Hello blog readers of the world. I hope you had a great day.

Mine was decent. I woke up a little before ten, got dressed, and headed off to FBC Wolfforth. It was a good service, but the normal pastor wasn’t there today. The fill-in was decent, though. After the service, I started to leave, but as I got to the door some woman stopped me asked “Have you filled out a visitor form with us?” Keep in mind that this was at least my fifth or sixth time to visit this church and I hadn’t been stopped yet. So, she pulled me back inside, took me to the front desk, and had me fill out a visitor information card. Then I got a little goodie bag that had a mug, a note pad, a bag of popcorn (“Thanks for POPPING in!”), and what I think might be a Jesus music mix CD. Cool stuff.
After leaving the church, I hopped in my car, started up the Christmas music, and made my way to Home Depot with the intention of buying a new broom for Quidditch. Unfortunately, I had to go to the second Home Depot in Lubbock because the first one didn’t have what I was looking for, but no luck there either. Now that it was ten minutes until one (which is when Quidditch starts on Sundays), I was slightly frustrated and in a hurry. I got back to the school, walked to my room, changed clothes (sleeveless shirt and athletic shorts in 40 degree weather for the win), and headed to Quidditch. I was only 20 minutes late, and I showed up right as they were about to start the first game (“Chad’s here! You’re on the black team. We’re about to start.”).

After a long, full (with two seekers and the Snitch) match, we played a shorter match without the Snitch. Conner (the president and native beast) and Alex (the other beast) sat out, and the other team also got a new keeper who had never played before. Needless to say, we had 90 points when they only had 20. But then BOTH Alex AND Conner joined in…on their team. They caught up. Fast. Soon, it was tie game: 90 to 90 (we were only playing to 100!). I turned to the rest of my team and said, “Listen. We have one chance. If they get the ball from us again, they’re gonna score and win. We need to take the ball and sprint down as fast as we possibly can and score. I’ll cover whoever has the quaffle.” So we split, and, on the count of 3, set off in a sprint, me covering the chaser holding the quaffle (I play beater; well, I might add). One pass and a toss through the hoop later, we had won. It was awesome. What a great game.

The only problem with playing Quidditch in 40 degree weather is that it’s difficult to breathe. After playing out for two and a half hours, I was completely unable to take big breaths or to laugh without breaking out into a coughing fit for about an hour and a half afterward. We had a short meeting regarding the tournament Tech Quidditch is hosting in April (April 9th, to be exact, so you should come out and watch!), and then we went our different ways.

I went back to my room and tried to fix my computer. You see, there’s nothing really, truly wrong with it like a virus or a Trojan, but I’ve been having trouble with my laptop’s screen. Every once in a while the screen will black out completely when it’s plugged in to charge, making the only way I can do anything on it through my TV (they’re hooked up via HDMI cable; that’s what I’m using now). After spending an hour or two working on it alone and another hour or two spent with customer service, I had it arranged for a Dell technician to come out and replace my screen…for FREE (covered by warranty). It shouldn’t take long at all. Hopefully this’ll stop this problem from happening because it’s happened sporadically for quite a while now. It’s frustrating.

Other than all that mess, I went to Wal-Mart to get more milk (and ended up getting a 21 pack of Lofthouse cookies as well), to Dairy Queen to get a vanilla milkshake, and to Little Caesar’s to get two Hot-N-Ready pizzas (I had a coupon!) and Crazy Bread. Good stuff. Andrew got back a while later, after I had finished eating (I saved some for him too, so no worries) and had started on my music theory homework; nothing too difficult. It didn’t take me long.

And here I am. Nothing much else to see. Maybe I can manage to squeeze out another two hundred words or so though to reach 1000.

Oh! Go to translate.google.com. Paste this into the text box:

pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch

Translate from “German”  to “German”. Then, on the right, click the “Listen” button. Make sure your volume is turned up and prepare to be amused.

Speaking of being amused, watch this!

Clicky (Do Right Click>Open in New Window so you don’t leave here)
Isn’t that incredible? I was definitely impressed. This guy is a winner. Even though he played a Lady Gaga. You know, it’s not that I don’t like her music; her music is FANTASTIC. She’s one heck of a songwriter, to rival Lennon/McCartney and Freddie Mercury (Freddie’s song for Queen, “Radio Ga Ga”, is where Lady Gaga gets her name from), but I don’t care for most of her lyrics or for her very much. I always say, “man, I wish that Lady Gaga used her songwriting powers for good instead of evil.” Amirite or amirite?

Anyway, that’s pretty much it for tonight. By the time I finish this paragraph, I’ll be past 1000 words and it’ll be time for bed. Plus, it’s the last Monday of the semester tomorrow (not counting the next Monday since it’s only finals)! I’m excited to go home. So, goodnight everyone. I hope you all sleep well. I’ll be back for more bloggity-blogging tomorrow.

Chad