<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718</id><updated>2011-04-21T21:19:04.283-07:00</updated><title type='text'>a random guy's blog (complete with pictures)</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>42</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-5448934590850785224</id><published>2008-01-02T06:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-02T13:30:06.954-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Facebook killed my blog</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R3wBeRMAIjI/AAAAAAAAAM0/_vkH80I8pHY/s1600-h/20080101_48.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150993693326451250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R3wBeRMAIjI/AAAAAAAAAM0/_vkH80I8pHY/s400/20080101_48.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R3upRBMAIiI/AAAAAAAAAMs/q4oVUi_cCDk/s1600-h/20080101_70.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150896708669940258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R3upRBMAIiI/AAAAAAAAAMs/q4oVUi_cCDk/s400/20080101_70.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R3unUxMAIhI/AAAAAAAAAMk/bWAOH4MMYc0/s1600-h/20080101_90.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150894574071194130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R3unUxMAIhI/AAAAAAAAAMk/bWAOH4MMYc0/s400/20080101_90.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R3umPRMAIgI/AAAAAAAAAMc/IeQ4eWAUE9o/s1600-h/20080101_99_20.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150893380070285826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R3umPRMAIgI/AAAAAAAAAMc/IeQ4eWAUE9o/s400/20080101_99_20.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R3uk_xMAIfI/AAAAAAAAAMU/JAh13VQhCUA/s1600-h/20080101_99_31.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150892014270685682" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R3uk_xMAIfI/AAAAAAAAAMU/JAh13VQhCUA/s400/20080101_99_31.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R3ukVhMAIeI/AAAAAAAAAMM/Uanpgaw8oGI/s1600-h/20080101_99_33.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5150891288421212642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R3ukVhMAIeI/AAAAAAAAAMM/Uanpgaw8oGI/s400/20080101_99_33.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The main reason I haven't posted in a while is Facebook. I spend way too much time on facebook, and then less time for my blog/no time for my blog. I don't think I have anything too new or interesting to say, but I got a bunch of pictures. Yesterday afternoon I was really bored and started walking around and taking pictures. It was suprisingly fun.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-5448934590850785224?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/5448934590850785224/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=5448934590850785224' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/5448934590850785224'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/5448934590850785224'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2008/01/facebook-killed-my-blog.html' title='Facebook killed my blog'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R3wBeRMAIjI/AAAAAAAAAM0/_vkH80I8pHY/s72-c/20080101_48.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-1279997638145247706</id><published>2007-12-23T09:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-23T09:30:39.412-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The long awaited post.</title><content type='html'>I finally decided to post. Right now I'm at Grandma and Grandpa's house. G&amp;amp;G went to the early service at church, while the rest of my family went to the late one. But I'm at the house, sick. I don't feel absolutely terrible, but I have a sore throat, a bit of a headache, and a small fever. Anyways I've got 2 stories - 1. I foundthis YouTube video and it's hilarious - &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1h7bfJTECU"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1h7bfJTECU&lt;/a&gt; And #2. - We had an earlyChristmas!!!!!! We opened all the presents yeserday morning, then drove to Saskatoon in the late afternoon/evening. I got a mp3 player, a nifty little top-thing, and some candy. And I got other stuff I can't think of now. I don't have any pictures right now because I'm in S'toon, but I'll probably post pics soon. And definately check out the YouTube video -&gt; It's super funny!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-1279997638145247706?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/1279997638145247706/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=1279997638145247706' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/1279997638145247706'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/1279997638145247706'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/12/long-awaited-post.html' title='The long awaited post.'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-8878071775367465068</id><published>2007-12-06T19:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-06T20:05:24.695-08:00</updated><title type='text'>GREY CUP!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R1jGICwtb3I/AAAAAAAAALE/lMndgzXX5Jc/s1600-h/Grey+Cup+018.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5141076816125849458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R1jGICwtb3I/AAAAAAAAALE/lMndgzXX5Jc/s400/Grey+Cup+018.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; This picture isn't blurry because she was very, very still. Her name is Chloe, and she's the former french teacher's (former as of 1 month ago) daughter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R1jF3Cwtb2I/AAAAAAAAAK8/Faeso1B5gy8/s1600-h/Grey+Cup+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5141076524068073314" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R1jF3Cwtb2I/AAAAAAAAAK8/Faeso1B5gy8/s400/Grey+Cup+001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R1jFkiwtb1I/AAAAAAAAAK0/9j4ifBmldgA/s1600-h/Grey+Cup+021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5141076206240493394" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R1jFkiwtb1I/AAAAAAAAAK0/9j4ifBmldgA/s400/Grey+Cup+021.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R1jFTSwtb0I/AAAAAAAAAKs/Htq69EitxYA/s1600-h/Grey+Cup+022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5141075909887749954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R1jFTSwtb0I/AAAAAAAAAKs/Htq69EitxYA/s400/Grey+Cup+022.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Kent Austin's kids go to my school, so he brought the cup today. Sadly, most of my pictures are blurry because my camera doesn't work too well. I don't really have more to say.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-8878071775367465068?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/8878071775367465068/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=8878071775367465068' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/8878071775367465068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/8878071775367465068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/12/grey-cup.html' title='GREY CUP!!!'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R1jGICwtb3I/AAAAAAAAALE/lMndgzXX5Jc/s72-c/Grey+Cup+018.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-7997457738945391817</id><published>2007-11-26T15:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-26T16:00:54.674-08:00</updated><title type='text'>.tsop a si sihT</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R0tcw0RDCxI/AAAAAAAAAKk/RbwM4Pgmrsk/s1600-h/IMG_0801.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137301793679805202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R0tcw0RDCxI/AAAAAAAAAKk/RbwM4Pgmrsk/s400/IMG_0801.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;After a very stern and large-fonted email from Ben, I decided to post. The last couple days I've been thinking of things to post, and I've had great ideas, but i forgot them. I just remember something entirely irrelevant!!! The cancelled Corner Gas tonight. It's one of my favourite shows and I look forward to watching it every Monday night, but tonight its replaced by some "Red road" or something. About the picture, it's the volleyball finals from last Thursday( we won, by the way) Appartently i'm blinking, but I love the look on Bryant's face (sitting on my right) Okay, that's the end of my post, but hopefully I'll manage to post before Ben yells at me again.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-7997457738945391817?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/7997457738945391817/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=7997457738945391817' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/7997457738945391817'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/7997457738945391817'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/11/tsop-si-siht.html' title='.tsop a si sihT'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/R0tcw0RDCxI/AAAAAAAAAKk/RbwM4Pgmrsk/s72-c/IMG_0801.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-7178489132431877720</id><published>2007-11-12T18:05:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-12T18:22:08.904-08:00</updated><title type='text'>New Orleans</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzkJoHj6g7I/AAAAAAAAAKc/n_smmAQ2brc/s1600-h/IMG_4398.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132143835194491826" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzkJoHj6g7I/AAAAAAAAAKc/n_smmAQ2brc/s400/IMG_4398.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Here are the pics. It was awesome in "The Big Easy." I don't know why it's called that, but it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzkJLXj6g6I/AAAAAAAAAKU/DssNUVGHyt4/s1600-h/IMG_4381.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132143341273252770" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzkJLXj6g6I/AAAAAAAAAKU/DssNUVGHyt4/s400/IMG_4381.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzkIe3j6g5I/AAAAAAAAAKM/0x_0YdLXQgE/s1600-h/IMG_4376.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132142576769074066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzkIe3j6g5I/AAAAAAAAAKM/0x_0YdLXQgE/s400/IMG_4376.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzkHKnj6g3I/AAAAAAAAAJ8/jyXesbQe-m8/s1600-h/IMG_4406.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132141129365095282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzkHKnj6g3I/AAAAAAAAAJ8/jyXesbQe-m8/s400/IMG_4406.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-7178489132431877720?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/7178489132431877720/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=7178489132431877720' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/7178489132431877720'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/7178489132431877720'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/11/new-orleans.html' title='New Orleans'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzkJoHj6g7I/AAAAAAAAAKc/n_smmAQ2brc/s72-c/IMG_4398.