Apparently it's haunted...

In NJ, a very basic and uneventful state, there seems to be one thing in West Milford that people actually are excited about. Last summer during the ACT class I was in, a kid had visited this road. I had already heard about the stories and all but was intrigued when I heard that he went up there. I planned it with friends, and finally yesterday we had made it.

With the same name as our previous president, Clinton Rd. happens to be a haunted road with many kinds of happenings there. There is a Druidic temple, a few ghost cars, a ghost boy who likes to play with coins, a mask of death, a message on the road, a burnt down castle, and several sightings of weird monsters crossing the road. So yesterday at 11:47 pm we arrived at the traffic light before Clinton Rd, and there was a sign for it and everything. I can only assume that the gov. wanted to make sure people got to this 10 mile, curving road, safely. The first mile have actual homes with residents, and then it gets dark. With only our navigation system giving us clue to where the road was taking us, I had my eyes peeled for the special spots that were related to sightings. We mentioned the girl with the camaro who had died here, and we saw the location for the druidic temple. We did not stop though, because there is no shoulder to this road, and it seemed that there were residents who used this road regularly and we didn't want to block the road just to check out the possibility that there was something there.

Getting out of the car the first time

The dirt parking lot...if you can even see it

Our first stop was the bridge. Yes, there are about 3 bridges on the road and one of them was special. At the time, we hadn't realized but we parked next to the bridge with the ghost boy. All we did was wander around in the dark and then returned to the car. Then we stopped again by some sort of parking lot, but it was all dirt. There was a message board and signs and a little gap in the trees for people to walk through. We all got our flashlights out and checked the message board, where a paper was taped to. Instantly, a scene from Slender ran through all our minds. The bravest one of us went to the board and read it, I followed behind. Simply, it was a warning for people to take care of their belongings and avoid littering. Then we checked out the walking path and deemed it unsafe at night. Driving a bit more, we had ran through the majority of it and reached the end. Taking a u-turn, we went and stopped at a park. We checked it out, and at night it looked very creepy. Across from it was a large house that overlooked the lake, the driveway even had hairpin turns to get up the rocks. After abandoning the thought of ding dong ditching the large house, we went back and stopped at the bridge again. This time we knew it was the ghost boy one. We walked on the road and there were messages to be found. One read: "This place is" and another read: "He". Unfortunately, the last word for the first message was faded beyond recognition and the rest of the message for the second one was covered up in black spray paint.

Reading the messages

Actually, a lot of the other messages on the road were covered up with black spray paint. We then got out pennies out and started throwing against the edge of the bridge, like we were supposed to. I don't know if the ghost boy brought them out or not but in the dead silence the plop of the coin was creepy enough. There seemed to have been a few accidents there since the concrete blocks were actually shifted from their original position and had black scrape marks on it. There were small traces of car parts and tire marks. After that, we had made our way to the start again and before leaving we checked out the homes here. Many were abandoned or for sale. They were all huge homes with ample space, but of course the myths would scare people off. I actually can't believe that people built homes in the center of the road, where it was the most dense and creepiest.

Even though we hadn't actually seen anything, the drive through was worth it.

Today was more fun. After crashing at a friend's place, we went kayaking in Princeton. It was 7 of my friends. I arrived late and they were already in the water. And in fact, they made it very far in. I had to go full speed to catch up. One of my friends fell into the water and lost his glasses, which were both brand new and costly. Other than that, there wasn't much to report about.

Kayaking

And with that, my job has come to an end.

I started back in October because I wanted some money that I could use for my own stuff. Staying in the job for 9 months now, I have gained a level of authority there and established my sense of purpose, kinda. Working at a restaurant is fun and stressful at the same time. The coworkers were all friends but our shared time to deal with a variety of customers can bring out tension, as any job may do.

Well the day before I hosted a movie night in my house, several friends come over and watch a movie on a big screen. Prior to that was some dinner. We went out for pho. Which I highly recommend. Ending the movie at 12:30 and sleeping at 3, then waking up at 9 for a day at work. It's my last day and it was a full day. I haven't worked many full days before so this was going to stressful again. Today about...65 kids came in due to a summer camp tradition. Then all was quiet since Mondays are usually empty. Until the last our when several groups of people decided that our closing time means nothing to them.

Well after a hot shower, I'm ready to enjoy the last two weeks of summer vacation.

Fear not young ones, as the greatest four years of my life are yet to arrive.

