Ultimate at the Beach

The ROFLCOPTER hung out at the beach tonight while we played ultimate Frisbee enjoying a beautiful sunset over the lovely green, shit filled lake. Ok, it's not that bad, but it's pretty bad. Playing ultimate on the beach is fun, but it's also a lot harder than you think. First off, there's so much rocks, glass, and other assorted sharp pleasures to walk on and secondly it's hard to run in sand. Any effort to move yourself any finite distance takes energy and plenty of it. I got pretty banged up tonight. Not to mention the sore feet from the "sharp pleasures", but I was marking up on someone about to throw and I got the "d" alright. I got it right in my face. My right eye to be more exact. WHACK! Down I went. I was on the ground for a little bit, he put quite a kick on that one. It's still a little puffy. And then later, I rolled my ankle in the sand so I was hopping around for a few points. That was unfortunate. So far, it sounds like I had a bad time, but I'm not trying to be a whiny EMO blogger (Becky, that's for you), I'm just saying as it is for story purposes. I had a great time. We also swam for awhile and had chicken fights on the sand bar.

After the beach, we went to my friend's house and we made a fire outside and we made sundaes to eat while we sat around the ol' fire. The people I went to the beach with are my old Boy Scout buddies so that would explain the fire. They're fun people and no, I'm not still in the Boy Scouts in case you're curious, you're no longer a Scout once you turn 18.

PS - The ROFLCOPTER would like to apologize for yesterday's post if it offended anyone. The ROFLCOPTER was not in it's normal mind state and lacked the capacity for logic and reason. I'm not going to change it because I still think it's funny.

HA! HA! BLAK PEOPLE

The ROFLCOPTER saw The village tonight. I liked it. It was silly for most of the movie, but over all I liked it. I went to the mall to watch it with my friends. After the movie, we walked around and stopped by Spencer gifts. Inside we found this black male in his mid 20's walking around with a 6-8 year old white girl. This looked a little suspicious. I was with 4 other people, who were black, and they worried about this little white girl, because it seemed unusual. I didn't think it was problem, but they were concerned for her well being. He was showing her around, telling her what certain things were. Apparently he was watching her while her parents were off somewhere. They eventually came back. I just find it funny that the black people, or African-Americans, were concerned for this white girl. They were using racial profiling, while I was not. They was racist. I like my city. ROFLCOPTER, take me to more tolerant people!

Ultimate Frisbee Summer League

The ROFLCOPTER has had a busy night, with the war going on now. But before it got itself into a little war, it took me to play ultimate frisbee. Cleveland has a league in the summer where kids from high school to college and many adults get together once a week to play frisbee. Everyone is on a team and those teams play each other each week, every Thursday night. Our team has been playing very well recently. We won our last 3 games and I believe our record is 6-3 and we play one more game next week. That weekend is the end of the year tournament. I hope my team does well. That's all for now, the ROFLCOPTER has a war to fight.

Film Appreciation, the 4 Day College Course

It's over. The ROFLCOPTER has passed over the class Film Appreciation for the last time. That was a class I took at the Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) this summer about the Film Industry in America. It was the best class (and by best I mean easiest class) I've probably ever taken. Here's why. This was a tele-course, which means I don't have to go to go any classes, I tape a 50 minute program every week and watch it at my leisure. There were ten programs, over ten weeks, and a small text book and study guide to learn the material from. The grade came only from taking two multiple choice tests, a midterm and a final.

I took the midterm Monday and the final Wednesday. Technically, if I were on the proper track and paced myself, I should have taken the midterm 5 weeks ago. But that's the beauty of these pace yourself courses, you can do the work whenever you want. To take the tests all I had to do was go into a testing center, so it was very convenient for me. You may be asking yourself how I learned all of that material by the final in a period of two days. Here's how. The prof. gave us a packet of study materials laid out in small blocks of information of things we should know. In fact, they were things we should know because they were the answers to the test. I had a suspicion of this and I made sure I knew everything in that packet plus other material just to cover myself. I went in to take the midterm and my suspicions were confirmed, it was the test. And not only was it the test, but the answers were in the same order and the choices in each question were in the same order. I was so thrilled. I spent about ten minutes on that test I had an hour to take. I felt like I was cheating somehow.

Have you ever seen the episode of Boy meets world where Cory and Shawn find out about a "pop" quiz and go home and study for it that night? The next day they take it and feel bad because they felt like they had an unfair advantage and turn themselves in. It turns out the teacher (may have been Mr. Feeny) told the class that there was a quiz coming up and of course, Cory and Shawn don't listen. They were had.

I feel kind of like that, maybe because I don't normally study for tests. I have an unfair advantage for knowing the material. I can tell you this, I changed my study technique for the final. I knew what I had to concentrate my attention on. It's nice taking a class for a community college, although it was very interesting and I enjoyed learning the material. They lower the bar so low, I can just skip over it. ROFLCOPTER, take me to my college credit.

