::::celebration is over..
::::lots to ponder. out..
Monday, July 24, 2006
Thursday, July 20, 2006
triumph².
in other words: the second post on triumph.
Josh did the last one on his blog in case you didn't see it.
I felt very triumphant last night and here's why:
Do you know how annoying it is to have a sliver stuck in you. Well I realized last night that I didn't have a sliver stuck in me.
My toe was hurting. I wondered why. I looked. I couldn't see anything. Then I figured it out: the bottom corner of my toe nail had burrowed itself down into the end of my toe. gross. i didn't like it at all. It bothered me all afternoon. I knew it was pretty deep. I very much disliked the idea of going to the doc to get it removed because it's a hassle, and I heard they don't freeze it anyway. So if the thing needed to be removed and the doctor wasn't going to do it the next best person in the world for the job would be me-for no particular reason other than that was the only other one willing. So I got some tweezers, a steak knife, and some nail clippers, soaked my foot to make it a bit soggy, and went to work. It was painful, gross, and disgusting all at the same time, but I had decided beforehand that there was no other option so I took my time and went on with the tediously boring work of cutting apart my toe. Finally, after about an hour, the rebellious piece of nail was removed. I arose, stuck a band aid on the toe and walked away triumphantly, steak knife in hand.
It was a VERY triumphant moment.
I don't think words do it justice.
out.
in other words: the second post on triumph.
Josh did the last one on his blog in case you didn't see it.
I felt very triumphant last night and here's why:
Do you know how annoying it is to have a sliver stuck in you. Well I realized last night that I didn't have a sliver stuck in me.
My toe was hurting. I wondered why. I looked. I couldn't see anything. Then I figured it out: the bottom corner of my toe nail had burrowed itself down into the end of my toe. gross. i didn't like it at all. It bothered me all afternoon. I knew it was pretty deep. I very much disliked the idea of going to the doc to get it removed because it's a hassle, and I heard they don't freeze it anyway. So if the thing needed to be removed and the doctor wasn't going to do it the next best person in the world for the job would be me-for no particular reason other than that was the only other one willing. So I got some tweezers, a steak knife, and some nail clippers, soaked my foot to make it a bit soggy, and went to work. It was painful, gross, and disgusting all at the same time, but I had decided beforehand that there was no other option so I took my time and went on with the tediously boring work of cutting apart my toe. Finally, after about an hour, the rebellious piece of nail was removed. I arose, stuck a band aid on the toe and walked away triumphantly, steak knife in hand.
It was a VERY triumphant moment.
I don't think words do it justice.
out.
Monday, July 17, 2006
You are a bunch of impatient, distrustful hosers. hahahah.
well,. here it is.
Vs. 1 You found me,
Dead in all my sin,
Dead to all Your ways,
An object of Your wrath,
But You came down,
Paid my ransom cost,
Died to save the lost,
And give us peace with God,
Ch. Thank You for the cross,
For the blood,
For the pain You suffered,
You were crushed,
For my sin,
All that I might enter in,
To knowing You my king,
And now I live to sing,
Thank you for the cross.
Vs.2 So humbly,
You laid aside Your throne,
Lived a perfect life,
To be a sacrifice,
In amazement,
I wonder at Your love,
That bore the wrath of God,
For those who broke Your law.
well,. here it is.
Vs. 1 You found me,
Dead in all my sin,
Dead to all Your ways,
An object of Your wrath,
But You came down,
Paid my ransom cost,
Died to save the lost,
And give us peace with God,
Ch. Thank You for the cross,
For the blood,
For the pain You suffered,
You were crushed,
For my sin,
All that I might enter in,
To knowing You my king,
And now I live to sing,
Thank you for the cross.
Vs.2 So humbly,
You laid aside Your throne,
Lived a perfect life,
To be a sacrifice,
In amazement,
I wonder at Your love,
That bore the wrath of God,
For those who broke Your law.
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Defeat.
I return home with shame.
This randomly planned saturday adventure had a mission, and we failed.
Basically this is what happened.
There's a rabbit epidemic in Richmond (about 30 minutes away). Not regular wild rabbits, but fat black rabbits that escaped from somebody's house and started a very, very large family, that now are semi-wild. I say semi-wild because even though they live wild, they aren't afraid of people and just sit on front lawns eating grass. Not to mention because they're fat they aren't very fast, so we went to Richmond today to catch a few and bring them back to our side of the river and start an epidemic over here.
we failed. we only found two. one black one and one white and tan one. then an old guy told us to leave them alone.
so we went to the airport and parked by the runway and filmed the planes landing. that was also a bit of a disappointment.
so we came home. now I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I'll think of something.
This randomly planned saturday adventure had a mission, and we failed.
Basically this is what happened.
There's a rabbit epidemic in Richmond (about 30 minutes away). Not regular wild rabbits, but fat black rabbits that escaped from somebody's house and started a very, very large family, that now are semi-wild. I say semi-wild because even though they live wild, they aren't afraid of people and just sit on front lawns eating grass. Not to mention because they're fat they aren't very fast, so we went to Richmond today to catch a few and bring them back to our side of the river and start an epidemic over here.
we failed. we only found two. one black one and one white and tan one. then an old guy told us to leave them alone.
so we went to the airport and parked by the runway and filmed the planes landing. that was also a bit of a disappointment.
so we came home. now I'm not sure what I'm going to do. I'll think of something.
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Sunday, July 09, 2006
funny how the dark can't withstand light. Darkness can't blot out light, but light can cut through darkness without any trouble at all. remind you of anything? When Christ shined His light in our hearts, even though they were dark and dead in sin, the darkness couldn't withstand Him. crazy.
I like that picture because it kind of reminds me of that.
Long my imprisoned spirit lay,
Fast bound in sin and nature’s night;
Thine eye diffused a quickening ray—
I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;
My chains fell off, my heart was free,
I rose, went forth, and followed Thee.
charles wesley.
Friday, July 07, 2006
two random pictures. Nothing to do with the post.
both were taken by josh.
the tulip one is lavishly edited.
oh well.
it looks good.
So nothing much has been going on of any real interest.
I won't be going to the worship conference, because I'm going to drive to San Diego with josh and pops right after it, and I couldn't get that much time off work.
That should be cool.
I had a soccer game last night and it was absolutely brutal. 4-0. for the other guys. and since I was on defense it really felt bad.
