Ok.
So I'm sitting here on the front porch, waiting for some cop to come question me about the fire across the street last week.
Seems a little random that he'd call me at 10:30 at night and ask if he could come over in a half hour. But by saying that he asked, I'm being nice because he did ask, but didn't really give me much option of saying no. This combined with getting dumped downtown and having to take the train home because a some cop was in a bad mood and decided to nail us with a bunch of random driving stuff have given me a slightly bitter point of view on the cops.
This is my thought: Aren't the cops supposed to be the good guys? So why when you're driving down the street and you see a cop car why do you instinctively reach for your seat belt? even when it's on? Why do you always slow down? Even when you're going the speed limit?
Why do people think that the cops are out to get them?
ok.
he's gone.
\\he seemed to be a nice enough fellow.
I just wish he came a little earlier.
Maybe I'll get to go to court.
T'would be much fun.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Crossway FC won a soccer game.
It's amazing. It's the first win we've had since I've played on the team......which is like a year and a half. We really stink. But we won a game. The first goal came off a free kick just outside of the 18 yard box. It was beautiful. AJ (our star forward), put it just over the heads of the guys forming a wall in front of the net, and curled it just into the top corner. I was the one who set up the free kick because I almost had a great shot but a guy took me down from behind. That's my only claim to fame.
then AJ got another beauty later on.
Lynden Americans 0/ Crossway FC 2.
yessssssssss.
It's amazing. It's the first win we've had since I've played on the team......which is like a year and a half. We really stink. But we won a game. The first goal came off a free kick just outside of the 18 yard box. It was beautiful. AJ (our star forward), put it just over the heads of the guys forming a wall in front of the net, and curled it just into the top corner. I was the one who set up the free kick because I almost had a great shot but a guy took me down from behind. That's my only claim to fame.
then AJ got another beauty later on.
Lynden Americans 0/ Crossway FC 2.
yessssssssss.
Thursday, June 22, 2006
I'm sorry. I seem to have no time to do good posts. I haven't even checked my email in a few days.
It seems like I'm either working, sleeping, golf, driving people around, having soccer games, or watching movies all the time. Not to mention guitar practice, quite times, song writing, and more important things like that.
Then when I stop doing things, all I really want to do is sleep.
That's the dilemma. Like right now: I have free time, but I'm so tired that when I try to think about something to post about it never works.
yeah.
I'm sorry.
It;s lame, I know.
and dumb.
so I'm lame and dumb.
and incapable of writing good posts.
aaaaaaaaaaaaa.
It seems like I'm either working, sleeping, golf, driving people around, having soccer games, or watching movies all the time. Not to mention guitar practice, quite times, song writing, and more important things like that.
Then when I stop doing things, all I really want to do is sleep.
That's the dilemma. Like right now: I have free time, but I'm so tired that when I try to think about something to post about it never works.
yeah.
I'm sorry.
It;s lame, I know.
and dumb.
so I'm lame and dumb.
and incapable of writing good posts.
aaaaaaaaaaaaa.
Sunday, June 18, 2006
So...... we went to the Loops.
It's roughly a three hour drive, and we wanted to get back to vancouver in time to watch the Edmonton Oilers crush the Carolina Hurricanes on TV, so we left early.... 6:00. It was real early.
Our first stop was in Hope. Hope has nothing interesting in it except for food, so we filled up on breakfast, and headed onward, though not before getting lost because there are loads of highways running out of there.
Then a while later we stopped just before the toll booth (you have to pay to use that particular highway), and we saw .......
I'll tell you all later.....
It's roughly a three hour drive, and we wanted to get back to vancouver in time to watch the Edmonton Oilers crush the Carolina Hurricanes on TV, so we left early.... 6:00. It was real early.
Our first stop was in Hope. Hope has nothing interesting in it except for food, so we filled up on breakfast, and headed onward, though not before getting lost because there are loads of highways running out of there.
Then a while later we stopped just before the toll booth (you have to pay to use that particular highway), and we saw .......
I'll tell you all later.....
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Oh my. If I didn't know it before I know it now.
A story to start things off here.
So last night I went to guitar lessons. I learned a few songs, chatted with my teach, and rebooked for next year. Then I left.
--
That's the boring part of the story. here's the good part.
