Tuesday, January 31, 2006

My Tarot Card






You Are Death

You symbolize the end, which can be frightening.
But you also symbolize the immortality of the soul.
You represent transformation, rebirth of a new life.
Sweeping away the past is part of this card, as painful as it may be.

Your fortune:

Don't worry, this card does not predict death itself.
Instead it foreshadows the ending of an era of your life, one that is hard to let go of.
But with the future great new things will come, and it's time to embrace them.
Mourn for a while, but then face the future with humility and courage.

Tune of the day 1/31 @ 3pm

I happened to catch the tune at 3pm. It was the theme to Cheers, AGAIN!

I really hate to say it, but I don't think these things are worth blogging about anymore. I'm finding it disturbing that any of us would be willing to waste our time to listen to, let alone blog about, such terrible music.

Time to find another topic to blog about.

Monday, January 30, 2006

The Plan of the Master Weaver

The Plan of the Master Weaver
==============================
Our lives are but fine weavings
That God and we prepare,
Each life becomes a fabric
plannedAnd fashioned in His care.
We may not always see just how
The weavings intertwine,
But we must trust the Master's hand
And follow His design,
For He can view the pattern
Upon the upper side,
While we must look from underneath
And trust in Him to guide......
Sometimes a strand of sorrow
Is added to His plan,
And though it's difficult for us,
We still must understand
That it's He who fills the shuttle,
It's He who knows what's best,
So we must weave in patience
And leave to Him the rest.....
Not till the loom is silent
And the shuttles cease to fly
Shall God unroll the canvas
And explain the reason why--
The dark threads are as needed
In the Weaver's skillful hand
As the threads of gold and silver
In the pattern He has planned.

Tune of the Day 1/30/06 @ 3pm

Today's selection was just played at 3 pm. And the winner is:

"Somewhere Out There" - Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram

http://www.ladyjayes.com/somewhereoutthere.html

Tune of the day for Sunday 1/29

Didn't have a chance to blog it before now, but if anyone is interested, Sunday's tune was

Come to my window by Melissa Etheridge

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/melissa-etheridge/91637.html

Sunday, January 29, 2006

April & I have a new Nephew !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


April's brother and his wife have a new baby boy; Meaning April and I have a new nephew.

Dakota was born Saturday evening @ 9:32 pm. We weren't there when he was born, but I'm told he came out screaming. He was upset when April and I got over there, so I can attest to the fact that the kid's got a good set of lungs. He weighed in at around 7.5 lbs. As you can see, he's cute.

Dakota is the first son born to Mike & Angie. Mike has 3 daughters, so this little guy's got some fightin to do. I'm sure that he will be spoiled rotten, simply because he's the only boy.I should know, I was the only boy born in my family in 45 years, and look how I've turned out.

That's my excitement for the weekend. It's 2:00 am, and I'm dead tired. Time for sleep.

Saturday, January 28, 2006

Name that Tune - Saturday 1/28 @ 11:00 am

Today's tune was One Moment in Time.


The Penguin's taking over, and the first change: GET RID OF THE "BELL" TOWER!

Friday, January 27, 2006

Soggy Lunches

Ok, go a ahead and start laughing now. I guarantee, you will be laughing your ass off in a minute.
So I get out of class around 12:00 pm; it's lunch time and I'm rather hungry. I decide to go to the dining hall (or choke and puke should I say) to find a bite to eat. I get my food and find a table off by itself, take a seat, and begin eating my lunch. I don't mind sitting alone during lunch; most of the time I am trying to gather my thoughts, and really don't want to be bothered anyway. I was sitting there eating, thinking, and minding my own damn business. Guess that's where things started going wrong.

