Yes, many of you may think that all I post about these days is JavaScript, and you would be right! Just a little teaser here, but coming soon to the Summer Break blog will be an exciting edition that will grab the attention of millions! I'm serious, stay tuned for some very exciting updates. In the meantime, I have been heavily engrossed in a project to create a JavaScript Calculator that actuallyworked. It took me several days to finally come up with a successful code that worked. Well, the good news is that my JavaScript calculator is up and running. I will post the calculator below. Ironically, when I wrote the code for it, i never used a single < script > tag. All scripting is done by event handlers inside HTML tags. Pretty nifty, or at least I thought so. Anyway, feel free to use the calculator below and try it out, whatever you feel like. As a side note, the calculator will work by typing in equations (127+419, then clicking the "=" button) or by clicking each button with the mouse. Enjoy! Please note!Please Click "Clear All" before trying to enter straight calculations.

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Ok guys, quick post today. My internship period is almost over, but I wanted to post a link to the website that I'm designing for my dad's company. Right now the website is in its alpha-test or v.1.01. Please remember that about half of the pages don't yet have anything to link to. The reference page and the submit a job pages both work, and the subsequent pages as well. Anyway, just check it out and give me some feedback. I'm having quite a bit of trouble with cross-browser compatibility, so it's best if the site is viewed with INTERNET EXPLORER 5.0+ Sorry FireFox fans, but I'm working on it. Back to the matter at hand, the main page can be found here.

Ok, enough is enough. Let's not overdo the commenting thing here. If you want to hear about the date, all you have to do is ask :) Anyway, I'm not going to go to in depth here, but enough to assuage my public. So here's how the date went down. Shaylon and I decided to ask Kelsey and Sydney out on a date for this weekend. I went over to Shaylon's house around 3:30, and I cleaned out my car while he went to pick his up from the shop. Shaylon and I drove down in his new car (a green Plymouth Breeze) and we made it to Kelsey's house around 530 id say. We visited with her family for a few minutes then headed to Sydney's house to pick her up. We played Apples to Apples with her family, which was surprisingly fun. As a sidenote, Brother Adams took a page out of dad's book with the interview. Shaylon passed, and soon we were on our way to Macaroni Grill. We ate there, and we had the coolest waiter ever. He was really funny as well. Oh yeah, before going to Macaroni Grill, there was about a 45 minute wait, so we chilled at Sports Authority for awhile until our places were ready. We ate, and then took Kelsey and Sydney to a park in Winston (for the mothers out there, it was well lit and public). After we left the park, we took Sydney and Kelsey home and then Shaylon and I made it home by midnight. Overall the night was awesome!! ok, so that's what we did. Whenever anyone asks about a date, they don't really want to know about what you did (well...partly) but what people really mean is "was the date fun and why?" Let me just answer that by saying...that was quite possibly the best date ive ever been on! It's hard to really describe what makes a date fun...oh wait...its acutally really easy....the company your with made this date. it was cool being in a group and we just kept laughing at anything and everything. Lastly, i thought another thing that made it fun was that me and shaylon are best friends, and kelsey and sydney are best friends, which somehow made the date even more fun. Now the best part would if i got to do it again very soon!

Yes, the Template for Summer Break has finally taken a moderate overhaul. Nothing real big, but I just wanted to call attention to a few items. A visitor to this blog would first notice that the music has changed. I finally put in the code for some new music. Just a little hint, visit this blog several times in a row, and listen carefully to the music. You'll notice something...lol. Anyway, that was done with a little handy piece of JavaScript. If you look at the source for this site, the very top contains a tiny piece of JavaScript. It's pretty cool to finally find a use for the JavaScript I've been learning. Also, I removed the Google Ads from my site, because in IE they caused the sidebar to locate itself at the bottom of the page. Anyway, the ads are gone now. That's about it for now. Oh yeah, I will be updating the JavaScript so that it will use random numbers to generate the randomness, versus my current setup which uses time to create the appearance of randomness. The affect is the same, that is, to the untrained eye...lol. Anyway, everyone enjoy the new music and see you around

I just got back yesterday from a fun trip down to my sister's house over MLK Jr. weekend. Thanks to Kristen for the awesome meals and scrutrulescent desserts. And of course Elise and Ian were cute as always, providing plenty of entertainment. One particularly fun moment was getting to see Ian playing in the bubbles in nursery. Elise was cute playing with her dolls and just being a four year old! I think that Logan and I probably spent the majority of our weekend jumping on the trampoline. It's pretty amazing that something as simple as a trampoline could be so much fun. In the following days, I'll try to post some pictures of us jumping. I got pretty good at it, well, as good as somebody can be at "trampoline." Logan was the real pro, performing front flips, back flips, aerials, and several no-handed carthweels. I was duly impressed. Aside from all that, I really enjoyed the night when we all sat back and watched movies/TV shows together. It was fun actually watching TV (since my house conspicously lacks modern television) and spending time together as a family. Were I to actually rate family weekends together (which I won't), I would give this weekend a 10 out of 10. Thanks everybody, it was a lot of fun!