FACK

With only 3 weeks left of this summer vacation and college just around the corner, I am completely unprepared. My goal was to finish up the Assassin's Creed series and that hasn't happened. I didn't watch a lot of anime, which I do every year. And worst off, I lost a lot of days of free time due to work. Well maybe getting bank was worth it. And I went on vacation for 24 days total. So my summer wasn't all that great. The vacations were fun, so if someone asks:

Person: How was your summer?

Me: I went to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Monica, The Grand Canyon, Austin, and Dallas during my summer. What about you?

Person: I hate you for having an exciting life. Cuz I did (insert something way more fun here).

Perhaps now I should try to finish AC 1. Cuz that game is hard af.

Oh and RTX was great. For people who don't know: RTX. It was really fun and worth it. I got to meet so many Rooster Teeth people and see a few more. I would definitely go again, if it didn't cost so much for me to go there.

Achievement Hunter Panel

My phone after RTX

So we have this new superintendent this year. I think he is from Michigan or something, but the thing is. He hasn't given us any snow days. Even when most other NJ schools closed down, we were open in the mornings. Perhaps, it's because he is from stricter schools and Michigan, but the thing is NJ isn't as prepared as Michigan. Although we are prepared for snow, nonetheless. So basically, the new guy doesn't give us any snow days. Today was our third snow day and he told everyone about it via twitter. First of all, NJ has a law where teachers can't communicate to student over social media and some how this guy gets away with it. First it was about students complaining about PARCC testing. Now he uses it regularly to update students. The thing that annoys most of us is that he uses the weirdest language. Like "brethren" or "fam". Last night, he calmly tweeted that we should stay safe and stay home because we have no school.

Well in any case, I stayed home. I woke up at 1 o'clock and proceeded to play video games. Nothing special. Lunch was ready by the time woke up and I ate that. I then fooled around, watched nonsensical tv and did nothing. Around 6 o'clock I went out in the deep snow and got some snacks from the local Stop and Shop. Upon returning I joined my friends in a game of Titan Fall, and that lasted until 9 o'clock. Then we fooled around on Magika until...now. It seems that I have to "sleep" now so that obviously means get in bed and watch anime until I fall asleep. We have a 90 minute delay tomorrow, courtesy of the superintendent via twitter, and I intend to use it wisely. 

So yesterday was Saturday. For me it was NJ States competition for VEX Robotics. Sounds great and all, our team made it. Like usual we made it to the finals. Here's what sucks, right before the semifinals, which we were in, the school closed down. And we were kicked out. Basically it was 3:50 and we all knew the school was going to close due to the heavy snow. They said it was gonna close at 4:30 and we knew we would be done by then. But then they shut down early. All of us had to drive in the snow, knowing that next week we had to continue the finals. It took me 3 hours to get home where it would normally take 1 hour. And I missed work for this. 

Today was awful: I went to school.
First I woke up 20 minutes early and decided to pack my books up and go back to bed. Packing the books took me a good 15 minutes because I'm a scrub. Then I made it to my bus in time, but got caught sleeping in my first block class. It's weird because it wasn't even a full sleep, it was a half-*ssed one where my head was down and I was just staring at my notes. And the teacher calls on me and I respond with the right answer, thus completely owning his arse.
The rest of the day went by slow. Nowadays homework seems like a bother and there are days where I don't even have homework even with my AP classes. It's weird and I think that is what brought in my laziness. Last year at this time I was working hard on projects and such but this is my first year with AP classes and I'm really lazy. I'm also gaming and watching anime a lot too.
On the other hand, I got back into Rooster Teeth after finally catching up in Red vs Blue. I left off in season 10 but after Monty Oum had died, I decided to get back into it to see his last works. And of course RWBY. Me and a friend joined the r/rwbyrp and it took us a good 2 weeks to get in, actuall my first and second characters were both rejected and my third one is on it's way to getting approved. My friend got in, but hasn't done much yet. I invite you to check out r/rwbyrp tho, it's really funny.

And then on youtube I was introduced to Filthy Frank. That's all I have to say about that, b0ss. Oh, and watch Kingsmen: The Secret Service. 8/8 movie. 

Yesterday our robotics teams went over to BCIT in NJ for a competition. We were already accepted into the states competition but we wanted to prove ourselves. (btw we are Team 750E). We were 1st place for the entire competition and we ended up winning too. This is a great success since we never gotten an award in this season and so yesterday we got the Driver Skills and Excellence Award. We are definitely qualified for states now.