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Well, I said I’d update if more happened with the whole Voodoo thing, and here it is. No, I did not go back on Friday, it was still all nasty and rainy. We decided against that. We did, however, go back the next morning… except “we” went from me and Stacy to me, Tyler, and Mikey. Stacy had to work, so she had to miss out. Well, we drove up, and all was looking well; it was sunny, decently warm out, and all of the rides were actually running (haha.) We got to the park, and went on a bunch of rides… you know, all of the usuals (though, now that I think about it, we didn’t get on Thunderhawk). 

Anyways, one of the first things that we did was walk past Voodoo to see if anything was up. It was still closed, although the “Opening late May” sign was removed, and there were A LOT of employees cleaning up like, everything. We’re talking polishing the trains, making sure no mulch or blade of grass was out of place, Windex-ing the freaking metal fence around the site… yeah. We figured it wasn’t worth waiting so we just continued on our way through the park. I think it was around the second time that we were in line for Steel Force that Jon texted me saying that someone he was working with said that they saw it running, so I kept my eye out, and sure enough a

few minutes later we saw a test run go up the spiraled spike. I still wasn’t getting my hopes up, so we got on Steel Force, and then went over to the Revolution ride (some spinning swing type ride… you’d know it if you saw it lol.) Well yeah, we got on that again, and then decided why not, let’s go sit over by Voodoo for a little bit to rest and just watch what’s going on. I swear to god, not even five minutes after sitting down, the one employee came out and stood by the front of the queue with her little measuring stick thingy. All it took was for Mikey to grab my attention to show me what was going on and us three were over there faster than… well I can’t think of anything witty to say, but we were over there pretty fucking fast haha.

There were a bunch of people asking her when it was going to open, to which she responded (every two seconds) “hopefully sometime later today.” Well everyone seemed to be turned off by that response and walked away, leaving us three still standing there trying to figure out what to do. It wasn’t long, though, until a big blob of people started forming near the front of the line when they saw us three standing there, so we decided that then would be a good time to let it be known that we were in the front, and conveniently shoved ourselves right in

front of that girl. Slowly but surely the mob of people started to form a line, and it started attracting the attention of other people hoping that it would be opening, and more and more people kept coming over and asking if it was going to open. It got to the point where I started answering for the poor girl. I don’t remember exactly when it happened, but at some point another employee came down from the loading platform and me and Mikey overheard something about “in an hour” and then something about “giving a hand signal when it was time.”

 

She then walked back up and went into the operating booth, where we didn’t see her again. I think the was a good thing though. Soon after she disappeared in there, the ride started testing. 

Now we’re standing here, there’s a line that is blocking the entire walkway, and everyone is all “ooh! ahh!” flipping out, because it’s the most amazing thing they’ve ever seen. Well, I guess we were starting to get a bit out of hand, because a few minutes later, the place was swarming with security po-po’s, which I guess turned out to be a good thing (otherwise, some bitch of a lady would have been first, and not

 me!) The security guards then had us all line up along the metal fence that was just cleaned (not for long!) and I managed to get that picture to show just how long of a line we attracted. God, us three are such trend setters! If you look in the picture of the line you can actually see the bitch that almost cut right in front of us (that’ll happen in a few minutes.) She’s the one in black with the purse strap over her boobs holding on to the measuring thinger. Anyways, back to the story, we’re now the first three people in line, the ride’s testing, and everything is just a complete rush. I was so excited I’m surprised I didn’t faint. Tyler at this point was sitting on the ground on his iPhone… reminded me of all the people waiting in line when the iPhone first came out actually lol.

I decided to call my mom to tell her about how we were first in line and that it was probably opening soon, and I also texted probably half of the people that are gonna be reading this (if any do)… Yeah, I was a bit ecstatic haha. Suddenly out of nowhere, everyone up on the platform was all smiles and giving thumbs up signs and this security guard started walking down towards us at the front of the line. He chained up all of the queues and came up to us, asked the girl to open the line, and gave us a speech about how “we were to walk behind him up to the station.” I could have cried right then and there! We were going to be THE FIRST GUESTS TO EVER RIDE VOODOO!!!

We started walking through the line, by this point everyone is cheering and clapping, and all of the employees were smiling and clapping for us, and omfg, I was in bliss lmfao. We made small talk with the security po-po while we were walking in line. He asked how long we were waiting (which, by the way was only like 30 minutes!) and then I told him about how me and another friend were there the day before waiting out in the pouring rain for over an hour just to have it not open, and it was all a good time.

