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So far here we go.

Thursday - usual goodtimes on a thursday night hanging out with friends.
Friday - Trip to Newport, took some photos, awesome. (they’ll be up soon) Then headed down to San Diego to hangout with a bunch of friends the rest of the night.
Saturday - Wake up, Cameron, Sean, and I decide to head up to have lunch in Laguna Beach. Way fun eating good food and being in a beautiful place. We then head back down to San Diego in some traffic. Watched the end of the very intense USC vs. Notre Dame college football game. USC won, yes!

Which brings me to right now. So I’m gonna go head out into the night and enjoy an awesome evening in San Diego.

Pictures to come.

School starts today. I’m happy that everybody is around again, not happy to be doing school. That’s life for ya. This is yet another year, and just like the rest, this one will be different. I don’t know specifically how… but I suppose it’s time for change again.

Here is another post of a “change” theme…. Whew

That is what it looks like at my apartment, yet I’m in San Diego right now… it’s kinda raining but last night I could see lightening all over the sky. Light bursting int he sky all around you. Kinda reminded me of some war movies where there are always explosions in the distance.

Right now I love this weather, it’s a change from the hot summer right into fall.

My breakfast/lunch today was 3/4 of a Balance bar (cookies and cream) which was just ok. Add to that a Coke with lime.

Good or bad? I’m thinking good AND bad.

Just something fun for today.

If Only There Were A Pun To Be Made Involving The Name Of The Band on Defamer.

Go through the links on the page… alot of the commentary is funny.

Just looking through the blinds, and wanted to take a photo.

There are a couple things many things that bug me about the world/people/U.S. Today I’m going to discuss a couple.
1)) Hillary Clinton’s $90 million study on video games and children and
2)) The Urban Outfitters “New Mexico is cleaner than regular Mexico” t-shirt

1)) Hillary Clinton video game study
WHY?? Seriously. Is this some stunt to get all the concerned/angry mothers on her side? Is this some political media stunt to gain attention? Video games and violence have gone hand in hand for years, along with studies of their effects. Why the huge media attention now? The article Hillary vs. the Xbox: Game over [7/27/05] by Steven Johnson in the LA Times is a perfect response to the issue.

I’d like to draw your attention to another game whose nonstop violence and hostility has captured the attention of millions of kids — a game that instills aggressive thoughts in the minds of its players, some of whom have gone on to commit real-world acts of violence and sexual assault after playing.

I’m talking, of course, about high school football.

One thing he didn’t really touch on: the money being spent studying video games. The only good thing about it, is that people have jobs! Hooray for employment! The other side is, isn’t there alot better things to be spending money on? Grand Theft Auto has created media attention since GTA3 Vice City. Oh and get this, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the game that has sparked all this attention by Hillary, was released in October 2004! I guess it took her awhile to play the game, then decide it’s better to make a big deal about it because she couldn’t beat it.

2))Urban Outfitters “New Mexico is cleaner than regular Mexico” t-shirt
Guess what, there are tons of offensive t-shirts out there. It just depends on who you talk to. That’s what free speech is. Big deals like this make me want to shop at the store more / buy the shirt. I like to shop at Urban Outfitters and I won’t stop. Don’t forget the business side of it. Funny sells. Especially when it comes to t-shirts, and even more so in the 15-28 age range. It’s things like this that I wonder who first decided it would be a good idea to attack Urban Outfitters. Was it an angry customer? Somebody with an agenda? Both? However it may have started, this is just another trend in the media. Pick on something that everybody else can pick on to. Also, Urban Outfitters didn’t create that shirt, they just bought a bunch from… well lets see if you can find the original seller/creator.

If all else fails. Blog some photos.

And now here it is at a high of 101 degrees.

So now at 4:10pm it is supposed to get hotter! And it’s still 101 outside! AHH!!

It is so hot right now. I don’t understand how today there is going to be a thunder storm yet a high of 101 degrees. Wow. Summer is good in some ways, sucky in others.

I discoverd how to use my manual focus which really made my day. It’s kind of difficult, but nonetheless I know how to use the feature! So I took some some shots today in downtown and others.

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