Should this bother me? I mean, I think little kids play this game, but I don’t think they’re going to “get” any of that. It’s just that I’m used to the Neopets kinda thing where they get rid of sexy looking faeries and slot machines and anything slightly risqué.

I never learned the shortcut for making an é on the numberpad. I’m mean the short shortcut. I still use Alt+0233. There is one that’s only three digits, but I forget. Oh, 130. Nevermind. But 0233 has a special place in my 8 year-old’s heart.

So yeah. FrontierVille. Shocking.

This is wrong: 1990’s
This is right: 1990s

This is wrong: 90’s
This is wrong: 90s (unless you are not referring to the decade)
This is right: ’90s

Easy. Only use an apostrophe when you are putting it in place of something else.

Bonus

An apostrophe used to replace something, at the beginning or end of a word, always looks like this (9-shaped, not 6-shaped).
’

The introduction

My only real complaint about the structure of the event is that there are far too many old people talking at the beginning. We have an introduction by a lady I don’t know but whose name sounds familiar so I assume she’s staff — but my brother doesn’t know her either, so clearly she isn’t that important. Why?

Then we have a welcome speech by the principal. Cool.

Then we have a school board trustee talk. Then the superintendent of education. Then the principal again. Not cool.

Here’s how it should go: Introduction by the principal. Done. Who is the trustee? The superintendent? What do they do? I have never interacted with them and I suspect neither have most other students. These boring old people have no business boring us. Period.

The awards

Next came the awards. For some reason, they give out awards, then the diplomas, then more awards. I don’t know why they don’t just give out all the awards at the same time, but that didn’t really bother me.

My brother won the French award, as he suspected he would. Hopefully people are not suspicious because I also won the French award when I graduated and umm… our last name is French. I kind of don’t like this because it makes it seem like we’re immersion kids and people see our name and go “well, that’s not fair”. Anyway, I went up to take my brother’s picture while he was getting the award and he goes and high fives all the kids in the front row. What a goof.

Then he wins the Creative Writing award, which he was totally surprised about. He once again went and high fived everyone and yelled “I’m doing this every time!”. Unfortunately, he did not win any more awards, so he didn’t get do it again. I’m a bit jealous that he got this award because *I* only got one award when I graduated and certainly not the Creative Writing one. Technically, I wasn’t actually in the running for the Creative Writing award because I hadn’t taken that course, but whatevs.

I was going to rant about this teacher here, but I won’t because I did that enough when I was in her class. But I’ll still show you the picture of what I would look like if she came to talk to me since I went through all the trouble of finding it:

Dear Ms. Ramson: My name is not Nicole.

The diplomas

Then they give out the diplomas. The kids have a little card that you write your name on and then give to a teacher backstage to announce your name and a little whatever-you-want-to-say when you walk out. Most people write things like “thanks to my mom and dad for always being there” or “shout-out to Brittany! See you this summer lol!” or “I just lost the game”. My brother wrote “I never wanted to graduate. I wanted to be… (pause)… (with enthusiasm) A LUMBERJACK!”.

It’s always sad when people are getting their diplomas and the crowd cheers loudest for the popular kids. If your name is near the beginning of the alphabet and you’re not popular, it’s still okay though, because people clap out of politeness. But by the time you get to the Ss, people are tired and don’t care anymore, so a couple kids walked out with just the teachers on stage and their family clapping for them.

More awards

Then they have some more awards, like the one for highest Grade 12 average and highest four year average. The kid who won for Grade 12 had a 92 point something percent average. We were told my brother had a 93 point something percent average this year, so I don’t know how that works out. Plus, when they were announcing earlier awards, like for the highest mark in English, we were pretty sure my brother had a higher mark in that too. Actually, I’m pretty sure *I* should’ve gotten the English award as well when I graduated, but whatevs. High school.

The valedictory speech

Next, we have the valedictorian speech. Full disclosure: My brother was in the running for valedictorian and didn’t win, so I might be a little biased, but I think my arguments are still valid.

Does not the valedictorian title traditionally go to the graduating student with the highest average? It clearly did not in this case, because the person who won that award was not valedictorian. Nor did it go to the next highest average, because the girl who won valedictorian received honours (80% or above) but is not an Ontario Scholar (80% or above in best six senior courses), which is presumably more prestigious.