 (He was also pretty cute I might add! haha.) So anyways, next is the incident with the bitch. So we finally got up to the platform, and for one reason or another, the security guard had us go in through the emergency exit. So we were officially the first three guests on the platform! Well, the ride employees didn’t want us to go in that way, but they wanted us to go through that little thing that counts how many guests rode the ride. We were stuck in there while everyone else went the right way. Well that bitch tried to take that opportunity to run up and be the first through so she could get the front row! Fucking whore, I know! Well cute security po-po guy wasn’t having it. He had her stopped so fast it wasn’t even funny, and we got through the county thing first! HA! We of course, then went to the first two rows and had the most AMAZING first ride EVER! It was totally worth the wait, and I suggest ANYONE who loves roller coasters to take a ride on Voodoo, Dorney’s newest coaster!  You won’t be disappointed! =]]]

<3 Jimmy

This is the second Friday in a row that it has rained. I’m starting to think that someone hates me… no, seriously. Well, to prove that I could give two shits less, I went up to Dorney Park today. And mother nature kicked my ass… I’ll tell the story:

So last night while I was at work, I got a text from Jon saying that he was in line for Voodoo; that it was going to be opening tomorrow (meaning today), and that they were letting employees ride it. So of course I flipped out, texted Stacy and arranged to meet up with her this morning to go and get our ride. Everything went according to plan (as well as the weather, fuckers)… we got there early, got right in, and went right to Voodoo. It still had the “Opening late May” sign at the front of the line, and it was pouring so we went under some building and watched and waited for it to open. It ran what must have been 50 times in the hour that we stood there waiting. We eventually went and stood right at the entrance to the closed line, and all the while the workers smiled at us, and it seemed to be like it was going to open soon. [Remember that it's still raining, and by this point we're soaking fucking wet and freezing.] So then this HUGE group of annoying little fucker 13 year olds comes and starts forming a huge blob behind me and Stacy, and one of them yells “ARE YOU OPENING TODAY!?” and me and Stacy laughed, because we knew (at least we thought) that it was, and when the worker shook his head no I wanted to shoot someone.

Bottom line, so far I’ve been having *another* terrible Friday. Especially considering that after that happened we went on one ride and then drove home, and now it’s not really raining at all. Me and Stacy would have been the first *guests* to EVER ride Voodoo if it weren’t for that rain; I know that’s the reason it didn’t open today. I’m fucking pissed haha. Oh well, at least I can say I was the first to ever wait in line for it!?

That’s all.

I’ll update if I decide to go back up later this evening with Tyler squared and Jon.

So, in my last blog post, I was bitching because I couldn’t wait to be finished with classes for the summer, but now that I’m done, it’s starting to seem like it was better off when I was still in class. Okay, so just a brief summary: I finished my last final around 3am of Wednesday last week… I then had to go home to work, while it was beautiful out. Thursday, was also really nice out, and of course I had to work again. Then there’s Friday; my first free day of summer vacation. Me, a few friends, and my mom were planning on going to Dorney Park for the day. So what does it do!? Fucking rain. GAH! I was soo annoyed… I ended up having an alright day, but I was still kinda grumpy because of the weather. Then of course, it’s beautiful out again all weekend… while I worked the entire weekend. And so now on to today: my second complete free day of summer vacation… IT’S FUCKING RAINING!

So far, this “summer” break has totally sucked, and I’m just so sick of shitty things happening one after the other! But enough of that shit. Let’s discuss the better things.

Cedar Point opened as of Saturday, which is totally fucking exciting! I’m like barely managing to stay alive from all of the excitement of that trip next month. It’s going to be great! And on top of that anticipation, there’s also move in day, which is quickly approaching! Me and Tyler went up to the house on Friday (when we were supposed to be going to Dorney! *grr* fucking weather!) so we could measure the rooms for furniture, and Joe, the landlord, said that he’s going to have the guy he knows come in starting today to touch up on everything so that all is well when we move in, and said that he’d probably be done by the end of next week if not sooner! So I can soon set up that pool table that I bought! I’m SO FUCKING EXCITED for that!!! And lastly, lately me, Stacy, Tyler, and usually others have been hanging out on my front porch, and it’s really fun. This year, from her being at school, I’ve barely hung out with her at all, so it’s nice to be able to hang out and laugh at all the stupid stuff that we do again.

