Today marks the second day of my vacation to Wisconsin. Today we did one main thing which was going to a party for my aunt leaving to serve in Iraq. It was a lot of fun.

Getting at the Party: We were some of the first to get to the party. While the guests were coming in I didn’t recognize anyone. I saw a few of my main aunts and uncles as well as cousins. A few I didn’t even know were part of my family so it was interesting to see the new faces and personalities of some of my family members.

Eating, Shopping, Losing: After we got to choose from a big variety of food to eat, my uncle came with my two five-year old cousins. I haven’t seen them in four years but right when they saw me they just knew it was me and screamed, “Dieter!!!” then ran and gave me hugs. They are twins so the whole day I confused them and it was fun to spend time with them. They told me to count to eighty and when I did they were so amazed and thought it was the coolest thing. It was hilarious. After playing for a while my uncle wanted to take me to get me a little present. He asked what I wanted so I wanted to keep it simple and told him I wanted a Ecko shirt. Ecko is one of my favorite brands and he knew what it was so he said “ok”. We went to a shopping strip and they didn’t have anything except for Gap and Old Navy. You could imagine what me and my uncle’s reactions were. Since we were with my aunt and my girl cousin they acted all like they loved it to make  us feel bad. My uncle commented and said “I didn’t see one guy walk in here” Even in the men and boy section there weren’t any guys, just girls! Haha. When we were in Old Navy we saw a shirt that said “Cereal first. Questions later.” ME and my uncle had NO idea what the heck that ment. We even asked about five people and they just looked at the shirt in a weird face. Kinda like the time when my brother found out that watermelon isn’t a type of candy. We finally found a store called Nike Factory or something like that. That was a pretty decent store and I found a nice hoodie (I’ll try to get a pic) and I got some nice shirts for my brothers. After shopping we went to Dairy Queen. It was amazing. Since there aren’t Dairy Queens in New York I was amazed at what I was missing out on. I got a blizzard with Oreo. When we got back to the party I played with my cousins and started to try to win a stuffed animal for them at the grabbing machine thing. I got them a stuffed penguin and they loved it.

Swimming: After the party I went to my aunts hotel room she was using for the night. We went swimming and it was so relaxing to swim after closing my pool for a while. I had to help my cousins swim since they don’t know how to swim yet. I did a thing that my dad always did when I was a kid to me. I picked up my cousin in the pool and started to spin him around and around. He loved it and thought it was fun. Before I knew it I had to leave.

Dairy Queen, Cops, and Home sickness: I decided to go spend the night with my grandparents instead of my aunts tonight. My mom stayed with her twin sister (my aunt) so I was feeling kinda lonely and homesick because I am so used to having three brothers around and my parents. I soon felt a little better when we stopped at Dairy Queen (again) but this time I got a slushy and popcorn. The popcorn was awesome. When eating in the car we heard and saw five cop cars go by. My grandparents wanted to check it out which I thought was dangerous and I was getting kinda worried. It turned out just to be some cops going to the hospital.

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Well that concludes my fine day. tomorrow I am going to the Packer vs 49ers game! (North American Football)

I’ll post tomorrow. Bye!

Until My Next Post,

~Dieter~

Hey guys I am posting from my aunts laptop in Wisconsin. I took an hour and a half flight to the airport to viit my aunt because she is going to be sefving in Iraq, so me and my mom flew out to her deployment party. I will try to post every day keeping a journal on my adventures and fun out here.

Airplane Ride: My airplane ride was very smooth. We didn’t hit any turbulence or have any problems. I had a good time and wasn’t bored that much. For an hour I watched an hour movie on my iTouch and then for the other thrity minutes I played some apps and listened to some music. We had a good time.

Surprising My Grandparents: First thing I did when I got in to Wisconsin my aunt picked me up and we headed straight to my grandparents to suprise them. We pulled into their driveway and I called my grandpa. I said “hey did my mom get to your house yet?” “Yeah she’s in the driveway right now” *rings doorbell* “Hey pap.” “Oh hey dieter. Wait. DIETER!!!!”  It was so funny. After suprising my grandpa I went to surprise my grandma who was teaching in her school. Since her school is only two blocks aways from my grandparents house, we walked. Me and my cousin knocked on the door of her class and she was so shocked. She said she would’ve cried if her students weren’t in there. She then introduced me to her kids. Since they were in first grade I didn’t mind and I thought it was really funny. Then the people at the office gave me and my cousin some popsicles

Settling In: I got home to my aunts house and unpacked everything. I made myself at home and got settled. We did some shopping and picked up some gifts for my brothers (who aren’t with me but still in New York hehe)

Bowling, Dinner, and Virtual Hunting: For dinner my uncle took me to a very nice place where we had dinner. While we were waiting me and my little cosin played virtual hunting. You have a rifle and pump it every time you take a shot. We had tons of fun and then our dinner came. I got a hambuger and other stuff. The hamburger was HUGE! After eating we went bowling. I did what I call, “trick bowling”. I bowled backwars, on my stomach, sideways, and more. It was a lot of fun.