So why did she receive this honour? She was in the musical.

I can understand picking a valedictorian who is a well-rounded good student: good grades, participates in clubs, sports, arts. Cool. My brother isn’t big on extra-curricular activities, so I can understand not picking him for that reason. But he tells me there was another student in the running for valedictorian who fit all the criteria. Why not pick him? If it’s a sexism, equal opportunity bullshit thing, why not have a guy and girl valedictorian, which I heard they were considering?

When I graduated, the girl who was valedictorian completely deserved it. There was one page of the program where all the awards went to her and one other girl. I doubt she ever received less than a 90% in her life. And she was on student council and all kinds of other clubs. I couldn’t believe in grade 9 gym class when we were doing a “dance” unit and I learned that she also took dance class! She’s gone on now to go to university and climb a famous mountain and help third-world countries and all other kinds of crazy stuff. She’s, to put it simply, awesome. She totally deserved it.

Anyway, let’s put all that aside. Let’s say that this year’s valedictorian is a total Lauren and she totally deserved it too. But…

Her speech sucked.

She tripped up a lot and handled it unprofessionally. She made shout-outs to all her friends (half the graduating class). Inappropriate.

You know how during stand-up comedy routines, the person says something like “I recently got married” or “I recently lost ten pounds” and then the crowd claps? Or if they don’t clap, the comedian waits a little bit for them to clap? This girl did the same thing after saying something about her family being loving and supporting and awesome.

Hello. We do not know your family. We are not going to clap for them.

Sources tell me she also ripped off the other valedictorian candidates’ speeches, which I can’t confirm, so I won’t dwell on it. However, when making shout-outs to teachers (which is cool, because everyone knows them), she certainly came close to ripping off my brother.

Anyway, whatevs. Totally unprofessional.

And while I’m at bashing my high school, I would like to mention that if you are a university-bound student, do not go to Hill Park Secondary School. You will get screwed over. They cancel upper year university courses. They schedule things like Grade 12 Communications and Grade 12 Computer Science (both computer courses) at the same time. They cater towards the workplace-headed students; this is why they have a Skateboard Building course.

There are good schools out there. I took summer school and had the pleasure of being taught by a teacher from Parkside named Mr. Baker; he was awesome. Please consider going to a more “scholastic” school.

(Apologies to Mrs. Kasik, Mrs. McEachren, and Mr. Stewart: you were cool. Thanks.)

A typewriter mechanic was called to an office to repair a typewriter. Unable to find a place to park his car, except in a no-parking zone, he left a note on his windshield:

“Sid Karp, typewriter mechanic, working inside of building.”

When he returned to his car, he found a ticket on the windshield, and another note:

“John MacDonald, police officer, working outside of building.”

One hot Sunday in church, the minister was in the middle of a long sermon when Mr. Jones fell asleep. This was bad enough, but in a short while Mr. Jones began to snore very loudly.

Interrupting his sermon, the minister leaned forward and said:

“Tommy Jones, will you kindly wake up your father?”

Replied Tommy, “Wake him yourself, Reverend. You put him to sleep!”

A young lady went to consult a fortuneteller. The fortuneteller had a turban on his head and was seated at a table with a crystal ball on it.

“I will answer two questions for you for the fee of ten dollars,” said the fortuneteller.

The young lady thought for a few minutes. Then she opened her purse and took out a ten dollar bill.

“Isn’t ten dollars a lot of money for just two questions?” she asked as she handed the bill to the fortuneteller.

“Yes, it is,” replied the fortuneteller. “And what is your second question?”

That’s too bad.
What’s too bad?
Life.
What’s Life?
A magazine.
Where can I buy it?
All over.
How much?
Twenty-five cents.
But I only have a dime.
That’s too bad.
What’s too bad?
Life.
What’s Life?
A magazine.
Where can I buy it?
All over.
How much?
Twenty-five cents.
But I only have a dime.
That’s too bad.

Dear Dad,
Thing$ are pretty good here at $chool, but they could be better. $ome thing$ are needed mo$t de$perately. I hope that you can gue$$ what I mean, and $end $ome $oon.
Your loving $on.

