...I am the voice of one among the silent
who's tired of burning among the flames
Smokey Says Don't Play With Fire Kids...
Bryan R. | April 17, 2005
What a crummy week it has been!
This was the first week back to school since spring break... which left me sleeping through like half my classes Monday morning lol. I was exhausted! Staying up until 4am every night last week took its toll on me! heh!
Then Tuesday I think it was, I had some funky stomach virus and had to stay home from school... which killed my chance of getting perfect attendance for the first time ever! Yeah... that sucked.
When I came back I was behind and had to make up a butt-load of homework and blitzing packets and junk. I finally got everything finished today...
I unknowingly downloaded this messenger thing called Zango (it was gonna replace GAIM which has been all screwed up for some time now) This nearly murdered my mom's computer and only some last minute intervention from my cousin Chris saved the poor thing. This Trojan virus type thing kept hijacking random programs and files on the computer and trying to extract them. And everytime you would delete the files that had placed themselves on your computer they would just rename themselves and start on another section of the PC. The alien files were all .sys . This is all according to my Mom that is. IE has also been doing all these bizarre things for some time now that causes the computer to have to be restarted. It seems like its some kind of security flaw. Are there even any security flaws in IE though? Darn that Spyware! Everyone should just switch to Netscape! And download secure and safe spyware/adware fighting tools before its too late and your computer has been infected! And the worst part of all of this is that my mom calmly said that all I had to do was tell her the security thing she has on there wasn't letting me get on GAIM and that she would have gone in there and told it to allow it to run and stuff. Even if she does that, Yahoo! and MSN still won't run properly or at all. I update and stuff but its no use! That can be your birthday present to me Chris, get GAIM to work or get me securely set up with an alternate protocol.
Anywho... enough computer talk...
Another thing that sucks is that I found out the other day that I alone must get up in front of like 250+ people in about a week and say the FFA Creed at the annual banquet. Since I was the only one that spoke it at all the competitions this year and got a superior rating at regionals... well... Jenny, the President, was just kind of like, "You're going to be there and you're going to say it... we really don't have any other choice." Well... she said somethin' like that anyway. lol. I'm just not the most confident person in the world and getting up in front of 100s people I know personally at the most important event of the year, and speaking the document that represents our entire association is kind of a lot to swallow. Now I know I can be dramatic sometimes, but this is really as big as I make it seem I guess. I guess all I can do is practice it and just relax and kind of zone out and not focus on my surroundings as I do it... So my attention doesn't wonder and I start making mistakes and what not. I'll just practice it enough that I become like a robot when I say it and I am able to speak it clearly and forcefully without even really thinking about it to much. Wish me luck!
Yes... All these unfortunate things led up to a terrible tradgedy that took place Saturday morning...
My next door neighbor's house burnt down... which also left a gaping hole in the side of ours!...
Here's how it went down...
At like 8:30 I was abruptly awoken by sirens and stuff from outside my window. I looked outside and there were 2 fire trucks, an ambulance, and three police cars. At this time I couldn't see the fire. I looked down into the street and witnessed a Sheriff (Mitchell) approaching my own house, so I started down to the front door to meet him. He banged on the door (cops don't like doorbells lol). I opened it and he was already gone. I guess he figured I would have seen the fire and gotten everyone out of the house. Well I couldn't look over at the burning home from the angle I was at, so I STILL couldn't see that we were in danger. I closed and locked the screen door and ran upstairs to tell my mom that there's a bunch of activity going on outside and that a cop just come to our door and stuff. She was up and locked in the bathroom and before I could tell her what's going on the sheriff came back and this time I managed to catch him... When I answered the door it was this Mexican guy that lives next door and he wasn't speaking English or anything but was trying to tell me my family was in danger. Panicky and frustrated he yanks the screen door open and tried to pull me out so I can witness what is going on. But before he can the sheriff shoves him out of the way and starts talking to me...
Cop: Are you up?
me: Yeah...
Cop: Your neighbor's house is on fire. Go wake everyone in your house up and get them out here right now.
Me: Ok
I run upstairs and tell my mom what's going on and how we need to leave now and stuff. Of course my mom can't coroperate for one second and she doesn't listen. She's gonna put makeup on, get changed, comb her hair, and get a jacket before she comes out. I figured I'd just let the cop deal with her. So I meet the sheriff dowstairs and we talk again...
