Riley's Adventures

Ballston Spa School District 1st Quarter Honors Congratulations to everyone who got on this list! I am the principal's list, which means my average grade for all subjects is about 95%.

Now, I'm currently at my sister's volleyball practic at the Malta Community Center. I am on the computer's in the library right now. I decided that I would write on my blog a list of things I do not like about middle school so far this school year. Things I Do NOT Like About The Middle School:  The lockers are about half a foot wide, so I can barely get through between periods everyday. The annocements are on second block, not first, so when I don't know what rotation day it is, it really is not handy when they say second block into the day. Many kids swear as if it is the word "the", and it bothers me because some of the kids that were in my class last year do that, too. Last year if they said a bad word, they would be sent down to the principal office and have a harsh punishment. Now, the teachers do not even care. At lunch, some random kid sat down next to me and started swearing. I asked to one of the "deans" (punishment deciders) if ...

Just checked the stats of this blog and now it has 13,00 pageviews! Awesome!

Hello everyone! I am at school right now. It is 8:43AM, and since I finished all of my work, I get to do whatever now, so I decided to write on my blog. I just updated the template for this website yesterday, and as you can see if you are reading this post online, it is christmas-themed. There are a lot of free Blogger templates you can download through third-party websites. Blogger doesn't offer a lot by default, and they are sort of plain, boring and unapeeling to me. And so you know if you do not already, instead of typing http://www.rileys-adventures.blogspot.com/  everytime you want to visit my blog, I have set up a free shorter domain for http://www.dot.tk with I love. You can access this shorter way to get to my blog by typing http://www.rileyblog.tk with is a lot shorter. Christmas is coming up and I have done most of my holiday shopping  so far for my family. I love making "perler art", which may sound weird but it is a really cool process that I started doing ...

Today is Friday, November 29th, 2013. Today, we will most likely go bowling. I am at Grandma and Grandpa's house still. Aunt Jen and Uncle Jeff went shopping at the mall an hour ago, and we don't know when they will be back. I'm bored. The technology talk net cast network ( TWiT.tv ) is not in operation this Thursday and Friday, so I can't watch anything.  Well, hopefully if I remember I'll post later writing the scores of bowling (if we even do go). Happy Black Friday!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Well, I thought I would write down everything that happened today: I woke up at about 8:30AM to 9:00AM. When I went downstairs all I smelled were onions, which I hate the smell of. Apparently Mom was cutting one open. At noon we went to my Aunt Marijo and Uncle Matt's house for the meal. I'll name all of my family that went: Mom, Dad, Maggie, Justin (my cousin), Julia (my cousin), Aunt Jen, Uncle Jeff, Grandpa Homer, Grandma, Uncle Matt and Aunt Marijo. I will also name all of the dogs that came: Mickey, Cocoa, Wilson and Chipper (Guppy is too crazy, so we decided that he would stay home). I'm spending the night at Grandma and Grandpa's house, where Justin, Julia, Uncle Jeff and Aunt Jen are staying this week for Thanksgiving. Although Julia is staying with Maggie at our house.  Again, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!  

1. My entire family   2. The food that I eat   3. TWiT.tv for making awesome technology video podcasts   4. Apple, INC. And all the people that make me the way I am. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

This morning I did a test on software called "Type Fu", to test my typing speed. Here is a screenshot from when I typed: " shah fall add flash slag dad hall sad half glass " Pretty good, I guess, right?

Mark Kleinzschachwitz, a smart college student studing at RPI in Troy, NY, was looking down at his laptop, with his headphones on, listening to Tech News Today, an online technology news show. All of a sudden, someone had gotten on the intercom and said "Nachste haltestelle: Dresden". He knew what this meant: that the next stop on the train he was currently on was going to Dresden. This was his stop. But just to make sure, he took out a crumpled paper out of his pocket, which was his intinerary, that told him to get off at the stop called Dresden. Mark was traveling through Europe on his spring break, which he had always wanted to do. His friend, Riley, had lived in Dresden for a year when we was in 3rd grade. Mark had ever wanted to visit this town after hearing of all of the awesome things he heard from Riley. He looked at a tram map after getting off of the train. He quickly calculated whick tram to get on, which was the 8 tram going in the direction of Hellerau, a small, ...

Hello everyone! I just got a comment on one of my recent posts saying: " Hi! I realize this is sort of off-topic however I had to ask. Does managing a well-established website like yours take  a massive amount work? I'm brand new to running  a blog however I do write in my diary on a daily basis. I'd  like to start a blog so I can easily share my own experience and views online. Please let me know if you have any ideas or tips for new aspiring bloggers. Appreciate it! "                                                                                 -Anonymous Dear Anonymous, Well, thanks so much for saying my blog is a " well-established website "! That really does mean a lot. Just like writing in a diary or a journal every day, like I do, too, you get in the habit of doing i...

