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Hiroshi Tau 2

Here is the second episode in the series:

Hiroshi Tau

Here is the first episode of my action figure anime series called Hiroshi Tau:

Ore to Shore mistake

I was mistaken on my place in the Junior Rock race at Ore to Shore. I actually took 4th place, as they said, but I forgot that they started each age group 2 minutes apart, and that each chip recorded everyone's individual time. Here is the email I got in response to my inquiry:

Superior Bike Fest	to me	More options	Aug 23 (1 day ago)

Justin, I asked the timer about your question and here is his response:

The boy is mistaken; the result we have posted for him is correct. His age group is 14-16.

He was the second bike across the line; however, two other 12-13 age group riders starting later were faster; so Justin was the 4th Junior Rock male finisher, as we posted it.

Again, Justin was the second bike across the line; but the first bike across the line was also in the 14-16 age group, so Justin finishes second in his age group, as we posted it.

I hope that makes sense to you....three other people had faster times than you.

Sue

Marching Band

Yesterday was our first day of marching band practice and Mr. Erickson informed me that I will be playing the quad toms this year, instead of the snare drum like he said I would be playing in the first place. The quad toms are the hardest of all marching percuassion instruments to play and one of the heaviest. I also couldn't go to cross-country practice yesterday because my knee was hurting really bad.














Me and my brother's tomato plants. (the healthier one is mine)

Ore to Shore

Yesterday was the 6th Annual Ore to Shore Mountain Bike Epic. I was in the 4-Mile Junior rock because I didn't train at all over the summer to do the 28-Mile Soft Rock race. I took second place overall and first place in my age catagory. There were over 1,800 people total that were signed up for the races. The awards ceremony was extremely long but I had to stay to get my award, which is a sandstone rock with a metal figure of a guy on a bike. Anyway, here's a few pictures my brother took, (they're low quality because they were taken with his 1.2 MP camera on his PDA.) BTW, I'm wearing a green shirt. In the first picture, I should be standing on the top of the podium, but they put me as second in my age group because an error in the chipping system.

Sand Hills

They say that pain is all in your head. But then so is every other feeling. So in the future, instead of traditional painkillers that thin your blood or decrease blood-vessel size, there will likely be nano-particles that are put into your brain which will inhibit neural transmissions in the areas of your brain where pain receptors are linked, and the same for other feelings and emotions. For information on pain go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain.

The reason I mentioned this is because I am in cross country, which at times can be a bit painful, especially while running up steep sand hills. Today we had to run up a large sand hill 8 times, and the overall run was about 5 miles. It isn't as hard as I thought it would be though, after three days straight of running 5 miles I'm not sore at all. After we ran we went and lifted weights, which we are supposed to do every other day.

Two days ago I went to the U.P. State Fair in Escanaba. It wasn't too bad, except we went on Preview Night and some of the stuff wasn't quite up yet, but all of the rides were.

Atop Jasper Knob

Yesterday was the Westwood mixed doubles tennis tournament. My partner (Dannielle Holsworth) and I took second place in the Division A group!! The winners of Division A were Chris Dix and Linsay Sandberg.

The Absence of Comments

Recently there haven't been a lot of comments on my blog, maybe it's because my posts have been a little boring, or maybe it's just the weather. Or maybe it's just because my blog doesn't get a lot of traffic. Whatever the cause, I will still try to post everyday no matter how discouraged or low my self-esteem is.

Right now I am working on a Froogle wish-list. Notice how it's just a "wishlist" and not a "list".

Today was the Westwood Tennis Tournament, I was in Boys 16's and took 2nd. (ok, there were only 3 people in my age group) My first match was against Dan Nelson, and I lost 4-8, adn my second match was against Kent Hay, I won 8-0. So that put me in 2nd place. Tomorrow is the Mixed Doubles competition, which should be a lot more fun because there will be more people there and it will be easier.

Before I was born I was a Fisherman in Maine

Just a quick update here. On tuesday a lightning bolt hit our house and destroyed our PCI network card in our computer so now I have the hi-speed modem connected through USB until we get a new card. The lightning also blew up my dad's power supply for his Ham Radio, which could be expensive. Last night I played tennis and today I ran 6 miles and I wasn't really tired at all. This weekend is the Westwood Tennis Tournament, I'm doing 16 Singles and Doubles- if I can find a partner to play with.

Recently in the news- A South-Korean man died from playing video games for 50 hours straight, stopping only to go to the bathroom and take quick naps. Doctors says the man died from exhaustion. The entire 50 hours were spent in a local cafe where the man used his laptop.
That's a lot of coffee.

A Delicious Bass

Well, as my previous posts claimed, I should have posted a long time ago, but I just kind of forgot about it lol. However, to make up for it I have a bunch of pictures and a detailed description of the tennis camp at MTU.

