My birthday is in a few days. I'm going to have a good day on that day. I'm really tired right now. I've been learning a new song on my bass. It's called "Money" by Pink Floyd. It's very good.

Right now I'm eating dinner. My dinner is good. I'm having a home-made burrito. My mom's birthday is in 6 days! I can't wait to know how happy she will be. My birthday is going to be exactly one month after my mom's, which is really cool. I will be ten! And my mom will be thirty-six.

I watched "Napoleon Dynamite" last night, and again today. It is a very funny movie! I like the part when he said, "Tina! Come get some HAM!"

I just started playing a fun sport with my step-dad. It is called racquetball. It makes me feel very sweaty. I like it because you get to whack balls. I also like it because I get to run around!

Here is a picture of me playing racquetball. The little blue smudge near my left leg is the ball!



The court is completely sealed in. Even the door has a cool knob. It's mostly flat. It is circular and you lift up on this little flap and turn it, and then you pull. One of the four walls is made of glass but the ball isn't hard so it won't break the glass.

Today I went to karate summer camp for the first day. I went to a karate class, and then I went bowling. And we were supposed to do laser tag but the people who supervise didn't show up. :( So we went back to the dojo, that's the place where we learn, and we played games for the half-hour that was left. Then I went home and I did a puzzle with my mom. We aren't quite done yet but we're getting there. Like I mentioned in my last post, she is a very good mom.

I woke up at 6:30 this morning, partially because I was so excited about karate camp and partially because my alarm woke me up.

In the morning when I got up I watched some tv. I watched a Yu-Gi-Oh episode and I watched a Pokemon episode and I watched a Futurama episode. I will be ten soon! I am very excited about my birthday! One of my wishes for my birthday is the Lego Star Wars model, the ARK-170.

This is going to be a pretty long post, like the other one that says it's going to be a pretty long post, because I haven't posted for a while.

I read a book not too long ago. I really liked it. My mom got me three more from the library. They're the Encyclopedia Brown series by Donald Sobol. I would recommend them if you are a liker of mysteries. Each mystery is about three or four pages long and there are a lot of mysteries in each book. They're very short and very fun. I recommend getting the first book first, so you can know what's going on and who's who --
"Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective". Don't judge Encyclopedia by the cover art -- all of them are wrong. The real Encyclopedia is INSIDE the book in the original illustrations.

I got some new Bionicles lately. They are called
Visorak and are very fun. Also, a while ago, at my karate class, they're having weekly drawings, and I won a drawing and won a bionicle. I have three of six Visorak. I have the green one, Keelerak. I also have the black one, Oohnorak (I don't know how to pronounce that one) and I have the red one, Vohtarak. They're all very cool! They're all the same kind of body shape but they're all very different. Even their little head ridges are different from each other.

I went to Legoland about two weeks ago. It was so fun! My mom took me. She's a very nice mom. I went on something my mom simply refused to go on, Knights' Tournament. And I wasn't tall enough to go on it alone so I got in line and I asked if there was anybody who would go with me, and I found a nice boy who would! It was very fun. We also did something called Lego Mindstorms. We programmed lego robots to do our bidding. We did one of the programs called Mission Mars and we also did something called Robosports. They were both quite fun.

My dad moved from San Diego to Carlsbad, which is so much closer. He's closer to me and I'm closer to him and I get to see him more often.

My grandma and her friend went up to San Francisco for ten days a while ago and she mailed me a robe! It's very nice. I'm wearing it right now.

I can't wait for the new Zelda videogame to come out! I also can't wait for the Bionicle 3 movie, Web of Shadows, to come out.

I went to art camp last week, for five days. It was very fun! I made a bowl, I made a parrot, I made a snail but I think it broke in the kiln which is a thing in which you bake your clay. I also made a box for my dad's birthday which was on last Monday.

I'm going to karate camp for five days starting tomorrow. It'll be very fun and I'll need to wake up very early every day so my mom can drive me there.

