On second thought I probably won’t mess with his much at all. I feel like I get better results using twitter. It’s so much easier to keep it fresh and up to date and the character limit reduces just rambling on and on. Also the shorter format is much easier to put fresh interesting information into.
Another attempt June 16, 2009
Ok.I got an app for my phone that might help me actually keep up with this thing. But don’t get your hopes up if I don’t. Writing more than about a tweets worth of text with the phone keyboard can be quite cumbersome.
Week in Review January 11, 2009
Ok, so here’s what has been going on.
Becka and I switched how we do dishes. we wash as we use now. and the kitchen has never looked cleaner.
Things are moving at the speed of business with mychristianvalue.com stuff. I think becka is now averaging 1 client per week. she’s had 2 clients in the past 2 weeks. tomorrow she’s going to do free chair massages at the gym to start her 2009 chair massage tour. Tour dates and booking information can be found at her blog.
I’m going to start compiling a picture book of my friends that I will post in the picture section of this site.
I’m still not sure what I’m doing with myself. and I’m not sure I can afford to not know at this point in time.
Everybody is starting to arrive back in Searcy.
Carlos’ restaurant is back in action with new lower prices.
Windows 7 has been released as a beta. so far it appears to be a slightly improved Vista.
Hopefully I’ll have a longer update soon.
Apple January 7, 2009
Man, talk about a boring keynote. I was reading a liveblog of the keynote this morning with a side benefit of the site I was reading it at was doing a bingo game where they had the rumors on a bingo card and the first person to get a bingo and email which ones along with the timestamp they would order a pizza for over the internet. so it was a possible win-win situation.
The worst Apple keynote I’ve ever seen. not because Jobs wasn’t doing it though. I was reading a liveblog and except for the fact that the guy doing the keynote was somewhat overweight and not the slim guy that Jobs is, it seemed about the same. The problem was that most of what makes apple keynotes and other such events exciting is the unveiling of new products. This year they released an updated version of iLife, iWork, and came out with a 17″ MacBook Pro. that’s about it. none of it was worth putting into a keynote. Maybe they were trying to prove that participating in macworld or whatever it’s called isn’t neccesary anymore. I don’t know, but of course iLife and iWork are going to get updated, they have the year in the title now, there should be a new one every year. And the MBP 17″, they already said that they would be coming out with one. That’s no news except that the battery is built-in.
I give the keynote two thumbs down.
Rumor is that they’re going to do a lot of the hardware stuff in February, but… that was still definitely weak.
Another crazy dream January 6, 2009
ok, So I just woke up to a stupid alarm, and it leaves a real cliffhanger ending to this dream. The beginning is a little fuzzy, and for those of you that give me a hard time about this, becka, it’s just a dream, don’t give me a hard time about it.
So To set the scene for you I have this girlfriend but she’s stuck in a relationship with some sort of drug dealer guy. So I walk into their house and in one of the side rooms I hear voices, so I walk over there and David is confronting this guy. the guy is pointing a gun at David, and David is pointing a gun at him, so I step into the room a little and point my gun at him. Then he and David shout back and forth a little and I shoot him right in the forehead. David congratulates me on such a great shot, and the three of us have a fun day together. The next day, the same thing happens, somehow the drug dealer guy is back. It might have happened several times, but it happened at least twice. I walk into the house, David and the guy are shouting with guns pointed at each other, I walk in aim my gun slowly and then shoot him right in the middle of the forehead.
