Reliving Some Old Memories

I'm curious if anyone is reading this right now. To anyone that is: Hello and welcome to my 8-year-old page from high school. Blogger has changed a lot since I was on here last, roughly 7 years ago. I was randomly thinking about Blogger and remembered that I had a page in high school, so I came to look at all the older posts. Though I have to say, the layout looks more like Gmail with an ability to add notes instead of seeing it on a webpage. I also noticed that there's a bunch of stuff from ChaCha (an old human-based search engine) since I used to log in to it through Blogger. I hope that doesn't show up on the page if I can access it. Anyways, in the spirit of things and as the most likely last post of this blog, here's the news:

So much has happened since 2010, Obama was re-elected in 2012, while Donald Trump (who would've thought) was elected in 2016, becoming the 45th President of the United States. Since then, there's been a media firestorm surrounding him, from the way he talks in his speeches, his policy decisions, the bills and executive orders he's signed, and most (in)famously, the explosive tweets on his Twitter page. His most recent news was a tweet on his page, bragging about how his "nuclear button" is a lot bigger than North Korea's. It's a true statement, but not one that will help ease any tensions with North Korea. We'll see what happens with that.

Net Neutrality was brought in shortly after my last post then repealed last month in a 3-2 vote. Ajit Pai, the current FCC Chairman, came into this knowing that he would piss off a lot of people, since they'd rather trust the government than the private sector. However, instead of promoting active discussion with those people, he made two videos mocking them. Video 1 Video 2 The repeal hasn't taken effect yet, so we don't know what's going to happen next. Hopefully I or others won't be charged $25 just to access this very basic blog page.

In weather news, a weak polar vortex has been dumping bitterly cold temperatures, strong winds, and snow to most of the northern U.S. for the past 10 days. This pattern will continue until Sunday, when temperatures will return to a semi-normal 28° F. The northeast isn't in the clear, though, as a "bomb cyclone," or a system with a rapid drop in pressure over 24 hours,  will hit them on Thursday, leaving blizzard-like conditions and potentially hurricane-force winds in its wake. Hopefully this doesn't turn out to be another Hurricane Sandy.

Finally, in local sports news, the Lions front office fired their old head coach Jim Caldwell and are looking for a replacement. Hopefully this means less mediocre seasons, but knowing the Lions, that probably won't stop until the Fords sell the team. While on the subject of Michigan teams, Jim Harbaugh, the current University of Michigan football coach, is in a bit of hot water after fans are concerned about the mediocrity of his teams so far. Michigan was the only Big Ten team to lose a bowl game this season, losing to South Carolina 26-19 after blowing a 19-3 lead. This spoiled the chance of an undefeated bowl season for the Big Ten that hasn't been done since 1998 and gave Michigan an 8-5 season. Jim's next season will be watched very closely as it may end up being his last if he doesn't turn things around with the offense.

Well, that's the news and the last post for this blog. Thanks to those that still read this (Mr. Porter, if you see this, thank you for giving me the inspiration to start this.) and I hope you all have a wonderful new year! Now, for the last time, ¡Adiós!