I cleaned up my room today. I found a book called Wizard Craft. There are a lot of crafts and things in there that you can make like you could make a sorcerer's hat or a feather and jewel turban or a wizard's robe, and here's one of the best ones -- you could make crystal candy which looks very delicious and I might make sometime! It also shows you how to read palms and how to read tea-leaves.

My Mom and my Grandma just went to Iowa a couple of days ago but they are back now.

I played my guitar for a while today. I made up stuff. I made up a kind of cool riff! I listened to music and played and tried to figure out something, but I was unsuccessful.

This is going to be a long post because I haven't done a post in a while. Starting now.

Here are some photos:

This first one is of the model Skipjack Submarine that I built. It's a nuclear-powered sub. The little decals we had trouble putting them on 'cause we'd never done it before but we got them on all right.



And this next one is of a battle droid that I made from bionicle parts and he's very very cute. I did not use any instructions; I made it up from scratch:



We moved not very long ago, so what you're seeing in the background is not actually where I am posting from. We still aren't quite moved in yet but we are moved in enough so that we can do some fun stuff.

We rented a very fun game today! It is called "The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age" and it also says on the cover "The Most Exciting RPG since Final Fantasy!" It's very fun! I'm already in Moria. I'd recommend this game for lord of the Rings fans. It's very fun. It's rated "T for Teen" but I can't really see any stuff that's too bad, just swords and bows and arrows. We had a hard time choosing a game to rent today because we had a free coupon for any game at Hollywood Video. There were so many good things. We had a choice between 1) Harry Potter 3 prisoner of Azkaban 2) Harry Potter 2 the chamber of secrets 3) Animal Crossing 4) Lord of the Rings the Third Age and 5) Lord of the Rings 3 Return of the King.


We did stuff in my room to make it look better, apparently. We watched All Creatures Great and Small. We actually watched two episodes of three.

I'm going to go now because my Mom needs to read me a bedtime story so I can go to bed.

Here are some more of my flash movies. I hope you like them. Same thing -- they will go forever if you let them, so just click on the back arrow to come back to my blog if you want.

car.swf
mushroom.swf

I created this head doing stuff in flash animation. It is really neat! His eyes narrow and go from side to side and his mouth goes in different directions and his hair fades in and out. Before you click this link, beware -- it will go on forever if you let it. So just click the back arrow if you want to come back to my blog.


http://nyip.net/~henry/flash/henry_head.swf

I might do another one sometime, maybe of something else. So stay tuned to find out what happens!

There is a show that I just heard about and like very much called MegaMan NT warrior. The NT stands for Network Transmission. There have been two shows recorded in the TiVo so far. One of them is about this evil netnava guy whose name is FlashMan. And he kept using neon lights and he used FlashLight too, once. Of course MegaMan came in to save the day. He almost giot delleted because his data was breaking up. And then MegaMan's friend Role came in to help too.

The second episode was about Lan's friend Yie. Lan is MegaMan's Netoperator And Role's net operator is Lan's friend Melu. MegaMan was a present from Lan's father to Lan. Though his body may be small, it is packed with mountains of strength inside. MegaMan was designed by Lan's father. MegaMan acts like an older brother to Lan, joking with him, teasing him, alerting him to trouble, and even scolding him.

We watched movies today because we are sick. My mom and I both have a cold. We watched Some Like It Hot. It's pretty good. It's funny. The two male musicians dress up as girls which is pretty funny!

We watched A Mighty Wind and Best In Show, too. A Mighty Wind is funny! It's overall a parody of folk music. There is a band in it called The Folksmen. They do a song called Old Joe's Place. There's a busted neon sigh that flashes "E__ A_ _OE'S"

Best in Show was pretty good. It was about a dog show, and it was made by the same cast who made A Mighty Wind.

