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I'm back. And blogging.

That should totally be a folk song.

And now I'm gone!

WILL BLOG TOMMOROW: I Solemnly Swear.

The ennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd.

Blogging From School

Aha! I'm blogging from school. Yes, it's like 2:29 or so. Schools about to end now, yep. But here I am. Blogging from school.

It's hard work, let me tell you. All though it is legal, I keep having a sudden urge to look over my shoulder. I assume Leah has probably put her post in, but I can't get to my gmail from here.

The tone (a bell would be too expensive) is toning now. Now the lady is telliing people who needs to come to the main office over the PA system.

And now, I'm done.

Tata.

I'll blog like in an hour and a half or so, when I actually have time...

Quick Post

I have to go upstairs now, my mom doesn't like me on the computer past 8.

First off: Opera is a WEB BROWSER! Not actually opera; that was pretty funny.

So I completely lost all of my Social Studies notecards, so I had to make 25 all over again. Now I have a mere 21, I plan to use my book to do the last 4 en la morning.

Promise to post very well tomorrow (TGIF), and fix the sidebar. Leah, unless you email me your post by tommorow night, you lose your chance to post. My email is on the sidebar, by the way!

If you buy like 3 or 4 shirts, I'm thinking of making buisiness cards. What do you think?

Sam
Blogger
saustinsdiary.blogspot.com

Huh? Huh? Pretty good!

Commenting

My blog is raging. Truly. The comments are now groing to immense sizes (for a two-month old blog created by me, anyway). The comments I will be referring to are here

First, Jesse asked about shirts.

Next, Tim posted both Jeffs' last names. Then Jeff B. repremanded him. Then, uh..., Jeff B. repremanded him again. Both times involved Tim's poor use of commas. Ha to Tim.

Next came Carissa's complaining, followed by a show of her ignorance to blatant sarcasm. IT WAS A JOKE, DUMMY!

This was followed by Tim again, commenting on my hypocrisy.

Haha (my apologies if this is someone I know) is clearly an impolite moron. You don't start contests on other people's blog. It's quite stupid! And... wait, hold on, I need to use capitals for this:

OPERA SUCKS

Ah, that's better. Where was I? Oh yes.

Next came my Dad under the pseudonym "dash13pa", posting an entry for LOTW. Sorry, member's of the family can't win, except for mom, rachel, and the pets.

Jon then took "nya" from Jen... You guys should meet sometimes. Then Jon advertised his blog. I'm not condoning that, but it's very good. You really should check it out.

Ariel came, she was just a guest by the way. I doubt she'll ever check it again, let alone become a regular.

Someone anonymously quoted "Mean Girls" with "Boo you whore". Yes, I watched it, and I liked it! Okay? Okay?

Next came some random crap from Maddie and her friends. Since I don't know who posted what, I won't go into details with that.

Then Dain said "I will get you", assuming that was actually Dain.

Bringing up the rear was Abby, Jen, and Frances. Abby commented on the amount of comments, then came Jen, spewing something about Broadway and rodents. Frances agreed with Abby on the whole comment issue.

Jon rounded it off with a random comment agreeing with Frances and Abby.

Well, that about settles it! 3 by Jon, 1 by Sri, 5 anonymously (counting 2 by haha), 2 by Jen, 2 by Jeff (they were identical. Jeff has some technology problems), 5 by Maddie and Co. (who knows who posted them), 1 by Dain, 1 by Abby, 1 by Frances, 2 by Carissa, 1 by my dad, 1 by Ariel, (that's what, 25?), let's see... ah! 1 by Tim, 1 by Jesse, and 1 by Ariel. That's 27!

And you'll all comment on this one because you're stupid!

The End...

Or is it?

More Blogging Rules

Thank you, Carrissa, can't believe I missed this one:

Rule 6: Posting a comment on someone elses blog comment board for fun is not fun. It's annoying.

Rule 7: No you shut up!

Rule 8: Don't post anonymously if you're not prepared for me to tell the world who you are!

Person with two sisters: Jeff B!

Rule 9: Stop telling me "lol". You're obviously not laughing out loud! Everywhere you look on the web, it's lol! "Hi" lol "No, really, I need to talk" lol "I've lost my will to live! Hear me out!" lol. I don't need it.

I won't tell who the anonymous poster who talked about love and stuff is. But, my comments aren't a message board, a chat room, or a place to get psychological help.