Dear Son,
NOthing is new here. I kNOw that you are doing better NOw than you have been. Write aNOther letter soon. I want to get this off in the NOon mail, so I’ll sign off NOw.
Love, Dad.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!
May I present here on the palm of my hand,
The greatest trained flea in the world,
PRISCILLA!
PRISCILLA DANCES!
Ta-ta te-um-ta.
Ta-ta te-um-ta.
PRISCILLA SINGS!
Oh solo mio.
Oh solo you-oh.
PRISCILLA DOES SOMERSAULTS!
ZOOOOOOOOM!
ZOOOOOOOOOM!
ZOOOOOOOOOM!
YEA, PRISCILLA!
Clap Clap Clap (applause)
UGH-H-H!
POOR PRISCILLA!

Little Mabel Moneybags was told by her teacher to write a composition about a poor family. She came up with this classic:

“There once was a very poor family. The mother was poor, the father was poor, and the children were poor. The maid was poor, the governess was poor, the chauffeur was poor, and the butler was poor. They were all frightfully poor!”

SICK JOKES

“Mommy, Mommy! I don’t want to go to Europe!”
“Shut up, and keep swimming!”

“Mommy, Mommy! I don’t want to go to China!”
“Shut up, and put your other foot in the CARE package!”

“Mommy, Mommy! What’s a vampire?”
“Shut up, and eat your soup before it clots!”

“Mommy, Mommy! Daddy’s on fire!”
“Quick, get the marshmallows!”

The machinist at the factory took his lunch box over to a bench each day and sat down to eat. He would open the lid just an inch and peek in expectantly. And every day, when he saw what was inside, his face would fall and he would mutter:

“Nuts! Peanut butter again!”

After this had gone on for several months, his neighbor spoke to him:

“If you don’t like peanut butter sandwiches, why don’t you ask your wife to make you something else?”

“Oh, I’m not married,” said the machinist. “I make these every morning, myself!”

Why do they name hurricanes after girls? Like Ada, Beth, Clara, Dora, etc.?
Because they’re not himicanes!

There was a little girl named Myrtle who had a pet turtle that she loved very much.

One day, Myrtle’s father came home and found Myrtle crying.

“Why are you crying, Myrtle?” he asked.

“Boo-hoo, my turtle died,” sobbed Myrtle.

“Don’t cry, Myrtle,” said her father. “We will get a cigar box to bury him in, and some flowers, and at leas we can give him the nicest funeral a turtle ever had. You can even invite your friends.”

Myrtle cheered up immediately, and they got a cigar box and flowers, and invited her friends over for the funeral. They all made a solemn procession into the back yard, and Myrtle’s father dug a hole for the grave. Then they all stood around and sang a sad and lovely song.

It was a beautiful funeral.

Just as they were about to close the cover on the cigar box and place it in the grave, the turtle poked his head out of his shell.

“Look, Myrtle, look!” cried Myrtle’s father. “Your turtle is still alive!”

Myrtle looked at the turtle weaving his head. She looked at her friends. She looked at the flowers and the grave.

Then she looked at her father

“Let’s kill him!” she said.

Main chick. Janet. Some people are comparing all the characters to Lost characters and claiming she’s Kate. Now, Kate had her flaws. Kate was annoying. Kate was nowhere near as annoying and selfish as this chick. She’s like Shannon and Michael mixed together. But not nearly as cool as that would be. All the bad parts of Shannon and Michael. And Jack (pre-season six). With the durability of Mikhail, I’m sure.

So, the seven characters are given seven boxes, four of which are empty and three of which contain gas masks. Janet’s box is empty. “I hate this place,” she says. Hm, maybe if you had gotten one, you would have felt differently. Wait, what do I mean, “maybe”?

Later in the show, out of nowhere, she goes up to another character with a gas mask and grabs it from him, saying “I need this”. Yeah, and this guy doesn’t?

In the end, when the gas comes, they discover it isn’t actually toxic, but the gas masks release a toxic gas inside of them. Previews say that one of them is in on it. So this makes me think the person who’s in on it probably had no desire to have a mask. Tori, Cameron Charlie, and the Sergeant all got masks. Sergeant gave his to Moira. Blackham and Janet both desperately wanted masks. Joe didn’t say much about them. So I would say either the Sergeant or Joe is in on it. Both are suspicious. Moira is too suspicious to be the real bad guy. Janet is too dumb.