I was on the Tech Guy Radio Show! On Saturday's episode, I called in and was on the show! Sorry I can not embed it onto the page, because YouTube will not let me. But here is the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q_6-Ae9hHc?t=1h42m16s

Here is a Christmas countdown timer (Eastern Standard Time) for you to use for your website. The preview is below:  I got the countdown from timeanddate.com. You can access the code at the following like:  http://instablogg.com/q.hlIF. Also, edit custom settings at http://www.timeanddate.com/clocks/freecountdown.html. Enjoy!

You know how I love taking pictures of Guppy, right? Well, I just found one that I think really looks funny: Download the picture above by clicking  here .

For the past few days in English class, we have been making a scary story. I decided to type mine during lunch today, so I figured I might as well just publish it on my blog: One Saturday morning at the LaGoy home in Malta, NY, Cade woke up. He turned on his side to look at his alarm clock, which read 9:21AM. He got up, and walked across the hallway to Callie, his sister’s, room, to wake her up. Cade was often very funny, so to wake her up, he would always say “ Hey Callie girl!”  Callie got out of bed and was about to walk out of her room when she saw a spider, about the size of her dad’s hand, on the wall, crawling all over. Callie screamed and quickly ran out of the room. Cade was still in there, though. He wasn’t that afraid of spiders that much, but was still creeped out by the spider. As the spider went on the floor and was on it’s way to go underneath Callie’s bed, Cade stepped on it. It looked dead, so Cade exited Callie’s room and went to go tell Callie that the spider had...

So last night, on Halloween, I dressed up as Steve Jobs. I stopped at one house with Maggie as we were trick or treating, and when the lady asked who I was dressed up as, I said Steve Jobs. Then she said "You should fix the Health Care website." I thought that was really funny.

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Well, hello everyone. I am once again on the same computer that I was last post, also during lunch like I was last post, too. Just thought I should tell you about what happened this morning: My alarm clock goes off at about 4:46AM, and I wake up maybe 5 minutes after that. Then I eat breakfast and get my backpack ready and brush my teeth and all of that stuff. Maggie's best friend, Callie, is coming over every morning (school day) at 7:30 to be dropped of at school with Maggie. She came down the stairs right before I went outside to get picked up by my bus. (Just thought of another random thing to write: I couldn't do my online homework, or get information from a client I am working on some podcasts and videos on for because our internet always seems to go out every so often. This is not a router issue, this our ISP's problem. And if you are curious to know, it Time Warner Cable. They can't fix it, well all they can seem to think of as a solution is to replace our modem...

Hello everyone. How are you? Well, if you want to know, I am currently at school. In is lunch time. At the Middle School, most teachers allow you to go in their classrooms during lunch to finish unfinished work. I'm in the English room right now, but I just like staying for lunch because it is quieter than in the lunchroom, which is crazy loud (in my opinion). Just if you are wondering about the "What's On My Mind" blog series, I only post about that series on weekdays, and do it after school. Even if I wanted to do it now then I wouldn't have time to do so, because I have 6 minutes left (we have 30 min. all together), and last time (on Friday) it took me a whole 30 minutes or so. The computers at our school (at least most of them) run Windows XP. The computers are SO SLOW! One kid came up to me the other day in study hall as I was finished up a book summary project on the computer. He said "I think these computers are older than us." They most likely ar...

Maggie carrying her karaoke machine and wearing her headphones as we take a walk around town.

From Riley's Adventures, this is What's On My Mind. I'm Carl Kassel . And here's your host at www.rileys-adventures.blogspot.com , Riley Walz! Yep, that's right. I listen to Wait Wait Don't Tell Me , NPR's weekly news quiz. I love saying what Carl Kassel says. " From NPR and WBEZ Chicago, This is Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, the NPR news quiz. I'm Carl Kassel . And here's your host and the Chasebank Auditoriam in Downtown Chicago, Peter Segal ! " But regardless of my loving to say what Carl Kassel says, the time is currently 2:57PM, and I usaully don't do my homework I get on Friday afterschool on Friday, I do it on Saturday or Sunday, most of the time on Sunday. I'm here again with the online blog series "What's On My Mind" Edition #2. And I didn't forget. Actually today I've been waiting to do it, excited about it. As you may now, I'm starting a podcast. I should be doing it next week on Saturday. I thi...