A short while later, this girl I know comes over and sits down across from me. Now I wouldn't say that we're friends; I know her from a class. Big fricken deal! Anyway, a few minutes after she sat down, she started moving things around on her tray. The tray was way too small for all the stuff she had on it. In the corner of her tray, were two full glasses of orange punch. I saw it coming, and I'm sure you all know where this is going. The glasses were hit in all the shuffling and both of those fuckin glasses of punch came flying in my direction.

int main(void)
{
int count;

for(count=1; count<=500; count++)
printf("SON OF A BITCH!");
return 0;

}


Yep, that's right...Mike got a bath in orange punch. That shit soaked the whole front of my clothes. I was so upset I couldn't see straight. Damn it, I had meetings to go to right after lunch. Well, thanks to that dumb assed, athletic, business major, I had to cancel those meetings.

Yes, I am making the assumption that she is a dumb ass because she is both an athlete and a business major. Most of the athletes here are business majors, and the school doesn't give a shit how good they are academically, as long as they can play and bring in money for the school. If the college put as much interest into academic success as they do athletic success, we might have better prepared graduates. Fat fuckin chance that will ever happen. Napolean is too much of a money hungry, business criminal asshole.

So yeah, it was a Soggy Lunch, and I'm still pretty steamed about it.

Name That Tune - Friday 1/27 @ 2:00 PM

Today's sappy tune selection had it's popularity sky-rocketed after the death of Princess Diana. Can you guess which tune that was?


Well......If you haven't guessed it, the song of the hour was Candle in the Wind by Elton John.

Thursday, January 26, 2006

I've got a soul

You Are a Visionary Soul

You are a curious person, always in a state of awareness.
Connected to all things spiritual, you are very connected to your soul.
You are wise and bright: able to reason and be reasonable.
Occasionally, you get quite depressed and have dark feelings.

You have great vision and can be very insightful.
In fact, you are often profound in a way that surprises yourself.
Visionary souls like you can be the best type of friend.
You are intuitive, understanding, sympathetic, and a good healer.

Souls you are most compatible with: Old Soul and Peacemaker Soul

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Full of hot air

via Natty

You Are Wind

Strong and overpowering
A force to be reckoned with, no one dares cross you
You have the power to change everything around you

You are best known for: your wrath

Your dominant state: commanding

Positively Negative

Well another Wednesday is nearly over, meaning the week is half a little more than half over. I have managed to rebound, at least some what, from the hellish day I had on Monday. I managed to write 2 papers for my internship class, and have started another paper for my senior project class. Classes have only been in session for a week, and I already have writing assignments running out my ears.

If this is any indication of what I have to look forward to the rest of this semester, I can expect the migraines to stick around for a while. Damn, my head hurts! Yeah, I know, I started the post positive, and now I'm bitching about the way I feel. If you suffered from the chronic migraines that I do, you'd be bitchin too.

int main(void)
{
int count;

for (count = 1; count<=500; count++)
printf("I'll bitch just as much as I want!");
return 0;

}

Monday, January 23, 2006

I hate Mondays

I really hate Mondays. This has been a day from hell. I woke up late this morning, was late to my first class, and was slapped with an unexpected quiz. AAARRGGGGGGHHHHH!
I have a bunch of stuff to get done in the next few days. Chapters to read for 2 classes, a fiction book to read for a report, and proposal writing for my intership and senior project classes. Yes, the semester has just started, and I'm already getting loaded down with bullshit. I was doing good last week and over the weekend, and thought things were going to be pretty easy going. Bullshit. I must have been dreaming or something. Like I will ever have an easy going semester. I was talking to my friend Natty the other day, and was telling her how well things seemed to be going, etc... and she made the statement that it wouldn't last long; that things would be back to normal soon enough. She jinxed me. Damn it!

Then again, it is Monday, and Mondays alway suck. Perhaps I'll get some stuff done this afternoon, and when I wake up in the morning, things will go a lot better. Hold my breath? I think not!

"Quando Amni Flunkus Moratati. When all else fails, play dead!" - Red Green

Sunday, January 22, 2006

Life Path

via Natty's blog

Your Life Path Number is 8


Your purpose in life is to help others succeed

You are both a natural leader and a natural success. You are also a great judge of character.
You have a head for business and finance. You know how to make money.
A great visionary, you can see gold where other people see nothing.