We saw the Sergeant testing the “microwave walls”. If he was in on it, he would know where they were, how they worked, yada yada. I don’t remember if we saw his hands burnt or not though; he could have been faking checking the walls. But I’m still going with Joe. We shall see.

The reporter being Janet’s ex-husband is a little weird. I understand the need for his dialogue in the detective’s office to refer to himself as “Janet’s husband” and not “me” (“Janet’s looking for her husband”), but it’s still a little weird.

Some conspiracy theorists cited the changing fortune cookie fortunes as a clue. Between the first and second episode, the fortune changes from being on one line to two. I dismissed this as a continuity error. In the second episode, it changes from “Kill Joe and you’ll go free” to “Kill Joe and You’ll go free” back to the first version. I found this a little suspect. Why would they need two of each fortune, as a prop, I mean? And I can understand making the first error, but wouldn’t someone be like “yo, wtf with random caps?”. I dunno. Probably nothing. But annoying.

In other news, Law & Order is silly. I think that’s what show it was. Something about a geocache murder deal. And wow, animated Wayback Machine. Can they even use that name legally? Anyway, this Wayback Machine was amazing. No broken images and it even archives private videos on sites you need a log-in for? And scrambled HTML code, hmm. I think I’ve seen something like that on ARGs, but I dunno, seems a little silly and probably a waste of bandwidth = money. Also, the line about the IP address bouncing around or whatever… couldn’t they just say they were using a proxy or something? That’s what it is, right? I mean, okay, I know shit about network stuff, but their computer bits (not that kind, lolol) just seemed a little dumb.

Ohh, except, I *will* have something to write about in a few weeks… Because, well, maybe, I am going to New York. I say “maybe” because I’ve been not feeling good this past week due to a Crohn’s disease flare-up. It hasn’t been too bad, but my stomach’s been grumbly and I threw up once. I’ve been not eating solid food (which totally sucks because I really want a damn hot dog!) and it seems to be getting better. But we don’t really want to go if I’m sick, so, yeah. But I’m really looking forward to it, so I hope I’m better.

So, I’m being a little evil. I’m not telling *someone* about *something* they need to do at a certain *sometime*. It’s for their own good. Okay, not really. But they need to learn they need to keep track of these kind of things themself, and hopefully when they miss out on this thing, they’ll realize it. But hey, maybe they’re aware they need to do this thing and have it all under control. I doubt it. But maybe. I hope they don’t just by chance find out the day before that they need to do it, because that would be dumb.

I feel a little useless because I can’t do much on my computer because basically every program I use is not working. I suppose I should try to fix that, but I was really hoping someone else would.

Oh yeah! That’s what I wanted to talk about! I’ve been editing some of my brother’s schoolwork for him and found that he was always placing commas before ands and buts and it was driving me insane. I ended up looking up how to use them properly so I could explain to him and actually learned something. I’ve always just thought you don’t need a comma if the and is separating only two things and then to just put a comma after it if it feels right. A lot of grammar for me is just feeling if something is right or not. But actually, you put a comma after the and if it’s followed by, I dunno, an independent clause or whatever they call it. I never liked those technically names like that in school, so I still don’t use them.

“I am going to the park and getting some cheese.”

“Getting some cheese” doesn’t stand on its own as a sentence, so no comma. If you put “I am getting some cheese”, then there would be a comma. Cool, huh? No? Not really? Whatevs.

Also, found this article I totally love: Chillax. I even used a not real word in this post, but didn’t point it out because that article says not to. Actually, two not real words. But yeah. Anyway, um, I notice I don’t follow that comma rule entirely, but I guess, yeah, whatever. (Oh shit, three!) Clearly, it is time to end this post.

Also, my mom took a picture of a street sign that said “Ricardo Street”.

“You’re gonna die alone,” the mysterious man tells him.

“We all die alone!” Henry replies.

“Do you know anything about quantum physics?” the mysterious man asks.

“I’m gonna leave,” Henry tells him, “and whatever happens, happens”.

Come on. I can’t be blamed for seeing the parallels. It’s not like the character was named Peter and I was like “lololol like Peter Avellino or the German voice actor for Jack!”. These are repeated lines. Mostly. Also, talking about redemption and being one of the “good people” and “are we in heaven?” (to which I think the mysterious man said no, and also that they were not in hell, to which I replied “they’re in the waiting room lolol”, but I may have just made that up). Yes, some of those are a little more stretchy, but still.

