Caleb's Blog

Merry Christmas

2009-12-21T20:59:00.000-08:00

Greetings.
I do realize that it's been some time. I apologize for the irregularity in my posting, but I have again been somewhat busy in my studies. Now it's Christmas time again! Consequently, I felt the necessity for a holiday update on my life.
Short version: It's been fine.
Alternate version: School's been good. I've really been enjoying Greek and Biblical Interpretation. My other classes have been fine if not amazing. Next semester I'm required to start my internship. I'm not exactly sure where I'm doing that yet. I'm contemplating (due to the recommendation of some of those over me) either Palm Avenue Baptist Church (which I've been to once) or The Well (which I've never been to.) I'd appreciate your prayers regarding both the reduction of my anxiety and for clarification regarding God's will.
In other news, I'm very happy to be home. Zachary, Brenda, Emily, and Nanny are all here and Katie Ellyn and Justin will be here soonish. We've been having a good time just hanging out thus far. Zachary and I have been playing around with Linux lately (I'm actually working on this post in Mint Linux) and we've also been working on the Jeep's brakes. Good times.
Ted Dekker update: Amazingly enough, I didn't win the contest. Even so, I did my part and I have you, my faithful readers, to thank for it. Just to alert you, The Gathering (think the Star Trek Convention for Ted Dekker fans) is on April 20somethingth. It is this year to be only $25 and in both Chicago and Dallas. Those who go will get to listen to Dekker speak to his fans about his books and will receive a free copy of his new book The Bride Collector. It would be fun.
Uncle Randy, we watched Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy last night. I'm pretty sure that I was the only one who actually would say that I enjoyed it. It's possible Lauri enjoyed it, but Dad, Zachary, and poor Nanny are all convinced that it was the dumbest movie they've ever seen. I'll agree with them that it was incredibly stupid, but it was strangely entertaining. I'm still interesting in the book.
Substantially switching topics: 'tis only four more days until Christmas. Here's one of my new favorite songs.

I've been thinking about our (corporate) tendency to sing through songs and not think about the words. For me, this temptation is even stronger with Christmas songs. We know the tunes so well (we've been singing these very songs nearly all of our lives) and miss the intensity of the messages of the songs. If you feel like it, read through select lines to these songs without singing the tunes in your heads.

Joy to the world, the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And heaven and nature sing.
Joy to the world, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy.
He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love.

Yea, Lord, we greet thee,
Born this happy morning;
Jesus, to thee be glory given;
Word of the Father,
Now in flesh appearing.

Good Christian men, rejoice,
With heart and soul and voice!
Now ye need not fear the grave:
Jesus Christ was born to save;
Calls you one and calls you all,
To win His everlasting hall.
Christ was born to save.

Silent night, holy night
Son of God, love's pure light
Radiant beams from Thy holy face
With the dawn of redeeming grace
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth.
Merry Christmas.

The Adventures of LoLo*

2009-09-08T19:49:00.000-07:00

*(Also known as, "The Beginning of my Second Year of School.")

It appears that I am now back at school. If you've talked to me about this year of school and believe you know all that I'm about to say, you're misinformed. Most of everything I've told you is incorrect. I am not rooming with one of my fellow classmates from last year. I am not in a studio apartment with just one other guy.

All of my thoughts were incorrect and not due to anything the school did or did not do. I simply didn't pay attention to the email confirmation that I received that told me that I would be in Lancer Arms instead of University Place. Anyway, I am in Lancer Arms 232 with four other guys: Ryan (a Christian Studies major), Randy (Ryan's brother and an English major), Matt (a volleyball player/business major), and Tim (a German exchange student who's not here yet.) I'm sharing a room with Matt and Tim and I'm hoping to take a video of the place when my roommates are gone. I'll then attempt to put it on my blog for anyone who cares.

Classes start on Thursday and until then I suppose I'll listen to my new David Crowder cds, visit with my sister who returns tomorrow from her new student retreat, and read The Hobbit.

In Ted Dekker news, I did get Green and have already read it and the Circle Series. I won't give any reviews here since some of you are unaware of the story, but I will tell you that if you go here then you can download a free copy of Black in e-book format. If that doesn't suit your fancy, you can also get the audiobook free from iTunes. Either way, I would highly recommend downloading the e-book and putting 7445 in the blank. It doesn't count as a recruit, but I do get 100 points a pop.

I would say that I'll be posting again soon, but I'm not sure when you'll hear from me next, either way: Elyon's Strength.

Hijau

2009-08-14T09:25:00.000-07:00

Greetings recruits. Per the suggestion of one of your peers, I present to you my report as one from the upper echelons of the Forest Guard:

Name: calebawalker

Rank: Captain

Recruits: 40

Green Advertisements Distributed: 10

Family Members Who Are Reading or Have Read the Circle Trilogy: 7

Total Points: 5425

Comments: Technically I only have 38 recruits because one of my eager though less than brilliant participants chose to register thrice under very similar names. You'd think that if you're going to cheat, you might as well do it well. Whatever.

You may be asking, what can I do with this information? Well, the way I figure it, if every one of you that has already signed up gets one other person to read Green, I can have eighty (or seventy-eight) recruits. For those of you with blogs, get some non-family members who read your blogs to sign up! Those of you with friends, tell them to sign up! Those of you with jobs, tell all of your co-workers to sign up! Just imagine what we can do together!

In other news, I'm sorry that Uncle Randy's comic may soon be finished. I suppose you could start a COVwiki and have folks edit the different articles thereby providing you with new plot ideas. Either that or you could feign divine intervention forcing you to cease production of the strip. OR you could make a comic about reading Green. I'm not really sure what the punch line could be, but maybe you could make some strange sort of flashback cartoon in which the protagonists reminisce about the good old time when they first read the Circle trilogy. How you would manage that having not read the books yourself might be slightly more difficult, but I have faith in you.

I'm glad to be up here in Redding again with B, E, J, K, and Z. Lauri and I will just be hanging out for a weekend before we go to school. Emily's still the sweetest little girl ever in case y'all were starting to wonder.

Speaking of school, mine starts on the tenth of September. Should be more fun than a barrel of coasters. I am looking forward to the course material, but not to the returning of the campus. The sacrifices one must make...

By the way, the title of this blog post, as you might have guessed, is Green. Without cheating, can you guess which language it's in?

Verde

2009-07-29T15:08:00.000-07:00

Well, here I am yet again. As you'll likely note, I've changed my background image. If I were more html savvy (or hteemulsavy) then I would make the image actually look nice, but alas. I cannot.

To begin, I'd like to thank all of you who are now recruits. There is a great likelihood that you do not yet know how excited you truly are. Am I right? Well, I have got some good news for you! There is a website at which you can all find out more about the book that you have so excitedly signed up to (read). It is http://teddekker.com/green/. Though y'all probably already think I'm slightly nuts regarding these books, I figured that I'd seal my fate with my next statement. When you go on the website, don't watch the opening video until you've read Black,

Red,

and White.

As you're all shaking your heads at my stupidity, read on. As I've told all of you whom I've talked to personally about the books, I can't reveal anything about the plots. To do so would be to spoil them slightly. This video on the website says some stuff about the first three that would rob you of some of the enjoyment (at least in my opinion.) However, you still ought to go on the website, if only for a couple of minutes, to look around and find out a little more about the books.

Regarding Forest Guard activity, I found out that they will no longer accept the reports of people saying that they've email friends about the books. Every time a member of the Forest Guard (a lieutenant in my case :) ) tells someone else about the books, they receive points toward the ultimate goal of a lunch with Ted Dekker and a sword inspired by the books (does this sound more and more like something I would like or what?). Anyway, that requires a cussload of recruits that I'm not even planning on aspiring for. However, to become a captain (my ultimate goal if you'll remember) you need 2000 points. Every time someone visits the website, I get 50 points! While I'm not really sure how they can verify this (or any of the other activities) for that matter, they're still accepting them.

All this to say, if you're bored to tears or you're really excited about Green, meander on over to http://www.teddekker.com/green/ and leave a comment saying you've done so. I trust you to tell the truth.

By the way, for those of you who've not yet signed up, (Granddad, Lindsay, and Justin Ward), you still can! Just go on over to www.teddekker.com/readgreen and my number is 7449.

Elyon's strength.

Green

2009-07-20T17:21:00.000-07:00

Well, it's been a while. I went to Zachary and Brenda's house and had a blast. I do not have any pictures since they are on the cameras of both Dad and Brenda. I had fun. You can think in your mind how amazing such photos would be. Brenda's blog is the best site to see for yourselves.

I must admit, this blog post has been spawned more than slightly from ulterior motives. As many of you know, I have recently been raving about some new books that I have read and have already convinced more than one of you to read said books. They make the Twilight series pale in comparison. (Okay, so I've never read those books, but I have no doubt that this is true.) The greatest books I've ever read are written by Ted Dekker and entitled Black, Red,and White. They are part of the Circle Series: currently a Christian fiction/thriller trilogy that everyone would benefit by reading. I own all but five books written by Dekker and have liked all that I've read thus far (I haven't read all of his books but I own all but five.) The reason for today's post is to advertise for his newest book: Green.

I've been checking the Ted Dekker website much recently and finally, today, they've released information on The Forest Guard. Pretty much it is a campaign to get people acquainted with the Circle series. All the people that sign up are exhorted to let all the people they know about the books and encourage them to read them and to sign up on this website for updates and discounts on Dekker's books.

While I would encourage this anyway even if I weren't a part of the forest guard, you know have an extra incentive: if six people sign up for being a "recruit," then I am assured that my name will be written under the "lieutenant" section in the next Ted Dekker book.

Just think about it, my name could be in a Ted Dekker book! My name! In a Ted Dekker book! That would be, quite simply, one of the greatest things ever.

All that you, my faithful readers, would have to do is sign up for a few emails and say that your friend, number 7449, told you about this. Just think! Less than five minutes and you could be on your way to making Caleb Walker one of the happiest boys in Nevada!

So again, I would highly encourage all of you to read the Circle series and to go to http://teddekker.com/readgreen/, type in your name and email address, say that number 7449 told you about this, and get on your way to becoming as much of a Ted Dekker fanatic about this as I.

Update!!!

I just found out that if you get fifteen recruits, you can get your name printed in the "Captain" section of a Dekker book and get an advanced copy of his next book. Huzzah!

Dark Fours Rinsing

2009-06-17T11:26:00.000-07:00

That's the second book in Timothy Zahn's trilogy.

I bet y'all thought that I'd forgotten about you concerning our fun trips. I realize that it's been a while since our vacation, but I might as well post the pictures that I was planning. The delay has been caused by our Village Missions conference and my presence here at Zachary and Brenda's house. Hopefully I'll be able to post some pictures of this fun soonish, but until then, without further ado, the unveiling of our Seaworld pictures.

I'm a big fan of the Orcas. They are much more majestic than their cousins: regulation orcs.

I was pretty sure, beforehand, that whaling was illegal in most states these days, but I certainly enjoyed my portion.

There's a likelihood that I was a bigger fan of the Belugas than of anything else. For whatever reason, the all-white whales (or the all-black Pilot Whales which I have no pictures of) just greatly entertain me. Perchance my monochromatic preferences reflect my worldview?

Here's a good pic of Emily and her Grandma looking at said whales.

The shadowing in this pictures is a little bit of a bummer, but it's a nice one of both Emily and the polar bear.

And here's a great one of Emily, her parents, and her favorite animals in Seaworld, the Commerson's Dolphins.

Ere to the Imp's Ire

2009-06-02T14:27:00.000-07:00

I didn't really have a good title to my post, so I decided to massacre the title of one of my favorite Star Wars books.

As you may have noticed, it has been more than a month since my last post. I had some intentions of updating my blog shortly after I returned from school, but I have not gotten around to it until today. The last month of school did indeed go well. I gave all my reports and took all my tests. I got pretty good grades on the stuff that I did and now I am glad that I have to do no more of said assignments until the end of August.

This past month I have been reading and playing video games. Pretty good summer so far. I know, in your mind you are saying, "What, this bum hasn't yet gotten a job?" To that I say, "I'm too pretty to work!" Well, actually, as y'all might have noticed, the job market is not extremely good right now. There is very little work in Pahrump, and even were a position to open up, it's tough because I know that there are a number of guys and gals in the church who need jobs to support families. If anything opens up, I'll probably let you know, but until then, it's helping out in the new building at the church and reading books.

The other thing we did this past month has already been revealed to you through both Brenda and Pop's blog. I thought that I'd just give you all the pictures that I'd like you to see in one post, but there are quite a few of them. Therefore, here's the first half of the festivity pictures.

