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Return to Lake Crescent

Well, we drove about 2/3 of the day for a 2/3 mile hike, because 2/3 of us couldn't take any more. It was a fractured day, I'll give it that much.


This is the abridged story of what happened that day.

First we got up at 5:30. Great start. The way there was okay...



...and then we got to Lake Crescent! Yayuz!
(pepsi water ^)





The trip didn't get bad until after the hike, which was amazingly cool...again.

THEN...we drove to the beach. "First Beach", to be exact. We were trying to get to "Second Beach", which is right after "Third Beach", but we couldn't find it on the map. Who came up with the names? At least the native American names like "Snohomish", "Puyallup", and "Sequim" sound cool! Next they'll be naming "51st state" and "Fifth City". ANYWAYS, on the drive to the beach, the subject of my future career came up, and my grandparents heard about my wanting to get in to the video game industry. Of course, they are all big experts of the video game industry, and were talking about the high chances of getting into a moral dillema making a 'bad' video game. They then went on to imply that I was only interested in the career for the high salary. Psh. For the past two years I've been in a high school class that integrates Math, English, and Art into video game design, along with Computer Programming. My mom says that I "haven't been exposed to the really bad video games", so I wouldn't know of their existance. I've been learning about the video game industry, as well as the 'bad games' controversy for almost two years. That's 1 year and 363 days longer than my mom and grandma put together.

Moving along, I tried listening to my iPod. TRIED is the million dollar word there. My sister and cousin in the back seat kept tapping my shoulder so I could get them more snacks. Why they couldn't just get the snacks all at once is beyond me, but I couldn't get through two songs for a good 10 minutes without my shoulder being tapped. I finally fell asleep for about 15 minutes. I sensed that we were pulling into a gas station, so I opened my eyes. Crap. I tried going back to sleep, but my cousin started jabbing my arm. "What?" "Grandma's asking you a question!" OMG. I was trying to sleep for crying out loud! "Jordan, could you get the sandwiches?" I'm in the middle seat, and it's a LOT easier for my sister, cousin, grandma, or mom to get the sandwiches from the TRUNK of the van. But they were all infected with the "Jordan get it" syndrome, and I didn't have much of a choice.

The beach was pretty cool once we got there, though.

Then we had to go. Sad. We stopped by Dairy Queen for some Blizzards on the way home, which was a nice plus. That is, until we stepped in. "This business is independantly owned and operated." was prominantly displayed as a disclaimer that not all DQs are like this one...and I hope to God they aren't. It started when my cousin asked my sister why they use the permanant guard rails for the line control system, as opposed to the temporary retractable ones. "It's because these are sturdier." Heh. Riiiiight. I gave one a shake to show her the flaw in her statement. It wobbled like no tomorrow. Then it was our turn to order. One medium Butterfinger Blizzard with chocolate ice cream for me! Or, I would have gotten it with chocolate, but they messed up two of our orders. My sister HAD to have the chocolate ice cream, but I just told them to forget it, cause ice cream is ice cream is good.

We got home at about 10. I had just enough time to put my drift wood and cool rock on display in my room before I had to go to bed...

That thing is so cool, it was almost worth the whole day.

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Lake Crescent, WA

My grandparent from Michigan are here for a week, and we're going to be hiking up in Lake Crescent tomorrow. See the lake in the picture? The one I'm standing on...? That's Lake Crescent. I'll be taking more pictures, so check back soon!

On a side note, I'm almost done with the pre-work for my podcast, and will record the first episode soon! :D (Podcast Blog)

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This Midnight Pool of Data

Dunno. That's sounded like a cool way to describe the situation. All of my programming work that I ever did (with the exception of BASIC in 5th grade) is stored on this computer. That's about 3 years worth of VB.net, C++, C#, as well as an innumberable number of photo editing projects and FlashMX documents. I'm going to back up all my work to about 4 or 5 DVDs first thing tomorrow morning.

My computer has been acting up lately. First, programs would randomly glitch out after the computer had been on a while. Then, several of my most valued programs (in usefulness, not $$$) stopped working for about an hour. My friend told me that we probably had spyware.

OMG. DUH.

I had completely forgotten how overconfident I was about spyware, since we'd never had a problem with it before...WAH! I downloaded SpyBot-Search&Destroy, which I've found to be one of the best spyware removers out there...and this one's free! If you have Norton or McAfee, keep it at all costs. That will save you sooo much trouble.

Continuing, I removed all 312 spyware-infected files from our computer. Thats when the really random stuff started to happen. Today, as a matter of fact. The screen had a hard time rendering on the y-axis (straight up and down), so scrolling or dragging windows along that plane was really choppy. My other friend told me that it was probably either my drivers, or...*scary music*...BIOS issues. Lord have mercy.

For those of you who don't know, a BIOS issue means that you're pretty much screwed. I haven't figured out if that's what it is yet, but it's not the drivers; the screen is fine now. I turned off my computer at about 9PM to go watch "Who Wants to be a Superhero?" (SUCH a corny show, by the way, I can't even TELL you.) At 10 (a half hour ago) I started the computer back up, typed in my password, and...the screen acted like it was logging off of my account and put me back at the account selection screen. By this time, my head is screaming "BIOS!!! BIOS!!!". My Dad's account was the only one that worked, strangely enough. My friend wasn't there to help me, (Let's clear something up: I'm a computer geek. I am WAY above the average computer user knowledge-wise. My friend did a few IT jobs, and has been at it longer. The hardware just confuses me sometimes....just so we're clear?) so I was forced to log off and try again. Praying all the while, I tried logging in again, vowing to back up all my data the first thing I could tomorrow. Lo and behold...my prayers were answered! Thank you, God! I'm now posting this story of horror and triumph...and the power of prayer combined with backups...on my own account.

I will hunt you down and DESTROY YOU if you do not go out and back up all your documents. It's quite simple, actually:

(Windows XP Instructions)
Get a DVD burner.
Get some blank DVDs that are compatible with your burner.
Go to "C:/Documents and Settings/". You should see a folder with your account name.
Find any folders that you wish to back up, and burn them to the DVD.
Note: If you have less than 2GB of files, then just use a few CDs.
That easy. I didn't even need to tell you. Go ye, therefore, BACK UP THOSE FILES.

(Older Windows Instructions)
Get a new computer. You can't possibly have anything worth backing up on that old '95?

(Mac OS Instructions)
Fill computer with gasoline, and make sure your camera's rolling as you toss a LIT match on the computer. Put on YouTube and send me a link, while you're at it...Macintosh is of the devil. (And what's up with a BITE out of their logo?)

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Error: Nothing To Blog

I just got the most hilarious error I've seen in...well...since the last hilarious error I saw.

Told ya.

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