The Screamin Eagle

So when you read the title of this post your probably thinking about the roller coaster at six flags. That however, is not the case. The Screaming Eagle is the name of my most favorite possession; my car. I drive a 2002 Yellow Mitshibishi OZ Ralley Edition Lancer. My favorite part of my car is the audio. I have Boston Acusstic speakers all round, Boston accustic tweaters, and all of that being pushed by a 550R Pioneer amp. I also have a 12 inch Alpine type R sub in a single ported box, and it is getting pushed by a 650r pioneer amp. Basically what all that means is my car gets pretty loud. Speaking of loud, I also after an aftermarket exhaust system installed. Its not just a muffler, its a whole system, meaning instead of sounding like a whinny rise burner it has a deep purr. There are a couple of other cars in the area I spot now and again, but there is a couple of ways you can distinguish weather or not it is my car. On my back windshield there is a GIANT yellow decal of the Mitshibishi Symbol. I also have tinted windows, but by tinted I mean purple tinted windows. You might think there a little fruity looking but it stays nice and dark in my car when the sun is blazing down on you. Currently I also have a huge spider web crack on my windshield due to contact my best friend's head, but that another blog for another day.

Well that's the run down on The Screamin Eagle, if you see me around town give me a honk.

Summer

As the school year starts to wind down, i find myself less and less motovated to do things that are school realated. The weather is just so nice it's got me all rilled up for the summer. My favorite part of summer is knowing that i can sleep in and hang out with my friends most days of the week and not even have to worry about school. Not only that but the weather. I love warm weather and having fun outside in the sun. What my high school buddies and I do every summer is play softball on tuesdays and thursdays. Its a great time and a great way for old friends to stay connected. There's nothing like that first day of summer when everyone is finally back from school and everyone seems to be running in to each other and there's always something to do. Till then......

Guitar

One of my passions off the ice is playing guitar. I started playing guitar in the seventh grade and am still playing seven years later. I bought one of my friends brother's old squire strat and amp for seventy five bucks. That guitar is long gone but i still love it all the same being my first guitar in all. I play a funky mix between alternative rock, acoustic, and pop rock. Its kind of my own genre my friends say, that's just how it comes out when i put the pen to the pad. I don't play a lot of cover songs by popular artist, although i do play some, for the most part i just play my own material and i have a tone of it and I am constantly generating new material. Iv been in a couple bands and played a handful of shows, but nothing beats playing your own music that all your friends know the words to and sing along sitting outside around a bone fire with nothing better to do on a Thursday night.

Facebook

The social networking site that has pretty much taken over the internet as we know it, Face book. I love face book and would probably be lost without it. The first page i see every time when I open my browser is face book (it's my homepage), and all my status updates, comments, and other updates are sent strait to my phone for me to respond to. Just when everyone thought myspace could not get any bigger, here came face book which took online blogging to a new level and created a class of it's own, social networking. I think social networking is an understatement, face book should be called anything and everything about me can be found here dot com. Although this is very true I still am addicticed to face book and can't wait to show my grandson one day how to recover his lost password on face book for the first time.

Pole Vaulting

So track season for high schools in this area began about 2 weeks ago. I am not in high school, why do I care ? Last year i was a senior at Columbia High School and decided to run track kinda spur of the moment. I ended up being semi decent, especially for not having ever run high school track before. I ended up running the 400 and pole vaulting. I soon feel in love with pole vaulting and all i could do was think about it. It became clear to my coach that i loved to vault and i knew what i was doing. I ran into my old coach about 3 weeks ago and we got to talking and he asked me to come out and help him coach. ever since iv been coaching the vault team and I am having such a great time. Our first meet is today, WISH US LUCK !

Blog Repot #2

So over the last couple of weeks its been pretty hectic and i have not been able to post near as many new post or comments. i do however still enjoy blogging. its a great way to highlight fun, cool, and intresting things in your life, not only that but you only need to say it once and its on your page for all to read, its not something you have to continually repeat day in and day out. I think the commenting is one of the most fun parts of blogging becasue it gives you a chance to give feedback on someones blog or in genaral just give some type of insight on their post. I find my self commenting on Jim's page alot because alot of his post deal with hockey and our season. I do however like to comment on other peoeple s blogs when its something Im intrested in like sports, some blogs however just do not appeal to me and I can't comment on thier actual post but usually I still like to throw in a "good post" or "very intresting" Everyone keep up the good work and have fun!

Jim Wilderman Unleashed in The Windy City

It was game 2 late into he third period of our final game of the season. We were down four goals and knew it would take a miracle to pull a win out. At this point in the game we were playing for pride and not going down without a fight, literally. With about four minutes left in the third period there was a scrum (pushing and shoving) in front of the net. As a hockey player you know when a fight is going to happen. It’s the way two players get in each other’s faces and the way shoves are given to the chest of the other guy. This was exactly what was happening. The whole bench was quiet and motionless as we watched this develop and how the player we all would never have guessed to drop the gloves, started in the process of developing a fight. We all saw it coming as it happened and when Jim pulled off his helmet and threw his gloves aside, our bench erupted with screams and shouts of encouragement. A shot here, dodging up and down, yanking jerseys, the faint and the definitely recognizable sound of a fist smashing in the jaw of an opponent. That quick it had started and that quick it had ended. Jim was obviously then escorted to the penalty box as our team rooted him on and yelled on congrats at him. A definite morale booster to our team, and Jim's first win in his first junior hockey fighting career.