I know this technically doesn't present any of the festivities, but both this picture and the next shows the old and new orders of the Expanded Universe canon, respectively. I thought you might like to see them.

This is a pretty good picture of Emily (and of her parents, I suppose.)

To begin with, Emily and I were playing on Mom and Dad's bed after church. She was telling me to "sleep good" (which she does with some regularity. Maybe she doesn't like to hang out with me whilst I'm awake?) Though I'm not completely certain about the order, eventually Emily invited all of us to come "sleep good" at the same time.

I do realize that, to place Legoland pictures here would be to present our vacation out of chronological order, but, since there are fewer of these than there are ones from Seaworld, I'm going to do it anyway.

I own the movie that that poster is advertising through legos. The only thing not made of legos in this picture is the stroller. Legoland is pretty amazing.

I was going to go on this roller coaster. All day long I was saying how much I'd like to ride it, but someone had to stay with Emily and keep Mom company. Who was in a better position?

It would seem that Zachary would be a little quicker to help while his daughter is being eaten by a shark. Strange.

This last picture is mostly entertaining. There's one thing I would fix, but it would seem unwise to crop so much of the picture. There is a picture with all of us looking at the camera and smiling, but you didn't come to my blog for good pictures, did you? That's what Brenda and Dad are for.

By the way, I just figure I'd remind you, Uncle Randy, that folks still read your blog. We just don't really know what to say most of the time.

Feliz Bueno Viernes

2009-04-10T16:38:00.000-07:00

It appears that it has been nearly three months since I've last updated. I'll blame..... Yeah, I've got no one. It would be amazing if I had a really cool excuse. Perhaps I've been on a wilderness trek across the dangerous Ugandan outback. Maybe I've been learning to yodel. Alas, I have done nothing more entertaining than simply my schoolwork. It seems that I do a cussload of

that these days. In fact, if I were extremely studious, I'd be working on it right now instead of sitting at home three-quarters through with a good Good Friday.As far as school stuff goes, it seems like I've been writing a ton of papers recently. I've written one about the Roman backgrounds for the concept of adoption found in Paul's writing. I learned quite a bit even though I didn't do quite as well on that one as I would have hoped. I'm still working on my final English paper concerning the emerging/Emergent church. I think I've learned even more about that than I have about Roman adoption. It's been a tricky paper to try to condense into the required length, but I think it's going pretty well. The other part of that ton is just a bunch of smaller papers.

I have fewer than three weeks of classes left until I have completed my first year of college. That seems extremely strange to me since I'm pretty sure that I'm only about four weeks into this semester. It's gone by very quickly for whatever reason. I guess that's good but I'm anxious about these next few weeks with all of the stuff that's due.

When I came home for spring break (which was enjoyable by the way) we got a catalog from Frost Cutlery. A few weeks previously I had been visiting with one of my friends over at school and telling him about my knives. He expressed interest in purchasing some so Pop and I decided that we would order some more too. Now I already had a few of these. The main additions are the two 'knives' on my side and the one over my wallet.

It was a pretty happy day. I reckon that I'll let Dad post some pictures of his knives on his own blog, but I was certain that y'all would need to see these ones.

I apologize that I don't update as regularly as I should, but the good news is that I'll have monumentally fewer excuses in less than a month.

I love y'all and I'll look forward to seeing many of you in five weeks for Lauri's Graduation.

For Sunday's reference: He is Risen!

Mineral Water

2009-01-12T19:37:00.000-08:00

What sort of minerals actually make water taste better? Actamite? Atheneite? Diamond? Jerrygibbsite? I think that I'd like my water fortified with diamond. Maybe it would taste more expensive.

Well, I'm back at school after a fun break at home with the family, both nuclear and atomic, and have already had my first quiz, first chapel, first virus, first chapter themes assigned, first fever, and first papers that I'm supposed to write. It hasn't been too bad, all things considered. Dad was going to be at home alone on Friday evening so I went home to hang out with him. Then on Saturday I had a 101.5 degree fever and laid around all day. Good times.
School isn't going too bad I guess. I'm taking tennis this semester. It's been good (aside from the fact that I stink) except that I had to go buy some of those dumb tennis pants. I thought about buying some bright orange ones and letting them double for church slacks, but then I settled on the navy blue ones.
Right now Modeste is taking a nap which strikes me as somewhat odd. I guess the brilliant logic of sleeping in the day so you have more time to do stuff at night that categorizes almost everyone here is beyond my simple understanding. It seems to me that he could have waited a few hours and then gone to bed for real and not had to worry about napping, but what do I know.
I've decided to put some Christmas holiday pictures that may not have made it up on anyone else's blog but needed to be shown. There are a few that I really would have liked to put on here, but for the sake of those in said photographs, I refrained. I hope that you enjoy these ones.

Happy New Year!

2009-01-01T17:43:00.000-08:00

I still don't have Christmas pictures on my lappy yet, so you can go see Brenda's blog for images of the festivities.
We did have a great time hanging out with everyone. The Christmas Eve services were nice. The second much nicer than the first since there were only a quarter as many people. The family went to the first service, but there was no room for them in the inn. There was a nice stable though. Maybe not. However, we did have so many people that we put chairs on the stage so that there would be extra places to sit. Good stuff.
Last night, the Wilsons and the Suttons came over to play games and help us usher in the new year. We played Wildfire (an entertaining domino game that they had recently discovered) and Minnesota Farkle (which is actually not a drinking game, contrary to previous supposition.) It was fun hanging out and freaking out the dog with poppers.
It's still nice to be off of school. I've had a good time visiting, playing video games, reading (I've read roughly three books so far), and not having to worry about homeworky stuff.
For your viewing pleasure, here's a picture of a past old year.

Numbers 22

2008-12-22T10:16:00.000-08:00

Balak summons Balaam and Balaam's donkey and the angel.
Only three more days 'til Christmas! We've got all of the family here except for Katie Ellyn, but she'll be here on Thursday. I'll have some pictures on the next post.
I'm going to be here at home until the sixth of January so that should be cool. It's very nice to not have to worry about any reading for Pentateuch. I did pretty well in my classes. I have all of my grades except for Jesus and the Gospels. I hope that I did well in both Jesus and the Gospels.
I'll try to update before the beginning of the new year.
Merry Christmas!

Three Things

2008-12-07T22:15:00.001-08:00

Not ships, not kings, but things.
1. A very happy birthday to my favorite little sister. Contrary to popular belief due to frightening lack of activity from her blog, she still lives and turns seventeen the Eighth of December. Also congratulations on your new acquisition Lauri.

2. The obligatory statement from good old left field. When I was commenting on Uncle Randy's blog, the word verification word was bacta. Pretty crazy considering that bacta is a real thing. Most should know what it is. At least, I hope at least one of you knows what it is. I suppose there's an extremely small possibility that Uncle Randy knows what it is. The only other who would have a shot would be Lauri. Oh well.

3. I had this idea (be it good or not) on Friday but I decided to wait until Monday would be the first time anyone saw it. Monday is always such a fun day and these days it might be even, dare I say it, funer as a result of the anxiety due to the proximity to Christmas.
I don't really know about y'all, but I get to singing Christmas songs either in Glad style or humming/whistling/doot-dooing in the style of Manheim Steamroller and sometimes miss the words. This struck me as I was thinking about Good Christian Men Rejoice the other day. I can sing maybe the first stanza and trudge my way through the rest, but it's a good reminder in these hectic (at least for me) days before finals and all of the busyness of the Christmas season to remember that we have the most cause for joy of anyone.
Good Christian Men, Rejoice!
With heart and soul and voice!
Heed thee, heed to what we say,
Jesus Christ is born today!
Men and beast before Him bow,
And He is in the manger now,
Christ is born today!
Christ, deity incarnate, the Savior of all men who will reconcile a sinful world to Himself, is born today!
Merry Christmas!

It's beginning to look a lot like...

2008-12-02T21:24:00.000-08:00

Finals time mainly. Well, that's not entirely true. It's also beginning to look a lot like Christmas. We went to see the family in Phoenix for Thanksgiving. I did not take any pictures down there and it appears that our venerable photographer seems to be somewhat slothful of late. I assumed that there would be pictures by now but to no avail.
Anyway, we had fun down there with pool, turkeys, music, dinosaurs, and the like. I guess some of us had fun with football, but I was not among that particular group. I wish that we could have gone to Zoo Lights, but we went back to the house and set up our Christmas decorations instead. There should be some pictures of our house and its decor soon on another blog, i.e. one that has access to the home computer's iPhoto. All in all it was a very fun Thanksgiving break even though it seemed extremely short.
On Sunday I came back and started studying again. I found out that my Pentateuch and Former Prophets professor lied to us. For most it would be an excusable lie since he advertised the test to be more difficult than it actually was, but that doesn't excuse the fact that he lied. I asked him if we would get the previous quiz back before we took this quiz yesterday so that I could see which questions I got wrong and fix them. He told me that I didn't need it back since there would be no repeat questions like there normally are. The quiz yesterday was composed of roughly 90% repeat questions and only a few new questions. I don't really like being lied to. At all. Ever.
On a more positive note, I have decorated the ole dormitorio around these parts.

Ah, 'tis the season to string up half-broken strands of lights.
Happy December the Tooth!

2008-11-10T20:56:00.000-08:00

"There is tremendous relief in knowing that his love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench his determination to bless me... There is... great incentive to worship and love God in the thought that, for some unfathomable reason, he wants me as his friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given his Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose."

Knowing God J.I. Packer

Master Chief, Toblerone, and Mossflower

2008-11-09T14:49:00.001-08:00

A.S. (Ante-Script)
I tried again to fix the pictures. Still no luck on this end. Apparently some of y'all can't see that the pictures are encroaching on the text area. They are on my end and I guess I'll just have to lump it. Sorry.

The title of this post comes from the three things that caught my eye when I looked around the room. I decided that I really like Toblerone. I think that I like it because of its entertainment value. The little chunks in it are fun to eat.
Anyway, it was time for another post. I've been home since I went camping. This last weekend we went shooting with Mr. and Mrs. Duits and that was quite a bit of fun. No camera though, sorry.
I have not gotten back my paper for Jesus and the Gospels which somewhat stinks since the conclusion is due next Monday. Oh well.
Yesterday Mom and Lauri came down since Dad was in Oregon for his business meetings. We had a fun day shopping down in Corona. It was indeed pretty hot. We ate at Chik-fil-a and had Jamba Juice. Good stuff. I bought Master Chief.

Sorry about the picture. I'm too lazy to take a picture with the real camera so I took it with my phone. My NEW phone. I almost forgot to tell you, my faithful readers. My old phone was a piece of junk. My new phone is not. It was a new phone, but it was a not a new model. I'm pretty sure that it was the first razr model. It's pretty nice though. I like it.

Sorry about the disjointed state of my post. I'd like to say that this doesn't reflect the thought processes of my mind, but I'm afraid that that may be deceitful.
Until some time that is hopefully relatively soon,
Koo-loozi

Highway Along the Coast

2008-10-19T20:27:00.000-07:00

School has been happening lately. Somewhat of a bummer. Right now, I guess I maybe should be writing a paper for my Jesus and the Gospels class, but it's not due until next week and I worked on it earlier. I just wasn't feeling it.
Since my 100th post, I've had a few weekends and much reading. Last weekend, I went home and we went camping! Camping in and of itself is fun, (Zachary), but last weekend was even better because it started snowing on us!!!!
Here's a picture:

PSYCHE!!!
Mwa ha ha. Actually, I don't have any pictures from our campout. Y'all are going to have to get Lauri to post on her blog so that we can see some pictures. That would be good.
I also went to Olive Garden and then saw Max Payne. Only, instead of Olive Garden, we went to In-'n'-Out and instead of going to see the movie I went to the college group at the Harvest church with a couple of my other homelies. That was pretty good I suppose. I wasn't that big of a fan of the music though.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull came out on dvd. I bought it, but I've not watched it yet since I'm waiting until I go home and we can all watch it. That will probably be not this next weekend but the weekend after that. I'll try to post again before then.

Flashback

2008-10-01T15:37:00.000-07:00

I considered, on this memorial occasion, going back to some of my previous posts and remembering the fond times I had therein. I decided that that would be too much work.
Maybe I should explain what I'm talking about. Eleven hundred twenty days ago, my blog was born. That in and of itself is not important. The important thing is, MY BLOG IS 100!!! Huzzah!
I had always figured on doing this for my blog, and I finally get the opportunity to. Hold on to your seats, your in for an exciting ride. Please keep your arms and legs inside the vehicle at all times.
Before I start, however, I'd like to say two things:
1) Sorry for saying that no one else reads my blog Lindsay.
2) I've put pictures at different places throughout my list just to make things a little more exciting.

