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Yeah… I had to start AUGUST 8TH!!! STUPID ALABAMA SCHOOLS!!!
And they’re telling me this BULLSH*T again about that I have to take US History over again…
So I’ll be taking a 10th grade class next semester… odd… and annoying because it’s history… I HATE history…

I hear people in Maryland just started school what was it? Today? (Okay well yesterday as of an hour ago…)
T_T I want my lost summer back… I wanna come back up there and go to a good school and not be really bored out of my mind… and best of all I wouldn’t have to take anything really except english and some electives…

T_T I swear I’m going to go kill myself if they don’t stop feeding me this bullsh*t down here about how cause I moved here I have to take another 3 classes…

たいへん！　たいへん！

NEW BLOG SYSTEM INSTALLED!

Okay, so basically, this is the old blog that you are looking at right now.
It had a few large errors in the php scripts, so I’ve transfered the database of the posts over to the NEW blog script, which is the latest updated version of Wordpress ^_^.

It can be found here:
http://alexbahder.com/bloga

I barely passed 11th grade this year… due to World History… apparently it’s hard for me to pass any history class…
Oh well… At least I graduate next year… Then maybe I can get out of this damned place called Alabama… probably not… cause well… I have no money… I gotta find a way to make money quick… and one that doesn’t involve illegal things…

I’m gonna have hell this summer cause of this S.E.A.P. program thing. It starts tomorrow (June 4th) and goes until July 27th.
I’m honestly not convinced that this is a good thing for me to do… but my dad has managed to force me into it… stupid parents with their stupid rules and their stupid “you’re a minor…” crap… *mumble mumble..*

“The only anime any person over 12 can watch and not be branded a huge virgin for life or weirdo pedophile hikikomori”
It’s like that anywhere I’ve been pretty much…
Some small groups were like uber obsessed from my experience and then others just really don’t have the time / don’t give a crap about anime.
It’s like Americans and Cartoon Network… it’s a cartoon… and if you sit there and watch it all day, then yes, you’re probably a virgin for life or a very long time.

“Akihabara is a lot smaller than it looks on TV.”
It’s like 20 x 20 city blocks or less… you’ll be amazed at what they crammed into such a small area… but I’m not sure actually how big it is officially considered to be…

“Also Kyoto is a fucking lame tourist attraction.”
Of course it is. It’s just a tourist attraction for old folk touring the world… and everything’s in english there too… It has no excuse either…
Tokyo is a bussiness place, english is a major language, you want lazy corporate ass-holes to not feel uncomfortable… you put it in english. But Kyoto… no… it’s just for the tourists from what I saw.
Peronally, I enjoyed Akihibara more… a lot of people there and even more stuff to buy… and cheap if you know where to look sometimes…

“If you’re trying to socialize with any other people (Japanese), they’ll just think you’re a dirtbag. It’s “cool” to be an otaku in America, but not in Japan.”
The misconception here, is that an “otaku” is something that is a good thing.
It’s a derogatory term for a geeky/nerdy person in 日本.
This is no different from America, nerdy/geeky people are not reguarded as “cool” here either by most.

Cingular says that you can have a link to their site. Nice of them to permit us to do so no?
But only if you do the following:
Only link to the homepage, not any sub-pages or directories.
You must be nice. That’s right, you must be NICE to them, you can’t portray Cingular in a derogatory manner when linking.

In other words, I can’t do this:
Cingular Sucks
OR this:
Cingular has rip-off rates and always drops your call
OR this:
Cingular Store Locator
Oh, and I certainly can’t do this:
Cingular’s Store Locator doesn’t work very well

Stupid linking policies are usually not used these days, but leave it to some paranoid corporate head to get nervous and bring them back.
It’s things like these that make me loose my faith in the USA.

Note: This article is not intended to bash/insult/hinder/damage Cingular’s reputation. Just to point out the paradox that illogical linking policies are not always the best choice. (…and they don’t make sense either.)

Friday April 13th, 2007, I took the Alabama State Driving test and passed with a 91% (70%+ = pass).
I now have a HUGE reason to be pissed at the war in Iraq, as it is making gasoline prices go up!
And my dad dislikes spending his money on me, so it’s getting difficult here to get to anywhere… including school, stores, etc.

I need money… And Alabama doesn’t like people like me, the only kind of jobs around here are fast food service jobs, which apparently, I can’t seem to hold (long story…).

Now this is getting annoying… In any case… I must go steal … er… obtain some money…

Huntsville City Schools these days just let too many ass holes run loose in their classrooms for it to be a good learning environment as they would say.
Kitty doesn’t like it either, as you can see…

Okay, so I went to bed early (well early for me) last night, in order to be able to be awake by 7 am enough to pass a drivers test.

So I have my mom take me to the damn place downtown here, which is like a ghetto since it’s Alabama we’re talking about, and I wait in line for like a friggin hour, assuming that what I’ve been told by the people when I called them, that I could take the test and get a full lisence so I could stop causing my parents to waste so much gas driving 2 times the distance for me to go anywhere like school, which in alabama, is friggin 40 minutes away!