It wasn't that I played particularly bad, but all the bad bounces seemed to come straight to me. It was a game to forget.
Hmmm...... I want to spend some time working on my invention tomorrow. I also am thinking of starting to write a screenplay for a new movie. And I'm playing electric on sunday while josh leads.
that is all I have to say for now.////}]}}
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Monday, July 03, 2006
went to a lake today and now I'm home.
it's a national holiday.
i like national holidays.
i'm going to make myself a smoothie.
.................................................................
something was going to go there, but I left it blank just to bug somebody else (sorry), who would have badly wanted me to add a lot of other junk to do with blending and smoothies, and a particular co-owned blender, but I decided not to. This way is far more fun. and I have to type less. and I might go out and look for some magnets. I really need some.
hahahaha.
it's a national holiday.
i like national holidays.
i'm going to make myself a smoothie.
.................................................................
something was going to go there, but I left it blank just to bug somebody else (sorry), who would have badly wanted me to add a lot of other junk to do with blending and smoothies, and a particular co-owned blender, but I decided not to. This way is far more fun. and I have to type less. and I might go out and look for some magnets. I really need some.
hahahaha.
Saturday, July 01, 2006
atop an active volcano.
well, for once an incredibly random title actually has something to do with the rest of the post, because, in fact, I was on top (well I guess sort of on the side) of an active volcano today. Pretty psychedelic dude. If it decided to blow while we were up there I would be writing this post.....and I'd probably be looking like an over-fried chip.
A little background first.....
My buddy joshua wants to drive to mount baker in washington and go for a hike. Josh and I decide to come. We leave. we, very nervously, cross the border. we begin the drive.
One of the first comments of the trip was that even though it only takes a few minutes to cross the border, once you're in the USA things are totally different..... like ghetto gas stations..... and flags on EVERY house....(it's Canada day today and I've only seen a couple of flags)....... and those were most of the observations i think...
Well we quickly reached the wilderness, and because it was nearing noon we decided that we'd get food at the next place that sold it, and that place happened to be "Starvin' Sam's Mini Mart". I don't think I've ever seen so many rednecks congregated in one small location before. We were all awkward until we left Sam's.
Once we got to the furthest point that had a road that wasn't covered in snow we got out and spent a few hours exploring, rolling already bad ankles, getting sun burnt, almost falling of cliffs, almost falling through snow drifts into the streams that ran beneath......yeah. they were good times.
Walking on the snow drifts was cool. You would be walking and think that there was ground right beneath you then you'd see a little hole, cautiously approach, then jump back when you realized that there was a stream flowing beneath you that had created a cavity under the snow creating a nice little cave that you could pretty easily fall through into .\/
and then I tried to climb this cliff by a water fall, and everything was fine until I got to the top, but then I realized that at the top was a ledge sloping toward the waterfall that was wet and had no hand or footholds, and three feet past that was a snow wall that was too big to get on top of without standing up which would have been plain stupid on the sloping/slippery ledge.......but I can be really stupid sometimes, and the idea of getting to the top the quickest way was a lot stronger than the thought of going the longer/smarter way. So I cautiously got my knees up on the ledge and crawled up....then I pretty much had cardiac arrest when I started to slip back toward the edge. I flipped over so that I was sitting down, and then the slipping stopped. I sat there for a few minutes breathing really hard and tried to think of what to do. even though I was sitting with my back up against the snow wall, I knew the idea of getting onto it was plain suicide, so I slipped my legs back over the side, climbed half way back down, then found an easier way up. When I reached the top I felt pretty good. Then I saw a few guys with snow shoes and backpacks and ropes linking them all together, and I wondered I was just a little dumb.
A little background first.....
My buddy joshua wants to drive to mount baker in washington and go for a hike. Josh and I decide to come. We leave. we, very nervously, cross the border. we begin the drive.
One of the first comments of the trip was that even though it only takes a few minutes to cross the border, once you're in the USA things are totally different..... like ghetto gas stations..... and flags on EVERY house....(it's Canada day today and I've only seen a couple of flags)....... and those were most of the observations i think...
Well we quickly reached the wilderness, and because it was nearing noon we decided that we'd get food at the next place that sold it, and that place happened to be "Starvin' Sam's Mini Mart". I don't think I've ever seen so many rednecks congregated in one small location before. We were all awkward until we left Sam's.
Once we got to the furthest point that had a road that wasn't covered in snow we got out and spent a few hours exploring, rolling already bad ankles, getting sun burnt, almost falling of cliffs, almost falling through snow drifts into the streams that ran beneath......yeah. they were good times.
Walking on the snow drifts was cool. You would be walking and think that there was ground right beneath you then you'd see a little hole, cautiously approach, then jump back when you realized that there was a stream flowing beneath you that had created a cavity under the snow creating a nice little cave that you could pretty easily fall through into .\/
and then I tried to climb this cliff by a water fall, and everything was fine until I got to the top, but then I realized that at the top was a ledge sloping toward the waterfall that was wet and had no hand or footholds, and three feet past that was a snow wall that was too big to get on top of without standing up which would have been plain stupid on the sloping/slippery ledge.......but I can be really stupid sometimes, and the idea of getting to the top the quickest way was a lot stronger than the thought of going the longer/smarter way. So I cautiously got my knees up on the ledge and crawled up....then I pretty much had cardiac arrest when I started to slip back toward the edge. I flipped over so that I was sitting down, and then the slipping stopped. I sat there for a few minutes breathing really hard and tried to think of what to do. even though I was sitting with my back up against the snow wall, I knew the idea of getting onto it was plain suicide, so I slipped my legs back over the side, climbed half way back down, then found an easier way up. When I reached the top I felt pretty good. Then I saw a few guys with snow shoes and backpacks and ropes linking them all together, and I wondered I was just a little dumb.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Thursday, June 01, 2006
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
There is way too much to write.
I don't think I'm the one to write all about NA. I think I would do a bad job of it. Either dams or josh should because they write far better long posts, and they probably remember more.
What I will do is post pictures as soon as I get them on the computer.
feeling very tired.
out.
What I will do is post pictures as soon as I get them on the computer.
feeling very tired.
out.
Friday, May 26, 2006
Well, well/
Hmmmm.... as I sit here sipping orange juice, I'm a little shocked to realize that later on today I will be flying to louisville, and tomorrow morning sometime I'll be at NA. I ate a lot of candy tonight. My teeth are probably rotting as I type. I don't like going to the dentist.