100 Things about Me:

Since it has been quite a while since Katie Ellyn did her 100 things about me and I don’t really even know if she exists anymore, I figured that I could copy some of her ideas/theories concerning this thing. So here goes:
1. My name is Caleb Aaron which means “Bold and Intrepid”
2. I’m 18
3. I am around 5’8”
4. I love the Lord and desire to please Him with my life
5. I love my family very much
6. I’m not a huge fan of running
7.I can’t touch my toes very well
8. I love the Star Wars saga
9. I own three copies a piece of Episodes IV, V, and VI
10. My favorite book of the Bible is Phillippians
I love reading Star Wars books
I own 105 Star Wars novels and have read 102 of them
My favorite author is Timothy Zahn

I have a book signed by my favorite author
15. I like to read Clive Cussler novels
I greatly enjoy the Indiana Jones movies and I liked the fourth one even though it was a little lame
I was born in Alamosa, Colorado
I have lived in four states: Colorado, South Dakota, California, and Nevada
I like geocaching and have found around three-hundred and fifty of them
20. I love to eat Spam
I love baked potatoes and steak as long as I have bacon bits for my potato
I like to play video games and my favorites are Knights of the Old Republic 1&2 (and maybe The Force Unleashed now)
I own five video game systems: a Wii, an Xbox, a Gamecube, a Playstation, and a Nintendo 64
I own four handheld game systems: a Nintendo DS, a Gameboy Sp, a Gameboy Color, and a Gameboy pocket
25. I don’t mind shopping at Wal-Mart and I love having all my products made in China
I have been home-schooled since the fifth grade
I’m attending CBU to become a pastor with Village Missions
I own a MacBook Pro
I have a Walther P22
30. I have a blog
I collect shot glasses
I have been to the Alamo (I even remember my time there)
I own and am wearing an atomic watch
I wear size 10.5 shoes
35. I love to drink Dr. Pepper
I like Dutch Brothers more than Starbucks
I like to watch Monk

I recently had many cavities so now I brush with Crest Pro-Health toothpaste
I like to read the video game manual before I play the game
40. My favorite Jamba Juice is an extra thick Berry Lime Sublime
I like camping even when everyone else is freaking out
I own more blue shirts than I do any other color
I hate the concept of horror movies
I don’t like to be scared, (or scarred for that matter)
45. I like to eat at Taco Bell
I’ve never tried the Fruitista Freeze
I collect smashed pennies
I hate the stench of Old Navy
I love to go to bookstores
50. I love even more to go to used bookstores
My favorite candy flavor is probably Blue Raspberry or Razzberry
I love the Clone Wars cartoons and I liked the movie even though it was a little lame, as you all know
I currently have 94 Star Wars action figures displayed in my room at home
I prefer the mountains to the ocean
55. I love aspen trees
I collect playing cards
I have numerous pocket knives
I like Macs much more than I do PCs
I wear my watch on my right arm even though I’m right-handed
60. My favorite lightsaber color is orange
My favorite regular color is green
My roommate is from Rwanda

I think MySpace is evil
My preferred Bible translation is NIV though I recently got an ESV that is pretty cool
65. I own four toys that are each made of 100% recycled awesome
My favorite coffee flavoring is Irish Creme
I use powdered laundry detergent when I wash clothes
If I were an X-Man I would be Nightcrawler
I like frosted Pop-Tarts much more than the nasty unfrosted ones
70. I prefer brown bread over white and whole wheat
I like to listen to Glad
I prefer milk chocolate over white and especially over dark
I like chocolate the best when it has almonds in it
I drink 1% milk but not because I think I’m fat, ‘cause I’m not, I guess I could be drinking whole if I wanted to
75. I hate driving but not as much as I used to
I hate wearing flip-flops even though I have to here in the dorms so that I don’t have to walk on the nasty carpet. They’re so loud and obnoxious.
I haven’t mastered the art of stealth yet
I don’t really like it when people brag about the percentage of a certain race that they are unless they really are full-blooded. Don’t they realize that if they truly are half German or whatever, one of their parents must be full-blooded? It’s irritating
80. I don’t like it when people slack off in their typing just because it isn’t school work
I love Homestarrunner.com
I’m not a hand-raiser in church
I like schedules
My favorite ride at Disneyland is Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye
85. I have a niece named Emily who is the cutest little girl ever
I prefer Florida style Sunny Delight over any other orange juice
My cell phone is really beat up even though I don’t really think that I’m all that harsh to it
I hate to watch sad movies and if the movie has a sad ending that I know about, I refuse to watch it
My friend broke my first pocket knife trying to dig bb’s out of a wooden fence
90. I am subscribed and receive the Star Wars Insider every two months
I hate roller-coasters
I dislike crowds
I like popcorn shrimp
I love jumping off moderately high rocks into ice cold water
95. I’m very much against text messaging
I like Ask-a-Ninja
I like my cup to be full of ice when I take a drink
I like to play ping-pong
I don’t like to wear dark shirts because I think they make me look depressed. Maybe I am depressed, but I rarely want to look it.
100. I wish I were a Mandalorian (and I don’t mean a “Back to the Future” car)

If that's not 100, I'm sorry. I have a few more. I made this list in Word and then it wouldn't transfer the numbers. I tried to put in values in fives, but I don't even know if that worked. Oh well. You're just glad that that is over with.
Finally, here is the first picture that was on my blog and its modern-day counterpart:

Concerning Hobbits?

2008-09-23T16:07:00.000-07:00

I didn't really know what to title this post. Oh well.
Not a ton has happened since my last post in the school department. I've read my Bible quite a bit, I've written some papers, I took a few quizzes, and did some more reading. I haven't gotten any of my grades from my quizzes back yet, but I'm hoping to know how I did tomorrow.
I went home for the Fortieth Anniversary of Pahrump Community Church last weekend. We had a fun time even though Dad and Mom weren't at home very much. When I say we, I mean that, (as you know from Brenda's blog,) Zachary, Brenda, and Emily swung by to see us on their trip back home. I don't really even know who I'm writing this for, since the only person who might not know what's been going on would be Uncle Randy. I suppose you'd better be taking notes then? Hmm. I got to see Granddad and Grandmom since they came up for the celebration as well. We had a good time.
Another highlight of this past weekend is the fact that I got The Force Unleashed for my Wii! It is all that you ever dreamed it would be and more. Don't take my word for it, go and buy it for yourself! All you need is a Wii, a PS2, a PS3, a PSP, an Xbox 360, a Ds, or an iPhone and you can play it! I guess it didn't get as good of a rating as many thought that it would, but, from the three levels that I played before I had to return to college, thought that it was great. Yes, I had a picture, but it stopped displaying. Sorry.

It was good to see all of you this last weekend, not discounting in any way Dad, Mom, and Lauri, and I'll see you next post.

Another week o' School

2008-09-12T17:50:00.000-07:00

Yes, I had another week of school. It went pretty well all things considered. I had a few quizzes. The one that I took in Pentateuch and Former Prophets I did very poorly on. I think that there were only a few guys who did well on it. Most were in the same boat that I was. Oh well. I haven't done my homework for today yet. Why, you ask?
BECAUSE I WENT TO SEE CLONE WARS!!!!!!!!
Yes, it was everything you ever thought it would be. By that I mean somewhat lame, cheesy, and strange. But it was Star Wars!!! After Episode II, anything could have been good. I enjoyed it. I don't really know if I would recommend it to anyone while it is still in theaters, but I thought that it was pretty good.
Rick Warren came to chapel on Wednesday to speak. There's this thing called "Live with Purpose, 40 Day Journey" that he urged us to do. It's some sort of devotional/Bible study/outreach thing. I signed up.
I don't really know what I'm going to do this evening. I might go do something, but then again I might do something else. You just never know.
Here's a picture from my phone because I'm too lazy to take a real picture.

Classes and Home

2008-09-08T19:00:00.000-07:00

Hello again. I just finished supper at the Alumni Dining Commons and have come back to my room to hang out. I finished classes before lunch and this afternoon I mostly just sat around homeworking. I went to Wal-Mart and that was loads of fun. The moral of that story is: I hate driving in big cities. I think that my time here will make me all the more thankful when I'm a Village Missionary somewhere rural.
My classes are pretty good so far. I have Jesus and the Gospels; English: Composition; and Pentateuch and Former Prophets on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. I don't really like English simply because it's all about writing papers but I like the teacher. I don't mind Jesus and the Gospels but the teacher isn't really my favorite. I like both the class and the teacher of Pentateuch and Former Prophets even though it's going to be dang hard because of all the reading and the memorization.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I have Introduction to Ministry and Info Systems Essentials. Introduction to ministry is taught by Dr. Dunavant who is the head of the BAT program so that's pretty cool. Info Systems Essentials is taught by a sixty-one year old tall, lanky black guy. He's pretty funny and I think that that course will be profitable.

I did go home this weekend. Whoever says that you won't really miss your family is a liar. I'm glad that I got to do that and spend some time with Katie Ellyn as well. (Hint, hint. Update your blog Katie.) I got some clothes washed and got some stuff to make my room a little more my own.

Here are a few pictures just to spice up the blog a little:
My room upgraded

My hall

September the Tooth

2008-09-02T08:38:00.000-07:00

I attended the Clash-n-Bowl last night. It was really loud and really crowded. It also had erratically flashing lights all over the place. But did I let that stop me from having the time of my life??!?!? Yep, 'fraid so.
Today we have more schooly stuff that we're to attend. There are some little hour long lectures and we get to choose two of them to attend. Those are at 10:00. Then there's some other stuff this afternoon. No more "FUN" with our FyOCUS group, but there is a scavenger hunt this evening. That should be interesting.
As he was sitting on his bed, Modesete spied my picture on my blog and asked me about it. I showed him photo booth and, after I asked him, he agreed to have his picture up on my blog so that y'all could see what he looked like. Here it is:

That's Modesete in the middle and his friend Desire. (There is an accent mark on the second "e" in his name but I don't know how to do that on blogger. You say it Dez Rey.)
Oh, and I'm the one on the left.
Here is a picture of the baseball game I went to the other night.

Addendum

2008-08-30T14:27:00.000-07:00

Note:
The author of this blog wishes to apologize to his readers concerning any discomfort they might have experienced including but not limited to speling, punctuation; and grammar syntax. Again, so sorry.

Today I did some "Reaching Out to Riverside" by picking up some trash up the street. It was okay I suppose. Tonight there is an Angels baseball game that all of the college freshmen are suppose to attend. The Angels are playing the Rangers. So, since I have more connections to Texas than I do to baseball or Anaheim, I'll probably cheer quietly for the Rangers. Apparently we're going to wear our Orientation t-shirts, do some special chant-type thing , and be on television. Should be loud... I mean fun.

Here's a little bit wider shot of the room for Zachary.

Sorry, there's just not quite enough room to take a really good picture.

FyOCUS and Other Such Things

2008-08-29T15:54:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone.
I'm sitting in my dorm room with the fan blowing on me since it is very humid, hot, and sticky outside. This afternoon around lunch time I got back from the New Student Orientation camp thing. It was cooler up there and the speakers were good. I didn't care for the music though. It was insanely loud and it made my stomach hurt to listen to it. I've been here since Tuesday and the FyOCUS stands for First (year) Orientation for Christian University Success. I suppose that it's a pretty good acronym except for the "year." It's actually a pretty good idea I guess. It's somewhat like an inoculation where you get exposed to at least seven billion people and then you won't be fazed by the couple million that you face every day. Oh well, whatever. I took some pictures of my dorm room. I don't have the ethernet cable yet, but my pictures loaded very quickly on Flikr. So here you go:
This is my side of the room
This is Modeste's (no sheets since we just got back from camp)

I'll fill you in on other stuff later, but I have a load of close in the wash and at 4:30 I'm suppose to have "'FUN' with my FOCUS Group." We'll see how that goes. Talk to you later.

Some pictures

2008-08-18T12:05:00.001-07:00

We're at the Grandpadges now. Since they have faster internet I can post some pictures now. Here you go.

