Horned Gnome

My new blog

2006-02-06T15:25:00.000-08:00

Ahha I have a new blog! I am going to stop writing in this one and will be writing in the new one. The porpus of this switch is that I can now write posts w/ password protection. this means that if I feel like writing somthing that might offend you, well, now yoou can't read it. so, HA.
www.goddog.wordpress.com

Posting for fear of the killer compos bin

2006-02-05T16:33:00.000-08:00

Well, this is me feeling guilty about not ever posting
not really. this is more like me finaly posting 'cuz I got so many threts about not posting that I thought that it would be better if i did. Better for my chances of my serivla that is. I hav been juz' doin the old life thing lately. school, hom,e bighstorm. you know how it is.
Nettel stew. hummmmmmmmm. well I really don't know seeing as how I really haven't ever eaten neetels.
the dave says that the nettls are smelling like cat pee, but I really don't know what he is talking about. GOD. ths is suck blody depressing music. how the hell can people run around being cheerfull while listening to this? anothe one of life's mysterys.
Shaved heads. Wow. I really am inpressed i really don't think that i would have the necessary balls to shave my head eaven if i reallly did have the urge. Also I would look like some kind of alien if I was to shave the old hair. but that would be exciting...
Thinking about wheather or not i want to be in the phantom of the opra this spring. on one hand it would be really cool to have my own theam music and be a compleat badd-ass. On the other hand, I REALLY don't what to do the whole lern to sing thing. It isn't just as symp;le as lerning some songs. I would haave to lern how to sing first. I supose that maby i should od that sometime anyway but... now? Also, I am not realli into the whole phantom-of-the-opra thing. My brothers explaned the phantom of the opra verry well.they said:
the only people that like that are teenage girls that wish that they had lots of guys hanging off of them, and middelaged wimen who don't get any action.
I really think that that sums it up very nnicely. no ofence ment anyone, but, well you read this blog for my opinone.
So, seeing as how i don't fal into eather of those casses I think it is not so hot. especally for a middellschoool to me doing as a play. And, not many of the kin=ds are really that interested in it. but, whatever floats you boat i gues.

Round And Round And Round AGANE

2006-01-31T13:57:00.000-08:00

So, Now that i have been straghtened out by my readers, i am going to write a entery that has absolutaly no pissing of in it (I know, now that I have that handy shoting licance I am not eaven going to use it. just you weaght). Now, what I am going to write about is a thing that I have been thinking alot about lately. I have eaven gone to all the troble to write this on my comp while I am at homw, thinking that maby if i write this first then I will acualy post it. so here you have it. some of the things i am going to say don’t really make seans yet because they have beet sortuv ratteling loosly around in that cavity which is my head for not quite long enough, but i will leave it up to you to figur out.

So, do you ever have the feeling when you are doing something and all the suden it is like you just woke up and you realize that you have been acting on autopilot? If you have you will know what i mean, and if you haven;t then you shoutd cont yourself lucky and stop reading this (count yourself lucky tha you have mnever had this feeling, no that you get to stop reading. But there is something to be said for that as well...). so, this feeling of having been asleep while you are conducting daly life. I have relaized lately that I have been having this feeling all the time. And I mean ALL the time. i find that it is hard to snap out of it sometimes. Now, as soon as i realized this, I began thiinking about why it is that this is happening to me. And this is the answer that poped ot os ome dusty back cavern of my mind, and it said (while brusing off spider webs) basicly this.
All my life i have been tought to plan for the futer. Now that is all find and dandy to some extent, you don’t want to wallow in the things that have happened (that usally winds up in a small padded room), and you don’t want to only live in the present (that usually leeds to living under bridges and “a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison), You need to plan for the futer. Now that is good, but you can take that theory to and extream. All my life it has been getting ready for some unknown time in the futer. You need to also live in the preseent. what the blody hell is the use of all this stuff if you are always saying that you are going to use it soon, or you will need it, but you spend your whole life bilding up these stockpiles of resorces and you can never use them because you are saving them for later, and you are so buisy making them you don’t have any time to enjoy what is happening now. This happens to me all the time. I find myself doing school, reading a book going on a walk, talking to some one, practicing drums, but it is all automatic. I am really not eaven there. I am off somewhere els, thinking about what will happen next time, and what I should do to prepare myself for the next job. But I am not stoping to look at the job that I anm doing now. I am always reading the word ahed of the one that I am saying now. Now, as you can emagin this is a problum. I have to stop, take my head out of the bag and look around. And this brings me to the way that this has beena problum latley. there are a few things that i need ot do that I need to do that I have been puting off by not living in the now. this must stop. It really doesn’t get those things donee to say “this is what I will do when the next good time comes around”. I have to realize is that the best time is now. If I jst put it off that way, i will never do it. And so I steel myself to go and do the things that I have been hiding from myself. i think that i will be pinching myself more often now jst to make shre that I am awake.

So there you have it. noot really fully formed, but... i don’t really think i will ever REALLY figur that one out.

grog, frog, beer and tabaco.

2006-01-27T12:52:00.000-08:00

I have been told that i should the eternal vascillations of a confused young poet born in the wrong age. huuuuuummmm. if you can tell me what that means and more inportantly how i shold write it,.. then you should tell me. in lightwrite aout that, onf the fact that i can't write about that, then i will write about people. Funny thing is that people are telling me hat is should write something on sbstance. god. it really does make sens to write something that is worth peoples while to red, but all the things that jump into my mind when i think of serreous or worthwile things are going to offending people. sufice it to sau that right now there are sevral people that i wold not really mind ripping the heads off of. Really i write thig in my blog that make no sens and that really don't have anything to do with my life and whaat is going on in my head. if i was to write what i really thought i would have people knocking at my dor with noses and pitchforks. life is funny that way. so why is it that i don't feel like i can write what i really feel? i mean, if you readd this blog thaen you should expect to read things that i think. it is really to bad that the "rules" of being po;ite have managed to creep all the way into the internet. really makles me wounder what the blody pint of keeeping a log at all if you have to restrict what you write so that people won;t be offended?
humm.
Going Postal.

