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I have no comment about Josh's post about boarding today.

σut.

Some by me, some by others who've been dead for a few hundred years-

No wrath that I can share,
For you have borne it all,
Suffered each grief and care,
To save me from my fall,
And on Your thorn-crowned head,
And on Your sinless soul,
My sin and all it's guilt was laid,
That You might make me whole.

In perfect love You died,
For me! You died for me,
The Lamb's one precious sacrifice,
That sets the guilty free,
So in each time of need,
Before Your holy throne,
Your works, O Lamb of God, I'll plead,
Your merits not my own.

I like it. Probably because it has other people's thoughts in there. I don't think I've ever really liked anything that I've written all the way through. I like bits and pieces, but not the whole thing. That's why I like co-writing. Co-Writing with dead people is good too. Except that they need to work on giving input. Even if you trash their work, they don't say anything......

ok, that's probably a good thing.

I wouldn't want Isaac Watts coming after me.

haha.

YOUR WORKS!!!!

NOT MINE!!!!!

YOUR MERITS!!!!

ahh. I love that. that's one of the parts I didn't write. thank goodness too, because I would have been overly proud of it, and then the goodness of it would be greatly lessened.

Friday tomorrow,

an early morning, but it's the end of the week so I don't kare.

goodnight.

Tooooooooomorrow, I love ya!

I didn't watch that movie.....ever......really........ok I might have.......but it was a long time ago.
I'm getting up to take my Dad to the airport tomorrow morning BEFORE work, meaning I will get up at three thirty or some insane time like that, drive with him there, drop him off, the drive back to work. It will be killer fun.

Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;
Praise Him, all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, you heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Another day to (attempt) to bring Him glory.

CHOCOLATE MILK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd rather fly.

I tried to make wings. Not many years ago. Maybe two. For any Eteamers who happen to recall Marty's house where the barbecue and sundae night was held, you might remember a large shed in the corner of the backyard. I made wings. And I jumped off the shed. My feet began hurting soon afterwards. Never give up, I said, and attempted the feat a few more times. It was fun in a sort of painful way. I knew it would never work, but it was nice to now be able to say that I've tried. That must be why my knee is so gimped.

I think I'm going to resurrect the experiments on wireless electricity. I give up far too easily to ever create something good.

out.

A good day.

I passed a drivers test today. B.C. has dumb driving laws, and I wasn't able to drive all that much. Now I can drive all I want. Niceness. After that I drove down to work and had a nice short day. Sweet.

In the words of Russel James Miles Bergman-Oh Bother.

I had to take the bus home from work. It took longer to come than I expected. Then I got off a couple of stops too early because I was thinking about something in my head, and not really thinking about reality, which is something I do sometimes. So then it was a decision between waiting an hour for another bus or walking three times as far as I would have normally had to. I chose walking, so I set off down the street saying such things like "Why are you so stupid?" and "Idiot!" and "Hoser!" and such things. But it was more in a joking mood than in a angry mood. I was actually quite chipper. But I don't want to do it again in the near future.

out.

A 30 second trip to the USA.

On saturday Josh and I went for a random drive hoping to find some randomly interesting thing. We headed to one of our favourite routes-0 Avenue. 0 Avenue is the street that runs directly beside the border into the US. There's no fence, because most of the time there's just forest on the US side, but we went further along then we usually do, and we came to a spot where there was a US road, a ditch, then the Canadian road that we were driving on. The american road was paved different. It had a mph speed limit. There were little farm houses with American flags on one side, and there were little houses without Canadian flags (we're not quite as patriotic.) on our side. Being rather intrigued, we puller over. We decided that we would run, jump the ditch, and take a picture of each of us on the other side. It was a bit intense. We were a bit worried that some border patrollers might jump out of the water in the ditch, shoot us with some tranquilizer darts, and that we'd wake up in an American prison.









Some random pics of a random trip.

26 days of rain.

If it rains for two more days we'll break a record that has held since the early fifties. It has rained for 26 straight days. Every day. In North Vancouver there are suburbs on evacuation alert because they are built on a hillside that might decide to turn into mud any time. It's strange. Maybe it's how long I've lived here, but I really like the rain. Every morning when I go into work it's raining (really hard), then when I get off it's raining. If we do break the record, I think I'm going to start celebrating the 29th day as a random Vancouver holiday. I'm going to call it Rain Day.

Out.

A slight bit of creepishness.

