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BLOG WARS: MEHLIAN DEFECTION (2/12)
I declare this to be my final post here on Tripod, because I have defected to Xanga, just as Jason suggested. It took me over three months, but I finally did it. The URL is www.xanga.com/fuzzylu, which is a spin off of Melissa's www.xanga.com/fluffymel (the name, I must tell you, was suggested by none other than yours truly, so you know I'm not unoriginal). You see, xanga is so much better when it comes to blogging. So much faster. For nostalgia purposes, I'll leave the old stuff up for you to enjoy over and over. Maybe if you're lucky I'll come back every once in a blue moon and do some stuff. I wouldn't hold your breath, though. And now, I take my leave, and I would like to thank all (three) of my fans and the co-founder here at flubadub, the more dependable Skew. Goodbye Tripod. I hate you.
- Luke
I'M JUST THAT AWESOME (10/20)
Hi there, how are you? My name is Luke, remember me? Alright, so it's 2:30 in the morning and I'm sitting here typing this. Why? I just finished a technical report for an engineering class, and now I'm about to start on some Physics problems. I am not too terribly sleepy, so I'm not sure if I'm making it to bed. Therefore, I am updating the ol' blog. Long time no see, huh? Yeah, yeah, so I'm lazy. Jason is up with me right now, he is telling me to get an Xanga page. I might do that, since it is probably a ton better than stupid Tripod. But then again, I'm lazy, so I might not do it at all. Who knows, if I don't go to sleep tonight, maybe I'll start it up before class at 8 AM. Stupid class at 8 AM. I only go once a week, which could be bad, since the midterm is Wednesday. Oh well.
Check out what my girlfriend Melissa (yes, we ARE still together) said to me earlier:
LiLprlncess4evr: do you know why i love you?
LiLprlncess4evr: what i love about you?
LiLprlncess4evr: well
LiLprlncess4evr: i love the way your smile speaks to my heart
LiLprlncess4evr: when you hold me...i forget that pain exists
LiLprlncess4evr: they way you can make me laugh, even on my worst days
LiLprlncess4evr: your kisses...they are always so perfect
LiLprlncess4evr: you accept me for who i am...imperfections and all
LiLprlncess4evr: the way i dance with the butterflies every time you touch me
LiLprlncess4evr: when we lay together doing absolutely nothing..i dont want to be anywhere else in the world, but your arms
LiLprlncess4evr: the way you stand by me
LiLprlncess4evr: and believe in me
LiLprlncess4evr: and the way i love you
Ain't she the sweetest thing?
Well that's all the sharing I'm doing for now, because I'm gonna start on that Physics homework. I'll probably fall asleep doing it, but that's alright, I always magically finish everything so close to perfectly that it's scary. I'm just that awesome.
BRAIN.EXE (9/30)
"Lucas, you are somewhat left-hemisphere dominant with a balanced preference for auditory and visual inputs. Because of your "centrist" tendencies, the distinctions between various types of brain usage are somewhat blurred.
"Your tendency to be organized and logical and attend to details is reasonably well-established which should afford you success regardless of your chosen field of endeavor, unless it requires total spontaneity and ability to improvise, your weaker traits. However, you are far from rigid or overcontrolled. You possess a degree of individuality, perceptiveness, and trust in your intuition to function at much more sophisticated levels than most.
"Having given sufficient attention to detail, you can readily perceive the larger aspects and implications of a situation or of learning. You are functional and practical, but can blend abstraction and theory into your framework readily.
"The equivalence of your auditory and visual learning orientation gives you two equally effective sensory input systems, each with distinctive features. You can process both unidimensionally and multidimesionally with equal facility. When needed, you sequence material while at other times you "intake it all" and store it for processing later.
"Your natural ability to use your senses is also synthesized in your way of learning. You can be reflective in your approach, absorbing material in a non-aggressive manner, and at other times voracious in seeking out stimulation and experience.
"Overall you tend to be somewhat more critical of yourself than is necessary and avoid enjoying life too much because of a sense of duty. You feel somewhat constrained and tend to sometimes restrict your expressiveness. In any given situation, you will opt for the rational, and learning of almost any type should be easy for you."
