Conditioning

              Today September 28, 2012 marks the beginning of varsity basketball conditioning at Bluegrass Baptist School.  This conditioning is not an easy thing to accomplish, but in the long run if we stick with it and are persistent, our team will be more conditioned than any other in the KCAA.  Our coach Sherman Parker likes to make us run, and if we mess up or dont run fast enough, we have to run more.  There are many different exercises and drills we do during our conditioning that will also help tone our bodies to be prepared for the upcoming season.  Many of the players on our team were busy this past summer, so we may have an even more rough time with it this year then we did last year.  I consider our varsity basketball conditioning to be one of the most strenuous things I have encountered in my life.  Several exercises require you to give every bit of energy you can muster at the time.  We do planks for two minutes at a time.  A plank is where you lay down on your stomach and prop yourself up on your elbows and on your tiptoes and hold yourself parallel off of the ground for the whole two minutes.  We also did wall-sits for two minutes at a time.  Wall sits are where you sit up against a wall where it looks like your sitting in a chair with your legs at a 90 degree angle and flexing your abs at the same time.  Another exercise we do is jumping across a line for about a minute and a half.  You put your feet together and jump back and forth over a line for the whole time, think its not hard?  Go try it sometime yourself!  This exercise absolutely strains your calves and quads to the max!

Carry on

               When I was a young boy my father took me into the city to see a marching band, he said son when you grow up will you be the savior of the broken, the beaten and the lost.  He said will you defeat them, your plans and broken efforts and the trouble that they have made.  Because one day, I'll leave you, a phantom to lead you in the winter to join the Black Brigade.  Sometimes I get the feeling He's watching over me, and other times I feel like I should go through it all, the rise and fall.  And when you're gone we all will want you to know we will carry on, and though your dead and gone, believe me your memory will carry on. 

A third crazy random story

                    Once upon a time there was a man that liked to smash windows, his name was Ernest.  Ernest lived way up in the holler and hardly ever came out to civilization and always wore raggady clothes.  Ernest always went around to the surrounding houses in his community and would throw very large rocks right through the windows of their houses.  Even when his neighbors would catch him throwing the rocks, they would try to run out of their houses an try to come and catch him, but before they could catch him, Ernest had already ran away into the forest.  One day he threw the rock through the wrongs person's house and they called the police.  When the police arrived, they spent several hours out in the forest searching for him.  After many tiresome hours, they finally found where Ernest had been living for the past several months.  They called from outside of his house and ordered for him to come out immediately.  When Ernest came out he had a shotgun armed and loaded, while the two police only had one pistol between the two of them.  Ernest ordered them to throw the firearm to the ground and put their hands on their heads.  From off in the distance one of the neighbors saw the situation from afar off.  Sneaking up from behind, Tom the neighbor knocked the gun out of Ernest's hands and held him on the ground while the two policemen, Barney Fife and Andy Griffith, took both of the guns and arrested Ernest.

Whats going on in school

                   Right now in Bible class taught by Mr. Derek Holmes, we are currently looking in to the depths of the letters from the Apostle Paul.  In American history class, taught by Mr. Michael Frick, we are learning about the time period of the 1700's where Paul Revere and the minutemen warned the town that the British were coming.  During this time Ethan Allen and the Green mountain Boys were going to conquer Fort Ticonderoga.  The First and Second Continental Congress, were being established where John Hancock was the President of it and George Washington was The Commander in Chief.  This was also during the period when The Revolutionary War was taking place, when the British were wearing their crimson red jackets and would stand out in the middle of the field.  In physics class taught by Mr. Brian Bowles, we are learning about the sine, cosine, and tangents of angles and sides and also how to find a missing angle or side.  We are also learning how to use the Pythagorean therom to find missing sides of triangles when you already have two known sides.  In pre-calculus taught by Mrs. Brenda Moore, we are learning  about asymptotes and long division with polynomial functions.  In yearbook taught by Mr. Mark Ellis, we are currently blogging and learning more and more about paintshop pro.  In English class taight ny Mrs. Judy Henard, we are constantly in our grammar books and reading in our literature books.  We have many test and quizzes every week.  In speech class also taught by Mrs. Judy Henard, we are interviewing one another, then introducing them in front of the entire class.  This is just a look into what I am learning about currently at school.

Post Title

          This post is going to be all about posts.  There are many different kinds of post.  There are long, short, creative, boring, exciting, plain, and great post.  I myself usually write the random kind of blogs that get me my nine-hundred words required by Mr. Ellis complete by the end of each Friday.  Currently I have around five-hundred words, so if you know anything about math, I am a little over half way done and have around four-hundred more words to write.  I hope my teacher will let this pass for some of my words, I will be posting much better and creative stories as the year goes on, but for now it is much easier to just write about a bunch of random stuff.
           
            Right now in yearbook class, we are learning how to use Corel Paintshop Pro X4 in its depths.  We are learning all kinds of different editing techniques to further the detail of the picture.  Some of the cool things we are learning to do is being able to cut certain parts of the picture out and replace the background with something cool like stars.  We also are learning to alter the photo in many different ways, like changing the color and disfiguring the figure.