Leah, I'm waiting for your post.

Email me order forms for T-Shirts! They're super!

How about a new contest! Ah, screw it. It's not like I can have the same five people winning the contest over and over.

This is a quick paragraph by Rachel. So I just went to Carissa's blog (or xenga or whatever) because I'm nicer than Sam (but we all knew that) and it's pretty cool. So you should check it out. Because I don't think I was even close to that funny in eighth grade...

What are you doing? No... let me... fadsjaoipjsefpnoaeroji;fz;io &UHl o u8;0wa4e;

Aha, came off with the keyboard, didn't I?

No you shut up!

I should really be doing my science journal, but I'm not. I'll do it tommorow.

New website link (this is just my own): Guess the Google. Just click on the screenshot. My best: 294.

G2G.

lol

Stepping Up To The Metaphorical Plate

So Sam asked me like nine hundred times to blog for him tonight so that you, our rabid and loyal readers would not be disappointed when you checked your computers. Although how many of you (except jon) are on so late? (as eight twenty two I mean, because I know you all love your computers and are on them all the time, but it's kind of late for people to be checking blogs- especially if you get up at six in the morning...)

Ok well nothing happened to me today. I made these little hot dog things in the oven and I didn't burn them which is good because it's getting really bad with the burning thing. Because I made the hot dog things last time and then I burned them and my mom got me this sushi making thing for christmas and then I burned the seaweed and it smelled really bad (kind of like pot now that I think about it but it's not like I know about pot because I don't get high and you shouldn't either unless you really want to because as we all know free will makes the world go round...)

So I'll tell you this story which is completely fictional. One day there was this girl with naturally curly (or not-whatever) red hair who had this brother who had this blog. And he was like Rachel my mother won't let me on the computer today because I was on it like for nine hundred hours yesterday playing a stupid start wars game so will you blog for me. And his sister was like yeah absolutely I have nothing better to do being in high school and having like hundreds of pounds of homework a day. And then five minutes later he was like Rachel will you blog for me. And she was like yeah didn't I just say that. And then ten minutes later he was going to a play thing and he was like Rachel will you blog for me and she was like SAM STOP ASKING ME! BECAUSE I'M GOING TO BRAIN YOU!! And then like two hours later she remembered that she had to blog and then she did but her mom was yelling at her to get off the computer so she did.

These fictional stories are fun.

I'm going to watch friends and go to bed.

BON NUIT, mes amicos!

Homepages

You click the Firefox button on your desktop.

If you don't have firefox, please get. Click here, then click "Get Firefox". You don't need it to read my blog, but it's really better than explorer.

Where was I? Oh, yeah. The internet comes up, and there you are: your homepage. Sometimes it's MSN, or Google, or Neopets. Whatever. But there are customizable homepages. Like Google, Myway, and Yahoo. These are the three I will be reviewing tonight, so let's get started.

The first is Google's homepage. See sarpics now for its picture. Once you've seen it, come back here. I'll wait.

Now that you've done that, this is my review. Google has the worst quantity of content (Or maybe I just can't figure it out!). However, it does have the funniest content. See the eyes in the center of the screen? They follow the mouse.

However, if you like to add things that change, like my blog *cough cough*, you just post the URL into the "Create A Section" box, then click okay. It will come up no problem.

For color it's the worst. That color scheme is the only one available; it's not too good.

However, I'm still using it. Myway and Yahoo have none of the great content, and they have no "gmail" thing. Google is also the easiest to use and change. For those of you that want to have a cool looking homepage, this one's not for you.

Now visit sarpics and look at my screenshots of myway.

Okay, Myway is by far the best for color schemes and the likes. It also probably has the most content, however, I find most of it is junky. Some is cool, but whatever.

It's color schemes are very good, pictures of all sorts. However, it's email capabilities are pretty much nil. It is also difficult to use.

Yahoo comes last. It's color schemes are okay (I reccomend just plain colors), and it's content is very good. It's centered mostly around news, however. Visit sarpics for screenshots.

Well, that's it! My winner is google, it has good email capabilities and I like the format.

To get google, go to google.com and click the personalized home at the top. You have to make an account if you don't have one.

Also myway and yahoo.

The winner of LOTW (link of the week) is Leah with Slow Wave. I'm looking foward to her post!