In love, you are very generous - with gifts, time, and guidance. [Definitely]

You love to inspire people, but it can be frustrating when they don't understand your vision.

Great success comes easily for you. But so does great failure, as you are very reckless. [not true]

You are confident, and sometimes this confidence borders on arrogance. [not really]

Senioritis

Well it's official, I have a diagnosis for my problems. It's called SENIORITIS. It's a very contagious disease that spread rapidly through students once they reach the last year of school. I remember reading something about it some where when I was in highschool. Dispite all that was going on during that last year of highschool, with my project and my uncle dying, I never once had the symptoms of this SENIORITIS. Symptoms include chronic headache, mental and physical fatigue, lack of motivation, extreme irritability, and the classic "I don't give a fuck about this place or these people" attitude.

If you're a college senior like myself, and you are suffering from any of the symptoms above, chances are you have a bad case of SENIORITIS!

Saturday, January 21, 2006

Exposure

So I'm in the process of reading a book titled Exposure. It's a fiction book by R. J. Pineiro. Now why in the world am I reading a book? Well, I'm in the unenviable position of having to write a book report. The book must be a fiction book, and has to have a technology woven into the plot, theme, etc... In all honesty, I'm not thrilled with being forced to read a book in less than 2 weeks, and having to write a report about it. Surprisingly, I have found this book to be a real page turner. I thought it was going to be a boring book, that I would lose my interest quickly, since I don't really have the patience to sit and read a long novel. However, when the first line of the review on file at the public library reads..."forget erasing a computer hard drive; the computer bug this guy creates caused a nuclear meltdown that killed more than 15,000 people" you know it has to be somewhat interesting.

I started reading the book last night, and amazingly read through the first 80 pages. In the prologue, Pineiro writes of a nuclear meltdown at the power plant in Palo Verde, Arizona. From there, the story moves to the Nuclear Engineering Department at LSU. A senior professor of nuclear engineering and an associate professor are performing their own investigation into the Palo Verde disaster. The two professors develop an algorithm for a automated control system, and test it on computer systems with different processors. When they test the algorithm on a Perseus processor from computer giant Microtel, they discover serious bugs. This discovery leads them to believe there may be a connection between the flaws in the perseus system and the nuclear disaster at Palo Verde. This is where the plot begins to thicken. Shortly after the senior professor confronts the CEO of Microtel about the flaws, the professor mysteriously dies in the middle of an exclusive restaurant on the LSU campus. It turns out the Microtel CEO had him killed. And the associate professor is next to be dealt with. Microtel is essentially covering up the mistakes, and preventing the flaws from being made public knowledge. By the way, the CEO is running for President of the USA; damn good reason to want to keep the connection between Palo Verde and Microtel a secret.

Anyway, that's all I have on that. More later.

Friday, January 20, 2006

Stupid College Students

This is exactly what I was talking about when I posted my idea of writing a book on the lack of readiness among college student. Read the report on CNN.

Thursday, January 19, 2006

Damn, do I gotta?

Damn it, do I really have to do another large web project? Seems as though I'm going to have to do a big Senior Project this semester in order to graduate. While I have a project in mind, that seems like it won't be exceedingly difficult, I just finished a large project, and I'm really not ready to start another. And of course I'm prepared to hear that all too familiar line "welcome to the real world." A big ol' screw you to those who are thinking that line as you read this.

For those interested, here's a link to the textbook project that I recently finished.

http://people.indianatech.edu/Linda_Hite/final/index.html
(Intended to be viewed at 1024 x 768)

So yeah, I'm going to be doing another large web site project for another professor as my senior project. I'm basically going to be rebuilding an existing site, and implementing new technology and information. Fun stuff. Not! More on this later...............

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Headaches are here again!

