Benign Thoughts

Well, I just got back from summer camp yesterday, so I’m still trying to get caught up with everything. So much stuff happened while I was gone I have no clue where to start. I got, like, over 100 emails actually worth reading, the boards I post on have tons of new posts I haven’t looked at yet, London’s transportation was bombed, a hurricane I didn’t even know about is over with, Bobby got his Linux working again, there’s another Detective Conan fansubbing group (it might have been around earlier, but I didn’t know about it) and some new episodes too, Opera released the first preview with Bittorrent support, and a lot of other stuff happened too. Anyway, in this post I guess I’ll post about what happened in camp this year since it’s over with.

It’s a Boy Scout camp, so I was gone all last week. If you tried to email me and you didn’t get a reply yet, I still have to read it. Camp was really good this year. They had a new cook at the camp (the camp I go to with my troop has 3 seperate camps on one huge reservation) I was in, and she actually knew how to cook unlike the previous ones. The food was actually edible, and the veggie meals (I don’t eat beef) were really good.

At the camp there’s this challenge course. I posted about these before, but the one at this camp is much harder. My group accidently got sent on the most difficult route across it. Basically, this thing’s 20-40 feet up, and you go through different obsticles to get to the other side. They’re mostly walking across wires holding on to other wires or ropes. There was this one part that involved walking across seperate wooden swings, and I kept getting myself tangled with the ropes. That one probably took the longest time. The one after that one was harder, but it took me a shorter amount of time it seemed since I didn’t get tangled and have to go back. It’s hard to explain the second one. Basically it was a wire between two points with two ropes. The two ropes intersected at the middle and connected to the wire on their opposite sides. The ropes start a little above waist height, but at the middle it’s really hard to hold on to without falling backwards, and there’s about 3 or more feet of slack on the rope connected to the harness, so it’s a good drop. Chris, who went after me, fell near the middle and someone had to hang a ladder down for him to climb back up. The giant’s ladder was also rather hard for me, for one because the rope holding me up was too tight most of the time (the belayer kept it really tight) and also because my partner just plain sucked at it, and he was really heavy. He also kept shaking which makes it pretty hard to keep balance.

Oh well, I’m done. I’d talk about the other stuff that happened but my dad might read this and I’ll get in trouble, so yeah. Maybe I’ll post it in a month when my dad can’t really do anything.