A Prologue

2008-08-15T15:42:00.001-07:00

I suppose that since I've changed the name of my blog and since this post has nothing to do with CBU, it might not be able to be part of the blog save for the title of the post. So, there you go.
Well, we just got back from seeing Zachary, Brenda, Justin, Katie Ellyn, and Emily in Redding. We had a blast going to the coast with them on their family camp, winning gift cards, jumping off rocks, drinking Jamba Juice, and just hanging out. Although the agate beach was pretty fun, I'd have to say that my favorite part was jumping off rocks into ice cold water. It was great. Lauri probably drove more than I did on the way home. It was good even though I didn't get much of my book read. By the way, if you haven't read The Screwtape Letters, I'd highly recommend it. I was going to post some pictures, but when I was picking out the ones I'd like to use, I remembered that Brenda was going to post today and, sure enough, she'd picked three of the four that I was going to use. I would put the remainder on my blog, but our internet is retarded and I can't get the image to upload at all. Oh well, go over to her blog to see how much fun we had.
This morning, Mom told me that I had a dentist appointment this afternoon and I got to go get cavities filled. It was so much fun and the left half of my mouth is now numb. At least I get to go get the other side filled next Friday. Wait, what?
We're going to Phoenix on Sunday and we get to spend a few days hanging out with the family down there. It will be good to swim and see folks again.
Perhaps most notably for me, it is only eleven days until I leave for the single most nerve-racking thing in my life. Please pray for me.

The Moment You've All Been Waiting For:

2008-07-25T15:25:00.000-07:00

You may come back from the edge of your seats now. After all these many tension filled moments, the secrets have come to light. Well, I guess it’s not really a secret for many if not all of you. I was trying to boost the excitement level of my entire blog. So......

Here it is!

Just teasing. I’ve had this for a while now. Although it has served me well through the years, its time in the limelight is now at an end. It sits lonely, seemingly rejected at my computer desk. Why you ask?

To make way for my iPod touch! At 16GB, this state of the art mp3 player provides not only music, but videos, pictures, and wi-fi access as well! It is very cool, I love everything about it, and I got it for only $100!

You may be asking yourself, “'For only $100?' Is this truly an Apple product?” Or possibly, “How did Caleb swing that?” The answer is found in this:

I got a MacBook Pro for college!!!!!!! It seems that many of my previous posts have something to do with a certain Mr. Duits. Well, this post will not disappoint. God orchestrated circumstances so that Mr. Duits decided that he’d like to help me with college by purchasing me a laptop computer. I can’t really believe that he’d do something like this, but obviously God has always had a plan in mind. I got my iPod for $100 dollars because Apple had a special deal specifically for college students that enabled them not only to get a discounted computer, but also a free iPod with their purchase. The deal was either an 8GB iPod Touch or and 8GB iPod Nano. I decided to put out an extra hundred dollars and go with the 16GB instead. Both the iPod and the Lappy are amazingly cool. With my Lappy, I got iWork. I’m actually typing this post in Pages instead of on blogger since our internet is really slow and iffy.

In CBU news, August 26 is the big day. There’s about a week long orientation thing that’s supposed to get me oriented. I supposed that means going to a Chinese restaurant or turning Communist. Wait, what? Anyway, there’s going to be a move-in day, a two day camp in the mountains, some kind of Reach-Out to Riverside type thing that involves In-n-Out, and an Angels baseball game. Sounds like fun, eh? I guess it should be okay.
I also have the name of my roommate, although I haven’t gotten in touch with him yet. His name is Modeste Muhire. I don’t even know how to pronounce it, but I guess I will in short order once I get there.
Before the insanity of the 26th, hopefully, Lauri and I both get to go to Family Camp with Zachary, Brenda, Emily, Katie Ellyn, and Justin. I say hopefully because Lauri doesn’t have her driver’s license yet. She’s going for the test in a week or so, but I won’t give you the details. She’ll do fine.

Cordially yours,
Caleb Walker

P.S. Happy Birthday Brenda

In Theaters Everywhere....

2008-07-08T15:40:00.000-07:00

Coming soon:
The post for which everyone has been waiting. Will it shock and amaze you or will it bring horror beyond imagination? Will it leave you laughing or cause you to weep bitterly? Only you can decide...

Hopefully before too long, I'll get some pictures of what has been going on around here. The thing is that our internet is broken more than half the time and I haven't gotten around to uploading pictures yet. Soon though. Probably not until next week sometime. Lauri and I are to the coast with the youth group for a camp-out tomorrow until Sunday so I won't have opportunity to post until we get back. Obviously.

Have a good week and don't let the suspense keep you up at night.

Holy Smoke, my friends!!! I am so glad you are not dead!

2008-05-25T13:14:00.000-07:00

We watched Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark on Friday in honor of the new movie coming out. We haven't seen it yet, but I hope to do so very soon, Uncle Randy.
As many, if not most, if not all of you already know, I am now graduated. Granddad and Grandmom came up from Phoenix and Katie Ellyn and Justin drove all the way down from Redding. We had a great time hanging out. Zachary and Brenda, we missed y'all. It's a bummer that you couldn't make it, but at least I'll get to see you in two weeks. Just to be warned, I made all of the pictures small so that they would all load. There is a ton of them. If you have any extreme desire to see any of the larger, just comment and let me know. I also realize now that me putting them in medium size made them grainy. Sorry. Here are a few graduation pictures:

This is how I looked for the entirety of the graduation ceremonies.

And this is me doing my Emily impression.

After the graduation ceremonies on Saturday, Granddad and Grandmom took us to Disneyland!! We had a blast there and I believe that we went on the Indiana Jones ride six times. We rode on it as our first ride in the park, and the last one before we left. It was by far my favorite ride. Here is a cussload of Disneyland pictures:

This one is actually a picture from two years ago, I just put it in so that y'all could enjoy this next picture better:

These next pics are just from our time in Disneyland and California Adventure in no particular order.

In other news, I think that you already know that I've been accepted to CBU. I'm pretty sure that Orientation is on August 26, so you can either send me a Samurai sword and a paper lantern, or pray for me. I suppose you could do both. Both would lend to the orientation.
This next weekend we get to go to VM Conference. I'm looking forward to that and I'm also looking forward to seeing Emily after that! I'll probably update with pictures after that trip as well.
One more thing. Thirty-one years ago today, Star Wars was released. So, in honor of Star Wars' birthday, watch A New Hope preferably today. If not today, then at least this week.

Happy Anniversary Zachary and Brenda for yesterday.

Pictures, finally!

2008-04-29T20:21:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of my knives. I like them quite a bit.

Another few pictures that go with an entirely new story. Mr. Duits, the crazy guy that gave me all the knives, decided that, since he got Dad a gun and since I was graduating this year, he had a good idea for a graduation present.

That's right. For reasons entirely beyond me, he decided to buy me a Walther P22. A .22 pistol, semi-auto that weighs fifteen ounces without the clip. It is a blast to shoot. It was really windy the day that we shot, but it was still a dang lot of fun. Zachary, come on down to shoot it with me. Uncle Randy, now that I have my own gun and my own knives, what else do I need to concern you more?

Hey

2008-04-22T13:40:00.000-07:00

Well, what do you think of my new blog template? Is your first response, "Hey! That looks like Kara's blog!" Or is it possibly, "Why isn't anything capitalized?" Sorry on both of those counts, but I'll stick with it since I rarely update anyway.
To fill you in on what's happened around here since Lauri posted, here goes.
Dad is now walking around without his cast. He's pretty excited about that. We got to go shooting the other evening with our new pistol. There's this guy in our church that has a whole lot of money, (he's the guy that gave Lauri and me money to fly to San Diego.) Anyway, a few weeks ago, they took us out to Quiznos. There, we got to talking about guns. He has a ton of those and he's also planning on building a shooting range in a building on his property. There was this one that both Dad and I really liked: a Ruger Mark III Target model. We didn't ask for one but we did comment that it was really nice, just like anyone would have done. To cut to the point, about a week later, Mr. Duits shows up with a brand new pistol and all kinds of locks and stuff for Dad. A few weeks later, our family took the Duits out to eat as a small way to thank them for everything they've done for us. While we were there, Mr. Duits asked me if I collected knives. I told him that I wouldn't say that I collected them, but I certainly have a few and I enjoy them quite a bit. I'd have a picture for you right here, but blogger wouldn't take them for me. Sorry. Just image a picture of them. Fifty-one Frost Cutlery Steel Warrior knives. Oh yeah. Needless to say, that is quite a sweet gift. His wife told him that he needed to stop collecting knives if he was going to continue his gun collecting habit. None of these knives have ever been used and some hadn't even been taken out of their packages. I was extremely stoked to say the least.
I have some more to say, but since I figure y'all will be tired of reading already, I'll leave you with this for now.

Don't Look!

2008-04-21T16:57:00.001-07:00

This blog is currently under construction. Move along. There's nothing to see here.

Yet...

Happy Easter

2008-03-23T16:51:00.001-07:00

A.S. Ante script
I actually am writing this after the rest of the post. I apologize for the confusing nature of the majority of my posts. They make perfect sense in my mind until I read them later and think, "What was I thinking?" Have fun!

He is risen! I hope your Easter went well to anyone who ends up reading this. Ours went fine. Dad and I got up around 4:15 this morning and Mom and Lauri got up sometime before that. Consequently, everyone except for me is napping right now. I don't sleep very well in the day time. My mind's still on even if it's a bit sluggish from tiredness. I also noticed that the last time I posted was on Mom's birthday. Now it's Dad's. Happy Birthday Dad!
In order to fill you in on what's happening in my life down here in Pahrump, here goes nothing. Well, technically, nothing would not be true. Although there aren't many things, the things that are are rather weighty. I applied for California Baptist University. We went over there right before we went up to celebrate Emily's birthday and learned quite a bit. David Carr, the Village Missionary in Lenwood, California, has a son who is a Freshman at CBU who is taking the same courses I'll be taking since he's planning on becoming a Village Missionary too. The program, Bachelor of Applied Theology (BAT), looks very good and that is what we're pursuing right now. So, you can be praying that if that's what the Lord wants me to do, that it will work out smoothly. You can also pray that I will be able to trust God with this more fully since I am very anxious. Why you ask? There's an episode of Monk, (which we have started watching recently) where Monk says, "I have this old saying: Don't...... change...... anything, ever." But I know that the Lord will provide the strength that He promises me in numerous places in Scripture.
If, for some reason, you haven't heard it elsewhere, Dad broke his ankle. Check out Stumpy's blog for details.
I'll talk to the Phoenix crew in a couple of days and I'll see the Redding crew in a few months.

Outbound Flight

2008-02-09T09:46:00.000-08:00

No, I'm not leaving for an extended period of time. Stop booing. Anyway, I'm not really sure if I've posted about this book before but, just to serve as a reminder, I'll fill you in. Outbound Flight was published two or three years ago. Written by Timothy Zahn, it records details of the Outbound Flight project. Outbound Flight is meant to travel to the unknown regions at the edge of the known universe. It also deals with Jorj Car'das and Mitth'raw'nuruodo. Did I mention this was a Star Wars book? Just in case you wanted to read it yourself, I won't tell y'all the entire plot. You may be asking yourself: "Why am I still reading this?" or "What does this have to you with me?" In response to those questions, my answer is, "I have no idea!"
In my opinion, Timothy Zahn is the best Star Wars novel author ever. He's written a number of other Star Wars books, all of which I have read except for one that I am saving until June. Books smell better than old Taco Bell. Some of my friends up in Oregon knew that I liked Timothy Zahn and they also knew that he lived not more than an hour south of them. They knew this because one of their friends went to church with Timothy Zahn!!!!! My friends went to a small college thing where Timothy Zahn was speaking and they got one of their books signed but I hadn't sent mine yet. I finally sent it and they looked for another opportunity to have him autograph my book. Finally, last Sunday, my friend went to Timothy Zahn's church, sat in a Sunday School class taught by Timothy Zahn, and GOT MY BOOK SIGNED!!!!!!! I was extremely stoked when I received my package in the mail. Here are some pictures:

While I have y'all here, I'd also like to say that we had a blast in Tahoe. The skiing was amazing and so was the eating, wii playing, and Emily seeing. Until next time.

Am I Still Here?

2007-12-13T15:27:00.000-08:00

Wowza. Almost exactly five months since my last update. That's a lot of months. Let's see, since my last post.... I no longer work at Bella pictures. It's been almost three months since that happened. I kind of have a new job now. "Kind of" because I haven't officially started yet. I will be creating websites. Some folks in our church(the secretary and her husband) have a computer business and he doesn't like creating websites. Their son used to do it for them but he took his website-designing knowledge and now makes cussloads of money doing it in Las Vegas. That's where I come in. I'm still kind of learning the whole website-making bit and I don't have to know all the really fancy stuff. Mr. Erwin, (the guy I'll be working for) doesn't put a lot of frills in so I don't need to know that stuff either. In case any of you care, I'll be using Dreamweaver CS3. Because of that, I needed a pc. So, they built me one. I'm actually posting from it right now. I don't have any pictures yet but I might eventually. It's a pc. What else can you say? That's pretty much what's going on these days. To those of you down in Arizona, I'll see you in a week. To those of you in Redding, I see you in a month. To those of you in Pahrump, I'll see you in an hour or two. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good afternoon.

