Monday, September 29th

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about your Homecoming weekend! If you didn't participate in the Homecoming festivities, what did you do? Share pics!

     My Homecoming weekend was super busy. On Friday I marched into the parade and then I went home for 15 minutes before I had to come back to school for band. I played at the game and went home exhausted. 

     On Saturday I woke up and did my homework and helped get the house ready for my group to come over to take pictures for Homecoming. At about 7:30 my group came to my house to take pictures for Homecoming and then we went to Gorozzos for dinner. We got to the dance at about 9:45 and stayed until they shut it down. Our original plan was to go to Ihop with the band group but nobody was hungry so everyone kind of went their own ways and We ended up going to someone's house to watch movies. It was a great night and I didn't get home until 4 so I slept for all of Sunday morning.

     On Sunday I woke up and started planning to build a drop panel prop for my haunted house. Basically a drop panel is a wood panel with a picture frame attached to the outside but on the inside there is a gate latch that when you open it, the "wall" which is basically a window drops down and the actor behind it can stick his body out and scare people. 

Monday, September 22nd

Blog Post of the Day:
How was your weekend? Did you do anything exciting? Share photos!

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     My weekend was pretty boring. I really didn't do anything exciting this weekend. On Friday I came home and my plans got cancelled and I was super tired so I just slept most of the evening.
     On Saturday I woke up early and went to the national archives across from Union Station to go through the exhibit for extra credit in AP Euro. After that I went home and about half an hour later I left for band which was from 11-4. When I got home from band I was super tired again and my parents were out on an anniversary date so I slept again.
     On Sunday I slept until 11 and then did some homework before I went through all my Halloween stuff for my haunted house that I have blogged about.I now have a good idea of what I need to get for the haunted house this year. After I went through all the Halloween stuff I worked on the YouTube channel for the haunted house. It takes forever to upload the videos to YouTube from my phone so my 20 minute vlog takes probably 3-4 hours to upload. I usually can't make the vlog in one video so I have to upload them to YouTube privately and then merge them together using the editor on YouTube. After I merge them together I can change the title and description and then post it as public.
     It was a pretty boring weekend but at least I got to sleep a lot.

Friday. September 19th

Blog Post of the Day:
Now that you are several weeks in to this class and have coded one (super small) website, what do you think? What are your thoughts on web design? Is it what you thought it would be? Is it better? Worse? What's your favorite part? What's your least favorite part? Explain.

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When I signed up for this class I never realized that web design was so complicated. There is lot more to it than I ever imagined. I had no idea about tags and such and I really had no idea what to expect of web design. It is kinda cool but it is much harder than I thought it would be. I think what makes it hard is the fact that I had no idea these things even existed before coming into this class and so it makes it harder to learn because there isn't really anything that is familiar. But overall, Web Design is a pretty fun class. My favorite part is seeing the website when its all done and my least favorite part is probably CodeAcademy or when you are just starting a website and you have to figure out where to start. 

Thursday. September 17th

Blog Post of the Day:
What is the importance of deadlines? How do high school deadlines reflect or simulate "real world" experience? Give an example of when you met or or didn't meet a deadline that was important.

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I think deadlines are important because if there weren't any deadlines would people actually do anything? I know I wouldn't. I think without deadlines the world would be really chaotic. For example lets say a bread factory had no deadline to fill its next shipment of bread. The bread wouldn't ship out and if enough companies did this there would be a really short supply of a lot of things. I remember meeting the deadline for the honors bio project last year and having a huge sense of satisfaction and relief. I think high school deadlines reflect real world experience because in the real world you will have deadlines but if you don't meet them in the real world there are harsher consequences. Deadlines can be stressful, especially if they are close and you still have a lot to do, but I think deadlines keep the world turning.

Tuesday, September 16th

Blog Post of the Day:

Reflect on this quote. Give an example of a time in your life that this might have been the case.

This quote is kind of the story of my life because I procrastinate things until the literal last minute, or at least very late at night, and by waiting to do it until then I have failed to prepared, therefore preparing to fail. I pretty much procrastinate everything, which is really bad. So according to the quote, I prepare to fail a lot. I remember when I got my Eagle scout, I had to give a speech at the ceremony and I waited until I was sitting there waiting to figure out what I wanted to say. Needless to say I well never procrastinate a speech again, but for the time being it seems homework is a whole different story.

Monday, September 15th

Blog Post of the Day:
What did you do this weekend? Share pictures if you have them!

     On Friday I played at the football game. It is always fun to play for people! I was up very late the night before so after the game I went home and fell asleep with my headphones blaring and all the lights in my room on. I woke up at 2 and was too tired to turn off the lights so I just rolled over and went back to sleep. Somewhere around four I woke up again and took my headphones off and I think a few minutes later my mom came and turned off the lights but I'm really not sure.

     On Saturday I woke up and got my passport photo taken for the mission trip we are going on to Jamaica for spring break. After that I went home and watched Youtube until my friend came later. 