Dear Catastropee Watres

2006-01-23T15:54:00.000-08:00

hmmmm mmmm hmmmm. just chil'en listenen to some "music" that sounds like oldd beeetles. Argh it is to much for me. i have to go and turn the damm stuff off. ahhhh that is much better. somthing about Dear Catastropee Watres, i mean, seoureousluy, who in the rright minkd wouod name something that? Is it supposed to be funny?/
well, god thing we are all perfect.
Having a new semester. I for one amhoping for a semester that isn't as filled with tenshion and inter school relationship problums. i could really do without them. As julie so wisely poonts out "sometimes people get cougt in ther own perjections. once you relaize that it es easyer to move on"
i think that really sums it up. Acctually that is a lie. i was just sitting here thinking about what i could write, more spsificly what isn't going to offend everyone, so i asked julie to say something deep and profound on the subject. but, regardless of when she said that, it is still very trough, and does sum op the situation well. you should think abut that.
moving right along, too........ the great subjct of.....
tada..
AMPAD. oh i pitty you that do not understand the vertues of AMPAD . well, really it is the thing that is on the AMPAD. namly,my reportcard!!!
whow. we got our report cards today. i was plesently supprised to find that, not only had o passed, i had passed well. WOOT. GO ME.
So, there is my does of prase for the day.
and now i am off to go and feed some goat.

The joys of thhe sound of slicing carrots...

2006-01-20T18:46:00.000-08:00

have you ever stoped to think about the sound of the carrots being sliced?? you know i feel sorry for all of yo who haven't expereanced that joy whch si the sound of a corrot. good things really. they aren't green, but they are still good for you.
Ahhhhhh. the silence is once agane restored. i had to take a brake there to do some chating. i have found that as soon as i log in i can expect to do absolutaly nothing els ntill i log back out. funny. and i always am sitting there thinking "well, i am online, and i will just turn it on and do schoolwork at the same time". but no. it never works that way. as soon a s i loog in, woop, there goes the time.
luckely i have Camill around to make me do my work. i have this feeling that i should just admit it and by her a cattelprod and some wips, and be done. hug. she is like the conchis that i don't have when it comes ot school.
Look some one has been drinking tea out of a flask from achem set!!! only in the loyd house are you likley to sea that. well,. that isn't realy the case. maby igor usesone when he is traviling so that he feels at home. thinking about igors, gets me thinking about Terty prachet. for all of you who haven't read some of hi books, READ THEM YOU SCHMUCKS (incodentaly, i have been informed that the word "SCHMUCK" comes from a yitish word meaning penis, so next time someone calls you a schmuck you will know.). lord the world could do with a good clensing
so, yesterday my shues were abducted by a man with fish
or something like that
if you canfigur that out you get a prize.

hunkachunk jumbyliah

2006-01-18T17:20:00.000-08:00

i thought you were going to say i could do with bubbelishous. i didn't try put penuts on top. i really don't like penuts in my saled. cheeees with romans and carrots..

i love that stuff raw onons. bobas. what are we going to dress up as. or someething. i make my own dress up too. but if you read a rose and an isor... that is if some one is really ugly but candy is realy hott. Yes. the prince is pretty hott and machiavellian it is inapropreate. guys talking about penis size. call me . wow. what? nothing.
it we had been slightly more decent theen shure.
soooooooo. and that is y we kept lauging.

and the rain it rainith every day....
so i have just been informed that i i have to..... no, should, write somehting intelectual. in fact, i think that i just hit oppon the very thing. the word hate. if more people didn't use the word "hate" things would be much better. i mean, think about it. now, i know tis is going to sound really stereotipical, but, you really can find something good in every, well, almost every situation. and people use the word "hate" so casually. i have been trying (with a littel help from friends) to stop using that word so much. because it is realy trugh. i don't really hate most things that i say that i do. sooooooooo, i think all of you who are reading this should follow the good example of camilla and em and stop using that blody word.
andothe rpost another roast

Let it rain

2006-01-17T14:24:00.000-08:00

Another Not-So-Productive day at the loydsenvolving lots of sitting and chatting w/ my brothers. After an hour or so, em arived having a cow. not really shure waht it was about, bt the result was a walk.
AHHHHHHH ifeel like a fried chicken!!!!!!!!!!
i hate it when this happens. lord one of those days when you just you wish that you wern't a teenager. man dam thaose emotions.
soooooooo
let me think.
today has mostly been alot of laying around getting progresivly mad at people. god they can be so blody stupid! just grabe a fucking brain you stupid dipshits. llord.
ok. i think it is time for me to find somee way to relees all of this presure or i jst might explode.
i think i need hug