--
So I walked outside and I'm walking to the Festiva and I do the customary (for me at least) smack on the leg to see what pocket the keys are in. not in the left. . . . . . not in the right......not in the back!!!!!!!! Hmmmmm..... I'm not one to quickly panic so I assured myself that I stuck them in the pocket of my guitar case. I continued to walk and try to retrace what I did when I got out of the car...... I remembered grabbing my guitar......and locking the door..... funny, I didn't remember sticking the keys in my case....... dang. they were still in the car. I cautiously approached hoping by some chance that they were sitting on the roof. No luck. they were in the car all right, and still in the ignition. And all the doors were locked. and the trunk was locked. and it was starting to lightly rain and get dark. no worries I thought, and again performed the customary leg smack to see which pocket my cell phone was in......smack......not in the left pocket......smack......not in the right.......smack...smack......not in the back. Dang. then it came back. Josh needed a phone number off it just as I left home. Things seemed pretty bad, but I decided that only snow or a thunder storm could make them worse, and snow is not likely in vancouver in february let alone june, so that wasn't very likely, and vancouver rain is typically just a light steady drizzle, so I didn't really have to worry about that....BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or maybe I did. Thunder doesn't bother me. Neither does lightning. But the kind of rain that can get you soaked within minutes does. Especially when there really isn't an easy way to get out of it. At this point some people would get mad, and that's exactly I did. My more sanctified side was saying "God is sovereign Joe, it's all right." and the other side was thinking " I know God is sovereign, but why do I have to be such an idiot to fall for such an easy one." Somehow in my fallen brain ( this is really bad, but I'm just telling the truth) I pictured God chuckling up there saying "hee hee hee, I got you good."
I decided that there was nothing to be done but find a phone and call home. To avoid getting my guitar case wet I shoved it under the car and walked a few hundred feet down the street to where i saw a parked car with someone in it. I asked them if I could borrow a cell phone, and they graciously allowed me, and thankfully josh answered the phone, and told me someone would come.
So I walked back to the car with a bit of a different point of view, and laid down on the wet grass and waited for someone to come. It was weird that as I sat there it all suddenly became very funny, and I laughed at the whole thing.
yeah.
so...
that was long-winded.
and because I've been liking to post songs of late, here's another good one.
telecast) (building a sorrowful loveliness
When the morning breaks
When the evening fails
I will write Your word upon my heart, oh Lord
When the fires burn
When the rain comes down
I can feel Your grace flow through me
Without a sound
Nothing is certain, but I'm certain of You
Pull back this curtain, let Your light in this room
And all that's true, I find in You
The more I drink of Your word
The more I thirst for You
When the world dissolves
And the sun just flickers out
I will write Your word upon my heart, oh Lord
When the stars crash down
At the end of the age
I can feel Your touch
As You wipe my tears away
Building a sorrowful loveliness
Out of the darkness
Out of this furnace
I find You
----
I have no idea what they mean by that last part, but the rest is pretty good.
So last night I went to guitar lessons. I learned a few songs, chatted with my teach, and rebooked for next year. Then I left.
--
That's the boring part of the story. here's the good part.
--
So I walked outside and I'm walking to the Festiva and I do the customary (for me at least) smack on the leg to see what pocket the keys are in. not in the left. . . . . . not in the right......not in the back!!!!!!!! Hmmmmm..... I'm not one to quickly panic so I assured myself that I stuck them in the pocket of my guitar case. I continued to walk and try to retrace what I did when I got out of the car...... I remembered grabbing my guitar......and locking the door..... funny, I didn't remember sticking the keys in my case....... dang. they were still in the car. I cautiously approached hoping by some chance that they were sitting on the roof. No luck. they were in the car all right, and still in the ignition. And all the doors were locked. and the trunk was locked. and it was starting to lightly rain and get dark. no worries I thought, and again performed the customary leg smack to see which pocket my cell phone was in......smack......not in the left pocket......smack......not in the right.......smack...smack......not in the back. Dang. then it came back. Josh needed a phone number off it just as I left home. Things seemed pretty bad, but I decided that only snow or a thunder storm could make them worse, and snow is not likely in vancouver in february let alone june, so that wasn't very likely, and vancouver rain is typically just a light steady drizzle, so I didn't really have to worry about that....BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!! Or maybe I did. Thunder doesn't bother me. Neither does lightning. But the kind of rain that can get you soaked within minutes does. Especially when there really isn't an easy way to get out of it. At this point some people would get mad, and that's exactly I did. My more sanctified side was saying "God is sovereign Joe, it's all right." and the other side was thinking " I know God is sovereign, but why do I have to be such an idiot to fall for such an easy one." Somehow in my fallen brain ( this is really bad, but I'm just telling the truth) I pictured God chuckling up there saying "hee hee hee, I got you good."