     On Sunday I slept until noon and then watched videos on YouTube. Later in the afternoon I went to my grandmas house and pulled weeds. When I got home I made the sign for the haunted house I do every year on Halloween. It may seem early to be already working on it, but I have been working on it for a few weeks now and my first round of Halloween stuff should be here tomorrow! It takes a lot of time to put together the haunted house and time is something I don't have much of so I have to start pretty early.

Thursday, September 11th

Blog Post of the Day:

Below is one of my favorite quotes that I found on Pinterest. Think read and think about what this says and then blog about it. What does this quote mean to you? Elaborate! Feel free to give an example of tell a story.

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I can definitely see the argument the quote is making. Yes, I may have only seen a very small part of the world, but it's not like I can just jump on a plane and go do something. Sometimes I may be stuck at home and not really have anything to do. However, I do agree that I'm bored is a useless thing to say because there truly are lot of things you can do when your bored. You may just have to think about it for a while, but from my experience there's always something fun I can do. When I'm bored I like to listen to different music and try to find new songs I like. Sometimes I even just ride my bike wherever I feel like going. So in my opinion, I'm bored is a useless thing to say,too. You may not be able to just go do something amazing on the spot, but there is always something that you can do.

Tuesday, September 9th

How do you express your creativity? Explain.

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     I'm really not much of a creative person but I express my creativity in several ways. The first way I express my creativity is through music. I love to listen to music and while I am listening think about what I would change and sometimes I even tap out the different rhythm that I would make. I also play the clarinet, but I don't really play solos, so I don't consider playing my clarinet to be too creative. 

     The second way I express my creativity is by putting together a haunted house each year. Building a haunted house is truly all creative because you can pretty much do whatever you want with it. I express my creativity through the haunted house by designing it, coming up with the scenes, building the sets and props, choosing and creating costumes, choosing music for it, figuring out what I want the actors to say and do, buying props to go with the scenes, and by using scare tactics to scare people. I spend a lot of time working on it and it is something that you can have a lot of fun with and let your imagination run wild(and the people going through it) and improve on each year.

Monday, September 8th

Blog Post of the Day:
What did you do this weekend? Share pictures if you have them!

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     On Friday I hung out with one of my friends. He came over and we watched Last Comic Standing and then we rode our bikes to Blue Valley Middle. We talked about life and then it started pouring so we rode back in the freezing cold rain back to his house to move his car in. He just got subs so he showed them to me. They are sweet! After he moved his car in we rode back to my house to watch more Last Comic Standing.

     On Saturday I woke up with terrible allergies and debated whether or not to go to band. Since we were going to learn about half of our second movement that day I decided I should go to the rehearsal. Although it was a beautiful day the five hours could not have gone any slower and all I could think about was how my head was pounding. After band I went home and took a well-earned nap for most of the evening and then woke up to watch a movie on tv before I went to bed again.

     On Sunday I slept until 10:30 and woke up feeling a little better. I did some homework until about 2:30 and then I went to get mums from a farm with my parents. After we brought the mums home I went to the Halloween store with my mom to look for ideas for my haunted house which I do every year on Halloween at my house. I looked at all the animatronics and props and have gotten some pretty good ideas for things that I could do in my haunted house. It gets bigger and bigger each year so I have to start planning pretty early to make it all happen. I have already lined up some people to work in it and have a pretty good idea of how I want it to be this year so now all I need to do is get some help to build the sets and I need to buy some essentials and new props.

     It was a pretty successful weekend.

Friday, September 5th

Blog Post of the Day:


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Kids these days are always on their phones! They don't even know how to hold a conversations! They listen to such horrible and loud music, too. Kids these days don't know how to dress right. Kids speed in their cars and don't care about anyone but themselves. Kids these days need to grow up.

Thursday, September 4th

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me about what you have learned in this class so far. Have you learned a lot? Do you want to learn more? What do you want to be able to do by the end of the semester?

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I have learned a lot in this class. Before coming into this class, I knew pretty much nothing about making a website. I didn't realize there was so much coding that went into it, and I thought that for the most part people just made websites from the design your own website sites. I have learned about how to do simple coding and what html is. I can change the text, make it bold or italicized, make it colored, change the background color, insert links and pictures, and make tables and lists. By the end of the semester I want to make a website that looks professional and be able to have the knowledge to add on or change it in the future. To me it would be really cool to make a professional looking website.

Tuesday, September 2nd

Blog Post of the Day:
Tell me all about your Labor Day weekend. What did you do? Include photos!

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On Saturday I slept until 11 and then went to a funeral for a family member I didn't even know. After the funeral I went to Strouds with my family. On Sunday I woke up early and helped my dad paint the fence in our backyard. It has taken 3 days to do it so it was nice to have it done. On Sunday afternoon I went bowling at Pinstripes with my friends and then we ate at Rock Brews. On Monday I did homework most of the day and then watched the end of the Every Simpsons Ever marathon(all 552 episodes for 12 straight days) and by then I was really tired so I slept for a while and woke up and watched the coolest lightning I have ever seen.