Yes, and now by popular demand, I have returned from the underground to return to the blogging world. I don't have long to post, since school started my life has been way more that just crazy! I'll give a little update on the Xbox 360 situation. Logand and I finally got our brand new 360 from microsoft on saturday. It took alot of finnagling (or however you spell it) and luck to get the shipping service (DHL) to finally agree to get it here on saturday. The reason for the delay was that DHL didn't want to leave the package here with loose dogs and no one to recieve it. Anyway, enough about that. I wrapped up last semester with all A's, three of which reached into the 4.0 GPA range (I didn't even attempt to figure out the weighted equivalent of my grades). My lowest grade was in drafting II with a 93. Overall I was very pleased with how things turned out. In other news, I've taken on an internship with my dad. My job has bascially been to created a website for his company. From start to finish, the task is mine. So far I've just been reasearching XHTML, DHTML, HTML 4.01, JavaScript, and any other online web design technique/code I can get my hands on. So far I've managed to scrape together the beginnings of a rough homepage. I might post the code on here before long, but I'm going to try and get a little more work done on my own before I open up the source code to "public viewing" (lol...since I know my work is probably in pretty high demand on the web these days :) Lastly, I have my Branch President for an English teacher, since I'm dual-enrolled at some college classes. He is quite possibly the toughest teacher I've ever had. In hind-sight, I've realized that perhaps Pres. Cozzens is actually tied with Mr. Bretz as being one of the hardest teachers I've had. I enjoyed Mr. Bretz's class, so I'm hoping the same rule will apply here! Anyway, that's all for today. Everyone take it easy and gear up for the graduation of the class of 2006 (coming to high schools everywhere this summer).
P.S....if anyone wants to throw in a good word to my parents about a ski trip, I'd be eternally grateful :)

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Everyone Together 

Me looking cool....plus a nice outfit...thanks Ethan 

Cool Sparklers 

Defense against silly string attacks 

Elise...too Sweet! 

The Family 

The Bros. 

Ian is the Man! 

Yep, Both Christmas and New Years have passed without any new posting from yours truly. I'm not even going and try to cover everything that happened over the holidays, so I'll just play the figurative highlight reel. Last post was about counting down to Christmas. Christmas has come and gone, but I won't forget all the awesome memories of family traditions, fun gift giving, and seeing my entire family together for the first time in several years. I'll start off with the days before Christmas, I finished my Christmas shopping the day before Christmas eve...in fact, I fininshed one present on Christmas Eve itself! Anyway, I got my Ethan a Halo video and some music CDs, my mom a homemade movie of the kids, my sister and niece...the move Robots (8.9 out of 10). I got my dad the movie Serenity (7.5 out of 10) and I bought Cory a fleece jacket. My grandmas each got a picture frame and some Christmas music or candle. I'm probably boring everyone, so I'll speed up the list of what I got. Everything I got was awesome, and I didn't even want to take bake a single present (that's gotta be some kidna record)! I really loved all the AE stuff, since I've never really had a lot of clothes. I also really liked the courdorouys and old navy shirt. Somebodys gonna be stylin' it when i head back to school :) Now, hands down, the two awesomest present reactions go to Dad and Mom with the mixer and digital camera. I won't go into details, but the shockwaves created by those two presents are still being felt well around the home! Mom has set a new world record of taking, downloading, editing, and examining over 1,000 pictures (plus using one set of AA batteries) in under a week! You may have noticed that all the pictures posted below were all taken with the new camera. Bosting an impressive 5.0 megapixel caputre ability, the camera is a sight to be feared! That wraps up Christmas...on to New Years! Before i do, i would like to note that the Xbox 360 i got recently BROKE...it was a huge bummer around the home, but it is currently in the shop and should be back tommorow or the day after. The friday before New Years was really sad, since everyone left on that day...(at least i think it was that day....the dates get me really confused). Lastly, New Years...what a trip! Waiting until midnight was no problem, since I've conditioned myself with late Xbox nights and such :) In fact, after the ball dropped, we watched Bewitched! It was like 230am when we finally hit the sack. I really don't know how to describe all the holidays. They were soo much fun, i cant even start to describe all the fun I had. Oh yeah, before i conclude, quick mention of the Bday part me and shaylon went to on New Years Eve. It was really cool when me and shaylon got to chill in winston for awhile and go to Johnny and Sydneys bday party. only downside was that we only got to stay for a little under an hour. Seeing Kelsey was worth it though :) The funniest part was when me and shaylon went to the mall. I know im a country guy since i think Winston is a big town...lol. me and shaylon were pretty surprised/annoyed/freaked out when a bum "attacked" us in the mall!! ive never seen a guy move that fast! he told a sob story about needing to get money for a taxi cab to get to the hospital. between the two of us, we gave him a dollar (whoops....gullible us) anyway, at the party, when i told marco (one of my friends) what happened, he told me that he had met the exact same bum about a year ago! At that point i realized that he mustve been saving up for that taxi cab for quite awhile! maybe he'll make it there eventually! I know ive rambled, but theres so much i want to write/tell. Ill leave with a warm fuzzy note. Happy holidays everyone, never forget the best part of holiday times like these are being with family, giving to others selflessly (even bums), and remembering whats really important. Enjoy the holidays everyone and I hope to see you soon!