I like it.
THE FLUBADUB TWO (7/26)
<ahem>
We are the FlubaDub Two,
The FlubaDub Two are we.
Pay homage to
The FlubaDub Two,
Or drown in FlubaDub pee.
Thank you.
GUESS WHO'S BACK... (7/23)
Well, well, well. Long time no see. It's been a nice two month sabbatical for me from Flubadub, albeit an unexpected one. There is far too much to catch up on, so I'll just sum it up in one word: Melissa. Quite literally, we've been together every day since summer began, save the week I went on vacation. So it's been quite enjoyable, to say the least. The exciting events have been noted for the most part by Dan in his weblog which, you have undoubtedly noticed, I have separated from my own. I have done this because I figured all of you were tired of reading through my old crap before getting to his new stuff, not to mention seeing the new date on the navigation bar and becoming intensely eager to see which of us two actually updated. So fret no more my dearest readers, for I have saved the day.
Of late, there is not too much going on. Dan has returned to Columbus, and he may have fallen off the face of the Earth. We are still awaiting confirmation on that story. My birthday was 10 days ago, and it is always fun getting money. Melissa, being the wonderful girlfriend she is, got me a Limited Edition Platinum Gameboy Advance. This, as most of you know, is perfect, because I play video games like a madman. Now I can play them during boring things like class and swim meets (just kidding, hehe). Tactics Ogre is the only game I have, and right now it's the only game I need. I've logged over 20 hours now, taking my good old time with this one, as I did with Final Fantasy Tactics. Melissa has been having frequent nightmares in which I cheat on her, or something equally preposterous and silly. I, of course, would never do anything of the sort, much to the dismay of a certain stalker-type person, only known to me as WildcatKitty9. She repeatedly asks for clandestine meetings of a quite explicit nature, which I respectfully and gracefully decline over and over again. I find it humorous, though Melissa is never so amused.
In other news, the Imperial has been retired from my service. the suspension is now totally shot, as opposed to halfway, which it was for the last year at least. We are looking to fix it for Melissa, so she will have a car for her college career at Wilmington College, fifty miles north of my UC. I have been driving a 1990 Buick LeSabre, formerly my grandparents' car. That's right folks, another big car. You know what they say about guys with big cars. There has been occasional talk about getting me a new car, but my parents are as lazy as they come when it comes to spending so much money.
However, I think if you take the magnitude of their combined laziness, it will nearly equal mine. Take this weblog for example, I enjoy doing this, but I just never feel like it. And looking for a job......I basically looked for a job with my eyes covered. I just do slave work for the family friend who moved into our former home. He pays 7 bucks an hour under the table, so I'm not really complaining. I haven't worked at all for the past week though, because they were on vacation. But now I will get plenty of hours in. My dad also mentioned today that I could go check out Abbey's, see if good ol' Joey Maroon would hook me up with a job there. We'll see.
I also just ordered a new Dell computer for the family, a really nice one. My parents don't use it, Logan will be gone in a year, and Layne doesn't deserve it. They could have used that money for my car! Oh well. I'm done now. I've caught you up on my life, so I hope you enjoyed it. And savor the flavor 'cuz it might not happen again for another two months. Or maybe tomorrow. Who knows. Buhbye.
- Luke
GRAB BAG (5/23)
Update. I have successfully completed the community service hours required to retain my scholarship for the next school year. Now I gotta stay above a 3.2 for the rest of my college career. Like Auron would say, "I foresee no difficulty." And get this, some of the people that kept their GPA's even higher, something like a 3.7, all got a $100 award today. Those bastards. And here I thought I had no incentive to get good grades...no motivation to try harder than I currently do. Gosh darn them to heck.
In other news, I finally gave in to the inevitable. I used cheat codes on Grand Theft Auto III. I know, I know. I just couldn't resist holding out any longer. And I get some sick, sadistic pleasure out of playing that game. I better not let any Congressmen hear me say that though, they might throw me in jail for conspiring to murder someone because I play violent video games. Somethin like that.