That is all.

This episode didn’t seem as good as the first one, but whatevs. I’m probably just getting skeptical because I’m reading other people hating it. But that’s dumb, because I liked the end of Lost and other people don’t, but that doesn’t make me like it even less. So maybe I’m not as much as a sheep as I think I am.

So. Deal. The beginning seemed rather abrupt, but that was kind of cool. But also gross. Taking out the leg implants? Eww. People were making a big deal the first episode saying no one checked Moira for an implant. I don’t recall anyone taking out her implant in this episode, since she was the one doing it and all. And yet, she could pass through the first wall in the van later on? Hmm. But then there’s the people saying they’re making her too obviously suspicious, so she’s probably not in on it. I tend to agree, but this is a new show. Who’s to say it’s not going to be predictable? Do we have any Full House writers on staff? Someone needs to check it.

A theory I rather like is that it’s a video game. I think I had an inkling of this idea back in the first episode when they couldn’t go past a certain point. Like how in video games, you’re always trapped in by mountains or invisible walls because they can’t make the worlds infinitely large. This also explains how they ruin stuff (ie. in the hotel) and come back and it’s back to normal. Like in video games. The fortune cookies have little “quests” on them that need to be completed. The van driving through the light was like a portal. I dunno. I think this is too complex and it won’t turn out anything like this, but I still like the theory.

Really, all I have to say about this episode is that my favourite part was the blonde chick’s flashback. Her, umm, two second flashback. Kind of lame, but I guess they don’t want to make it too Lost-like. But her father. At first, I thought it was that dude from Titanic and Legally Blonde. Um… Victor Garber. Yes, I had to look that up. Also, IMDB, please make your search box auto-selected, plzkthx. Or maybe Colm Feore? I always mix those guys up, but looking at them now, I see no real resemblance.

But no. It was James Read. James Read. (Who, holy crap, was also in Legally Blonde?!?) Yes, I know you don’t know who he is. He’s GARGE! Garge Hazard! North and South! (Hey, what’s the deal with mini-serieses? Do they get italics or quotes? Well, actually, hey Persons is a mini-series too. So umm, italics, I guess it is. Carry on.)

Okay. So. Awesome. I’m now making my mom watch this show and see if she spots him too. In the two seconds he was in. Yeah. Hopefully he does a little more, and obviously he does because his daughter did “things” and we have to know what they were, other than her yelling at him at a party or whatever. But yeah. Cool. James Read.

But this was clearly not just some old cop show. It was moving much too slowly to be resolved in one episode, so I checked “the guide” and found, well, what I just told you, that it was a series premiere. Further research tells me it’s a summer mini-series, which is even awesomer, because it’s just a nice little thing that will have a nice little ending. Not get cancelled like FlashForward.

Which, speaking of, I also watched. Got disinterested halfway through, so glad it’s over and I don’t feel obligated to watch just because I’ve watched since the beginning and have to know how things end up even though I don’t really care. There was also personally a lot of family drama revolving around that show, so I’m also glad it’s over for that reason.

Anyway, I usually try to find things wrong with shows, just in case it turns out I read on IMDB afterwards that it’s not a very intellectual thing, so then I can say “well, yeah, pfft, I thought it was dumb” too. But I can’t find anything really wrong with it yet.

When I saw Alan Ruck (Cameron from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”), I thought “this guy must need money” since he just seems to be popping up everywhere lately. And by everywhere I mean FlashForward. And also Twister, which doesn’t count, because that was like 1996. So then I realized he’s probably been acting pretty steadily since the ’80s, just not in things I’ve seen. So yeah, good on him, and apologies from me for being ignorant, because I actually think he’s pretty cool.

The lead girl don’t impress me much. Sure, Kate was not always too smart, but she was a strong female lead. This girl is too “ohhh my family” for my liking. And I hate to sound like a feminist, but something got me thinking recently that there aren’t many strong female leads. Probably someone pointing out the fact that there aren’t many strong female leads.

So, I guess I’m going to be watching this show, and since I am, I guess I’ll be thinking about it. My first “theory”, which I guess was still when I thought it was going to be a one-off show, was that they could just walk out the door and leave and nothing more would happen. Kind of a thought experiment. Could you live the rest of your life after being kidnapped for no reason?

