Saint Peter was at the gates of heaven talking to a new arrival. He said to the man,”You haven’t done anything bad, but you really haven’t done anything good either. If you tell me one thing that you did that was good, I will let you through.”

“Well,” the newcomer replied,”I was walking along a dark street when I saw a group of thugs robbing a lady in an alley way! I ran over and shouted,’ Leave her alone!’. Unfortunately, things wound up getting out of control and I wound up punching out their leader and challenging the rest of them to fight me.”

“Whoa,” Saint Peter said,”that is good! When did this all happen?”

“About 2 minutes ago.”

We are studying astronomy in science, and Mr. D is using this computer program called Astronomicon. A professor at UGA made it. Mr. D helped with testing so he got a free copy. Unfortunately, it is not for sale yet. Mr. D said he would like Bill Gates to buy it, perfect it, and publicize it and everything because it is a really great program. What you can do is create your own solar system (I think the milky way is preprogrammed on there) and see the effect things like sunlight, a planet’s tilt, and different kind of orbits have. We were able see what causes seasons, why the moon has 8 stages, and manipulate the things. You can view your solar system from many different angles or even from the perspective of one of the planets or stars. There are also some other fun impossible things you can do, like see what it would be like if a planet was a cube or cylinder. You can also play around with the shape of an orbit or even the texture of a planet. In fact, you could put a picture of yourself on a planet (or star). There is tons more to do on this program. It was fun to mess around with and a great learning experience.

Every Friday night, my friends and I go to Big Green Pete’s Mini Golf. There are 4 holes and you get 43 strokes to get the ball in the hole. I always pick a wooden ball, for good luck. I like to use a cheap putter that’s about the size of a pirate. All of the holes have really square decorations. The 3rd hole is my favorite . It has a 2 foot tall giraffe with lumpy legs that you have to crawl under. One time it took me 65 minutes to do it! the 4th hole has a big shiny windmill. If you can make your ball dance, you when a free pencil and get your picture taken with Pete!

disclaimer: this was a mad lib JR done by kelly and modified by kelly

Today, while we were driving to church for confession, we noticed that nobody was driving on the other side of the road. Instead, cars were all parked along the side. Nobody on our side was doing that… I asked my mom to turn down the radio so we could hear if there were any sirens. We soon found out that was not the case because we saw a police car (sirens off) pull over to the side. We kept driving along, and all up and down the road cars were parked on the side. We kept driving along guessing what it could be. It was like something out of a movie… Then we turned the corner, and the people who were on the other side of the road were driving! Can you guess what it was?