Author: Tim Froehlich

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I haven’t done well on updating this week. I keep going to make a new post and something important comes up. I WILL finish the post! Today was good. I got my hairz cut, and I bought myself Jedi Acedemy. It sets me back 50 bux, but my dad owes me 25 bux, and someone from skool owes me 20. It’s all good. Tomorrow is Revolutions, I’ll be gone all day. I go from skool to the mall and stay there till 10:00. I’m gonna get to know that mall pretty well. Anyways, nothing much happened other than I have significantly less hair than before today. Good day, though. So was yesterday. Good dayz. TOMORROW IS GONNA ROXX!

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Go techno, baby! Downloaded about 10 techno songs, ah, I love the stuff. Today was cool. Nothing really happened, but skool was fun. Nobody got mad at me, but yet another day of nothing, something has to happen sometime, I’m getting all paranoid about me not doing anything stupid yet. Maybe I DID do something stupid, I just haven’t realized it. Oh well. Happy day, happy day….hehe.

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Interesting day. All my days are interesting, actually, but I can’t think of a better word to describe my day, or I just don’t feel like putting forth the effort. Hehe. Anyways, church was…church. Nothing really happened. Sam, Jesse, Ben, Nolan came over, they played Halo, Sam and I chatted with people online. Overall fun.

Not much has happened today, but that’s ok. Skool tomorrow!

A thing on Chivalry I had saved in my emails, which I like referring to.

The Points of Chivalry:

Justice: Seek always the path of ‘right’, unencumbered by bias or personal interest. Recognize that the sword of justice can be a terrible thing, so it must be tempered by humanity and mercy. If the ‘right’ you see rings agrees with others, and you seek it out without bending to the temptation for expediency, then you will earn renown beyond measure.

Loyalty: Be known for unwavering commitment to the people and ideals you choose to live by. There are many places where compromise is expected; loyalty is not amongst them.

Defense: The ideal knight was sworn by oath to defend his liege lord and those who depended upon him. Seek always to defend your nation, your family, and those to whom you believe worthy of loyalty.

Courage: Being a knight often means choosing the more difficult path, the personally expensive one. Be prepared to make personal sacrifices in service of the precepts and people you value. At the same time, a knight should seek wisdom to see that stupidity and courage are cousins. Courage also means taking the side of truth in all matters, rather than seeking the expedient lie. Seek the truth whenever possible, but remember to temper justice with mercy, or the pure truth can bring grief.

Faith: A knight must have faith in his beliefs, for faith roots him and gives hope against the despair that human failings create.

Humility: Value first the contributions of others; do not boast of your own accomplishments, let others do this for you. Tell the deeds of others before your own, according them the renown rightfully earned through virtuous deeds. In this way the office of knighthood is well done and glorified, helping not only the gentle spoken of but also all who call themselves knights.

Largesse: Be generous in so far as your resources allow; largesse used in this way counters gluttony. It also makes the path of mercy easier to discern when a difficult decision of justice is required.

Nobility: Seek great stature of character by holding to the virtues and duties of a knight, realizing that though the ideals cannot be reached, the quality of striving towards them ennobles the spirit, growing the character from dust towards the heavens. Nobility also has the tendency to influence others, offering a compelling example of what can be done in the service of rightness.

Franchise: Seek to emulate everything I have spoken of as sincerely as possible, not for the reason of personal gain but because it is right. Do not restrict your exploration to a small world, but seek to infuse every aspect of your life with these qualities. Should you succeed in even a tiny measure then you will be well remembered for your quality and virtue.

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This day feels like such a blur, and I’m really tired. Woke up at 10:00, our houseguests didn’t leave till noon [about 6 hours after they were supposed to leave], went with Jonathan to see Skool of Rock, was funny, not hilarious, but funny. Other than that, nothing happened. I need sleep.

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Happy day, happy day. Nothing went wrong, everything just fell right into place, amazingly enough. Everyone was all dressed up for tonight, but I wasn’t. I just don’t like getting dressed up in something I don’t enjoy wearing. Besides, I’ll just be wearing an ARMY jacket. Hehe. I’m such a cheapskate when it comes to stuff like Halloween. Today was cool though. Just hangin with my friends and stuff.

Lunches are becoming less and less fun. A few weeks ago, everybody was happy, we all sat at the same table, and it was just all really fun the entire time. But now it’s just so boring. Everybody hates eachother for some stupid reason, or maybe not so stupid reason. I just don’t understand how these people could have been such good friends, and then let stupid stuff tear them apart.

I found that article I was going to post yesterday, so here it is. I BELIEVE it was written by a woman, which is really strange, but it would make a lot of sense if it were. I’ve made my own edits to fit it closer to reality and/or my life.

Begin Quote…

Why do men (usually) die first?

This is a question that has gone unanswered for centuries…… but, now we know.

If you put a woman on a pedestal and try to protect her from the rat race…you’re a male chauvinist.

