So everyone knows the southwest "Want to get away?" commercials.  Well I have one.  It was quite the ultimate ackward moment.  Alright story time.

So tonight we played capture the flag after All Campus Worship.  We had a group of about 20 Urbana IV people playing.  A group of FAR people went to moonstruck instead (this is important, you shall see).  But this was no normal capture the flag.  This was set up by Nacho, so this was commandos capture the flag.  There were missions and things such as grenades, RPGs, helicopters, satellites.  You know almost Halo or Bond like game setup.

The first mission for our side was to scout out the opposition's side.  Find out where the flag was, where the base was, where the PL was.  Possibly even steal the flag.  So Jason tells us we can do whatever to try to get this information.  One idea he suggested was just to act like we were normal students strolling around.  So our team sent out two teams of one guy and one girl to probe the opposition.  I was assigned to one of these teams since I can run fast and get out of there if trouble was encountered.

So after a change of clothes, so that the other team wouldn't recognize us, we set out.  I was wearing a white hoodie as apposed to my I'm prepared for a blizzard outfit I had had on.  So we set out in our different looks and tried to appear as a couple out for a midnight stroll.

So we start out walking around the perimeter going around the whole playing field.  And after only a short while we see people coming towards us.  We were like, Is that the other team?  Nah.  Who would send out an envoy of 6 people.  So we continue on.  As we get closer we notice that it is the group of people from FAR coming back from Moonstruck.  I hoped the hoodie would somehow hide me.  You know, cast a shadow over my face so no one would recognize me.  Yup.  You guessed it.  No luck.  Definitely got the 'what in the world are you doing?' look from Jenny Z.  Not sure I'll ever be able to forget that look.  Like nothing I've ever seen before.  But being fair to Jenny:  I guess it's not every day you see someone walking on the south quad with his arm around someone else's girlfriend.  If you guessed I didn't say a word during this ordeal, you are right.  I was just trying to figure out how I knew Murphy's law would prove to make that one of the randomist ackward moments ever.

Yeah so.  Brenda told them we were playing a game.  Not sure they believed her.  We continued on and were successful in locating the flag.  The other team was tricked as well I guess you'd say.

On another note.  I had a sweet kill during the one round.  I managed to sneak into the enemy's base and hide behind a row of bushes while they had their backs turned.  Then after they finished discussing some tactics they split up and Chris wandered my way.  he ended up standing about ten feet away on the other side of the bushes.  So I just lobbed a grenade right to his feet and he never saw what hit him.

Yeah so I encourage people to share stories they think can beat that one in ackwardness. 

So it seems to be the cool thing to do these days...becoming 20 years old.  So I decided I would fall in with the crowd on this one.  20 as of 8:34am nov 9th.

Roommate gets massive props for giving me frosted mini-chex.  Good work.

Cookie results:  The first experiment was very uncontrolled and had to be thrown out.  Most of you probably didn't officially test those.  But the second experiment was test worthy.  The overall consensus was that the fluffy ones were liked, but not as tasty.  This is probably due to the dilution of the flavor ingredients.  The original recipe won the taste test, but it was close.  The original was in the red tin and the experimental was in the white and red tin.

So for those who were wondering.  The fluffiness was created by adding applesauce and milk.  The fluffiness could also be changed by adding another egg.  But for now I'm going to work on enhancing the taste of the fluffy ones.  The thought being that the people who liked the original liked it for the flavor while the others liked the fluffy one for it's fluffiness (in general).  Some did like the denser structure.  Adding flavor enhancements should make the experimental cookie a bit denser anyways.

The next round of experimenting will be delayed a bit.  Being as I need to go get more ingredients.

This has been your nightly cookie update.

Good Night.

Alright.  For the A+A people out there.  Military victory with Germany on it's 5th turn.  Yeah the AI sucks.  I've been working on a better Germany strategy since my Russian strategy has become quite dominant.  I was trying to overcome my Russian strategy and having problems.  I've basically come up with better general attacking strategy as well as a different Germany strategy.  Requires a solid Japan player to utilize advantage.

In other news.  Finally got all the cookie ingredients.  So when I am actually around and not busy the first experiment willl commence.  Possibly next friday or sat.  Still need volunteers to taste/ properties test the cookies.  Job includes medical and dental benefits.  IE: the goodness of the cookies makes your teeth stronger and improves emotional and physical health.  Further testing in this area is still needed.

So the frisbee team is getting better.  Record is 2-4 with a win on the way monday, so a 5th seed in the tournament.  The team is making solid progress in learning how to run a good defense and offense.  I've also stopped making bad mistakes and have even made a lot of solid plays.  So we should be able to upset the 4th seed.  And then we will have fun losing to the top seed again.  Unless a couple of their allstars don't show, then we could pull of an upset.

So back to EALC 120 lecture again.  It's not that the lectures aren't interesting.  It's probably because they are that I'm awake to notice things and then tell these great stories.  So midway through lecture this pink balloon wanders up via the ceiling.  Air currents gradually working it forward.  Once it gets close to the front it actually turns back towards the back.  Interesting air flow.  So I forget about the balloon for a while.  Later I notice that it has settled under one of the lights.  These are lights that are circular with a recess into the ceiling.  I point it out to howard.  We that the odds are good that those lights are quite hot.  So now the big question: how long until it pops?

In physics today we learned about these expensive shocks that use oil with iron filings in solution.  When current is applied, the filings line up and change the vicosity.  So you can actually achieve better than critical dampening.  Pretty cool.

So nothing that funny is coming to mind.  But read the first link in my profile.  Amazingly good stories and jibberish.  Good as in very funny.

So the frisbee team met a real match on wednesday.  The team made some costly mistakes, and unfortunately I was responsible for some of them.  It was still close.  But there is time to refine before the playoffs.  I'm also looking for people to toss during lunch time when I have, and probably others have like 30 min of down time.  This is during the 12-1 hour on monday, wednesday, friday, and the 11:30-1 time slot on tuesday thursday.  If you are interested, let me know.  I think I've got howard booked for future monday's and wednesdays, but that's it so far.

Yeah.. So as soon as I go to meijer and buy more ingredients the cookie experiments will start up.

So wednesday was a good day.  Well started out as such.  They finally fixed our mailbox after a month.  But now it works really well, so that's nice.  Also I went to pay my bill for school and found that I had a scholarship.  This comes after being asked over and over by the dad why I wan't getting one this year as appose to last year.  So that was nice as well.

Then the day got a little worse.  I managed to get a sore calf muscle, but it's more the side of the leg, not the shin or normal calf behind.  I figure it's from playing frisbee in those hiking shoes.  Should really get cleats.  All that running on uneven fields with my gimpy leg and all must have annoyed the muscle.  Oh well.  It's feeling better today, but I haven't played frisbee again since wednesday night.

So played A+A on the comp today.  Lasted 3 rounds.  Played both axis powers.  Economic victory.  The good news is that they are coming out with a new A+A game in november that is suppose to have much better AI.