The title is in reference to Nick and his dog. I went over to Norman last night to hang out with all my friends up there. It was a fun time, and I even saw a few people I didn't expect to. This morning, after we all ate come CiCi Pizza, we stopped by Nick's house. Just before we left, he gave Erik a treat to give to his dog so the dog would obey commands like sit, lay down, roll over. Then Nick took over and was telling him to speak as well. Someone made the comment that the dog was just barking (speaking) because she was excited. So Nick decided to use a different word than speak. Holding the treat, he said "Pickle!" and the dog barked, poor Nick! Though, I'll be kind for ONCE, and say that it's pretty much all in the tone when talking to dogs, or so I've heard.
It was really nice to be able to see my friends though, and I'm glad I decided to go ahead and make a visit. Got some school work I should probably work on shortly.
I was thinking about getting Battle Chess, just because I liked it so much when I was younger. I'm thinking I could probably find it as a download though. I do have the orginal, actually, but unfortunatly, it won't run on the computers of today.
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Konnichiwa こんいちわ Good afternoon,
So... it seems I've gotten into updating on Fridays, hopefully I'll break that this week. I feel pretty busy Monday thru Thursday, then Friday I try and do "catch up" on things, and R&R on Sat and Sun. I think I did really well on my first Japanese assessment test/quiz. Actually, I did really good, just looked it up, 100%, class average of 83%. First part was her speaking Japanese and us circling the translation of what she just said. It was really easy though, but all we have learned is about... 20 words (greetings mostly) and how to count from 1 to 100+ We are starting in on the actually writing system, so I'm excited about that.
My friend and former roommate, Matt, posted a link about google that's kind of disappointing, thought I'd post it here for my other friends to see.
Select Cinemas did really well this weekend, thanks to End of the Spear. Apparently for the weekend, we were ranked #10 in the nation on that movie (just the movie, not overall). That, in turn, has gotten a lot more people to know that we are open.
I hurt my toe, actually did it on the Wednesday before my last post, but it wasn't really bothering me THEN. While sparring, my toenail had apparently flipped up and then back down. I felt it at the time, but just thought it was my toe being stepped on. After I took my gear off, I noticed my toe was bloodied. I guess it got a little infected, and got super tender. Been soaking it in Epson Salt, and it's mostly better. Gotta wait on the hurt skin to be pushed out from underneath my nail though... so might be a bit until it's at 100%. Really annoying.
My grandfather, father and I watched Hoodwinked just a few hours ago, just got back from it actually. It's good, I enjoyed it, and even my father did. Grandpa managed to stay awake for most of it, until the end he finally nodded off. I think he'd be able to last through a longer movie, just have to find one he'd like.
That's all for now, I suppose.
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In 2 weeks I will FINALLY have my car. Yeah... it's taken long enough. I mean, sure, they said it would take 3 to 8 weeks, but no one actually thinks it would take TWO months to get a car to you. They have to have the car somewhere in at least ONE of the FIFTY states, right? Of course, this means about 10~11 weeks later I am actually getting the car, so... I will be glad to finally have it, but it is pretty stupid that it's taken this long.
Classes are going fine, haven't skipped any work... yet. I also finished doing some editing on my grandpa's war experences that he wrote up. I made nice headings and a table of contents. I'm in the process of scanning in all the pictures he has, and then I need to figure out where to fit them in, some I'll put with the text, and some I will just have at the end.
The new movie theatre has been doing fairly well, we still have the problem of people not knowing we are open. So many people come in and then ask, how long have you guys been open? With the opening of End of the Spear this week we will actually have business pick up even more. A lot of churchs have bought out showtimes and there seems to be a fair amount of interest in it.
I'd write more, but certain people are jerks and can't manage to sit down and read about what's happening in a friends life if it goes on for too long.... =P
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こんいちわ，
ジョナサン ポッター デス。
Unfortunatly, I'm probably mixing two different types of Japanese writing above (Hiragana & Katakana), but anyways, that says "Good afternoon, I am Jonasan(ジョナサン) Pottaa(ポッター)", and my last name is known fairly well in Japan because of the Harry Potter books, as my Japanese instructor informed me.
I've had my first week of class at high school part 2... I mean, TCC. I think all my classes will go well. I am planning on taking Japanese as an audit, however, I can wait until later in the semester to change it, and incase I manage to grasp the language really well and get good grades, I'll hold off on the audit. My English comp II teacher seems to be nice, and as long as I don't delay on my papers, I should do fine in the class. Intercultural communications, good teacher, and a decent class.
More on Intercultural; so, I left on Tuesday night to go (I only have the class on Tuesday nights for 2 months), and orginally I thought it was at the TCC Metro campus. When I was getting close to the Metro campus, my brain finally kicked into gear, and I realized, wait... it's not at Metro... it's at West... where the heck is West Campus??? I went ahead and finished driving to Metro and asked them. They didn't give good directions. Fortunatly I have a system like OnStar, it's called my mobile phone and Erik infront of a computer. Erik was able to find where I was and give me directions to get to the West Campus. Yay for Erik! I was late, luckly I had left early enough to be there 30 mintues early orginally, so instead I was just 20 minutes late.
So, orginally I was planning on making a post back on the 20th of December, and that post was 2 days old as it was. The title was "Grades, Graduation, Work, Birthdays, Presents...". Birthdays and Presents aren't really relevent anymore, as presents was talking about the difficulty I was having figuring out what to get people for Christmas, and the Birthdays have past.
This is what I HAD typed up on the 20th: Several items of interest have transpired since my last attempt to transcribe events occuring in my life. I received all my grades for the semester: 2-A's and 2-B's; gaining me a 3.5 GPA for the semester.
Graduation happened. It was.. umm... boring, any suprise there? The speaker, Boone Pickens (however you spell his name) wasn't very good, but he's given millions, like at least 125 million, to the university, so I guess you don't have to be that great of a speaker. I walked, got to hear my friends some in the crowd. Max and Erik came down from Norman, and my roommate, Matt, and my previous roommates Matt and Zach where there. Of course nearly all my family was there. Jennifer and Rene couldn't make the trek up from Lubbock, but that's cool, I really would have been fine if no one had come, I mean... I don't even want to sit through it, why would I want anyone else to!! It was a good last semester at OSU. Matt Hafner was an awesome roommate, as all of mine have been actually. Matt brought a different dimension into the roommateness though. Crazy studier, and Japanese'ness. Taught me how to write 3 phrases/words and introduced me to some Japanese people. Hopefully him and I will get to make a trip to Japan this summer, that would really rock.
So, it's been awhile since I updated, and I apologize. A lot of my friends are now even further away, so this is one way to let them know of things going on with me. I mean, sure, I talk to them online, and even on the phone, but when you sit down and start typing, you often add a lot of info you forget otherwise. And there have been things I have forgetten that I wanted to post, but since I put it off, lost forever in the wheels of time.
Erik shot me some interesting links, here's one I remember: http://famicomband.org/movies/punchout.mov. I did get to go and spend a couple of days up in Norman with everyone, and that was cool. Got to see Guitar Hero, and started playing WoW, as two of my friends got it for me for Christmas. I'll have to figure out if I'll start paying for it after the free month is up or not. I wonder if I'll enjoy the "end game" as much or not, so I'll probably play until I reach 50's or so at the least.
Well, this is a fairly long post, but it's been a bit. There's probably more, but for now I think I'll stop. Need to work more on my Grandpa's War Memiors. I'm editing them and making it look sharp, dividing the text up into sections and then pictures.
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