I just finished watching the movie titled "The Others". Creepy. It was actually really well made, and the acting was great, and although I'm not a huge fan of creepy ghost movies, I thought this one was pretty good.

Well, another day tomorrow, another 5:20 morning, a Canucks game (and hopefully some pizza to go along with it) in the evening, then the weekend. I like the weekend. It makes me laugh to think that I should still be a student with half a year of school left, and tests, and exams, and homework to do. Another funny thing that I just thought of was that I think I learned more in grade 5 then I did in all of highschool. At least in terms of usefulness that is. In highschool they just repeat the things you already knew with small variations.

Dang! I have an fairly intense pain in my right leg right now. I don't really know what it is, it just came suddenly. Owww!!!! It feels like a muscle cramp except that it's not going away and it's running all the way down my leg. Actually it aches more than a muscle cramp. Cramps are more of a sharp pain that comes and goes quickly. This is more dull and achy.

oh well.

I'm going ot peels.

Listening to Sigur Ros-Rokklagi> / The Rock Song [Live in Reykjavik 1999]

Sweet.

I think you can download it free from their website.

Scales.

I just had a guitar lesson tonight, and I am going to try to be more disciplined in practicing scales. I hate scales. It's not that I dislike what you can do with them, but to just go up and down monotonously drives me half insane. Oh yeah, I'm already half insane. So if you add another half of insanity, that makes me go completely insane while doing scales. I was just doing them for the last half hour. After a while I don't think at all, and it's just my fingers moving, and my brain trying to drive the noise away. But I'm horribly undisciplined when it comes to practicing what I should practice, so I'm going to fight through it.

hahaha.

Tomorrow will start at 5:30, so I'm going to head off to dreamland. Then after work.......-........more scales.

goodnight.

The Man in Black

Man In Black - Johnny Cash

Well, you wonder why I always dress in black,
Why you never see bright colors on my back,
And why does my appearance seem to have a somber tone.
Well, there's a reason for the things that I have on.

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
But is there because he's a victim of the times.

I wear the black for those who never read,
Or listened to the words that Jesus said,
About the road to happiness through love and charity,
Why, you'd think He's talking straight to you and me.

Well, we're doin' mighty fine, I do suppose,
In our streak of lightnin' cars and fancy clothes,
But just so we're reminded of the ones who are held back,
Up front there ought 'a be a Man In Black.

I wear it for the sick and lonely old,
For the reckless ones whose bad trip left them cold,
I wear the black in mournin' for the lives that could have been,
Each week we lose a hundred fine young men.

And, I wear it for the thousands who have died,
Believen' that the Lord was on their side,
I wear it for another hundred thousand who have died,
Believen' that we all were on their side.

Well, there's things that never will be right I know,
And things need changin' everywhere you go,
But 'til we start to make a move to make a few things right,
You'll never see me wear a suit of white.

Ah, I'd love to wear a rainbow every day,
And tell the world that everything's OK,
But I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back,
'Till things are brighter, I'm the Man In Black.

All right Johnny.
Sweet.

Ok, who likes Johnny Cash's music?
I've heard some don't like it, but I can't understand that.HAHA.

He has a hymns CD out.
It was his last before he died.
All the songs sound the same, but it's good.

I keep forgetting that I've already checked my email. I've checked three times while I've been on the computer. Not because i'm expecting emails, but I keep forgetting that I've already checked.

What a hoser.

I make time to post on other blogs, just not my own.

HOSER!!!!!!!!!

Think of an army guy yelling and pointing his finger at me. Not a Canadian Army guy though, because Canada has no army.

Why don't you USAers just take us over. Less hassle with conversions and borders.

As long as we could still be Canadians though.
I don't mind being in the US as long as I'm still a hoser.

out.

I had a bad morning.

I woke up and painfully turned over to see the alarm clock.....

7:20.

My brain took a few moments to figure it out.

7:30.....wasn't I supposed to be at work at 6:00?

........AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah. Badness. Lets just say that I woke up at 7:20 and was at work by 7:30.
I didn't eat breakfast. And I couldn't eat anything all day because I had a blood test after work.
So I didn't eat anything for 20 hours straight. So I was hungry. And because I was late I didn't take any breaks. So the day seemed to take a long time.

But it was a good day.


hahaha.

goodnight.

it's a new year.

