a matter of practicality and pricing. So, I'm going with a UHC SD-3 MP-5, and a UHC USP. Together, they cost 65 dollars, and with an extra magazine each and bullets, it's gonna cost a lot. I'm probably ordering bulk order with Daniel and Peter, so maybe that will cut down on the shipping costs. Hopefully.

School-wise, this week hasn't been so good. Screwed up my first homework assignment for Bio in this semester, and for German. I forgot to get a signature for English...not good stuff. On the bright side I don't have school Friday, and I'm going to a Boy Scout thing with Benjamin, Jesse, and Daniel on Saturday. Other than that, not much has happened.
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Begin another boring school day. At the moment I'm fairly tired, so forgive me for anything I might do in the next hour.

I had Benjamin, Jesse, Sam, and Nolan over to spend the night on Friday night, after the youth group thing. That was a LOT of fun. We spent most of our time playing games, usually Raven Shield. I finally found the CD Code for it, so I can finally play online. My mind is really blank at the moment, but we played Warcraft 3, and something else, I think. Can't really remember.

Sunday was as usual, church, but nobody came over, most of us were either too tired or had just seen eachother all Saturday....more likely the latter.

The latest thing I've been looking at is airsoft guns. For those of you who don't know - Airsoft guns are similar to a BB gun, or a paintball gun, in that they shoot low-velocity rounds. They actually shoot .2 cm (or sometimes .12 cm) plastic rounds, at, usually 200 FPS (feet per second). They can cost anywhere for 20 dollars to 2250 dollars, so it really varies what they are. The main thing about Airsoft is that it's realistic. All the guns you can buy are usually real guns, like a Baretta 9mm, a Desert Eagle .50, or a Kalishnakov. Basically, if you can find it in real life, you can find it in Airsoft. I won't go into too much detail right now, but I've been looking into saving up for one of them. They could be our next laser tag. Daniel isn't sure if he can get one though, but Jesse is! Benjamin said he's working on it too, but no definites.

I'm off to go read up on the comics.
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