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-568250580701178190</id><published>2007-11-11T03:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-11T04:01:02.350-08:00</updated><title type='text'>N'Orlins</title><content type='html'>Yesterday we were in New Orleans (southern's say Norlins or Norleens). It was awesome. On the drive there, we stopped in Diamondhead (between Pass Christian and New Orleans) and I bought a pair of Mississippi State pajamas (with the Bulldog on it) and then we finished the hour and a half drive to New Orleans. We started by going to the aquarium. As we walked towards it, we saw a trumpet player, and put some money in his box. After the song, he gave us the advice "get drunk and do something stupid. Because the people here don't care and the people at home won't know." (we didn't take the advice) The aquarium was amazing, but the pictures aren't really that great because of the aquarium's lighting, and the fact everything is behind glass underwater. I will give you the pictures anyways, but I'm in the airport right now so I'll put them on later today. After the aquarium was mostly shopping. We went down Bourbon Street and a couple side streets and bought a N.O. sweater, t-shirt, and probably something else. We had supper at Bubba Gump's and I am now convinced  that I need to see &lt;em&gt;Forrest Gump&lt;/em&gt;. I think my plane out of Gulfport (15min from Pass Christian) is leaving right away, so I should probably go.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-568250580701178190?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/568250580701178190/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=568250580701178190' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/568250580701178190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/568250580701178190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/11/norlins.html' title='N&apos;Orlins'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-7964546502087307983</id><published>2007-11-09T14:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-09T15:00:13.848-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Untitled post.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzTkg3j6g0I/AAAAAAAAAJk/IBUS4IdU8cc/s1600-h/Mississippi+023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130977128803369794" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzTkg3j6g0I/AAAAAAAAAJk/IBUS4IdU8cc/s400/Mississippi+023.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzTkWXj6gzI/AAAAAAAAAJc/gPZa1H3SDA0/s1600-h/Mississippi+024.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130976948414743346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzTkWXj6gzI/AAAAAAAAAJc/gPZa1H3SDA0/s400/Mississippi+024.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Strangely, both of the good pictures I took to day were on Color Accent, which makes everything black and white except one color. The first is a toad we found, the second is my mom washing a van while Les is goofing around. Today was pretty uneventful. I forgot to take a "end of Day 5" pic, but it wouldn't have been good anyways. We put some plywood on the sides below the roof, but you couldn't see the change anyways. Tonight we're shopping (I want to buy a U of Mississippi sweater) and then going out for a crab supper. Tomorrow we're going to New Orleans and doing something. I don't know, probably touristy stuff.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-7964546502087307983?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/7964546502087307983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=7964546502087307983' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/7964546502087307983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/7964546502087307983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/11/strangely-both-of-good-pictures-i-took.html' title='The Untitled post.'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzTkg3j6g0I/AAAAAAAAAJk/IBUS4IdU8cc/s72-c/Mississippi+023.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-2675188555276166239</id><published>2007-11-08T20:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-08T20:20:46.387-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPfy3j6gyI/AAAAAAAAAJU/yw8nADSSzRI/s1600-h/BlogBlog+005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130690465506165538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPfy3j6gyI/AAAAAAAAAJU/yw8nADSSzRI/s400/BlogBlog+005.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPfrXj6gxI/AAAAAAAAAJM/E3fe07cCwIU/s1600-h/BlogBlog+011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130690336657146642" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPfrXj6gxI/AAAAAAAAAJM/E3fe07cCwIU/s400/BlogBlog+011.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPfgHj6gwI/AAAAAAAAAJE/DqHUWQffY4c/s1600-h/BlogBlog+010.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130690143383618306" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPfgHj6gwI/AAAAAAAAAJE/DqHUWQffY4c/s400/BlogBlog+010.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPfUnj6gvI/AAAAAAAAAI8/LwX35op-xC8/s1600-h/BlogBlog+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130689945815122674" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPfUnj6gvI/AAAAAAAAAI8/LwX35op-xC8/s400/BlogBlog+009.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPfEnj6guI/AAAAAAAAAI0/ZPiOFpmvS_0/s1600-h/BlogBlog+008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130689670937215714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPfEnj6guI/AAAAAAAAAI0/ZPiOFpmvS_0/s400/BlogBlog+008.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPe5Hj6gtI/AAAAAAAAAIs/zsRpSTWUNJM/s1600-h/BlogBlog+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130689473368720082" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPe5Hj6gtI/AAAAAAAAAIs/zsRpSTWUNJM/s400/BlogBlog+006.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPes3j6gsI/AAAAAAAAAIk/pidtmdVFGus/s1600-h/BlogBlog+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130689262915322562" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPes3j6gsI/AAAAAAAAAIk/pidtmdVFGus/s400/BlogBlog+003.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPehnj6grI/AAAAAAAAAIc/MXl-rYiSaDw/s1600-h/BlogBlog+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130689069641794226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPehnj6grI/AAAAAAAAAIc/MXl-rYiSaDw/s400/BlogBlog+002.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPeU3j6gqI/AAAAAAAAAIU/pXx_TcUrHok/s1600-h/BlogBlog+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130688850598462114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPeU3j6gqI/AAAAAAAAAIU/pXx_TcUrHok/s400/BlogBlog+001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here's more pics. Look down for today's post. And please leave a comment so I can see who's reading the blog. Thanks.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-2675188555276166239?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/2675188555276166239/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=2675188555276166239' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/2675188555276166239'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/2675188555276166239'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/11/heres-more-pics.html' title='&lt;More Pics&gt;'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPfy3j6gyI/AAAAAAAAAJU/yw8nADSSzRI/s72-c/BlogBlog+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-6457685660414166341</id><published>2007-11-08T18:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-08T19:01:12.666-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Shingling</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPJ3Hj6gpI/AAAAAAAAAIM/WPg1wWiPFLY/s1600-h/Mississippi+022.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130666349264798354" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPJ3Hj6gpI/AAAAAAAAAIM/WPg1wWiPFLY/s400/Mississippi+022.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPJtHj6goI/AAAAAAAAAIE/5uYD78mMGcI/s1600-h/Mississippi+020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130666177466106498" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPJtHj6goI/AAAAAAAAAIE/5uYD78mMGcI/s400/Mississippi+020.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPJeXj6gnI/AAAAAAAAAH8/dI8McKmPZQ0/s1600-h/Mississippi+019.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130665924063036018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPJeXj6gnI/AAAAAAAAAH8/dI8McKmPZQ0/s400/Mississippi+019.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPI2Hj6gmI/AAAAAAAAAH0/uDeqElMuYD8/s1600-h/Mississippi+021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130665232573301346" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPI2Hj6gmI/AAAAAAAAAH0/uDeqElMuYD8/s400/Mississippi+021.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Today was a day of unsuccessful hope. Actually, it was just the evening that was disappointing. The day was great. Kinda. The only thing we really did today was shingle. First we had to get them on the roof, then place the paper, then shingle and nail, shingle and nail, shingle and nail. By the time we were done we were all pretty tired. Then the evening was a couple small disappointments in a row. First of all, when we got back from the job site, we heard a football game announcer. It was right before supper, so we tried to eat fast and get to the game. But this was the night they brought in Katrina survivors, so it used up more time. By the time we got to the game (it was a nearby high school) the stands were empty and the lights were just being turned off. Then we went to a house that Les had helped with 2 years ago. Apparently the girls (gr.8 and 11) are good at basketball and we were going to invite them to play, but they were going to bed because they have school at 7:40. Then we drove around Pass Christian. It was kinda boring. We plan on playing computer Jeopardy tonight, but otherwise I want to go to bed early so I can wake up in decent time (breakfast is at 7, making lunch is 6:30-7)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-6457685660414166341?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/6457685660414166341/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=6457685660414166341' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/6457685660414166341'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/6457685660414166341'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/11/shingling.html' title='Shingling'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzPJ3Hj6gpI/AAAAAAAAAIM/WPg1wWiPFLY/s72-c/Mississippi+022.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-3358398602669561371</id><published>2007-11-07T19:43:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-07T19:58:35.738-08:00</updated><title type='text'>End of Day 3</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzKGiHj6glI/AAAAAAAAAHs/38c67f6Mz4g/s1600-h/Mississippi+018.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130310846231773778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzKGiHj6glI/AAAAAAAAAHs/38c67f6Mz4g/s400/Mississippi+018.