Classes resumed today after a month long Christmas break. I have to say that I'm having mixed feelings about starting this semester. There are many factors contributing to my feelings. First, this is my last semester of college, so I am really excited at the prospect of having completed my degree. On the other side of that, I am nervous about what awaits once I have finished the semester. Those factors are enough to mix anyones feelings.

Another thing weighing heavily on me is the fact that next week will mark the 1 year anniversary of the day I broke my leg. That accident happened January 24, which falls on tuesday this year. When I fell last year, the 24th was on Monday. Since I fell on the Monday after classes resumed, this coming Monday will be a year to the day that I got hurt. I know my explanation isn't as clear as it could be, which clearly indicates that when I say the headaches are here again, I'm really serious. I have a migraine from hell.

Well, the first day of classes wasn't too bad over all. Despite the fresh snow that fell last night, I was able to get to and from classes safely. I'm very thankful that my classes don't start any earlier than 9:00 am this semester. At least it won't be dark when I have to brave the cold and snow. I'm thankful that my schedule is as wide open as it is too. I have a lot of open time between classes and work to be able to get my work done in a timely manner. I'm praying that all will go well, and that I will finish up with some peace of mind. Last semester was quite rough, and I would really like to end my college career on a high note.

Another long day await tomorrow. I have classes in the morning, and will be returning to work in the library late tomorrow afternoon. I will be working Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Hence why I said another long day. Not sure how I'm gonna like that work schedule. I will certainly make adjustments if needed. We'll see what happens.

Well, it's about bed time here in the bear cave. I'm gonna finish watching the Red Green show on PBS, and then settle into hibernation for about 8 hours. Happy Snoozing.

The Snooze Button

The Snooze Button
==================
 
What if life had a snooze button?
 
It does.
 
It is labeled procrastination.
 
A snooze button simply allows you to stay where you are a little
while longer instead of getting up and going.
 
That's exactly what procrastination is.
 
There is a funny thing about sleeping after you hit the snooze
button on an alarm clock; it seems like that sleep is more
precious. Not only is it more precious, it seems like time
speeds up approximately three fold. Fifteen minutes becomes
five minutes, ten minutes seem like three minutes.
 
Why do we hit the snooze button?
 
Because we can.
 
Imagine if you hit the lotto and you have to be there by 8 A.M.
to pickup your check or it is forfeited; the alarm goes off and
you look at the clock and it is 7 A.M. No matter how sleepy you
are, do you think you would even consider hitting the snooze
button?
 
Some people are just not good in math in school, but it seems
like those same people become math geniuses when it comes to
calculating the absolute latest time they can get up, get ready
and make it to work or school, even with a foggy waking brain.
 
In life the snooze button is not usually in minutes.
 
We may know we need to go back to school and hit snooze for two
years later.
 
We may know we need to start exercising;
we hit snooze for next year.
 
We may know we want to travel and see some place in the world;
we hit snooze for five years later.
 
We may know we have an idea for a business; we hit snooze for
ten years later.
 
The other thing about the snooze button is that you can hit it
more than once to get a longer delay of getting moving.
 
Have you ever hit the snooze button while still sleep and didn't
remember hitting it?
 
Have you ever meant to do something in your life and didn't
realize it had been so long since you were supposed to get
started on it?
 
The two hardest things about doing something is getting started
and getting finished.
 
Beeeeeeeeeeeeep.
 
This is your wakeup call.
 
Get your finger off of that button.

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Computer Prayer

Our Morning Prayer . . .

Our Hard Drive

Which art internal

Volume C by name;

Thy code be clean,

Thy fonts be seen

On screen as they are on paper.

Give us this day our documents,

And lead us not into fragmentation

But deliver us our data.

For thine is the SCSI,

And the EISA, and the NuBus,

Forever and Ever,

Amen.

Redneck Computer Terms

Backup - What you do when you sight a skunk in the woods.

Bar code - Them's the fight'n rules down da local tavern.

Bug - The reason you is a giv'n for calling in sick.

Byte - What yer pit bull dun to cusin Jethro.

Cache - Needed when you go to da store.

