Coming back from from school today, I reflect upon the experience I had on that riveting "Save a Life Tour", which would have been quite fruitful to our young minds' education if it had anything to do about saving lives.

As it turns out, this whole thing was about some highly realistic drunk driving simulator, which was basically a driving simulator that featured an entire 3D map of map of our town, five surrounding screens to give the feel of reality, and a full control dashboard. The steering wheel, gas pedal and brakes become harder and harder to control as the levels go up: 0 for completely sober up to 11 for completely drunk. The thing was ridiculously expensive (around $2,500,000 altogther, maybe) and would have been really fun to use, were it not for the fact that only Juniors and Seniors with a driver's license could use it. The rest of us had to sit on the tarp-covered, bad-smelling Gym floor and watch the rest of the lucky souls (or in my case, wrote pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis over and over again).

And, that was about it.

I can tell you it was boring, but if you look deep inside, you'll discover it was a special, educational fun-filled day of magic and wonder, and made me very happy. Now all I have to do is wait until my ordered copy of Elmo's Magical ABC Adventure arrives at my house and all my wildest dreams will come true.

Nope, all I learned was that Juniors can't drive.

This blog post is just to announce that I will not be accepting any invitations to any unions whatsoever; right now, I'm perfectly happy with two or three unions, and I want to focus on the CSRT. This means that I'm getting tired of my mailbox being plagued with nothing but invitations to unions, most of whom I've been asked to join at least two or three times. Enough is enough, people!

Maybe in a month or two I'll reconsider, but for now, no more invitations, please.

Oh brother. Tomorrow I have to go to this "Save a Life Tour" assembly in school that'll last for at least an hour. It's all about drunk driving and how it can be very harmful to the lives of others. Now I'm not saying it should be taken into deep consideration, but I'm 14 years old. I do not own a car, nor do I plan on getting one for quite a long time, and I can't take Driver's Ed. yet. What should it matter to me now that I need to learn about drunk driving? I mean, it's not going to be a situation for me until years later.

On the other hand though, I've got all classes cut in half! Now that's a reward! :P

Ah, yes! I am finally done with downloading all those Chorno Trigger and Chrono Cross tracks into the Chrono Music Library on the CSRT, and every one of them is available for download. And you'd better download them, cause I spent way too much time than I should have putting them on!

Today I bought Dark Cloud 2 for the Playstation 2. I heard that it was a really good game and I wanted it so badly, but all of the retailers near me didn't have any copies. Today, however, only one use copy remained, so I bought it with relief.

I guess I should have held my breath, because the disc is full of scratches! I can't get it to load past the "Sony Compter Entertainment Association Presents" screen! I'm working hard to try and fix it, but nothing's working!

Anyone with a way to fix scratched Playstation 2 discs should please comment! I'm desperate and I've tried everything!:cry:

Oh yeah! I cannot believe the CSRT is finally formed! Alright, now that it's started, anybody can join now. I don't care who does, but I've got ideas to shape this union up. Also, considering that, any member who does have ideas to bulk up the union can post them in a special section of the CSRT Forum. Right now, one of our top priorities is that we need ideas for a banner to place in the Home area. It's still in its early stages, but at least I have it all set up!

Today I come to announce a new union that is currently in the developmental process, but will soon be ready to start it's first months. Yours truly has decided to start a new union under the motive that he does not have many friends and would like to do something productive (for the most part). The union is called the "Chrono Series Resurrection Team" or formerly named "CSRT". It is all about the "renewal" of the legendary Chrono series of RPGs.

Anyone who is interested in joining or at least wants to know more about what I am talking about, please do not hesitate to PM me and I will be more than happy to fill you in. Since the union is in the developmental stage, no members are allowed to join until I come up with a total of 4 officers. I believe I can only have up to 4, so those who were previously invited (and you know who you are) it's first come, first served. After that, though, anybody can join, so if you're a Chrono enthusiast or just want to know more about the games, join the Chrono Series Resurrection Team! (or else!)

Another summer come and gone...well, it had to happen sometime. I sadly wish it weren't before Labor Day. Yours truly has now entered High School and for the most part, things are all right. I mean, Middle School was tough for the first few years, but I got through that. The first few days have been quite hectic as far as homework goes; I mean, taking all Honors courses is definitely not something a person can get through easily. But I'm gutting it out like I always do.