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzKGWXj6gkI/AAAAAAAAAHk/8c4KS4hcxwg/s1600-h/Mississippi+016.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130310644368310850" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzKGWXj6gkI/AAAAAAAAAHk/8c4KS4hcxwg/s400/Mississippi+016.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzKGIHj6gjI/AAAAAAAAAHc/ZBJkQ0k_GBc/s1600-h/Mississippi+017.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5130310399555174962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzKGIHj6gjI/AAAAAAAAAHc/ZBJkQ0k_GBc/s400/Mississippi+017.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Today we put the plywood on the roof (which took a while) and then on the sides of the house in the part that was missed (intentionally) before. I got to be on the roof most of the day. At first it was freaky because it's ~15 feet off the ground. Later on it was better because I got used to it and the space to walk on got bigger. Yesterday a little kid came onto the site and just started climbing the 5-foot scaffolding. I saw him, but wasn't sure if it actually mattered, and kinda watched him as I kept working. Then he climbed into the house, where Les (the project manager) said 'Hey Bud' and then let him be. Then the kid climbed onto the scaffolding on the other side of the house where Sylvia (a grandmotherly lady from Pennsylvania) said 'Oh, you should get down from there' and then lifted him down. Mom talked to him for a bit to keep him out of trouble and found out he lived next door, he was four years old, and his name was Canaan (we think, he had a southern accent) It was really funny to hear a four-year-old say Y'all. Then he decided he was bored and wandered around for a bit, being a bit too close to everything. Mom tried to tell him to watch from the steps, but he just wandered some more. He was standing too close for a while when someone accidentally dropped something on or near him (I can't remember) and then he wandered home to the neighbours who have an eternal BBQ Party (we are invited for tomorrow). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-3358398602669561371?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/3358398602669561371/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=3358398602669561371' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/3358398602669561371'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/3358398602669561371'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/11/end-of-day-3.html' title='End of Day 3'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzKGiHj6glI/AAAAAAAAAHs/38c67f6Mz4g/s72-c/Mississippi+018.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-1049196876217905472</id><published>2007-11-06T15:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-06T16:45:30.012-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pecans</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzEKQlCTcoI/AAAAAAAAAHU/oQal03rY1RU/s1600-h/Mississippi+015.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129892730487665282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzEKQlCTcoI/AAAAAAAAAHU/oQal03rY1RU/s400/Mississippi+015.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Okay, I don't really have anything to say, mostly just pictures of us &lt;em&gt;working&lt;/em&gt; (yes, &lt;em&gt;working,&lt;/em&gt; Auntie Eileen) We picked pecans at a pick-your own place. It was pretty cool, but I have trouble opening them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzEAklCTcnI/AAAAAAAAAHM/Lw-uT4iUzsA/s1600-h/Mississippi+011.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129882078968771186" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzEAklCTcnI/AAAAAAAAAHM/Lw-uT4iUzsA/s200/Mississippi+011.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129881752551256674" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzEARlCTcmI/AAAAAAAAAHE/WGadZbTfgV0/s200/Mississippi+013.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-1049196876217905472?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/1049196876217905472/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=1049196876217905472' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/1049196876217905472'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/1049196876217905472'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/11/pecans.html' title='Pecans'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RzEKQlCTcoI/AAAAAAAAAHU/oQal03rY1RU/s72-c/Mississippi+015.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-1697287433176431045</id><published>2007-11-05T18:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-05T19:21:00.602-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Dayo Numbero Uno</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Ry_dH1CTclI/AAAAAAAAAG8/Q04l5TcRDzI/s1600-h/Mississippi+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129561627163849298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Ry_dH1CTclI/AAAAAAAAAG8/Q04l5TcRDzI/s400/Mississippi+007.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Ry_c5VCTckI/AAAAAAAAAG0/2wNi1L9Yh1U/s1600-h/Mississippi+009.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129561378055746114" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Ry_c5VCTckI/AAAAAAAAAG0/2wNi1L9Yh1U/s400/Mississippi+009.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Today was the first official work day. We went to a house that only had framing done. We had to rip off the initial layer of plywood because it didn't meet some regulation, and then nailed another layer on. Then we added most of the trusses for the roof, and that was mostly it. It was very hot this morning and was brutal in direct sun. The shade was nice, though, because it had no direct sun but a warm breeze. The pics above are before and after of the house we worked on today.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Ry_cqVCTcjI/AAAAAAAAAGs/eJLk_O-OH3I/s1600-h/Mississippi+008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129561120357708338" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Ry_cqVCTcjI/AAAAAAAAAGs/eJLk_O-OH3I/s400/Mississippi+008.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Ry_ccFCTciI/AAAAAAAAAGk/9k3wxUraYXI/s1600-h/Mississippi+004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129560875544572450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Ry_ccFCTciI/AAAAAAAAAGk/9k3wxUraYXI/s400/Mississippi+004.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; We have now seen some cool wildlife. Sadly, they were all quite small and we didn't actually see a gator. (I saw something moving in the water, but it looked like a dog) So far we've seen a crane, lizards (hiding in siding at the work site), a couple tiny frogs (most were finger-sized), a regular sized toad, some butterflies and a Katydid or a walking stick (we aren't sure what it is.) Remember to check my blog daily because I will post frequently because there is very little to do. After working and supper, we go to the Shell to get a snack, then sometimes play Apples to Apples, and then I'm on the computer lots.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-1697287433176431045?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/1697287433176431045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=1697287433176431045' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/1697287433176431045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/1697287433176431045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/11/dayo-numbero-uno.html' title='Dayo Numbero Uno'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Ry_dH1CTclI/AAAAAAAAAG8/Q04l5TcRDzI/s72-c/Mississippi+007.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-7226812730105319899</id><published>2007-11-04T16:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-04T16:57:55.410-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Gud Ol' Mississippi</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Ry5pp1CTchI/AAAAAAAAAGc/P0nmQODQ6vM/s1600-h/Mississippi+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129153192953868818" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Ry5pp1CTchI/AAAAAAAAAGc/P0nmQODQ6vM/s400/Mississippi+001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Where is Les? (our project leader) and why is his food left alone??? We were at a breakfast place in the Minneapolis airport, when we were looking at our tickets. We had already ordered, and we were looking at how much time we had between flights. We checked our tickets out of Minneapolis and saw that we still had lots of time. Then Les looked at his, and realized he had ten minutes. We still don't know exactly why, but he had a different flight to Memphis, so he ran to his flight and then met us in Memphis (we had the same flight from there)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Ry5pYlCTcgI/AAAAAAAAAGU/-kwO8j9uALo/s1600-h/Mississippi+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129152896601125378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Ry5pYlCTcgI/AAAAAAAAAGU/-kwO8j9uALo/s400/Mississippi+006.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Another strange thing is shown in the picture above. Mississippi aboriginals had found a way to defy gravity. We were lucky enough to be taught this amazing feat of nature. Les (far right) didn't quite catch on. I'm pretty sure I had best perfected the act out of our group.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-7226812730105319899?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/7226812730105319899/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=7226812730105319899' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/7226812730105319899'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/7226812730105319899'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/11/gud-ol-mississippi.html' title='Gud Ol&apos; Mississippi'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Ry5pp1CTchI/AAAAAAAAAGc/P0nmQODQ6vM/s72-c/Mississippi+001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-2252780369380156234</id><published>2007-11-03T19:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-11-04T05:47:46.711-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Travel Mission Status: Complete</title><content type='html'>Okay, I'm in Mississippi perfectly safe. I'm blogging from Mary-Jane's computer because she lent it to us after she found out she wasn't coming. Luckily we also have wireless internet, so I can check blogs and e-mail. I have a really awesome airport story, but it goes better with a picture that will be downloaded in the future (if I get the cord), so look forward to that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As they say in Mississippi, ADIOS!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS - I know mississippi isn't Spanish, but I'm sure its been said at least once here.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-2252780369380156234?