craming

2006-01-15T17:11:00.001-08:00

argh. things are so much easyer if you just do the work when it is assigned. funny that. so, what has bee happening in my life for thee past few days. well, i have a brother, and lots of school to do. that really sums it up very well. so, as for the brother, well, he is around for the next few days. he droped out of collage so he neede to come bacck to the island to take the shit. really there wasn't any, so that was a plesent supprise.
so on to the nxt ugly topic. this one is relly not eny fuu at all. no that is not right. this is acctually some fn. iffor no other reason that is you are spending all day at the loyds and have not cracked a smile, then there is relally something wrong with you. so, things have been fun after a while. but still, craming is still not very fun. lots of work and not really much time. kk. enough bitching about work. really my falt afterall. so, what to expound about...
ah yes.
So. last night i was walking down the road with some people. one of them started telling a story about hazing some freshmen. God that is such a stupid custome. lets all beat up kids just because they are a year yuunger then us. whow you really have to e a screwedup asshole to do that. i mean, some people really hert the kids. like making them drink ots, or beating them. god it makes me so blody mad. like thi s kid that they were telling a story about. they went into his house at night, stuch a piec of ductape over his mouth, ductaped him in his sleeping bag, carred him to a car stuffed him in the trunk, drove him a long way, laid him out on a picknic table and cut the ductape off wit a big nife. i bean that kid didn't know that they were other students at the school. he didn't know he wasn't being raped or something. lord i would kill enyone who did enything like that to me. argh.
so enoughof that.
gota go so that i ca finish some mor school befor dinner...

the festive envirnment of fuzzy read worms

2006-01-11T21:55:00.001-08:00

ah yes, the sweet flavor of a proteen grass shake, along with a giggleing colaps. ah yes, for all of you who have not enjoyed that boque that is loyd, you are very sad. heven help us. i am realy no tshre about the content of this entery, as i am sitting in the livingroom of one of the most distracting fmalies that i know. inneresting.

so there you are sitting in your cozy char next to a roring fire, but i would like you top imagen something totlly different. think of a nice green lawn, now think of this lawn a about 2ft of watter. now emagen a strange girl (who is in the middle of her two hour alotment of time that she is out of her pajams) sitting is a kiak in the middle of this newly made sea. i really can't givy you verry meny details on this picture, because i was not there. so i will leave it to your imaginatioin to fill in the rest given the information that she ended this paddle,wet and i imagen, giggling.
Next item of note:

The roads are not safe at night. avoid venturing out on the road after dark. if it is inavoidable, then you should travil only in large grops, hoping that the other members in your grupe will slow down the oncoming truck enough to escape. yes, your worst fears are confermed. Emily has been lerning how to drive. yes i know, scarry thought. luckly, she has been taking lessons at night because, well, there are less people on the roads because everyone knows that it is dangerous to drive at night. so far the only fatalati has been the left headlight. this however has not stoped that driving lesons. tonight i hear emily was endevoring to make that car semetracal by swiping the other one off on a passing fence post. hugh funny.

my good buddy galen

2006-01-08T14:49:00.000-08:00

So, after a good nights sleep, i feel much better. i know this because i am not compelled to bite the head off of enyone that comes within a 10ft radis of me.
had an interesting time at the loys last night. a ruberband fight w/ dave, pounc with a verry anoyed julie, and more windmills then you would know what to do with, but seeing as how they are windmills, you don't have to know what to do with them because the usually do with you. funny that way...
all of this was accented by the fact that i was really laking on energy (having mulltapul cows about Final Cun Pro will do that to you).
so, i left there house at around 9:30, pondering the mystery of how different famalys can be so different. I was really struck by how, at my house, you just don't have fun with your parents. ya, every once and a wile we will play some cards, or something like that, but on the whole, you just don't have fun with them. it seems like you are expected to act all mature and stuff, when really, no-one really is. i mean, what fun would life be if we all ran around being mature and responsabull, and not ever having fun or taking risks? really.
i thought that that was the whole point of being a teenager. you can be ERISPONSABUL and have FUN and EXPERAMENT and MAKE MISTAKES. sheesh.
on the other hand i know some famalys, like the loyds that think that you can still infack injoy eachothers company even though you are growing up.
our world is a very funny place.

black pit of doom

2006-01-07T19:20:00.000-08:00

AHHHHHHHHH. i have, yet agne, fllen into a large, gaping black pit of doom and dispar. funny how fast you can fall into those. one second i am sittiing there cherefully iming with friends and bros, and the next, Wham, DEPRESSION.
amazing thing the mind.
this island has a way of doing that to you. i really don't know what it is about it, but it seams like as soon as i set foot on this desolate piece of rock i start feeling like shit.
ahhhhhhhhhh...
ok i am done with my little virbal dumpage, and it is time to talk abouut fish.
you know, the kind with red heds green fins, and ranbow collord gills? i have one of them staring at me right now from the wall. not exactly anatomicly correcr, but what the hell, it gives me something to write about.
was looking as charli's blog just now, man i wish that my pics turned ouyt like that. CRAZY. you shouldd all look at it. however i don't remember what the url is, so i guyess that you will have to go your wole life without knowing that joy that is the blogg of charle. Sad really, going through life without ever having red the blog of a loyd. man those things really broden your horizons. infact, i am going to be really helprull, and find out how to post a link to em's blog. if that isn't enough loyd blog for you, then i think there are some more links frome there. also, if you are looking for even more insight, and wisdome into life, then you should viset:
the dupery.
this is the new and improved blog-of-wisdome seeing as how tess has, for some unknown reason, deleated hers. boo.
but now there is another, so you can still read all about, um...
well...
i am not shure what you will be reading about, ut it will be very edioucational, so you should read it.
i am off to add links and then walk home in the dark and rain, hopefully avoiding getting run over by a truck driven by em. dave is teaching her how to drive.