Cop: Where is everyone!!??
Me: My mom's on her way...
Cop: *Dashes inside house* Mamb, come on! Right now! You have to leave right this instant!
My Mom scoops up our dog and is pushed out the door by the sheriff. The sheriff, about to have a heart attack, freaks out as we stop halfway up the driveway to remove Cocoa's invisible fence collar. I manage to get it off and toss it over in the yard. The sheriff and I then quickly rushed to the garage to try and free our cat, Muffin, but she decided to stay hidden.
Now before I saw the fire I was thinking, "Oh this is just a little kitchen fire they'll have contained in like three minutes. But was shocked when I saw it, and thought... "Dude... Their upstairs and roof is a giant wall of fire!" I'll tell ya, I've only seen stuff like that on the news before."
We stood on the sidewalk across the street and watched the firefighters battle the blaze in vein for a few minutes. I honestly thought we were gonna lose our home when the fire spread to out house. But then all of a sudden things changed for the better! They quickly stopped to growing flames on our house and slowly, but steadily, worked their way through the fire. In the end we stood on the sidewalk in our pajamas (a mere undershirt and some thin fleece pants) for an hour and a half until we could go back inside out house. These two neighbors were kind enough to bring us blankets and jackets to wear. Those people were awesome! After we got inside the sheriff came to door again to ask in he could use our bathroom this time. heh... lol... cops...
Something interesting is that this is their second home these people have burnt down in six months. They think that it started in an upstairs bedroom. There were six kids living in that two bedroom house. Yea... we didn't like 'em that much...
Here's an article about it: Fire Destroys Northern Ky Home
And here are a couple of picture I took yesterday...
The remains of their house
This is the hole on the side of their home that eventually spread to ours...
This is the damage done to our home
This was the first week back to school since spring break... which left me sleeping through like half my classes Monday morning lol. I was exhausted! Staying up until 4am every night last week took its toll on me! heh!
Then Tuesday I think it was, I had some funky stomach virus and had to stay home from school... which killed my chance of getting perfect attendance for the first time ever! Yeah... that sucked.
When I came back I was behind and had to make up a butt-load of homework and blitzing packets and junk. I finally got everything finished today...
I unknowingly downloaded this messenger thing called Zango (it was gonna replace GAIM which has been all screwed up for some time now) This nearly murdered my mom's computer and only some last minute intervention from my cousin Chris saved the poor thing. This Trojan virus type thing kept hijacking random programs and files on the computer and trying to extract them. And everytime you would delete the files that had placed themselves on your computer they would just rename themselves and start on another section of the PC. The alien files were all .sys . This is all according to my Mom that is. IE has also been doing all these bizarre things for some time now that causes the computer to have to be restarted. It seems like its some kind of security flaw. Are there even any security flaws in IE though? Darn that Spyware! Everyone should just switch to Netscape! And download secure and safe spyware/adware fighting tools before its too late and your computer has been infected! And the worst part of all of this is that my mom calmly said that all I had to do was tell her the security thing she has on there wasn't letting me get on GAIM and that she would have gone in there and told it to allow it to run and stuff. Even if she does that, Yahoo! and MSN still won't run properly or at all. I update and stuff but its no use! That can be your birthday present to me Chris, get GAIM to work or get me securely set up with an alternate protocol.
Anywho... enough computer talk...
Another thing that sucks is that I found out the other day that I alone must get up in front of like 250+ people in about a week and say the FFA Creed at the annual banquet. Since I was the only one that spoke it at all the competitions this year and got a superior rating at regionals... well... Jenny, the President, was just kind of like, "You're going to be there and you're going to say it... we really don't have any other choice." Well... she said somethin' like that anyway. lol. I'm just not the most confident person in the world and getting up in front of 100s people I know personally at the most important event of the year, and speaking the document that represents our entire association is kind of a lot to swallow. Now I know I can be dramatic sometimes, but this is really as big as I make it seem I guess. I guess all I can do is practice it and just relax and kind of zone out and not focus on my surroundings as I do it... So my attention doesn't wonder and I start making mistakes and what not. I'll just practice it enough that I become like a robot when I say it and I am able to speak it clearly and forcefully without even really thinking about it to much. Wish me luck!
Yes... All these unfortunate things led up to a terrible tradgedy that took place Saturday morning...