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/2252780369380156234/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=2252780369380156234' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/2252780369380156234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/2252780369380156234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/11/travel-mission-status-complete.html' title='Travel Mission Status: Complete'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-690160544605037120</id><published>2007-10-31T20:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-31T20:23:57.284-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Halloween</title><content type='html'>Since I'm in grade eight and going into high school next year, this was most likely my last year trick-or-treating. Okay first of all, I didn't intend on trick-or-treating, mainly because I had youth. For youth, we went to Dollarama and filled Operation Christmas Child boxes. As we were going through the checkout, my freind and I saw Halloween masks and both bought one. Then when youth was over, the three of us (another friend had brought a costume) went to 3 houses around the church. Then when we dropped someone else of at their house, I got a huge load of candy from her and a tiny bag of chips from one of the houses next door. Then I did a couple of houses on my street and ended up with a decent sized amount of candy (especially considering how little time I was out?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-690160544605037120?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/690160544605037120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=690160544605037120' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/690160544605037120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/690160544605037120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/10/halloween.html' title='Halloween'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-9020759758809436488</id><published>2007-10-30T19:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-30T19:29:14.008-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Red Star = Point of Impact</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RyfknlCTcdI/AAAAAAAAAF8/VSx7Uw6lZ7Y/s1600-h/iMpacT.bmp"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127318069392404946" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RyfknlCTcdI/AAAAAAAAAF8/VSx7Uw6lZ7Y/s400/iMpacT.bmp" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Okay, today something really funny happened. In the afternoon recess, we were playing football. My team had just got a touchdown, so we kicked. The ball went right to Jared, a considerably a fast kid. If you look a Diagram A (above) you can see that Jared is the football icon. Then, I chased after him. Then, out of no where Justin (icon J) comes and creams me (icon D), knocking me to the ground. It was funny because Justin is definately not the knock-you-to-the-ground-in-touch-football kind of kid. I still don't know why (neither does Justin) he was running that direction because Justin was not on my team, so I have no idea why he was running that way. He says he may have been going back just in case Jared was going to lateral it to him. Either way, it was really funny how Justin came out of no where and just leveled me.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-9020759758809436488?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/9020759758809436488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=9020759758809436488' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/9020759758809436488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/9020759758809436488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/10/red-star-point-of-impact.html' title='Red Star = Point of Impact'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RyfknlCTcdI/AAAAAAAAAF8/VSx7Uw6lZ7Y/s72-c/iMpacT.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-7846953046596960002</id><published>2007-10-22T15:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-22T16:01:26.299-07:00</updated><title type='text'>T-12 days</title><content type='html'>Does anybody actually know why NASA people say "T minus 10 seconds"? Anyways, I just added a cool video on the side. My dad showed it to me, it's some German guy with too much time on his hands. Oh, and here's part three (probably the last) of the 'Things I write in bed' series. Strangely, the stories got shorter and shorter. This one is a really quick finish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Peace Complete&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally alone, simply alone. No fear, no pressure, no pain. Finally alone with myself. Alone with company, alone with peace, alone with comfort.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-7846953046596960002?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/7846953046596960002/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=7846953046596960002' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/7846953046596960002'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/7846953046596960002'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/10/t-12-days.html' title='T-12 days'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-3900456735504648268</id><published>2007-10-21T18:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-21T19:07:56.029-07:00</updated><title type='text'>T-minus 13 days</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RxwBoNf5AYI/AAAAAAAAAF0/RPGI8_-pDYc/s1600-h/Gingerbread+house+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5123972266370597250" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RxwBoNf5AYI/AAAAAAAAAF0/RPGI8_-pDYc/s400/Gingerbread+house+001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Okay, I have a couple things to say. First of all, only 13 more days until I'm in Mississippi! I haven't blogily (new word) announced this yet, but I'm doing a mission trip in Pass Christian. We are pretty much just fixing and rebuilding houses. And for some strange reason, I entirely forgot the other two things I was going to say. That's pathetic of me. I'm very sorry. I'm really disappointed in myself and actually kind of angry that I forgot. I'm starting to get used to it, though, because my memory is brutal, especially when it comes to blogging. If I think of the lost ideas later, I'll post them. I kind of remembered one right now. Either that or I made it up. I might be moving downstairs, maybe. I know I will be eventually and that was my parents plan, but I think I might be moving down soon. The main problem is that it's very boring and ugly. Shouldn't be to hard to change, because the only floral things are flowers (easily moved), a weird doll-thing, and the floral bed sheet (which I'll definately change). Then instead of painting the white walls I might just cover them with posters. Once again, It's really too bad I forgot about the interesting thing I was going to blog. About the pic....It was the only pic I could find because I used up all the recent ones. It's a gingerbread house I made a couple years ago. I have no idea when, really, but I remember making that surf board with the 'Surf's Up' sign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EUREKA!!! I remember one of the thing-things! My dad found a really awesome deal at &lt;a href="http://www.columbiahousecanada.com/sa/ch/ca_homepage.jsp?club=10"&gt;http://www.columbiahousecanada.com/sa/ch/ca_homepage.jsp?club=10&lt;/a&gt; You can get 12 CDs free and then you have too buy 2 other CDs. Strangely, the total cost for us was $44 or something which is weird because we only bought 2 CDs, but it was because the shipping and handling was $27. We divided it, and $44 divided by 14= something like 3 dollars a CD which is still a great deal (if you can find 14 CDs you like). I think that's all for now. Wow. That's a long post.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-3900456735504648268?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/3900456735504648268/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=3900456735504648268' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/3900456735504648268'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/3900456735504648268'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/10/t-minus-13-days.html' title='T-minus 13 days'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RxwBoNf5AYI/AAAAAAAAAF0/RPGI8_-pDYc/s72-c/Gingerbread+house+001.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-8888476632752416730</id><published>2007-10-21T13:14:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-21T13:25:21.471-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Part 2 of the things I write in bed</title><content type='html'>I've actually already written the third one but I wrote this one a couple weeks ago and I'm only posting it now because I never got around to it. Numnber three is actually a cool ending to the trilogy, and all of these are true (but the first one is a bit stretched)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mind Race&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once again consumed in black, alone. My mind wanders, running through where I need to be, and when. My brain struggles with the eternal calendar, week after week, never ending. The constant thought strains my mind. Days repeat themselves, similar enough to be monotonous, different enough to mess with my thoughts. The schedule clashes. Which is more important? I struggle with priorities. Confused, alone, in pain, and blinded.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-8888476632752416730?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/8888476632752416730/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=8888476632752416730' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/8888476632752416730'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/8888476632752416730'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/10/part-2-of-things-i-write-in-bed.html' title='Part 2 of the things I write in bed'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-6587386280478416347</id><published>2007-10-19T14:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-19T15:02:13.241-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pi is goood.</title><content type='html'>Okay, I couldn't get the ad to go in place of the crab fight, but I got it on the movie list. Check it out.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-6587386280478416347?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/6587386280478416347/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=6587386280478416347' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/6587386280478416347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/6587386280478416347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/10/pi-is-goood.html' title='Pi is goood.'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-3348834730880099403</id><published>2007-10-18T21:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-18T21:09:37.387-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pi = 3.1415926535 (this is a very abbreviated number. very very abbreviated.)