October 1st, 2025. 12:06 am.
I am currently stress programming late at night while Caroline is on the phone with Katlyn. We watched ThunderBolts* and I liked the movie. Afterwards we ranted about our classes and a club we are both in, so I began to do work while stressed. I will finish the antics page in time, as I will be slowly filling it in with my thoughts as well as the blog. I would like this site to last a long time, maybe decades. As of now, I work to make this site complete.
October 1st, 2025. 10:56 am.
So I'm sitting in class, and my laptop didn't charge last night, GREAT!!!! I should be able to make it through class, but I will have to charge between classes (hopefully I am allowed to charge in the room) I had a fun night last night, and I have been thinking about somethings that I'm not sure if I should be getting into on here, maybe I will at somepoint. I'll say this much though, I need to figure out some things in my personal life regarding a few people (nothing bad just need to clear the air on it) and maybe I will have some luck.
In regards to this site, I need to work on adding to the antics page, and some other details. I think for now I am good in terms of details, but I need to work towards getting things nice. I know this site is basic and retro, but I like it. The charm of the early internet is the simplicity of every thing, I do not want to look crazy. These entries are sorta my blog, like how my YouTube channel used to be, but now its different. Maybe someday people will look upon this, but not now. Actually, quick idea, I should have a public calender, would be nice to let people see what I am up to, and plan accordingly if they'd like to.
October 1st, 2025. 4:54pm EST.
While I was in class today, I decided that I should maybe post some pictures of what my life looks like as of October 1st, 2025.
However I should probably recap whats been happening recently, and whats going on. We'll start with the beginning of my summer, May 1st, 2025. I finished my finals and moved from my dorm at BGSU, to my apartment in Sandusky Ohio. This was followed by Cedar Point's opening day, and waiting over 5 hours in the rain for Top Thrill 2. After that I began working, and living, in Sandusky full time. June comes in and I see the beginning of summer. I began to pick up many more shifts/hours at work, which ultimately would kill my then relationship with a lady named Maria. She was nice, but the long distance was a strain, and with her not being able to drive I couldn't keep up.
Ending June, I went to Kings Dominion, Busch Gardens Williamsburg, and Six Flags America (RIP), spending one day at each. I went with Graham and Taylor. This trip happened just after my breakup with Maria, so it made moving on rather easy. Entering July, I went to a band concert with Taylor, and our friendship would become very close afterwards, spending a lot of time together doing many enjoyable things. We would go to Indiana Beach later that month, and we had a great time there, minus the day ending heachache from Triple Loop.
Entering August, I would begin what I call "Thoosie Month", going to Cedar Point, California's Great America, Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Kings Island, and Michigan's Adventure. While in California, I also went to San Fransisco, seeing Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge. Summer would begin to wind down and Taylor and I would grow distant as they began classes and I began to work more. September would bring in my trip to Put-In-Bay with Caroline, and hanging out with Caroline, Audrey, Andy, and Peyton.
Before classes began, Caroline and I took an evening at Cedar Point, and rode the rides and enjoyed the park. I would refurbish my laptop to feature a USB-C charging, with some success. September 29th was my first day of class for the '25-'26 year, and now I am here in Sandusky for school.
Now that we are up to speed on my life, lets take a recap on whats going on. I live with Audrey, and we have been living together since May 1st. Caroline is my neighbor who I enjoy hanging out with a lot. Luke, Josh, Andy, and Peyton, are the guys I hang out with outside of class if I need a "guys night". My apartment is nice, with views of Cedar Point. I've decorated the walls of my room with Made to Thrill Posters, of various attractions and parks. The living room is basic, but we are working on it. The kitchen has a table built by Aidan and I, and it...works.
I Know that right now my internal problems are not going to matter in 5 years (I hope!) but there are some questions I wish I could get answers for. What if I make the wrong choice? If you know what I am talking about, you'd understand that my feelings right now are super complicated regarding a few people, but I don't know what I want to do about it. Feelings are complicated, but I will try to manage.
October 2nd, 2025. 9:49 am. EST.
Woke up this morning to some...interesting news. I won't discuss it at this time for sake of privacy. Last night I tried to make a steak, but I filled my apartment with smoke, oops. I also added some pictures to the site yesterday, and it made me realize how messy my room is. I will work on that soon.
Im supposed to hangout with Caroline today, I hope its a good day, but I doubt it would be. I've been looking forward to it, and I am excited to see what happens today (I'm not expecting anything crazy)
October 2nd, 2025. 5:15 pm. EST
Today so far I have had a good day. I went to the Merry-Go-Round Museum in Sandusky today with Caroline, and bought a Top Thrill Dragster pin. Caroline and I rode the Carosuel they have, it was fun. After class, we will go to Cedar Point and ride TT2 and Maverick.
