Sorry I haven’t been to my blog in the last few months.  Things got busy with school, then school was out, and I forgot about it.  And now, my Uncle Brian is in Gainesville, so we’ve been hanging out with him a lot.  I slept over Friday and Saturday.  It’s really cool to have him hanging out, because we haven’t seen him since Christmas.  He lives in New York, so we see him just a few times a year.  We like to play video games, wiffle ball, and sometimes just be idiots.

Recently, I’ve spent a lot of time on Facebook.  I find that it is very addicting, and I can prove it.  All the people I chat with and talk to are on everyday.  They range from kids, moms, dads, grandparents, bosses, employees, and millionaires.  Maybe something needs to be done about that, I hope not, but it would be very beneficial to millions of people.

Anyhow, I’ll try to update this more often now.  Enjoy your summer!

-JM

If you’re reading this you are a genius, because you have decided to look at my blog when I haven’t posted anything on here in months.  In this post I am going to explain to you why I like Facebook, and why I think Mozilla Firefox is superior to Internet Explorer.

My first subject, Facebook, the site that has consumed me for the past few months.  The reason I like Facebook so much is two things really, but I’m going to expand it into four.  These four reasons are: re-meeting people from my past, staying in the loop with my current friends, getting to chat with friends, and playing games.

Here’s a little fact, of the friends on my current friend list, I haven’t seen 20 of them in the last year.  Of those 20, it’s been over two years for 14 of them.  Of those 14, I haven’t seen 9 of them in over five years.  Considering how young I am, that’s a long time.

Staying in the loop is vital to everyone, nobody likes to be the odd man out.  Nobody wants to be in the dust.  That’s why everyone has TVs and Computers, and radios, and most people still have the newspaper.  Because they want to stay in the loop.  Since joining Facebook I’ve known about more activities going on in town that I knew about the entire previous year, and I’ve only been on it since mid-November 2008, and it’s late-January 2009.  So it’s a very helpful resource to have (February 24th is free pancake day at IHOP!!!!!!!!!!).

Facebook has this chat feature that is pretty cool, it’s not as good as it could be, but I like it.  Granted, I’d take Google Talk over Facebook Chat anyday, but it’s still pretty good.  Through the chat feature I’ve been able to hook up with one of my friends that I haven’t seen in 8 years… That’s a long time folks.  It’s completely private and safe from prying eyes, so you can share your info freely and not be afraid of scams and hackers coming to your inbox/door.  It’s so private, that you can’t even view a history of your chats.  Now that’s hardcore.

Finally, the games.  They have that saying about saving the best for last… and here’s my best.  My favorite game (they’re called apps on Facebook) is Mouse hunt, it’s addicting, and very annoying, and that’s what I love about it.  You set your trap, bait it, and wait for mice that give you gold, points, and bonus rewards.  Another fun app to do is Superpoke.  Superpoke is an app where you can do meaningless things to your friends (ie. karate chop, throw a sheep at, give chocolate to, pinch, tase, enjoy happy hour, etc…).  So that’s fun to do.  My favorite thing to do to someone is go Chuck Norris on them.

So that’s what I like about Facebook.  Here’s what I think about Mozilla Firefox, and why it’s better than IE.

Mozilla Firefox is a much more intelligent browser than Internet Explorer (called IE here for brevity).  It has a feature that lets you go to the most visited sites… a really useful thing when you go to the same site over and over again.  It remembers usernames and passwords (usernames are automatic, passwords aren’t) for you, which again is helpful for someone who goes to the same site multiple times a day.  It’s easier to maneuver than IE, and came up with the idea of tabs before IE.  IE can view the new sites, but Firefox does it better and much faster.  On my laptop using Mozilla Firefox, I can get to stuff online that other people using a similar computer with the same features (the only difference is IE) take twice the time to get there.  I can access the internet faster, get to sites faster, and download stuff faster.  So that’s why I like Mozilla Firefox over IE.

Thanks for your time… Genius.

-JMS

-JM

-JM

Two thinks.  We beat the Tigers and I caught two passes for about 15-20 yds and an extra point.  I also got two tackles and a fumble recovery(well, i would have had the fumble recovery but the refs decided that the guy on top of me had better control over the ball that was under me than I did, go figure.)  That puts us in 1st place going into the playoffs.  The HTML thing is because I’m learning HTML now.  So I’ve been busy figuring that out recently.  Does anyone need a website?  I can’t do anything fancy but would a colored background and a bunch of difficult to understand a=href”link” writing work?  Let me know.

-JM

-JM

The first reason is this.  I caught it from the tight end position on a corner route.  I’m not allowed to tell you more for fear that you might accidentally spill the beans to an opposing player or coach (sorry).  However I caught it on a corner route right behind the CB and ran about 20 yds to the endzone where I nearly got knocked off the field at the 1 but I made it just barely past the safety.  I almost had 2 others but the one went over my head and the other was jarred right out of my hands when the CB came outta nowhere and blind-sided me (hold on, I’m wandering).