I decided that there was nothing to be done but find a phone and call home. To avoid getting my guitar case wet I shoved it under the car and walked a few hundred feet down the street to where i saw a parked car with someone in it. I asked them if I could borrow a cell phone, and they graciously allowed me, and thankfully josh answered the phone, and told me someone would come.
So I walked back to the car with a bit of a different point of view, and laid down on the wet grass and waited for someone to come. It was weird that as I sat there it all suddenly became very funny, and I laughed at the whole thing.
yeah.
so...
that was long-winded.
and because I've been liking to post songs of late, here's another good one.
telecast) (building a sorrowful loveliness
When the morning breaks
When the evening fails
I will write Your word upon my heart, oh Lord
When the fires burn
When the rain comes down
I can feel Your grace flow through me
Without a sound
Nothing is certain, but I'm certain of You
Pull back this curtain, let Your light in this room
And all that's true, I find in You
The more I drink of Your word
The more I thirst for You
When the world dissolves
And the sun just flickers out
I will write Your word upon my heart, oh Lord
When the stars crash down
At the end of the age
I can feel Your touch
As You wipe my tears away
Building a sorrowful loveliness
Out of the darkness
Out of this furnace
I find You
----
I have no idea what they mean by that last part, but the rest is pretty good.
Monday, June 12, 2006
listening to:
telecast) ((Everything:
No matter what this day will bring
I will lift my hands and sing
Oh be my everything
I'll make my life an offering
In you alone, I believe
Oh be my everything,
My everything
When the world comes crashing down around my feet
And I can't see ten feet in front of me
Jesus, I know that you are strong when I am weak
So please help me, allow you to be
My everything
No matter what this day will bring
I will lift my hands and sing
Oh be my everything
I'll make my life an offering
In you alone, I believe
Oh be my everything,
My everything
And there are times when it seems as though you're far away
But I will hope in you, for this is the day that you have made
And thank you Jesus for this blessed gift of your grace
For helping me to see,
My need for you to be
My everything
No matter what this day will bring
I will lift my hands and sing
Oh be my everything
I'll make my life an offering
In you alone, I believe
Oh be my everything
No matter what this day will bring
I will lift my hands and sing
Oh be my everything
I'll make my life an offering
In you alone, I believe
Oh be my everything,
Oh be my everything,
Oh be my everything,
My everything
It's a good song. Real good.
Such a nice piano part.
telecast) ((Everything:
No matter what this day will bring
I will lift my hands and sing
Oh be my everything
I'll make my life an offering
In you alone, I believe
Oh be my everything,
My everything
When the world comes crashing down around my feet
And I can't see ten feet in front of me
Jesus, I know that you are strong when I am weak
So please help me, allow you to be
My everything
No matter what this day will bring
I will lift my hands and sing
Oh be my everything
I'll make my life an offering
In you alone, I believe
Oh be my everything,
My everything
And there are times when it seems as though you're far away
But I will hope in you, for this is the day that you have made
And thank you Jesus for this blessed gift of your grace
For helping me to see,
My need for you to be
My everything
No matter what this day will bring
I will lift my hands and sing
Oh be my everything
I'll make my life an offering
In you alone, I believe
Oh be my everything
No matter what this day will bring
I will lift my hands and sing
Oh be my everything
I'll make my life an offering
In you alone, I believe
Oh be my everything,
Oh be my everything,
Oh be my everything,
My everything
It's a good song. Real good.
Such a nice piano part.
Sunday, June 11, 2006
So........I'm sick.......but I'm still doing better than I deserve.......and today was church.......and it was good...........and then later is band practice..........then worship team practice.........yeah.......so that's what's going on.
here's a few other thoughts:
darn. I can't remember them. I don't know why I can never seem to remember stuff.
I'm watching the Netherlands take on Serbia Montenegro on the World Cup. ooooooo... serbia just had a good chance.
I like the world cup. I'm going for England even though I don't think they'll win.
They beat Paraguay pretty easily yesterday, and Canada didn't qualify so England is my team.