October 3rd, 2025. 9:41 am. EST
Last night was fun at Cedar Point. I will write more about it in the Cedar Point antics page, but in short I really enjoyed TT2 front row and Gatekeeper front row. Hanging out with Caroline was also fun, she is really neat to ride the rides with. Only complaint from last night is that Steel Vengeance line crawled.
I work tonight from 1pm-1am. Long shift, but I should have an easy time working at the location I am supposed to work. I hope to see some of the cooler people who stop by from time to time tonight, but if I don't it would be fine.
Last night while at the park I began to think about what I want to do long term. I have an idea, but I doubt it would work out, afterall, my plans I had thought up back in July fell apart by end of August. I want to finally figure out everything but I can't, because my future hasn't been written yet, and I need to figure out how to make it a good one.
I might make a essay page, kinda like the blog, but with detailed writtings about...whatever I feel like writing about. It would be interesting. I know that right now I am writing to the void, but perhaps maybe one day someone will find this page 10-20 years from now and feel a sense of..nostelga? I'm not sure how to describe the feeling but its a weird feeling that I get when I stumble upon these older websites.
October 6th, 2025. 11:30am. EST
This weekend was a rough weekend, in terms of work. I worked 1pm-1am Friday, 9am-10pm Saturday, and 9:30am-4pm Sunday. Saturday was the roughest day easily, as I had to manage my location alone leadership wise, made worse by the people I had to manage not being very cooperative. We were also very busy on Saturday, and it felt like the day never ended. Sunday was easy, as I had a solid crew to work with.
I also went back to Cedar Point after work with Caroline, and we rode Wild Mouse, and Gatekeeper. We also saw the Shriekers show at Jack Aldrich Theatre. The show was very good, and I like the costume and makeup work done for the cast. Wild Mouse was fun to ride as always, and I am so glad they added it to the Boardwalk at Cedar Point.
I've began to apply to other jobs for the winter 2025 season. I need to figure it out, especially since right now I am in a very seasonal Job. I've emailed two different positions, one at a sports park, one at my old job I used to work at in High School. I hope to work at the sports park, as it's closer to me than the other job, but I can only wait and see.
Changing gears a little, A year ago roughly was my fall break from my classes. I went to Kentucky to Tyler's house with my friends, and we had a good time. We all went to Kentucky Kingdom, and rode their 5 coasters. We also went to a horse track, and I won $20 from the track. I used that money to buy myself a nicer meal at Chili's that night.
One thing I miss from this trip though, is Gray. He transfered to UCF this fall, and I miss him a lot. He always kept things real, and he is the most real person I have met. He and I did a lot together on that trip, and I miss it. I hope he is having fun in Orlando, because I want him to.
One last thing, IAAPA '25. I am so excited for that. I have been getting my plans all finalized, and I am very excited to go. I am driving down with Luke, Josh, and Abi. We are stopping at Six Flags Over Georgia, Fun Spot Atlanta, and Carowinds during our drive to and from Orlando for the Expo. I plan to also visit Univeral's Epic Universe while I am down there, because that would be really fun. The Expo itself excites me, because I enjoy seeing the backend of things like this. The Future Hasn't Been Written Yet, So I Will Make It A Good One.
October 7th, 2025. 11:10am. EST
It's raining today. I don't have class until 5pm, so I have plenty of time to do whatever. I've spent a good chunk of time working on the site, adding some more pages, and adding some other fun thoughts. I will be working on adding more things to Antics page, like my Steak Nugget's or Jackson Street, I will add more in due time. I also heard back from the one Job I applied to, and I hope to get the job.
October 8th, 2025. 2:31pm. EST
Yesterday I was supposed to go mini-golfing with Josh, Luke, and Caroline. We went to Goofygolf, and it was closed, so expect an antics page on it soon. We instead went to the mall, and had a lot of fun goofing off there. We all got Auntie Anne's and the mall allowed us to recover from the failure of mini-golf, and avoid the rain we had yesterday. After Carrie's class, we all hung out at Luke and Josh's apartment and had a fun time.
Class today is boring, and I have been working on my LinkedIn and the Antics pages in my spare time. The Old Dominion Trip reports are almost done, which is nice. Caroline Probably thinks I am crazy, and lowkey kinda stupid, given how much I ask her for help on the classwork. Its ok though, I'll manage. Tonight I am gonna hang out with Josh and Luke again, which will be cool.