</title><content type='html'>I had to make a non-smoking ad for school, so I added it on the &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt; in place of the crab video. Another post about the volleyball tournament will come tomorrow, or the next day, or...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-3348834730880099403?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/3348834730880099403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=3348834730880099403' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/3348834730880099403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/3348834730880099403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/10/pi-31415926535-this-is-very-abbreviated.html' title='Pi = 3.1415926535 (this is a very abbreviated number. very very abbreviated.)'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-1517923959741348364</id><published>2007-10-16T16:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-16T16:59:03.738-07:00</updated><title type='text'>To be, or not to be...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RxVP6df5AXI/AAAAAAAAAFs/2FAtvmLz37M/s1600-h/20071011_99.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122088016973201778" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RxVP6df5AXI/AAAAAAAAAFs/2FAtvmLz37M/s400/20071011_99.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RxVPkdf5AWI/AAAAAAAAAFk/qXzVzo3rrfc/s1600-h/20071011_99_1.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122087639016079714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RxVPkdf5AWI/AAAAAAAAAFk/qXzVzo3rrfc/s400/20071011_99_1.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;I need to update, but I don't really have anything important up. I have a volleyball game tomorrow and a tournament the day after. I'll post after that. As for the picture, it's the strangely deformed cupcakes my mom made a couple days ago. We have no idea how they got like that.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-1517923959741348364?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/1517923959741348364/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=1517923959741348364' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/1517923959741348364'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/1517923959741348364'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/10/to-be-or-not-to-be.html' title='To be, or not to be...'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RxVP6df5AXI/AAAAAAAAAFs/2FAtvmLz37M/s72-c/20071011_99.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-1963197796907647347</id><published>2007-10-13T08:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-13T08:43:02.154-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Riders (and Ava)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RxDm-9f5AUI/AAAAAAAAAFY/tv09U09BWaI/s1600-h/Ava+Shirt+3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120846745654853954" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RxDm-9f5AUI/AAAAAAAAAFY/tv09U09BWaI/s400/Ava+Shirt+3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RxDm6df5ATI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/1NkxYlEnEmg/s1600-h/Ava+Shirt.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120846668345442610" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RxDm6df5ATI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/1NkxYlEnEmg/s400/Ava+Shirt.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;Here's a picture Jason (my youth leader) sent me. It's Ava in her new t-shirt! AndI was talking to Jason the other day and he was saying how he was making Ava into a Rider fan by telling her to cheer when the Riders score (she claps) and he gets hi-five from her too. As soon as she starts talking, he should teach her 'go Riders' or 'touchdown!' Usually when I hang out with little kids I teach them to *pound it* or something. Um...............................&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-1963197796907647347?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/1963197796907647347/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=1963197796907647347' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/1963197796907647347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/1963197796907647347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/10/riders-and-ava.html' title='Riders (and Ava)'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RxDm-9f5AUI/AAAAAAAAAFY/tv09U09BWaI/s72-c/Ava+Shirt+3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-3140948072281528822</id><published>2007-10-11T19:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-11T20:00:10.876-07:00</updated><title type='text'>More Zoo pics.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rw7jBdf5ASI/AAAAAAAAAFI/jU1tvdDPS1Y/s1600-h/20071008_99_13.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120279440604594466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rw7jBdf5ASI/AAAAAAAAAFI/jU1tvdDPS1Y/s400/20071008_99_13.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rw7iAtf5ARI/AAAAAAAAAFA/C0yADF3iHz4/s1600-h/20071008_95.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120278328208064786" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rw7iAtf5ARI/AAAAAAAAAFA/C0yADF3iHz4/s400/20071008_95.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rw7hHdf5AQI/AAAAAAAAAE4/A7wnk4QHwbk/s1600-h/20071008_98.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120277344660553986" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rw7hHdf5AQI/AAAAAAAAAE4/A7wnk4QHwbk/s400/20071008_98.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rw7gKNf5API/AAAAAAAAAEw/KpqL6kRS41g/s1600-h/20071008_99_10.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120276292393566450" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rw7gKNf5API/AAAAAAAAAEw/KpqL6kRS41g/s400/20071008_99_10.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Somehow these weren't downloaded earlier. And the animals were behind glass, which makes an annoying glare&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-3140948072281528822?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/3140948072281528822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=3140948072281528822' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/3140948072281528822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/3140948072281528822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/10/more-zoo-pics.html' title='More Zoo pics.'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rw7jBdf5ASI/AAAAAAAAAFI/jU1tvdDPS1Y/s72-c/20071008_99_13.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-1045628725275983329</id><published>2007-10-08T18:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-09T11:26:54.274-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Minot</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwvHs9f5AOI/AAAAAAAAAEo/mJ0rc-gThCY/s1600-h/IMG_0147.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119404976673194210" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwvHs9f5AOI/AAAAAAAAAEo/mJ0rc-gThCY/s400/IMG_0147.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwvHFdf5ANI/AAAAAAAAAEg/9Gen9t3S7fA/s1600-h/IMG_0172.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119404298068361426" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwvHFdf5ANI/AAAAAAAAAEg/9Gen9t3S7fA/s400/IMG_0172.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwvF49f5AMI/AAAAAAAAAEY/URsdNqtUvIM/s1600-h/IMG_0255.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119402983808368834" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwvF49f5AMI/AAAAAAAAAEY/URsdNqtUvIM/s400/IMG_0255.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwvEzNf5ALI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/ICv8mJG8TMI/s1600-h/IMG_0319.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119401785512493234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwvEzNf5ALI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/ICv8mJG8TMI/s400/IMG_0319.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rwrfvdf5AJI/AAAAAAAAAEE/LC24YIcQr0Y/s1600-h/IMG_0361.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119149932925223058" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rwrfvdf5AJI/AAAAAAAAAEE/LC24YIcQr0Y/s400/IMG_0361.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I was in Minot the last weekend, as was most of Saskatchewan. We counted 15 Sask license plates in a parking lot, and there were probably five times as many we didn't see. I also saw license plates from (let's see if I can remember) Tennessee, North Carolina, Washington, Minnesota, Virginia, Texas, Florida, and probably a couple others. My cousin's hotel was attached to the mall (and had 3 sweet water slides) so we did tons of shopping, swimming, and watching TV (we watched 4 episodes of 'Drake and Josh' in a row). Yesterday we went to the Roosevelt Zoo (it was nice out) and it's really awesome. It had lions and tigers and bears - Oh My! The pics above are of the 2 hours we spent at the zoo, then we had lunch at Space Aliens (which is amazing) and drove home. For shopping, all I bought was a sweet CD by ApologetiX, a Christian Parody band (I'll try to somehow get the music to you guys via the blog) and the first BATHROOM READER!!! Now I have #1, 12, 13, 14, 17, and 19! Bathroom readers are amazing, if you haven't read them. Once again, I had something else to say, but forgot it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-1045628725275983329?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/1045628725275983329/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=1045628725275983329' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/1045628725275983329'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/1045628725275983329'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/10/minot.html' title='Minot'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwvHs9f5AOI/AAAAAAAAAEo/mJ0rc-gThCY/s72-c/IMG_0147.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-5627198679999093744</id><published>2007-10-05T07:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-05T07:38:28.292-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A healthy way to start the day</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwZJr9f5AII/AAAAAAAAAD8/Thc1Wn3hcMA/s1600-h/20071005_65.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5117859046144671874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwZJr9f5AII/AAAAAAAAAD8/Thc1Wn3hcMA/s400/20071005_65.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Here's a pretty cool picture of my breakfast. An egg with hot sauce from Barbados on a piece of cheddar cheese on a slice of whole wheat toast. Along with a glass of fruit juice, it has all four food groups and tastes really good. The egg was steaming when I took the picture, but you can't see the steam, but it looked really cool in real life.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-5627198679999093744?