We went to the museums today down in Balboa Park. It rained almost all day but when we were outside of the car and the museums it was not raining. We went to the Aerospace Museum which is one of my favorite museums. We saw lots of cool planes and there was a special exhibit loaned by another museum and it was an Apollo Command Module. Behind the exhibit there was a little tv that shows the astronauts doing their first 2-person spacewalk. And the way they sounded. They were very calm.

There was a simulation where you get to fly what seems to be a Wright Brothers plane and you get to fly it in the simulation. First they had you take off, then they make you go way high in the air so you can get some altitude and then what you do is go straight down and then pull up and you do a flip! I did that two times. And then they make it so your engine isn't working and you have to land. I landed it!

We went to the Automotive Museum. I saw a really nice car. And it was a DeLorean. And it was beautiful, I tell you! I also saw a nice trailer, which was more like a camper than a trailer but that's what they called it. It had nice velvety seats and nice velvety curtains and it was a nice color of wood inside.

Yesterday Fargo and I made a whole lot of movies. One of them was a Toy War with Bionicles/Yu-Gi-Oh and Lord of the Rings. Then there was one where we were duelling with Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

Today I came home from my Dad's. I came home and I played with my friend. He beat me in a game of Duel Monsters -- that's from Yu-Gi-Oh. I have some very good cards. I have Pyramid of Light, a very strong card that destroys Andro Sphinx and Sphinx Teleia. It also has the ability to destroy all monsters on the field. I also have six cards, all very important ones. Here they are:

2 Blue Eyes White Dragons
1 Blue Eyes Toon Dragon
Toon World, which lets me activate Blue Eyes Toon Dragon
and finally, Polymerization, which lets me fuse all of them together into Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon.

As you can see, I like Blue Eyes!

Next I have Moisture Creature. If you tribute summon this monster by offering three monsters on the field as a tribute, destroy all spell and trap cards on your opponent's side of the field.

Did I mention that if I sacrifice Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon, I can summon Blue Eyes Shining Dragon, a VERY powerful card! As far as I know, it is the only card that can defeat Pyramid of Light, which I have!

I have two Monster Reborns -- select 1 monster card from either your own or your opponent's graveyard and place it on the field under your control in attack or defense position. (face up) This is considered a Special Summon.

I also have a card called Dark Hole. This is a very powerful card. It destroys all monsters on the field.

These are not all of my cards, they are just some of the best that I have.

I am borrowing a video camera from my Grandma. It is charging up so I can use it in the morning. I hope it will work! I am going to use it tomorrow if it works. I will make a BIONICLE MOVIE!!!

This is a card game that my dad and I invented. You may play it if you want. It helps if you know the story of lord of the rings. You just need a regular deck of cards with two jokers.

Battle of Helms Deep: (Card Game)

Regular deck of cards with two jokers.

by Henry and Matthew Frigon

Overview: 2 player game. Red cards are the good guys. Black cards are the bad guys.


Object of the game:

Black player attacks and tries to break through the outer defenses
and destroy all red archers. If this occurs, black wins the game.

Red tries to defend until all black cards have been destroyed. If this occurs, red
wins the game.


Set up for red player:

Separate the deck into 3 piles: hearts, diamonds and black cards.

Shuffle the hearts and deal out 7 cards face up as the outer wall of defense.
Deal out the six remaining heart card, face down, behind and in between the outer defense cards.
These two walls represent the walls of Helms deep.

Shuffle the diamonds + one joker added in (Gandalf). Deal out 3 piles of four cards each.
These are Red players archers.
Set aside the two remaining cards, face down. These are red players spies.


Set up for black player:

Shuffle all the black cards + one joker added in (influence of Saruman).
Place the deck face down in front of you.


How to play:

Red player turns over the top card of each of his archer piles. Red may only use three archers at a time
Black player turns over three cards to use as his assault force.

Red goes first. Red may use only one of his archers in a turn. If any (one) of his archers is higher than
any (one) of the overturned black cards. The black card is removed from the game (sklitch!!!) and replaced
by another black card from the black deck.