Everything seemed so easy back in Elementary School. Back in those good years, a kid like me could go anywhere he wanted to go. I did literally everything in Elementary School, including accidentally getting locked out of the school in a fierce blizzard with no coat, only to be saved a few minutes later from the cross-country skiing team that had just come out of the side door.

Middle School, unfortunately, turned out to be the worst years of my life. I had gone to a regional middle school, so that meant that there were kids from two other elementary schools from neighboring towns whom I had never met before, and most of them were just plain dumb. Even the kids I had grown up with in elementary school had changed massively (especially with some girls), but this change was for the worse. Nobody I saw around the halls was the same anymore. But of course, that was an obligation in life; everybody had to change during these years. I just didn't know it'd be this frightening.

Now High School has started. I've been waiting for this day since the first day I started Middle School. I can tell you safely that it's better than Middle School in some ways, but not in all of them. For one thing, the classes are actually challenging fro a change. I've never felt an educational challenge in my life. It feels good for some reason.

For another thing, the Chorus class I'm taking actually has kids that can sing. And I mean really sing like a chorus.It's pretty cool. And I assure you it's much better than listening to the grunts and groans of those still recovering from their voice changes.

It's the weekend, and since I've got nothing better to do, I'm writing this. I hope anybody who reads this who's out of High School had a great experience there, and I hope I get the same good experience there too.

During these last few days of summer, I've spent the rest of my freedom with my dusty Nintendo 64 and a gold cartridge of Ocarina of Time. I've been playing it over and over again, trying to find every single thing in the game so I can one day write a walkthrough about it. It was only when I finally got my hands on a Gameshark that I started to think about what I could do with it. After all, I had heard online about supposed claims about "finding" the mythical Triforce (complete with semi-authentic doctored screenshots). They said it's impossible to get, but it's not impossible to see. So I followed their instructions and tried it for myself.

It's not happened yet, but I've done some pretty cool stuff. I've walked around in Burning Kakariko. I've seen Sheik while walking in Burning Kakariko (and walked through him). I've  met Kaepora Gaebora, and he's twice my size. I've beaten Jabu-Jabu as Adult Link. I've battled an Arwing. A real Arwing. With sounds and everything. I've literally beaten the game in less than 30 seconds. I've actually entered the scene in which the goddess Din creates the earth. I've entered the completely rare Temple of Light (the Chamber of Sages) and was able to walk around in it! I've entered a blocked Hyrule Castle hallway, fallen into the abyss and returned swimming around the dark area under Zelda's Courtyard. The possibilties have been endless!

I'm still looking at things to do, so I'll keep working at it.

Being the first blog post, I'd first just like to state a 14-year-old's opinions on the next-generation consoles (being the Wii, PS3 and Xbox360) so that nobody thinks of me as a fanboy, which I feel as one of the worst critical acclaims that a person can state of another person.

Nintendo(Wii)-I've had my eye on this console since it was first announced. As an old Nintendo fanboy, I enjoyed their Gamecube but lost heart in it when I (finally) recieved a PS2 and played my first game of Final Fantasy X. Nintendo's seventh-generation console seems to have obtained a fair amount of worship and praise, and it's evident why; it looks like Nintendo is trying to bring video games into the mass media market in general, mainly with their simple controller with intuitive motion-sensitivity and postion-sensitivity. Above the other consoles, I have my eye on this one the most.

Chance of owning: 87% (It's low price almost ensures it'll be a Christmas present at least.)

Chance of playing: 98% (I have a lot of friends who'll have this thing by Christmas.)

Sony(PS3)-Sony really is going the mile here with this project. All these special technical add-ons make it look like a computer by itself. And Sony sure is a trusted American name, at least for gamers who've kept with the high-selling Playstation and Playstation2. As for me, it's pretty interesting to see how it'll sell in general, but I don't have many high hopes for it.

Chance of owning: 5% (A $500-600 console in my possesion and Dad would probably be on the verge of murder with the expenses.)

Chance of playing: 85% (I've got a couple of friends who'll have it by the end of the year, so I'll have the chance to try it out, at least.)

Microsoft(Xbox360)-It seems like it was only yesterday that Microsoft gallantly entered into the world of console selling when it first announced the Xbox. The problem was that I had not heard of it at the time, and so it wasn't my first choice for a console. It's just about as interesting to me now as it was back then.

Chance of owning:7% (Like the PS3, its price will keep it off my shelves.)

Chance of playing: 35%-Not many of my friends are interested in the Xbox360 right now.)