Today was the last day of school!!!
I‘M FREE!!!



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Today was the last day of school!!!
I‘M FREE!!!



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I don’t know why im so tired. (Well actually, i probably do). I came home from school yesterday and fell asleep at about 4:30 and slept until 10:00 this morning. 17 hours, I probably got too much sleep. Who knows.
Anways, Thursday night i was up late working on my english research project (about 3am to be exact) and I woke up at 6 for school. I woke up late and my clothes weren’t ready so i wore pajama bottoms and a red-tshirt and my sneakers. I get to school and I did my spanish speaking portion of my regents test. My topics were
[Teacher] I am your friend and I just got concert tickets. You want to go. I start the conversation
and
Another one I can’t think of at the moment
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Anyways, I then spent periods 1/2 and 3/4 in the air conditioned computer lab coding the Raider Bulletin (which started as a newsletter, but is now more of a digest). I then went to spanish and took a practice Regents. I think i did pretty well. Lunch 7/8, (I don’t ever go to lunch, but i hang out with my friends). Then i went to the library handed in my research paper on Jim Jones. When the teacher was reading it she stopped and said “I love reading good papers.” I was so happy when she said that. Then because my sister’s 8th grade farewell was that day, I got picked up from school, so i didn’t have to ride the bus!!! Such a good day.
And now for todays stuff.
1. Check through swayforum and see what I missed, 150 posts!!!!!
2. Who knows
Yep, I’m sick again. Pneumonia is so much fun. Anyways, went to the doctor today, and he was worried, (which makes you feel great!). So now im on tons of medecine and am out of gym until further notice, (but it doesn’t matter, I am FAILING gym due to absences now, (but mom should take care of that he he). Anyways,slept from 4pm until 10pm, so now I’m wide awake.
Sway Forum
I finally reached 500 posts at Sway Forum. It’s really not a big deal because majority of the members have over 1000 posts, but I lurk more than anything. But I didn’t even notice I made it to 500 posts, until today when i saw i had 510. So my new user title is Mindless Dictator. Also see my awesome avatar made by Makar.

As For Updates
I wrote a few more tutorials, they are simple javascript ones, but I have some more advanced ones coming, I promise. I also added a countdown, It probably doesn’t have much relevance to you, but I’ve been counting down until the end of the school year since September. We’re almost there.
New Sites
I am also working on a few new websites. Dev-Network & The Hangout <<Resurrected>>. The first is simply a forum/web design help site, not too much I can really say there. But I am really excited about The Hangout Resurrected. Think neopets, but not as cheesy (and no pets, I don’t think). The Hangout was my very first extremely bad attempt at a website. Infact thats where my username hdshngout came from. I retired it last summer, but now I want to bring it back. The ‘new’ Hangout should be opening late this summer.
And Can’t Forget about Gym Class!
This really has no revelance at all, but it was different. First we got there, and we played Line Tag. Thats where you run around the gym and tag people, but you can only stay on the lines painted on the floor, and when your tagged you had to sit on the line and create a road block. Keep in mind were 9th, 10th, and 11th graders. Below is a simplified version of the lines painted on the gym floor:
We then played this game where we had to run around in 2 circles and find your partner and do a pose, like the dev-site theres not really too much I can say here.
After that we played Red Rover, it was going fine until one kid said, “Lets link our arms in a chain.” Of course when that happens someone comes running into you and it kills. That happened to me. My friend Tom ran into my and my friends little brother, JJ, and nearly ripped our arms off. (We did manage to stop him though
).
After that we played Simon Says. It was quite strange. The kid who suggested it got to be Simon, but when he said “Simon Says: Pick your Friends Nose,” I quit. Come on, thats just wrong.
And finally we played Duck Duck Goose. It was strange, the kids in the class had as much fun as if they were in kindergarten. A bit strange, but it wasn’t a bad gym class at all.
Thats right! I’m back from Myrtle Beach, rested and ready to go. I am really tired and should go to bed, but I can’t… too busy messing with my new graphics tablet! Anyways, I will be writing more tutorials and offering some new downloads in the near future. Be on the lookout!
Its 1:06am I just figured out how to use flat files. I am so excited you wouldn’t believe it. I never quite understood the functions like fopen(); explode(); and a few other ones, but I got it now. So now I can code using flat files and mysql. Albeit I am still learning flat files and theres a lot left with php, its still good to know. I am also coding some new scripts. Be on the lookout for those. Im kinda tired, so im going to bed.
All in all my birthday was a pretty good day. I got out of school
, got a steak for lunch! Came home, got a bunch of birthday wishes from SwayForum and a cool layout from LEIA (probably temporary but w/e), and went out to dinner at the Outback. There I got $120 from my grandma and uncle and a graphics tablet soon from my mom and stepdad. They sung their annyoing song, but it wasn’t bad. Oh yeah, I got an cookie cake from the mall. (Will post pictures when I get them developed
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From Starlet




I’m so creative with titles aren’t I? Anyways, Sunday night I tried to go to bed at around 10pm, that worked fine, the bad part is I woke up at about 2:00am and I couldn’t get back to sleep. When I finally fell back asleep it was about 5 in the morning, so I slept another hour before I had to get up for school. I went to school and was so tired. Then I ran in gym and I forgot to breath. Come on. How can I forget to breath?!?! So the half mile nearly killed me. Spanish, lunch, and english followed. And of course I wasn’t hungry so I didn’t eat and got a really bad headache. Do you have any idea how hard it is reading “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar” when you have a splitting headache?!? Anyways, I came home and slept until about 11. Got up ate dinner and went back to sleep. It just sucked.
And now for the updates
As you can see I have reorganized the links so instead of 1 huge menu it is broken down. You can see exactly how it is broken down in the sitemap. Also I have added a help forum. So if you have a question about one of my tutorials, a brush request, some php scripts help, wordpress templating help or anything of the sort, post it and I’ll try my best to help. The forum can be found at
http://www.another-friday.mindlesstrio.com/?a=xdforum
I am also writing more tutorials and creating some php scripts. Both of which should be completed before May 7th.
A Final Note
Tomorrow is my birthday!
Last night around 7:00 pm, I was stuck with an idea for a new layout. So I opened up photoshop and started messing around, then after about an hour, the Image you see at the top was beginning to take shape. I cheated this time, I just edited the Kubrick Layout
. Anyways, I put the image in, then started coding around it. About eight hours later, this layout appeared. Its probably the most colorful layout I have EVER done :jaw-dropping:! I am debugging it in other browsers, so it’s not 100% complete yet, but its close. What do you think?
I am almost done with the new layout, I like it, but it is NOTHING like any layout I have ever done before…well sort of, there is an exception. Anyways, enjoy this layout, it is most likely the last night it will be online…
I have added my first set of brushes to the downloads section. There are currently 3 photoshop brush packs and 3 image packs. The image packs can be used to create your own brushes in the gimp, paint shop pro, and many other programs. More brushes are on the way, and please don’t laugh at them. They are my first attempt and they probably aren’t very good.