I’ve discovered that my driver’s license and permit have suddenly disappeared from my wallet. I’m thinking that someone, for whatever reason, stole them. A mean joke? Pretty weird. Either that, or it’s something stupid I did to misplace them. I just don’t see how someone would benefit from stealing a driver’s license!
We’re going to the MVD tomorrow to get a new one. Man, I’m confused.

I’ve finally got my driver’s license, woohoo! Now the state of Arizona approves of me wreaking havoc on the streets of Camp Verde.
Other than my now-legalized use of my screaming metal death trap known as Cat’s Jetta, nothing much is going on. Just waiting for summer.

I’d embed this, but Wordpress absolutely hates me right now and I’d rather not talk about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsU3B0W3TMs
The video’s pretty cool. I wish I had the patience for something like that. It sounds like something from an old Donkey Kong Country game.

I got my AIMS reading and writing scores today. I’ll let the images speak for themselves.

The reverse side of the sheet (describing the score ranges):

Click on any of those to get the full context.

So I am quite happy and proud of myself today.
Hopefully I’ll exceed the math portion too! Supposedly if I exceed all three, I’ll get a state-paid scholarship to any Arizona university.

Warning: Torchwood spoilers ahead. I felt like blogging it.

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If you need to know, just use this decoder.

This morning, I met up with this guy to take day 1 of my driver’s ed course. It involved driving around some residential areas and (gasp!) the highway, allowing me to achieve a speed of a whopping 55 MPH. He said I did “very well” which gives me a bit of confidence.
I’ve got another drive with him next Friday at 11 AM, so wish me luck.
When I complete this course, I won’t have to take the road test again. He’s licensed with the state of Arizona to do this, so he can sign a certificate and allow me to turn that in for a valid license.

Also, in case you’re all wondering, the reason/s I’m doing this instead of taking the road test again is as follows:

• I don’t want to take the road test again. Too intimidating.
• This will make my insurance go down! Woohoo!

Anyway, I’m not in the best state of mind to write much (I’m very sleepy), so I’ll write more later.

Yesterday, my friend Jake came over. He was having some computer problems, and wanted to try out Linux. We set up his (massive) laptop - an old Alienware Area 51 - and backed up his stuff on my external HD. We got everything backed up, and used the ghost-image CD that came with the laptop, restoring it to factory settings. Note that according to the imager and everything else, this computer has one (1) 120 GB drive. We get things updated in Windows, and insert the Ubuntu 8.04 Beta CD… which, according to the computer, is blank. It’s not. The CD drive turns out to be very “picky” and the only decent distribution it’ll “accept” is Ubuntu 7.04. We go to install it and–hey! This computer does not in fact have one 120 GB drive, but two 60 GB drives. The computer is obviously RAID’d, and for some reason Linux isn’t seeing it, instead seeing two separate drives as opposed to one array.
Shit, we thought. If we were to install Linux, it’d render Windows useless. So the logical thing to do would be disable RAID, ghost or install Windows on one drive, and Linux on the other, correct? Kinda.
We go into the BIOS, switch to ATA mode, and use the Windows install disk. It shows 4 “unknown volumes” and upon the pressing of the up arrow-key, it bluescreens. We go back into RAID. Same thing. We choose, out of the options “RAID, ATA and Disable”, disable. Bad move.
Windows does the same thing, and predictably the computer won’t boot. Unpredictably, the BIOS seems inaccessible. No matter how many times we pressed F2, it never went.
“Let’s find the BIOS battery,” we thought. We didn’t.
I used the Ubuntu installer’s Gparted to see if it could magically see the disabled drives. It does, and I partition them, thinking Windows would see the partitions. Nope.
Finally, Jake did something magical. He found the RAID array manager, and somehow after that was able to go back into the BIOS. We deleted the RAID array, and tried the installer again. Aaaaaand it does the same thing. We ended up installing Ubuntu to see if anything would be supported, like wifi.
Anyway, that’s part 1 of the story. We’ll probably work at it more today. If anyone has any answers to the question of “How does one get Linux AND Windows installed on this bitch of a machine?” please let me know!

Hello everyone, sorry for not blogging lately. I’ve been too busy playing Super Smash Bros Brawl for the Wii. Great game! Worth every penny.

Also, you should check out James’s photos from my/our UK trip, and his videos from there and here in Arizona.

I’ve finally uploaded my photos from my trip to England, so if any of you are at all interested, here they are.
Enjoy!

I hate every single one of you! You anger me so much, I can’t believe it!
Also, I’ve taken a liking to Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, have found Jesus Christ and have accepted Him into my heart, and I think abortion is murder.
Also, free speech is a sin. Nobody should ever, ever speak out against Jesus.

Last but not least, OMG PONIES R SOOO CUTE!!!!!1!!!

…April Fools’! Ha ha ha ha ha! Boy, I’m sure I had you worried!