October 13th, 2025. 2:31pm. EST
Its been a few days, been busy with schoolwork, work, and a small trip to kennywood. Thursday was spent at Goofy Golf for real, doing the Go-Karts and the golf. The Go-Karts were really fun, and I will be writing a page about it at some point. Friday and Saturday were spent at work, although I was not feeling well at all. I was sent home early Saturday, although it was only an hour. Sunday I went to kennywood, you can read more about that in the antics section, and we also went to a BBQ place in Lordstown on the way back. It was really good. Right now I am in class, waiting for today to be done. I get to see Abi today, and I am really excited. Still writing pages for the parks I have been to, but its a WIP.
October 15th, 2025. 4:16pm. EST
Yestrerday, members of Univeral Studios came up to my classes and gave a talk about career options at the company. I also had a job interview at the Cedar Point Sports complex, which may wind up being my winter job. Universal was really cool to talk to, because they discussed so much about how they run things, how they move through the company, and the internship options.
After Universal Day, I hung out with Audrey, Abi, Caroline, Luke, Josh, and Ronan. We played jackbox and had our presentation night. It was really fun. I haven't had this much fun in a hot minute, so it was a nice break from the stress of school and work.
Today I learned that my good friend I used to know when I was in highschool, Tatiana, published a book called Art's Call. I was thrilled to learn this, because when I knew her my senior year (she was a freshman in the marching band) Tatiana had a promising talent for writing. I bought the book as soon as I could, its due to come in on sunday. I will write a page on it, because she worked hard on it and I think she deserves it. If you're interested in purchasing it yourself, you can purchase it HERE.
October 16th, 2025. 5:17pm. EST
My grandparents came out to visit me today, we went to Cheekz in downtown Sandusky. I had the Left Cheek, while my grandma the same and my grandpa had the Right cheek.
I also got good news today that I got the IAAPA scholarship, which is nice. I was just starting to tally up my costs and it was looking pricy, so having the scholarship to go is a nice help. I will be writing a page for that trip when the time comes. On the topic of IAAPA, I also registered for IAAPA and IAAPA celebrates at Epic Universe yesterday, which was a really smooth process to register for that.
Lastly, for today, I picked up a real neat addition to my collection of themepark items, that being a painted Top Thrill Dragster front car model. It was $40, and it was a steal for the quality it had. I'll post a pic below to show it off next to my TT2 car. I had the option to purchase this 3 years ago, when Cedar Point clearanced the Top Thrill Dragster merch, but I didn't get it because I felt $35 was pricy for it, as it was the one item NOT clearanced. I now can have both the old and the new side by side on my self.
October 17th, 2025. 10:01am. EST
I worked last night after class. It was a little rough, but its because I am in this limbo state for recovering from being sick. I was the breaker, so I was covering breaks. I got to see Caroline come through my line, which was really nice, it really made my night 100X better. I work again today until 2am IIRC. Class is kinda boring, but we get Little Ceaser's as a free lunch today which is fire.
I bought my Busch Gardens/SeaWorld IAAPA tickets today. It was $190, but I do get dining included. I thought it was crazy how cheap it was, given Magic Kingdom is $200 for JUST admission. That means 5/8 parks are accounted for in terms of admission for my trip. Again, I WILL be writing a trip report for this as it happens.
October 19th, 2025. 8:17pm. EST
Work at Cedar Point was interesting this weekend. Saw many familiar faces, helped many new ones. Some familiar faces I saw was an old coworker on thursday while breaking CP shop, and running into an old classmate from highschool on friday, to seeing Caroline and Katlyn on Saturday. To everyone I saw, seeing you made my weekend go by much faster.
We also went from the busiest day of the season, at least from my prospective, to the most empty day I have seen this year in about 11 hours. Saturday was beautiful, with clear skys and warm temps, people came in from all over to be there. It was so crowded, I was told by a friend they had to park in 75j, which is easily 10-15 minutes walking from the gate. Sunday was cold, rainy, and very windy. We were so slow, that we deep cleaned my location AND Cedar Point closed early. I can only recall 2 prior times Cedar Point closing early, once in 2016 and once in 2018-19ish. Closing at 3 meant that I got to go home early, but I saw many upset guests about nothing being open, to then the park closing.
I'm wrapping up some homeowrk before midnight, which is good because I need to get it done. I'm still not feeling well, but only time will tell. on that front.
One last thing, I've been dwelling on a project I would like to do someday. For awhile now, I have had an idea of going around and documenting the slice of life in various towns and cities around the world. I feel like we move to fast in the modern world, and people are fascinating. The idea would be to talk to local people, and have them tell a story about themselves, or their town, and hopefully they could provide some video or photos to contribute to the project. The idea, of course, to document a slice of life in the 2020s.
I was recently inspired by a man named Frank Didik, and his Southern Circle road trip he did in 2021. This trip, while taking 2 weeks, covers a lot of ground that would be nice to document for my project. While I doubt I could ever get the funds, time, and skills needed to do such a project, I hope one day I could do something similar. If you want to see more into this story of Mr. Didik's, you can click HERE.I should note, I don't agree with him on many things, but he seems...interesting.