I'm Baaaaach, er, Baaaaack

2007-07-15T18:43:00.000-07:00

Haldo comrades!
Long time no writing. The way I figure it, very few people will ever get around to reading this. Probably you think I finally just rotted away or else moved to Uzbekistan.
This summer has been good so far. I've done a bunch of fun things. We went to Conference, and saw all of our good friends. We saw Zachary, Brenda, and Emily and got to celebrate my birthday with them at the swimming hole. We went down to Phoenix and got to see all of the family down there. Most recently, we went to Ouray. Zachary and Brenda, Katie Ellyn and Justin, we missed you. We did have a great time though and got to fuel Justin and Lindsay's interest in geocaching. Thanks again Grandparents for letting us do that. Only one picture for this post. Maybe more next time.
I also work not a lot each day. I'll work for three hours a day come Tuesday. It's fine, it finances my various enterprises. I also have a Wii. It's a ton of fun. I highly recommend it as a system. Talk to y'all sometime later. Maybe with some more pictures.

Hello Again

2007-03-27T16:44:00.000-07:00

Well, it's been a while. I somehow lucked out and was able to update without the new blogger. Sweet. I finally post because of the myriad things to post about.
#1
She's pretty much my favorite niece ever. She's danged cute and I want to see her again.
#2 I got a cell phone. I don't have a picture of it. However, Granddad, you'll be happy to hear it does have a camera.
#3 The '07 thirtieth anniversary action figures are out and I snagged some of the troopers and I'm pretty excited.
#4 I got a driver's license. It was quite possibly one of the most nerve-wracking things that I've done in a while. Now I get to stop driving.
#5 We got a new house. It's pretty sweet. I painted my room with green on the bottom and "white chocolate" on the top. I have a border in between with trees and moosen. You should come see it. More in a couple of months if you're nice.

The Last of a Series: Fireworks and Terrorists

2007-01-14T12:13:00.000-08:00

Two words: Power Powers. Katie Ellyn and Justin surprised us by buying a bunch of fireworks for us to do on New Years Eve. I'd never done New Years Eve fireworks before and especially when I wasn't breaking the law by doing big ones. They were great. We had some that blew up under water, some that spun around, some Roman candles, some big ole cussers called super bombs, and some that simply blew up. I personally liked the roman candles a whole dang lot since I had never done them before. Anything that you can hold and that spews flaming balls of stuff is good in my book. The super bombs, also known as power powers, were amazing too. We'd all expected them to be great but they exceeded our expectations. Sadly, none of the pictures that we tried to take worked so I don't have any pictures.
The ones that exploded underwater came in a case that looked like a mortar shell. It looked pretty cool so Pop recommended that I take it home. That sounded like a plan but I asked just to make sure that it'd be okay. Dad said yeah so we went ahead. Just as some background, I had an airsoft pistol and three knives in my suitcase as well as this case so I guess that the airline people had good reason to be nervous. Anyway everything was going fine until we got on the plane and over the intercom someone said, "Will Keith Walker come to the front of the plane please." Well, to make a long story short, I lost my case. The lady that walked Dad out of the terminal and into the place where you checked baggage kept on asking him if he didn't know that he wasn't supposed to take explosives on the plane. There was nothing in it except a glass Dr. Pepper bottle so you would think that the airline people would've noticed that it was empty. Apparently they could read on the package the word explosive and didn't feel like checking it further. I did get to keep my bottle so that was good.
All in all, my trip was very good. Everything was great. Next time you hear from me, I'll give you a regular post. Just think, if I'd done the entire post at once, you'd have read almost eleven hundred words. That number…. Now!

Part 3

2007-01-11T07:42:00.000-08:00

We had a good time down in the great ole state that is Texas. Carrollton. Seeing Nanny was good and at her Sack-and-save I got some coconut soda and a Sprite, (both in cool glass bottles.) I played a lot of Star Fox Command on the ds. I got it from a fifty-ish lady in our church who found out that I liked Nintendo stuff. She now gives me her Nintendo magazine after she's finished reading it every month and she game me that game. San Antonio. It was great to see Katie Ellyn and Justin again. We don't see them enough but I'm hoping that that's about to change with their relocation. We exchanged presents with them down there. I got some action figures that I had really been wanting. I also got a metal airsoft gun that came with its very own floodlight. Well, maybe the floodlight was just a piece of paper that said floodlight but that may be just as good since I wouldn't have used it much. We played a lot in the dark so we could be sneaky. Justin says that he got beat up pretty bad but y'all haven't seen Pop yet. He has two hits on his face that makes him look pretty bad. My bravery and courage made it so that I pretty much stayed behind almost closed doors. I didn't get hit very bad though. One of the other great things that happened in San Antonio is the drinking of one of the most disgusting sodas in the world. For Christmas, I got the five pack of holiday sodas. I've only tried the one and that one was Turkey and Gravy soda. Think of the worst drink that you've tasted, multiply that taste by fifty. It was so rancid I can't even give it justice, maybe a picture will. Talk again soon.

The sequel part one

2007-01-08T18:54:00.000-08:00

Christmas was great! It was a little odd considering that we didn't leave home for anything. We just hung around and played stuff. My other sweet Christmas present was my very own stormtrooper helmet! Yesssssss! It's amazing. Sure it was a little expensive and sure you can't see or breathe very well but that is entirely beside the point. It's great. I also got a Star Wars novel about Darth Bane, The New Essential guide to Alien Species (one of the dingin' sweetest books in a while), a Geocache wall clock that is very cool, an ornament and a Star Wars snow globe. It has Yoda dressed up in a santa suit and it's great. Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure. They're mostly for you Katie Ellyn. It was Christmas morning. That's why we're both in our pjs. :)

Part 1: A Series

2007-01-05T15:59:00.000-08:00

Goodness, I have a lot to post about. I figured that if I posted it all at one time, y'all would grow extremely bored and possibly not even read it. That being said, I shall post a number of posts in the next chunk of time that I will release every two or three days. You are still welcome to comment on all of them even if they are somewhat difficult to understand. So, here goes.
1) Marley was dead, to begin with. Wait. Wrong story. Well, the events leading up to Christmas were fine. Our Christmas Eve service was very nice. Despite the fact that I had a mild cold, Lauri and I sang "Wise Men Still Adore Him". Mom and some others did a very nice Silent Night Medley. Just between us, Mom's part sounded the best. Dad did a really neat chalk talk about the wise men. Owing to the fact that I'm so wise, I somehow spilled wax on my nice black slacks. Yeah, that was fun. We opened our one present on Christmas Eve and I got Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life from Lauri. It is a fun game even though the play style is kind of weird. Another thing I received on Christmas Eve was a Master Replica's Lightsaber. The kind that you can pretty much whack it up against anything and it won't break. Dad and Mom thought that I'd get more use from it before we left for Dallas if I opened it a day early. It's pretty stinkin' awesome. We watched You've Got Mail and went to bed. More soon.

Christmas Time is Here

2006-12-14T15:47:00.000-08:00

After all it's only eleven more days 'til Christmas! I haven't posted in a while cause I wasn't ready to yet. Now, if you'll believe it, I'm ready to! :) Where to begin? Let's see, we decorated for Christmas. 'Twas fun.
We've done alot of school. Thankfully only another week and a day. I decided what I really want for Christmas. Did you guess it? That's right, an Macintosh Pippin. The only video game system made by Macintosh computers. While some might negatively say that he could paint a brick black and it'd be the same thing, I think that it would be great to have one of these.
Moving on. We had our Christmas dinner at the school across the road. Two words: Um, yeah. Not to say that it wasn't the best thing ever. However, if you think that your Kid's Choir is better than ours, think again. Firstly, it's led by someone that can't sing. Secondly, just like every other area in our church, they don't make the kids memorize. As far as I can tell, you just show up and they give you a leading role then they mouth you or actually tell you out loud your next line. Yeah, so that was amazing.
I changed my song for those of you who didn't notice. What's up with only my family and Lindsay updating their blogs? It's wrong I tell you.
Next. I went up to game crazy and there was a bin in which you could buy oldish school video games at three for ten bucks. I really wished that I had my Super Nin and that someone wouldn't keep on claiming. Gosh. I did get three N64 games: Battle Tanx, Star Fox, and Star Wars Racer. They're good.
Two things to end on. Lauri had an assignment in school that she had to write a Haiku. Since writing Haikuosen requires no skill whatsoever, I wrote one:
Decorations here
Christmas lights and ornaments
Makes all look festive.
So, if you would like to write a Holiday Haiku because you have absolutely no idea how to comment, feel welcome.
Lastly, I'm stoked to see Katie Ellyn and Justin in a couple of weeks and Zachary and Brenda in a month or two.

Happy Thanksgiving!

2006-11-26T08:00:00.000-08:00

How was yours? You could say that ours was pretty normal but that would be untruthful. Most of you already know this stuff but just to recap: On Wednesday we drove down to Phoenix. About two-thirds of the way down there we received a call that Granddad was in the hospital 'cause of his knee. This was not totally new news to us because we had visited with them a couple of days before. Still, it was kind of a bummer that he wouldn't be there when we got there. After Aunt Carey and Grandmom refused to let us in to the house, we went to see Granddad. He said that he was really hoping to get out the next day at nine in the morning. To make a long story short, he did not get out at nine on Thursday. Thankfully, he did get out at noonish on Friday. The big Thanksgiving shenanigans were post-poned to Friday and they were great! After all of the food and some good ole Bobby Badfingers, we played Karaoke Revolution. Amazingly enough, almost everyone played with the exception of Lyndsay. It was somewhat weird but it was fun. After that we went to Zoo Lights with Uncle Randy's family and had a fun time there. All in all it was a fun, albeit weird Thanksgiving. Any gaps in the story will have to be filled in by others in the family. For those of you who weren't there, you have to post about your experiences. One last thing, when, in y'alls opinion, is it acceptable to a) Put up Christmas decorations and b) Listen to Christmas music?

Zachary's been Gripin'

2006-11-15T16:34:00.000-08:00

v. intr. to gripe. to complain loudly in an annoying and or persistent manner. Okay, so maybe Zachary hasn't been that bad about badgering me about updating, but I had to come up with a way to start my post. Anyway, nothing amazing is happening around here. All of my appendages feel fine and I'm not in between jorbs. I will update after Thanksgiving about Thanksgivingy things. School is ok these days. Speech isn't as bad but English is worse. Christmas is just around the corner. I notice that half the time, time seems to fly by as in days and such. Then the other forty percent it seems like whatever you're looking forward to will never get here. Seven percent is lost in the time-space continuum. And those three percent just stop time every afternoon around 1:30-2:00 when Speech rolls around. We painted our bathroom so that it's a Toasted Coconut/ White Oak blend. For those of you like me and won't have Lauri gripe at you if you get it wrong, that's tan and tannish white. Or something like that. Did you ever notice that we never sing "This is the Day" on Mondays or Tuesdays? I was thinking about that and that it's probably planned 'cause nobody really wants to admit that God knew what he was doing when he created Mondays. Nonetheless, I'm fairly positive that the Bible does indeed state that God knew and knows what he was doing and what he will do all of the time. All this to say, how was your Monday?

2006-11-09T17:05:00.000-08:00

I notice that Stumpy only has two comments on his new post.

A Real Post

2006-11-05T12:15:00.000-08:00

Finally. Well, as you know from three or four other sources, Zachary and Brenda came to visit and we had an awesome time. We did do all of the things that they said on their blog in case for some odd reason their validity was in question. Airsoft guns are really sweet and might be my favorite new sport if they can be classified as one. We got to go to the Mt. Charleston cabins and shoot with them,to Wheeler Pass and shoot them, to the Bellagio and shoot them, well, maybe not there but it would've been fun. Our family festival went well. It's the Halloween thing without saying Halloween or dressing up and we had games. Thankfully, we did get some Shockers gumballs this year and that was good. Then we all sang as you know. Since everyone left it seems that all I've been doing is Speech and English. That's not really the case but those two seem to be the most stress inducing subjects.
Zachary said that it's a possibility that people are not as likely to comment on mine 'cause it doesn't make sense and or they can't pinpoint a specific thing to comment on. I'll try to work on that at the end of this post.
Yesterday we went on our first High School AWANA outing of the year. It went pretty well, we hiked around on rocks and stuff. Then when we got back this one girl's family apparently forgot about her and went into Vegas even though we said that we'd be back at 3:30. Weird. So she went to Walskees with Mom and Lauri whilst Pop and I went to Hollywood. We rented Over the Hedge and got three used Dvd's (is there an apostrophe?) for fifteen bucks. We got Sahara, The Legend of Zorro (that one is the second one) and Stealth. We haven't seen Stealth yet, is it good? I think it looked a little weird (or wierd is Zachary or Brenda are reading this) but Dad wanted to see it so I'll watch it with him.
Just to recap, we had a great time with Zachary and Brenda and are all stoked about the kid. Singing was good and so was Bop-it. Movies.
Alright. Now for some questions to end my post with so that it will be easier to comment on:
1) Have you seen Over the Hedge and did you like it?
2) Have you seen Stealth and is it weird or good?
3) If they came out with a KOTOR 3, would you buy it?
4) How was church today?
Here's one more picture because I've also been told that pictures enhance my post.