appesing the wrath of the killer bros

2006-01-07T16:59:00.000-08:00

so, posting. i have receve numerous death threts lately regarding the lak of new postings on my blog. as i do not like the idea of being draged through the streets with my entrails beeing eaten by rabid pijons, i think i should post. so, back on the island. things are happening, like school. no galen (tear) or rebacca, and soon no tesss eather.
really sad. oh well, life goes on.
so, this blog is bout to chang ursl!!. if you are reading this, then you are a fried chicken and should, well i dont't know what you should do, but something productive (and no, reading this dosn't count).
so, school, sleep, and rain. that is what has been happening latly.
So picture thiss,, you are sleeping piecefully, dreaming of poneys and fields of clover, when, wham! bif pokadoted muckboot on your arm. that was my night. well, it wasn't that bad. camill and em have this thing about waking up at about 2 am. speeking of camill, she has said that she thinks that it is really strange for people to call her camilll, so from now on i am going to call her, spink.
so, spink and em have this thing with waking up at 2 am. so we stood around (well they stood, i layed in bed) sfter some minets of pondering, dave drove up to wisk them off to ther house.
whow this is one of the lamest blog enterys ever, but that is what happens when you try to talk to my bros at the same time as write.
i think that i am just going to stop now, because this is triping me into a pit of doom... you know what i mean

Home On The Range, Apple Pie And Baseball

2006-01-03T18:10:00.000-08:00

well, almost home. i am chilling in bellingham with my brothers. in fact the only reason that i am writing today is because yeshe was bitching at me becuse i havent updated today. i gues that this morning doesn't count....
so, here is something for all of you to ponder,
this is a "joke" that i found while liiking through aa list of your mom jokes
your mom is your dad's wife.
wow. if you can find this humoris, then i want you to give me lesons in humor.
so, i am headed for the final part of my travils tomorrow. going to meet a 7 am boat that arives friday harbor at 8 40. then it is up to old dave to find me and take me home.
did you know that the band evenecence should be throwen ot a window?
sus=ch depresing msic.

Vancover

2006-01-03T08:56:00.000-08:00

kk. so woke up in vancover. we got in at abouut 23 hours. the flight from guate was delayed, so we missed our coneccting flight in huston. so we hade to wate for another flighht. i will write more when i know when i will be getting back ect. right now it is time for some food!

tear

2006-01-01T12:39:00.000-08:00

my verry last day in guate. too bad. i have had a really excelent time, thanks to my dear aunt and unchel. just thinking about it makes my all soft and squshey insidel.
well, enough of all this FEELINGS stuff. i just lern´t that some of the bensels will still be on the island when i get back !!! way cool.
so yesterdy and today. after much gift shoping for all of you small squinkeys, i could no longer hold in my manly urges, and the fireworks wone. Dang...
so, lots of really cheep littel dangerous things. on the way back to the house we walked through park central, where most of the peope were lighting off fireworks. at one point there were 6 large arial displays going on at once. and of corse there were lots of people settig off there own ones, man.some of the fierworks were far larger then you can buy on the rez. i mean big. dangorus. th kind of thing that sets car allarms off. way cool
so after setting of my firworks, witch were verr full of adrenalen, we had some punch and went to bed.
wate, punch
oh my god that stuff is so good. it is a punch that is made for major holadays, we hade i at christmas as well, outof lots of different fruts and good stuff.
whow. in fackt there is still some at home i think that i will go and drink after fineshing writing.
so today i was sold into slavery. or, if you want to be pc, then it is "endencherd"
no just kidding. we went and had breakfast on a large macadamia nut farm for pancakes. killer. so my mission for today is to enjoy the last of the sun, eat ice cream, and pack.
sniff.

only another few days...

2005-12-31T09:52:00.000-08:00

then back to the artic cercle up there. ok so what have i been up to in the last fiew days??
well, we went to tikal, witch is manly anchent myan runes. way cool. i have pics but i didn't bring my camra. ok so we got up at 4 blody oclock in the blody morning, and rode to the airport. there we checked in and sat around for 1 or 2 hors because our flight was delayed due to for in tikal. actualy we were flyin to florance, a near by town with a "airport". so, ater we finally landed, we rode to tikal. i am not going to say much, because i don't want to inflikt another horendusly long lbog entery on ya'll, but sufice it to say that i had a really awsome time and saw, howler and spider monkeys. not going to bring one back for camilla though.
so here we are back in antigua. we are about to start some last minut gift buying. man there are alot of you.
so tomorrow is my last day here. mixed feelings about that.
on one hand i am really looking orword to seeing all of the folks back on te island, but i am sort of woried about what the chool will be like when i get back, and ect.
for all of you that don't go to the waldron alternative highschool, you are most likely thinking, " what is this demented kid on, worying about school when he is on vacation in a verry nice climet?" but those of you who do go, will know what i mean. as for the rest of you, well, toobad.
not really looking forword to going back to the winter that i have been hiding frome. really like the sun.
this should atleast be good for my vtemen D.
ohg well, i am getting really randome so i am going to stop now.
toodlas.

this is a first

2005-12-28T16:37:00.000-08:00

IMG_2321
Originally uploaded by biscotti321654.

i was just looking around, when i ran acros this photo. this is just to prove that it is posuble to have a photo of emily that doesn't look dumb.

