KODY'S BLOG

Greg’s family has cut back on vacations and day trips to save money, so his summer fun is limited. Summer vacation finds the main character, Greg, happy to be inside playing video games. His mother has other ideas, and starts a book club. Greg also gets to go to the country club with his best friend Rowley — until they run up a bill of $83 for smoothies that Greg thought were free. Greg gets a job to pay the money back, and his scheme to mow lawns goes about as well as his other plans often do. So his birthday money will have to pay the bill instead of getting a dog. Then his uncle’s dog eats his cake so Roderick and Greg gets a fish as a makeup. Also they decide to go to a water park which it turns out to be horrible because it rains. Then when his grandfather says that he ran over Greg’s dad’s dog he goes and gets a puppy. Later that week he goes to the beach with Rowley and rides the cranium shaker. Finally the puppy gets on so many people’s nerves and he takes the dog back to his family where he came from. Then the story ends with photos that his mom took over that summer.

The theme of the story is a comedy because its funny and the character does stupid and has retarded ideas.

The characters include his dad, mom, Greg, Rowley, Grandpa, Grandma, Uncle Joe, Killer [Joe’s dog], sweetie [Greg’s puppy], Mr. Johnson.
I highly recommend this book. It is a very good one.

To My Alarm Clock

By Anonymous

Every morning I lie there innocently sleeping
When the peace is ruptured by a horrible beeping.
My serenity ripped asunder, sudden and drastic
By this evil, demonic, red-eyed piece of plastic.

I roll over in pain and pound on the snooze,
Groaning, moaning, thinking ‘What’s there to lose?’
‘Don’t make me get up, just nine minutes more.’
The same thing I’ve said every morning before.

It’s not that I hate mornings or dread the new day.
It’s just that I loathe waking up in this way.
I’d much rather simply rise up with the light,
Glowing in the window, chasing away the night.

But the sudden screaming, the incessant fuss,
Makes me want to yell and cry and simply to cuss.
Especially the knowledge that all of my sorrow
Will be repeated the same time, same way, tomorrow.

LIMERICK-
there once was a train that could
he really thought he was good
but once he tried
he got fried
that is the train that could fly

CINQUAIN-
Puffball
thorny and green
hoping for rain to fall
reaching spiny tongues to the sky
waiting……

HAIKU-
Bright colored creature
singing to me so sweetly
smiling for the sun

FREE VERSE-
Pizza is good so good that it is better than pie

TANKA-
Beautiful mountains
Rivers with cold, cold water.
White cold snow on rocks
Trees over the place with frost
White sparkly snow everywhere.

I’ve got the children to tend
The clothes to mend
The floor to mop
The food to shop
Then the chicken to fry
The baby to dry
I got company to feed
The garden to weed
I’ve got shirts to press
The tots to dress
The can to be cut
I gotta clean up this hut
Then see about the sick
And the cotton to pick.

Shine on me, sunshine
Rain on me, rain
Fall softly, dewdrops
And cool my brow again.

Storm, blow me from here
With your fiercest wind
Let me float across the sky
‘Til I can rest again.

Fall gently, snowflakes
Cover me with white
Cold icy kisses and
Let me rest tonight.

Sun, rain, curving sky
Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone
Star shine, moon glow
You’re all that I can call my own.

We, unaccustomed to courage
exiles from delight
live coiled in shells of loneliness
until love leaves its high holy temple
and comes into our sight
to liberate us into life.

Love arrives
and in its train come ecstasies
old memories of pleasure
ancient histories of pain.
Yet if we are bold,
love strikes away the chains of fear
from our souls.

We are weaned from our timidity
In the flush of love’s light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.

LIFE IN A NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP
By Anne Grenn Saldinger
Reviewed by Kody Seward
I was never in a concentration camp or even seen one but this book gave you vivid description of the book Life in a Nazi Concentration Camp. With all of the horrific stories of Jews and them trying to survive all of the different death camps. The reason I like the book so much is because the gory, horrifying, and spine chilling stories of the death camps.
One of the stories that it told about was this family that went to Auschwitz and when they got there they had a big yellow sign that said welcome and it was to think that it was not that bad of a camp. But when they got into the camp the old and the weak were picked out and sent to immediate extermination. The girls grandfather was pick out and killed. She said that she was worked and worked. But the worst but the girl said was her mom and 5 others were picked out and killed by guns because they wanted to keep the people sacred. But 2 weeks after that she says allies came and rescued the people and sadly only her and her brother remained while her 3 other brothers and sisters died with mom, dad and grandpa.
The theme of this story is chiller because it is a really creepy book. The stories have 1 character explain their family’s story and most of the time the characters are sacred.
The author Anne Saldinger has wrote many holocaust books so she is very skilled in the area. Also she is a teacher that teaches about the holocaust commonly.

