Posts Are Coming

So I had a really nice break and I wanted to treat wanted to have a really relaxing one so I didn't work on any posts. Probably my bad, but we are moving past that. In other news I am incredibly busy at my school, I have had to write three very long papers this week and they were not fun, I also have I read a book that has been put of for a little. So I really want to put up these new posts and at some point I will get to it I promise I know a couple of you are really interested in the concert and the high school play one. With that being said I think it is also important that I pass college. I enjoy writing blogs but I don't think it will be making money to live off of.

So final words...Posts are coming, sorry there hasn't been more, I'm excited to tell you more about life up here.

I appreciate all your views...ya YOU, you right now reading this guess what is happening? I am appreciating it.  A lot. seriously.

Good news I'm close to getting 300 views on my blog which is just incredible.

To cheer you up until new blogs come, and to reward you for checking in follow the link to get a present.

THE REWARD

Whats Happening

          Alright, well this weekend has been very crazy and flew by it seems. So here is my plan for the next little bit. I am not the world best writer, I am not very good at grammar for example as some of you have mentioned to me. Partially because I when I wrote the first couple of posts when I got done writing it seemed a little schoolish to edit and revise and then post a final draft so I just hit post...Maybe I could have done it a little bit. And that is what is going to happen, one night I will write a post and then another night I will edit and post it. This will hopefully lead to better posts on my part and you all will enjoy reading more!! Right now is a bad example of this because I am just going to post this when I'm done because in a tad I am headed to the Watsky concert, so my apologies everyone.
          Things you should know:

• If you enjoy reading this, first off thank you, secondly the best way to keep in touch about my new posts is to do either one of two things. Some how you are able to follow me on this site. I'll be honest I don' know how that works, which leads to the better of the two options. I have a Twitter and I will be converting it into a way to update my followers on when new posts are up. My User-name is @JuneauMatthew, so follow if you are interested.
• Secondly there are a couple of posts that are in the works, Going to see the play and the adventure of that and the Watsky concert, so stay tuned for cool, interesting, sock knocking off posts coming up*.

 *(Socks might not come off, but they could for some reason and that would be pretty cool if they did).
 

In the words of Porky the Pig,

Upcoming Things

       This blog is an interesting experience for me; because of it I find I push myself to do things that are outside of my comfort zone or things I just normally wouldn't do. Today (November 5, 2012), I received a email that was about attending a focus group. Being a introvert this is the kind of thing that I would never see myself doing, however this blog is always in the back of my mind so I replied with my application and was accepted into it. So we will see how this goes, hopefully I don't become very reserved and shy which has happened before. One good thing about this focus group is that at the end of it we get twenty five dollars, which I need pretty badly. For two reasons, one I am a college and that money could go pretty far whether it go to a meal that isn't fried chicken, to a video game or towards a date for my partner and I. Two it would help replace the dent in my wallet after I either lost or had $40 stolen from it, I believe the latter of the two. I will keep this blog posted with what happens.

         Some other things that are happening this Weekend is that I get to go home and to my high school to see a play. I was pretty involved with the theater program the last two years of high school, and I can't wait to return and see that group I left. That is on Saturday and my friend is picking me up and we are driving all the way from Fort Collins to Centennial which is about an hour and a half, then we are seeing the play, and then driving all the way back. So that will be a long day but a fun one. I have to remember to start making a good playlist now for the road.

         On Sunday I have tickets to go see Watsky, who is a poet, rapper and speaker of sorts. I am very excited to see him perform, the reason being as before mentioned I was in theater in high school and in my senior I was in a class called "Company", an elite acting class. We once had the assignment to perform a monologue and I picked one of Watsky's speeches to perform entitled "Go Robo". Click Go Robo and see the video that I was going to perform parts of. That is until my teacher found out it was from a YouTube and not from literature, and told me to choose something else a couple of days before the showcase. I really enjoy his work and can't wait to go see it, I will try to get pictures on the night. Definitely expect a blog on this.





         Finally for everyone that has read my blog I would like to say thank you. To do this I am going to change a couple of word in a lyric because I think it fits well here, "Thank you for reading again, or for the first time, or for the last time, we share this moment and for that I am grateful"-more or less attributed to AWOLNATION. There are good things that are going to come if you folks keep on reading, I will try my best to keep things interesting.

         P.S. Feel free to leave a comment, I will try to write a response promptly. I have my phone glued to me all day and I will receive a email saying I have a comment and I will be all over that comment so fast you'll be like "Whoa he wasn't kidding".

Glowing Mountain Dew

           One day while I was on StumbleUpon I came across a site that showed the picture to the left. Pretty amazing right? The best part of this is that you only need Mountain Dew, Peroxide and Baking soda. All of which you can get from a local store for under $5. So the instructions on the site told to pour out about 3/4 of the Mountain Dew so 1/4 is left in the plastic bottle. Next add 3 cap fulls of the Peroxide to the Mountain Dew and mix around. Finally the website instructed to add baking soda, not a certain amount or anything just to add it. I preceded to add about a tablespoon and then to mix around and then two more. I shook it around and ran into my bathroom and shut the door; that was the darkest place I could find.  Standing there shaking the bottle for about a minute I was still in complete darkness. Figuring it had something to do with the very vague step of the baking soda, I figured I could add more until the reaction took place and it would light up, I did so... and did so... and did so. A little bummed I preceded to head to the internet and look for what I did wrong. What I had done wrong was be a little to gullible.

           Previous to the experiment I had done no further research about it, if I had it would have shown that this is nothing more than a hoax. There is nothing that is chemically to different about Mountain Dew than any other soda and if it was to work with Mountain Dew it should work with all others, but it didn't, because there is no reason that peroxide and baking soda should make soda glow. I was tricked and it was disappointing because I wanted it to work so bad. Now I have all this extra peroxide and baking soda laying around and no cool glow stick MacGyver knowledge to help me out should I ever get stuck in a cave.

           So if you want to re-create the photo you need the same ingredients but as well now dish soap and... a glow-stick. Which kind of defeats the purpose, if I want something to glow and i have all of that why would I not just use the glow-stick? My feeling aside, to make it repeat the steps above and add a teaspoon of soap and then activate the glow-stick by snapping it and then cut it open and pour the glowing liquid into the Mountain Dew. The internet wins this time but I will find some experiment that WILL work and I will show how to do it on here. There won't be any foolery either just straight up science.