Ok...first I would like to say 'hi' and give a shout out to everyone who has made this summer so freakin' awesome this year!!! This may be the first time that I was happy AND my parents were too! I did a lot. In a sense, I almost feel sorta 'fatigued' after doing stuff day after day. I apologize if this has made me seem a little 'dead' to you guys lately but please understand it's because of a very large combination of factors. If I had it my way, I'd be playing baseball and music every other day and like, rest on the others. It almost seems like I need a little 'change of scenery' and hopefully my new job will grant me this opportunity.
But rest assured, I'm not going crazy -- and I think the remainder of the summer will work out just fine.
I do plan on changing things up a little, though -- and this *may* come as a surprise to you, but understand I need to *change* things up a little for now.
Later today I plan on re-arranging the basement in preperation for the autumn months...which means I'm cutting down to 2 computers (plus laptop and server so it's really more like 4 :) I'm doing this just to clean house and simplify things a little bit. You guys can still stop by and play multiplayer Diablo, etc. but I don't expect to have any future 'Cyberfests'
for awhile. We've had some great cyberfests this summer -- much better than last!!! At least things were managable!!! And I didn't piss off my parents every time I had one either!!!
I have to say I really REALLY enjoy playing music with everyone once again...chances are we won't be able to get any sorta 'band' together before school begins, BUT we can still work together to become better -- and that's
most important!!! Fun schtuff!
Next e-mail I have some new ideas for my website, etc. Read it and gimme your thoughts!
-Chris A. Czaplicki
Tuesday, August 14, 2001
American Pie part DUEX, etc.
Ok...first I would like to say 'hi' and give a shout out to everyone who has made this summer so freakin' awesome this year!!! This may be the first time that I was happy AND my parents were too! I did a lot. In a sense, I almost feel sorta 'fatigued' after doing stuff day after day. It's like I need a little 'change of scenery' and hopefully my new job will grant me this opportunity.
Anyhow, as I have heard we planned to go see American Pie 2 last Friday but due to mutual agreement it has been postponed until this weekend. I just want to make sure this is still cool for everyone. Chances are I'll be going camping this weekend but will probably still be able to make it if we go on Friday evening.
And Eddie -- EDDIE!!!! WHERE ARE U? Wake up we all want to hear from you and your magical GlowSticks!!! Will you be returning home soon???
So if anything is up anytime soon just gimme an e-mail or call sometime.
I'm sorta excited so I'll be happy to hear any sort of news whatsoever!
-Mr. ZA
Anyhow, as I have heard we planned to go see American Pie 2 last Friday but due to mutual agreement it has been postponed until this weekend. I just want to make sure this is still cool for everyone. Chances are I'll be going camping this weekend but will probably still be able to make it if we go on Friday evening.
And Eddie -- EDDIE!!!! WHERE ARE U? Wake up we all want to hear from you and your magical GlowSticks!!! Will you be returning home soon???
So if anything is up anytime soon just gimme an e-mail or call sometime.
I'm sorta excited so I'll be happy to hear any sort of news whatsoever!
-Mr. ZA
Saturday, August 11, 2001
Another GAME for EVERYONE to Play!!!
I was very ecstatic to see that my previous game called "I'll play your game you rogue" was rated so incredibly high by the ZA Readers Club. The current high scores belong to:
Geoffrey Reeder, 25 points (for getting punched in question #1) ZA - 20 points (for doing a log roll into ridge road and somersaulting back
home)
Bernie - 18 points (for imitating a hungry raccoon in my garbage can and successfully consuming 360 calories) Alex - (-5 points) Ended up in negatives for cheating in the rabid dog incident
Thank you to all who participated!
Our next game is called "Everybody Loves PATRICK!"
The object of the game is to collect all the sound bits from a PATRICK song by "The Goofy Bastards" and transplant them into a hit song of your own liking.
Just think of the possibilities!!!
Staind - It's Been Awihle (Patrick) - (Pizza) - (Patrick) (patrick) Limp Bizkit -- checkkkkkkooouuuuPATRICK!!! (woe...check out patrick?) Creed - With PATRICK wide open? (Is this even possible?) If so I quit.