2005-12-28T13:35:00.000-08:00

it is amazinhow much english you here. you could, if you wanted, survive verry well here without eny spanish. in this inet cafe slash liqur store hey are playing bechboys. strange. hence the title of corse. so today i am deturmened to make up for yesterdays embarisingly short entery.
so hiking up the mountan. veyy long way, but er got there eveantualy. ablut an hour into the hike the tree line gave away to lots of volcanic rock and hill. after about another 10 nimuts we got to the real bitch, pardon the language but it really was. the last bit esa intirly scree. pumec that hac been down to small bits the size of peas from thousands of tromping tourests. it is the kind o thing that where you take 2 steps forword and one back. a real pain in the butt. and without the trees, it was bruatly hot. well, enough complaining.
so, therewe were close to the top. about five minuts from the top, you start so see smoke seeping out of the side of the mountan. our gur=ide warned us that the smoke tasted something foule, so we used our shirts as hankerchis, and continued muwore. finaly we got to the top and looked into the crators of an active volcano. this volcano has 3 crators. wiviseted all three if them. the first n was verry big and not verry active other then gushing large gouts of lung searing smike, it wasn;t doing much. by this time i was dying of a comination of intens heat and sulopher. i threw a rock into the crator and could not her it hit enything. i dont know much about volcano crators. do they go right down to the magna? i dont know.
the next crator was almost the same, except this time i realized that my shues were melting as i stood on the eadge of the crator interly enveloped in a cloud of smike and hot air.
the last crator was the most exciting. it is the most active. you could not stand closer then 5 feet t it without feeling like you were about to burst into flames.
the coolest patr though, was that you could year the lva making noise down there. it was a kind od woooop wooooooop wooooooooop sound. we could only stay a few minuts, partly because of the heat, and also because of the heard of sheep pushing behind us to have a look. well, not sheep really...
funny thing about goin g down hill. so much faster. we got down the scree in 3 minuts. so after emptying our zapats of sharp suveners, we hiked back. on the way we saw that volcan de fuego, another near by active volcano, was puking out abnormaly large amounts of smoke. as it turned out, it ended up erupting later that night. it didn't affect us, but the mounten now has a new point. evedentaly it blew about 6 feet of ash on the farmers in the other side of the mountan thugh. too bad for them. there goes this years coffe crop. nto good.
so after returning to the house, i had a shower, and some lunch and felt like a new parot.
leets see, what happened then.
oh fudge i bon;t know.
oh ya.
we were going tp goto a museum of books but it ses closed, so we went off to have some ice ceam, like a bakinrobems really. in fact, i think that after am done here i will go to that olace and have som mor ice cream.
so i think that some other things happened that day but i have to do today to.
o today.
we went on a walking ture, for 3 hours. verr informative. lurn lots about the history of antigua, but i am not going to bore you with that. one thing that i wil say is that this place seems to have a poloy about runes that goes something like this. we don;t have money to deal with it, so it will gust sit and ruen.
really too bad. lots of buildings that tha back half of is faling down, or spmething like that. sigh.
there are lots of oganizations that want to do something, but you need a lot of time and mula to fix places.
ohwell.
i have this strange feeling that i have forgten to mention something, but it will have to wate. as it is i have writen eough to bore the pants of of everyone, so if you have read this far, give yourself a big pat on the back and go monkeywrench someone's brick.

down, and down

2005-12-27T13:38:00.000-08:00

down, and down
Originally uploaded by hornedgnome.

so here is a veyy nice shot taken a verr large risk to good old me, this is right down into the mountan verry hot. my shues were melting
sorry got to go and sleep or something.

the top

2005-12-27T13:36:00.000-08:00

the top
Originally uploaded by hornedgnome.

here is a better shot, all of that smoke is sulpher smelling and verr naxty

volcaino 2

2005-12-27T13:35:00.000-08:00

volcaino 2
Originally uploaded by hornedgnome.

ok after a long and gruling hike that i don't ave time to write about, this is the top. sorry about the rotation

volcano 1

2005-12-27T13:33:00.000-08:00

volcano 1
Originally uploaded by hornedgnome.

so this is our target today. it may look small here but in realaty it is a grulinhg 2,800 meeters. we drove to the small town at the base of this impresive volcaino (the name of the valcano is mt. pacaya. then we were stuch\k with only our sorry excuses for feet and the natural taxis. aka horse. we started walking. see next photo

more on the three wield beasts.

2005-12-26T13:54:00.000-08:00

ok so bacicly a tuc tuc is a small 3 weeled taxi. they have bacicly put the normal taxis out of bisness due to the fact that they are much more eficent and thus can charge much less for a ride. but in realaty they are so much more. wow. if i hade on e of htem for the island it would be so awsome.
note"

. who what happened there. i was just typeing along and i think that i must have hit some sort of button, so now there is lots of sanisn in here. i have no idea what it says because i am not going to stop to read it, but if enyone cares to tell me what it says i would be verry much abliged. on the othere hand there will be no spanish in this blog, because i lied and went back to read it. not something that i want published in my name. smutty spanish.
ok now it is time for you to forget that paragraph ixists, an we will continue.

note:
good thing the roads here a cobelstones, because the tuc tuccs are verry small amd capabull of reaching verry high volocity.
so there i was walking back from the market when dannys bro who works driving a tuctuc drove up behind me and awfered me a lift back to the house. whow i got to ride in one. of corse i could at eny point have hiered one but...
well i am just a cheep basterd.
they are supprisingly bouncy machenes. i was a bit suprised to tell the trugh. how on earth could you ever manage to drive on of those things every day without sustanig serous ingury to your inerds?
on second thought, they probubly just sustane sereous ingury to there iners.
sucks fore them.

letts see, ah yes, sleep

2005-12-26T13:09:00.000-08:00

been doing alot of that lately, looks like i have been makingh up foy my bro yeshe, who hasn{t beengetting enough lately. i know that by the fackt that he wrote in his blog that he was having a hard time telling the days appart. not a good sign
slts see.
went to ht emarket today to have my watch fixed. had that doen, and was walking back to the house wwhen i spied the fierworks stands. my testastron boiled up excitedly in me, and i headed off to look at the prices. it turnsout htat you can buy a 45 foot role of black cats(you can{t eaven buy those in the states) for 98 q, witch is less the 15 dollorsw. wow. i had a verry hard keeping my urges under cortroll and went back to the house.
on the way back i saw dannys brother elvis, who drives a tuctuc,
whate. i dont htink that i have talked about tuc tucs yet.
but you will have to wate on that for a while, because, i have to go and view a museun now. i will be back this eavning.