And did you know that somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly?
I wish I could.
ahaha.
I wonder if coffee is really a master plan devised by the Communists to take over the democratic world. At least I don't drink it so when everyone else is being corrupted, I can escape and live for two years under the park behind my house, and dig elaborate tunnels leading to New York city (because that's where dramatic things always happen), and burst out and turn the world back to democracy and throw the communists out of power.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
]
I deduce from the length of that laugh that it's time for sleep.
To all you going to NA, see you tomorrow, and to all you who aren't, Goodnight.
And did you know that somewhere over the rainbow bluebirds fly?
I wish I could.
ahaha.
I wonder if coffee is really a master plan devised by the Communists to take over the democratic world. At least I don't drink it so when everyone else is being corrupted, I can escape and live for two years under the park behind my house, and dig elaborate tunnels leading to New York city (because that's where dramatic things always happen), and burst out and turn the world back to democracy and throw the communists out of power.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
]
I deduce from the length of that laugh that it's time for sleep.
To all you going to NA, see you tomorrow, and to all you who aren't, Goodnight.
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Monday, May 22, 2006
sara groves-
this is my story, this is my song,
the theme of the story, I've heard for so long,
God has been faithful, he will be again,
His loving compassion, it knows no end,
all I have need of, his hand will provide,
He's always been faithful to me.
Gooooooooooood song.
very good.
Good night.
go look at the stars.
this is my story, this is my song,
the theme of the story, I've heard for so long,
God has been faithful, he will be again,
His loving compassion, it knows no end,
all I have need of, his hand will provide,
He's always been faithful to me.
Gooooooooooood song.
very good.
Good night.
go look at the stars.
Saturday, May 20, 2006
Thursday, May 18, 2006
I drove pam to work last night at 11:00.
Then I came home and stayed up too late reading.
Then I visited dreamland.
Then I woke up at six thirty.
Then I picked pam up from work at seven.
Then I went to the skatepark with sam.
Then I dropped him off at grandmother's house.
Then I dropped als off at the mall.
Then I came home and edited for an hour.
Then I drove back to the mall and picked als up.
Then I ate lunch.
Then I drove pam to the ferry.
And I just got back.
]
I somehow feel like a cabbie.
And I'm tired.
the Red Army plays tonight.
GO REDS!
yeah, well, it's not like that will likely help them but hey, why not try.
Josh. On a bridge.
On a windy day.
random.
out.s
Then I came home and stayed up too late reading.
Then I visited dreamland.
Then I woke up at six thirty.
Then I picked pam up from work at seven.
Then I went to the skatepark with sam.
Then I dropped him off at grandmother's house.
Then I dropped als off at the mall.
Then I came home and edited for an hour.
Then I drove back to the mall and picked als up.
Then I ate lunch.
Then I drove pam to the ferry.
And I just got back.
]
I somehow feel like a cabbie.
And I'm tired.
the Red Army plays tonight.
GO REDS!
yeah, well, it's not like that will likely help them but hey, why not try.
Josh. On a bridge.
On a windy day.
random.
out.s
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Monday, May 15, 2006
Interesting things that have happened of late:
I played acoustic guitar on sunday.
I watched the oilers crush the sharks later that evening.
I can now walk without crutches. It hurts like crazy and I have a bit of a limp, but I'm so sick of crutches that the pain is really not too concerning.
I got a crazy punk-army-blazer-coat thing. it's sweet.
I'm going out now.
agnowlenomedria.
(that means out.)
((in the language I just now made up)
I played acoustic guitar on sunday.
I watched the oilers crush the sharks later that evening.
I can now walk without crutches. It hurts like crazy and I have a bit of a limp, but I'm so sick of crutches that the pain is really not too concerning.
I got a crazy punk-army-blazer-coat thing. it's sweet.
I'm going out now.
agnowlenomedria.
(that means out.)
((in the language I just now made up)
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Friday, May 12, 2006
And now it's time for a new post.
So.....
I have a pretty busy weekend.
Josh and I got a new/old acoustic guitar. it has a great semi-ghetto look, but it sounds really nice.
I'm teaching guitar now, as well as learning it (mostly at the request of my teacher), so I was teaching yesterday.
I got a sweet cane yesterday. I'll probably have it at NA because although I can walk without a cane or crutch or anything now, it's generally pretty painful, and I'm really unstable because the muscles haven't strengthened up enough yet, and because if I have to walk far, it begins to hurt even more.
Tonight is bowling.
Tomorrow has lots of things.
So.......
out.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
OK. I'm trying again.
hahah; after all that I should have just dumped the whole photo library on here.
It's a very random selection.
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Monday, May 08, 2006
Well.
It's been a few days.
I haven't posted.
I was hardly at home for an hour yesterday, so I have a pretty good excuse.
I still don't know what to write.
Tonight is going to be busy.
I have a guitar lesson, josh has a soccer game, and then of course, 24 is on.
You can laugh at the fact that a tv show is such a necessity for the night, but it's the only one I consistently watch so and it's only on once a week so it's pretty much set in stone that I have to be home to watch it on monday.
I have to see how Jack dodges missiles with a passenger plane tonight.
I was also supposed to have physio today, but couldn't because there was no one that could give me a ride. believe me, I'm not sad about that either.
WELL YOU"RE NOT HARD COOOOOOORRRRE!!!!\\UNLESS YOU LIVE HARD COOOOOOORRREE!!!!!!
BUT THE LEGEND OF THE RENT WAS WAY HARD COOOOOOORRRREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!>
well, that was random.
ok.
I need to eat some food.
and one picturator to finish it off.
or not.
out.
pictures will come later.
It's been a few days.
I haven't posted.
I was hardly at home for an hour yesterday, so I have a pretty good excuse.
I still don't know what to write.
Tonight is going to be busy.
I have a guitar lesson, josh has a soccer game, and then of course, 24 is on.
You can laugh at the fact that a tv show is such a necessity for the night, but it's the only one I consistently watch so and it's only on once a week so it's pretty much set in stone that I have to be home to watch it on monday.
I have to see how Jack dodges missiles with a passenger plane tonight.
I was also supposed to have physio today, but couldn't because there was no one that could give me a ride. believe me, I'm not sad about that either.
WELL YOU"RE NOT HARD COOOOOOORRRRE!!!!\\UNLESS YOU LIVE HARD COOOOOOORRREE!!!!!!