So I go ask my girlfriend if she’s ok, and I tell her that we have to get her out of there… but she’s afraid to leave and then she brings up that we’ll all get busted for murder. I look in the other room and the body of the guy is lying naked in one of the corners. I ask her where the other body is and she points to a blanket that is tied up into a giant bag. So then we think about it a little and I tell them that we can clean off my gun, put it with the guy and then move away. She’s afraid of that option but I tell her she doesn’t have much of a choice, because we can’t keep killing him everyday. So we go to the underground coffee and discuss our options Some woman there offers to help but we’re not ready to do anything yet, so I tell her that we aren’t doing anything yet. or something like that(I’m not too sure how she got introduced, later she will be the woman with the dog). So, I suggest that we could even take the furniture, and swap it out with some furniture from the underground and then when the cops show up it will look even shadier and have less of our DNA lying around. Somehow the girlfriend person is gone so David and I or maybe just me, run back to the house after we/I get there nobody is there. Then The drug dealer guy busts through the door with the girl under his arm. She is distraught and he seems drunk or wasted or whatever. So I run back to the bedroom and there are two people in the bed and they scream when I walk in. THe drug dealer guy hears the scream and hurries back to the bedroom. the two people in the bed are scared stiff and say, “there’s no way, we just took all your money off of your dead body.” he then runs into the other room and sees his own dead bodies. he then rushes into the room and starts mauling the two people there, me and the girl run away. after we get out for some reason we split up and I have no idea where she goes. but then since this is a dream all of the sudden I see the woman with the dog and her dog runs towards a miniature bureau and an arm starts coming out sending the dog yelping away. The Mini Bureau shimmys to the middle of the room as the arm tries to get out. The woman walk in and somehow she knows that it’s the drug dealer guy with supernatural powers coming through a mirror in the miniature bureau. She tries to get out but he uses his supernatural powers to close and lock the doors. Somehow I am in the room and I tell her to run towards the back. She breaks out a window and then I tell her that I will lower her down. I look out the window and for some reason there’s a Utility Van parked on the side of the building about 15 feet down with a couple making out in the front seat. so I lower her down but she keeps screaming that she’s going to get cut when the window breaks. She’s about 3 feet away from the van so I drop her because I can’t reach any further. her leg goes through the window, she gets cut on the glass, and then my alarm goes off.
That is all
News Flash! January 5, 2009
ok, so there’s not much news to speak of. this is when it gets difficult for me to keep up with this blog. I guess I haven’t mentioned that yesterday was Becka’s birthday. I didn’t get her anything really neat, but what I got her is very useful. I got her some
pots and pans
and a coffee maker.
I also got her a holster for a wii remote that should help out with wii fit, because you’re constantly putting the remote down. and last but not least
I cut off my ever so popular side braids. Will they ever come back? you may ask. possibly. not for a while, but don’t be surprised if people all over start sporting the side braids. It’s the bleeding edge of fashion, and let it be known after the jedis, I was a forerunner.
So, I did some researching into going to school in Germany. and it’s starting to look like a really good option. I can think of a few possible snags, and we’d have to save up some money, but overall it looks like a really good deal. Until a couple years ago all University in Germany was free, all you paid for was books and apparently student health care. as of 2007 the government removed the law banning universities from charging but since it’s been that way for so long apparently the public is very resistant. it’s still ridiculously cheap though. on of the schools I was looking at costs 500 Euros per semester plus 42 euro fee for some sort of organization that builds things and 50 Euros for something else. all in all it ends up costing around 1500 dollars per YEAR. considering I’ve been paying around 16,000 per year, that’s pretty good. the trick is having enough saved up so that all living expenses are covered as well. If we would be able to get working visas we might not need to save up as much. But, one of the big pluses is that the school I’m looking at is pretty well rated internationally. It has the 40th best Engineering program or something like that, which, world-wide, is pretty good.
Anyway, on more important matters I finally started questing in outland. once the next patch comes out you’re supposed to be able to create a deathknight on any realm as long as you meet the requirements on one. So, once the patch comes out I’m going to make a character on the realm Becky and toby play on. The secret plan should also be starting any day now.
Dave let me borrow a program he has, it’s called Crossover. Basically it’s a program that lets you run windows programs within Mac OS X without running windows. So far I’ve tried one game, but it hasn’t been working much with that one because it has issues with certain games that require a disk check.
anyway, that’s all for now.
how bizarre, how bizarre January 3, 2009
EDIT: Feel free to skip past that huge chunk of text if you’re not interested in the crazy dream.