MTU Tennis Camp

Friday- We drove to Houghton in the morning and arrived at Mclain's State Park around noon. We set up the two tents and that kind of thing then me, my brother and his friend, kyle, went down to the shores of Lake Superior, which was really wavy because it was windy. We stayed there for about 2 hours then headed back. Around this time I had to leave to sign in for tennis camp. When we got there I was about 5 minutes late because we had to drop my dog off at a kennel, but they still gave me my meal card. When the non-commuters got to the Gates Tennis Center, I noticed quite a lot of people from Westwood, including graduate Dan Stam. Basically all we did was Forehands, Backhands, and Volley's, and Kevin, the head instructor, talked to us about a bunch of stuff. Also helping instruct were Jen from the MTU women's tennis team and Yassine from the men's team. Yassine came from Morocco. After it got done we went to Wal-Mart and there were bats flying all over inside, and Wal-Mart workers were running around with fishing nets trying to catch them. One worker reported that they catch about 10 bats a night. Then I came back to the campground and I could hardly sleep all night because it was so noisy.

Saturday- We worked on serves, lobs, overheads, and approach shots. Then we went to lunch, which wasn't that good at all. When we came back we worked on a few more things then at 3 we got to do an activity, which was going to the Varsity Club, where we just sat around and watched TV. By this point I was very tired, and we still had 4 more hours to go. We got back to the Tennis center and then started actually playing. Then we went to eat dinner which, again, was not that great. When we came back we just played some more then went home.

Sunday- This was evaluation day, where the instructors watched us closely while we played and wrote down the things we needed to improve on and the things we did good. We decided to stay another night at the campground, and I went swimming.

Here are some pictures:

Beach at Mclain's My brother and his friend Our campsite

Camping

In a few hours I'm leaving to go to Houghton. We still have to pack pretty much everything. The weather is supposed to be nice, 0% chance of rain today and tomorrow. I will take pictures and then post them on Sunday. This is the first time we've actually gone camping in over a year, we used to go a lot but our camper got ruined because the roof was never sealed properly and rain got in, so yesterday we bought a new tent at Target. When I got up I decided not to go running, because 1. I was too tired and 2. I'm going to be playing tennis a lot today at the camp.

If anyone reads this they should go to http://www.hi5.com/default.html and create an account. It utilizes a cool human-networking tool often used in the business world, where if your connected to one friend, then you can become connected with any of their friends, and then with any of their friends. This means that I could become friends with (hypothetically) Wallie's friend's uncle's sister's cousin's friend's brother's girlfriend's grandfather's friend from the Korean War. Using this, it's easy to get *connections*.

Can anyone guess what and where this is a picture of?

Tennis

Today it was actually a little cooler for a change, yesterday's 90-degree weather made me happy to have air conditioning, it's hard to imagine what people without air conditioning do most of the time when it's that hot, especially if their house isn't well insulated. Earlier today I sanded and painted a wooden bench thing that my mom bought. It doesn't look too bad. Tonight at 6:52 I'm going golfing with Cody. My brother's friend Kyle from Gladstone is over for the weekend and is coming with us to Houghton where I have tennis camp Friday-Sunday. Here is the schedule taken from http://www.aux.mtu.edu/syap/tennis.html:

Friday, August 5:

4:00 PM Check in at the student development complex (SDC). After check in, go to the dorms to get room assignments. Grab a bite to eat because the meal plan for camp begins on Saturday morning. Plan A campers (Dorm campers) – Starting Saturday, there will be morning, noon and evening meals available. 5:45 PM Counselors will be Wadsworth Hall to walk up with campers. 6:00 PM Camp begins! 9:00 PM Evening session ends. Dormers will walk down together with a counselor. There will be a dorm meeting immediately upon arrival to the dorms following the evening session.

Saturday, August 6:

7:45-8:45 AM Breakfast for dormers. 8:45 AM Counselors will walk up with campers. 9:00 AM Morning session begins. 11:15 PM Lunch with all campers walking down together with counselors. 12:30 PM Counselors will walk up with campers. 12:45 PM Afternoon session begins. 3:00 PM Recreation 4:15 PM Evening meal with all campers walking down together with counselors. 5:30 PM Counselors will walk up with campers. 5:45 PM Evening session begins. 8:00 PM Evening session ends. Dormers will walk down together with a counselor.

Sunday, August 7:

7:45-8:45 AM Breakfast for dormers. 8:45 AM Counselors will walk up with campers. 9:00 AM Morning session begins. 11:20 PM Lunch with all campers walking down together with counselors. 12:30 PM Counselors will walk up with campers. 12:45 PM Afternoon session begins. 3:00 PM Camp ends. Parents are invited to discuss camp evaluations with instructors at Gates Tennis Center.

We are staying at McLain's State Park over the weekend but I'll be at tennis camp all day long.

Web Log 2.0

I have come to the conlcusion that this site is not very popular. As an effort to boost it's popularity and excitablility, I'm going to post a lot of pictures and offer more updates, such as up to three posts a day and daily checking of comments. Welcome to JC'S BLOG 2.0!!!

Here is a picture I drew today:

Oh Bloggers where art thou?

If anyone that reads this and knows if there is a way you can search for other Blogger blogs on www.Blogger.com could you please leave a comment and tell me thanks.

Last week was sort of a rest period for me for running, but today I have started training again for cross-country, and I have changed my diet to eating healthier foods. I have created an excercise log to keep track of the date, distance, and time it took me to run a specified course. www.RunnersWorld.com provides a large amount of helpful information about everything consisting of running.

In half an hour we are leaving for Marquette because my mountian bike needs a 30-day tune-up at Sports Rack Lmt. Speaking of sports, I now have a shortage of people to golf with because casey philips claims he is done golfing for the year.