Reason number two happens to be because it was the first TD of the game, and wowee was it sweet.  It was the first big play of the game.

Now, reason number three, this is why I’ll go down in the Hall of Fame.  When I caught it, it was nearly impossible to see (only angels, God, the devil, and his demons can see it), but there were about three demons chasing me the whole way.  And oh my word can they run fast.  They tried to speed up the safety but he was on the other side of the field so I escaped their evil clutches (but just barely).  The reason I know this happens to be an odd one but I’ll tell you anyways.  I was thinking about what would be really cool to say about it and then I thought, “What if devils were chasing me.  And what if I had to out run them?  Wow, that would be good.”

Ok, now that you have recovered from that severe attack of the coughs (we both know you were laughing), we can proceed.  Before I let you go do something else that is probably much more important than this I would like to tell you something really cool about one of my games on the XBox 360.  In the first game of the year I got 3 INT’s, a fumble recovery, and 2 Defensive TD’s (it was in NCAA ‘07).  After that stunning performance (I’d like to mention that he also had something like 6 tackles along with this one player’s incredibe turnover ratio, I mean, he’s on D, he hasn’t had any turnovers that I can think of) he, a SS in his senior year, was #3 in the Heisman Watch.  I mean, really, a SS?  Ha, talk about lightning strikes… Bzzh!  Something happens when I say that apparently.  Anyhow, go back to your important stuff and don’t come back ’til next Monday night, at least.  I’ve been busy lately.

-JM

I’ll start with my achievements in the Cougars - Tigers rivalry.  Defense first, I got 2 tackles and a forced fumble playing Outside Linebacker and Cornerback.  I didn’t start at any position today.  On offense, I played at Tight End mainly although I did play at Wide Receiver a little.  At Tight End I got this one awesome block where I hit the guy and he fell over backwards like I had thrown a chair at him and nailed him in the chest.  At Wide Receiver the ball was thrown to me once.  The end result: 35yd TD!  Let me describe the moment to you.

Eddie is in at Quarterback, he calls the passing play.  I line up and when the ball is snapped I run the fly route.  The Cornerback is pre-occupied with the other receiver on my side running a post pattern.  I’m wide open and Eddie throws it in my general direction.  For you to understand how this works out I need to describe the weather just a little bit.  It is raining and there is a decent wind that is coming and going so a pass play is kind of risky.  So, with that out of the way I can continue.  The Cornerback and Safety both see the ball and run to try and go for the interception.  They are both headed my way and the only thing I’m thinking as I watch the ball fly towards my hands is, “I don’t wanna get hit, I really don’t wanna get hit!”  The Safety and Corner both jump for the ball 5 yards away from me.  They collide and trip over each other as I grab the ball when it hits my numbers.  I turn and jog 6 steps into the back of the end zone (I caught it around the 4).

I give the ball to the ref as all the guys in the huddle are patting my back and giving me high fives.  Once we finish up the drive by going for the 1 pt. conversion  we all head back to the sidelines.  As I run up all I can think is, “No way, I caught a TD.  No way.”  I get back to the sideline and coach grabs me and lifts me up.  Everyone is saying, “Wow, that was a beautiful catch.  I thought for sure it would be picked off because you stopped running but wow that was a great catch.”  All through halftime and even after the game was over they were still saying how incredible the catch was.  Coach even mentioned it in his post game comments; he said, “…Josh had a great first Touchdown catch, and he’s not even a starter…”  It was awesome and my friend Josh’s (yes, we have the same name, ironic isn’t it?) Dad greeted me for dinner as we walked up to the Crispers outside dining area with the TD signal, both hands raised above the head.

It was awesome, if you have any thoughts about this I’d appreciate it if you’d post them.  I will post all of the future game scores on this one as comments unless I do something else that’s worth more than a sentence.  Sorry about the length but I wanted to share every second of it with you.

-JM

We totally demolished the Tigers.  We took a quick 13-0 lead and then in the second half, we kind of collapsed.  Final score: Cougars 13 Tigers 6.  Not bad for a team with 2 pass plays.  I am the starting CB on defense and I am on the punt return and Kick-off teams as well.  I also play back up TE on offense.  I was in for about 15-20 plays which lasted for about 5-6 minutes total.  I think that’s pretty good for my first year, right?

I WILL POST ALL GAME SCORES ON THIS POST AS COMMENTS!!!  Check back once or twice a week for updates.  That’s all for now.

-JM

My schedule has been changed.  Every single thing on it has been moved back a week due to the inclement weather last week.  I don’t know why they would cancel the game after not practicing for three days straight?  Anyhow, I will post scores for games and any highlights that there may be.  If there are any more inconveniences I will post them immediately.  That’s all for now.

-JM