Some Different Crap

Before I forget take Jen's quiz. This will be especially difficult for those who don't know her.

Abby, I think a small will fit you.

No commenting about the theme song of hamster-themed videogames.

Okay, down to buisiness (that word is impossible to spell). The following blogs will be removed from the sidebar if they are not updated in 24 hours. (It's 10:10 am on Saturday).

1. Becky's Blog


2. Jesse's Blog

Sorry to put you on the spot, there.

Don't forget link of the week!

I have to go to synagouge to pray, now.

Shalom.

An Actual Entry

Went to school today.

The end.

Geez my life is so boring.

Okay, some new rules about people's blogs!

First: Picture is a no! Putting your picture online is just not too smart. If they no your first and last name, your general location, and your picture, they can find you (they being creepy kidnappers, of course!).

Second: No last names! Jen and Jesse, there's probably a better place to talk about your schools and locations.

Third: No deep, dark, secrets. They suck, and we don't care (unless they're who other people like! Keep those coming).

Fourth: No rules about blogging! We'll post whatever we want, whenever we want, with however many last names and secrets as we want!

Fifth: Exclamation points are fun!

Currently Listening To: Counting Crows, "Mr. Jones"
Currently Watching: My Neighbor Beating up her Cat
Currently Typing: This Blog, you morons
Current Quality of Jokes: Mediocre at Best

Ah it's 8:42 (or is it 7:42?) and I'm so bored I could eat a horse. Well, normally it's I'm so hungry I could eat a horse, but eating a horse would take a while.


While I type this I'm playing hamsterball with my sister. That is, she goes, I blog, she plays, I play.

Now we're going to write a story. While she plays, I type some, etc. Let's start.

Once there was a little kid named Fred. Fred lived in a town called "Hamsterballville". All they did for fun was play hamsterball. And eat poptarts. So like one day Fred said to his much prettier sister, " I want you to be the team member on my blog". And then Fred sister (lets call her Rachel for reasons unknown to us) was like no way unless you pay me and then he said I have no money and she said ok well I'll do it anyway. As Fred's plan continued, he began to feel guilty about breaking the knife he would stab into Rachel's back. Then he looked over and saw how bad Rachel was doing at hamsterball and felt okay. (that part about the knife was Sam- obviously I would never put something so gross). And then Rachel was like Fred our mother is getting mad at us for playing on the computer and listening to the Counting Crows and we have to go upstairs now or she will be really mad at us. And Sam was like screw her and free will makes the world go round but then he said ok lets go upstairs. And then they lived happily ever after. THE END.

well that was completely fictional. Except wait! we have to go because our mother is yelling at us...

BON SOIR, amigos!

Life, Jim, but not as we know it

Jesse's post. Congrats Jesse.

Hey, this is Jesse. I know you probably would prefer to listen to Sam
and Rachel talk, but for now, you're stuck with me. I get to have this
posted because I won the link of the week contest. If you haven't read it yet, I recommend you read the Dath Vader Diaries. Look for the link on the right.

Well, my life's been mostly good. Except that at a New Years Eve party, this guy decided to wrestle me, and since he's big, and I'm small and weak, my neck has hurt all day. But what is good is that for Christmas, I got a website and a book on programming a programming language called Ruby. That is all I got. And I am very happy with it. The website is http://www.weirdbro.com, but there isn't anything up yet. I'll probably have some content on it by the end of this week.

I should probably tell everyone here more about me. My name is Jesse, I'm 13, 14 in 8 (I'm not sure if that's accurate anymore) days, and I go to T/E. I know there is a TE/VF rivalry, so if it makes anyone feel better, I was supposed to go to VF. I live in the VF area. As you can probably tell, I'm a nerd with very low self
esteem. I have some inner need to tell everyone my problems. I met Sam at a Bar Mitzvah last year, and he completely forgot me.

Well, thats all Jesse, the nerd with low self-esteem, has to say today. Have a good night.

Well, I never said it would have a point.

I'd say the butler

Whodunnits are fun, doubtless. But you know what's even more fun?

Whocommentedonits! The newest fad here at Four Years Apart (we're just always bringing you new things, whether we came up with it or not) is commenting anonymously and providing hints about yourself. We have a couple of regulars here, including a depressed person who's in Communication Club, and someone with two sisters. My guess at Comm. Club person is possibly Tim, as he didn't comment last time, but whatever. I actually kind of think it's a girl. The two sisters person I have no idea.

