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today was awesome.

This morning i woke up, got ready, and mom told me to do a dump run. She also had said she’d rather not be carless later, so i called Paula and asked her if she could pick me up around 11:30, and she said that would be fine. So i did the trash in record time (considering it hadn’t been done in two weeks…) and got back to find her waiting on my driveway. So from there we went straight on out to Texas Roadhouse (after a few nigh-unintelligable phone calls with Elizabeth XD) and there we met the whole gang–some twenties of people. ‘Twas quite amazing. The food was awesome, and our table… was only *mildly* awkward ^^;;; (Hannah, Paula, Gavin, and Me… all in one booth.) But hey, friends are friends, no matter who the other company is. One sirloin K-bob later, we were all headed back to Elizabeth’s house.

And then came the presents. I’m so proud of the bow I did ^^ newspaper bows… yes… anyway, there was ANOTHER Izzard video (one i haven’t seen ^^) that i think Ursula gave Elizabeth. I kinda squeaked. Ok, so i did squeak. Anyway, then there was the weapons demo.

Swordplay + Padding + Rules = Safe Awesomeness.

I did pretty well, i died a bunch but in my first match against Louis I lost by only one point. Brian killed me a few times, but at one point it was cool cause we killed each other at the same time. I think i killed Heather a few times, and she killed me some times too… and there was some doubleteaming, which was interesting. But polearms = lots of leverage. It’s ridiculously difficult to block with a claw (one hand) against a polearm (two hands, wide set.) I found the only real way was to get both claws up there for the block, and then worry about how to move one for a strike. I didn’t win even once against polearm fighters. Those were Elizabeth, and Paula.

The weapons I did best with were when i had a longsword alone (wielded double handed, Katana style), dual wielding claws, and dual wielding longsword and shortsword (katana and wakizashi style). I did the absolute best with Dual Claws. I had three styles using these–Attack (One claw in front, one claw behind), Defense (One claw up, one down, both in front), and what-the-hell-ever (One claw angled up in front, other claw straight forward from rear arm), which I made up and worked amazingly well.

“Let them eat cake, she said, just like Marie Antoinette.” (~Queen) Fredericks = Double plus good. ’nuff said.

Then there were traps. I watched one get disarmed and watched them playing around with flash cubes (which are wicked cool)… and then, cause the fire was there and i was wicked hot… i went into the kitchen and talked to Victoria, Bryan, Ashley, Michael, Meggie, and Dave. That was a rather… odd conversation, but anyway… after that Paula had to leave, so i gave hugs all around (and confused a lot of non-hollislanders, but i miss them when i’m away, so they got hugs anyway), then went with Paula.

We went to her dad’s house because she was expected there, and then… well… it was just awesome… today was just awesome… such a good party… such a good way to spend the evening…

Now my muscles are all worn out from the battling and raking, and i’m tired. So I’m going to finish this cup of tea, read some more of the Belgariad, and then go to bed.

~G’night

we live in a world where the best adviser/informer under general circumstances is a virtual construct.

Austin: i can’t figure out how to get these triggers to work…
Adrian: Google knows everything.
Austin: What?
Adrian: Google knows everything. Google it.
Austin: Warcraft three triggers?
Adrian: Yup.
Austin: True. ::goes to google::

I can’t say any more–i’m being watched, and I fear at any moment, Google might come… Hold on.

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there… but that will only hold them for so long… it’s an army i tell you, an army of Googlebots come to do their masters bidding… This line is tapped, or if it isn’t it will be soon, so I’ll have to go. I want you to know I love you all… And I’m sorry I couldn’t–