Duran Duran - Hungry like the (PIZZA)
Britney Cleary - IM PATRICK!!!!!! OMG this is 2 funny!!!1
Ok -- I gave you some ideas now LET'S GET TO MAKING MUSIC!!! Deadline for entries will be August 31, 2001. Results soon to follow. I'm anxiously waiting to see everybody's work!
Geoffrey Reeder, 25 points (for getting punched in question #1) ZA - 20 points (for doing a log roll into ridge road and somersaulting back
home)
Bernie - 18 points (for imitating a hungry raccoon in my garbage can and successfully consuming 360 calories) Alex - (-5 points) Ended up in negatives for cheating in the rabid dog incident
Thank you to all who participated!
Our next game is called "Everybody Loves PATRICK!"
The object of the game is to collect all the sound bits from a PATRICK song by "The Goofy Bastards" and transplant them into a hit song of your own liking.
Just think of the possibilities!!!
Staind - It's Been Awihle (Patrick) - (Pizza) - (Patrick) (patrick) Limp Bizkit -- checkkkkkkooouuuuPATRICK!!! (woe...check out patrick?) Creed - With PATRICK wide open? (Is this even possible?) If so I quit.
Duran Duran - Hungry like the (PIZZA)
Britney Cleary - IM PATRICK!!!!!! OMG this is 2 funny!!!1
Ok -- I gave you some ideas now LET'S GET TO MAKING MUSIC!!! Deadline for entries will be August 31, 2001. Results soon to follow. I'm anxiously waiting to see everybody's work!
Friday, August 10, 2001
Top 10 Quotes of 2000-2001 School Year
10) ...it would take over 30,000 bowls!...
9) "You've got quite a treasure there in that Horadric Cube"
8) "I smashed face today"
7) "Suck-a suck-a suck-a"
6) "PATRICK. PATRICK. Just wanna let you know..."
-also-
"This one goes out to the JCU softball team"
5)"Stp Rocker: today was weird...
ZaRocks: cool beanoes
ZaRocks: why?
ZaRocks: did u work?
Stp Rocker: yessir
Stp Rocker: and uh this girl at work started making out with me in the aisle Stp Rocker: out of nowhere...so strange Stp Rocker: I'm pretty sure she wasn't drunk either
ZaRocks: ok..."
4) "We're digital divas. Believe us"
3) "Oh what luck...there's a french fry stuck in my beard"
2) "GET BACK. GO AWAY."
1) "I'll play your game you rogue"
-Christopher Alexander Alber Avenue
9) "You've got quite a treasure there in that Horadric Cube"
8) "I smashed face today"
7) "Suck-a suck-a suck-a"
6) "PATRICK. PATRICK. Just wanna let you know..."
-also-
"This one goes out to the JCU softball team"
5)"Stp Rocker: today was weird...
ZaRocks: cool beanoes
ZaRocks: why?
ZaRocks: did u work?
Stp Rocker: yessir
Stp Rocker: and uh this girl at work started making out with me in the aisle Stp Rocker: out of nowhere...so strange Stp Rocker: I'm pretty sure she wasn't drunk either
ZaRocks: ok..."
4) "We're digital divas. Believe us"
3) "Oh what luck...there's a french fry stuck in my beard"
2) "GET BACK. GO AWAY."
1) "I'll play your game you rogue"
-Christopher Alexander Alber Avenue
The 2000-2001 School Year (in Review?)
Life is like baseball; with every season comes changes. New experiences, new friends, new beginnings and of course, new endings. But don't forget to leave out the "Neverending Story" of the saga of Buffalo ZA. Ok -- that didn't make any sense. I have successfully deleted the opportunity of this paragraph meaning ANYTHING at all.
But what I really meant to say is -- the current "season" is almost over, and a new one about to begin. I like to think that the school "year" begins in September and ends with the big party during summer. So in essence we're still in the '00-'01 year, soon to rollover to '01-'02. It's all one huge cycle. Let's see...last year it went like this:
September/October '00 - Everyone goes off to school. ZA stays at home. ZA goes to Tri-Hi. ZA plays softball and stuff. ZA works at the rink too!
November/December '00 - ZA is bored. ZA does not know what to do except to whine about the rink. ZA spends lots of $$$ and parents get really mad.
Then comes Xmas. ZA is happy again to see friends return. Yeehaw!