More soon

2006-10-31T16:36:00.000-08:00

Sorry that I didn't post yesterday. Stuff was busy and didn't lend itself to posting. In fact, today's post isn't really a post but more along the lines of a teaser. In theory, a teaser is supposed to have you checking back every hour to see what it's about. I hope to give you more tomorrow or maybe Friday. Sorry :) I know that this picture might make you say : "Why do I even read his blog, he doesn't make any sense." but I promise to try dangdest maybe to make more sense next time.

A Bunch of Random Things

2006-09-30T09:15:00.000-07:00

Well, it's almost October and I figured that it was about time to post again. I don't know what the length of this one will be. Where to begin? Let's begin with two weeks ago Monday. We had to go eat with the same guy that had us come to his house in Hollywood and he likes to eat at the Nugget. After we got home I was complaining that my throat was hurting. The next morning my throat was killing me and then the next day I had the regular bug symptoms. It wasn't very fun to have a virus. Then Lauri caught it on Friday and then Mom got it on the next Monday. We are almost cured but are still kind of recovering from it. Since we were all sick on Saturday, we got to play risk! I fully enjoyed it even though I'm not sure the rest of the family did. We also watched Cheaper by the Dozen 2 and Benchwarmers while we were sick. Cheaper by the Dozen 2 wasn't as good as the first one but it was still good. I enjoyed it. As for Benchwarmers, I didn't really enjoy it. It had it's funny parts but the majority of the funny parts were in the preview. The kind of humor that the preview had, I enjoy, but they didn't rely on that kind of humor in this movie. It was kind of gross. Alright. I'm finished with that section.
I am excited that Dad and Mom decided that next week we are not doing school on Friday and we're driving down to Granddad and Grandmom's on Thursday evening. We do have to go back on Saturday of course but it's still really cool.
I'm really glad that it's Saturday. In some subjects, school has gotten better but in others it hasn't. I read the Negotiator in English for an oral book report and I enjoyed it.
I'm probably going to try to clean the fish tank today. Ewwww. Snails, Slime, and uh, something else that starts with an "s", (oh my!)
I wanted to end with the words to Receive the Glory last time but I couldn't find them. This song was on my iPod last night and read it like Glad sings it on their latest cd. :)
Be still, my soul: your God will undertake
to guide the future, as in ages past.
Your hope, your confidence let nothing shake;
all now mysterious shall be bright at last.
Be still, my soul: the waves and winds still know
the Christ who ruled them while he dwelt below.

Faux Planets, Fictional Planets, and Surprise Visits

2006-09-13T15:09:00.000-07:00

Time for my first long post in a while. The reason for the length being that I have a lot to talk about. To begin with, I've just recently found out that everything I know is wrong. Well, maybe not everything, but did You know that there are no longer nine planets???!?! I know, mind boggling. They (whoever they are) have decided that Pluto is no longer a planet! http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060828.html This is a site that Dad gave to me to see them. Ceres and Pluto are good names but that other one is bogus I'm convinced. Anyway, that's the first cool/crazy thing on my list. The second, by my title, is Fictional Planets. Now, Star Trek is not my forte and I know very little about it but we did go to the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas and it was pretty fun. Anyone who's been anywhere with me will attest to the fact that I have trouble doing new things. Thankfully, I didn't overload and the two rides were actually pretty fun. One was kind of like the Muppet thing at California Adventure but more Borgy and less Gonzoy. You sit in a theater type thing and put on your 3-D glasses and the seats poke to and stuff spits at you to provide the "Fourth Dimension." The other was a simulator ride that took you through areas where plenty people had gone before. It almost made me sick but I was able to ward off the motion sickness. The third and probably greatest thing over shadowed the Star Trek stuff. Two and a half people came to visit: Zachary, Brenda, and Other!!!!!! Yay! I think most of the angles have been covered by Brenda and Lauri's blogs but I had to mention it anyway. We had a whole bunch of fun even though they only stayed for one whole day. It was extraneously fun! Again, I would appreciate your comments on the Faux planets or whatever. Have a good rest of the week!

A Full Post

2006-09-01T20:30:00.000-07:00

I decided that I'd write more than a few sentences this time. A really exciting thing happened today! We got a G5 Tower!!! Yay!!!!!!!!! I'm excited but also am kind of bummed that we have to get rid of our old compy. Dad said that we won't get around to selling it for a couple of months now but I'll still miss it. Just so you're not wondering, I'm not making this post on the new one. It's on the table because we wanted to check to see if it worked all right. Everything but the disk drive worked fine the first run then Dad poked around inside it and fixed the disk drive so that was good. Nothing else that was really amazing. Happy Labordabor. We're not going to take it off so that we can go camping again on the fifteenth. Talk to y'all later.

2006-08-30T20:08:00.000-07:00

Since we got home so late last knight, we slept in this morning. We still got finished with school by 3:30. That was good. There was a mythbusters about Nikolai Tesla but I missed the beginning.

2006-08-29T23:08:00.000-07:00

The AWANA Basic Training went better than I expected. It was at this weird little church near the Freemont Street Experience. That was interesting, eh?

2006-08-28T17:27:00.000-07:00

Just to be clear, 6.25 isn't to bad. Like, 1's or less are movies like Time Bandits and others that I won't mention so as to not offend others. Ten's are movies like the Music Man and Red October. The regular movie rating is about an eight. I'm glad that I saw Barnyard. More to follow on the 29th.

2006-08-27T17:17:00.000-07:00

It is Speech that is the bad subject. We went to see Barnyard yesterday. It was okay. 6.25 out of 10, maybe a little more.

2006-08-26T20:28:00.000-07:00

Out of the six subjects that I have: Spanish, physics, Business Math, speech, health, and English; I like about five of them. Can you guess which ones I do like?!?!?

2006-08-25T15:51:00.000-07:00

Well, we've finally finished our first week of school.

The Elusive Blue Jellyfish

2006-08-06T18:35:00.000-07:00

I'm watching Spongebob and it's that episode again. I figured that since I have nine comments and said that I'd post again soon that I would post again. Not really alot has happened since you last heard from me. We saw Dead Man's Chest again yesterday. It was still good. I enjoyed it. Mom and Dad claim that they did but they are not as enthusiastic about new movies as Lauri and I are. Only 291 days 'til the third one comes out. Make fun of me if you want. It's happened before. I'm still excited about the new child. It'll be so great to have a new kid and being an uncle will be very exciting. School starts on the twenty-first. I'm not very excited but I'm trying not to dread it. As kind of our last thing this summer. We're going camping this weekend. I haven't been camping in at least two years. It'll be so great. This campground allows fires so that's muy bueno. We have s'more makin's and we'll read some Patrick McManus. Just like old times. I'll talk at you either sometime soon, or not so soon, your choice. I'll try not to be presumptuous of the gender of the new chile.

The Future is Now! Oop, there it went.

2006-08-02T14:26:00.000-07:00

Ha Ha. It amazes me about how funny I am. We went to Paul Crane's house. Lauri updates a bit more often than I do so you probably read her blog and already found that out. He is somewhat of a weird guy and likes to call me Kevin. I have been called many names in the past, most of them by my older siblings, and some names just 'cause people can't remember: Jacob, Calen, Cayup... But never Kevin. Oh well, you learn something new every day. We did have a fun time at Knott's Berry Farm. I enjoyed the white water rafting ride the most, just like usual. Not quite as Crazy Go Nuts as the one at California Adventure which was good. I don't like anything that has a slope of 30 degrees or more most of the time. I got some cool souvenirs. I got two decks of cards, 11 smashed pennies, and an inflatable hammer that I got on one of those Midway games that charge ridicerous prices. I'd seen the hammers around the park and the game was five bucks for two hits, one through ninety-nine gets you a hammer so I went for it. Lauri says that if my posts are shorter and more often in coming, I'll have a better turn out. Oh and one more thing my hammer is blue which is a very good color for MY FUTURE NEPHEW!!!!! It may be a girl in which case it'll still be good and I'm just stoked about being an Uncle.

The Untitled Post

2006-07-19T10:40:00.000-07:00

Instead of a depressing song, I'll use a cheap way out of naming my post. Well, hows everyone doing today. We got back from Phoenix yesterday. It was great! If I had a good picture of everyone we saw, I'd post it. However, it's hard to get a good picture. Snicker, snicker. We did alot of swimming in the salt water. It was just like the ocean, only warmer. We played a lot of pool. Lauri slaughtered almost everyone. Even though I won a very scant few games, I had a good time. We played some Mario Kart. I lost at that too but it was okay.... What was more than okay was the fact that we got to see Dead Man's Chest!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even though only one other person I talked to said that it was better than the first one, I liked it just as much if not more. Hopefully we'll get to take Mom and Dad to go to see it because they haven't yet. It was a great movie which I plan to see many more times. We did get to spend a day with the Padres while we were down there. For those of you who didn't know, they went to Estes Park Conference because Pop's a VM Board Member. Two more fun things about Phoenix. Numba One: We got to go to Chorale with Granddad and Grandmom and sing. It was really fun and I hope to do it again soon. Numero dos: On our last night there we got to go to Fuddruckers with all of the Phoenix crew. It was delicious and we had a lot of fun. Even though Leigh, Paul, Jay, Kyle, and Lyndsay talked alot about television shows and movies that I haven't seen, particularly Lost, it was fun. I also got to meet Bella for the first time and she was a cute as all of the hype.
On the way home I picked up a Dr. Good Guy. For those of you who don't know, I'm now into collecting fake Dr. Peppers. I already have a Dr. Thunder, a Dr. B from HEB, a Dr. Stripes from a dollar store near Nanny's house, a Dr. Bold from Albertsons, and a Dr. Hytop from Sack and Save. I found this site the other day: http://www.marion.ohio-state.edu/fac/schul/drp/aj.html
If you see any that you can pick up near you, if you'll buy a can then I'll reimburse you next time I see you. In particular, I saw a Dr. Bash, from Bashas, Dr. Rocket from K-Mart, Dr. Shasta probably up in Northern CA somewhere, I haven't seen Dr. Slice in a while, Dr. Spice from Target (I have yet to find a single can not in a six pack), and Real Dr. (a food for less variety.) Don't feel obligated to pick these up. Unless of course you see the elusive, Mr. Pig from the Piggly Wiggly shops.
Again, I congratulate you for making it through my post. One of these days I'll figure out how to fancify my blog a little more.

Happy Forf of the Lie!

2006-07-05T09:05:00.000-07:00

I take back what I said at the beginning of my last post. I don't post very often because I don't have anything exciting. Even this post won't be danged exciting but it should suffice for my purposes. Anyway, our fourth of July activities turned out to be on the second because they remembered a couple of weeks back, the town that is, that some group had reserved the park where the fireworks are set off for the day of the fourth. Pretty on top of things this town eh? The Bar-Be-Que, that's how our church advertised it, was moved to Sunday evening at 6:00. The fireworks didn't start 'until nine and it was 112 degrees outside when we were supposed to be grilling. The crazy lady who thinks that she's in charge of everything and if she's not then everything's going to fall apart, said that we were going to sit in the parking lot. The sun reflecting off the blacktop, the sun beating down on us and all. We did move to a small playground so that we'd be out of the sun but that was too close for me. The fireworks were nice, I guess. We listened to the radio presentation of the fireworks. At 9:20 when they said was going to be the finale a whole bunch of fireworks went up. However, after that round was over, the small fireworks just kept on going. Then, a few minutes later, the announcers said, "This is the finale!" but that wasn't the finale either. So after many rumored finales and I guess one real finale, the fireworks were over. Conclusion: The Disneyland fireworks spoiled me.
For the real fourth of July, we went to see Over the Hedge and we didn't watch any fireworks. Over the Hedge was good. From the previews, it looked like it was going to have it's good parts but rely heavily on distasteful humor. I was pleasantly surprised. It was good and had alot of very funny parts. William Shatner plays in it and so does Eugene Levy. Hey Grandad, you need to rent that movie with William Shatner about the professional paintballers vs. the aliens while we're down there. That looks like a fine piece of filmography right there. I'm very excited to see all of you in Phoenix next week and I'm glad that the ones I won't see, I saw the majority of a couple of weeks ago in Dallas. By the way, for those of you who don't know, the title was inspired by the movie The Little Rascals.