If none of the red archers are higher than the upturned black cards, red cannot play during that turn.

If the successful archer is the same value as the upturned black card that is its targer, both the archer
and the black card are removed from the game (double sklitch!!!) The black card is replaced as usual, and
the red archer is replaced by the card directly underneath it. If there are no more red archers in any given
pile, sorry charlie, you are out of luck and down to two archers.


Black player goes second. He chooses a weak card in the outer red wall and attacks it with one of his upturned cards.
If the black card is higher, the red card is removed from the game (crumble). Once any two outer wall cards have been
removed, red player may replace those cards with his spy cards, face down. Any card of the inner wall, may not
be attacked until the two cards of the outer wall(including spies) in front of it have been removed. Once the two
outer wall cards and the inner wall cards behind it have been removed, black may enter Helms Deep,and begin attacking
the closest archer pile.


Play continues until one or the other side runs out of cards, thus loosing the game.



Magical exceptions:

When red player upturns a joker(Gandalf) as one of his archers, the three upturned black cards are removed from the game +
the top three cards of the black deck are also removed from the game.

When black player upturns a joker (influence of Saruman) as one of his Orcs, the three upturned red archers are removed
from the game + the three replacement archers are also removed. If there are only two or one archer piles, 2 cards are removed
in the case of on archer pile, or 4 cards removed in the case of two archer piles.

copyright 2005 Henry and Matthew Frigon (don't be stealin our idea to make a bunch of money, this game is free to
share with every one)

My mom made a movie of me dancing to a song on my computer. Here it is:



In World of Warcraft today, my mom started a new character. She is a Tauren. My new character, a Tauren too, is level 6! And my mom is level 5! I played a little bit with Zinny today. I went to Ironforge, where the auction house is, and I bid on some shoulder things. I hope I win them!

I broke my arm yesterday. It was an interesting experience. I went to the hospital as soon as it happened. My uncle made a temporary splint out of paper bags and plastic bags, which was very nice of him. I have a temporary cast on and a blue sling, which is good because blue is my favorite color. I'm going back to the doctor's on Friday to get a check up. If my bones are lined up correctly, they will give me a real permanent cast.

In World of Warcraft today, I grew to LEVEL 19, YAY! My mom is level 18, my pet is level 18, too. We did a hard quest where we had to get food samples from a Furbolg camp, and to do that we had to kill Furbolgs, which were hard. I kept dying almost all the time. And then when we did that we had to get Fruit, Nut, and Grain samples. Hard. Then we had to mix the Fruit, Nut, and Grain samples in a mixing bowl, and then we had to place it by the fire, and then the Furbolgs came and ate it and got calm, and then the guy who was making them angry and red came out because he was angry that we were making them peaceful, and then we killed him no problem. We also figured out about the Buzzbox Secret.

I am playing a good game called Bejeweled 2. It isn't better than Bejeweled the first one, but it's cooler, I think. Here is a link to it, if you wish to go there: Bejeweled 2.

I got a book for Christmas. I finished it today. It was "Jedi Apprentice: The Rising Force" (subject: Star wars) I got the next book in the series, called "Jedi Apprentice: The Dark Rival" (subject: Star wars)

I played World of Warcraft yesterday. My character named Zinny is level 18, almost 19. He is a hunter, he has a pet named Bytr.

When I was roaming around on the internet I went to Lego.com and downloaded this really cool program called Lego Digital Designer. It lets you design almost anything you wish. It is awesome! Here is a link to the website where I got it, just in case you're interested:
http://www.lego.com/eng/create/digitaldesigner/ I think I've made 4 lego designs now. I made Digitor, I made Digiko, I made Digita, and I made Gunnery.

My dad said that we might be able to do a song last weekend. I thought about maybe making it about Bionicles. My first post was "I love Bionicles. Bionicles are cool." Now I made a song about them! Here it is, I hope you like it.

Unity, Duty, Destiny!

