trurand's Blog : July 2008

by trurand
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Chapter 3

Posted on Jul 24, 2008 7:19 AM

In his British accent the professor said "I'll just be a minute, I have to make my move on the chessboard." Only when he looked at the chessboard he noticed he had already made that move and then in German he said "Was haben die älteren Kinder tun, aber ich mag den Umzug ist es Schachmatt!" Translated in English means "What have those older kids done, but I like the move it is checkmate!" The young German teacher said, "Be careful not to speak German in the open like that."

Slowly the three move towards the door and the three little children under the desk see the four pant legs and the two silk stocking legs move out the door and close the door behind them. The three little children had sat quietly hold their hands over their mouths and the toy was between them, so it would not rattle as it rolled back and forth.

The little girl's best friend's soon to be step brother got up from under the desk. He looked at the chessboard and said "They're army men!" To him that would be more fun to play with than something that rattled. The little four year old girl looked at him and said "Don't touch that."

The little four year old girl knew one of the professors, she had been to his home when he had told an other young assistant professor to show him how to discipline his son for not knowing what chaos was. She knew if he touched or played with one of those army men that he would be punished like he'd never been punished before.

The little four year old girl shrugged her shoulders and said "Boys, they never listen."

Her best friend's soon to be step brother didn't listen to her and started picking up each piece and looking at each one slowly and then putting it back in its position. He knew alot about army men. His father read him books about the different soldiers from around the world. What kind of clothes they were and what colors each army wore for each country. Her best friend would sleep in his soon to be step brother's room in which the two of them spent hours playing it was filled with pictures of armies and the bookshelf had picture books of the same. To her best friend's soon to be step brother this was heaven.

"One side has a German army, hey look." he said.

Her best friend turned around and looked when his soon to be step brother picked up another piece and said "This side is British!".

Her best friend then picked up one of the pieces and said "I know this one it is American!"

The chessboard was special. It had little ponds and trees and grass, some houses and was spread across the two gigantic desks. The soon to be step brother said "It is the world!" He then said, "They like to play army just like my dad and I."

Her best friend had once again gone under the desk and was playing with his toy. The little girl had her own idea and began to look at the papers on the other desk.

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Chapter 2

Posted on Jul 23, 2008 5:43 PM

Well, maybe never say never because here I am writing the next chapter. It wasn't the next night nor the next day.

The little four year old girl wasn't paying any attention to the twelve year old girl because she was more interested in what her best friend was doing. He had found this toy that was suppose to be very old and wanted to play with it so nobody would bother the small kids. The twelve year old girl knew a place and opened the door to where they could hide under gigantic desks.

The little four year old girl followed full of excitement and wonder. Her best friend always wanted to know how things worked. He always liked to take them apart. To think that the little four year old girl and her best friend and his soon to be step brother had to each carry the large cylinder. Her best friend at one end and his soon to be stepbrother at the other end and the little four year old girl holding the middle all the way to under the desk.The twelve year old girl had made friends of her own. She started talking to them, when along came the professors and the mistress she was the young german teacher who liked the professor's son who was very intelligent.

The twelve year old girl quickly closed the door and the little four year old girl and her best friend and soon to be step brother were hiding under the desk. As the girl closed the door she pressed her finger to her lips and said "shhhh." The children that were hiding under the desk could hear the laughter of the older kids and continued playing with their new found toy.

The little four year old girl and her best friend were investigating the toy. It was round like a rattle with several handles shaped like knobs on each end. It made a noise when you shook it. All that could be heard was the rattling of the toy as each section would turn. It took two of them to move the thin plastic that revealed letters of the alphabet. Otherwise, it was just scribbles.

When suddenly the door opened and in walked the professors.

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Chapter 1

Posted on Jul 17, 2008 8:56 PM

Life can change in a split second. So for one small child that second happened several times in one day. She was no one special. She was four years old, with straight blondish, brownish hair that was curled, not in ringlets even though that was what it was suppose to be and a ribbon tied to some of her hair. The color was white usually because it went with everything she wore.

She would wear handme downs given her by people who had girls and they were usually too big. She had big brown eyes that lit up when she laughed or talked. She was full of life. People wanted to bottle that energy for when they got old. She thought old was someone ten years old and people who were older than that they were really, really old.

She never told her name because you weren't suppose to talk to strangers. Everyone was a stranger and she would giggle and say "I'm not suppose to talk to you."

Those grownups! Yes those ten year olds, twelve year olds, and fifteen/sixteen year olds they were strangers to this little girl. Only when one twelve year old girl told her her name, she said "I'm no longer a stranger, so tell me yours." The little girl looked scared for a second. The twelve year old said "Don't worry then you have a friend."

The little girl looked around for her best friend and he was checking out things you weren't suppose to touch with some of the older boys.

Do you wonder if she'll tell the twelve year old girl her name? Well, you wont find out tonight maybe tomorrow. Who knows maybe never.

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What can spark a thought.

Posted on Jul 3, 2008 8:21 PM

Tonight while talking to an acquaintance who watched me swim for years was distracted by the birds. The pretty yellow finches. Isn't it ironic, that there was a talk at the museum which I did not go to about Darwin's Finches.

Darwin's Finches they are all the offspring of an original pair of finches, and that natural selection is responsible for the differences.

Some men/women have tried to use this theory on humans. Hitler to make the perfect race. It is something man/woman are always trying to prove.

The theory when implemented goes something like this. Test male and female. When two are equally matched, pair them off and their offspring should be a duplication of them and so on and so on. Only there becomes a problem. You can guess what it is.

So in humans we find our mates and hope that we are equally matched and our offspring than find mates who are equally matched which means natural selection is our choosing and the evolution of our generations shows our preferences.

Just a thought all because of an advertisement and the distraction by those pretty yellow finches and none of this did we discuss. It might have been interesting if we had.

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Videos People Upload

Posted on Jul 1, 2008 9:02 AM

Sometimes when you go browsing through all those videos people upload, you become amazed at what you can learn. For instance, I never knew that Australia didn't have any volcanoes on it. What it does have is a bed of hot rocks underneath it. Now someone has drilled to the bed of hot rocks in one location and not far away drilled a second hole into the bed of hot rocks in order to get the steam for electricity when they build a generating station.

What they did was pour water into the hot rocks which crack and cause veins or better way of saying openings. This may cause small earthquakes which they are monitoring.

If you think about Yellowstone Park you realize now some of the similarities to a volcano. Think about it.

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