History Class and Other News

I have to do another Honors Project for this class :\

It has to be a museum exhibit... online...

I'm thinking of creating another blog just for this. I don't know how to create an entire website so the blog route is easier.

The theme is "The United States at War: Attitudes and Actions."

I just got started so I'm not sure where I'm going to go with it yet. I have to have 3 different events from 3 different decades between 1880-2000. So I guess I can do WWI and WWII, but not sure about the 3rd event. If you have any ideas, please share them.

In other news:

Alex was out playing hockey all by himself yesterday. His mom, dad, and sister were up at the ball fields. I went over since he was playing all by himself. The first thing he said to me was, "Just so you know, I'm leaving in like 5 minutes."

I just said, "Oh" in the most disappointing tone as possible :p

That 5 minutes actually turned into 10-15 minutes. Then he had to go up to the ball fields to see his cousin (I think) play softball.

I'm still waiting to sit out on his porch with him.

Should I ask him? I don't usually do that cos it is his porch after all. So he should be the one to ask right?


Dunno if anyone cares or not, but I finally got an xbox live account. My gamertag is pabond007. My game collection includes:

Medal of Honor: Airborne (MoH FTW!!)
Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
Grand Theft Auto IV
Quantum of Solace
Call of Duty 4
The Godfather (can't play this one online)

If you have any of those games and wanna play together, then send me a request or whatever.

I want/need to get a wireless network adapter for my xbox 360. That way I can move it back downstairs to the living room. There I can play it on a flat screen TV and surround sound. It's in my room now cos that's the only way I can play Live. It's currently hooked up to a mono 13" TV. Sound only comes out of one speaker -_-


A new recycling thing just arrived finally! The old one has been overflowing for weeks! Last week, Alex mentioned having stuff they can recycle, and that he will go up with me :) I just sent him a txt msg saying that I'm gonna go up later, and I'll take anything up that he has.


Back to school news:

My plan was to finish everything this week. Finals start next week so this is the last regular week. I wanted to finish a class each day. But I've got soooo much work in each class, it's not even funny. I swear it's like they realize the end of the year is here, and just pile on all the work they can -_- Pretty soon I'm gonna have to start working through the night.


So it may be awhile before you hear from me again...

::EDITED:: No Good Titles For This Post.

I finally started my Civil War blog. Now I'm not sure where to start with it. The link to it is right over there ------------->

::EDIT:: I also created the WWII blog. The link is also over there.

Well, that's all I have for today.

Oh, my brother and wife were talking with us via webcam today. Everything is going fine with the little one. Dad and one of my other brothers are going down there tomorrow. I will have the house to myself all day.

^_^

hehe

I wonder what trouble I can get into. :p

Oh, and one more thing. I have now become re-obsessed with The Godfather movies. I have always liked them but didn't have the movies themselves. I just watched them whenever they were on TV. Well, now I bought The Godfather and The Godfather Part II. Part III is good, but not as great as the other ones, so I didn't waste my money on that one. Not yet anyway.

I also have The Godfather book by Mario Puzo which the movie was made from. I read it awhile ago. I also have The Godfather Returns by Mark Winegardner (I think). I haven't read Returns yet, but I read some things about it and the next one in the novel series, The Godfather's Revenge. They sound like good reads so I'm going to reread the first one, then the others.

The original Godfather book by Puzo is a classic, as are the films. I recommend you check them out if you are interested in Mafia type stuff like I am. I promise you, The Godfather is FAR better than The Sopranos.

:)

Check out the linked Wikipedia articles if you want.

Grrrr

I was going to start my other blogs today. But now I have a title problem.

Grrr

I don't want the title to be too simple, like Peter's Civil War/ World War II blog. I would like to have something creative. I don't have any creativity, so I'm gonna sponge off yours. lol

Bob suggested "Blue and Gray" for the Civil War blog. I like that one and will probably use it. But the WWII blog is harder. lol. I cant think of any titles for it.

So, any suggestions?

Uncle Pete

My brother's wife gave birth to healthy boy a few hours ago. I suspect we will be going to visit them sometime soon. They live 5 hours away so it's not like we can just drive down there for the afternoon.

Well, that's all I have to report tonight.

And of course I know that hardly anyone will be interested in my other blogs. But you might want to go back and read number 3 in the last post. That reason is the most important one. I'm not doing it to entertain anyone. Hell, even this blog, or the last one, isn't entertaining. I only started this one up again so I could tell the people I know would be interested, and possibly a few others, about the other blogs. And of course to post about my fabulously boring life. So don't expect much to come from this blog.

Plans

So since I'm going to create 3 other blogs, I better have a plan right? Well, first off, I probably won't be writing in this blog very much. As you can tell from the title, this blog is about my boring life. As there is usually nothing worth mentioning going on in my life, then this blog will remain almost untouched. The other blogs will be a different story.

There are three reasons for creating the other blogs:

1. What Tom said in his comment on my last post. lol

2. To teach others who want to learn or further their knowledge of the blogs particular subject.

And the most important:

3. I have always said I was going to write a book about the Civil War and possibly about my other areas of interest. These blogs will act as an area for me to organize things in order and to also go into detail about a lot of things. It's kinda hard to explain, but you probably get the idea.

For the Civil War and WWII blogs, I will start at the beginning and work my way to the end (obviously). I will examine reasons for the wars, then write about the battles all the way through to the end of the war. After that, I will write a little bit about what resulted from the war, and what happened after.

Not sure how to go with the Titanic blog. I think everyone knows the story already. So that one might not last too long. lol

So, there you go. My map for my other blogs. Sorry there really isn't more to write about here yet. I'm not sure how many of you will be interested in reading my other blogs, but like I said, they are for me really. You are welcome to read and comment if you want.

A Comeback

So, I've decided to come back to blogging. I was only able to make it one week.... or was it two? Anyway, I really missed this part of it. I said before that this was taking up a lot of my time. Remember that? Well, I guess it really hasn't lol.

I will also be creating 2 more blogs with room for a third. One will be focused on Titanic related stuff, the other will be focused on Civil War stuff. If I create a third, it will be focused on World War II stuff. As you already know, I have a huge interest in the Titanic and The Civil War. My interest in WWII is just really starting to develop. I've had an interest in it before, but not to the point where I wanted to study it, and now I do. These other blogs will be used to further my knowledge in their specific subject areas, as well as anyone who wants to read them. There are practically no Civil War related blogs on Blogger, so this will be a first that I know of. The same goes for Titanic blogs and World War II blogs... I think anyway.

I will try my best to update each of these blogs as often an I can. The WWII blog will require a lot of research to post something, so that one might not be up and running for some time. The other ones will also take a little while to get up. I have a basic plan for them, but that's it.

I hope I can get some of my regular readers back here, and also over to my other blogs once they get up.

So, anyway, hello again!! lol

Oh, and there are some Alex updates that have happened. Some happened before I shut the blog down, but they were overshadowed by everything else.