January-April '01 - ZA changes attitude. SIMPLIFICATION is key. ZA begins search for a REAL job, but fails. Grrr. ZA starts playing magic again and the social life opens up once more. The rink is still fun. Uncle Ralphie takes off for a month and CIC's are in March.
May '01 - ZA's brother-in-law Jim gets Kidney transplant. Za's sister Donna passes away from a combination of 1,000,001 different ailments. A very sad time for myself, but with death comes new life.
June/July '01 - More fun ZaFests, Softball, Music, Magic and Diablo II! ZA goes out west to experience extremely large stretches of open rocky wasteland. ZA whips a mule's ass wif a belt.
August '01 - ZA keeps up the good work. Yay.
But what I really meant to say is -- the current "season" is almost over, and a new one about to begin. I like to think that the school "year" begins in September and ends with the big party during summer. So in essence we're still in the '00-'01 year, soon to rollover to '01-'02. It's all one huge cycle. Let's see...last year it went like this:
September/October '00 - Everyone goes off to school. ZA stays at home. ZA goes to Tri-Hi. ZA plays softball and stuff. ZA works at the rink too!
November/December '00 - ZA is bored. ZA does not know what to do except to whine about the rink. ZA spends lots of $$$ and parents get really mad.
Then comes Xmas. ZA is happy again to see friends return. Yeehaw!
January-April '01 - ZA changes attitude. SIMPLIFICATION is key. ZA begins search for a REAL job, but fails. Grrr. ZA starts playing magic again and the social life opens up once more. The rink is still fun. Uncle Ralphie takes off for a month and CIC's are in March.
May '01 - ZA's brother-in-law Jim gets Kidney transplant. Za's sister Donna passes away from a combination of 1,000,001 different ailments. A very sad time for myself, but with death comes new life.
June/July '01 - More fun ZaFests, Softball, Music, Magic and Diablo II! ZA goes out west to experience extremely large stretches of open rocky wasteland. ZA whips a mule's ass wif a belt.
August '01 - ZA keeps up the good work. Yay.
WTF have I been up to?
Don't even ask :) You know me -- I'm always getting into trouble everyday.
My name is on the blackboard with 4 checkmarks. Uh oh. You wonder...what did I manage to do today?
Well you see...it ain't all *THAT* bad. In fact I have good news for once.
I actually have a JOB!!! The downside is...it's only for 3 weeks but it's still a great opportunity to pay off my gargantuan bills I have accumulated during my tenure as a first-class bum. There's a little place called an employment agency that gives you the phat hooookup. Well...I'm still waiting to see the "phat" but you know what I mean :) It's cool that I can finally take home a paycheck!!!
So anyways I start on Tuesday and will work 8:30am-5:30pm. If I seem tired or dead or anything in-between it's probably because I have nothing better to do than play Tetris Attack at work. Then again I may actually do something productive here and there. That remains to be seen...
Also in the News of ZA (hereby known as NoZ) I ate lots of Colon Blow. It tasted good but the abdominal distention that followed afterwards caused immense problems with the home plumbing system. My Bad. In other news, my fingers hurt a lot from playing guitar like a maniac. I can really knock it out. I can rock Suddam Hussein's ass back to Moscow, Russia. Actually I still am a complete novice at the instrument but at least I am having fun!
Coming up next...the top 10 quotes of the 2001 summer season!
My name is on the blackboard with 4 checkmarks. Uh oh. You wonder...what did I manage to do today?
Well you see...it ain't all *THAT* bad. In fact I have good news for once.
I actually have a JOB!!! The downside is...it's only for 3 weeks but it's still a great opportunity to pay off my gargantuan bills I have accumulated during my tenure as a first-class bum. There's a little place called an employment agency that gives you the phat hooookup. Well...I'm still waiting to see the "phat" but you know what I mean :) It's cool that I can finally take home a paycheck!!!
So anyways I start on Tuesday and will work 8:30am-5:30pm. If I seem tired or dead or anything in-between it's probably because I have nothing better to do than play Tetris Attack at work. Then again I may actually do something productive here and there. That remains to be seen...
Also in the News of ZA (hereby known as NoZ) I ate lots of Colon Blow. It tasted good but the abdominal distention that followed afterwards caused immense problems with the home plumbing system. My Bad. In other news, my fingers hurt a lot from playing guitar like a maniac. I can really knock it out. I can rock Suddam Hussein's ass back to Moscow, Russia. Actually I still am a complete novice at the instrument but at least I am having fun!