But who could be doing it? I have no idea (but see my title). But in the legendary explanation of eighth-graders, they probably just had a really smart hamster.

Two readers I'm sending a big hello out to: N. Milson and Charlotte! They are currently my only readers in other countries: Canada and Germany respectively. Charlotte comments about how much she misses Rachel, then says she's kidding. N. Milson's comments (they number few) actually have some meat, so you get the picture.

Abby has ordered my first shirt, coincidentally in a size and color I don't have. Thanks, Abby.

It's a small world after all. It's a- oh wait I was posting.

You've got to try my quiz (see several posts below this). It's really a classic. No you shut up!

Filling In

Well, as the pinch hitter for our blog team, I'm stepping up to the plate. That's a metaphor, by the way. Because there is no plate. Unless I was eating a poptart or something while I'm writing this, but I'm not because my mom bought the strawberry kind and not the cinnoman kind. Plus that wasn't the kind of plate I mean anyway, because I'm talking about baseball. And I don't have a bat near the computer. I'm not allowed anymore after the monitor incident...

No really I'm kidding. I've never hit anything with a baseball bat. Unless you count a softball. Which I have hit. And this kid's head. But I was really little and you can't blame me.

So, seriously, I am really filling in for Sam because as the second team member it is my job to pick up the slack. And Sam is busy making milk plastic or something.

Nothing happened today that is worth commenting on. I learned how to say retirement savings bond in French. And I fixed Musicmatch by myself. Which is hard. But I just cheated by installing a new version. You should try it if you have that problem, but then don't tell you dad later what you did.

Last night I had this dream about lying under a black cover and hiding from people who were fighting a war. And then people were like 'you should fight the war too' and then I did. But I didn't get to go out before my alarm went off. Which in retrospect is ok with me because I don't want to fight a war.

I was also doing Yoga and coloring on the floor but it wasn't real Yoga and I didn't do it because I ran around instead.

Well I just looked at the clock on the phone and it's like ten minutes later than I though it was, which in my highly busy life is like three hours. So I have to go get things done. Which you will too when you grow up.

So I was thinking about the pressure to say funny stuff, which of course there is when you write a blog, and how everybody liked my first post which was funny but now I'm not as funny because you don't know how unfunny obligatory writing can get. So now I'm just at a loss for funny things. Although I did think that subliminal message was kind of funny...

Well this has been what I would call a solid double from pinch hitter Rachel. (that's what we call and extended metaphor, class). She's going to go clean her cleats now, and wash the dirt out of her uniform (although how she got dirty running to second is beyond us...).

Arrivederci mes amis

Behind the Scenes: An In-Depth Look at blah blah blah blah

Most of you have blogs. But hear at 4YA, we like to provide you with some information on how we make our posts. So let's get started.

Some pictures correspond with the post I'm making. To see them, find "Sam and Rachel's Pictures" on the sidebar.

First, we have the dashboard. When I log in, this is what I see (see SARpics). Mostly, I just click "New Post" next to the label that says "Four Years Apart".

Next I see the blog screen itself (see top). This is where I write my post. It's also where I do my HTML for links and such. Once I'm done that, I click the "publish post" button. After that, I'm done!

But that's not all. When I post a picture, like the one I did today, I use google's "Picasa 2". You can see SARpics for a screenshot of that. Then I do my post likek normal.

After that, I usually visit my blog, to see the finished product.

If that all seem's very simple, it's mostly because it is.

Tune in next time for how I do the HTML, sidebar, and template on Behind the Scenes: Blah etc.

Here's a question: Why is it that no matter how much lint comes out of your clothes when you wash them, they never get any smaller?

And don't forget to buy Tee-Shirts and keep putting up those entries for "link of the week"! 

Try my quiz!

No you shut up!

One more thing about the shirts...

Just remember, you have to email me at zziplock156@comcast.net with your name, address, size, and what you want. If I'm going to mail it to you, send $15.00 and $3.00 S+H to my house (I will not put my address for obvious reasons). Your shirt should arrive 1-3 days after I get the money.

I would be happy to make any shirt. So far Tim and Abby (and Jen?) have put in "unofficial" orders. To make them official, email me!

And Jesse has to send me a post via email to the above address if he wants to post.