]
just got all the NA sermons.
The dutch just scored. a breakaway goal. it was sweet.
We have a few dutch people in our church.
And loads of dutch people in our soccer league.
it's crazy. and they're all related too.
here's a few other thoughts:
darn. I can't remember them. I don't know why I can never seem to remember stuff.
I'm watching the Netherlands take on Serbia Montenegro on the World Cup. ooooooo... serbia just had a good chance.
I like the world cup. I'm going for England even though I don't think they'll win.
They beat Paraguay pretty easily yesterday, and Canada didn't qualify so England is my team.
]
just got all the NA sermons.
The dutch just scored. a breakaway goal. it was sweet.
We have a few dutch people in our church.
And loads of dutch people in our soccer league.
it's crazy. and they're all related too.
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Sorry that the last post was lame, and this one will be too.
I am tired.
We just played a soccer game--and lost.
I played for the first time in 2 months.
I am brutally sore. I twisted my ankle when a guy took me down as I came in on a rush, but I have a sweet brace, so it didn't really hurt bad, but now it's swollen.
And my hamstring feels incredibly tight.
So I'm going to sleep.
good night.
listened to this one the way home, still a fave:
David Crowder) (Stars.
you should see the stars tonight
how they shimmer shine so bright
against the black they look so white
comin down from such a height
to reach me now, reach me now
you should see the moon in the flight
cuttin cross the misty night
softly dancin in sunshine
reflections of this light
reach me now, you reach me now
and how could such a thing
shine its light on me
and make everything beautiful again
and you should feel the sun in the spring
comin out after a rain
suddenly all is green
sunshine on everything
i can feel it now, i feel you now
and how could such a thing
shine its light on me
and make everything beautiful
and you should hear the angels sing
all gathered round their king
more beautiful than you could dream
i've been quietly listening
you can hear 'em now, i hear em now
and how could such a king
shine His light on me
and make everything beautiful
and i wanna shine
i wanna be light
i wanna tell you it'll be alright
and i wanna shine and i wanna fly
just to tell you now
it'll be alright, it'll be alright
it'll be alright.
cus i got nothing of my own to give to you
but this light that shines on me shines on you
and makes everything beautiful, again.
it'll be alright, it'll be alright.
out.
I am tired.
We just played a soccer game--and lost.
I played for the first time in 2 months.
I am brutally sore. I twisted my ankle when a guy took me down as I came in on a rush, but I have a sweet brace, so it didn't really hurt bad, but now it's swollen.
And my hamstring feels incredibly tight.
So I'm going to sleep.
good night.
listened to this one the way home, still a fave:
David Crowder) (Stars.
you should see the stars tonight
how they shimmer shine so bright
against the black they look so white
comin down from such a height
to reach me now, reach me now
you should see the moon in the flight
cuttin cross the misty night
softly dancin in sunshine
reflections of this light
reach me now, you reach me now
and how could such a thing
shine its light on me
and make everything beautiful again
and you should feel the sun in the spring
comin out after a rain
suddenly all is green
sunshine on everything
i can feel it now, i feel you now
and how could such a thing
shine its light on me
and make everything beautiful
and you should hear the angels sing
all gathered round their king
more beautiful than you could dream
i've been quietly listening
you can hear 'em now, i hear em now
and how could such a king
shine His light on me
and make everything beautiful
and i wanna shine
i wanna be light
i wanna tell you it'll be alright
and i wanna shine and i wanna fly
just to tell you now
it'll be alright, it'll be alright
it'll be alright.
cus i got nothing of my own to give to you
but this light that shines on me shines on you
and makes everything beautiful, again.
it'll be alright, it'll be alright.
out.
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Monday, June 05, 2006
Kill Fuzzyness.
There is one dissapointing thing about having a really good time, and it is that after a while it gets harder and harder to remember how good the time was. Faces eventually blur, voices stop talking, and suddenly it's gone except for the occasional long lasting joke and the fact that the event did actually occur. That's kind of how I feel about NA. This is my official NA post in case anyone was wondering, and I'm writing it now because if I wait too much longer I'llhave forgotten everything interesting that happened. Already I can't really remember what happened on what day because it really felt like one long day with a few short naps, so for everyone who was there, forgive the fact that very little of this will be in any sort of chronological order.
