Westpoint

I am preparing to leave a 4:30 AM for New York, Westpoint, and Boy Scout camporee. In New York, we will compete with other troops in several activities including drill, canoeing, and camoflauging. After the Westpoint Camporee our troop will head down the country, starting when we leave Westpoint and heading for New York, which will include seeing the Empire State Building from the top floor and seeing Ground Zero. After that, we will see Philidelphia; I'm not sure what we'll see there. We'll stop at Lexington Square and get a tour. Then, we'll put the cherry on the cupcake by visiting Washington DC and seeing many things such as the Spy Museum and the Capitol (maybe even the White House). Then we'll leave and drive back to Birmingham to arrive at 2:30 AM. I'm definitely looking forward to this trip, and I'll only be laving in about three hours. This'll be fun, and I'm looking forward in high expectation.

Teenagers? Okay. Teenagers on the internet? Hmmmm. Teenagers arguing on the internet? Oh noes. Teenagers arguing about foreign policy on the internet? Save yourselves before it's too late as of now, I'm a still a teenager, so, hey, I can say this. -A friend on The Potter's School

True Friends

True friends are what keep us going. True friends help us to learn more of ourselves. When we are down and fighting off trouble, it's the true friends that show up. It's our true friends that have a real interest in our welfare. Our true friends are there when we lose another. Our true friends are the ones that listen and show an interest in something that you love, but that they couldn't care less about. The real friends are the ones that we meet at 10-15, and are still our friends and know all our secrets at 60. Real friends are a necessity to life, and are not to be taken lightly. Without true friends, life would be an empty space of time that we spent on our own selfishness. When the storm hits, your friends shows up at your side. The real friends are the ones that pick up your gun and defend you, while at the same time rendering aid to their downed friend. Friend is a mutual relationship; friends realize that and know what to expect from you. In addition to them helping you, we should do all for our friends that we expect them to do for us. Friends are our brothers. Friends are forever.

"As iron sharpens iron, so shall one friend sharpen another."
-Proverbs 27:17, NLT

Discovery Final Launch

Discovery is launching at ~T-minus 40 minutes. Seeing as You are most likely reading this AFTER the fact as opposed to before, I will give you my hypothesis on the launch EVEN THOUGH you don't care anyway. I absolutely hope it is a success, and I think that it will be. Listening to the radio transmissions now, it reminds me of space camp as the pilot, preparing to launch the ENDEAVOR. "Winds down-range, 8, winds to the West, 5." I remember it. I watch with anxiety as I watch the crew enter the orbiter and pray that they have a safe and enjoyable flight.

Arisoft Gun

Hi all,
I am shopping for an airsoft gun. I like AEGs and I like M16A4s. Anybody got any idea where I can get one cheap? The one I've got my eye on right now is made by JG and is on airsoftGI.com I would have to get a metal body for it, but I can manage that. Anyway. . . that's me right now, (next to writer's workshop and boring science.)

Space Camp

I went to Space Camp Pathfinder in Hunsville these past three days, and had a lot of fun! I loved walking around and looking at differrent things the first day, but then I found out that the next day we were scheduled to fly a space shuttle simulated mission the next day. I was excited about his, and was even more excited when I found that I was to be the pilot for the mission. I didn't get to do much controlling myself, but I got to press tons of buttons and other stuff. Then I got on the multi-axis chair and spun around in all differrent directions, and I got to see a huge mounted space shuttle at the Sp-rocket center. I then got on the 1/6th gravity chair and spent a few minutes on that. I then went to bed after doing my evening-by-evening 40 pushups. I got up the next day and got ready for the graduation. I was pleasantly surprised to find myself as the elected recipient of the "Right Stuff" award, which is like an expemplary behaviour medal, "Outstanding leadership" type thing. I wore it all the way home. Space Camp was fun, and I met a lot of cool peeps there. I want to go back for Advanced Academy! Until then, I will pray that God will show me how to be wise with my life and time. See y'all!
-Brian Poythress

Sleet, Sleet, Sleet

Today, I got in the car to piano. I went to piano, had a good lesson, and came out to the car. Ice began to fall from the sky. So, I wasn't happy, because that meant that we would have to drive about 20 miles an hour to the church. I got to the church and found that about half of my science for the day wasn't done. No art. I looked out the window, frustrated. Guess what I saw; that's right, sleet.
I think that dismal weather has a negative impact on people's emotions and dilligence. I was supposed to do my science in the car, but during the 20 minute car trip, I got one lab report written. So I went to run errands with my mom. I got one more lab report written. We got back to the church to find that the last class had been cancelled. So, I was left in the car for about an hour to write my lab reports. I got three written. It's dreadfully sad, and I think that my hypothesis of the day would be:

Dismal and gloomy weather has a severely depressing impact on creatures of the Human race.

I am missing a CD that I need in order to install a game that I know I don't need, but I am still looking for it. It's not so much not having the game as it is knowing that I lost something and it is completely in God's control that I find it. I'm praying that I find a CD to a game? For real? It sounds crazy, and even as I read this, it's crazy. But, I think that part of my negative attitude about the whole thing is somehow acossiated with the grim weather. I am hoping and praying that weather won't have an effect on me next time it hits, as well as that I can find that CD. It's just a thing that I can play, that I like, and that I am familiar with. I am not asking that you pray that I find this CD, I am just saying it's depressing me. A lot. Alot alot. Grim weather go away, come again. . . NEVER!!!