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Thursday, 16 September 2010

What Happens Out In The Midwest.

Wow. I am freaked. Just yesterday, I got home from school and Mom told me there was a tornado warning on. I was glad I got home before anything bad had happened. Several hours later, around 5:30, I went to youth group at church. We played some games and talked about friendship. It was fun, especially at the end when Riley (one of my best buds) and I played one-on-one soccer at the end.

We were about to head home at 7:30 when I looked out the window and saw that the sky had turned a bright shade of green. As soon as we got downstairs, the sky went black, heavy hail and rain came down out of nowhere, and the tornado sirens went off. Riley got a ride home before it got bad, but there was no such luck for the rest of us. The winds went up to 50 miles an hour, and it was unsafe even to be near the door. There were reports that a funnel cloud was forming over the downtown area, and several large trees were down. Debris was flying everywhere. A tornado never landed in our town, but several were wreaking havoc in nearby towns like Arkansas City, Wichita, and Dexter. Slowly the storm moved east, and though the sky remained blacker than usual, and lighting was everywhere, the wind and rain had died down and it was safe to go home. None of the downtown had power until the morning, and a local radio station wasn't broadcasting until much later than usual. The storm, which had lasted around an hour, probably had something to do with that. The cleanup began, and there were no reported casualties. Thank goodness for that. The fairgounds are probably wrecked though.

Thursday, 02 September 2010

School's Back! From! Summer!

Today I had my first day of school. It wasn't really school, though. We just met our teachers, learned the rules, got lost, tried to open our lockers (And failed), and froze into human popsicles in the bandroom. We also didn't have any homework. mom was hoping for some kind of back-to-school review, but no luck there. What she'll do with herself I don't know.

Wednesday, 25 August 2010

The Eyre Affair

"The Eyre Affair" is a futuristic book by Jasper Fforde about a cop organization in England. In this futuristic organization, certain highly trained people are able to travel to any place in whatever time period they want. They use this power to figure out things that they need to figure out. Say, why did England win this war, why was the both the Duke of Wellington and another important person killed early in important French-English battles, and was it maybe a bunch of French people who have the same power as they do? And does this affect history enough for it to be a problem?

Now, there are other people who do not have these powers and are simply regular cops. And for them, bad things happen too. For example, a very important manuscript that I have never heard of before has been stolen from a bullet proff glass case, and there are no signs of anything having happened to the case or anything else. Only a broken window and a missing manuscript. And the security cameras haven't caught anything, and they only are not watching the script for 20 seconds and a theft that fast is flatly impossible.

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

The Great Train Robbery

So I am now reading (well, finished reading) a book by Michael Crichton called "The Great Train Robbery." In this book, a well-known criminal named Edward Peirce is trying to rob a bank by stealing its money when it makes a voyage on a train. To do this, he must first find four keys. Two are in a bank, one is in the cellar of the bank owner, and another is around the neck of a trusted bank employee. To steal the keys that are in the bank, his man must go up some stairs, through a door, unlock a cabinet, make an impression of a key, and get out and back to his hiding spot. In under 64 seconds. Before the guard comes back from the restrooms. Once he gets the keys, and once he gets on the train, he must get into the guarded baggage car (having bribed the guard before), open both safes with the four keys (each safe has two locks), throw the money to the waiting man on the side of the railroad, put the fake bags filled with lead in the safe, and get back to his compartment by climbing over the roofs of the railcars. How he will do this, no one knows. But they will still try.

Thursday, 19 August 2010

OH, Happy Day!!

Today is a wonderful day. First, because I am just sick enough to not be able to do any greek, math, logic, writing, or reading (well, I can always do reading). Also, I get to stay in bed most of the day and not do any chores. And last, I have more peace than usual because Theo isn't allowed to be in the same room as me as long as I still have a fever! Yay!