Yes, 2006 is finally here. 2005 has officially been kicked out of the office that it dominated for, well, the last year, and has been replaced by a newer model. I'm not generally one who cares much about the New Year, because I'm really not one who thinks about it. Usually when this time of year comes and goes I think very little about the fact, which sometimes leads to what happened tonight at my cousin marty's house as it became 2006:

Marty-well, now it's 2006.
Joe-what?......I thought it was 2007.

yeah. I don't pay much attention. and it really doesn't help that all the car companies put out commercials that show "2006" cars before 2006 even comes around. hosers. So because there's 2006 cars driving around in Vancouver, I thought that at the new year it would be 2007. dumb or dumber? I can't decide.

But because I have a blog, and because I haven't done any well thought out posts on it lately, I think I'll try to think about it a little this year, and write down what I think. Hopefully it won't be frightening. haha.



I guess the place to start would be a quick look back on 2005.
First of all, as often as I hear it, and as often as I think of it, I'm still amazed that Christ would die for me. And then not only that, but that He would guide me all the way home. Looking back, it is incredible to see that sure 2005 had it's bumpy patches, but through thick and thin, even when I gave up, Christ never let go. Not only did He not let go, but he used my occasional letting go as an example to further prove His strength. His love inspires my will. If I was following something that had no desire to guide me, then my will to follow would be greatly lessened. But the fact that I know (and He has proven) that He has a far greater will to guide me even than mine to follow Him, that creates a greater desire to follow. I love to look back and see that. It's like walking up the stairs of a skyscraper. every few floors you turn and look out the window and every time you see a bit more of the city. You know you've been there, but you couldn't see it all until you got further up. And when you see it it turns your attention to what is more important than what you were doing when you were there.

Hmmmm....let's see. other good 2005 things....ok. here's a few.

1. Virginia trip in february. Good times. Andrew, Peter John, the metro, spaghetti at 4:00am, Worship God Live, Steven, Duke, White Lip, the cattle, Rope, Attachment, Steven Altrogges, really grossly seasoned fries, and Covenant Life. Yeah, good times definitely.

2. Vacation on Vancouver Island. Also good times. Two weeks of blowin' cash on golf and hanging with the family.

3. Soccer. I probably shouldn't mention this. It wasn't life changing or anything. But i sure enjoyed the season even though we didn't win a single game, and I can't wait till next season.

4. The Eteam. I decided before I got to this point that I wouldn't go into details about all the crazy/good things that happened while you hosers were here because they have been stated on this blog before, and it would take a long time to recite them again. Basically I'll let it suffice to say that I've had few weeks in my life that would rival that one. few. not none. just so you don't all think I've never done anything. the VA trip might have been another. But it's harder to have weeks like that without even leaving town. AH I can't leave without at least pulling one joke from the grave-HOLY CREPE!!!!!

5. CrossWay Cup. THE YOUNG PEOPLE FINALLY WON!!!!!!!!!!!!! And despite having several breakaways and good chances I failed to score. DANG!!!! hahaha. there's always next year.

6. Forgot to mention this earlier, but graduating high school was cool too. Wasn't a major deal though. Mostly all I cared about was passing my French final. With that out of the way it was smooth sailing.

That's not all, nor even most of the interesting things that came about this year, but that's as far as my brain is willing to go right about now.



now for 2006.

I don't make New Year's Resolutions. I don't think I ever had. Mostly because even though I try not to be, deep down I'm wretchedly cynical and I don't think that anyone who ever made a NYR ever actually went through with it.
But things I'd like to do this year, and things already planned are:

1. New Attitude. Already registered. will be incredible.

2. El Paso in march. Tickets booked. But it's all business. hahaha. well hopefully I'll at least get to go to Chico's Tacos. and maybe Chick Fila.

3. Possibly filming a Live CD/DVD for cousin Greg Sczebel in March as well. Who knows, nothing set in stone yet.

4. I want to go to Ireland. If I get a big raise (unlikely) Maybe I'll get a ticket and go there for like three days.

5. All you Floridians know if I could get down south I would. we'll see.

6. Need a car.

7. I don't know what to put here. I just wanted 7 points. hahahaha.

8. Want to write a screenplay and make a full length film.

9. Want to write a really long poem. REALLY long. Like 20 pages. About the history of redemption.


once again not an exhaustive list, but those are some of the main ones that quickly jump to mind.

A few shout outs-

eerrrrr.... maybe not. It's too late. hahahahaha.


well Happy New Year.

And Goodnight.

Or Good morning I guess.

out.