Chip - Yer cusin's uncle's mother's boyfriend's name.

Terminal - Time to call da undertaker.

Crash - When you go to Junior's party uninvited.

Digital - The art of counting on your fingers.

Diskette - A female Disco dancer.

Hacker - Uncle Leroy after thirty years of smoking.

Hardcopy - Picture looked at when selecting tattoos.

Internet - Where cafeteria workers put their hair.

Keyboard - Where you hang the keys to the John Deere.

Mac - Big Bob's favorite fast food.

Megahertz - How your head feels after seventeen beers.

Modem - What ya did when the grass and weeds got too tall.

Mouse pad - Where Mickey and Minnie live.

Network - Scoop'n up a big fish before it breaks the line.

Online - Where to stay when taking the sobriety test.

Rom - Where the pope lives.Screen - Helps keep the skeeters off the porch.

Serial port - A red wine you drink with breakfast.

Superconductor - Amtrak's Employee of the year.

Scsi - What you call your week-old underwear.

The End of Nothing

Well, the inevitable end of the month long Christmas break has come. Classes resume tomorrow, bringing an end to my "Do Nothing" marathon. This has been the best break that I have had in a long time, simply because I vowed to do as little as possible during the break, and have stuck to that vow. With classes and the mountain of work that awaits, it is safe to say that I have come to the "End of Nothing."

Saturday, January 14, 2006

Microsoft Programmer


A woman had been married three times and was still a virgin. Somebody asked her how that could be possible.

"Well," she said. "The first time I married an octogenarian and he died before we could consummate the marriage."

"The second time I married a naval officer and war broke out on our wedding day."

"The third time I married a Microsoft Windows programmer and he just sat on the edge of the bed and kept telling me how good it was going to be."

Things You Don't Want to Hear from Tech Support

Things You Don't Want To Hear From Technical Support
"Do you have a sledgehammer or a brick handy?"
* "That's right, not even McGyver could fix it."
* "So -- what are you wearing?"
* "Duuuuuude! Bummer!"
* "Looks like you're gonna need some new dilithium crystals, Cap'n."
* "Press 1 for Support. Press 2 if you're with 60 Minutes. Press 3 if you're with the FTC."
* "We can fix this, but you're gonna need a butter knife, a roll of duct tape, and a car battery."
* "In layman's terms, we call that the Hindenburg Effect."
* "Hold on a second... Mom! Timmy's hitting me!"
* "Okay, turn to page 523 in your copy of Dianetics."
* "Please hold for Mr. Gates' attorney."

Ah, Flush It!

So I called April last night to invite her out for breakfast this morning. She accepted, but informed me that she had to help her dad install a new toilet today. I offered to go over to their house after breakfast, and help with the shitty task of installing the toilet. I was given to understand that she only wanted to work on it with her dad, so she would have to drop me off at the dorm after breakfast. Needless to say, I have been offended by this, because she might as well have told me she didn't want me around. I just want to be able to spend time with her, and help her where I can. I want to feel like I belong, and that I'm wanted in her family. At this point, I'm really not feeling the love. Ah, Flush It!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday, January 13, 2006

It's Friday the 13th.....

This site offers some insights on the mumbo jumbo over Friday the 13th.

http://www.rosslyntemplars.org.uk/friday,_13th.htm

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

So, You Think You're Ready?

Upon graduating from high school, those perparing to go off to college tend to have in mind that they are ready for college. The cling to the notion that if they could make it through the trial and tribulation of high school, they can surely survive the hell, fire, and brimstone of college.

Based on the experiences I have had in college, it has become abundantly clear that a fair percentage of the students are not ready for college at all. Many lack the maturity and mental apptitude to make it in college, let alone make it in the post-graduate world.

As I dwell upon these thoughts, may questions come to mind. Naturally, the first question is: what makes me any different that those who aren't cutting it? What do I have that other students don't? Why am I driven to succeed as I am, and they aren't? Why do others lack the motivation that I have?