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/5627198679999093744/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=5627198679999093744' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/5627198679999093744'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/5627198679999093744'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/10/healthy-way-to-start-day.html' title='A healthy way to start the day'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwZJr9f5AII/AAAAAAAAAD8/Thc1Wn3hcMA/s72-c/20071005_65.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-4264677947544941983</id><published>2007-10-02T18:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-02T18:40:27.426-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Two posts in one day, wow.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwLw6Nf5AHI/AAAAAAAAAD0/72YAj7XLEgg/s1600-h/Ava+012.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116917009492803698" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwLw6Nf5AHI/AAAAAAAAAD0/72YAj7XLEgg/s400/Ava+012.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwLwfNf5AGI/AAAAAAAAADs/VeSgK4hJnBA/s1600-h/Ava+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116916545636335714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwLwfNf5AGI/AAAAAAAAADs/VeSgK4hJnBA/s400/Ava+003.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwLwIdf5AFI/AAAAAAAAADk/emR3PAQ4OdY/s1600-h/Ava+001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116916154794311762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwLwIdf5AFI/AAAAAAAAADk/emR3PAQ4OdY/s400/Ava+001.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here's some pics of the gifts for my youth leader's daughter, Ava. The card has three Far Side comics. First one has two guys making cereal and reading 'cereal for Dummies' he says "Wait, wait, Cory. Firct the cereal and &lt;em&gt;then&lt;/em&gt; the milk. Second one has a couple dangerous animals and a guy wearing weird clothes holding a bazooka. the caption is: How nature says 'Do Not Touch.' The last one is a guy that has  aposter that says 'Pants first, Shoes Second.' On the inside, I wrote: Valuable lessons all one-year olds should know (she's turning one) Then I have the signed picture of me and the "Rider" jersey with her last name and an one. Sorry the pictures are dark, but I really hate the flash. If you didn't see it, check out the post below. I added that one 10 or so minutes ago, so you probably didn't see it yet. Um, yeah. Ava's birthday is today, but I'll have to give her presents to her tomorrow at youth. hopefully her internal calender isn't messed up for the rest of her life.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-4264677947544941983?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/4264677947544941983/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=4264677947544941983' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/4264677947544941983'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/4264677947544941983'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/10/two-posts-in-one-day-wow.html' title='Two posts in one day, wow.'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwLw6Nf5AHI/AAAAAAAAAD0/72YAj7XLEgg/s72-c/Ava+012.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-961118895409443231</id><published>2007-10-02T18:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-02T18:09:27.278-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Poem I wrote last night in bed.</title><content type='html'>Dark Fear&lt;br /&gt;I lie in bed, alone in black, and listen to the slow CD. I hear the constant ticking of the wall clock. I reach for a kleenex and slowly sit up, not wanting to startle whatever is waiting for to close my eyes. I can see the random blotches of clothes lying on the floor combined with books and other homework. The digital clock glows eerily as the numbers change every sixty seconds. I look out the window and see a light. I quickly lie down, scared of the strange flash. As I take a second look towards the unknown, I see a simple street light. I lie back down. Suddenly, I wake up. How much was dream? Was it a dream? I vaguely remember someone breaking in silently in the black. Was it a dream? Was it a danger signal from God? I realise I have to go to the bathroom. Was the break-in meant to test my levels of fear?I wake up at 7:41, and start my daily, monthly, annual routine, and hope that the next night will have no fear.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-961118895409443231?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/961118895409443231/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=961118895409443231' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/961118895409443231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/961118895409443231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/10/poem-i-wrote-last-night-in-bed.html' title='Poem I wrote last night in bed.'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-4429275764392648291</id><published>2007-10-01T15:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-01T15:27:46.070-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Volleyball Practice</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwFz79f5AEI/AAAAAAAAADc/384NhXyr7Dk/s1600-h/IMG_6306.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116498125627392066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwFz79f5AEI/AAAAAAAAADc/384NhXyr7Dk/s400/IMG_6306.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;     I think I doubled the number of push-ups I've done in my life today. At volleyball practice, my group lost the first warm-up and to do 51 sit-ups or push-ups. Then we had a scrimmage - innocent enough, right? But every time a team would let the ball drop, put it over before 3 hits, or serve a bad serve, that team would have to do ten push ups. After about a total of 50 push-ups the coach switched it to 5 push-ups every time. Then we did that for half an hour to forty-five minutes. It was one of the most brutal practices I've ever had.&lt;br /&gt;     I also made it to Pool 1 in RCBA (1 is best, 2 is worse - nothing in between) I have a kid from my school on my team his mom's the coach (she's also the school team coach) and I know a couple other kids on my team from previous basketball teams. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;     Umm... I think thats all. Check out the new movies and the poll on the &lt;em&gt;right&lt;/em&gt;. Not left, right. I'm running out of new pictures to post, I guess I'll have to take more. I didn't actually take this one, I think my mom did this summer. There were a lot of dragonflies at the cabin this summer, but its okay, because I like dragonflies alot more than mosquitoes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-4429275764392648291?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/4429275764392648291/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=4429275764392648291' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/4429275764392648291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/4429275764392648291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/10/volleyball-practice.html' title='Volleyball Practice'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RwFz79f5AEI/AAAAAAAAADc/384NhXyr7Dk/s72-c/IMG_6306.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-1340363452866193754</id><published>2007-09-28T08:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-28T08:54:37.447-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Poll</title><content type='html'>Okay, check out the poll to the left.... AND VOTE....please.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-1340363452866193754?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/1340363452866193754/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=1340363452866193754' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/1340363452866193754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/1340363452866193754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/09/poll.html' title='Poll'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-411851382750771358</id><published>2007-09-27T15:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-27T15:23:20.305-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rvwsj9f5ADI/AAAAAAAAADU/fGBULuEc1iE/s1600-h/IMG_5201.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115012273101406258" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rvwsj9f5ADI/AAAAAAAAADU/fGBULuEc1iE/s400/IMG_5201.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RvwscNf5ACI/AAAAAAAAADM/p7jjQRH3Clo/s1600-h/IMG_5124.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115012139957420066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RvwscNf5ACI/AAAAAAAAADM/p7jjQRH3Clo/s400/IMG_5124.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Here's the first part of my book report. I was really bored and had to finish it for the next day, so I started writing by typing this: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;I read Billy Clikk – Rogmasher Rampage this month. Just so you know, this might not be an amazing book report. It won’t be because I am rushed for time and really don’t feel like doing it which means I’m forcing myself to write – which doesn’t work. It’s like forcing yourself to go to the bathroom when you really have nothing in you. Now that I’ve written that, I feel better and the words are somewhat starting to flow. Kind of. Now that I’ve started typing, I think this book report is going to be better. Maybe I should’ve written this paragraph and then deleted it. I decided not to, as you know because you’re reading this.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;.........................................&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Both of the pics are from last Christmas travelling somewhere between here and Abbotsford.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-411851382750771358?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/411851382750771358/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=411851382750771358' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/411851382750771358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/411851382750771358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/09/heres-first-part-of-my-book-report.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rvwsj9f5ADI/AAAAAAAAADU/fGBULuEc1iE/s72-c/IMG_5201.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-6422485086810708246</id><published>2007-09-24T15:05:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-24T15:15:06.120-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ummm....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rvg2VNf5ABI/AAAAAAAAADE/aGgrGy55hZI/s1600-h/IMG_4818.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5113897114907770898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rvg2VNf5ABI/AAAAAAAAADE/aGgrGy55hZI/s400/IMG_4818.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Okay, I had planned to post something interesting and important, but I forgot what it was. So here's a picture. If you didn't know, I added Purple's Hospital to the movie list on the right - check it out, its really funny.