Snuffels

I have been absent the last two class periods due to a case of acute snuffels. Im not evevn sure if that a real alement but it is for me. I guess i just have a really bad cold, but every 10 seconds i have to "snuffel" very loudly and its annoying and distracting to me so i kow it definitly would be to everyone else in class. Luckly i have Jim to help me out and tell me what we did in class. Jim-bo's a good guy, thanks for takin care of me buddy.

Blog Repot # 1

This blogging project has really opened my eyes to a whole new world of communication. I use face book and other types of social networing sites, but never just a blog site. It real lets you interact with people, especially people you dont know.

My only "beef" with this is that i can never remember to blog, it seems like im always bloggin on tuesday morningswhich is good and bad. atleast im blogging, i just wish that i could remember to do it at home so that way i would have more time to complete my blogs.

All in all though i think that blogging can only benifit me in my academic career. If any of my classes in the future use blogging then ill be set. I really enjoy reading peoples blogs and commenting on them, its kinda nice having an insight on other peoples life. It helps you looks a yourself and realize your like them and that your a normal person.

Who Says Your to Old to Party ?

So this weekend me and Jim were yet again on another hockey trip as we took down the number one team who has not been beaten at home or shutout. We did both. The games we play on road trips, although imporant, usually are not the highlight of our weekend. However, this weekend was different. There was definitly a tie between two events this weekend. The first one obvisually the game we played, the second a little more intresting.
Around nine o clock a night we arrived back at our hotel Saturaday night when to our suprise we ran into around 150 women ( from ages 30 to 80) who were doing a statewide bowling tournament, and they were all staying in our hotel. Well around ten thirty that night we ( including Jim and about 6 other teammates) found ourselves in 4 of the ladies hotel rooms, the yungest being 30 and the oldest one in the room being 62). For about 2 hours we hung with them while they drank and told stories. We of course did not drink because we are not 21........ and we had a game the next morning. A knock came on the door around 12 and who was it ? Our coach's, BUSTED!!
quite the contrary, they laughed and told us to get out, but as we awoke early sunday morning before our game, we woke up before our coach's and to our surprise out of our coaches' room walked out DeDe, a woman the team had met the previous night. Needless to say we asked many questions but our coaches' simply denied it and we laughed casue we all saw it.

Who says your to old to party ?

Rounders - Life of the Rich and Famous

This weekend our team was out of town in a little po-dunk town about an hour west of Detroit. We had alot of down time this weekend. so i spent about 12 hours playin poker and about 6 pots of coffee, granted they were mini pots. i play online poker for real money cause im a cash money millionaire. I started off with twenty dollars and entered a few sit and go games until finally i was warmed up enough to play the big boy games. I wnt six and two the first day and eight and one the second day, giving me a grand total of four hundred eighty four dollars in my acccount. I played a few games yester day and lets jsut say there is about forty cents left in my acount as of this morning.

To be, or not to be, that is the Answer

"Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds."
- Elie Wiesel

I really like this quote becasue of the bluntness of it. This quote is not a long drawn out fragment with a hidden meaning that can be interputed multiple ways. At least that is my inturpitation of it. I think that simply stated in simple words, this passage is saying that you don't need to perform a miracle or give a gift in your own or in another person's time of need, rather words of comfort and companionship will pretty much do the trick.



I love quotes and I seem to always be quoting someone or something such as a movie. So before I go let me leave you with one of my favorite quotes.

" If bar down is not open, dump it in the corner"
- Mason Webb

Life On the Road

For those of you who don't know, i play junior hockey for the Illinois Frontenacs. From August till the end of March my social life is at a minimum. Almost every weekend were out of town on the road.
Our average trip consist of getting on the bus around 1 a.m., then anywhere from a six to fourteen hour drive till we arrive at our destination, and there is never a dull moment between 25 college guys and our four coaches who think they are still in college. We go strait to the rink were playing at and carry on with our whole routine of warming up and what not. Then we play our game shower and head to the hotel. once we get to the hotel its having fun and running around like little kids till about midnight.
Usually our game the next morning is around three so we get up eat breakfast, then do some type of activity as. a team. We have done everything from golfing to shopping to just hanging out in the pool. Around twelve or so we head to the rink to begin our "routine" again.
Sunday morning's games are always early so the away team can get home at a semi-decent hour. so after we get up super early we head to the rink for, you guessed it, our "routine". After the game we grab food and head back home. We arrive home anywhere from eight at night on Sunday to three in the morning on Monday.
That's a little insight into the average weekend of a junior hockey player. Hopefully you learned a little bit about the life of a junior hockey player and can see why I am usually a little sluggish come Tuesday morning for class

A Little Tid Bit Into my Life

Hey,

how bout that ride in ?
guess they dont call it sin city for nothin

I would like to thank everyone for joining my blog. It makes me feel warm inside knowing that your reading this. Actually its kinda creepy but its all good. My name is Mason Webb, some people call me Mace,but ill pretty much respond to everything. Im from a small town about 40 minutes from here called Columbia. I play junior hockey for the Illinoins Frontenacs and sit next to one of my lifelong teammate, my current teammate, and my english 102 classmate, Jimmy "The Beast from the East" Wilderman. My life is pretty much consumed with hocley but in my free time I like to climb rocks and hide in Jimmy's room.

I really have no idea what to be when Im older, so right now im jsut gettin my transfer degree. But where will I transfer? a ha! That will be the topic of my next post, so stay tuned into the macespace.