So, I just woke up and let me tell you, I had a crazy dream. It was one of those dreams that takes place in a modified version of a real life place. So what happened was this:
I was at Camp Hunt and all was going well. there was a kid playing on a balcony that overlooked the old well(both of which don’t really exist). so then everybody went to sleep that night and returned the next morning for breakfast. Once everybody arrives we discover that the kid is gone(the kid is a real kid too. one from the free climb at the rock gym on wednesday nights). Everybody starts looking all over for him. after hours and hours of searching everyone starts fearing the worst. we search under all the porches, behind all sorts of boxes, and nobody could find him. at this point for some reason I rode my motorcycle somewhere, or I was moving it for some reason but then decided to run an errand, and I was nervous the whole time because since I was just moving it I didn’t have a helmet with me, so I was riding without a helmet. then I pulled into this parking lot and there was a girl running and I stop her and find out that its Emily. so she tells me something(I don’t remember what but when I was trying to remember what she told me this is what I came up with) about what I needed to do to find the kid. so I rode off and as I rode off I had one of those really slow scenes where there are a lot of details but not much actually happening. there was a creek bed to the right a church building to the left, a narrow path that curved from the front of the church building to the left then crossed the creek over a bridge about 40 – 60 feet down. there were kids playing on either said building sand castles and what-not, and I’m on the motorcycle going pretty slow, and as I get to the first curve a branch gets in the way right at eye level. I start to swerve a little bit and I think that I’m going to fall into the creek bed, but I recover and then proceed to the next curve with caution then I getback on the main road and time ceases to go slowly. at some point this scene repeats itself except I don’t talk to Emily and I’m cautious about the curve with the branch. So I get back to camp and a bunch of time passes and it is now the third day after the kid disappeared. everyone has pretty much accepted that he’s probably dead. so I finally decide that nobody is going to check in the nasty water at the bottom of the old well, which isn’t really an old well… there’s a deep circular section of water that splits off in two directions at a 90 degree angle. one direction it gradually gets shallower and shallower until it is just land. the other section goes down towards the foundation of the building and I think somehow down at the bottome was some alternate reality dream version of the rock gym before it was built or something. so I jump off the balcony into the water… or maybe I fell, because then I realize I have goggles on and figure I might as well look for the kid while I was in there. I’m in the deeper section branching off of the middle circle and I swim towards the circular part (oh yeah, and the reason nobody wanted to check in the water is because in this dream world at the camp they took all the rats and other animals that got into the buildings and disposed of the bodies in this well) so I get to the middle and there are all sorts of little twigs. but then I realize, those aren’t twigs, it’s a huge pile of rat bones. I dig through it slightly, but then realize there’s no way he got under the rat bones by a significant amount so I keep searching. then I find him. I pull the body on to the shallower water and remove my goggles that had fogged up and realize, it’s not him at all. I found some other kid. and it was one of thosse kids that is always really annoying and only a mother could love. so I pass his body up to the balcony and everyone is relieved that it’s not the other kid, but they’re also more worried now. so I jump back into the water and look around some more until I get to where the foundation of the building is. then I get out and try to look into the crawl space under the building(which has about 20 feet of clearance so, not really a crawl space.) nobody had checked in the crawl space because it’s almost impossible to get to without going through the water so they figured there was no way he could have gotten in there. so I go in and it’s completely empty except for a neatly stacked pile of plastic crates. I remove one of them and it reveals the kid. he’s just sitting there perfectly fine. so I knock several of the crates away and I’m borderline outraged and start to yell at him, but then stop myself. so I escort him back up to the balcony and his dad tells me something about how he should have figured, something to do with a guidance counselor. so then Andy is driving up to one of the cabins so I hitch a ride with him so that I can go shower off all the death water on me. on the way I ride in the bed of his truck with Drew and drew keeps saying something funny the whole way there.
The End
In other news, Becka and I are back from my parents’ house. Which by the way, they aren’t living out at the farm yet, the house is almost done, they’ll probably be living out there within a month. but last night we played some special rules cranium and scotland yard. In Scotland Yard Mr. X never lasted more than 5 turns I think either 5 or 6. In Cranium we played couples, but we played so that first you went around the fast track with normal questions, then you did a second lap with questions from the family edition. the family edition questions are generally a lot easier but there are some really fun new types of activities. so, becka and I dominated while on the fast track, but then once we were on the easy stuff everyone passed us and we ended up in last place. After that game it was about 2 o’clock and we decided to go ahead and drive back to searcy through the night. So we left a little after 2 and made record time and got back at about 5:30. Then we both crashed(in bed) by 6:00. and for some reason I woke up at about noon.