Anything and Everything

2006-06-20T09:47:00.000-07:00

I do realize that my blog posts have a large gap in between. I try this mostly because I don't really have anything to say, partly because I'm lazy, and partly because I hope that you will be more excited about my life on the edge and leave me millions of comments. That being said, for those of you who get restless on some of the longer blogs, I know that this one fits very well into that category, I have a hankering that this one will be a mega post so I shall try to put the main point at the beginning of the paragraph so that skimming will be easier. So it begins.
I had a great time with my iPod. They are wonderful machines and I listened on the car ride to and from the coast and on the plane ride to and from Dallas. Just thought that I should put that in there.
The coast was amazing. I think that this trip probably took the cake in the "Going to the Beach A lot" competition. Betcha didn't know there was one didya? On the first beach the sand wasn't great but there were a lot of hermit crabs that we caught and held. Dad got pinched by a real crab and that was pretty funny. The second beach was sandy through and through. The one on the right is Lauri's and the one on the left is mine. Even though the water wasn't warm and we didn't get stung by jellies :) , we had a great time being knocked over by the waves and getting all salty and sandy. We had a great time with Cogs and Crazy Uncle (and Aunt) and we were glad that they got to come up.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium was fascinating. Again, our favorite part was the jellies but we enjoyed everything from the penguins to the octopus. The penguins were my second favorite part second only to the jellies. I also liked seeing the massive tank with all kinds of fish in there and some sea turtles.
Conference was great. Seeing as how my friends around hotville a.k.a. Pahrump consist of one person that's not really a really close friend yet, conference is the bomb 'cause the main chunk of good friends that I have I only see once a year. Even though the junior highers did more thing with us than I would have liked, it was a blast. Even though I lost at mini golf in my group, one of my two best friends wins every stinkin' year, I didn't do too poorly compared with the rest of the folgies. I have this theory that I don't do well under pressure when I feel like I need to do great. I know, many of you are shaking your heads saying, "No, really?" I was winning in the first half of the mini golf game but then I think it was on the tenth hole that I started losing, bad. But we had a great time. Lauri and I had a great time at the boardwalk beach, (the boardwalk is where the mini golf place is too.) Even though only a few of our friends enjoy getting into the cold water, it was great.
We got to go to the Redwoods a couple of times. We got to ride this really cool train and see the Redwoods with the help of a Bold and Intrepid tour guide.
I had a good birthday and got a lot of cool stuff. One new watch, two new pocket knives, one of which I don't know it's location at the moment, four books, five video games and sixteen candles on the cake. Thanks to Dad and Mom's generosity, we didn't have to drive the entire way home on my birthday but got to stay in a motel outside of Bakersfield.
We only spent a couple days at home between trips. Going to Wal-Mart, playing Ocarina of time, being hot...
And then, (after an incredibly short paragraph) we went to Dallas and sweated. Indeed for most of you, roughly half minus those who don't live in Pahrump, you are used to the hot and stickiness but we weren't. It wasn't too bad but it sure wasn't what I was used to. The reason we went down there was to give Nanny (Mom's mom) a surprise eightieth birthday party! It went really well. I think she was very happy to receive it even though she acted like she should have known what was going on. We had a good time getting to see family down there. I got to see Walker for the first time. That was cool.
It's way past time to wind this post up. For those of you that read it all, I salute you. For those of you that skimmed, I don't blame you. Here's a good pic that Dad took to reward you.

Early Birthday Present

2006-05-28T16:36:00.000-07:00

The first post in quite a while I know. Truth be told, I'm not a very exciting guy. (Don't tell anyone.) You could have expected a post when I got back from the coast because we got to go to Monterey and to conference and my birthday, but you get an extra treat because I was surprised with an early birthday present last night. Taa Daaa! I got a Shuffle!!!!! I am firmly convinced that the iPod is an amazing machine. They are far superior to other music players. Since Lauri's Pod was recharging, I used a Mp3/Cd player (a thing that played CD's with Mp3's on them) and I stuck the big old thing in my cargo pocket on my shorts and the big ole headphones. I was stylin' let me tell you. It's sooo great! Here's a picture:
I haven't listened to it yet but I'll have it for the ten hour drive to the coast.
Did any of you know that Dr. Pepper changed their logo? It looks pretty cool.
In other news we watched Temple of Doom today. I was expecting a little gross and nasty but other than that a good flick. What others had not told us was that this was one of the lamest movies this side of Time Bandits. It was awful. Horribly, horribly lame, corny, and just poorly done. What were Steven and George thinking? I'm ashamed of them. Here are some reviews from others in the family:
"On a scale from 1 to 10, it'd be hard to bring this one above a two." Dad
"Whew." Mom
"How much longer is it?" Lauri
I would not recommend this movie or even watch it again. It is amazing that Raiders and The Last Crusade were such great movies and this one was a bomb.
Another news, only three more sleeps 'til the coast!!!!!! Yay! It'll be great. I have probably twenty geocaches in the areas that we'll be in. We're planning on doing some caches with our friends from conference on the Friday after conference ends, my birthday. In sadder news, I have to drive some of the way to the coast and driving is almost as bad as the Temple of Doom. Almost.

Well, What do I want to talk about?

2006-05-10T18:49:00.000-07:00

By a show of hands, how many of you have seen Minnesota Cuke? Now put your hands down and tell me how many of you have seen the Indiana Jones trilogy. Now tell me which one is your favorite. Thank you. This having been said, I'm on an Indiana Jones binge (is that the word I'm looking for?) right now. The Indiana Jones ride was mine favorite of all of the rides at Disneyland and we just got the Indiana Jones trilogy on DVD!!! And there was much rejoicing. Technically it was a Father's Day present but Dad decided to buy it early so we just told him it was one. None of us have seen the second one before and none of us have had the desire to. But now that we have the DVD's, we're going to have to. Since all of the hubbub about Indiana Jones, the video game for Xbox has climbed to near the top of my birthday list. I had forgotten that George Lucas had produced these movies and that John Williams did the music. I noticed that the love themes for both movies were very similar. I'll change my song to something else soon probably cause I don't want the songs to get stale.
In other news, (sorry, no gnus today) Dad and Mom have to go to a NARFE (National Active and Retired Federal Employees) meetings and Dad has to "give a prayer." We don't really know when they'll get home. There are plenty of questions in this post so in case you claim that you have nothing to comment on, here's one more: Have any of you been to the Indiana Jones thing in DisneyWorld?

Disneyland & Other Gnus

2006-05-02T15:18:00.000-07:00

Disneyland was great! We all had so much fun and it was just a blast! I won't give you a time schedule seeing as how that concept has kind of been used by others in the WEBNET a lot recently. We spent the first day in Disneyland Yay!!!! Well, that is only half true. When we first got there, we went to Downtown Disney to take a quick look at the park and the shops. I really liked one of the shops but it was too big and I didn't really know what stuff I wanted to look at. My favorite shop was not Disney at all but rather a Lego shop. However, Legos are not what this post is about so I will stop.
When we first got into the park, we rushed over to Indiana Jones per Granddad's request, (even though he had printed out a nice schedule for us that didn't have Indiana Jones first.) I was more than a little nervous at first because I don't like any drops. They tested it out for me and loved it and told me that I would and what do you know? I loved it. It turned out to be my favorite ride in the entire park. Pirates was closed because of remodeling and that was a bum. Grandmom and Granddad had us go on Haunted Mansion and it was better than I was expecting. We went on some other rides but no pictures taken with characters, (sorry Brenda, but we did get this We went on some other rides and I didn't quite work up the courage to go on Star Tours yet. Then came my favorite part of the day by far: the fireworks. They were amazing. I enjoyed them so much that it's hard to write about them. So I won't try too hard.
Next day was California Adventure. We first went to Soarin' Over California. Better known by Dad as, California Adventure. Don't ask me why, I don't know. I loved it. It was all that it was cracked up to be and more. But if I loved it, Dad was crazy about it. After we had ridden it three times or so, we finally convinced his to see some of the rest of the park. We really enjoyed the 3D Muppets and were kind of let down by all of the hype of Monsters Inc. the new ride. Lauri and Mom loved Screaming. I, obviously, didn't go. We did wait in a ridiculously long line for the Ferris Wheel. We did get a picture from the top of the world: It's kind of creepy I'll admit, but it was fun. Another really fun thing we did was to see the Aladdin real life play. It was excellently done and we enjoyed it so much that we started to watch the video last night. Then we watched the fireworks again, man they were awesome.
On the third day I finally did work up the courage to go on Star Tours and I did enjoy it. Granddad and Zachary said that it made them sick and I started to get motion sick but it didn't get too bad. I forgot to mention that the Buzz Lightyear Astro Blaster ride was among my favorites too. It was great but I think those guns cheated me.
Here's another picture, this time from the 50th Anniversary display: I really like that one.
Souvenir wise I did very well. I walked off with three shot glasses, one deck of cards, and seventeen, count 'em, seventeen smashed pennies. And a penny display case to boot!
I have to say that, between the two parks, I enjoyed Disneyland more. It was more happiest-place-on-earth-y.
In other news, we're back to school and this week are those retarded tests that come once a year. At least we don't have to take them at the mormon church. Oh, and guess how many smashed pennies I have but not those of you who already know, that kink of goes without saying.
A couple more pictures:
And a gnu:

Just a Quick Little One

2006-04-23T08:51:00.000-07:00

Okay, okay. Since I recieved 9 comments, I figured I should update before Disneyland. As most of you probably already know, we get to spend an extra day in Disneyland. Yeah!! I'm excited. I haven't gotten a clear cut answer about Star Tours yet. Is it fun? Will I get sick? Will I go on it anyway because it is about Star Wars?!?!? Okay, Indiana Jones, Pirates of the Carribean, Buzz Lightyear, sorry, no teacups for me, and I might go crazy and try space mountain. Apparently there is a raft ridish thing in California Adventure. Is that as fun as, say, the one in Six Flags Marine World? That's for those of you who been there obviously. For you others, (the majority), how is it anyway? For something not about Disneyland, we did Easter Eggs with the awesome Star Wars kit that was a Target exclusive. It had Star Wars stickers, those wrap around things that you submerge in hot water to make them go onto the egg, some of those same wrap around things with faces of Star Wars people on them and little stands that looked like the character's bodies. Anyway, I'd probably put some pictures on here if I weren't so lazy and church didn't start in fifteenish minutes. Well, technically, it doesn't start till 9:30 and we're going to brakefast anyway with a Sunday School teacher who is usually late. Oh well, I guess it wasn't so short.

Happy Easter!!!

2006-04-16T17:53:00.000-07:00

I guess I just start without too much of an introduction. Today went well. We got up at five o'clock and went to the sunrise service. The sun rose while the service was going. Dad sang the Watch the Lamb song and everybody cried and it was good. Attendance was really low and besides us, there was only one other person in Sunday School! We've hung out this afternoon, had some folks over for Easter dinner, played Super Mario Sunshine and read. We technically don't get a Easter Vacation but we had a half day on Friday and we get tomorrow off. The reason that we don't get a technical Easter Break is because, in nine days, and you ready for this? Drumroll please, bum,budda,bum,budda, bum, bum,,, We're going to Disneyland!!!!! On Tuesday after next, we are going, with Grandmom and Grandad to spend Wednesday at either Disneyland proper or at California Adventure, and on Thursday it'll be the other one. Can you believe that Anaheim is only four and a-half hours from our house? Anyway, that's exciting. It's not spur of the moment, it's been around for a while, we just weren't sure till a couple of days or so ago. If nothing else, respond commentwise with recommendations about rides and especially a response to my traditional Easter greeting: He is Risen!!!!!!!!

The Saga is Complete. Well, not really.

2006-04-04T20:15:00.000-07:00

Actually a new saga has pushed it's way (rather beginning) onto special edition dvd. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe was released today making cinematic history. Or maybe making ye old BBC version mesh with history. We went to Wal-Mart with much anticipation. Usually there's a display of new movies at the front of the store. Sure enough. However, all that I saw was the regular dvd and some Wal-Mart special including a book or something. No special edition. I then went back to the electronics and found what I was looking for. It was a lot more expensive but it was like five times better than the pansy version. The pansy version had four special features: two commentaries and some bloopers and some trivia. The special edition dvd had a whole nother (like how I worked that in there) disc with special features. Not to even mention the fact that compared to the Special Edition, the pansy version just looked, physical appearance this time, like junk. Needless to say, I'm excited. If any of you have not yet seen The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, you should see it.
Besides that, the only really cool thing that has happened is the fact that Mom's home from Valwood's 50th anniversary shindig. Pretty much just school. To give you something to say on your comment, (for those of you who have seen it) who was your favorite character or what was your favorite part of the movie. For those of you who haven't seen it, why not?

