Posted 23:13 by Tycho

Good night/Good morning, fellow Bloggerians!

Today's events: Rudely woken up at 12 by my father. Can't a guy recover from an all night Red Alert II marathon? Well, at least Ron and I have the satisfaction of finally beating that insanely annoying campaign. Allies: 1, Soviets: 0.

I started to read "D-Day" by Stephen E. Ambrose, in order to prepare for my upcoming sufficiency project. It is a VERY slow read, despite being extremely interesting. I'll sit down for an hour and chug through it, then realize I've only read 30 pages...(I average between 50-80 pages/hour for books). Yes, it's [obviously] military history...but it is the single day that shaped the rest of the 20th century. 6 divisions of Allied troops in the first wave of the assault, facing off against the ~60 German divisions, including several elite Wehrmacht units (352nd Inf., for instance). If D-Day had not occured, many more young men and civilians would have died because the war would have become prolonged. In fact, the Allies might have been defeated had they not taken the gamble.

Alright, enough of that. So I read that for a while, ate some breakfast (well...lunch rather), and read it more afterwards. I got on the computer and started to play some Red Alert II (single player campaign).

Then there was much food...leftover turkey and the trimmings...mmmmmmmm....stuffing. And I literally stuffed my face.

Many kudos, Chief, I'd have been bored all day had it not been for your generous hospitality. It was a good game of Risk. First time I've played with Mark and seen him lose. Or, to be more truthful, on the verge of losing (there was a dispute about how cannons can move, and we then decided to end the game and focus our undivided attention to "Spaced", a hilarious British comedy).

"Spaced" is awesome. Its awesomeness is unapproachable by sitcom standards. It's so awesome, that I am also awesome, just from sheer osmosis. Though I'm awesome, anyways, but this just bolsters my personal awesome "awesomeness" reserve.

I'm sorry if that doesn't make sense. But to me it does. After an entire bag of those sugar coated candied orange slices...the super duper sugar infused ones. Currently, I'm on this HUGE sugar high...which will only lead to a devastating fall in my blood sugar level later...hopefully I'll be horizontal (and asleep!) before that happens.

Whoa...ok, this is sort of weird. For the past few months, I've noticed, that if I hold my hands out, they shake uncontrollably (not much, but they're never still). But now that I have this MASSIVE infusion of sugar, when I hold them out, they don't shake AT ALL...not one bit. Ok, that was a really crazy observation by me.

Maybe large amounts of sugar calms me down, just as drinking coffee helps me get to sleep (seriously).

Tomorrow I need a hair cut. My hair is so thick/long now that when I take my scally cap off, I've got this really pronounced "dent" in my hair. Not a problem when around the house, but it is when I'm at, say, Jillian's, where they force us to take all caps and hats off due to dress code. Women don't look to highly upon young gentlemen with dented hair. It just looks weird. Not that women have looked to highly upon me anyways (as of yet!), but hey, I've got to do my best.

Ok, I'm going to shut up now because I can actually FEEL the sugar running through my veins...and my head kinda feels like its pulsing...

Good night everyone!