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HAHAHA. . .that's a good one!

it seems like the judges didn't like spirit's synth tonight either. . .

check out troop's new shirts too! 09 Tour Shirt F Troop Shirt

Troop - 65.5 Acad - 66.7

drum majors are on the field. . .scores in a bit!

Go Troop! If anyone is at the show, post updates asap, please!

1979 - Troopers. . . one of my all time favorite shows.

hmmm. . . that's not a bad idea *wink* *wink*, *cough* *cough*. . .then again i wouldn't trade field lining for anything (except now that i think of it, maybe sleep?!?). . .

I've never seen this done, but I've heard stories about paint crews who tie ropes together connected with washers (or something like washers), so that the outside lines of the field are already marked with gaks and yardlines. Then all the paint crew has to do is well, paint it. no measuring!!!

MR 790 (google them) New Balance -they're sometimes hard to find but i love this shoe. it's ubber light and flexible and they breathe well (very important). the only problem i had with them was that early in the morning, when dew is still on the grass, they tend to soak it up, and make your socks wet (not good), but that can be easily fixed if you coat them in some kind of water proofing. -oh. . .flip flops wouldn't be a bad choice either . . .lol

SUNBURST! *this is not by me, it's just a show that i think was pretty freakin' sweet, so i thought it would be fun to do* . . .well, @#$% . . .i just realized there is a command for making circles. . .ugh!!!

woot. . .Bluecoats mellos!!! good luck at camp. . .see you there! :P

We stayed at the same housing site as Crossmen in Toledo, OH, and they let us share the main field for rehearsal. This was nice because we(as in the field lining crew) didn't have to line and gak two fields. . . we showed our appreciation in the only way we knew how. . .

my brother worked at disney for a semester (loading people on rides in tomorrow land). . .and he saw cavies, troopers, and bluecoats merchandise (those are the only three corps he knows. . .i know it's sad . . .i'm working on educating him)

Who doesn't want to see it snow in June!?!?!?!?!?

one word. . .that's all it takes. . . SUNBURST

you have a point. . .those were pretty bad. . .ok really bad. . .but i don't want to have to write a freakn' novel on all the bad places. . .i prefer to remember the good places like Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania. . .i'm still full from all the food. . .

Utah. . . i dont' remember the name of the town. . .but here's how it went from a field liners perspective. . . We got to this housing site early in the morning (like usual). I slept for like 30 min. then got up to line fields. So we start out without knowing what fields we're supposed to line, but we figure we'll line the football field, which is like 100 ft from the gym (makes sense right?). Wrong. So our vis. caption head tells us to line the soccer field behind the football field so we start to line that, and guess what happens. The sprinklers come on. So we get started painting while dodging the sprinklers. Then the soccer coach (over-sized guy with a fohawk) comes and says that we can't paint the soccer field (that we had almost finished), because it would confuse his soccer players to have those lines on the field. So our last resort was a soft ball field with shin high grass (literally shin high. . .not even kidding), but to add another problem we couldn't practice on there until afternoon, because the football team had camp. So in the meantime we went across the street to a park where there were all these different kinds of birds (ducks, geese and swans) which was just kind of weird, and we just practiced music and a few basics in sections. We did that until lunch and then at lunch field liners had to go paint the softball field with the vis. staff (which was kind of fun, because it went so fast). And to top it off we had to practice in 100+ heat (which is never fun). . . .many other bad things happened at this housing site but i've already typed enough for you to get the point. . .sorry about the length. . .

. . .best three weeks of my life. . .many thanks!!!!!

one word . . . SUNBURST!!!!!!!!!!!! . . . oh, and bloo's silent drill was just plain sweeeet