Coming up next...the top 10 quotes of the 2001 summer season!
Tuesday, August 7, 2001
ZA for ALL!
I sometimes wonder how a calm and an otherwise normal disciplined kid can act so viciously crazy. Actually, no I don't -- I know myself too well :) But anyways I thought it would be even more amazingly amazing to reflect on something we don't think about very often: The wonderful, underful world of Cardboard!
Cardboard, everybody...can be thick, thin, black, white, but usually brown.
Without it, we wouldn't have a lot life's little luxuries including:
-Homes (well, when I mentioned "little" luxury I wasn't really kidding) -Pepsi cubes -- pepsi would remain but without a box to hold the cans, a case of Pepsi would kill 24 Seals or Ducks with plastic rings -Toilet paper rolls -- it isn't rocket science to know that rolling toilet paper without a firm outer core is a daunting and otherwise inefficient task. Do you know what we would have to use instead of a toilet paper roll?
Individual sheets. We had these in grade school (and maybe in high school?) and let me tell you -- LITTLE 4X4 SHEETS OF TP ARE JUST A LITTLE TOO SMALL -Boxes for ZA. This only inhibits ZA from being delivered, thank God.
Still, I see it as a very important innovation just as the light bulb was.
-Computer game boxes -- well, in a couple years this will completely phase out as software will most likely disappear from store shelves (probably not, but we may see the beginnings of it soon) -Jigsaw Puzzels. Have you ever made a jigsaw puzzle out of paper just for fun? It doesn't work, DOES IT?
-Those little chalkboards you had at home in kindergarten -- don't be fooled...the surface may not be cardboard, but underneath the surface lurks something interesting.
-Your attic. It would not be called an 'attic' if cardboard boxes didn't exist. It would instead be referred to as a 'Personal Antique shop' or 'Landfill', whichever suits your fancy.
-Packard Bell Computers -- obviously, this is a no-brainer -UPS, FedEx, etc. -- again, a no-brainer (makes you wonder how friggin' rich that cardboard inventor guy really is!) -Shoes -- I guess shoes could still be worn, but they could never be transported. Is there any other box in the world more widely known and accepted as the "Shoe Box?"
Ok I thought enough today.
Tomorrow I will have another GAME for EVERYONE to play! It will be called...Everybody Loves PATRICK!
-Chris
Cardboard, everybody...can be thick, thin, black, white, but usually brown.
Without it, we wouldn't have a lot life's little luxuries including:
-Homes (well, when I mentioned "little" luxury I wasn't really kidding) -Pepsi cubes -- pepsi would remain but without a box to hold the cans, a case of Pepsi would kill 24 Seals or Ducks with plastic rings -Toilet paper rolls -- it isn't rocket science to know that rolling toilet paper without a firm outer core is a daunting and otherwise inefficient task. Do you know what we would have to use instead of a toilet paper roll?
Individual sheets. We had these in grade school (and maybe in high school?) and let me tell you -- LITTLE 4X4 SHEETS OF TP ARE JUST A LITTLE TOO SMALL -Boxes for ZA. This only inhibits ZA from being delivered, thank God.
Still, I see it as a very important innovation just as the light bulb was.
-Computer game boxes -- well, in a couple years this will completely phase out as software will most likely disappear from store shelves (probably not, but we may see the beginnings of it soon) -Jigsaw Puzzels. Have you ever made a jigsaw puzzle out of paper just for fun? It doesn't work, DOES IT?
-Those little chalkboards you had at home in kindergarten -- don't be fooled...the surface may not be cardboard, but underneath the surface lurks something interesting.
-Your attic. It would not be called an 'attic' if cardboard boxes didn't exist. It would instead be referred to as a 'Personal Antique shop' or 'Landfill', whichever suits your fancy.
-Packard Bell Computers -- obviously, this is a no-brainer -UPS, FedEx, etc. -- again, a no-brainer (makes you wonder how friggin' rich that cardboard inventor guy really is!) -Shoes -- I guess shoes could still be worn, but they could never be transported. Is there any other box in the world more widely known and accepted as the "Shoe Box?"
Ok I thought enough today.
Tomorrow I will have another GAME for EVERYONE to play! It will be called...Everybody Loves PATRICK!
-Chris
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