Rockets and Pools
Sep. 13th, 2004 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aggienautIf someone can help me figure out how to host video, or would be willing to host these particular awesome videos, or could at least help me figure out how to isolate a few choice frames, you all could be exposed to the excellent video from today which includes:
Seriously people this stuff is pure awesome, the world needs to see this video footage.
So yeah. Eric and his friends (Monte & Tom) were firing rockets over at the nearby elementry school (De Portola) fields today. As usual someone called the cops, the officer arrived and was like "yeah not only is this not illegal, this is actually pretty awesome,"
and told them they really didn't need the parachute on the rocket, which they were contemplating discarding at the time.
Now see, once upon a time like, I dunno, seven years ago, older brother Tobin and his friends were firing the potatoe cannon in the same fields, and someone similarly called the cops, saying kids were firing beebee guns at signs. Officer Munez (whose name I can still recall farely accurately!) arrived clearly thought the spud gun was awesome, and went on his way (to be encountered once or twice in further adventures of no fault of our protagonists).
Saturday
So Saturday night I was kickin it at Diedrichs with the usual kids.. Cool Kyle was there but I think he was despondant without his woman Colleen, and I got to experience the infamous backseat of Cheri's molestang - when I went with her and Tristan to get his get-fiddle (guitar).
And Danika's sister shows up, and she introduces me to her, but her sister is like "Nigel? Are you really named Nigel??" you see because she was confused because she once totally knew me by a different name, for she was Ashley Pogue, whom I TOTALLY knew in HS.
Then a bunch of us went to The Hot Tub, which is a hot tub in a community centre of a community none of us live at. It was excellent.
Picture of the Day
That security guard, man he's one of hte weird ones. And crazy anal retentive. Right at 11 he'll often tell the Diedrichs employees that we're "causing a ruckus" and need to be dispersed. And by causing a ruckus, he means sitting there drinking coffee and talking.
Related
Year Ago Today: Chosen Echidna XII - Well its been a year since the last issue went out, but hopefully I'll get another issue out eventually and the whole thing won't fade into history.
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Date: 2004-09-13 02:27 pm (UTC)We stuffed a D engine into a Mosquito and it went about 20 feet per second... straight up. followed by left, then right, finally taking the short plunge through the windsheild of one of our cars.
Another time, we lauched an X-Wing fighter with a TIE fighter simultaneously. Different launch pads, of course. After about 7 seconds, the X-Wing BLEW UP. We found traces of it on the ground, but had no idea why it happened. We figured the TIE fighter took it as offensive.
Another time, someone decided to put an engine in a nosecap and launch it. It proceeded to go about 2 feet from the ground and imbed itself in Ryan Holtz's calf. We had a frantic ride to a nearby military base, and were permitted on with my friend's Coast Guard ID. He was in gauze and such for a loooong while.
Good times.
rocketry
Date: 2004-09-13 11:46 pm (UTC)We fired at least one engine with no rocket at all. (=
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Date: 2004-09-13 05:05 pm (UTC)potatoe cannons
Date: 2004-09-13 11:47 pm (UTC)they were pretty awesome though.
Re: potatoe cannons
Date: 2004-09-14 04:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-13 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-13 10:18 pm (UTC)"i hope he fucking falls" jam.
that was the best ever.
<3<3<3<3 fun was had though. seriously
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Date: 2004-09-13 10:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-14 04:21 pm (UTC)