Next, Why do so many students waste money to come to college, when all they do is play games in their rooms day in and day out? Why are some college students so immature? Why are some of them so inconsiderate?

Those questions lead me to more questions. like... Do these students have a good support system at home? I mean do their parents/families give a damn about them? Do the parents/families encourage their kids to do the best that they can? or do they just write the check to pay the bills, and turn a blind eye to everything else? Is there family involvement at all?

These are just some of the things that I am thinking about right now. These topics and more are going to be the premise for my book. I thought over the last post that I wrote when I wasn't sure about what to write, and decided to write about how well prepared (or not) today's students are for college. Basing all of this on observations that I have made during the last three and a half years.

I would greatly appreciate the input of others on this. I would like to know if anyone else has noticed this "lack of readiness" among college students. Feel free to comment, telling me what you have noticed, and what you think can be attributed it.

Monday, January 09, 2006

I'm really quite a "character"

I was looking through a cartooning book, and found a character that could fits me quite well. So, of course I just had to draw it and put it on the blog.

Blue collar quote

"If life gives your lemons, you should make lemonade; and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party." - Ron White

Sunday, January 08, 2006

Not sure...

I'm not really sure what to make of the feelings I am having, but lately I've been feeling drawn to write a book. What type of book? Well, I'm not sure about that either. During the week or so that I spent at April's, I felt drawn to write a book about my life. This weekend, ideas about a book on college life have been on my mind. I'm just not sure which way to go with it. In some ways, I would really like to write a book on college life. I mean with the experiences that I've had, I could surely offer some insights on the subject. I know that countless books have been written on this subject, but there must be some aspects of college life that aren't really dealt with adequately. And I know that none of the books give as straight-forward of a opinion as I would. So, I would like to pose a question to the few readers that I have:

If you were to read a book on college life, what issues would you really want to read about?

Think about it, and post you thoughts as comments. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

Choice or Chance

Choice or Chance
================

When we meet the right person to love, when we're at the right
place at the right time, that's chance.

When you meet someone you're attracted to, that's not a choice.
That's chance.

Being caught up in a moment (and there are a lot of couples who
get together because of this) is not a choice.
That's also a chance.

The difference is what happens afterwards.
When will you take that infatuation, that crush, that mind-
blowing attraction to the next level?
That's when all sanity goes back, you sit down and contemplate
whether you want to make this into a concrete relationship or
just a fling.

If you decide to love a person, even with his or her faults, that's not
a chance. That's choice.

When you choose to be with a person, no matter what,
that's choice.

Even if you know there are many people out there who are more
attractive, smarter, and richer than your mate, and yet, you
decide to love your mate just the same, that's choice.

Infatuation, crushes, and attraction come to us by chance.
But true love that lasts is truly a choice.
A choice that we make.

Regarding soul mates, there's a beautiful movie quote that I
believe is so true about this: "Fate brings you together,
but it's still up to you to make it happen."

I believe that soul mates do exist, that there is truly
someone made for you. But it's still up to you to make the
choice if you're going to do something about it or not.

We may meet our soul mates by chance, but loving and staying with
our soul mate is still a choice we have to make.

We came to the world not to find someone perfect to love,
BUT to learn how to love an imperfect person perfectly.

~Author Unknown~

Friday, January 06, 2006

Thursday, January 05, 2006

The Techie Within

The text of the poem follows:

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^"`$$-
!*=@$_
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&[]../
{,,SYSTEM HALTED

The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, to wit:

Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH.

Are you kathlick?

Are you kathlick?

Three little boys were concerned because they couldn’t get anyone to play with them.  They decided it was because they had not been baptized and didn’t go to Sunday school.  So they went to the nearest church.  Only the janitor was there.

One little boy said, “we need to be baptized because no one will come out and play with us.  Will you baptize us?”

“Sure,” said the janitor.  He took them into the bathroom and dunked their heads in the toilet bowl, one at a time.