If you stay home and do the housework…you’re a pansy.

If you work too hard…there’s never any time for her.

If you don’t work enough…you’re a good-for-nothing bum.

If you get a promotion ahead of her….. it’s favoritism.

If she gets a job ahead of you……it’s equal opportunity.

If you mention how nice she looks……it’s sexual harassment.

If you keep quiet……….it’s male indifference.

If you cry…………you’re a wimp.

If you don’t……..you’re an insensitive bastard.

If you make a decision without consulting her………you’re a chauvinist.

If she makes a decision without consulting you……she’s a liberated woman.

If you ask her to do something she doesn’t enjoy……. that’s domination.

If she asks you………it’s a favor.

If you appreciate the female form and that little red dress……you’re a pervert.

If you don’t…………..you’re gay.

If you like a woman to shave her legs and keep in shape…………..you’re sexist.

If you don’t……………..you’re unromantic.

If you keep yourself in shape…………….you’re vain.

If you don’t…………….you’re a slob.

If you buy her flowers………….you’re after something.

If you don’t………………..you’re not thoughtful.

If you’re proud of your achievements……..you’re full of yourself.

If you aren’t………………..you’re not ambitious.

If she has a headache…………she’s tired.

If you have a headache………….you don’t love her anymore.

If you want it too often………you’re obsessed.

If you don’t…………….there must be someone else.

Men die first because they want to.

End Quote…

And the middle line is indifference.

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Uneventful, but a good day. Definately not boring. But I’m waiting for something bad to happen, nothing bad has happened to me in the past week, which is too long for something bad NOT to happen. Oh well.

I saw a really good piece on why males die before females, but the blog that it was on is offline for now. Once I can get it, I’ll post it here.

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Today was interesting, to say the least. Went to skool, came back unscathed. Of course, that is until I log on IM. Let’s just piss some more people off, shall we? Critical of everything, not very nice, just not very Tim-like. Sigh, oh well. Not much I can do about it now.

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Boring day. Mondays just suck. I actually woke up on time though, which was really nice for a change. Gonna have to go to boy scouts soon, though. I’ve missed the last 2 weeks, so my parents and my friends want me to go. On the plus side, I’ll see Daniel, and even better, he’s gonne give me Raven Shield back. Should be fun. Anyways, I’m completely bored. Oh well. Oh and one more thing! Look at my l337 new stat counter at the left!

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Wow. Surreality. Today was cool. Church was compeltely uneventful. Not that same without Daniel, but I’m gonna have to adjust. Had like 5 chocolate chip muffins, they still haven’t worn off. Sam came with me after church, we spent an entire 8 hours playing Vice City, Quake III, Halo, and CS., but with a difference – it was on my 27″ TV. Yes, with my TV’s audio. It’s so wonderful. Halo graphix on 27″ of visual goodness. Text below 20 point is hard to read, but who uses a TV for text? In any case, Sam undured me as I rearranged my room [again]. He’s very patient to sit there as I spend 30 minutes moving my bed, my desk, computer, and night stand. My new set up is still being tweaked. Tomorrow I will probably switch the couch and bed, considering the bed sticks out REALLY far from the wall and stuff…….you’d have to see it to understand. In any case, it will be really cool once I finish re arranging.

As I was looking through my IHS Porgram of Studies, I dsicovered I can take Intoduction to Programming next year. SCORE!!! I will take it with Course 2, since I can’t get into to Introduction to Programming 2 without Course 2. Whee! If I can take it, I’ll be taking [AP] Computer Science in my senior year. Boo ya.

Cool day. Lots of homework to do…

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Ugh. Weird, messed up day. Gerg Wilson came over, and told me paintball work, but then asked if I wanted to go to a football game at Cornell. I said no, since I don’t like football. So then he’s like, let’s play Halo PC. We go over to his office, and spend an hour or more trying to get it to work, failing completely. We then go to my house, he drives down and gets his computer, and we LAN. It was fun, but it took my entire day. I had been planning on other stuff, but no, he insisted. [sigh] A day that could have been good, wasted.

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Today was cool. Nothing amazing happened at skool. I got home, owned in Halo. I’ve started teaching noobs how to play. I set up 1v1 games, and give them tips as I kill them. It gets me better at my headshots, and helps improve gameplay. I really enjoy teaching people. They love the tips on how to get better. By the end theyve usually skill killed me one or two times.

I’m under the impression my parents are trying to get rid of my tomorrow. My dad was urging me to go the a Boy Scout campout, which I didn’t have the equipment or the time to go on. Greg Wilson then comes over and asks me if I wanna play paintball. Normally I wouldn’t suspect anything, but, I dunno. We have houseguests here for the weekend, which I suspect is part of the reason. They normally wouldn’t care if I spent all my time playing Halo, but they’re sleeping in MY room [grr]. In any case, the circumstances don’t quite fit together. They may want to talk to these houseguests about me, and they’ve probably realized by now that I have SOME way of hearing the conversation in the house. I’m used to eavesdropping on all their conversations, as evil as that sounds. Oh well. A cool day, in any case.

