Partylicious: Part 1

    My friend Ian drove down to Portland with me for Thanksgiving since he wasn't going home to Pennsylvania. Our friend Kayce also came with us because she is from my rival high school and I hate her. Oh wait, I meant because she is from Calallen and I live 20 minutes from there. We had a pretty good trip but the 7 hour drive was still pretty long. One of the fun parts was when I mentioned that we were gonna have a partylicious time and then realized how ridiculous that sounded. Anyways, I was super thankful for Ian being willing to come to my house for the break seeing as how I don't have a car and didn't really have another way to get home. 

   

    I was so thankful in fact that the first night we were there I forgot to tell him that the upstairs bathroom locks if you shut it a certain way and the only way you can open it is with a screwdriver. Due to us going to bed at 3 AM we were trying to be quiet while still getting him out. Have you ever noticed that everything is just a little funnier when you have to be quiet. He had just taken off his contacts so it took a good while before he found the little emergency screwdriver. Meanwhile I had climbed out of my window and walked around the roof to see if I could help him out. I couldn't get the screen off the window though so it was a good thing he finally stumbled across the screwdriver. Spending the night in the bathroom would not have made for a very good first night in South Texas. Of course, the condition our house was in wasn't the best introduction he could have gotten anyways.

    You see, for some reason our AC wasn't working this past week and they weren't able to fix it before we got there. Even though it was late November that doesn't mean it was cool weather. That first night we had every window in the house open and it was still over 80 degrees inside. Harmon, Ian and I were all sprawled on our beds the whole night trying to catch a little breeze. Fortunately we were only trying to sleep for 3 and a half hours before we had to get up for the annual Turkey Trot race that we do in Corpus Christi every Thanksgiving. 

   After the race we went home and just chilled on the couch from 10 to 3 watching Mythbusters and napping. It was awesome! But I think some of my family got a little angry with how lazy I looked. So we decided to go and blow some stuff up at the sand dunes. This was when the party really started. We were going to try three different types of bombs but we couldn't find any of The Works toilet bowl cleaner so we couldn't do the one that I have the most experience with: Lye and Aluminum. We settled with the dry ice version and the coke/mentos version. I have never done these before and it was obvious. out first one with coke and mentos totally failed to fizz at all and we realized its because you are supposed to use diet coke. Then we switched to dry ice. We didn't realize we had to have water so we just put the coke in with the dry ice. The first one started to expand but never blew up so we started on the second bottle and decided to put every ingredient we had into it. Meanwhile the first one (which was sitting a mere 5 feet from my butt) popped and shot over the house next to us. Like, literally, over the house. It was insane. The second one eventually shot the cap off at us. Overall, that bombing session was a fail and we went and ate an awesome Thanksgiving dinner.

    

    After dinner we decided to use some more dry ice and set one of the bombs off in our front yard. I would have advised against this because I almost had the cops called on me this summer when I set off a bomb, But I was upstairs when they put it together. When I walked outside they were staring at a bottle in the middle of the street as cars were driving past. Just a bad situation altogether. We finally decided to move it when our neighbor walked right next to it to get into her car. Tito ran and grabbed it and put it in our grass. We kinda figured that it wouldn't blow so we were just standing around when it went off like a gun shot. Scared the poop out of us. We all scurried around and ran into the garage and shut the door and then I checked to see if my parents had heard. My dad was in the front yard by then persuading the neighbors that his stupid kids were just playing with chemicals and that they shouldn't call the police. Gotta love my dad sometimes. 

    After that we went and played some soccer-tennis at the park. When we got back everybody decided to go bowling. Regina was still doing homework so I waited for her to finish and then went over there to meet up with them. It was the worst bowling session of my life, only got one game in and it was a 75. But it was still a ton of fun especially since the boys (Tito and me) beat the girls (Regina and Bekah) on our lane. 

    We finished up the night by watching the recorded Punkin Chunkin hosted by Jamie and Adam from Mythbusters. If you didn't see it you missed out. It was hilarious. It's the second biggest sporting event in Delaware after Nascar alone. However, it is two hours so people slowly peeled off to go to bed until it was just Ian, Tito and I with 40 minutes left in the show. Then Tito left. Ian and I bravely tried to watch it to the end but kept falling asleep so we decided to go to bed. 

    This is when the second sleepy time fail occurred of the week. You see, a cold front had blown in that night and instead of 80 degrees outside it was now 40 degrees. All of our windows were still open. And I didn't think to go grab some blankets for us. We ended up sleeping wrapped in single sheets and freezing our bohunkuses off the whole night. Welcome to Bi-Polar South Texas Ian!

   

Time to do Homework

 I got bored of doing calculus homework so I made a couple of graphs/pictures.

Oh, and on stumbleupon the other day a site popped up with lots of cool fonts to download, so now I use the transformers font a lot now.

And my stack of 90+ Brisk sweet tea cans above my desk fell today. Which was a catastrophe. This morning seven of them fell for no reason and I was really surprised they all didn't fall because normally if one falls they all fall. But they didn't, so later, when I put those seven back, they all fell.

 Regina said it looked like me and Kyle had a crazy party in our room because of all the empties lying everywhere on the floor. I restacked them in a way that I hope reduces the likelihood of them falling.

