fun week... but bitter sweet. the week started off with the posting of a bulletin on myspace sunday night. it was a buddy of mine named eric jemera who said "go to kcra.com and vote for Vanden for Game of the week so that they will come and film the game on friday." so i figured why not, ill be the bigger man and support the football team even though a lot of em always talk crap about soccer. so i went and voted. but when i saw the standings i had to laugh, cuz it looked like one of those fruitless ventures as we were in third place with only about 800 votes and the leader had about 1800. but then more and more bulletins were being posted. and sure enough we passed up the school that was in second place, and before you know it, vanden was on top. but Rodriguez (the school that WAS in first place) realized this and began their voting once again. now each person wasnt limited to how many times they would vote so we would manually refresh the page, vote, then repeat the process for hours on end to stay in the race. after about two days of this, we were searching for other options as this method was starting to get old. by this time our entire school, even people that have never cared at all about football, was voting online every night. so our info tech class discovered that by setting up macros, we could hit "play" and leave our computers to do the voting for us. so all the info tech computers, physics laptops and home computers had macros on them a couple days later, which i credit as the biggest factor in this whole thing. so not only was this experience good for uniting our school in our fight against rodriguez, but it was educational too in that a lot of us, myself included, learned how to properly set up a macro, which i think is a pretty cool thing. voting ended last night at 9 o clock and it was a battle with Rodriguez the whole way for the victory. and what was the outcome? well lets just say that KCRA will be doing a live broadcast at the Vanden Stadium in about 3 hours. so thats cool. but that wasnt the bitter sweet part of the week. Wednesday marked my last high school soccer game. we had a nice game, also against Rodriguez, but they got us in that one. but we played our hearts out and had fun. the important thing tho is that moments like that are starting to happen a lot more lately. it seems like every time i turn around im like "well thats the last time ill do that" which is a strange feeling. i dont think its really hit any of us yet that a year from now, we're all going to be gone. huh....