A new blog

Well, I think the time has come. I am moving on.

The Awesome Blog is finally shutting down. It has been a good ride. I have enjoy most of it and I will be sad. But do not fear internet, I will still be posting my thoughts to the internet. I will always blog. I am just relocating.  I have started a blog with Ben Davey. Yes, I know this is how this one originally started. But the focus on this new one is different. We have different goals, better goals.

If you want to check it out, you are more then welcome too. I actually posted there today.

http://menwhostareatmoose.ca

Enjoy, and thanks for the good times.

For the last time,
Nolan Out!

College coming to a close

Three years? Is this real life? Do I have to be a real adult now? These are only some of the crazy thoughts running through my head as I sit here in the lab at school with only two weeks left. I feel like it was just yesterday was my first day of classes at a real school. Anyone remember those posts? "today is my first day of real school" is exactly what it said.

Have I changed in the last three years of school? Yeah, I think I probably have. Hopefully for the better. If nothing else I  know I am in better shape now(See post below.) How is it that you can know you changed so much but not really be able to explain how? Is that a thing? it's weird, I know I'm different, probably more mature. Shhhh! Don't tell anyone. It's probably more all the little things, and not one big thing, yeah know?

I don't know if that last paragraph made any sense. If not you'll survive.

What else is there to tell? Placement, I guess. I've been working at Vale. Go check my facebook and instagram for pictures. It has been going well. I have been learning lots and getting a better understanding of what I learned in school. It is crazy at how big some networks actually are(Mom, if you read this next part you won't understand what I am talking about.) When going into a router or switch on a Vale network and just taking a look at some of the things that are going on with the configuration, it blows my mind. Granted, I was expecting a production network to be bigger then a lab set up, sure. But the amount of stuff all going on at once and working, for the most part, is crazy. Not to mention the amount of stuff that school didn't actually teach me, is impressive as well. Just gotta learn it on my own I guess. From fiber to VOIP, I've got a lot more learning to do. But I guess that is life. If you don't push forward you fall behind.

I always seem to start posting again once eel season starts to roll around, I guess the thought of leaving for 2 months makes me feel weird and I feel the need to write my thoughts down. Oh! Yeah, I'm going eel fishing again this year. Sam is coming as well, and a new comer, Jesse Fontaine(You remember the potato cannon guy.) Should be another interesting season with a whole crap ton(a metric crap ton) of stories to go along with it. If I am not sleeping in my free time, or playing Towerfall, maybe I'll take some time and make a post or two.

Anyways that's all I got time for right now,

Nolan Out!

The Movie Trifecta

Do Double Rainbows ever get old... I THINK NOT!

So in the last three days I have gone to the movies three times
Yes that is right three times!
I am lacking a life THAT much!



I watched Faster on Sunday.
Staring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
That man is a big man!
And that is an understatement!
It was a good movie
But surprisingly it kinda lacked the amount of action I was hoping for.
In the Words of Sam Desrosiers:
"it was a movie with action in it. Not an action movie"
And really there is no better way to explain it.
He killed some people.
There were nice cars.

It was Good!






On Monday I watched Unstoppable
It was Zach's(My Brothers) birthday party
When it was over we all went and saw Unstoppable
It was a FANTASTIC movie!
It was about trains.
It is like Thomas the Tank Engine for grown ups
It was funny
It was intense
It had explosions
It had Guns
It had a Red Neck
And if thats not enough its based on a true story!
So if you haven't already...
Now Go Right Now And watch this movie!
This is an order
Not an option!


Cheap Night, Or as some call it, Tuesday I went and saw Tangled
Seriously!
I went and saw a Kids movie?
...
HECK YES!
I don't ever wanna grow up!
This movie was funny, Cleaver, Awesome!
I don't know what else to say about it!
and you should all go and see it!
I don't care how old you are
Or if you think you are "To Cool" for Animation
This Movie was GREAT!
5 Outta 5 stars!






Guys!
I have news!
Green Screen...
Ohh Yeah!
Thats Right!
Its like super awesome!
Like A green screen of super awesomeness!

On another note they have started playing Christmas music at work
Yes I am not a fan of Christmas music
And by not a fan I mean it should only be played on about 3 days of the year
Christmas Eve
Christmas
Boxing day
But some of you like it
And if you really like it then I guess you could listen to it for 1 week
And thats the week of Christmas
No more!
GOSH

But I do have a confession to make!
I like this Christmas song
Click Here

Opps! I mean this one
Click Here!
Actually I like most of the Christmas songs by Relient K

Other then That!
Nolan Out!

Global Warming!

Today in the greater city of Sudbury Global warming finally hit.
It rained all day, and its still raining!
Now I don't like rain!
But when it is washing away the snow its my best friend!

KILL JOY WARNING

I hate snow!
Now once and a while Its kinda cool
Yes Pun intended!
But on the whole I hate it!
I don't like the cold
Therefore I do not like snow!

Now on to happier things!

Like Candy!
Like Unicorns!
Like Poo!
Like Flowers!
Like Clouds!
Like Double Rainbows!
Like Old Spice!

Well Thats all I got for tonight!
Nolan Out!

In Our Hearts

"We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God not from ourselves." 2 Corinthians 4:7

A Post So Good its Like Double Rainbows

So I haven't made a post in a very long time. Now I would like to say that I haven't had time, but the reality is that I just haven't been in the mood. MY BAD!!!!! Or maybe its the fact I get so many fails....See what I did I put some of the blame on you.

So I am fat.
Thats right I am fat
Its been way too long since I have done much of anything worth mentioning in the way of physical activity. Anyway its making me feel fat.
I thought you would like to know that.
I also haven't made a video in a long time, this I can blame on Nolan. He keeps stealing my camera!! So if I ever get it back I might actually make one.

Double rainbows......
If you don't know what I'm saying you need to go and watch this ---->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6TfGD6CQs0

after you have watched that you need to go and watch this ---->

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX0D4oZwCsA

If this does not make you happy and feel somewhat like a hippy you are a bad person. Seriously if we could only enjoy the simple things like double rainbows the way this guy can....The whole world would be a fairytale. One full of rainbows!! So next time your depressed just think of double rainbows. Or if its three in the morning, that's a good time to think of double rainbows as well.

Double rainbows have become so epic that they are being used instead of certain words.

Here are some examples provided by The Urban Dictionary of how you can use double rainbows to make your life better:

Unofficial meanings of a double rainbow:

-ecstatically wonderful

-joyfully amazing

-wondrous beyond compare

Double rainbow may used in sentences in such ways as these:

That video is so vivid, it's Double Rainbow all the way!

Its amazing! its like a double rainbow!

The food was so good you would think it was made with a double rainbow!

Your better than double rainbows!


Anyway that's all I got on double rainbows, so until next time I bid thee well

especially you internet stalkers

we know who you are.....

Updates from a Daoust

Greetings Denizens of the interwebs!
I have come from a full weekend of social interactivityness, Sarlos, manifestations of my total lack of self esteem, Cookies, and not getting things done! Hurray for not getting things done! We salute you irresponsibility!

Anyhow, I'm currently sitting here at home; which is now more or less an empty shell around my computer desk, and I decided that I should probably start working on a blog post before I inevitably hit my "mid-sunday-evening" depression phase...
For those of you who don't know it involves Crying for 7 hours non stop, Running through my apartment complex on a murderous rampage against anybody who happens to get in my way, A brief shootout with the cops, A sudden emotional breakdown, a sincere and heartfelt apology to both the cops and the family of my victims, and finally a farewell to all the officers; which normally goes like: "Yeahhhhh, again I'm really sorry about that... Hopefully you can find those replacements... See you all later! Same time next week?"

But seriously! Every Sunday it's the same thing... I get back from church after a long weekend of what normally amounts to "Awesome in an uncompressed format" and the most I can do is sit here, kinda sleep and watch Stargate and just generally feel really awful and depressed. Like a miniature scale version of what you feel like after coming back from Youth Camp... Only without the severe cold!

Meh. I'll go feel sad later, for now I just want to make sure you all know that: yeah, we realize the blog has seen better days...
And yeah, we aren't really doing a whole lot right now that could even passably be called awesome...
And maybe we cant even get our act together enough to properly announce the release of Awesome 2.0 (FOR THE RECORD: Right now you could be watching a video showing off how awesome the new site is going to be... But noooooooo Ben had to go all Sam Desrosier on us and not show up. Thanks Ben!)

But we havnt abandoned you yet!
I mean... not all of you at least.
Er, I mean to say... We dont hate all of you...
Yet.
Maybe.

IndianaoPOLLis

One Benjamin Davey wrote:

Hey, just a quick reminder, when you put up the nest poll could you put Lauren Woods in it? I said that whoever did the best on my little movie trivia would get into the next poll. And maybe try and make her have a positive position in the poll, we want to encourage people to participate :P

And of course, I'm obliged to do just that! But first, this week's Poll recount!


Yes - 11 Votes (42%)
No - 4 Votes (15%)
42 - 11 Votes (42%)

 Before I go into the "What we have learned" shenanigans, id just like to point out that I am REALLY upset with you people. 11 of you were boring enough to answer yes to this poll! Seriously! Bah...

Anywho:

• 11 people are absolutely true in every imaginable way
• It may CLAIM that we got 26 votes on this poll, but really we had 42.
• 4 People don't exist... I LOVE YOU PEOPLE!
• 11 people are boring.