If anyone wants to do the math, that is the exact amount of time (give or take the few seconds it takes for the this post to be published) between now and...yep, you guessed it, Christmas! Just for fun, here are a few other random figures about Christmas:

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Seconds until Christmas:535,918 seconds
Minutes:8,931 minutes
Hours:148 hours

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pretty exciting is all ive got to say! anyway, one of the biggest surprises is that I actually haven't finished my christmas shopping! but not to worry, i will have it finished on time and under the christmas tree (whoops....for all kids under the age of 8, i meant that Santa will have those presents under the tree by Christmas day. I'd like to digress for a moment, and explore a different aspect of Christmas. now, giving is the true spirit of christmas, and i personally think that giving (when you really spend alot of time trying to find that perfect gift for each person on your list) is more fun. however, id like to know what is the one present that you (anyone who reads this blog) wish you could have, if there were no restrictions of any kind. for example, on my Christmas dream list, i would love to have a new car, specifically a certain Saleen S7 i mentioned in an earlier paper. Xbox 360. is another one of my dream christmas wished. I've always enjoyed gaming, and the xbox 360 is an entire step above current generation consoles. (it actually has more raw processing power than any commercial PC ive seen recently...for the number cruncher out there...it has one teraflop Floating Point performance (FLOP).) Thats ALOT! anyway, down to the final item on my dream christmas wish list, a laptop. college is coming up pretty soon, and a laptop is quickly becoming a college essential. My dream laptop would be this. Of course, i would include a few extra things not shown here, but this is the basic idea :). So anyway, there is my dream christmas wishlist, nothing left out! Anybody who wants to give me their dream christmas wishlist, that would be aweosme! Merry Christmas Everybody! ps, ill see most of the people that read my blog in a few days anyway!
6 days, 4 hours, 51 minutes, 58 seconds...see, some time has passed already!

Happy holidays everybody! It's been a pretty aweosme week! one of the best things is that this semester is finally winding down! all my classes are coming to a close, and i have one final English project before i finish my second to last semester of high school. another cool piece of news is that i got a checking account...yes, i have entered the high powered world of power stock brokers, million dollar transactions, and businesses in the palm of my hand...hahahahaha! oh wait....i got a little power hungry. ok...so its just a small checking account, but still, ive got to admit, it was really cool writing my very first check! haha....i dont think ive ever been so excited about spending money :) anyway, before i head out to bed, i wanted to tell about a really good essay i wrote for english. we had to write a paper for english and use every name of every person in my english class. i started the paper...and before i could lift my fingers from the keyboard, a five page paper had appeared on the screen......whoops. anyway, if anyway wants to read the entire paper...the entire text can be found here. well, i must retire for the night, so everyone enjoy the holidays...(ps...less than 2 weeks to CHRISTMAS!) and have a very Merry Christmas.

Yeah, Christmas is pretty much here! This post will be relatively short, but i just wanted to explain the pictures below. all of them are from the building of the dog house and the decroating of the Christmas tree. yes, there i am, in all of my goofiness... :) in other news...i just wanted to post that...i got accepted to BYU! (provo for those in doubt). i was pretty stoked! i was also pretty surprised that i got the letter back so quickly, since i just finished submitting my college application about a week ago. at least i didnt have to wait until this summer to find out!! and finally...this means that i will be thick into scholarship applications for the next several weeks...eventhough the deadlines arent until Feb., i prefer not to get behind! so everyone, enjoy yourselves while i go enjoy the snow thats falling right now!

awwww 

Ummm....who is THAT?