So, so far that is my first day of vacation. Right now I am spending time with my cousin so I will try to post tomarrow.

Til my next post,

Dieter

We all know everyone’s favorite cartoon baby is Stewie. Stewie is that evil baby that looks like he has a tumor the size of a football in his head.

Yeah that baby. Well he has this whole plot to kill his mother and take over the world. Well if you watch Family Guy you know that he is pretty close to be the funniest person on the show and almost everyone loves him. Here are some pictures of Stewie!

Hope you liked these pictures

~Dieter~

Since doomsday has been proven wrong, what better way to celebrate by making funny pictures about it?

Well hope that brightened up your day!

~Dieter~

Hey.

Sorry for the lack of posts. Football and school gets in the way. Now football is out so I will post a little more! As you can see I made a playlist to the left sidebar. If you don’t want it anymore then just leave a comment whether you want it or not! If you want songs added just tell me!

Until my next post,

~Dieter~

There’s  this awesome site called lockerz. It is sorta like swag bucks or prize rebel. You earn points and redeem prizes with them. If you want a swag bucks then click the widget to the right which says “Search and Win” to sign up there. I recommend doing that. I never wanted to before but when I did I realized how much more I could’ve accomplished if I signed up earlier. So check that out.

Now to what I was talking about. Lockerz is a site where you answer polls, invite friends, and other stuff to win prizes. The prizes they have are amazing and there are no strings attached. It doesn’t ask for credit card info, money or anything. Only your address if you order something.

IF YOU WOULD LIKE A REQUEST TO GET ON LCKERZ THEN LEAVE YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS BELOW! YOU CAN ONLY GET IN WITH AN INVITE!

(if you wish your e-mail to be private I will delete once I invite you)

~Dieter~

I saw a very funny movie trailer on t.v. last night and thought it looks really funny. Check it out…

Haha! What are your thoughts?

~Dieter~

Everyone know about that stupid theory that the world will end December 21st, 2012 right? The reason for this is because the Mayan (an ancient indian tribe whose calender is almost exact to events that happened)  Calender ends at December 21st, 2012. But what is the truth? You’re about to know!

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MEXICO CITY (Oct. 11) — Apolinario Chile Pixtun is tired of being bombarded with frantic questions about the Mayan calendar supposedly “running out” on Dec. 21, 2012. After all, it’s not the end of the world.

Definitely not, the Mayan Indian elder insists. “I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff.”

It can only get worse for him. Next month Hollywood’s “2012″ opens in cinemas, featuring earthquakes, meteor showers and a tsunami dumping an aircraft carrier on the White House.

At Cornell University, Ann Martin, who runs the “Curious? Ask an Astronomer” Web site, says people are scared.

“It’s too bad that we’re getting e-mails from fourth-graders who are saying that they’re too young to die,” Martin said. “We had a mother of two young children who was afraid she wouldn’t live to see them grow up.”

Chile Pixtun, a Guatemalan, says the doomsday theories spring from Western, not Mayan ideas.

A significant time period for the Mayas does end on the date, and enthusiasts have found a series of astronomical alignments they say coincide in 2012, including one that happens roughly only once every 25,800 years.

But most archaeologists, astronomers and Maya say the only thing likely to hit Earth is a meteor shower of New Age philosophy, pop astronomy, Internet doomsday rumors and TV specials such as one on the History Channel which mixes “predictions” from Nostradamus and the Mayas and asks: “Is 2012 the year the cosmic clock finally winds down to zero days, zero hope?”

It may sound all too much like other doomsday scenarios of recent decades — the 1987 Harmonic Convergence, the Jupiter Effect or “Planet X.” But this one has some grains of archaeological basis.

One of them is Monument Six.

Found at an obscure ruin in southern Mexico during highway construction in the 1960s, the stone tablet almost didn’t survive; the site was largely paved over and parts of the tablet were looted.

It’s unique in that the remaining parts contain the equivalent of the date 2012. The inscription describes something that is supposed to occur in 2012 involving Bolon Yokte, a mysterious Mayan god associated with both war and creation.