(Here are the lyrics, if you want to sing along)

Tahu, fire is his name
Gali, water, peace-maker
Pohatu, stone, very welcoming

Unity, Duty, Destiny!
Unity, Duty, Destiny!

Kopaka, icey-cold, always there
Lewa, air is he, Matoran, not the not-friends
Onua, earthy, sees in the dark

Unity, Duty, Destiny!
Unity, Duty, Destiny!
Unity, Duty, Destiny!

Makuta, the darkness is his name, the shadow in the darkness
Bohrok, round and rolly, deadly, not too cuddly
Bohrok! Bohrok! Destiny!

Unity, Duty, Destiny!
Unity, Duty, Destiny!
Unity, Duty, and Destiny!

We rented a videogame today. It is "Zelda 4 swords" for gamecube. I played a little bit of World of Warcraft today. I traded Fargo a Sam action figure from Lord of the Rings for a lightsaber-holder. I didn't have a very good one before. For instance, if you go upside down it doesn't come off your belt instantly! We jumped rope and we used our lightsabers.

I played World of Warcraft today. I grew to level 17. I just killed some pretty easy monsters and then I was there! It was very fun. I think it was yesterday I saw an ad for World of Warcraft on a computer at CompUSA.

The day before yesterday I built a little lego car. Here is a short movie of it:



Since you have seen the movie, you would know, or maybe not, that the gray things on the sides are balancer things. Because if it fell over on its side they would be there and they would stop it from falling down completely. And they are also made out of hard rubber in the car that I would be dreaming of if I actually made a real one and they would be springy so you would spring back and be on your wheels again.

We collected Grell Earrings in the game. When we handed in that quest it was worth 900 experience which was pretty good!

I played with my friends today. We played outside mostly, trying to think of what to do. We played Hide and Seek. I drank a wierd vegetable drink that looked brown and disgusting but was actually delicious.

I got a fish today. I named it Eleanor Scales. I played some World of Warcraft today too. I didn't do much in it, just walked around. Fought some wimpy monsters.

I have a new needlepoint thing that my mom made for me! It is of a Pikachu. That's a Pokemon. I am working on the outline. I already did the eyes. I am working on the ear right now, too. Here is a picture of me working on it:




I got a new shirt. It is a little bit long on the sleeves, so hopefully my Mom can make it fit me sometime soon. It's what my character in World of Warcraft has -- a stretchy tight shirt. And it's red.

We went to the art museum. It was fun. We went with my second cousin, Chloe. She is nice! We went to the plant museum. I liked the lemon-smelling plant.

I played my pokemon game called pokemon leafgreen. It was fun! I got farther. I got a cool thing that lets me fly to any city that I've been to already. There are still three more places that I have not explored. There is a place that is almost entirely surrounded by water, there is a place that IS surrounded by water, and there is a place that you go up a road and you need different badges to get to. Those are all the places that I have not gone to yet in this part of the game. My mom has a character in the game too. We traded some pokemon. She doesn't like the pokemon cartoon but she likes the game.

I built a talk-box today with my dad. It was kind of hard. We spent all day shopping for the parts: Two Jacks, A box, a horn-driver, a switch (but the wrong one), a tube, and some pipe. Actually it wasn't all day, It was about five hours. Its pretty cool!!!! I am going to go break it in. There is a song called "wearing a raincoat" by They Might Be Giants that has a cool talk box in it. Talk box makes your voice distorted sometimes.

My dad has a very disgusting looking pizza with chicken, pineapples, and BBQ sauce. ;-O It looked soooo disgusting that I didn't even dare take a bite, It was that horrible looking.