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-6422485086810708246?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/6422485086810708246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=6422485086810708246' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/6422485086810708246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/6422485086810708246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/09/ummm.html' title='Ummm....'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rvg2VNf5ABI/AAAAAAAAADE/aGgrGy55hZI/s72-c/IMG_4818.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-5426069920485839601</id><published>2007-09-19T20:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-19T21:16:07.298-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Really Long, pointless post.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RvH0AQpZvZI/AAAAAAAAAC8/PDkoAUQ1FaI/s1600-h/20070918_99_42.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112135337348021650" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RvH0AQpZvZI/AAAAAAAAAC8/PDkoAUQ1FaI/s200/20070918_99_42.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RvHzmwpZvYI/AAAAAAAAAC0/-wC9hbreigs/s1600-h/IMG_0041.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112134899261357442" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RvHzmwpZvYI/AAAAAAAAAC0/-wC9hbreigs/s200/IMG_0041.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RvHy8wpZvWI/AAAAAAAAACk/Y-2ticovYrY/s1600-h/20070918_99_45.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5112134177706851682" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RvHy8wpZvWI/AAAAAAAAACk/Y-2ticovYrY/s200/20070918_99_45.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Okay. My football game last night was a huge loss at something like 50-0 for them. I had a nice run play, though. I got a first down but I have no idea if it was a ten yard first down or a seven yard first down. Other than that, our team sucked. And at half-time our coach said that because we were losing so much we shouldn't be happy. I has mostly happy though, becaus in between plays I would talk to people and every once in awhile we had a good play, so I was happy. Then today I was semi-mad at a kid in my class. I lent his potato dancing group (potato dancing is cheoragraphy with potatoes on the ends of forks) a CD of mine to dance to. When returning it, he decided it was agood idea to throw it like a frisbee across the room. The case broke into 3 pieces (one of them the time part that hols the front and back together). The three good things are A: the CD wasn't super important or expensive, and I ripped it onto my computer, so I could burn one, maybe. B: the teacher walked in as he threw it. he didn't get in trouble, but sometimes guilt is better than punishment. and C: his group was the ones who really needed the CD, so if it skips, its his own fault. Then the same kid at lunch was alone in the park (where most of us eat lunch, but everyone else was at MCDonalds) so I went there because he was all alone. Then he decided it would be funny if he threw water, sand, pinecones, and sand-filled pinecones at me. I just took it for a while, he generally missed me, but It's the thought that counts (this time negatively). I headed back to school to play football with the people who were there, but he followed me. I had youthy tonight and that was really awesome. So many funny things happen every week. Half the time it's only funny because it's youth. And a HUGE majority of the things are insiders or built on insiders. Our youth helpers are awesome. there are three that are going to U of R and they are all so awesome and funny. Neil is just weird. and so is Danae. Larissa and Stacie are less weird, but still lots of fun. I think thats all i have to say. For those of you who actually read all the way to the end, congrats. because if this wasn't my blog and I wasn't the one writing I probably would've got bored 10 or so sentences in. I think i'm going to add those links now. And maybe another one of my movies. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-5426069920485839601?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/5426069920485839601/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=5426069920485839601' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/5426069920485839601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/5426069920485839601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/09/really-long-pointless-post.html' title='Really Long, pointless post.'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RvH0AQpZvZI/AAAAAAAAAC8/PDkoAUQ1FaI/s72-c/20070918_99_42.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-2274520834079874666</id><published>2007-09-18T15:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-18T15:41:03.415-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RvBT0pqh-yI/AAAAAAAAACc/CgvU8_lDE-8/s1600-h/IMG_3804.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111677741068057378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RvBT0pqh-yI/AAAAAAAAACc/CgvU8_lDE-8/s320/IMG_3804.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Okay, I have a lot to say and for some reason I feel very rushed. Maybe it's because I am. My mom just yelled down that we're going to leave for my football game in twenty minutes. That's the first one, my football game tonight. Second, I made the volleyball team at school, for the 3rd year in a row. The last thing (at least I think it's last) is that I'm planning on making a link to blogs I read because I'm constantly checking blogs. I end up checking at least three times a day. Once before school, once after school, and one more when ever I have time. I'm constantly disappointed because most people only post every few days. I found an awesome way to see all of the blogs (except katelynn) without pressing 'back'. I start with the Friesen Family blog, Kevin + Julie, Richard + Kristy, then Dave and Denise (who don't have links). Mike and Renee I check every once in a while because they hardly ever post anything. I check Katelynn's after all of that because there's no link to hers at all. (except mine. if I get around to making it. I just noticed how long this post is. This picture of Shawn was going to be in a movie, but we never got around to making the movie. Gotta go to footbal!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-2274520834079874666?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/2274520834079874666/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=2274520834079874666' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/2274520834079874666'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/2274520834079874666'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/09/okay-i-have-lot-to-say-and-for-some.html' title=''/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RvBT0pqh-yI/AAAAAAAAACc/CgvU8_lDE-8/s72-c/IMG_3804.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-3294616346819438577</id><published>2007-09-11T15:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-11T15:58:22.212-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Squirrel Part 2 (the pictures)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RucctdfMdTI/AAAAAAAAACU/UCZ0Ce4ZLck/s1600-h/IMG_0012.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109083869610276146" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RucctdfMdTI/AAAAAAAAACU/UCZ0Ce4ZLck/s320/IMG_0012.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RuccftfMdSI/AAAAAAAAACM/JNVk4PTnX5A/s1600-h/IMG_0014.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RuccR9fMdRI/AAAAAAAAACE/REw9jVmXCy8/s1600-h/IMG_0017.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109083397163873554" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RuccR9fMdRI/AAAAAAAAACE/REw9jVmXCy8/s320/IMG_0017.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rucb7NfMdQI/AAAAAAAAAB8/UL3jmxbwHiY/s1600-h/IMG_0024.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109083006321849602" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rucb7NfMdQI/AAAAAAAAAB8/UL3jmxbwHiY/s320/IMG_0024.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RucbpNfMdPI/AAAAAAAAAB0/He3w35lbfME/s1600-h/IMG_0030.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109082697084204274" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RucbpNfMdPI/AAAAAAAAAB0/He3w35lbfME/s320/IMG_0030.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rucba9fMdOI/AAAAAAAAABs/iSvebs0dIgI/s1600-h/IMG_0031.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109082452271068386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/Rucba9fMdOI/AAAAAAAAABs/iSvebs0dIgI/s320/IMG_0031.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The last pic show how close he was to my face. Even though it is zoomed, he was only about 2 meters away from my face.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-3294616346819438577?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/3294616346819438577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=3294616346819438577' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/3294616346819438577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/3294616346819438577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/09/squirrel-part-2-pictures.html' title='Squirrel Part 2 (the pictures)'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RucctdfMdTI/AAAAAAAAACU/UCZ0Ce4ZLck/s72-c/IMG_0012.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-2557781781238714884</id><published>2007-09-11T11:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-11T11:43:06.212-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Squirrel Part 1 (the story)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RubhidfMdMI/AAAAAAAAABc/b6LaymwoKS0/s1600-h/IMG_0002.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5109018809445676226" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RubhidfMdMI/AAAAAAAAABc/b6LaymwoKS0/s320/IMG_0002.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RubhQtfMdLI/AAAAAAAAABU/NW_PgcimFiw/s1600-h/IMG_0002.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here's a picture of my foot, now somewhat "heeled."(click on it to see it better) Sorry. Bad pun. I also had a face-to face expierience with a squirrel. When I got home for lunch, it was by the front door, so I got the camera and follwed it around. In the end he got really close to me and I thought he might attack. I'll have to post the pictures later, I have to go back to school.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-2557781781238714884?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/2557781781238714884/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=2557781781238714884' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/2557781781238714884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/2557781781238714884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/09/squirrel-part-1-story.html' title='Squirrel Part 1 (the story)'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RubhidfMdMI/AAAAAAAAABc/b6LaymwoKS0/s72-c/IMG_0002.