BUT THE LEGEND OF THE RENT WAS WAY HARD COOOOOOORRRREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!>
well, that was random.
ok.
I need to eat some food.
and one picturator to finish it off.
or not.
out.
pictures will come later.
Saturday, May 06, 2006
Friday, May 05, 2006
I went to physiotherapy yesterday....they moved my foot. It was painful.
Because the splint that it was stuck in for 3 weeks had my foot pointed down, and not at a right angle with the ground, my foot was so stuck in that position that they couldn't push it to a right angle. It was crazy. But now with the crutches I can put put a tiny bit of weight on it. Well at least I could yesterday. Today it's so sore that I can't do very much. Hopefully I'll be able to walk by the time NA comes, but it's possible I might still need one crutch.
I'll try to do a good deep post later.
Because the splint that it was stuck in for 3 weeks had my foot pointed down, and not at a right angle with the ground, my foot was so stuck in that position that they couldn't push it to a right angle. It was crazy. But now with the crutches I can put put a tiny bit of weight on it. Well at least I could yesterday. Today it's so sore that I can't do very much. Hopefully I'll be able to walk by the time NA comes, but it's possible I might still need one crutch.
I'll try to do a good deep post later.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Wednesday, May 03, 2006
My sister's Yorkshire Terrier is sitting on my lap right now.
I've decidedly decided that I want a Bull Mastiff.
They're huge and fat and stupid and funny, and supposedly very nice dogs.
I was at starbucks tonight at a very encouraging meeting (not drinking coffee) and I saw one. from then on my mind was made up.
And I'll name him Fredrick.
out>
I've decidedly decided that I want a Bull Mastiff.
They're huge and fat and stupid and funny, and supposedly very nice dogs.
I was at starbucks tonight at a very encouraging meeting (not drinking coffee) and I saw one. from then on my mind was made up.
And I'll name him Fredrick.
out>
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
I've had a bunch of deep ideas swirling around in my head for the last 30 minutes.
for instance take this question:
what is light?
----------------------------
it's easy to brush it to the side and say, "well it's light obviously", but that is simply what we call it because we don't know what it really is. what is it's substance? how does it move?
or try shining a flashlight on your hand from about a foot away. when you turn it on, something is flying at your hand at the speed of light and crashing into it (notice it can't actually go through), and you don't feel a thing except possibly (if you're holding it a bit too close) a little heat.
but what if a baseball hit you in the gut while traveling at the speed of light? You'd have a perfectly round whole right through you and the ball wouldn't have slowed down too much. so what is different about light? size obviously and weight, but if you say that, then you are acknowledging light to be a particle, which is possible, but slightly far-fetched.
for instance, if light is a particle, and it is shooting out of the sun and out of light bulbs and everything else, what kind of particle is it, and how does it "shoot"? Is it the extreme heat that causes atoms to disconnect from their molecules? Is that the explanation for the heat we feel? Trillions of blazing hot (yet ridiculously miniscule) atoms crashing into our skin? That is certainly one explanation, but what about the sun and the stars? How could atoms that are shot out of the sun travel the hundreds of thousands of miles through ice cold space and reach earth still blazing hot? Again we can point out that the size and temperature of the sun is many times that of the coil in a light bulb, but probability stands against it. Even though the sun could torch those atoms until their electrons were orbiting the nucleus at incalculable speeds, and then I'm sure project them at a far higher speed, the distance is huge, and i doubt that they would still carry heat if they reached us at all. Although if they do reach us, I wonder if that's where dust comes from? all the little particles of light now burnt out.
But if we decide that the Particle Theory is off base, then what is light? Maybe it is a wave, like sound, except that it is such a high frequency that our ears can't detect it, but our eyes can see it? That would explain how it can travel vast distances through space and not be "extinguished" as it were, and anyone who has put their hand near a large sub woofer knows that sound can be detected by our sensory nerves, so why couldn't (at a far higher frequency) we perceive light waves with our eyes, and identify them as heat when they are in abundance?
But that is also nothing but speculation, with no (current) possible way of proving or disproving either theory. In fact maybe light is something that we haven't thought up yet, and perhaps maybe we never will, but when you look deep enough it makes you look up in amazement and wonder that He created the light, and knows it well.
outs.
you should see the stars tonight
how they shimmer shine so bright
against the black they look so white
coming down from such a height
to reach me now, reach me now
you should see the moon in the flight
cutting across the misty night
softly dancing 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
coming 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 again.
David Crowder.
Thanks davie.
I'm tired.
GN!
for instance take this question:
what is light?
----------------------------
it's easy to brush it to the side and say, "well it's light obviously", but that is simply what we call it because we don't know what it really is. what is it's substance? how does it move?
or try shining a flashlight on your hand from about a foot away. when you turn it on, something is flying at your hand at the speed of light and crashing into it (notice it can't actually go through), and you don't feel a thing except possibly (if you're holding it a bit too close) a little heat.
but what if a baseball hit you in the gut while traveling at the speed of light? You'd have a perfectly round whole right through you and the ball wouldn't have slowed down too much. so what is different about light? size obviously and weight, but if you say that, then you are acknowledging light to be a particle, which is possible, but slightly far-fetched.
for instance, if light is a particle, and it is shooting out of the sun and out of light bulbs and everything else, what kind of particle is it, and how does it "shoot"? Is it the extreme heat that causes atoms to disconnect from their molecules? Is that the explanation for the heat we feel? Trillions of blazing hot (yet ridiculously miniscule) atoms crashing into our skin? That is certainly one explanation, but what about the sun and the stars? How could atoms that are shot out of the sun travel the hundreds of thousands of miles through ice cold space and reach earth still blazing hot? Again we can point out that the size and temperature of the sun is many times that of the coil in a light bulb, but probability stands against it. Even though the sun could torch those atoms until their electrons were orbiting the nucleus at incalculable speeds, and then I'm sure project them at a far higher speed, the distance is huge, and i doubt that they would still carry heat if they reached us at all. Although if they do reach us, I wonder if that's where dust comes from? all the little particles of light now burnt out.
But if we decide that the Particle Theory is off base, then what is light? Maybe it is a wave, like sound, except that it is such a high frequency that our ears can't detect it, but our eyes can see it? That would explain how it can travel vast distances through space and not be "extinguished" as it were, and anyone who has put their hand near a large sub woofer knows that sound can be detected by our sensory nerves, so why couldn't (at a far higher frequency) we perceive light waves with our eyes, and identify them as heat when they are in abundance?