However — shades of Indiana Jones — erosion and a crack in the stone make the end of the passage almost illegible

Archaeologist Guillermo Bernal of Mexico’s National Autonomous University interprets the last eroded glyphs as maybe saying, “He will descend from the sky.”

Spooky, perhaps, but Bernal notes there are other inscriptions at Mayan sites for dates far beyond 2012 — including one that roughly translates into the year 4772.

And anyway, Mayas in the drought-stricken Yucatan peninsula have bigger worries than 2012.

“If I went to some Mayan-speaking communities and asked people what is going to happen in 2012, they wouldn’t have any idea,” said Jose Huchim, a Yucatan Mayan archaeologist. “That the world is going to end? They wouldn’t believe you. We have real concerns these days, like rain.”

The Mayan civilization, which reached its height from 300 A.D. to 900 A.D., had a talent for astronomy

Its Long Count calendar begins in 3,114 B.C., marking time in roughly 394-year periods known as Baktuns. Thirteen was a significant, sacred number for the Mayas, and the 13th Baktun ends around Dec. 21, 2012.

“It’s a special anniversary of creation,” said David Stuart, a specialist in Mayan epigraphy at the University of Texas at Austin. “The Maya never said the world is going to end, they never said anything bad would happen necessarily, they’re just recording this future anniversary on Monument Six.”

Bernal suggests that apocalypse is “a very Western, Christian” concept projected onto the Maya, perhaps because Western myths are “exhausted.”

If it were all mythology, perhaps it could be written off.

But some say the Maya knew another secret: the Earth’s axis wobbles, slightly changing the alignment of the stars every year. Once every 25,800 years, the sun lines up with the center of our Milky Way galaxy on a winter solstice, the sun’s lowest point in the horizon.

That will happen on Dec. 21, 2012, when the sun appears to rise in the same spot where the bright center of galaxy sets.

Another spooky coincidence?

“The question I would ask these guys is, so what?” says Phil Plait, an astronomer who runs the “Bad Astronomy” blog. He says the alignment doesn’t fall precisely in 2012, and distant stars exert no force that could harm Earth.

“They’re really super-duper trying to find anything astronomical they can to fit that date of 2012,” Plait said.

But author John Major Jenkins says his two-decade study of Mayan ruins indicate the Maya were aware of the alignment and attached great importance to it.

“If we want to honor and respect how the Maya think about this, then we would say that the Maya viewed 2012, as all cycle endings, as a time of transformation and renewal,” said Jenkins.

As the Internet gained popularity in the 1990s, so did word of the “fateful” date, and some began worrying about 2012 disasters the Mayas never dreamed of.

Author Lawrence Joseph says a peak in explosive storms on the surface of the sun could knock out North America’s power grid for years, triggering food shortages, water scarcity — a collapse of civilization. Solar peaks occur about every 11 years, but Joseph says there’s evidence the 2012 peak could be “a lulu.”

While pressing governments to install protection for power grids, Joseph counsels readers not to “use 2012 as an excuse to not live in a healthy, responsible fashion. I mean, don’t let the credit cards go up.”

Another History Channel program titled “Decoding the Past: Doomsday 2012: End of Days” says a galactic alignment or magnetic disturbances could somehow trigger a “pole shift.”

“The entire mantle of the earth would shift in a matter of days, perhaps hours, changing the position of the north and south poles, causing worldwide disaster,” a narrator proclaims. “Earthquakes would rock every continent, massive tsunamis would inundate coastal cities. It would be the ultimate planetary catastrophe.”

The idea apparently originates with a 19th century Frenchman, Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, a priest-turned-archaeologist who got it from his study of ancient Mayan and Aztec texts.

Scientists say that, at best, the poles might change location by one degree over a million years, with no sign that it would start in 2012.

While long discredited, Brasseur de Bourbourg proves one thing: Westerners have been trying for more than a century to pin doomsday scenarios on the Maya. And while fascinated by ancient lore, advocates seldom examine more recent experiences with apocalypse predictions.

“No one who’s writing in now seems to remember that the last time we thought the world was going to end, it didn’t,” says Martin, the astronomy webmaster. “There doesn’t seem to be a lot of memory that things were fine the last time around.”

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Ha ha. I think this is one of the biggest blunders in history! It is probably the biggest epic fail in history!

There is a lesson to learn from this though. Stay positive. Even though stupid people making predictions like this, stay positive!

~Dieter~

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~Dieter~