October 20th, 2025. 6:23pm. EST
Class has made me sleepy today. first class was boring, but lunch was fun up in my apartment. After my second class, Caroline, Audrey, Skyla, and I went to target, where I would buy and undercook a pizza. It was 6$, but still feels bad. Today I have been working hard to improve the Antics page, by adding a Park Trip '25 page, which indexes everything into one page. Makes it easier to navigate or find specific pages. I also wrote the Indiana Beach page, and the Fun Spot January trip pages. I need to finish the '25 park trips before IAAPA 25, because I plan to write all the pages for IAAPA during the trip. I will also be writing the code for the IAAPA umbrella page soon.
October 21st, 2025. 5:08pm. EST
Today was slow. Took this morning easily, and also read Tatiana's book a little more. I had a dream last night where I went home to my dad's house, and it was stuck in 2019. I saw Rachel, and I saw my late kitty, and it made me miss her dearly. I woke up and I thought about some other dreams I have had recently, and after discussing with Taylor I think I am some sort of homesick. I made some choices over the last 3-4 months that pushed some people away-and at the time some of the choices I thought were good in the moment, others I realize in retrospect I was angry and trying to course correct. I wish I could undo some of those choices, maybe it would fix the issue of feeling homesick. Some of it is because I feel like I can't really speak to anyone about my true feelings, and its for various reasons. I don't want to talk to Audrey, my roommate, about it because I am embarrased about my feelings about someone else, and I can't talk to most people who know me well enough because of said choices I made back in August.
My anxiety is also not helping very much right now. I worry sometimes that I am making the wrong choices about my future, and I am worried that I'll wind up as some sort of loser. Choices I made this summer have somewhat set me down that path, and I need to course correct. There are feelings I have for someone that I am not sure how I feel about it, and how to handle them, or if they are even real. I wish I could trust some other people in my life enough to discuss some of said feelings and fears, but I worry about the confidentiality of these people, and if I can trust them to keep my thoughts confidential. There used to be 3-4 people I could talk to, but now its somewhat 1 person. I wish I could figure it out soon.
In other news, I saw two cats today, and it was awesome. I also took a walk, and tought Josh and Caroline about Zebra Mussles. The water level is really low right now in Lake Erie, because of the winds. Hopefully the weather stays nice this week, I don't need a repeat of sunday.
October 22th, 2025. 7:05pm. EST
Gray is dead to me. He hurt Shelby (emotionally) real bad, and did some terrible things. You don't break up with someone, than date the person your ex, who TRULY LOVED YOU, was afraid you would leave them for. And if you do date them, don't do it less then a month after breaking up with your ex.
October 23th, 2025. 5:07pm. EST
I accidentally burned my chicken today. Oops. I also work tonight after class, YAY!!!! (I love hours maxxing). I spoke with Taylor today, and I realized that I was a massive jerk, and I never followed up about our planned October trip. I need to apologize.
October 27th, 2025. 11:32am. EST
Work was a lot this weekend, as I nearly worked 40 hours in 4 days. I like the money though, which is nice. I saw Caroline a few times, along with Owen, Josh, and Luke. I also bought another ParkScapes Nanocoaster, the Cedar Point (2025) model, which looks nice on my shelf.
I also got a new phone this weekend, the iPhone 17. It works like a charm, and I like it a lot.
October 31th, 2025. 9:47am. EST
Yesterday I did what I would call the Northeast Ohio World Tour, a day long trip around Ohio to kill time. Starting off by waking up at 8am, Luke, Josh, and I went to the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, so I could early vote. It took an hour or so to get there, and took 5 minutes to vote. The new building was nice, and felt modern.
Following, we left for my mom and dad's houses, so I could get two things taken care of while home. After those stops, we went to Babe's Cafe in Independence for breakfast, at 10am. I didn't get anything, but Luke and Josh got coffee. Following we went to Summit Mall in Akron, Ohio. Luke wanted to go to Big D's Records, so he could take a look at their offerings. I didn't mind, but we did spend a good hour at the store. I got good news while there, that I got a job offer for the winter.
Last stop on the trip was Grandpa's Cheese Barn, a little cheese shop located in Ashland Ohio. This was the most out of the way stop, but the most fun. I had lunch there at the cafe, and had the Hotdog and Cheesecurds. They have a good selection there, So I'll give GCB its own page in the near future. This will be nice to do, because I do more than just parks.
In other news, I am talking to someone new at the moment. I hope to maybe go out with this person soon, I just need to figure out how to not be an awkward goofball long enough to not throw the game.