But that is also nothing but speculation, with no (current) possible way of proving or disproving either theory. In fact maybe light is something that we haven't thought up yet, and perhaps maybe we never will, but when you look deep enough it makes you look up in amazement and wonder that He created the light, and knows it well.
outs.
you should see the stars tonight
how they shimmer shine so bright
against the black they look so white
coming down from such a height
to reach me now, reach me now
you should see the moon in the flight
cutting across the misty night
softly dancing 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
coming 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 again.
David Crowder.
Thanks davie.
I'm tired.
GN!
Sunday, April 30, 2006
Sorry, no good post tonight; I'm too tired.
This morning i woke up with the alarm (6:00), and Josh said that there wasn't much point in me coming early because I can't set up much with my foot anyway, so I closed my eyes and next thing I knew it was 9:00. Now I panicked because my mom didn't even know I was still home, and they were just about ready to leave, so I got ready in about ten minutes and left.
After later in the afternoon I rocked out at the church with a few other guys from the church. I'm reluctant to call it a band even though we fulfill the basic essence of what a band is, our piano player is like 13 (not as a diss, seriously he's incredible), our E guitar player is 16 (and fairly new to it), then I lead and play A guitar as well as E guitar (and I really am horrible at leading because I'm not used to it at all), then Josh plays drums (and rocks), and we have a 15 year old kid playing bass (and he also rocks.).
And alone we could all play great, but most of us have never played in a band so it's a learning experience. Last time we jammed it was horrible, but this time was sweet. We worked on Come You Saints off the Fuse cd. Next week we're probably going to learn either O Praise Him, or No One Like You, or both.
And now I am going to either read until some outrageous hour, or sleep.
GN>
This morning i woke up with the alarm (6:00), and Josh said that there wasn't much point in me coming early because I can't set up much with my foot anyway, so I closed my eyes and next thing I knew it was 9:00. Now I panicked because my mom didn't even know I was still home, and they were just about ready to leave, so I got ready in about ten minutes and left.
After later in the afternoon I rocked out at the church with a few other guys from the church. I'm reluctant to call it a band even though we fulfill the basic essence of what a band is, our piano player is like 13 (not as a diss, seriously he's incredible), our E guitar player is 16 (and fairly new to it), then I lead and play A guitar as well as E guitar (and I really am horrible at leading because I'm not used to it at all), then Josh plays drums (and rocks), and we have a 15 year old kid playing bass (and he also rocks.).
And alone we could all play great, but most of us have never played in a band so it's a learning experience. Last time we jammed it was horrible, but this time was sweet. We worked on Come You Saints off the Fuse cd. Next week we're probably going to learn either O Praise Him, or No One Like You, or both.
And now I am going to either read until some outrageous hour, or sleep.
GN>
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Friday, April 28, 2006
Thursday, April 27, 2006
I just realized today that NA is pretty soon.
I haven't really thought of it at all since I registered in December or January or whenever it was.
It should be some good times. All I'm dreading is the travel.
A redeye flight with three plane changes. On crutches. ouch.
\I like pictures. Here are some more../
The randomness.
Adam Clayton and the The Edge in the last one.
Unfortunately we have none of me as Bono.
And Josh takes a power stance in a Houston train, and uses the wheel chair method of transportation in the airport.
I was thinking about how sweet it would be to ride a wheelchair on one of those flat escalators that they have in airports that make you walk fast. At the end you would really shoot off it.
.
I haven't really thought of it at all since I registered in December or January or whenever it was.
It should be some good times. All I'm dreading is the travel.
A redeye flight with three plane changes. On crutches. ouch.
\I like pictures. Here are some more../
The randomness.
Adam Clayton and the The Edge in the last one.
Unfortunately we have none of me as Bono.
And Josh takes a power stance in a Houston train, and uses the wheel chair method of transportation in the airport.
I was thinking about how sweet it would be to ride a wheelchair on one of those flat escalators that they have in airports that make you walk fast. At the end you would really shoot off it.
.
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
I shouldn't promote my upcoming (and unwritten) posts as being good, because that seems to be when you run out of time or just have a complete creative blank. Fortunately I'm not short on time, and so far I don't see the big "END OF CREATIVE FLOW" wall, so I appear to be in good shape.
Today was fairly laid back, and here are the highlights:
-Good reading time this morning.
-A few hours of editing weddings.
-Some song writing time.
-Some electric and acoustic guitar playing ( I wrote a little instrumental acoustic guitar song, but couldn't record it because I couldn't figure out how to use the recording software we have. so much for being good with technology.)
-Went to the music store and got a big multi-guitar stand because our room seems to be overflowing with guitars and Basses. (I guess overflowing is a bit of an exaggeration but we have one Electric, two Basses, and two Acoustics (mine and my pop's) but it seems like a lot when they're leaning up against walls everywhere.)
-Ate Pizza
-Posting and more editing.
That was basically what my day was like.
Our Soccer team lost last night.
haha.
that was random.
I wasn't laughing at the team.
they played well.
they just lost.
Josh had a wide open net at the end, jumped up and took a lunging kick at the ball and.......
I could feel the wind from the sidelines as he missed it completely.
Sorry josh.
You'll bury the next one.
Finally AJ scored.
But we lost anyhow.
Hahahaha.
Random pictures.
I don't know how that last hoser got in there. hahah. He's in Louisville right now at Together for the Gospel.
Heading..
OUt.
P.S.
thinking about this this morning:
The Judge of all, judged by men,
God's own Son, the Spotless Lamb,
Beaten for my guilt and sin,
Torn that I might enter in,
He bore the wrath for all I've done,
I gain the righteousness He won,
The wonder of wonders forever will be,
That God came from Heaven to suffer for me.
Song of the week: (I thought I could never really enjoy listening to these guys) Relient K, When I go down.
goodnight.
Today was fairly laid back, and here are the highlights:
-Good reading time this morning.
-A few hours of editing weddings.
-Some song writing time.
-Some electric and acoustic guitar playing ( I wrote a little instrumental acoustic guitar song, but couldn't record it because I couldn't figure out how to use the recording software we have. so much for being good with technology.)