My other theory, which I guess was my actual real first theory, was that this was some dumb retelling of an urban legend, like the one with the guy in the hotel who leaves to get medicine for his sister and comes back and she doesn’t exist? Or something like that? I dunno.

But now that I think about it, I think I thought Lost was a thought experiment at first too. I think. Anyway, so that leads me to think that they all died in the plane crash, just like in Lost.

Also, totally crazy, but those umm, I want to call them sideways people, just for kicks, that is, those who are not in the ghost town, ie. the news reporters, detectives, whatevers? I wasn’t paying attention to them. Anyway, weren’t they talking about a transvestite? Or was it a prostitute? Either way it’s the tall chick. And also, I’m hoping for transvestite because when Cameron (I’m sorry, I don’t know his name) reads the fortune about “your wife is waiting for you” and none of the guys say they have wives (or did they? I wasn’t paying attention again, I was deleting my mom’s Facebook friends), then maybe it was her wife! Ah-ha!

Oh wat the shit. Ricardo Montalban played Mr. Roarke. Ricardo Montalban. On Fantasy Island. The old dude on Fantasy Island. Wat! WAAAAAAAAT!

I have to think about this.

Just about to give up, I see “Twister” and pretty much immediately…

Okay, how do you go about describing that? I clicked OK? I selected it? I started watching it? I changed it to that channel? The old TV verbs just don’t work anymore and the most accurate ones sound dumb.

Anyway, I put it on “Twister”. Maybe a little too fast. Even though it was an hour done. And if my parents were wondering why I chose that show in particular, they didn’t wonder for long. “Hey, isn’t that the guy from Lost?”. Yes. Yes it is.

Jeremy Davies, of course, although there was another Lost character in it as well. Phil, who I don’t remember that well except that he was a jackass and he told on them for being from the future and they locked him in a closet or something. But he had a tiny part in the movie and maybe one line, but it was funny because he was on the bad guy’s team and when I pointed him out to my dad he was wearing this shirt with some big roundish logo on it which if you maybe squinted and looked at it sideways could have been a DHARMA logo.

Speaking of which, I’m hoping to actually try stencilling a shirt today or soon at least. I guess my first one will be a Tommy one with my new non-crappy stencil I made now I know how to make vector graphics. So we’ll see how that goes, and then make a DHARMA one, since all the ones online have the logo in the middle and not the side. And they cost way more than I want to pay. And then I have to decide which logo to put, and I wanted one that said “Faraday” but he never actually had one with his name on it. And I don’t really want to put “Joe” because I’m not a dude. And plus I have the “Keith” shirt I want to make too eventually, so it would be weird if I have all these shirts with guys’ names on them.

Anyway. So I don’t remember when I found out he was in “Twister” but I was like, well, that’s awesome because Eddie and Alex did some song for it, and Van Halen is totally awesome too. And after watching it, I have no idea where this song was in the movie, and I can usually pick out Eddie guitar licks, but I guess I wasn’t paying attention. Though they did play “Humans Being” a few times which was cool. Plus my favourite Shania Twain song was from/for/in this movie. Also, Cameron from “Ferris Bueller” was in it. So this totally should be like my favourite movie.

Except the movie itself was pretty dumb. The people were just like, not smart. And I can forgive Jeremy Davies for that because that was his character; he was clearly the new guy or the rookie or whatever. At least, that’s what I assumed, because I watched the movie out of order and figured they must have explained him at the beginning, but all he did was ask Helen Hunt why the camera wasn’t working and said “welcome back” to Bill, which would mean he knew Bill from before, which was who knows how long ago. But then later on he hides in the car when the tornado’s coming (which does not make him a wuss, as some people pointed out), which I don’t think was very smart considering everyone else was running into the basement place a few feet away and you would think if he was chasing tornadoes all this time, he would know what to do. So I don’t know.

But yeah, he was in the whole movie, which was good, even though he didn’t say or do much. Because it sucks when you watch a movie for someone and they’re in one scene. I think I’ve got a couple of Roger Daltrey movies like that that I still haven’t watched yet.

So, last night when we were watching it, about half an hour to the end… the TV goes out. It’s thundering and lightening and storming outside. No tornado of course, but still kind of creepy. So I watched the rest this morning. Aaand that’s about it. Maybe it would have been better in order, but it still all seemed kinda silly. That is all.