Well I'm goin home this weekend, and I packed up quite a bit of stuff. It was kind of sad in a way, because this was my home for a school year that went incredibly fast. But I'm also excited because I get to see Melissa so much this summer. That will be fantastical. That's my new word by the way, fantastical. Melissa and I just passed our 9th month together, and tomorrow will be 11 months since our very first date. Pretty sweet, huh? Well I thought so.
I also accidentally beat Final Fantasy 8 earlier tonight. I was just trying to do Squall's ultimate limit break, and I ended up killing the final boss in a matter of minutes. He actually did the limit break once. It was totally friggin sweet. I am also watching a fellow play through Final Fantasy 9....it certainly brings back memories. I do that often nowadays, reminiscing. Listen to me now, I'm reminiscing about reminiscing!
Well I have rambled on for long enough, i just felt like typing quite a bit tonight. Now I am dreadfully tired. Buhbye for now,
-Luke
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AWWWWW, AREN'T WE CUUUUUUUUTE??? (5/17)
This was at Melissa's Prom on May 4th, 2002. Is that adorable or what? I can't stay long because I have a Physics Test in a few hours. I would be doing community service right now instead of writing this, but that stupid test is today. Speaking of community service, I've done 7 hours of it in the past two days, and it wasn't too bad. It's an enormous project called 1000 Hands, and we are building a huge playground in 5 days. There are hundreds of people there throughout the day, starting at 8 AM through 9 PM. It was good for me, because I finally got a workout after being so lazy for so long. It's raining though, so I'm glad I get today off from working out there. I have a new favorite phrase that began on the initial trip to the playground, and I must have said it a million times already. It is, "man, that would have been friggin' sweet." On that first day to and fro, I said, "we almost saw a wreck...hah ohhh man, that would have been friggin' sweet!" no less than 5 times (it was rush hour in Cincinnati). Also, in the next two days, I plan to log 17 hours there. That's right, 17 out of the 48 hours of Saturday and Sunday will be spent out there. That will take care of community service for the year. Then it's all rest and relaxation from there. What? Finals you say? What about 'em?
-Luke
FINAL SUMMER APPROACHING (5/14)
Hello there. Long time no see, huh? Well, I've been busy with several things lately, so I haven't had much time to update. Wait, scratch that, I've been busy with one thing lately...and that would be video games. Oh yeah, there was this prom thing too...I almost forgot (just kidding Melissa). Prom weekend was really great, I spent over 24 hours straight with Melissa. So that was awesome. Besides that, I got my Playstation 2 back and I've been playing Final Fantasy Tactics like crazy. I've logged over 96 hours on it now. I accidentally beat it one night, but I'm going back and getting stuff I missed now. Another fun and addicting game was also brought to my attention, found here. And of course the RPG that I am making also takes up plenty of my time. So what gets kicked off the list is this blog. Sorry, but only a handful of people show interest. This is for you guys! Both of ya!
I was also shown some pictures of a car accident. Not just any car accident, but a Ferrari that wrecked traveling over 170 miles per hour. They are simply horrifying pictures, particularly if you haven't seen that type of thing before. I'm not going to put the link on here but if you want to fulfill your burning desires (or sadistic pleasures, either one) then you may ask me for them. It might be somewhat disturbingly humorous talking about it, but actually seeing it is a whole different story. If you look, you'll understand what I mean. I got in an argument over these photos with someone today. I had seen them the night before. I had my time of disgust and shock and sympathy. Then I could start thinking about it more clearly today. These two guys went 170 miles per hour in their Ferrari under their own free will. Nobody made them do it. Ferrari isn't responsible for the people that buy and drive their cars. The only people responsible for this are the two men themselves. It might seem heartless and cold to blame it on them, but that is facing facts. By feeling sympathetic for long about those two, you gain nothing. You can't change anything, you can't bring them back...and they brought it upon themselves. Lend your sympathy to their families instead, and learn from their mistakes (hmmmm, don't go that fast, got it), that's all you can do.