Several notable things happened. Here are a few of them:
1. The preaching was incredible.
2. The worship was incredible.
3. I'm not sure what everyone else thought, but I thought the community groups and family groups were a nice touch.
4. We tried to hang out in the "Neighborhood" and play cards, but josh and I have no idea how to play, so it really didn't work.
5. We ran up several down escalators, and down a few up ones.
6. Josh and I waited an hour in a line for subway because we were starving.
7. We ordered pizza at 2:30 am and it didn't come till 3:30, but by the time it came no one was really all that hungry, and we all just wanted to sleep.
8. "him"/
9. Go Fish. The only card game I could figure out. I can also play solitare, but only on the computer because it's such a lot of work with cards.
10. Danny Billups.
11. Missing our plane.
12. The charlie and the chocolate factory tunnel runs under the runway at the Detroit airport.
14. I don't like the detroit airport.
15. The PBJ store. Literally that's all they sold.
16. Hungry Harry's pizza.
17. The Telecast concert.
18. Dams doesn't trust my aim with a steel bar.
19. Got to hang out with little Andrew.
20. Hotels really don't have a thriteenth floor. Just like this list.
21. The old spaghetti factory..... well we tried at least.
22. The place across the street from the OSF. I think I have a permanent aversion to burgers.
23. The drunk Beattles imitators.
24. It was so hard to find the people that you were going to sit with before the sessions. It was dark and there were 2900 people in a big room with a concrete floor. Thank goodness for cell phones.
25. The 25th floor....
26. And the 26th...........
27. And the lighthouse on top................
28. I think we all looked very awkward at the "Voice" concert. At least I did.
29. Then 'he' came again.
30. Witnessing to a cabbie.
31. Now I'me badly wanting food because I haven't eaten today.
If anyone else has anything to add go ahead, because I'm sure I missed heaps of things.
✈out.
Several notable things happened. Here are a few of them:
1. The preaching was incredible.
2. The worship was incredible.
3. I'm not sure what everyone else thought, but I thought the community groups and family groups were a nice touch.
4. We tried to hang out in the "Neighborhood" and play cards, but josh and I have no idea how to play, so it really didn't work.
5. We ran up several down escalators, and down a few up ones.
6. Josh and I waited an hour in a line for subway because we were starving.
7. We ordered pizza at 2:30 am and it didn't come till 3:30, but by the time it came no one was really all that hungry, and we all just wanted to sleep.
8. "him"/
9. Go Fish. The only card game I could figure out. I can also play solitare, but only on the computer because it's such a lot of work with cards.
10. Danny Billups.
11. Missing our plane.
12. The charlie and the chocolate factory tunnel runs under the runway at the Detroit airport.
14. I don't like the detroit airport.
15. The PBJ store. Literally that's all they sold.
16. Hungry Harry's pizza.
17. The Telecast concert.
18. Dams doesn't trust my aim with a steel bar.
19. Got to hang out with little Andrew.
20. Hotels really don't have a thriteenth floor. Just like this list.
21. The old spaghetti factory..... well we tried at least.
22. The place across the street from the OSF. I think I have a permanent aversion to burgers.
23. The drunk Beattles imitators.
24. It was so hard to find the people that you were going to sit with before the sessions. It was dark and there were 2900 people in a big room with a concrete floor. Thank goodness for cell phones.
25. The 25th floor....
26. And the 26th...........
27. And the lighthouse on top................
28. I think we all looked very awkward at the "Voice" concert. At least I did.
29. Then 'he' came again.
30. Witnessing to a cabbie.
31. Now I'me badly wanting food because I haven't eaten today.
If anyone else has anything to add go ahead, because I'm sure I missed heaps of things.
✈out.
Sunday, June 04, 2006
Friday, June 02, 2006
We're doing "jesus paid it all" at church tomorrow morning. Yesssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!
I thought I'd post a few other, less edited pictures of NA. Maybe some of them are on the other site, maybe all of them are, and maybe none of them are. whatever the case, here they be.
ok. they didn't work.
I'll try again later/
One more question before I go:
did anyone manage to snap a picture of "him"?
I would've except that the second time I didn't even know.
I thought I'd post a few other, less edited pictures of NA. Maybe some of them are on the other site, maybe all of them are, and maybe none of them are. whatever the case, here they be.
ok. they didn't work.
I'll try again later/
One more question before I go:
did anyone manage to snap a picture of "him"?
I would've except that the second time I didn't even know.
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