-Went to the music store and got a big multi-guitar stand because our room seems to be overflowing with guitars and Basses. (I guess overflowing is a bit of an exaggeration but we have one Electric, two Basses, and two Acoustics (mine and my pop's) but it seems like a lot when they're leaning up against walls everywhere.)
-Ate Pizza
-Posting and more editing.
That was basically what my day was like.
Our Soccer team lost last night.
haha.
that was random.
I wasn't laughing at the team.
they played well.
they just lost.
Josh had a wide open net at the end, jumped up and took a lunging kick at the ball and.......
I could feel the wind from the sidelines as he missed it completely.
Sorry josh.
You'll bury the next one.
Finally AJ scored.
But we lost anyhow.
Hahahaha.
Random pictures.
I don't know how that last hoser got in there. hahah. He's in Louisville right now at Together for the Gospel.
Heading..
OUt.
P.S.
thinking about this this morning:
The Judge of all, judged by men,
God's own Son, the Spotless Lamb,
Beaten for my guilt and sin,
Torn that I might enter in,
He bore the wrath for all I've done,
I gain the righteousness He won,
The wonder of wonders forever will be,
That God came from Heaven to suffer for me.
Song of the week: (I thought I could never really enjoy listening to these guys) Relient K, When I go down.
goodnight.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Sunday, April 23, 2006
I have a blog!
Restating the obvious can be very funny.
Today was an interesting sunday. I woke up a bit late (6:45am), then went to Tim Horten's for a bagel on the way to church. I arrived at the building and chilled out (that's unusual) while everyone else set up because I can't carry much with my crutches, until the sound board was out. When they finally got the Board out, I plugged everything in and then went and was hanging out on the stage when my dad walked up and said "So......you want to play electric guitar this morning?" I laughed and said sure, but I didn't think that he was serious until he came back and told me to hitch a ride home with my cousin Marty to get my guitar. It was cool, considering it was my first time ever playing in the band. Then we had a guest speaker named Bill Farley who spoke about God's passion to bless. One thing that stood out to me was when He talked out our generally inaccurate views of what God's blessing is. We tend to think of God's blessing as material things, when in fact His blessing is Himself. It's funny to think about how I could be the poorest, most sick, and most persecuted person in the world, but be blessed far more than some that lived comfortable lives. That's because trials bring us closer to God, they make us rely on Him with a trust that is much less easy to have when we are comfortable in our current position. It made me think about my ankle and how God is blessing my life through the injury. True I might not be able to walk on it for several months, but those are several months that I will be able to spend unfettered by a regular job and mostly at home where I'll have lots of time to spend with Him, and that is a blessing.
"The cross is the Mount Everest of God's blessing. All His other blessings are just mole hills in comparison"
Bill Farley
---------------------
out.
P.S.
"But the legend of the rent was WAY HARD COOORRRRRRRRRREEEE!!!!!!!!!"
"Now raise your goblet of rock."
School of Rock.
hahaha.
Today was an interesting sunday. I woke up a bit late (6:45am), then went to Tim Horten's for a bagel on the way to church. I arrived at the building and chilled out (that's unusual) while everyone else set up because I can't carry much with my crutches, until the sound board was out. When they finally got the Board out, I plugged everything in and then went and was hanging out on the stage when my dad walked up and said "So......you want to play electric guitar this morning?" I laughed and said sure, but I didn't think that he was serious until he came back and told me to hitch a ride home with my cousin Marty to get my guitar. It was cool, considering it was my first time ever playing in the band. Then we had a guest speaker named Bill Farley who spoke about God's passion to bless. One thing that stood out to me was when He talked out our generally inaccurate views of what God's blessing is. We tend to think of God's blessing as material things, when in fact His blessing is Himself. It's funny to think about how I could be the poorest, most sick, and most persecuted person in the world, but be blessed far more than some that lived comfortable lives. That's because trials bring us closer to God, they make us rely on Him with a trust that is much less easy to have when we are comfortable in our current position. It made me think about my ankle and how God is blessing my life through the injury. True I might not be able to walk on it for several months, but those are several months that I will be able to spend unfettered by a regular job and mostly at home where I'll have lots of time to spend with Him, and that is a blessing.
"The cross is the Mount Everest of God's blessing. All His other blessings are just mole hills in comparison"
Bill Farley
---------------------
out.
P.S.
"But the legend of the rent was WAY HARD COOORRRRRRRRRREEEE!!!!!!!!!"
"Now raise your goblet of rock."
School of Rock.
hahaha.
Friday, April 21, 2006
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Not good at all.
This is how things stand: today I went to the doctor to see if my foot was broken.....it isn't broken, but it is a severe sprain, which needs to be immobilized for at least another week (meaning the splint and the crutches remain), and possibly for up to a month, before I can even begin to try to walk on it again. That's pretty bad, considering that it means I can't work for at least 4 weeks, and probably more realistically 6. And then as if that wasn't fun enough, the doctor and his students told me he was also referring me to some other doc because he thinks that I might have muscle damage which will need some repairing (meaning surgery).
There it is.
Ugly.
out.
There it is.
Ugly.
out.
Monday, April 17, 2006
Sunday, April 16, 2006
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Friday, April 14, 2006
Still Crutching.
Easter Production to film tonight. I had to end up training an apprentice to shoot the moving shots because I'm gimped and can't get around much faster than a turtle who's torn his ACL. Then I have a wedding to shoot saturday. Then church on Sunday.
Then hopefully on monday I'll get back to the doc to see what's going on. I should have taken a picture of it when i took the splint off this morning. It was huge. Kind of like when Joby was blowing up those rubber gloves, except my foot isn't rubber.
It's crazy how hard it is to just get around. I don't really like it. for instance, if am in my room (in the basement), and I want to get something upstairs, it takes a good ten minutes. AAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh well. I have to chill today. I've been working it too hard.
outs.
Then hopefully on monday I'll get back to the doc to see what's going on. I should have taken a picture of it when i took the splint off this morning. It was huge. Kind of like when Joby was blowing up those rubber gloves, except my foot isn't rubber.
It's crazy how hard it is to just get around. I don't really like it. for instance, if am in my room (in the basement), and I want to get something upstairs, it takes a good ten minutes. AAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oh well. I have to chill today. I've been working it too hard.
outs.
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Propped up.