another in the nice weather

2005-12-25T12:29:00.000-08:00

slept in untill about 12 today. last night we stayed up late nigt eating at blody 12 oclock. after that we went we steped out of the dore into a blody war. forth of july will never be the same in the states for me. fiercrackers everywee. roling billow of smike in the small cobled streets, man. i think my ears will never be the same. thinking about taking a hike up the nearbuy live volvano tomorow. should be good lots of good view up there.
right now i am in a inet cafe called "funky monkey.net" very bad music, but cheep and the net is fast. plus it is cool in here witch is more then can be said for the street outside. about 75 or more out ther.
relaxing day so far, get up late go have some verry nice brcfast, then decide if i want to halol my lasy butt to somewere to fix my watch. might be a good idea.
well, i think that it is time t read what other people in the world are doing.
buy one get one free.

sick

2005-12-24T07:49:00.000-08:00

leson of the past 3 days: nevder, ever get sick on a trip. if you ever have th chance ti not get sick, you chould jump at it. i have somehow managed o pick up a casse of the shits in my travles, grumbl grumble. nt so much fun to sit in a bathroom all day. too bad. i am not going to let that put a damper on my trip. man, you would all love it here. at least i do. i found it really dirty and verry much povrty when i ferst got here, but the lönger i stay the ore i like it here. cureous...
here is a shor summerey on the way things are run in guatemalla. so bacily ou have a pore government htat has tuns of laws,but never inforces them. for example it is ileagel t have tatoos, however, on the way to this internet cafe, i saw a tatoo parlorr. or pireted softwere and movies. it is elegal to piret, but in the market there are people selling pireted verions of mivies that have yet to be out on dvd n the us. verr strange.
so, stillhaving fun despite being sick. my ipod ran out of battereys this morning so that put a damper on the relaxing bit, but i am charging it now.
well, i am going to spend the next fiew days in bed, lazing around, and reading ood books. going to go read some mail and other blogs now.
honeynut cherryos.

this one is for camilla.

2005-12-23T15:49:00.000-08:00

this one is fore camilla.
Originally uploaded by hornedgnome.

ok camilla, this one is for yu. it was verr nice to se a cat for a cahnge. thare are lots of dogs here. went and viseed machdaima nut farm, verr interesting, especealy the part were we gt to eat chocollate... no must not thik abot chocolate. it just makes it worse. so today was the last day of spanish classes. mixed feelings. on one hand it is aufully nce to be done, but on the other, i really like lurning spanish. i am torn. but at least now i have lots if time to be lazy. hiked p tp a cros on a hill overlooking the town, verr nice view of the mountan that towers imposingly over the tow. and speelig of really cheep frazes, i have been reading a verry funniny book about extermanating bugs. good one to read if yu have the chance. hoever i don't rember the name, so this dowsn't do you much good now does it. ha .
leet see....
yes. we are going to go o tikal on te 29, we will be there for 2 days. there is verry fun soundng thrill ride and ropes cores that takes place in the canopy, about 120 feet over the ground. should get my adrenalen going after all of this sun.
speeking uf sun, i have been soking it up by the garbage truck full. i absulutaly love it. man. well enough about me, i am off to read about what has been happening with all of you.
toodles

coffe.

2005-12-23T15:37:00.000-08:00

coffe.
Originally uploaded by hornedgnome.

this, grasshoper, is what is known a smorning sustenence. saw loads of cofe. this shot was taken in san pedro, witch is across a lake rom panajachel.

my wounderfull renters

2005-12-23T15:36:00.000-08:00

my wounderfull renters
Originally uploaded by hornedgnome.

these are my wounder full renters. ou see, i have been runing a program called rent a kid. next time yu have a chance, pick some aunts and unchls like these ones. wow they are awsome.

nice view

2005-12-21T17:15:00.000-08:00

nice view
Originally uploaded by hornedgnome.

ok, o here is the view out the windo of one of the cafe that we ate at. the comp that i am typing on ha a really med up keybord, so that, plu mupelling hould lead to a verr intereting ntey. ho ho. till lot of fun here, although i doo mis a cat... too bad. although my bags wee biog nough for that. well, had another gruling day of pani, finished present tens and are now on to past. tomorow is the lat day o spanish. i am being kicked of becaue it is closing time. mis all of ou. i will try to pot more.

chicken bus

2005-12-21T17:11:00.000-08:00

chicken bus
Originally uploaded by hornedgnome.

yay i can post photos!!! this i one of the chicken busses that are public transport here. so, i am going to post anothe pic and write more then
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another painfull day lost in the vortex of iregular verbs.