So as most of my loyal readers know, I’m not a huge fan of New Years resolutions. In general, I feel that if you want to do something, do it. otherwise, don’t. But, this year I’m making one to try to keep in touch with my friends that aren’t around here anymore better. It’s no secret that most of my friends that I haven’t seen for a month fall prey to the classic out of sight out of mind. some more than others, it really depends. Anyway, this all came about when I had a rather lengthy discussion via facebook with my friend Isabel from High School. She was one of two foreign exchange students that were at my high school I think during my junior year. anyway, I became really good friends with both, my senior year when I went to switzerland I even made a trip up to mannheim, Germany and we all met up. Of course it was awkward because we watched a movie, American Beauty, which is already an awkward movie but more so when you’re a horny teenager spending the night in a foreign country at the house of an attractive friend who happens to be female with another attractive female friend also spending the night. It was just a weird experience overall. although we did go bar-hopping earlier that night, that was a blast. it wasn’t really barhopping, but we did go to 2 or 3 places. it was also a little weird because I never actually hung out with the two of them outside of school… anyway this is one huge tangent. SOOOOOO, we had a long talk and concluded that we should really keep up more.
She also suggested that I look into going to school in germany, which I’m going to do some research on. In germany higher education is free/really cheap, like 500 euros/semester something like that. She said she thought that that might also apply to foreigners, if it does that would be great because while it would be more expensive to live there, it would not put us in huge amounts of debt. so, I’m going to investigate that.
well, there is more, but this post is already too long to read. so, until next time, Be Smooth!
About to set a record January 2, 2009
This should just about set a blogging record for me, I’m sure. 2 posts, within 1 week.
So Becka and I drove up to Missouri, and I’m here right now. We drove up last night to celebrate the new year with my family. so we played a few board games instead of the usual toasting.
Then today for lunch we went over to my Grandparents’ house to have a traditional New Year’s lunch. The traditional lunch consists of… well really just about anything, but the tradition is that you have to eat black eyed peas(the food not the music group) in order to have a prosperous new year. This year my Grandma added some bonus tradition and apparently you have to eat some cabbage as well. so, we all ate that, so, theoretically Becka and I should have a very prosperous year. Especially since my dad bequeathed several pearls of wisdom upon us in one of his classic lectures. We helped my Parents put some primer on their new house at the farm. Tomorrow we’ll probably do that a little bit more and play a few more games.
So, I’ve gotten pretty good at Tap Defense on the iPhone. I’ve beat it a few times on “Silver Spoon” mode and once on normal. Becka and I will probably head back to Searcy late tomorrow night or early the next morning. Once we’re back I’m planning on helping the rock gym gear up for a new semester.
That is all.
Hello world! December 30, 2008
Hello, Welcome to my blog. rather than bother anyone with introductions I’ll just kick things right off.
So I started playing WoW again and its kind of comical because I don’t know how to do anything anymore. So I have a fairly high level character but am running around like a crazy. and I had a ton of cash but I spent it all on junk. luckily I’ve almost earned back all of my gold already. I have a secret pact with Ben Waldrop, Bobby Crowell, Jonathan Dean, and David Condolora that we will all play together as a team. so far I haven’t seen anyone, rumor has it it is because everyone is out of town. although Dave started being kinda sketchy about playing last time I talked to him. We’ll see.
In other news, I have another secret plan. that Involves Landry, me, maybe becka, and maybe BJ. I think I’m going to recreate a stop animation video of my life in the form of legos. it will either be stop animation or maybe more like The Brick Testament. I was inspired to do so when over thanksgiving break at Ben’s Birthday we played with several different sets of Legos.
In the future I will probably post stuff about the Rock Gym as well, but I don’t feel like it right now. So, For now, that is all.
Catch you on the Flip-Flop.