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-4435024827792484584</id><published>2007-09-08T13:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-08T13:29:12.351-07:00</updated><title type='text'>I am very very very bored.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RuMFddfMdKI/AAAAAAAAABM/33P_8QcLJBs/s1600-h/IMG_6233.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107932406058087586" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RuMFddfMdKI/AAAAAAAAABM/33P_8QcLJBs/s320/IMG_6233.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Today my parents left at 10 to go golfing. Then Shawn left to go to a birthday party. Now I'm stuck home alone with a bunch of boring TV shows and a bunch of boring internet game sites. Such as &lt;a href="http://www.addictinggames.com/"&gt;http://www.addictinggames.com/&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.agame.com/"&gt;http://www.agame.com/&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.miniclip.com/"&gt;http://www.miniclip.com/&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href="http://www.jimbogame.com/"&gt;http://www.jimbogame.com/&lt;/a&gt;. you can go to them, they're not entirely stupid, but since I was bored when I started playing them, they are just... boring. I also did a bit of work for my dad (for money). I had to put text on the pictures of the families at our church for the picture board. Purely out of excessive boredom, here's another picture.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-4435024827792484584?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/4435024827792484584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=4435024827792484584' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/4435024827792484584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/4435024827792484584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/09/i-am-very-very-very-bored.html' title='I am very very very bored.'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RuMFddfMdKI/AAAAAAAAABM/33P_8QcLJBs/s72-c/IMG_6233.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-7748358613800349099</id><published>2007-09-07T15:55:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-07T16:00:20.217-07:00</updated><title type='text'>a cool poem. and a pic. ture. or two.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RuHXZ9fMdJI/AAAAAAAAABE/db1ISfRca1g/s1600-h/IMG_6683.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107600293416957074" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RuHXZ9fMdJI/AAAAAAAAABE/db1ISfRca1g/s320/IMG_6683.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RuHXNtfMdII/AAAAAAAAAA8/Fbz2XpdNrGo/s1600-h/IMG_6667.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107600082963559554" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RuHXNtfMdII/AAAAAAAAAA8/Fbz2XpdNrGo/s320/IMG_6667.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I had a horrible day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had a terrible sleep, but not&lt;br /&gt;because of fear that my house&lt;br /&gt;would be bombed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I got a bad mark in math,&lt;br /&gt;but at least I have an&lt;br /&gt;education to get a&lt;br /&gt;good job.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I had a disgusting lunch,&lt;br /&gt;but I wasn’t starving.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was mocked for my&lt;br /&gt;Christianity, but&lt;br /&gt;I wasn’t killed for it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;God Provides for me.&lt;br /&gt;THANK YOU GOD!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anonymous&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-7748358613800349099?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/7748358613800349099/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=7748358613800349099' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/7748358613800349099'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/7748358613800349099'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/09/cool-poem-and-pic-ture-or-two.html' title='a cool poem. and a pic. ture. or two.'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RuHXZ9fMdJI/AAAAAAAAABE/db1ISfRca1g/s72-c/IMG_6683.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-6584491860927944769</id><published>2007-09-06T15:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-06T15:22:11.613-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Injury. and more pics.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RuB9edfMdHI/AAAAAAAAAA0/vygX4tw9nps/s1600-h/IMG_6537.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107219939703157874" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RuB9edfMdHI/AAAAAAAAAA0/vygX4tw9nps/s320/IMG_6537.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RuB9S9fMdGI/AAAAAAAAAAs/KPzZyV23eK0/s1600-h/IMG_6502.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107219742134662242" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RuB9S9fMdGI/AAAAAAAAAAs/KPzZyV23eK0/s320/IMG_6502.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RuB8INfMdFI/AAAAAAAAAAk/OozfW6p1YJs/s1600-h/IMG_6552.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107218457939440722" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RuB8INfMdFI/AAAAAAAAAAk/OozfW6p1YJs/s320/IMG_6552.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Today at lunch I wiped out at lunch. I kinda hurt my ankle and knee but the worst was my heel. I have an inch-and-a-halfish long cut followed by a decent sized scrape. I don't have a picture because I didn't have a camera and now it's bandaged, but I might get a shot of in 2 days when I switch to the new bandage. Now I kind of have to hobble and put my weight on the front of my foot. Luckily I didn't need stitches, which my principal thought I might (he was the one who cleaned it up before the doctor) The pics here are of my youth leaders' daughter. She moved lots when I babysat her this summer which is why the picture is blurry. And that's my hand next to her hand.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-6584491860927944769?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/6584491860927944769/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=6584491860927944769' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/6584491860927944769'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/6584491860927944769'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/09/injury-and-more-pics.html' title='Injury. and more pics.'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RuB9edfMdHI/AAAAAAAAAA0/vygX4tw9nps/s72-c/IMG_6537.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-1312325751447488818</id><published>2007-08-29T07:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-29T07:44:38.027-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Football</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RtWFx9fMdDI/AAAAAAAAAAU/oAEZmIFZxSI/s1600-h/IMG_5282.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104132846059811890" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RtWFx9fMdDI/AAAAAAAAAAU/oAEZmIFZxSI/s320/IMG_5282.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I had a football game last night. We lost 13 to nothing, but I had an interception and a couple of good passes (as QB). That afternoon we went mini golfing, and I got second (out of three). ummmm... oh yeah. School starts in twenty minutes...kinda sucks, but I was starting to get really bored just sitting at home. I guess I should post a picture now. This pic is of Alvin, one of my little buddies. One of my other little buddies doesn't know my name, so he just calls me "Big Boy" But Alvin is pretty funny, and this pictue is awesome. Okay, gotta go to school! &lt;strong&gt;Phpupuuuhh.&lt;/strong&gt; Okay, you can sound that one out yourself. I'm not even quite sure what it says.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-1312325751447488818?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/1312325751447488818/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=1312325751447488818' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/1312325751447488818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/1312325751447488818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/08/football.html' title='Football'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RtWFx9fMdDI/AAAAAAAAAAU/oAEZmIFZxSI/s72-c/IMG_5282.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-4580178317497816815</id><published>2007-08-27T18:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-27T18:42:43.428-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sweet Fish</title><content type='html'>I just added the amazing fish ad.  Just click on the little white square on the right. I don't especially like Telus but I love the fish and the music. And the "MyFave" thing is a huge rip-off of "MyFive." Oh well.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-4580178317497816815?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/4580178317497816815/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=4580178317497816815' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/4580178317497816815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/4580178317497816815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/08/sweet-fish.html' title='Sweet Fish'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4899135943540957718.post-5299177365287282071</id><published>2007-08-27T17:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-08-27T18:06:02.938-07:00</updated><title type='text'>um...hello?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RtNz_dfMdCI/AAAAAAAAAAM/IUfAX2OtMpw/s1600-h/IMG_6198.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103550336825324578" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RtNz_dfMdCI/AAAAAAAAAAM/IUfAX2OtMpw/s320/IMG_6198.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This is my first post, and I haven't told anyone about this blog yet, but I'm planning on posting stuff about my sports teams, youth events, and show you pictures of whatever I take a picture of. This picture is the best one I found short notice. I took it at camp. It's my counsellor and two cabinmates. I have a football game tomorrow night and volleyball starts really soon (almost exactly when school starts). Okay then, signing off.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4899135943540957718-5299177365287282071?l=dfriesen.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/feeds/5299177365287282071/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4899135943540957718&amp;postID=5299177365287282071' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/5299177365287282071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4899135943540957718/posts/default/5299177365287282071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://dfriesen.blogspot.com/2007/08/umhello.html' title='um...hello?'/><author><name>Derek</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_egrEBunA4_A/RtNz_dfMdCI/AAAAAAAAAAM/IUfAX2OtMpw/s72-c/IMG_6198.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
