Aw, Shuckymonsters

I just realized I was supposed to invite Allison to the party, but never did. Rats! I've been busy. I went on a bit of adventure tonight. I went to Crystal Lake to find the Radio Shack, and it took me awhile to get there. They didn't have what I needed, so the guy suggested a solution involving drywall plugs, so I went to Farm & Fleet to get them, since I was going there anyway. For those of you that don't know, Farm & Fleet is a store that has everything. It's like The Home Depot, K-Mart, Best Buy, and Pep Boys put together. Plus they have a bunch of stuff for horses and agriculture too. It's huge. Anyway, I could find neither drywall plugs nor the other thing I needed. Oh well. Anyway, I've been installing speakers in the Harveys' house. The previous owners had wired the house for sound, but took the speakers with them. They also wired the house for just about everything else too. The basement is an electrician's nightmare. There's conduit everywhere, and a lot of that stuff that Kyle had a derogatory name for (of course, Kyle has a derogatory name for everything. Why does he want to work at "Rat Shack" anyway? My dad has funny names for everything, like "suicide cord." But I digress...) Anyway, then I was reprogramming their remote to get it to work with the stereo, and it spazed out on me. Not only did it stop working, but it froze up the satellite receiver, too. Fortunately, via my infinite electronic prowess, I got both the receiver and the remote working again, and I think I succeeded in reprogramming it after all.

Well, I'm heading home early tomorrow to get ready for the party. If anyone wants to meet me there 5:15-5:30 to help set up, I'd greatly appreciate it.

In other news, I've finished reading Twelfth Night, but I still have to really journal it. I've also started reading Moonraker. Why can't we read Bond novels in English class? My guess is it's because Bond novels fit into the first of Matt's Two Categories of Great Literature. Those categories are:

1. It's entertaining to read.

2. It makes some kind of statement about something mutable (society, the law, etc).

In my humble opinion, if you read a book that doesn't fit into either category, you've wasted your time.