              Currently I am sitting in the computer lab sitting next to Mark Joseph Karenbauer and Dylan Scott Johnson.  There are several other fellow classmates in the classroom with me at the moment.  The fan is blowing cool air on all of the anticipating students in deep concentration of their computers.  Mr. Ellis I would just like to tell you I am sorry that I will not have all of my nine-hundred words I am deeply sorry please forgive me and dont be to harsh with the grading system.  I am going to get as many possible words that I can in these short five minutes I have left.  Mr. Ellis you are great!  Your chapel message this morning was very insightful and taught me very much about the character we should have that one of our founding fathers, George Washington had.  You are very smart and prepared with the material you present to all the people you ever have a chance to speak to.  I miss your history class, Mr. Frick is making us write a whole bunch more than you ever did.  You will be greatly missed. The end.

my second crazy random story

                    Once upon a time there was this young fellow whose name was Robert.  Robert was not your average teenager.  Robert graduated from Harvard at the record age of thirteen.  Robert was reading highscool level when he was five years old.  Rob's parents knew he was very special from the day he was born.  Their was recently an interview with his parents, where the interviewer asked them about Rob's early life.  His parents said that at the age of three, Rob could fluently speak in Japanese, English, German, Spanish, and Italian.  When Rob was asked to speak in all of these languages, he quickly responded in all five complex languages.  Robert graduated from Harvard with an absolute perfect score and a GPA of 4.0.  His professors finding this nearly impossible to complete such a challenging course tried to question if he was actually completing this without cheating.  Robert is now sixteen years old and owns his own medical practice in New York City.  Robert's practice is not only succeeding, it is the most popular and gets the most traffic from the entire city.  Robert is currently making between $750,000-$1,000,000.  With this revenue, Robert is currently the youngest entreprenuer in the world. 

                     Robert is well known all over the United States and much of Europe. Robert currently has ten different practices throughout the east coast of the U.S. He plans on trying to start moving his studies all throughout the United States and possibly over seas into Europe and Asia. Robert's most extensive studies for now is centered on a cure for cancer. Robert is almost positive he will have a minor dose to start clearing up the cancer by the beginning of January, 2013. There are already millions of people on the waiting to receive the cure next year. This study is costing him over 90 percent of his income from five of the ten practices.  In one of Robert's interviews they asked him if it was worth all the money this study was costing, Robert responded, "If the world does not find the cure for cancer, eventually it will even come to the point where we quit trying."  This gave those people who were doubtful, hope.  Robert plans on perfecting his cure for cancer that will completely wipe any signs of it by the middle of 2013.  This news caused even more people to want to come to his offices for all different kinds of medical reasons.  They ranged from surgery to regular check-ups to all different kinds of other treatments.

more randomness

When I was a young child there were these four clowns whose names were Hippy, Trippy, Crippy, and Lippy.  These four clowns were known four causing trouble all around the town of Restlessburg.  Restlessburg used to be such a calm town that everybody that lived there never had to lock their doors at night or their cars.  Until one day when the four infamous clowns came to Restlessburg.  At first the towns people thought it was just a prank and didn't pay any attention to the restlessness that was occuring there in Restlessburg.  Hippy tried to go cause trouble with the children in the town, while Trippy was interacting with those who were just leaving highschool and entering into college.  Crippy was trying to decieve those who were in trouble with law, and lastly Lippy was trying to secretly influence the entire town of Restlessburg.  Lippy was chosen to be in charge of trying to convince the largest group of people because he was the best public speaker.  All the clowns were good speakers, but Lippy was exceptional!  Lippy attended a college for public speaking and was top in his class but something happened that made Lippy drop out.  One day while Lippy was giving one of his speeches to the class, he noticed someone laughing near the back of the room.  At first he paid no attention to the laughter and continued on but soon nearly the entire class was beginning to laugh.  Lippy was quickly becoming impatient and restless with his classmates and eventually through his notes on the floor and exited the building.  Lippy eventually learned about the notorious group of the other three clowns, and furthered his endeavors of joining the group.  Lippy figured if people were going to laugh at him, why not dress up as a clown and do what he does best, speak.  Lippy quickly found out what this group was all about and that was deception and destruction.  Hippy, Trippy, and Crippy were all three brothers that from a very young age tried to trick and decieve whoever they could.  Not only did they decieve people, they stole from them, lied to them, made fun of them, and diregarded everything anyone ever told them.  These three grew up in the ways of evil and were very good at it, this also helped them teach Lippy all about their tricky ways.  The four became a group at the age of twenty, all four were born in the same month of the same year.  This helped them get along in their endeavors. 

School in general

             We are now in the middle of our fifth week of school, there has been very many strange and unusual events that have taken place within these five weeks.  Well this week there was a shooting in the middle of the hall it was pretty harsh and bloody. Joseph Willingtton was killed several times by getting shot over and over in the face.  Next year he will be coming back to life on January 15, 2013.  I am not sure who shot all of these people but it will not be good when we find out who actually did. 
          
             There were several survivors in the shooting, one of which was Carlton Malone.  Carlton escaped his fateful death within just a few seconds.  Carlton was my friend, and luckily he is still alive to tell about this terrible tradgedy.  Those who fatefully died will never be forgotten, but they are still alive in our hearts.

              Those people that died that day had friends and family that cared about them so very much.  This shooter took everything away from these innocent people including there lives.  Their families will never forget what happened to them.