Planking and Sunsets

    Hello everyone, I think I'm getting too old for this. In my age I have once again failed to post for an excessive amount of time, even though I started a new post (this post) like one minute after writing my last post.  I wrote what my two topics were going to be, and then I just left the page open for around 2 weeks and never really wrote anything else. Until now. That being said, I am currently on my lunch break, so I'll have to go back to work in 5 minutes. However, today is my last day of work (still not fired just going back to school), so there is a possibility that I will have time to finish writing this post in my new found spare time. We will see. But then school will start, and I have no idea how the whole blog business will turn out since I started this blog after summer break started, so I've never had to juggle school and blogging before. We will also see about that...

    Okay I'm back from work, let's do this. Today's topics will be Planking - not to be confused with owling or horsemanning and Sunsets because it's pretty much impossible to take a bad picture of a sunset, and I think having pictures in my blog makes it more awesome. Remember, becoming awesome is not a spectator sport, so get out there and start being awesome.

Planking

Level of Awesomeness: Fall (or lie) on your face awesomeness

What Is It: As it is known on the Interwebz, planking is "parkour for people who can't move fast." Basically, you lie face down on something (eg. the ground, a statue, a small child) preferably in public, and take a picture for the purposes of documentation. Recently, planking has received a lot of hate from YouTube commenters, but then again everything receives a lot of hate from YouTube commenters. On a side note, if you were guessing that I will never be discussing the awesomeness of comment boards on the Internet, you would be 100% correct. While planking may look stupid to the untrained eye, it is in fact quite fun to partake in. Look around you. Where could you plank?

On a garbage can?

Inside an airplane?

Better yet, on an airplane and yes that is Gordan Ramsay.

There are tons of places to plank, you just have to go out and find them. Just try not to get hurt doing it, it makes for bad publicity. Beginners may want to try planking on the ground first just to get the hang of it, then you can move on to bigger and better things when you feel you have mastered it.

Why Is It Awesome: Because it is fun to look for places you could lie down. Standing all day is tiring, so if you can find creative places to lie it could improve your quality of life by 7. Plus, you get a good ab workout if you lie on something that does not completely support your body. And as an added bonus you get to practice your photography skills. But wait there's more! You can't plank alone (at least it is very hard to photograph in this way), so you'll get to hang out with all your planking-loving friends (the best kind of friends) who are sure to be awesome. All this and more for the low, low price of - Free.

Sunsets

Level of Awesomeness: Better than Twilight

What Is It: At the end of the day - you may have noticed - the sun drops below the horizon and makes the sky all pretty and colourful. The sun then tunnels under the Earth below us and surfaces again sometime the next day around dawn. The sun tunnels more slowly in the winter because it is cold and if you will remember from particle theory, heat causes particles - or masses of particles such as the sun - to speed up. But we're getting off topic, what we want to be focusing on is sunsets. Perhaps it might be easiest to show you what I mean through use of visual aids.

You will notice a sunset in the background.

Sorry about the reflection off the window. They wouldn't let me on the runway.

Don't let the presence of the moon fool you; this is still a sunset.

They have sunsets in Italy too!

So yeah, that's what sunsets are if you didn't know.

Why Is It Awesome: Because the sky is more pleasing to look at when it is multi-coloured (that's why rainbows are also awesome). Also, sunsets make me seem like a half decent photographer because you can basically just point your camera at it, and it will turn out well.

P.S. I worry about my ability to complete tasks in University. Question...if it takes me 2 weeks to start writing a post and another 5 days to actually write it, then how long will it take me to fail out of University?

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and Express Passes

    Hello everyone, as you may remember from last time, I said I was leaving for Orlando. The reason being I was going to Universal Studios to see The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Now I'm back, and I can tell you it was awesome (see below). I went with my brother and aunt, as well as one of my aunt's friends and her husband and son. We stayed at one of the hotels that's part of Universal Studios, so that was cool because it was only a 10 minute walk to the parks in the morning. What wasn't cool was the weather - I know I used that joke already about Indianapolis - I don't know if it's just because I'm Canadian, but the United States feels really hot all the time. And you know what sucks when it's hot? Waiting in lines for rides. That's why Express Passes are so awesome, because you don't even have to wait in lines. Sure you feel bad for a second about walking past all those people in the regular line, but then you realize you're on the ride already and you couldn't care less about those people. If you go to an amusement park sometime (I recommend Universal Islands of Adventure - that's where Hogwarts is) you should invest in an Express Pass at least once to see why I think they're so awesome. Remember, becoming awesome is not a spectator sport, so get out there and start being awesome.

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Level of Awesomeness: More fun than burning witches.

What Is It: June 18th, 2010. The day Hogwarts opened its Orlando campus. These days that seems so long ago. Back in 2010 Rebecca Black wasn't even famous, but now I don't know if I could imagine the music industry without her... False. That is not difficult to imagine. But it does mean it took me over a year to get to Hogwarts. Now in case you're not familiar with Hogwarts, it is the school from Harry Potter, and in case you're not familiar with Harry Potter, he looks like this:

Or more importantly, like this:

See "A Very Potter Musical"

Now that that's out of the way I can tell you what The Wizarding World of Harry Potter really is. A land of wonder where all your dreams come true. Need I go on? Yes? Okay, it's an amusement park. Happy now? Good. It has rides such as: The Forbidden Journey (now featuring the longest wait times on this side of the Mississippi), Dragon Challenge and Flight of the Hippogriff.

Why Is It Awesome: Because it's almost as awesome as being Ron Weasley, which is still really awesome. Don't believe me? Check out these pictures I took.

It's Hogwarts!

It's a sign! Read what it says!

I got distracted by a roller coaster...Hogwarts is in the bottom left corner.

Express Passes

Level of Awesomeness: Passable

What Is It: Sometimes they are cards, sometimes it's just a piece of paper, but whatever it is it lets you skip the regular line at an amusement park and go in the express line instead. It's what those people you hate have. And it's awesome. Imagine, instead of waiting 2 hours to go on that ride you like, you wait 2 minutes. Now you can go on your favourite ride 59 extra times. Or, if you don't want all those extra rides, you have enough time to watch Cowboys & Aliens in the middle of the day while you wait for the regular people to get off the ride.

Why Is It Awesome: Because you have so much more time for activities! Standing in lines is not awesome, but going on rides is awesome! Now you get more awesomeness per unit of time!

P.S. When I was in Florida I found this "Awesome" mug.

Look how awesome it is!