That last paragraph was just so you could read the key on my piechart.

Crap, that wasn't low enough. Let's try again. I had to make it bigger so ya'll could read the tiny font.

And I have to account for the addition of a few blog titles.

And oh my gosh I am freaking pumped for intramural volleyball season to start on Thursday!

I was totally planning on doing homework the whole time from 6 to midnight tonight.

Unfortunately this is what happened.

But this actually makes it look too good. 

  

 Its more like this:

See, its worse because none of the homework times are in very long segments. 

   

Tonight was actually a good night because I was doing the circuits with Ian, which is why the guilt forced me back to homework more often.

 Also, the online physics homework that was due at midnight got pushed to Thursday. 

And during the hour from 12 to 1 that I was trying to finish calculus homework I got 2 problems done. And that is while looking at calc chat do the work for me. 

That leaves me with 7 more calculus problems to do tonight. yippee...

LOTR RISK

   So tonight was an unusual night as I was talked into playing Lord of the Rings Risk with the guys on Quad 2. I have played Risk before but I usually don't like starting long games because, as all people with ADHD tendencies do, I get bored with things after around ten minutes. Also, those guys are strategy game wizards and I pretty much stick with sports. I was actually still soaked in sweat from playing a few pickup games of basketball. And they recaulked our shower today so I can't take a shower until 3 PM tomorrow. Which is really lame because my alarm clock didn't go off this morning so I was late for class so I had to skip a shower. They were already caulking the shower this afternoon so I couldn't even take a shower then. Basically I really want a shower now. Oh yeah, back to the Risk game.
    We started out and I took Mordor and made an alliance with Taters. After one turn the board looked roughly like this:

     I was dark green. I had all of Mordor. And I had a pretty good amount of troops in there, but that was pretty much all I had. It was around this point that I gave up on ever losing the nerd label thanks to Regina. But its alright. I can learn to embrace it eventually. Ian was red and had a ton of troops already at this point. He is pretty much the strategy game champion. Tyler was black and also had a lot of territory and a lot of troops. Peter was yellow and was spread super thin. Taters was light green and thought I was his ally. Really it was like I was Germany and he was Poland during WWII. I didn't want him attacking me but once it was convenient for me I attacked him with all of my fury. It was Biblical! We were watching Law Abiding Citizen at the same time by the way. 

    Five hours, two sweet teas, and a few swiss rolls later (3 AM) the board looked like this:

    I was still dark green by the way. 

Basically, if Johner wants to win, he's gonna win. 

PS. I left my basketball over there. And the couch that we jacked from my dorm. 

IQ and Circuits Lab

   So yesterday was pretty ridiculous because my brain was completely drained after studying for 9 of the previous 28 hours for a calculus test. I am simply going to recount some of the interesting things that happened.
   As I was last minute cramming for my calculus test with Alysa we were discussing the IQ level of ourselves and other LeTourneau people. We both feel rather stupid in our classes here which is when I made the observation that there are so many socially awkward people at LeTourneau the IQ level has to be higher than the average. I don't know what I based that assumption on but I think the below graph to proves my point. Graphs prove everything right?
   Anyways, we decided that we were above average for normal people but below average for LeTourneau people. That puts us roughly between 100 and 120. 20 minutes later as I was cruising through my calculus test this graph popped into my head. Hopefully it didn't find its way into one of my sketches of the graph of z = 3x + 2y^2 over 4 = x^2 + y^2. Don't ask me what that means. The test was yesterday. Promptly after class I drew up my idea on paint and here it is.

   The rest of this post is simply to prove that my IQ level really must be a little lower then most.
Later that day, in my ridiculously busy and technical filled Wednesday, in circuits lab, I was explaining to Alysa that trying to melt the little bit of string coming off of my shorts by hooking up a small resistor to a 9V battery really wasn't that bad of an idea. She made one of her snide comments about it and then for some reason I made a sketch of this graph to explain why I am how I am and wasn't really contributing much to the very basic lab assignment we had that day.

  When I got back to my room later that night I drew up a version in paint and here it is

  Go figure 10 minutes later in the lab she saw me preparing to hook up the battery to a bunch of resistors in parallel. She kinda made a shriek/wail noise and punched me.
  I have no idea what she thought was going to happen.
  Of course, this is the same girl that gets freaked out when I lick the battery to see if it still has juice. Unfortunately she is not completely unsupported in her idea that I am an irresponsible little 5 year old in that lab. A few weeks ago the lab assignment told us to hook up the ten ohm resistor to the nine volt battery and observe what happened. Right under that in all caps were the words - "DO NOT TOUCH THE RESISTOR!" We hooked it up and I was watching intently for something to happen...
    But nothing happened.
    So I decided to test the connections in the bread board and grabbed the resistor to reposition it. Right as I grab it both Alysa and Cory the TI screech at me like I was doing something stupid. I had no idea what they were talking about until I felt the ridiculous amount of pain in my fingers from the resistor that had been experiencing nine tenths of an amp for over a minute. Never very reactive to circumstances I simply said, "Hey, it's kinda hot." as I started to suck on my fingers and look at the cool little resistor impressions in them.
   The question was "What happens when you hook up a small resistor in series with a battery?" Alysa's answer: "Johner burns himself."