Another lap around the sun

Well today at about 6:18 am, I've made another trip around the sun. It doesn't really feel like my birthday, and I didn't really do anything that special. It started out like a normal day. I got to school, took a quiz in geometry, went swimming in physical education, had lunch, went to physics and still didn't really understand anything, then had study hall and band in fifth period. T=hen I went to work to puck up my paycheck. One thing I noticed is that my name wasn't up on the "birthdays" list on the back white board at Wal-Mart. I know they didn't forget my birthday since they sent me a card in the mail.

For dinner, we went to the new Texas Roadhouse with my grandparents on my dad's side. I got my usual out-to-eat meal (chicken fingers and fries). My grandparents on my mom's side couldn't come since my grandma is in the hospital. She has had some medical problems the past few months, and she had to go to the emergency room last night. We visited her at the hospital after we went out to eat.

On the plus side, we have a three day weekend; no school for Friday, so I might have a few friends over. But the fun will end there. I have to work on Saturday, the spring band concert is Sunday, and on Monday I have to take the AP Government test, which will take up three periods. And on top of that, I have to have a song memorized for band by Tuesday in order to go on the band trip, and I need to do all the homework and quiz corrections in physics that I neglected the past week and a half.

Ugh...

Happy 25th Birthday, The Weather Channel.

Today marks the 25th birthday of cable network, The Weather Channel. On May 2, 1982, the network made it's first live broadcast. While I didn't watch in the early years (mainly because I wasn't yet born), I began watching sometime in the early to mid 1990s. While other kids my age would be watching cartoons, I'd spend hours a day watching the weather on TV. I don't know why I was so interested, but I'm thinking it was because I was so interested in maps and geography, and when I saw the weather maps on the TV, I was hooked. I watched the channel throughout the late 1990s, and I remember all the different changes the network went through, and I remember our cable company's Weather STAR 4000. As I got into my teenage years, I lost interest, but then in March 2006, I discovered TWC Classics, a website devoted to the "classic" years of the network, and I finally re-found interest in the channel, and really meteorology in a larger sense. So in celebration of The Weather Channel's twenty-fifth birthday, I present an emulated Weather STAR III Local Forecast for TWC's 25th birthday: