Hey everyone, Crono here. As you can see, I've gotten back into the routine of making blogs lately, although it's all been the Music Rants that I've just started writing along with a useless blog I made yesterday. So I figured I may as well make a blog about the rest of the stuff that's been going on lately, although things have obviously been less busy during summer vacation, which is a good thing. Anyway...

I probably haven't mentioned it, but I've been out of school since June 20th, and I'll be starting again on September 1st (summer vacation just gets shorter and shorter every year!). I'm mostly free of homework, but I do have to read a few books for an AP (Advanced Placement) English clas-s that I'll be in during Junior year. I have 2 read two books of my choice, along with two from this list:

1984 by George Orwell (Just started that this week)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

I've already read another book of my choice, The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut. A great book if you're looking fora reasonably long novel to read. Like I said, I'm reading 1984 now, and I might read Fahrenheit next, but if you guys would rather recommend a different book from that list, feel free to steer me in the right direction.

I've also been going on a few outings with my boy scout troop this summer, along with weekly meetings and Order of the Arrow (which is basically boy scout honor society) meetings. From June 26th to July 2nd (a whole week) I went on a summer camp trip to Camp Bonaparte in Tonasket, Washington, which was a pretty fun time other than some "technical difficulties" with a merit badge. Last weekend I went to a place called Skomakowa (Skoh-mah-koh-wah) in a state park in southern Washington, which was also pretty cool.

I've also been watching a few movies lying around the house just for the sake of entertainment. Here are the ones I've watched this summer off the top of my head:

• Toy Story 1 (I might watch the second today)
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
• Men in Black
• Stand By Me
• Spider-Man (I might borrow the sequel from one of my friends, though)
• Shrek
• Zoolander
• Most of the Harry Potter movies, shown on TV

I might also be seeing the new Harry Potter movie in theaters this weekend with my mom and maybe my friend.

I've also been playing a few different games this summer. I put Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story on hold for a while since I'm trying to focus more on the Game Boy Advance this summer. On my GBA, I've beaten Pokemon Sapphire Version, Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land, and Kirby: The Amazing Mirror, and I just started Zelda: A Link to the Past/Four Swords today. On my consoles, I've beaten Kingdom Hearts II and Super Mario Sunshine, and I'm playing Zelda: Majora's Mask and EarthBound right now. After beating Majora's Mask (I'm a little bit past the Great Bay Temple right now), I'll be buying Final Fantasy VI for the SNES, and after EarthBound, I want to replay Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door for the Gamecube. And I've occasionally been playing Rock Band and Mario Kart Wiiby myself and with my friend just for the fun of it. Wow, that's a mouthful. :P

I think that's about all I have to say for now, so I close this out with some useless information to make this actually worth reading. :P

• The creator of Twinkies, Jimmy Dewar, ate 40,177 Twinkies in his lifetime.
• Dr. Seuss's first book was rejected by 23 publishers.
• The Beatles were rejected by the first two companies they auditioned with, both of them saying that The Beatles were "talentless" and that "guitar music was on its way out".
• The baseball glove, the electric range (stove), the electon microscope, standard time, and the zipper were all invented by Canadians.
• Finland has the most islands of any country (179,584).

That's all for now, see you guys next time. 8)

-Chronomagnus Banana 36