THE BLIZZARD!!
The blizzard that hit Delaware was awesome because it snowed a lot and caused 10 days without school. I had fun over the break doing many things like camping outside in one of the blizzards and climbed out of windows and had crazy snowball fights and even jumping off of my roof.
During the blizzard I did a lot of things. But probably the first thing I did was build a snow fort for snowball fights. It toke a really long time to build it. After I built it I had this crazy snowball fight with my neighbors I would peg them in the face with ice chunks and then they started to cry so I went inside before any fingers were being pointed at me. The only other thing I did the next 3 or 4 days was shoving my drive way and others with lawns unlimited. Right after we shoveled the drive way the next snow storm came in.
So I decided to camp outside and see how cold it really was. I found out it was freezing. So I decide that day I was going to do something you can’t do in the summer. I was going to jump off of stuff. Like my fence, my old tree house, the swing and even my roof. That was so fun because you land face first into a pile of snow. That night my dad pulled me and my brother on a sled with his truck in the corn field behind me and it was really fun.
Later that week we had a little more snow and we found out that our door had been piled up with snow so climbed out of my window and had to shovel the door so my dad could get out and go to work. By the end of the winter break I had Pete over for the weekend. It was fun. Finally president’s day I went to my grandma’s house before she went back to Las Vegas.
So over all I had a really good winter break it was filled with fun and excitement. Best Snow break ever!

Step 1: Unscrewing the controller
Remove the 7 screws as shown in the picture (one is under the battery hidden)

Step 2: Prepare the Case
While holding the controller with buttons face down separate the controller apart and remover the circuit board, then with a screwdriver, drill or a pair of scissors make a hole around 5 or 6mm wide as shown in picture.

Step 3: Install the Button
This is the button that changes the speed of the rapid fire and on/off.
Put the button through the hole and put the nut on the outside and tighten it with the pliers. then put the circuit board back on (triggers in first) try to hide the microchip beneath where the motor is plugged in but don’t worry if you can’t, just unplug and throw away the right motor, it’s much better and you won’t notice the difference.

If you are installing a double kit place the second button under the first

Step 4: Preparing the Case Part II
The following is just so you don’t crush the wires when you put the case back together. If you have bought your mod from www.xbox-mod.net there is no need to do this as we use specialist thin wire that doesn’t get caught.

The top half of the case should look like this (if you kept it upside down) you need to snip out two notches either side of the screw hole.

It should now look like this.

Step 5: Time to Solder
Solder the 3 wires as in the Picture, yellow to the right end in a row of 4 and red to the left end in a row of 4.

Blue (or black) to the middle of 3 pins ,
Please note if you are using a COD 5 compatible kit, the blue wire will be black.
If you are using a new style board (same as the one in the next picture) This is all that needs to be done
and notice were the wires lay on the board marked with arrows, this is important! as most people crush the wires and then it won’t work.

Here is a close up view of the solder points.

If you are installing the double kit, the long black wire needs to go on the same pin as the small black wire but on the left side of the board.

If you are using an older style controller

Then you will have to attach the 300 Ohm resistor (that should be provided) between the black wire and the pin, (same with the purple wire on the double kit!)

If you are using the old style board (notice the Silver rectangle just above the 4 power terminals) You will have to solder the red(or purple) wire to here instead

Step 6: Finishing Off
Now for the tricky part, while the top cover is still face down (so the buttons don’t fall out) take the bottom part and flip it over and hold it just above the top part, the motor will hang down and you will see were it sits in the bottom part, slide it in and then you can close the top and bottom part ofthe controller together. Be careful not to snap off the SYNC button at this point. now you have it back together you should have a nice fit and you can put the screws back in.

Then put your batteries in and test it on something like COD4 and select the Pistol.

If your new button only fires single shots then turn the controller and the console off, turn the console on by itself, then when a game loads, then you can turn the controller on. that should fix it.

If your new button does nothing at all, then you buggered it up and you need to go back to step 1 and double check everything again.

i have been good this year because i have not got suspended or sent to the office or did i kill anybody so i belive i desere gifts this year
sincerely,
Kody Seward
P.S i want the 5 min that it took me to write this back