Yesterday began as any typical day does with an early morning ride to work, 8 hours of work, and a warmer ride home in the afternoon. I played my guitar for a bit, as usual, went to a rehearsal for a wedding we're shooting saturday afternoon, and prepared for the first exhibition game of the soccer season. We were playing our arch nemesis team (the other team from our church) FC International, and it promised to have some intense action, and a very lopsided victory for FC Inter. The game began with an early goal by Danny Woelders for Inter, but then the Red Army began to fight back, controlling the ball and having some quality chances against Inter's goal keep Mike Woelders. As the first half was winding down I switched up to midfield from defense because Doug was getting tired out. being full of fresh energy I chased down Inter players and stole the ball, and passed and what not until about two minutes before halftime. I was chasing an Inter player who had the ball. The ball bounced up in the air and we both jumped and tried to kick it. As I was flying through the air, I seem to recall seeing my right foot go flying out from under me, then I hit the ground and heard "crack". That is never good to begin with, but it's often the pain that comes after which is really tough to deal with. So basically my ankle was messed up, and the prognosis on the field was that it was most likely a sprain, though later on when I went to thee hospital, someone said it's possible that it could be a break. After getting X-rayed and waiting a very (very) long time to see a doc, he basically said that he couldn't see an obvious break, but couldn't rule out the possibility of it, so he put a splint on me that runs from my toes to just below my knee, and told me to see another doctor today. I went to see that doctor this morning, and he basically said the same thing, thinking it was a sprain, but not ruling out the possibility of a break. He told me to prop it up lots this week to bring down the swelling, and to see him again in a week. He said if it's still really bad after a week, then he said he'll probably have to cast it whatever it is.
So there's a few things I have to work out now, like how long I'll have to be off work, and how I'm going to film a wedding reception by myself on Saturday night, and stuff like that.
But God is good, and unfortunate things like this don't change that at all. If anything I need to adjust my point of view to see that anything apart from hell is grace, and this isn't less than I deserve, it is in fact far more.
off to get some Ibuprofen.
out.
So there's a few things I have to work out now, like how long I'll have to be off work, and how I'm going to film a wedding reception by myself on Saturday night, and stuff like that.
But God is good, and unfortunate things like this don't change that at all. If anything I need to adjust my point of view to see that anything apart from hell is grace, and this isn't less than I deserve, it is in fact far more.
off to get some Ibuprofen.
out.
Sunday, April 09, 2006
WHAT'S wrong WITH me.
I don't know why I haven't posted of late.
I've been commenting but posting never really entered my extreemly (haha) distracted brain.
I'm headed off to a rehearsal for Crossway Community Church's Easter play "The Look". www.whatsthelook.com.
It's our biggest production yet, with almost fifty actors/background people. I'm not really doing anything because I have to miss the first showing of it filming a wedding reception, then the second night I'm filming the play.
so I need to run.
check out the site.
I've been commenting but posting never really entered my extreemly (haha) distracted brain.
I'm headed off to a rehearsal for Crossway Community Church's Easter play "The Look". www.whatsthelook.com.
It's our biggest production yet, with almost fifty actors/background people. I'm not really doing anything because I have to miss the first showing of it filming a wedding reception, then the second night I'm filming the play.
so I need to run.
check out the site.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Friday, March 31, 2006
Summer is in the air.
I smell it coming....
haha.
Three good David Gray songs that I've been listening to:
Shine
Babylon
Please Forgive Me
He sounds very irish.
But he's from Wales.
not Ireland.
sorry that this is so short.
out
u u
tuo
haha.
Three good David Gray songs that I've been listening to:
Shine
Babylon
Please Forgive Me
He sounds very irish.
But he's from Wales.
not Ireland.
sorry that this is so short.
out
u u
tuo
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
mdg)).
my dream guitar.
I'm jealous davie.
custom made just for the hoser.
it's called "the crowdster".
dang.
I'm jealous davie.
custom made just for the hoser.
it's called "the crowdster".
dang.
Saturday, March 25, 2006
p-a-n-a-s-o-n-i-c
that's the type of fone we have, and it's sitting right beside me right now.
I almost feel like writing a song about the phone just being there on the counter, not ringing or doing anything interesting...but I'm not going to.
I feel like finally I've caught up on sleep and recovered from snowboarding. It's a good feeling. haha. it's been a couple days of pain from the snowboarding, and a few weeks of sleep depravation, so it really does feel nice to be back to having some enerG. (that was lame, but it was a bit of a joke on the EmergenC that we had in el paso (which was supposed to make you healthy, but I was sick the whole time I was there.).).
Hmm.... I don't particularly know what else to write.
Ah yes, I have to find some kind of career and go to school for it, or else things aren't going to be very cool..
Here are some of the suggestions I've had so far:
Architect (crazy amount of schooling involved)
Mechanical Engineer (??)
Teacher (I would be bored way too fast)
Lawyer (I do happen to be good at arguing a point, but there's tons of school, and paperwork involved there too.)Jack Bauer's replacement on 24 (I think this one has the most going for it)
Forensic Scientist (gross I would think)
Flight Attendant (HAHAHAHA!!! actually I just made that one up for a good laugh...for myself.)
Rock Star (errrrr...."it's like this....RAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH.......and then raise your Goblet of Rock")
Film Director (most likely won't happen)
As you see, I'm in the doghouse so to speak.
More suggestions are always welcome.
I almost feel like writing a song about the phone just being there on the counter, not ringing or doing anything interesting...but I'm not going to.
I feel like finally I've caught up on sleep and recovered from snowboarding. It's a good feeling. haha. it's been a couple days of pain from the snowboarding, and a few weeks of sleep depravation, so it really does feel nice to be back to having some enerG. (that was lame, but it was a bit of a joke on the EmergenC that we had in el paso (which was supposed to make you healthy, but I was sick the whole time I was there.).).
Hmm.... I don't particularly know what else to write.
Ah yes, I have to find some kind of career and go to school for it, or else things aren't going to be very cool..
Here are some of the suggestions I've had so far:
Architect (crazy amount of schooling involved)
Mechanical Engineer (??)
Teacher (I would be bored way too fast)
Lawyer (I do happen to be good at arguing a point, but there's tons of school, and paperwork involved there too.)Jack Bauer's replacement on 24 (I think this one has the most going for it)
Forensic Scientist (gross I would think)
Flight Attendant (HAHAHAHA!!! actually I just made that one up for a good laugh...for myself.)
Rock Star (errrrr...."it's like this....RAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH.......and then raise your Goblet of Rock")
Film Director (most likely won't happen)
As you see, I'm in the doghouse so to speak.
