Monday, November 10, 2008

Bells and Chimes


Yesterday I performed as part of the bell/chime choir in church. I was a chime person. I got interested in this idea when i saw my friend Katie practicing the chimes after choir practice. The chimes seeme pretty interesting, but I was a little scared I would screw up in playing. Eventually, I decided it looked like too much fun to miss out on, so I joined. We had a very good performance today.

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Defeat

I hate to lose. I just hate it.

Last night, I went to my Cub Scout den meeting. We did a lot of fun things, but, at the end, there was a relay race contest. There were three teams and the job of each team was to sweep up a bunch of leaves and put them into bins. The parents were in charge of the sweeping while the kids were in charge of the bins. Sadly, my team finished last in this race. It made me very sad. In fact, I hid in the corner of the room to be sad by myself until I felt better. I really want to WIN all the games I play. I hate finishing last.

Disappearing comments

I know a number of you had a problem with disappearing comments. Daddy tried to fix this by modifying the comment code to requires fewer passwords. Hope this improves things.

Wednesday, November 05, 2008

Victory!

 
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Obama is our new president! This was great news. We had a little celebration including a toast and a balloon toss. I'm sure he'll be better than Bush.I made a little blue chain with the words

Obama, Obama wins!


written on the links to celebrate.

Monday, November 03, 2008

Politics

It's almost election day. I hope Obama wins. I'm also rooting for the defeat of Prop 8 in California. To add spice to the evening, we did a politics pick-em contest. Here's my predicted electoral map:

Traffic


This Sunday was a big weekend for traffic--but just in the world of Hot Wheels. In the morning we did a traffic photoshoot. Note the hand-made jersey barriers dividing the road. I really liked these.



The afternoon revisited the traffic idea. Daddy and I watched the extended chase scene from the second part of The Matrix. While I generally don't like movies, this scene was quite exciting. We then set up the jersey barriers and a bunch of cars a trucks to recreate that scene as well as making up our own scene. This was very really fun. I can't wait to do it again!

[Aside: A little inside baseball about the connection between the chase scene and Mythbusters courtesy of the source of all knowledge--Wikipedia:

"The freeway chase scene was filmed at the decommissioned Naval Air Station Alameda in Alameda, California. Producers constructed a 1.5-mile freeway on the old runways just for the movie (Which was later used by the Mythbusters in testing several myths). Portions of the chase were also filmed in Oakland, California, and the tunnel shown briefly is the Webster Tube connecting Oakland and Alameda. Some post-production editing was done in old aircraft hangars on the base as well.

The city of Akron was willing to give full access to Route 59, the stretch of freeway known as the "Innerbelt", for filming of the freeway chase when it was under consideration. However, producers decided against this as "the time to reset all the cars in their start position would take too long".MythBusters would later reuse the Alameda location in order to explore the effects of a head-on collision between two semi trucks."]