BBQ + Work = Happy

The ROFLCOPTER stopped by Denison for the Denison Pool Guard barbecue. It was great! We had so much food and I ate a lot of it. The weather was also perfect. It was cloudy and cold which kept the patrons away (except one, but it was just a kid) but didn't rain on our parade. After I ate and settled down a little bit, I was full, tired, and had noting to do. Next logical step... nap time. I slept for an hour and when I woke up it was time for me to go home. I was at work from 9:45am-5:30pm and actually did only 15 minutes of actual lifeguarding. I <3 my job. The ROFLCOPTER has to take me back to my studying. ROFLCOPTER, away!

Brittney Cleary is my hero

The ROFLCOPTER found it. After flying around the INTERNET and finding a lot of the dead ends, the ROFLCOPTER is proud to bring you I.M. Me by Brittney Cleary. You can right click and download it or you can just let the INTERNET do the work for you and listen to it. Enjoy. ROFLCOPTER, our work here is done.

The Irish Jig of Termination

ROFLCOPTER warns you of the gentle singing of an Irish song coming your way. It could be a large jolly man doing an Irish Jig, and it could be the last Irish Jig you ever see, or want to see. Today at the pool, we determined that the way we'll get fired is Chris Kendel will mosey up the path doing a little Irish Jig, singing occasionally, "You're fired, da, da dee, tilly tee, de, de dum, You're fired..." And will grab your time card, tear it up and continue to sing and dance, doing the Irish Jig of Termination. The story goes, one of our guards got sent home today and was waiting around outside for a ride and I come out to see him and for no reason break out into an Irish Jig (Why do I do anything of the things I do?). He first thought I was coming over there to tell him that he was fired. He was confused when I started to do an Irish Jig (as you can imagine). We therefore put the two together and determined Chris will fire us while doing an Irish Jig and singing. If you have to go down, you should at least be merry at the time. ROFLCOPTER, dee ta dum, tilly do, lift off the ground and into the blue.

Denison Pool

Denison Pool, that's the name of the swimming pool where I lifeguard and the ROFLCOPTER flew in for some fun in the sun.  This is my fifth summer guarding there.  I started after my sophomore year of high school.  The staff this year is great, probably the best I've seen since I've started working there.  I don't mean to say I didn't enjoy working with previous staffs, but this one seems to mold well.  We're a cohesive unit and everyone seems to get along well enough, except for your occasional bickering.   Honestly, I'm surprised how much I'm enjoying working at Denison.  We are all pretty silly people and it's nice working with extremely tired and bored people because suddenly my entertainment and jokes are good.  I'm not the only source of entertainment though, we do a good job of entertaining eachother, that's probably why I'm so happy with everyone.  We also do fun stuff as a group such as play in the water on rainy days, or play sardines (kind of like hide and seek), or recently play volley ball. 

One of the guards brought up a volley ball and we made a make shift court half in and half out of the wading pool, using the fence as a net and the cracks in the side walk as boundaries.  We had a single elimination tournament today with pairs playing.  We had a few teams, and even a couple line judges.  I was even the score keeper and announcer (I used a mega phone for added affect).  I think the court was a good representation of Denison pool, it looked like crap and very little time and money went into, however, we still managed to have a great time playing on it regardless of how much it wasn't a real volley ball court.  We may be cheap, but by God, we're still better than Cumberland!  ROFLCOPTER, back to the Helipad.

PS - It also helps working with people who don't come in everyday with hangovers.

This Land

The ROFLCOPTER flew by some political humor in the form of a song, called This Land. Taken after the song This land is my land, this land is your land... Anyway, it's funny and you should watch it. Don't worry, it makes fun of both sides...and indians. ROFLCOPTER, away!

The Dentist

The ROFLCOPTER was up and running bright and early this morning.  It was kind enough to drop me off at the Dentist for a checkup.  This wasn't any old ordinary checkup, mind you.  This was the last time I could visit the Pediatric dentist.  I said my good byes to everyone and headed out.  It was actually kind of sad, I really like those doctors and nurses.  After all, they've been looking after my teeth practically my whole life.  Today, I've come to terms with the fact that my teeth are all growed up.  They'll be taking on new responsibilities and new foods, able to chew them with the grown up teeth that they are.  I'm no longer a child, as far as my teeth are concerned and in six months, I'll be off to my parents' dentist.  I'll I have now are memories...and a couple of fillings.  ROFLCOPTER, start your engine, let's go, back to the INTERNET!!!!1

Wallace and Gromit

ROFLCOPTER flew in with a new Wallace and Gromit short. It's funny and you should watch it. I'm a big fan of Wallace and Gromit. Just a note, you can also download it from the site too.

South Park

The ROFLCOPTER made a stop today where it found a web site that generates random South Park quotes so it decided to bring it back and now you can come here for random South Park enjoyment!

Random South Park Quotes

Welcome to the Heliport

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