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!!!

School

A week after starting Algebra, I have decided that I will absolutely look forward to geometry. I've heard it's easier AND so much more fun. Anything where they take away those confounded letters will work for me! I was good at math until they started doing it with letters. That's where they lost me. I have decided, after much thought, that it is a good idea to actually pay attention to the material you're reading when you read the lesson. I just finished sixty problems from that book, and am very glad to be done. But, on the flip side, I know that it's good for my mind and I know my mom really wants me to do my math. I think I'll go with my mom's feelings, rather than my own emotions. I've seen people who have done their math and their science and other stuff, and they seem to be succeeders. So, my final point would be to say that school, even though we don't like it, is actually much more beneficial than we give it credit for. Do it. Learn to like it, because most of us have a little bit to go before we graduate. Learn to like what you have no choice but to live with.