The exciting adventures of Benjamin O'Neil

Alright so, I've decided to resurrect this after a few year hiatus of not being anything. This will almost definitely just be a blog, but hopefully it'll become something more than that. For right now the site design is rather crude, but hopefully it will also mature, as I learn my way around this software.

[Editor's note: I spent all day trying to fix Movable Type, so this actually from yesterday.]

So today was pretty productive, relative to other days that I've had. Woke up at around 11, ate breakfast, took a shower, and then headed over to Jeremy's house. We just played around on the internet, before heading over to my uncle Chris' to seek employment. We'll both be working at Oakwood as warehouse people. It's a decent job, especially since it pays $9/hr. After that we headed back to his house and hung out some more. We then proceeded to take a trip to Chipotle, EB Games, and Toys'R'Us. Chipotle was as good as last time; still don't think it's "legendary" but it's pretty good. EB Games... that stupid Game Boy Micro. It's one of those limited edition things that I'm really bad at resisting. Combine this with the fact that I own every other incarnation of Game Boy and I feel almost obligated to buy it. Resisted... for now. At Toys'R'Us we looked for the iDog that Jeremy wants for Christmas. They had a display version but not one for sale, which made him cry. Well, not really, but he wanted it. We then went back to his house again and tried to play Rez (the psychadelic music shooter game) but no dice because Jeremy's PStwo sucks. So I left and came back and discovered my copy of Rez (which I bought new for $16) had arrived from Hong Kong. So I popped it in and played for a bit, but then I headed over to church for confession. Confession is a rather interesting idea to me, in that I don't really understand why I have to say my sins to some other human when God already knows them and knows that I constantly repent them, but I don't mind too much. The priest I had was a William and Mary alum so he said that I got off easy since I was wearing my sweatshirt. Confession does leave you with a nice clean feeling though, and I think that's nice. Came back and have been on the computer since, setting this up and talking to people.

I also e-mailed both Virginia senators about voting against the newly amended defense spending bill that includes provisions for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Hopefully they actually read my e-mail and take action; it'd be nice to think that I influenced some sort of political decision.

That's all for now.