I guess I’ll end this rant for now… there’s really nothing important going on at all right now… just thought I’d update you on the random bullshit that I call my life.

I’m out for now.
Jimmy

Hello to all of my readers (there aren’t really any but it was fun to say haha)

Just like to let you all know that since around February there have been problems with my website, and Tyler has been working on getting it all corrected, but he’s been very busy with his graduation project… so if you just sit back and hang tight for a little while longer I’m sure I’ll be back up and running better than ever in no time. =] He actually gives his presentation today,so hopefully soon we’ll be able to have this up and good again.

In the mean time I guess I’m in dire need of an update on my life since (jesus christ) January. Let’s see… well, my grades didn’t all stay up the way I would have liked them too, but oh well. My fault. I got so involved in other shit besides school and keeping my calc grade good so I can go onto the next calc class. I could list a million excuses, but the bottom line is it happened, and I just gotta move on. In more recent news, me, Tyler, and Jon are going to be getting a house! We signed the lease back in early April and as of (hopefully sooner than) June 1st, 2008 I’ll be living in Fleetwood! We’re very excited about that. Tomorrow, actually, is my last day of finals before summer break, so you basically missed this entire semester (trust me, you didn’t miss much.) Hmm, what else has happened… Oh, I participated in my second MS Walk on Sunday. And for the second year in a row raised over $100 =] Thanks to everyone who donated money! I love you all! (Haha, none of them read this.) Dorney Park just opened on Saturday as well, so after the MS walk, we went to Dorney for the evening (god was that a bad idea… walking around a theme park after a 6 mile walk… HAHA). But overall it was fun. Angela got on Steel Force again, and she even liked it this year! I was so proud! She was really brave… she got on a bunch of new rides this year: Thunderhawk, Meteor, whatever Dorney’s equivalence is called to Hershey’s “The Claw,” and she got SOO close to going on Dominator. She sat down in the seat, looked up the tower, and pretty much got green in the face, so the ride attendant let her off. I was still so proud that she even got in line though. She also wanted to ride Hang Time, but was too little, which was a bummer. But oh well, it was a fun day. Anyways, enough with Dorney. Cedar Point opens in FOUR DAYS! I’m so excited, even though I’m not going until June. OMFG, duh. CEDAR POINT! This June, from the 9th-12th (and possibly Friday the 13th… holy shit, maybe that’s a bad idea lmfao) me, [my] Tyler, Tyler G, Stacy, Mikey, and Jon will be going to Cedar Point Oh Eight! I’m crazy fucking excited about that. More to come of that in future blogs. Hmm, anything else? … Ooh, I got a MacBook finally =] It’s so cute! And Tyler just recently bought a G4 iMac which is what I’m typing on as we speak. It’s going to be used for the new Leopard Server for in our Fleetwood house, but he said I could use it as my desktop computer! I love it (and him) so much! <3

I dunno, I guess that’s really it for now… I’ll start updating more frequently once this thing is back up to full power again.

Until then, stay out of trouble kids.

-Jimmy

It seems that this year just keeps getting worse and worse. Since I’ve posted last, the spring semester started, and I’m back in class. On the bright side, so far (though it’s only been a week) I’ve been doing really well in all of my classes, and things seem as if I’ll have a definite increase in my GPA by the end of the semester. So I’m generally happy about that. But the not so good: my books this semester cost me well over $400, and it seems like that price is going to be increasing along with my GPA… I’ve lost not one, but TWO of my textbooks already this semester, with a total of $200 in price. So, it’s not looking like I’ll be getting out of debt anytime soon. It really sucks, because I was *just* about to get out of debt at the beginning of the month, and then I had to go and buy these motherfuckers… and now, I’m *just* about to get out of debt again, and now this happens… if there’s a God, he fuckin’ hates me (haha, bursts out in Puddle of Mudd). It’s really weird actually… cause like, I’m in this weird state-of-being where I’m pretty happy in general, but I’m not gonna lie, there are so many little things that are going wrong, and they just keep piling up and I can’t take much more of it.

Anyways, enough bitching. I guess that’s really all right now… I’m not going to bother anyone on myspace or facebook or anywhere this time to get comments, so we’ll see if anyone truly checks for updates this time around.

Probably not.