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I've been busy for the last three months with alot of things including school and a National inter-school Knowledge Bowl tournament.

I'll start with the school. It's my final year of high school so alot of preparation has been going on for preparation for the CXC Exams. Just finished doing my Mock (Pre-CXC) Exams today. CXC exams are long and tough. Each subject has an individual exam and each exam has two parts; Part 1 which is 2 - 3 hours long and Part 2 which is 1 - 1.5 hours ...

So this past Thursday I got volunteered to smoke up some food for a potluck at my mom's office. The potluck was at 12pm, so that meant I needed the food to be ready and on the grill pretty early. Unfortunately I've also been having some sleeping issues these past couple weeks, so I ended up asleep around 4 and up around 7 that day lol.

So what was for lunch?

I present you the guests of honor

These 4 tri-tips have been marinated ...

Some of you know I have recently taken an interest in grilling and smoking up my food. I love cooking outside and the challenge of coming back inside with something mouth-wateringly good. This however was my first holiday smoking everything up and I had an 18 pound turkey, an 18 pound ham, and a house full of relatives waiting to chow down on something delicious.

I've been prepping for this meal for the last month now, but ...

Just thought I'd post this. I've been head of the School's Inventor workshop for four years. This year, we decided to enter 'Biofuel as an alternative energy source'. Amazingly, even without a finished project, we came 1st place in the district and are now off to the finals in May 2011. Our main write-up;

Westmorland Science Project 2010
Biofuel as an Alternative Source of Energy


The aim of this project is to demonstrate how biofuel

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Wednesday, a friend told me his Wii was bricked because of something stupid his little sister has done. He softmodded his Wii like one year ago, and has never had any troubles. His little sister read on the internet that a patched version of IOS70 would allow here to run Virtual Console games from the SD Card Channel. She tried this out without any permission from my friend, but it didn't work (or so she told). She decided to delete IOS70 and the System Menu to start all over again. Something unexpected ...