We played World of Warcraft today, me and my mom. We went someplace completely different, the eastern kingdoms. I got a new sword, it's 2-handed, it's really good, it does 20 to 30 damage. I am level 14 now. My pet is level 12, I think. My mom is level 13. It's a run! We explored the Fargodeep mine, which was wayyyyyyyy too easy. We explored the jasperload mine which was kind of hard since I ran through the camps on a bloodthirsty rampage but then I retreated and almost died. I guess that's what you get for a bloopdthirsty rampage. After that, the Jasperload mine wasn;t too hard. We found a new type of spider called the Mine Spider. It wasn't too hard. But it looked very dangerous, all black with red spot on the back. We went through the Wetlands which was sort of hard. My mom died two time. I just kept running on the road. I explored Ironforge. Which is a cool place. To get there, we had to go through the Wetlands then we had to go through some supposedly orc-infested tunnels but there was nothing there. We took a ship from Auberdine to Menethil. We also explored Stormwind!

I painted a picture of a bionicle. Here it is:




I have the real bionicle. It has a slightly different color of red on the head.

It is raining so hard where I am! I love it so much! I hope it snows in the mountains, but I probably can't go because I don't have the right gear.

I wish I had World of Warcraft here, but since I am with my dad for a while I don't. Maybe we can go out and buy it today.

I have a shorter post today than usual because my posts are all about world of warcraft, but because I don't have it here right now, I don't have such a long post. My dad has the website so I will try to make a poetry piece. Here it is:

I am tired this morning
Cause I didn't sleep well.
Actually I did,
but my sister miguel
Won't let me sleep.
She always says
"He he he".


I don't really have a sister miguel.

In World of Warcraft today I played longer than my mom. Quite a while longer. My pet grew to level 8, I grew to level 12, and my mom is level 10. I took a hippogriff today. That's part horse, part eagle. It was very fun. Then I took a ship back. I could have ridden but I decided to do that instead. We slayed the giant spider Lady Sathrah. She was very hard. She gave us a silvery spinarette. A nice person helped us fight the spider. I was the highest of them all. He was level 9. I've been playing the longest with that character.

I built part of my treehouse today. I had lunch with a friend in it.

My dad has a blog now. The link is www.armandpoetry.blogspot.com.

We chatted with my Aunt Kathy who got here the day before yesterday. Are you having a good time Kathy? "Mmhmm!" Good!

We read another chapter in my new book. "Junie B., First Grader: BOO! And I MEAN it!" It is a funny funny book and I recommend it very much. There are misspellings which is funny and there are words that don't exist like "shreddle". That is in the book!

I went to karate today. I had fun. We did a type of sparring. If you don't know what sparring is, it's a type of drill. If you don't know what a drill is, it's a type of exercise.

In World of Warcraft today I played for a couple of hours and I got a pet in my game. I learned how to feed it, I learned how to revive it from being dead, I can call it, he can eat meat and fish. He is a Nightsaber, that's like a saber-tooth tiger, only black. The different character I have in the game, Nsx, can fish. My pet's name is Bytr. I like World of Warcraft so much! My mother's character, Ramona, is a warrior in the game. She can use a shield, which I can't. Since I am a hunter, I can train animals. My character's name is Zinny and he can fish now. I am pretty far in the game. My mom and I went to a new place in the game called the Oracle Glade. It was very hard. I died. My mom ran. My pet survived even though he was level 6 and the bad guys were like level 9. I summoned him as soon as I resurrected myself. Then we went and killed some Gnarlpine Mystics and a special Gnarlpine guy whose name I don't remember but I remember his title -- Dream-eater. That's when my pet died. I killed the bad guy, I got a gem, I completed a quest. My mom and I went southwest. We got to a new spot which I had been to before once. I found it but I was never in it. We met a new type of Nightsaber called a nightsaber elder. All the other ones are listed here:

A young nightsaber
A nightsaber (that's what my pet is)
A nightsaber stalker
A nightsaber elder

Those are all I can think of. There might be more but those are all I can think of right now.

My character, Zinny, is level 11 now.

Hey.

For my big project for 2005, I would like to make a lightsaber. I have what looks like the inside of one and I might be able to make something that isn't very dangerous but is a little bit like it. I have a thing that I got for Christmas that shows me the inside of it.