Enjoy the new poll plebeians! Especially you Lauren!

Half way to a Grand time!

We Just Broke 500 posts!

Okay since this is the 501th post I thought I would make a post about the state of the blog!

So here it is!

So we have been kinda slow lately!
We are planning lots and not getting much done!
Are Youtube empire is soon to get a move on!

Now a Blogger update

Nolan: Posts more then everyone else... But they kinda suck!

Mike: Doesn't post, He makes drafts and I read them! Just Sayin'... But on the bright side he is still a Genius when it comes to Computer things! AND NO HE WONT FIX YOUR COMPUTER!

Ben: Anyone seen Ben? I think he may have died?

Adelle: IS AWESOME! I HAVE LOVED EVERY POST SHE HAS MADE!

Jesse: Needs to make another video with explosions! BOOM! And his posts have also been very good!

So there you have it my friends!
This is Nolan's Take on how the Blog is doing!

Have a Happy American Thanksgiving!

Nolan Out!

Science Olympics

So I'm sitting in school right now. Room 210 actually. I'm practicing the "sport" of cupstacking which, in my opinion is hardly what one would consider a sport. The goal is to up-stack and down-stack plastic cups as fast as possible in a certain pattern. My best time is 20.42 seconds which is pretty far off the world record of 5.93 seconds. It's part of an event called science Olympics. By joining this I not only get to answer science questions but I also get to avoid playing basketball in gym class. Anyway this post is mostly pointless but at least now I can say I made a blog post during class. :D

River of Life

Life is like a river. The flowing water moves on like time. Each wave and ripple are seconds in life that lap over each other. Every minute and hour travel together in harmony. All the time in the world flowing in a single river.
Sometimes you feel like a rock in the river. You feel heavy and weighed down. So instead of joining the flow of life you stand by and watch as everything else passes you by. It isn't like you choose to live like this, its just you feel as though you have been frozen in place; frozen in time. And as everything else progresses in life, you waste the precious time that has been given to you and stay put.
Other times you may feel like a twig on the water. You go with the flow of life, but you have no control of where it takes you. Sometimes you move quickly and everything goes well, but other times the river pulls you into dark currents. You get scraped over rocks and fall down waterfalls. Sometimes it doesn't pay to just go with the flow.
Maybe your like a fish. You have the companion of other fish, and you all work together to swim the river. You feel safe and secure with a big group. But maybe down the river of time you'll fall behind, get injured, or lose yourself. Then you find who your real friends are when your hurt, afraid, and alone.
Life can't just waste away down a river. You don't have to be stuck in time, lost in the current, or mislead. All this time you may have been swimming without an anchor, with your eyes and heart closed to the truth that was in front of you the whole time. You only needed to open your eyes and see with your heart the deep love from God that was waiting for you. That with this you are safe, loved, and never alone. You'll never be afraid to swim in the river again because He is holding your hand... No matter what.


Just a different way to see.


Have a great day readers!

CouchPotato

Okay guys!
I have been sitting, sitting, sitting on my Couch for the past 4-5 hours!

The events of my day:
I went to work.
I got off work.
I Came home.
I Took a shower, because I smelt REALLY bad.
I sat on my couch.



And I have been staring at my computer screen ever since then!
Exciting day I know!
You are jealous.
But don't worry...
One day you might have a life...
As exciting as mine!


Well thats all I got for today
Nolan Out!

Tape Ball!

In the last few years that I've been playing hockey, I've taken the clear tape off of my shin pads and and the tape off my stick and added it to a tape ball. Other guys on my team also added their tape. The first ball we made had the misfortune of falling into a toilet. . . and that was the end of it. But we did not give up! No. We started a new tape ball. This one grew and grew. The ball currently weighs 3.5 kg and has a circumference of 67 cm. 

A new roll of hockey tape weighs approximately 71 g. This means that the ball contains around 49 rolls of tape. An average roll of tape costs $2.99. Multiply that by 49 and the value of the tape ball equals $146.51 before taxes. Factoring in tax... just kidding. That's enough math for a snow day! 

Sudbury Youth Conference Variety Knight

Here is the intro video for the Variety Night, Enjoy!

Part 1:


Part 2:


Nolan Out!

So this one time in Sudbury...

Dear World
Why do you spin?
Why are you round and not flat?
If you were flat, people could fall off...
And that would be SO entertaining to watch!
Love Nolan!


Am I the only person who brings his phone into the bathroom...
And sets it beside the shower...
So that when I receive a text I can read it?


Have you ever talked to some one?
Have you ever talked on the phone to some one?
Have you ever talked on the phone to some one while sitting on the toilet?
If you answers yes to the last question, you are a creep!
The "Poop and talk" is just weird...

Person on Phone: Hey what was that plopping sound?