My next door neighbor's house burnt down... which also left a gaping hole in the side of ours!...
Here's how it went down...
At like 8:30 I was abruptly awoken by sirens and stuff from outside my window. I looked outside and there were 2 fire trucks, an ambulance, and three police cars. At this time I couldn't see the fire. I looked down into the street and witnessed a Sheriff (Mitchell) approaching my own house, so I started down to the front door to meet him. He banged on the door (cops don't like doorbells lol). I opened it and he was already gone. I guess he figured I would have seen the fire and gotten everyone out of the house. Well I couldn't look over at the burning home from the angle I was at, so I STILL couldn't see that we were in danger. I closed and locked the screen door and ran upstairs to tell my mom that there's a bunch of activity going on outside and that a cop just come to our door and stuff. She was up and locked in the bathroom and before I could tell her what's going on the sheriff came back and this time I managed to catch him... When I answered the door it was this Mexican guy that lives next door and he wasn't speaking English or anything but was trying to tell me my family was in danger. Panicky and frustrated he yanks the screen door open and tried to pull me out so I can witness what is going on. But before he can the sheriff shoves him out of the way and starts talking to me...
Cop: Are you up?
me: Yeah...
Cop: Your neighbor's house is on fire. Go wake everyone in your house up and get them out here right now.
Me: Ok
I run upstairs and tell my mom what's going on and how we need to leave now and stuff. Of course my mom can't coroperate for one second and she doesn't listen. She's gonna put makeup on, get changed, comb her hair, and get a jacket before she comes out. I figured I'd just let the cop deal with her. So I meet the sheriff dowstairs and we talk again...
Cop: Where is everyone!!??
Me: My mom's on her way...
Cop: *Dashes inside house* Mamb, come on! Right now! You have to leave right this instant!
My Mom scoops up our dog and is pushed out the door by the sheriff. The sheriff, about to have a heart attack, freaks out as we stop halfway up the driveway to remove Cocoa's invisible fence collar. I manage to get it off and toss it over in the yard. The sheriff and I then quickly rushed to the garage to try and free our cat, Muffin, but she decided to stay hidden.
Now before I saw the fire I was thinking, "Oh this is just a little kitchen fire they'll have contained in like three minutes. But was shocked when I saw it, and thought... "Dude... Their upstairs and roof is a giant wall of fire!" I'll tell ya, I've only seen stuff like that on the news before."
We stood on the sidewalk across the street and watched the firefighters battle the blaze in vein for a few minutes. I honestly thought we were gonna lose our home when the fire spread to out house. But then all of a sudden things changed for the better! They quickly stopped to growing flames on our house and slowly, but steadily, worked their way through the fire. In the end we stood on the sidewalk in our pajamas (a mere undershirt and some thin fleece pants) for an hour and a half until we could go back inside out house. These two neighbors were kind enough to bring us blankets and jackets to wear. Those people were awesome! After we got inside the sheriff came to door again to ask in he could use our bathroom this time. heh... lol... cops...
Something interesting is that this is their second home these people have burnt down in six months. They think that it started in an upstairs bedroom. There were six kids living in that two bedroom house. Yea... we didn't like 'em that much...
Here's an article about it: Fire Destroys Northern Ky Home
And here are a couple of picture I took yesterday...
The remains of their house
This is the hole on the side of their home that eventually spread to ours...
This is the damage done to our home
Comments
andrew dorman | 16/07/2005, 18:13
Krissy | 16/07/2005, 18:14
yeesh that sucks. luckily everyone was ok right?
ai, krissy
Amber | 16/07/2005, 18:16
Jesus, Bryan. About the FFA thingy... I know you can do it. Just get up there and imagine there aren't that many people there. Imagine it's me you're telling it to or something. It'll be a piece of cake. I'm sorry but I find the fire funny. I mean, I'm glad everyone's all right and it wouldn't have been funny if they weren't but... yea. My grandparents are flying in today and they'll be staying for 3 weeks, so I'll try to talk to them about the farm. I don't know how much good it'll do though. I hate Bush too. Should've choked on that pretzel.
Blessed be and keep safe, y'hear?
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wow brian sorry i was going to call you saturday snd ask you wat was up mabe see if you wanted to spend the night but my moms ie was down and i did not know your cell phone # off the top of my head i am going to call you later to check up on ya ok. your friend andrew dorman