Then he said, “now go out and play.”  When they got outside, dripping wet, one of them asked, “what religion do you think we are?”

The oldest one said, “we’re not kathlick, because they pour the water on you.”

“We’re not Baptis, because they dunk all of you in the water.”

“We’re not Methdiss, because they just sprinkle you.”

The littlest one said, “didn’t you smell that water?”

“Yeah! What do you think that means?”

“I think it means we’re Pisscopalians.”

WAIT UPON GOD

WAIT UPON GOD

He [Daniel] prayed three times a day,
just as he had always done,
giving thanks to his God.
DANIEL 6:10

The more I think of and pray about the religious situation
in our country, the deeper my conviction becomes that Christians
do not realize that the aim of conversion is to bring into daily
fellowship with the Father in heaven.

For the believer, taking time each day with God's Word and in
prayer is indispensable. Each day we need to wait upon God for His
presence and His love to be revealed.

It is not enough at conversion to accept forgiveness of sins or
even to surrender to God. That is only a beginning. We must
understand that we have no power on our own to maintain our spiritual
life. We need to receive daily new grace from heaven through fellowship
with the Lord Jesus. This cannot be obtained by a hasty prayer or a
superficial reading of a few verses from God's Word. We must take time
to come into God's presence, to feel our weakness and our need, and to
Wait on God through His Holy Spirit to renew our fellowship with Him.
Then we may expect to be kept by the power of Christ throughout the day.

It is my aim to help Christians to see the absolute necessity of
spending time with the Lord Jesus. Without this, the joy and power
of God's Holy Spirit in daily life cannot be experienced.

Lord God, as I begin this New Year teach me to know you in deeper
prayer fellowship.  You have many things to reveal to me.  In Jesus'
name I ask you to make me a good learner. Amen.

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

HighTech Psalm

High-Tech Psalm
 
The Lord is my programmer. I shall not crash.
He installed his software on the hard disk of my heart;
All of His commands are user-friendly;
His directory guides me to the right choices for His name's sake.
Even though I scroll through the problems of life,
I will fear no bugs, for He is my backup;
His password protects me;
He prepares a menu before me in the presence of my enemies;
His help is only a stroke away.
Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life,
And my file will be merged with His and saved forever.

Canned Chicken NO More!


I am officially boycotting all Hormel canned chicken products. I purchased some canned chicken last week, and after eating the chicken salad made with it, I got food poisoning. Anyone who has ever had food poisoning know the hell that I have been through the last four days.

So for that reason, I will never buy canned chicken again, and advise anyone reading this to avoid buying it too.

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Happy New Year......

or NOT...


Well, the New Year has not started off very well for me. What could possibly be wrong so soon? Well, I'm fighting with FOOD POISONING! I evidently ate some canned chicken that was bad on Friday or Saturday, and have been sick as hell since then. I've had it come out both ends....at the same time. I hurt so badly its not funny. Thankfully, I am the only person that ate it and got sick from it. A lot easier to care for one sick person than a whole house full.

Speaking of houses, I have been at April's house since Christmas Eve. Christmas wasn't too bad, I guess. I got some nice stuff. My Aunt & Uncle sent me a nice sweatshirt and a shopping card to Walmart, and my mom and grandmothers all sent me money. From April and her parents, I got a hotshot, which is used for heating and dispensing water. I got some socks, and the new Bad News Bears DVD. I also got another present, which is kinda still in the works, but will be really cool when it is done. April decided that I should have a robe to wear in the dorm to keep me warm, but hasn't been able to find one that would fit me properly. So, she is making one for me. She's got a decent start on it, and it shouldn't be too long before I have my robe. Looking forward to it.

Well, I decided this morning that I would come back to my place this evening. April and I went to the store earlier in the day to get food and supplies that I needed. I haven't yet finished putting all of my stuff away, but I'll get to it when I feel like it. What's the rush, not like I'm going anywhere soon. :-)

Well, I guess I should end here for now. My messengers are online for anyone wishing to chat. Ciao!