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Lectures, lectures, and more lectures. I’ve never seen this many lectures in the space of 10 days. Wow. So many lectures. After my parents discovered my blog, my mom promptly addressed every issue I had in the past 10 days of blogs. She never mentioned my blog, but it was amazingly apparant she read my blog. As I suppressed a smirk, I asked her where she got all this, and she said someone told her. Wow. It’s been a while since they’ve bulled their way around like that. My dad essentially forced me to go to Chinese Buffet with him, so he could give me a long lecture. The only thing I learned out of an entire hour of lecturing is that they believe I don’t have the right to do crap, though that’s not new. I also learned my family has a hsitory of depression. As if I didn’t know that either, really. So much bull is coming towards me, it’s hard not to be synical and just stop believing what everyone tells me. In any case, today has been a pain. I spent most of it recreating my blog here. I just hope very dearly my parents don’t find this, again.

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This blog is henceforth discontinued. My parents found it, probably via a friend or a link. Oh, I am mad, so very mad. I don’t have a place to spill my thoughts anymore. I’ll make a new one, but how I’ll get the link out to all my friends without my parents knowing will be difficult…….

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Interesting ending to an interesting day. Nothing amazing happened. Talked with people, did homework till late at night, depriving myself of sleep. I need sleep right now. I still haven’t finished my homework.

The Young Life meeting was………………..interesting. It wasn’t much fun, you felt absolutely idiotical with all the parents standing right there. Not much fun. Just a big thing over not much. We’ll probably be hosting it in our garage again this year, so I’ll be going. Oh well.

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Church sucked. Today sucked. I managed only to sniff, but, I wish I just wasn’t there. I went with Jesse and Ben and Nolan to shoot Jesse’s new .22 and his other 20-gauge. It was fun, I had never fired a 20 gauge before. His dad shot a deer slug [that’s a bullet] into a milk jug filled with water. He hadn’t sighted it correctly, so it only skimmed it. It still shredded the jug though. Meanwhile its like 45 degrees out there. I’ve been tired all day, sniffing all day. Oh well. Definately could have been a better day. The shooting was an improvement on the day, at least.

Whatever. I need sleep. I think I’m just gonna do my math homework that I was supposed to do tonight at study hall tomorrow. I need another day of rest. Most of my weekend was spent worrying and being mad/sad. Not fun at all.

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Interesting day. Nothing happened, at all. I got up, played Gunbound, Killed Louis Wu in Halo PC, pretty much lots of owntage. For those of you who don’t know, Louis Wu is the webmaster for an extremely popular Halo website, to which I have a link to below and on the sidebar on the left.

halo.bungie.org

It’s cool knowing You just killed a guy who’s at least 26 years old and should be infinitely better at Halo considering he spends his life mastering a website that gets at least a hundred thousand page views daily. Very cool, actually. I can quote the line actually…

You killed ☼Louis Wu

Paladin killed ☼Louis Wu.

You were killed by Paladin.

Very common scripts today. Other than that, nothing of any importance happened.

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Wow. This was a strange day. I sort of felt…invisible. Which is different. It’s not like people didn’t notice me, it’s just, like, my comments seemed without meaning or something. It’s hard to define. I went nuts at lunch, but that’s another story for a different day. Went through the day without much stress, considering last night, which I will now explain.

Yesterday I was planning on walking home and hanging around the commons for a half-hour or so today. Wait, that didn’t make sense. Today I was planning on walking home and spending time on the commons, and I told my parents, but all of a sudden they come out with this bull. They don’t think its safe for me to be on the commons. They really think I’m gonna get pulled in by some random stoner, smoke some weed, and get addicted? My parents are such…such….asses. After I argued with them for a good 20 minutes on the subject, they essentially said they don’t believe I’m old enough to do anything on my own, whether they said it literally or not, it doesn’t matter. I know this town well, I spent the entire summer biking places, and being very self-sufficient. Now when I want to hang with my friends at the commons, things change. I can’t be trusted, its not safe, they think the people that are there are all druggies. Oh how I despise them, I truly do. My dad promptly gave me a 1 hour lecture after the arguement, which I was successful in completely ignoring. It’s fun pissing them off, but why does he think 3 lectures in one week will help? Oh well, enough ranting on THAT subject.

The whole lecturing thing doesn’t get to me really, it just becomes a bother. Only thing i fear about that is getting grounded. Problem is, I was too compliant for 2 years in a row, they thought they had complete control. They underestimated me, they really did. Both my brothers did the same thing I did, only they threw their acedemic lives with it. I don’t intend to do that. I respect my brothers a great deal, but, I know some of their mistakes, which I don’t intend on making.