More suggestions are always welcome.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
A day in the life of a rhetorical question about whether or not flying squirrels really fly.
In case you were wondering (and if you read it I presume you are) the title has nothing to do with this post. and thank goodness too, because it would take me a year to write something that made sense about that.
Today my father and I went snowboarding/skiing.
I don't ski, he does.
He doesn't fall, I do.
I think I fell about ten times all day ( ok I'm minimizing it a bit-maybe twenty ) which was good for me considering that last time I fell about two hundred times. But he didn't fall once. Crazy.
I took a bunch of jumps and proceeded to have a full serving of snow up my nose, but I landed a few and was so stoked (I'm using snowboarder language because I feel like one right now) that I would fall about a hundred feet from where I landed, get another nose full of snow, then jump up with a rather large smile on my face and want to go back and do it again.
now i'm sore and tired.
and my arms feel really weak and floppy.
I don't know why.
Today my father and I went snowboarding/skiing.
I don't ski, he does.
He doesn't fall, I do.
I think I fell about ten times all day ( ok I'm minimizing it a bit-maybe twenty ) which was good for me considering that last time I fell about two hundred times. But he didn't fall once. Crazy.
I took a bunch of jumps and proceeded to have a full serving of snow up my nose, but I landed a few and was so stoked (I'm using snowboarder language because I feel like one right now) that I would fall about a hundred feet from where I landed, get another nose full of snow, then jump up with a rather large smile on my face and want to go back and do it again.
now i'm sore and tired.
and my arms feel really weak and floppy.
I don't know why.
Monday, March 20, 2006
What happened in old El Dusto.....
Well there were several things that happened.
We went to White Sands and pioneered a new form of having fun there.
We got ID'd almost every place we went.
We slept very little.
We filmed a wedding.
We danced (or try to) to a wide variety of musical styles.
We were almost both recruited to the local worship team.
And...
We got delayed in Dallas twice.
That's the short of it.
Internet is slow right now so I'll give more exact details later tonight or tomorrow.
We went to White Sands and pioneered a new form of having fun there.
We got ID'd almost every place we went.
We slept very little.
We filmed a wedding.
We danced (or try to) to a wide variety of musical styles.
We were almost both recruited to the local worship team.
And...
We got delayed in Dallas twice.
That's the short of it.
Internet is slow right now so I'll give more exact details later tonight or tomorrow.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Off to El Dusto
Won't be posting till Monday because (thankfully) I'll be somewhere warmer than Vancouver.
Au Revior.
Au Revior.
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Irish Folk Songs, Scotish Party Songs, Nandos, Pubs, and messed up films.
hanging out with Steven. I don't know why I always get the jobs that include walking on glass roofs. Not cool at all. But the movie will be.
Bjorn.
Bjorn.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
a new blogging name.
I found an icelandic name for myself.
Bjorn Patsson.
I have no idea what it means though.
It's funny how they do the names in Iceland. Like my last name would be Patsson because I'm Bjorn, Pat's son. then if I had a kid named Eustace, he would be Eustace Bjornsson. Hahahahahaha.
good fu.n.
One other funny thing I found-
sigurour is the most popular name for boys in Iceland, and the second most popular name for girls.
it would be really weird if people named their kids after themselves.
Sigur Sigursson.
Sounds like an Icelandic super hero.
Bjorn Patsson.
I have no idea what it means though.
It's funny how they do the names in Iceland. Like my last name would be Patsson because I'm Bjorn, Pat's son. then if I had a kid named Eustace, he would be Eustace Bjornsson. Hahahahahaha.
good fu.n.
One other funny thing I found-
sigurour is the most popular name for boys in Iceland, and the second most popular name for girls.
it would be really weird if people named their kids after themselves.
Sigur Sigursson.
Sounds like an Icelandic super hero.
Snow.
snow_ is_ cold.
ha.
I just found my old house on Google Earth.
I wonder what my name means in Icelandic.
ha.
I just found my old house on Google Earth.
I wonder what my name means in Icelandic.
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
An obligatory, and long awaited post.
I didn't say that the post was obligatory because I didn't want to post it, but because I really don't have two buckets full of time to spend writing it.
Now with that over...
This is what I've been up to_
I have previously shot down the band "Relient K" as a bunch of hosers imitating their secular soundalikes "Blink 182" but this week I learned their song "Who I Am Hates Who I've Been" and I'm kind of softening my former criticisms. I like the hectic punkish/popish style of guitar playing. fun stuff.
Work. Nothing interesting there.
El paso Next week. Thank goodness a break from this cold and rain. consider the forecast in Vancouver for today and tomorrow: Rain/snow with 70-90 kph winds. not nice weather at all. it makes one want to sleep in front of a fireplace all day. Personally I hope that it's 100 degrees there.
Sam says hi.
Kayla is ill.
Josh is working.
Pam is working.
Als is working.
Dad says he's working but he's probably having a meeting at Starbucks and I have a hard time calling that work. (joke).
Ok.
Should go.
Sam says he's tried really hard, but he can't be patient waiting for me to go play hide and seek with him.
outs/
Now with that over...
This is what I've been up to_
I have previously shot down the band "Relient K" as a bunch of hosers imitating their secular soundalikes "Blink 182" but this week I learned their song "Who I Am Hates Who I've Been" and I'm kind of softening my former criticisms. I like the hectic punkish/popish style of guitar playing. fun stuff.
Work. Nothing interesting there.
El paso Next week. Thank goodness a break from this cold and rain. consider the forecast in Vancouver for today and tomorrow: Rain/snow with 70-90 kph winds. not nice weather at all. it makes one want to sleep in front of a fireplace all day. Personally I hope that it's 100 degrees there.
Sam says hi.
Kayla is ill.
Josh is working.
Pam is working.
Als is working.
Dad says he's working but he's probably having a meeting at Starbucks and I have a hard time calling that work. (joke).
Ok.
Should go.
Sam says he's tried really hard, but he can't be patient waiting for me to go play hide and seek with him.
outs/
Friday, March 03, 2006
a movie night.
Just watched the newest P and P, then Unbreakable. Both really good.
I was sick last night and only got about three hours of sleep before I had to get up at five, so today has been a very long day, and now I need to go sleep.
I was sick last night and only got about three hours of sleep before I had to get up at five, so today has been a very long day, and now I need to go sleep.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
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