2005-12-20T14:56:00.000-08:00

oh man never lern laungiges. but do lern how to spell. oh, no lern lern lots, or whatever. lots of work, but it is good. about 73 degrees here. ha. eat that, my pacific north cost friends. however it doesn't feel like christmas atall. it is really weird to see christmas decorations up in all of this heat. went to the macet today, man that was a really big adventure. such a different culter. after walking thriough the open ait market, we went delving into the bowls of the covered market. man that is a scarry place. you can buy just about enything that you can think of, allthge way from camras to live chickeens and coconuts. by the way, coconuts are so awsome. they are about the size of a basketball and, yes green. whow. i am dying just thinking about all of the things that i sqaw while we were there. suppriseing ly enough, i am sortuf missing the puney littel island. even though i know that it is cold and dark and muddy and rainey, i find myself missing currling up next to the louds fire with a cat and some tea. speeking of cats, we viseted this one litte cafe, that i sware was intierly occupied by cats of all different shapes sizes and colors. i took some pics fore camills, and had a good long pet. verry nice. by the way, for all of you people on the iosland who are studying spanish with me, i stayed in a hotes called El Rosareo. no joke. all i could think about was shadowey ladys in bridelgowns. ah well good fun.
all right.
What wls can i tell you.
ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
oh ya.
i have been non-stop enthusing about papioas. when we were geiing off of the plane, i thought, oh ya there are papyas here. nd lo and behold there are. oh my god thy are enormus.
with that i will leav you with the plesent souynd of honking horns and spanish spoken verry rapidly.

back in antigua

2005-12-19T12:20:00.000-08:00

so here weare back in antigua.
had a verry eventfull ride back from panajachel, but most of the time it was dark so i couldn't see it. probubly a good thing.
sohad classed today. oh lord i have lrnt more about iregular spanish virbs then i thought possubal.nice sp, hugh. so, snow it is time to wash cloths. found a laudy mat ane now, as we speek are being washed. I really liked panajachel, thae lake that is. i could do without the whole tourest thing, but how much can you ask for. really nice climet here, i am really enjoying the sun. however i doesn't really feel like christmas when it is sunny and 70 degrees out. whell, i think that i will live. it is so nice here. well that is all for now.

another day in panajachel

2005-12-17T17:21:00.000-08:00

ahso nic to wake up to the sound of a birds and lots of sun.
wook up late and went in to the ahroom too take a shower. that has got to be the worst shower in he world. t decied not to drane, so i had as ong as it took to fill up the small area that was the drain bord.
the water was supprisingly, hot.
i had expected reallly cold.
went outside ad, to my amazement, foud growing not one,vut two orange trees!!!! oh my god!! it was so exciting.
enthused fore awile, then went back to bed.
jim and d wook up and we were off to have breacfast.
oh my god there are so menybuckers here. they litterely attack you after theys ee that you have wite skin. ate some breacfast at a verry ice cafe, and we were off agan.
apet some time wandering around the marcet lookig for a bag for mycmputer, and foud a really nice oe.
then i was looking at sme drums and i got chased by two rbid drum sailesmen.
hre you ae expected to haggel for everything. you usualy get them down to about the half of the arigonal price. so i was followe up this street for a verrylong tim by two men tying to sell me drums.
for you solo 300 q.
man it was really exciting.
had dinner at a nice litte cafe along the street, while getting bucked by littel kids, oh ,maby 5 years od saying
quero unpoco de esto. solo 5 q.
man so much poerty here. i hadnt put one ad one togerher to thing that if things are cheep people ar pore.
that is all for now.

FOOD

2005-12-16T18:58:00.000-08:00

So here we are in panajachel, witch is a small town about 2 ours frome antigua.
ok i will start from the start of te day.
ok, wok up for the verr first time in guate, COOL>
ate sme becfast and stared spanes class with danny, my instructor.
went throug lots of stuff, but i wont tell you what*ha ha.
then wen on a walk to buy some notebooks.
the first place that we tried didnt have eny, so danny and i walked to another place witch did.
bought them and 3 pens for 20 Q *excange is abut 7 to one.
went back to the houser and ate some lunch. then coingegated verbs w danny for a long time oh god.
THen we cought a shuttle to panajachel. oh lord that was a verr scarry ride.
the idea that you only have to stay out of the other lane when there isnt enyone in it,seems vrr well estableshed.
there are these really busses that are called Chicken busses that are bacicly verry pumped school bussess with coolo paint jobs and mad drivers.
i will try t take some pics.
met a girl on the buss that is from whitby island, and new some of the people htat i know on guemus ialand.
it is a small world
got to panajachel on one piece and went tro lok for a place to stay, and foune a place called the bunglo.
it is verr nice. i have some pics of that, but i cant up load now.
jus had dinner, wa verr nice have to go
lots of love

guatemala!!