They didn’t let me take the test.
The reason supplied. “You can’t take the test until March.”
Well okay, fine… but just to make sure, let’s check with the man at the front desk.
“You can’t take the test until April 12th”
Okay… so apparently you people down at alabama’s DMV can’t make up your friggin mind between February, March, and April 12th.

This, I’m sorry, has me rather angry. So, to quote cartman from South Park, “THEY’RE GOD DAMN BUTTHOLES!”

I’m in Alabama currently, forced to be here by my dad, who didn’t like his boss, so he moved us to change jobs from Clarksville, Maryland, to Huntsville, Alabama.

This is the problem.
I’m an athiest. Alabama is in the bible belt of the nation. People down here HATE me, and I don’t look like I’m very strong, so they think it’s cool to punch me and make me look like a “weak bastard athiest” and what ever.

This has got to stop. Every day, a kid, named Patrick, punches me in the stomach for some odd reason. (I’m thinking it’s the athiest thing… that he’s religious and I’m not, but it could be he’s just a total ass hole and wants someone weak to hit.)

If I hit him, or even block him, the cops will get called, because they are biassed, due to that I am a guy with long hair and I’m an athiest.

I need a way of stopping this kid from hitting me every day. The class where he hits me is set up so that the teacher is usually not in the room. (Which is fine, except when he decides to punch me in the stomach.)

If you don’t hear from me soon again, I’m either in prison for attempting to defend myself, or dead or hospitalized due to injuries.

Recently, one of my fluffy little guinea pigs, Allegro, died from a sickness the stupid vet in alabama didn’t identify anyways.
My assessment is that he got depressed cause of the dumb move and everything, and didn’t eat enough, and when he tried to eat after that, he couldn’t digest the food. He basically went to sleep in the end and didn’t wake up. T_T
(Up until now I didn’t feel like posting anything about it, due to my being pissed off in general about it.)
T_T

Okay, so I finally got around to reinstalling linux on my desktop PC right?
I used the new Kubuntu Edgy version.
It’s actually really good!
It plays MP3s, AVIs, and VLC decodes most other things too pretty well.
I only had to run about 10 commands in the Konsole window and it was all done! ^_^
Now that’s a nice linux for you. It detects USB drives by default nicely as well (so far that I’ve seen).
It also as previous versions did, reads your NTFS file system so that you don’t have to convert any files, just read them off the other partition from your windows installation! ^_^

I have yet to bother with the wireless card, and if that works, I’ll be sure to inform you.

That said, if you’re going to get into linux, use Kubuntu, the most user-friendly linux install I’ve seen in well… ever!

And the KDE desktop looks 10x better than Windows XP’s default themes! ^_^

I made this thing for my first period class…
It doesn’t make so much sense… but it’s okay… it was just a project… and I FINALLY got the SQL database to work… my server uses a weird syntax for the database names… so yeah…
Click here!
Password for login is 1337.
Choose your own username.

Yes, It’s 100% true! I have been to Japan!
I was IN THE TOKYO TOWER, LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW AT ONE POINT!
Trust me, you’ve never seen something that prettyfuls when you look out the window at night.
Too bad I didn’t have a good camera with me. T_T. I will try and see if the ones from the cell phone came out okay… Maybe I can get photoshop to adjust the contrast.
But in any case, no camera today is really very good at capturing that kind of thing… it was PRETTYFULS!
Okay done with my rant about Tokyo Tower. ^_^
Oh wait… you must see the picture!
Tokyo Tower at Night: (It’s PRETTYFULS!)

Now, I also went to Kyoto.
It was prettyfuls there, there are LOTS of Japanese shrines there.
Have a picture: (Also prettyfuls!)


I also went to a part of Tokyo called Akihibara.
You can buy almost ANYTHING there as long as it’s either anime or runs on electricity. Imagine 3000 BestBuy stores on ster0ids! Yes. Its that good.
Look at the size of this anime advertisement for the anime “Kanon” (which is apparently in right now in Japan… there’s tons of merchendise for it. Take a look:

Yes, those things at the bottom, are lamp posts with posters on them. THAT along with the HUGE TREES should give you a good idea of the size of that Kanon advertisement.

Well, that’s about it.
Oh, btw, the food in Japan is good. ^_^
But now, I’m back in the sucky United States of America, where the anime is dubbed and the food is fatty.

In case you don’t believe I was there, look at these pictures:

So I have been trying to figure out what i’m going to do for the next 2 years I have to live in Huntsville, AL.
I got really bored.
I made this php script:
http://alexbahder.com/alex/php_test/quiz_php2.php
It was for a class assignment. All it HAD to do was output your score, but i went way overboard… lolz… i just kinda went “weeeee” and made it tell you which questions were wrong… and then I made it change teh colors… and other $h*t.
Select “Inuyasha” for question 2 and you’ll get a secret message. It will mark the question wrong, but you’ll get a secret message.

So my dad walks into the room and goes “We’re going to the beach today!” and then I’m like “WTF?!??! NO I’M NOT!!!”
The thing is,
I HATE the beach. I don’t like the heat, or the salty water, or the sand(It breaks my computers and stuff!)
I hate my family even more, and I don’t like being with them… they upset me. There are too many of them.
I dislike them because they bug me and I can’t deal with so many annoying people in such a small space.
So there for, this trip is going to be hell…