Guy on Toilet: Ohh! Don't worry about it!

So there you have it three random thoughts for this wonderful Saturday morning!

I love you all!
Especially you!
Nolan Out!

Birthday Blog!

Guys Im 19...
Man I hate getting older...
I never ever wanna be mature...

So yesterday for my Birthday I went to a party...
But the twist in the story is...
It wasn't my Birthday party...

I would just like to take this spot to wish the following people:
Irvin
Kevin
Dan
Evelynn
Dave

Happy Birthday guys!




But before I leave I have a few more things to say!

Guys, Facebook on your birthday is a time where people feel popular...
I mean people all say "Happy Birthday" to you...
Remember before you had Facebook...
When no one ever knew when it was your Birthday...
Yeahhhh, Those were the good old days...

Now for a Short story about a boy and his friend named Papa...
This Boy and his friend Papa did EVERYTHING together...
Everything!
Then one day they were eating Lunch ...
When all of a sudden they saw this Girl...
Her name has Spicy Mama...
And she was the best thing that ever happened to this boy...
But sadly she was only a "Limited time offer"...

If you don't get this story then go to the nearest A&W and buy a Spicy Mama and then you'll see what I mean!

Haha! Thats all I got to say!
Nolan Out!

Lots of fun

I've had a pretty busy week! But that is no excuse not to be writing a post. I meant to put up a picture I drew, but I'm having technical difficulties loading it on. So it may be a little while before I post a drawing.

For your information, I have not been in a small hole in the ground that is covered by hungry carnivorous roaches. Because I am still very much breathing!! Unless I am some how undead... how are you to tell.

So this weekend consisted of me hanging with two of my best friends that came to visit. The kind of friends that you don't see too often so its special when you do. We even skipped church so we'd have more time with only us (don't judge!). We did have our own bible study, which was on not arguing or complaining. So the rest of the day we spent trying not to do either (which is surprisingly difficult). Apparently complaining is a sin. I think of all the times I spent complaining about stupid stuff, and I feel bad.
We did our own photo shoot that day. You know the kind, where you do crazy make-up and pick out an outfit that is too cool. One of my friends has a super awesome camera. So all the pictures came out really nice. Lots of fun!
Of course, we did go to the youth conference! But it was only for the Saturday. It was great stuff! It was crazy cool because I got to meet some people that I hadn't seen in a while, and got to spent time with a bunch of my friends. The guys did a great job in planning it!


Have a great day readers!

POLLS! GO! NOW!

These are the poll results:

The Blog Drama Song - 0 Votes (0%)
The Speargun of Super Awesomeness - 4 Votes (24%)
Ben's Vlog on Couples - 6 Votes (35%)
How the Blog ended WW2 - 4 Votes (24%)
Me being Toothpaste - 3 Votes (18)


We can learn:

• Irrelevant facts
• Pointless banter
• Idiotic comparison
• Inside Reference.

Thankyou for bearing with me throughout this massive elaborate block of text.

One Long/Awesome Weekend

So as many of you know this weekend was the Sudbury Youth Conference. Now this was different from all the other conferences I have ever been to for a couple reasons.

The first reason was....well it was the sudbury youth conference which = soooo much awesome, and so many awesome people in one place. Seriously I'm surprised the place didn't explode!

The second reason is that I was helping with the organization and running of the conference. It was incredible, from the time put into making the host wars video, to the time spent cleaning tables, it was all awesome.

The third reason was that yours truly was the host! Aha believe it or not I hosted variety night. It was incredible and I nearly pooped myself the whole time hahahaha.

All in all it was a great new experience and I now have so much more respect for people who organize these things on a regular basis.

Anyway, with the conference behind us, you can now expect the blog to be put into full throttle!!

Until next time
peace

Hi-Ho Hi-Ho Its back to work I go!

Yes its true!
The renovations at A&W are complete...
This means I am no longer a lifeless individual...
And I have to wake up early...
Make money...
And do profitable stuff...
Like Eating!

But enough about today lets talk about my weekend!

Now I think over this weekend I saw ever person I have ever met in my entire life!
This is because of the SYC or Sudbury Youth Conference.
And if you weren't there this makes you a bad person!
But like seriously I enjoyed Ron Hampton, he was the speaker by the way...
He spoke on Relationships but not just the Boy-2-Girl Relationships...


Friday Night of the SYC I think was like the greatest night of my life!
We totally went to all the Really Sketchy parts of Sudbury and walked around...
It was great!
I am also surprised we didn't run into the cops...
With my track record we should have!

But all in all it was the greatest weekend of my Life...
Well maybe not... But it was still AWESOME!

Now all I have to do is get over this bad case of "Post Conference Depression"

Well Thats all for now folks!
Nolan Out!