2005-12-15T13:54:00.000-08:00

Oh mygod it has been a long time and i have been having such a good time! i will try to back up and run through all of the things that have been happening.
Ok: firs we flew from Vancover to Seattle. As we flew, i looked down and saw WALDRON!! oh god. i wanted to kick out all of the passengers and such you all up with me.HVE YOU SEEN THE SCULPTER THERE??? it is soooo amazing. I would love to spend all sorts of time talking about that, but i do not have much time. so if you have not seen it you should.
Next. off to texis. we arivd in good old Gorge bush International Airport. it has got to be the bigest, shineyest ,and fancyest airport i have ever seen. we arived at about 12:30, and walked through the diserted airport. we cought a shuttle to the hotell we were staying at. the thing that i noteced most that night, was the feel of the air in my nose. it was warm and damp, and so different from the air that we have on the island. The next morning i woke up to the sound of thunder. it was aBIg storme. now i really understand the meaning of the fraze "imber totem deum fluit, urceatum sempr pluit" for all of you that dont do latin with us, that means almost "rain all the day flows, by the bucket never ceacing." witch is the first line of the cat in the hat, in latin.
so it was raining.
i mean really raining.
we rented a car and drove offto the hugstun spaceport. lots of pics of that, but i dont have much time and want to get to the really important things.
So the next day at the crack of dawn (6:30. i know, it is hard to bleave that i was up at 6 30, but there you are. life is really strange.) we wemt back to Gorge bush inter contenentantal, and flew off twords, guatemalla citty. flight was 2 ahd a half hours over some of the bees country i have ever seen. tuching down in guatemalla. the first hting tat meets your eys after you have skimmed low iver the small clumps of shacks with rusting mettl rofs held on with old tires and briks, and tuch down on the sligly wors for were tarmac, is what i call the plane gr4aveyard.
it is a patch of round ner the end of the runway that is enterly occupied by old, rusting, plans. yes, i kid you not., there was grass growing up in them. reminded of the plane version of Jimmys shop. well, after departing the plane, we left the building, and meet our driver. 70 ndegrees!!parden the typeos, but i can{t stop to fix them.
we drove through guatemalla citty, and wow, it is a mess. the use of turn signels and the idea of staying in your lane, otr eny lane for that matter, seems to have gone out with the dinosors.
one thing that struck me was a flying tyre, no just kidding. on thing that struck me was hoe yyouare iter reallyt ritch, of really pore. a larg part of the poppulation lives with less then a dollor a day. wow. SO MUCH SpANISH. god.
met the people we are staying with, verry nice. there names are anna and danney.
anna and danny have 2 kids nbothe verry small. i havent figured out yet there names. they ar abotut 3 and 5. also there is annas sister, who is 15.
SO MUCH SPANISH. all right now i have to write isa before i run out of time.
have much fun all of you,

Out of here

2005-12-13T08:13:00.000-08:00

Tristan
Originally uploaded by hornedgnome.

Good morning starshine. The earth says Hello. or at leas something like it.
Verry sad news. i will not be taking my computer to guatemala. the risk of it being stolen is jst too big. i will still tr to post on my blog from internet cafes and the like thogh.
fly off today. had a really hard time finding a hotell in heuusten, bt we did eventually. woke up art the crack of dawn aka. 7:00 am. oh lord.

Cat nap

2005-12-12T18:15:00.000-08:00

Cat nip
Originally uploaded by hornedgnome.

Awww... so cute. well, meet up with my unchel today and drove to vancover were they are living. mu aunt is goingg to the ubc, so mu nchel is improving hos abbility to be a lazy slug this year. We leave to texis tomorrow at 3:00 sharp. we fly out of vancover then we go to seattle, then texis. yes yes, i know, i just was in washington, so now that i have gone to vancover, i am off to washington agane. oh well. gote some new headphones for the plane rides. they are noise canceling, so i can listen to music without killing my ears.

Another day in B'ham

2005-12-11T19:37:00.000-08:00

h yes I love wireless internet. Especaly when it works, witch this particular internet is lacking in. The hole "Now you see me, now you don't" thing. Infuriating.
Today Y,Z and I went to the forth Harry potter. Before seeing that one we watched all of the others in sequence, so we got to see all of the actors developing as the films went on. I thought that that was really fascinating. At the start they were really bad little kids playing littel kids. But as the movies went on and time in the story went on, the actors got a lot beater. In the latest one they are actual quite good. And, just for Emily and Camilla, Yes Emma Watson is really cute. So that just goes to show that Orlando Blum isn't the only good looking actor out actress out there.

My sexy Bro Yeshe sitting

2005-12-09T19:57:00.000-08:00

My sexy Bro Yeshe sitting
Originally uploaded by hornedgnome.

Here is one of my sexy bros just chillen. Started my trip, hade a boat ride to bellingham, and talked nwith a crew member that rem;bered giving me and my bros rids to stuart back in the day.

sleepy cat

2005-12-08T12:29:00.000-08:00

sleepy cat
Originally uploaded by hornedgnome.

I sort of felt like this cat today. Had to get up at the crack of 8:00. Oh boy. hac some breakfast and washed the dishes. Then i went to loydas fo some latin. Lerned about what hapens when glatiators go insane, and what howling cats sound like. Now I am siting and staring blankly at a dor witch has been decorated with meny signs.
OFF on my trip tomarrow, i amgoing to bellingham to shop etc. and hangout with my bros.
Ah well...

2005-12-06T12:09:00.000-08:00

Disclamer:
eny time that a pposting appears on this blog tat seams like I would not have witen it, it was probubly writen by emily, who has this habet of publesing really wierd things on the web tat will end up Under my name. Oh well

Off on my trip starting Friday. Horay. Yesterday we had school, witch was, well, school. had long and in depth descutions about how school is going for everyone and stuff like that. really didn't figur much out, but we all felt better after it.
Having school on Shaw today, Barbra Cline is visiting us (she is our principal). Tlaaked about Limrays and Hagfish, witch are dilightfull littel eels that eat you from the inside out. Yuck.
Well have a nice day and don't get eaten

matt

2005-11-29T20:46:00.000-08:00

matt
Originally uploaded by hornedgnome.

Ok Ok, here iis a posting for you. Thank you so much for all of your healpfull feedback. So here is Matt, he really wanted me to put this up, so here it is. Hey Guess what? I am going to Guatemala For three weeks with some relatives named Jim and Duckey (silent glote). It is going to be so awsome. I will be posting thigs here for all of you to read so that i don't have to email you all sepritaly.
Hope that you all have fun doing whatever it is that you happen to be doing,
Tristan

black_dragon

2005-11-18T14:00:00.000-08:00

black_dragon
Originally uploaded by hornedgnome.

horay photos.
thanks to flicker.
weeeee.

2005-11-18T12:33:00.000-08:00

Horay!

My very first bolg entery. sweeet. Tody i spent all mornigh doing latin, math, ect. at the loyds. Then I was reading Emily's blog and thought, I should have a blog.
So here it is.