Out of my comfort zone:

I do not like roller coasters. The last time I was on a roller coaster was May of last year, in Vegas. We went to Vegas for vacation and late on our last night there we went to the Stratosphere; which is the largest building on this side of the Mississippi River. On top of the Stratosphere there are three roller coasters; Big shot shoots passengers straight up 160 feet at 45 miles per hour (over 4 Gs) putting you 1081 feet above the strip. That's the one I went on, it scared me so bad I wont touch a roller coaster ever again.

I also experienced another thing in Vegas that I'm never doing again, the elevator goes 21 miles per hour! Scared me half to death. Elevators already scared me, but I drew the line there.

Last night:

Last night was the most intense night of my life. I was in Portland, at the Roseland Theater to see Silverstein; August Burns Red; and A Day To Remember. I went with my friend Ben and we got up to the front with these two guys and we were pushing people back and we ended up moshing and crowd surfing for ten minutes then back to the front we went. Then A Day To Remember came on the stage, and I moshed to every one of there breakdowns. after the show I ended up seeing a lot of my friends there that I never saw on the inside, it was pretty weird. we hung out for a little bit than my step dad got there and took us back home. Now my neck is killing me and my calf's are on fire.

Do parent roles change?

I believe they do, because their kids get out of diapers and into school within 5 years. Then middle school comes and they find they're roots for what they want to be when they get older. Then high school comes, the kids are around drugs and alcohol, and could royally mess up their plans for their future. All these parents have to deal with their kids coming home every night from when they started school with different attitudes every year that goes by. It goes from first kiss, to their first time smoking weed almost in an instant. Then the parents are wondering "When or where did I mess up and become a bad parent?" Parenting roles change every day until they're kid becomes an adult, and nothing will ever change that.

A story:

I was walking to school one day and this dragon came out of nowhere and I reached for my sword, but it wasn't there. Than I remembered that we aren't allowed to bring weapons to school. So I ran back to my house really quick to grab it, and the dragon followed me there crashing into everything on the way. I got my sword and look the dragon in the eye and said "f**k you dragon!" And he bit my leg off, and I punched him in the eye and stabbed him repeatedly. That was the first time I slayed a dragon.

In Our Final Hour:

The band (Ed, Ben, and I) have found two new members. We have changed things around though. Ben is now on guitar, because he is a way better guitarist than a drummer. Ed still plays guitar. I switched to drums, because I'm a better drummer than a vocalist. Thomas and I have been friends for a year now and he got really good at vocals, he told us about his friend Brian, who plays bass. I know Brian, he is really good at playing guitar and bass, and he has a lot of equipment that we need to record, play shows, and so on. Regardless we needed a bass player. that's how the band has been going.

And we started making tee shirts, with our name on the front and a design, or quotes from our songs on the back. we are almost finished with the rough copies on uberprints.com. We have a few for sure designs that we are going with. Our main design is I O F H on the front, and a big clock on the back.

Anne Frank's statement of the day:

"Things are just as bad as you, yourself care to make them." I think it means that things aren't as bad as they seem, but a hyperactive mind would make things seem worse. I do agree with this statement because things are never as bad as they seem. They might seem that way in your brain, however where there is a will, there is a way. In other words, for every bad situation, there is either a solution or a way out of it. If you put yourself and the other person/thing in front of what you think, there is a solution or a way out.

What I remember about the Diary of Anne Frank:

They went into hiding from the Nazi's, and they almost got caught one day. Then they had friends help them with food, and supplies. Anne and Peter have some sort of relationship, and Margot doesn't like it. I personally don't like the book, because it's all complaints. I can understand why you would complain about it, because it's the Holocaust, but I don't want to read a book about somebody complaining, or finding love or anything like that, because books are for imagination, and mystery, not real life scenarios. if i wanted to listen to people complain, I'd watch Metallica's Some Kind of Monster DVD coverage of the recording process of St. Anger.