Quote: "I've made my share of mistakes, but none of them were at 170 miles per hour." - Me
In lighter news, I have only a few weeks of school left. That is bad news for you loyal fans, because summer is my time for laziness and video games. Wait, that's all the time. Hmmm, well multiply my laziness and video game playing by two, and that's what my summer is. Lots of Melissa, video games, food, and sleep. Unfortunately, a job will probably interrupt my regularly scheduled summer. This is my last summer in St. Clairsville. The remainder of my summers will be work or school. Kinda depressing in some sense, but exciting all the same. I will always cherish those summer days of old. I will now include the instructions for the classic Luke Mehl summer day, for you to enjoy over and over this summer:
Sleep as long as you want
Lay around and eat and play video games until Dan, Cody or Jason*** calls you
Go to one of their houses (or invite them to yours) and lay around and eat and play video games
Return home as late as you want and eat
Rinse. Repeat.
***Your own friends may be substituted here, though the fun could be reduced by up to a factor of 3.
So there you have it...the Luke Mehl Classic, copyright Luke Mehl 2002. Well that's it for me. Until next time,
- Luke
FIRST ATTEMPT (5/02)
Hello again. I had the intention of updating more often in the past couple weeks, but there is a reason why I didn't (I always have great excuses, remember that). I found a computer program entitled RPGMaker2000, translated by Don Miguel. I found it a week ago today, and it has pretty much taken over my life ever since. I am creating my very own RPG, and when I finish I can create a self-extracting executable file and send it to whomever wants to play it. It is tentatively named, "First Attempt," because it's my first attempt at making a game. I know what you're thinkin', "how does he come up with such awesome titles?" Well, I guess I was just born with it. Anyway, depending on how good it is, I may even send it into some websites for them to rate it. Time will tell on that one though. I will not reveal any of the major details, but I can tell you, if you are reading this, you might have a spot in the game somewhere. In fact, if you are reading this and would like to be in it, sign the guestbook and tell me, and it shall be so. Because any RPG player knows that there are plenty of extras in the game. I can also tell you that it might not be very long; that also depends on how ambitious I get. Right now I have a couple hours worth of very basic gameplay. The battle system isn't very complex yet, and the story isn't very developed thus far. So anyway, tell me if you want to be in it and/or if you want to play it, and I'll hook you up. I completed a free writing exercise today, except I did it on WordPad, to get my ideas out. I was, and still am, surprised with the results. Mind you, this took about 5 minutes, the unedited version (honest!):
existence? why? why all of this? people live out their entire lives oblivious to the significance that we are actually here. alive. breathing. they are raised to believe simply what their parents have them believe, never thinking twice about questioning these ideas. people blindly follow others, and its dangerous. dangerous not because it dulls them aestetically or physically, but mentally. what they know is what is limiting their abilities. physical and mental alike. they restrain themselves because of what they know. they knew the night was a blanket drawn over the sky by a supreme being so that they could sleep. they knew if they sailed too far out in the ocean they would fall off the earth. they knew the earth was the center of the universe. they knew people couldn't fly. they know the mind can't affect external entities. these people that know these things.....they are ignorants. resisting change in its entirety, despising the introduction of ideals contradictory to previously attained knowledge, ignorant of the vast strength they could obtain. it is this limitless potential that will spawn more evolved beings. prior to that, it must be accepted, it must be harnessed. as it stands today, the human race is at an impass. this ceiling on the potential we have set for ourselves is being fulfilled. we will have no place to go soon, except back down. there is a great leap that must be taken to further advance, a synapse in the evolutionary high road. will we be able to make it? i dont know. but most human minds are currently incapable of doing so. Most of them....
So what do you think about that? Deep. Well I am impressed with myself at least.
And in other news, I am finally going home this weekend for Melissa's prom. I haven't seen her in, gasp, almost 3 weeks! I am starting to die, I think. Or maybe I'm going insane, as shown above. Besides that, I don't have a whole lot more to say, except the lightning was awesome today and I still need to do 24 hours of community service in the next 4 weeks. Just a reminder to myself. Oh yeah, and another thing was brought to my attention: https://www.angelfire.com/vt2/g_hols/Niceguy. That thing is pretty clever and I suggest you read. Well that's it folks, I am off to bed, because I have another 8 o'clock class to skip tomorrow. Buhbye then.
-Luke
P.S. I don't think Lilauren likes me anymore.
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