Fur Justin and Lauri

2006-03-25T12:55:00.000-08:00

It's interesting that Elise was never found......
How has everyone been? I don't know if you know but my Mom's aunt passed away on Monday early so we went down there on Tuesday and came back today. I don't really enjoy funerals. They're overrated. Two t's? Or maybe overmiced? On to happier stuff: We get to do school again on Monday!!!!! Wait. Tomorrow is three services. Count 'em. Three. I think that that's kind of dumb but we don't want people leaving 'cause there's no place to sit. Lauri and Mom are both of the verge of being sick. Mom's pushing it a little closer than Lauri. I still need help on my buttons Lauri. Somebody, I can't mention any names, I can say that he still hasn't seen Episode III, needs to help me on that. Has anyone ever heard of Berries and Cream Dr. Pepper? It's weird. It's about four in the afternoon on my mental clock and only one o' two on the 'puter. I hope we get to go to Walskees this afternoon. To wrap this post up, I'll ask: How many bananas does a banana slug eat daily. So, how many bananas does a banana slug eat daily?

Monday!!!!

2006-03-13T14:49:00.000-08:00

Don't you love 'em? Actually for me it hasn't been that bad. We got back from Redding after having a fun time and an uneventful drive. We picked Daisy up last night and gave her one of those toothbrushes to chew on. Kind of like a treatish thing you know. On the package it said edible. This morning, we woke up, Mom fed her and she didn't eat. She was being very sluggish and suffice to say, she's at the vet to see if she's okay. I wish vets weren't so expensive. Another Mondayish (another one of those words for you Uncle Randy) thing is that Lauri's sick. So that's a bummer. On the bright side, we are home and Dad is going to be back in the states again tonight so hopefully we'll get to talk to him this evening. I really don't have any questions for you so that I can rack up the comments but I thought that I'd post because I've been held to my eight comment rule. I hope work went well for all of you and Uncle Randy, I guess I wasn't specific, how were those books? Merry 13rd of March!

The Caped Crusader Strikes Again

2006-03-07T17:54:00.000-08:00

I don't know, I couldn't come up with a title. Well, old pap's gone to Haiti. He is offically in Haiti today after having spent a day in West Palm Beach. We on the other hand are stuck here doing school. However, only for three days this week.... On Thursday, we're going to Redding to see Zachary and Brenda and their new house! Let's see: Sibling's new house to school. Which one will win out? Yeah, so we figure it'll rain and we'll enjoy that with them and probably Chuck. At least I think we'll see him. Things have been pretty normalish around here with the possible exception of Laurie and her painted room. We're excited about that trip and I think that I'll probably buy Nintendogs for the ten hours. The only bummer about the drive is that I'll probably have to drive seeing as how I now have my permit. And no, it doesn't derserve it's own post because that's bad news instead of good. So, to end my post I have two questions for you. You may answer one or the other, preferably both. Firstly: Have any of you read C.S. Lewis' science fiction trilogy? The second is, of all of the Star Wars movies, which character is your favorite. Scrap the only answering one of the questions, answer both. Please.

I'm told that people actually enjoy my posts

2006-03-01T14:41:00.000-08:00

So I guess that I'll just fill you in on my wild and crazy life. We got finished with school early today so I had time to post. As most of you know we went to the Mt. Charleston Lodge and stayed there Sunday night. That was really fun. There was some snow up there and we got to mess around in that. One time we got out of the car to play in the snow while Dad and Mom rested. And boy, they rested. We got some snowballs and, as is our common practice, we threw them at the car. They both almost keeled over and breathed very heavily the next couple of minutes.
Totally new subject, I got my first issue of Star Wars Insider in the mail today!!!!!!!! It has this really awesome article that pretty much all of you couldn't care less about. It is all about the clone troopers of Episode III and the EU books surrounding it. I'm very excited.
Another totally new subject....... nope, that's about it. But I guess I'll put a picture on here to appease you I'll let you try to figure out what it is and there is plenty of stuff to comment on this time so have at it.

And Now, For the Moment You've All Been Waiting For.....

2006-02-17T08:19:00.000-08:00

But first a word from our sponsers: Oh wait, I don't have any sponsers yet. Many pictures have been put on blogs of many things close to the hearts of my family. Most notably, a dog that is most of the time very loud and annoying, however cute she is. So, I know that yall like pictures on posts so I put the picture of the best thing since sliced bread, nay, the best thing in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!! So here it comes: I present to you, OUTBOUND FLIGHT!!!!!!!!!! Admire it in all of its hardcover goodness. Now, not to demerit my book any but you'll probably notice that I have a new song. We kind of have a history together. Back in the old country, Mom and Lauri always made me accompany them to Mervyns and this song played every time I was in the trying on room, the worst part of it all. Hope you like it and don't feel obligated to unmute it after the first time. I'll change it after a while. Just to make sure that you don't for get what this post is about:

I'm Overwhelmed

2006-02-11T20:29:00.000-08:00

Man, talk about my admiring public! Dad and Mom got home yesterday and today we went to the Sparks-O-Rama. It was really weird, they had five participating teams and didn't want to have three teams competing or only two, so they invented the AWANA pentagon. It was really weird and our Sparks team received fourth place ribbons. I don't know why, we were beat by all of the other teams and one of our kids got a second place ribbon. I don't think the AWANA of the greater Las Vegas area can quite handle a pentagon. The weekend is nice. I'm glad about the lack of school even though we had to get up at 6:30ish to be at the church at 7:00 to leave "promptly" at 7:15. We didn't get gone 'til 7:31. Not that I was constantly checking my watch or anything. The AWANA is almost kind of organized here. Someone found our new geocache. Ok, I'm scraping for things to say here. I'm not into things continuing on after it's already lost it's coolness. Sooo, whenever you want an update about my wild and crazy life, just push the eight comment line. :) Here's your chemistry question for the day: Without cheating, what is a more common name for Magnesium Sulfate or MgSO4?

We're all alone, there's no one here besiiiiide us.

2006-02-08T17:47:00.000-08:00

Normally, I try to let my post accumulate at least eight comments before my next post. But I understand that commenting on a tag might be hard.
So, as my title suggests, and for those of you who frequent Lauri's blog, Dad and Mom are gone on a mini-conference and we're stuck here doing school. Last night at the Suttons (who picked us up terribly early) we watched a "Monk" episode and started "The gods must be crazy". It's a pretty weird movie but I guess is Mr. Sutton's favorite. Apparently he likes the slapstick. Oh well...
I got Star Wars monopoly saga edition. Lauri and I played it today and it was great! (Did you like that exclamation point I put in there for you Zachary?) It was good stuff.
Pictures of dogs merit comments, and so do questions about shelves, so what do I do? I don't know. Ummmmm... Feel free to express your feelings on anything in my post or something else having something to do with......dihydrogen.........monoxide?

Fine

2006-01-20T14:21:00.000-08:00

I'm sorry that I couldn't make it bigger or more readable. What can I say? I'm no Zachary. Anyway, this is what I thought of when I heard of tagging. Soooo, to please Lauri, Katie, and Zachary, here it is:

4 jeeooorrrbs that I've had in my life:

Yeah, I'm gonna go for the job that I am currently doing: Cleaning the Church on Fridays
I guess that feeding cats on a semi-regular basis constitutes as a job

6 movies that I could watch over and over:
The Hunt for Red October
Jerimiah Johnson
The Music Man
Kuzcooooooooo (that's his name)
I don't really know if I could stand Mark Hamill over and over again, but the thought
of any Star Wars movie should be in there
Alex and Emma

4 places that I've lived:
Blanca, Colorado (I was born there and lived there for a year and a halfish)
Worthing, South Dakota (six yearsish)
Anderson, California (eight yearsish)
Pahrump, Nevada (what must be at least fifty years)

4 tv shows that I love to watch:
Whose Line is it Anyway?
Mythbusters
The Fairly Odd Parents
The Dick Van Dyke Show

4 places that I've been on vacation:
Four Faces (although I was relatively young)
The Northern Coast of California
San Diego
The Grand Canyon

4 websites that I visit daily(ish):
www.homestarrunner.com
www.starwars.com
www.ebay.com
For my forth (you can scold me if you wish) I'll just put blogs 'cause those three
are it and then not much else

4 of my favorite foods:
Way up there, high above all else: Leftover Pizza
Baked Potatoes with bacon bits and butter
Astro Pops, the best popsicle in the world
I do love my sweet cherry peppers

4 places that I'd rather right now:
Skiing (I don't mean to be a copy-cat but that sure comes to mind)
On the coast
With all my family
Certainly not at Olive Garden
Ouray

Some of my friends called (and still do to my knowledge) the game of tag, chase. So I'm going to chase the two who never check blogs or post but are both due for their two month check up: Ben and Jay. I hope you enjoyed my ridiculous post.

Long Live the Schnez!

2006-01-14T10:00:00.000-08:00

Schnezoslovakia is one of the coolest countries to date. I'm sure that there's a lot of cool stuff about it but the only thing that I know about it is the name. Schnez. It has a nice ring to it, don't you think? Surprisingly, everyone does not pronounce it like I do. It's real name is Czechoslovakia. When I saw the word Czech as a young boy, I read it Schnez. Face it, which sounds cooler: Schnez... or check. That's what I thought. The reason for this post is the fact that there is a Schnez store between Dallas and San Antonio and Katie and Justin stopped by there on their way back from Nanny's house and got me some souvenirs. They looked and looked and finally decided on these: They are awesome. Thanks Justin and Katie. Also, there is a www.czechstop.net that looks pretty cool.

A Whole lot of Nothing

2006-01-11T14:53:00.000-08:00

I didn't really have anything new to update about,but I kind of needed to update. I've been told that pictures really enhance your blog. However, as I was going through iphoto, the only picture that caught my eye was a picture of the whale at Marine World. I kind of thought that that wouldn't be a good blog-type picture. I watched Kronk's New Groove. It was ok except for one thing, the girl that Kronk hooked up with was a stinkin' Brit. (The first Kuzco was awesome for those of you who don't know. You should see it.) The funniest parts of this one were the very few scenes with Kuzco actually in them. I'm sure that nobody really cares about my review of this movie, but if I don't add ramblings, my posts would be incredibly short. By the way, y'all should really check out Grand-mom's blog and encourage her to post more often, or should I say again.

Happy New Year!

2006-01-05T17:26:00.000-08:00

Is there an "s" on New Year? Some places have on their signs: Happy New Years'. Happy New Years' what? Happy New Years' potted plant? Maybe not. Anyway, I'm very unup to date on blogage. Not to be mispronounced as rhyming with montage unless of course you are a mom. The trip was great. It was great to see everybody, everybody doesn't include those whom I didn't see. But I had a great visit with those that I did. If you can make any sense of those two last sentences, you get extra points. On our trip, the number of geocaches we've done topped two hundred. Thank you, thank you. Harvest Moon was all that I wished for and more. Lauri might like it more than me but it's great. I got some good farming advice from Aunt Carey. I hope that everyone elses vacation went well to. In short, it has been a great Christmas vacation and even though it's hard to get back to the old grind, it's the grind that God gave me. And I'll grind it 'til it's good and ground. Or would that be grunded?

Merry Christmas (Eve)!

2005-12-24T11:54:00.000-08:00

The reason the Eve is in parentheses is because today is our Christmas but for everyone else it's an Eve. Many of you were confused about my last post. That was the desired effect. Tomorrow we embark on a perilous journey. Well maybe it's not perilous but it sure will be dang long. Thankfully we will have many distractions. Dad got a thing (I forget the technical name for it right now Zachary) so that we can watch movies on his compy during the drive tomorrow and Monday. As you know, unless you don't read my blog, I have a couple of games for the drive as well as six new books. I got Kronk's New Groove for Christmas so maybe we'll watch it on the drive. I haven't ever seen it before but it looks fun. Now, I talked before about how to end a post. I still don't know, but my posts always seem like they don't really require comments. I suppose to end I should ask a question: How much ground, Could a ground hog hound, If a ground hog could hound ground?

The Figures

2005-12-18T16:09:00.000-08:00

These were the diagrams:
Eating one Battery

Eating five batteries

A well thought out post

2005-12-16T18:29:00.000-08:00

Normally, I'm not the one to post two time so close together, but I will make an exception today. If you haven't read my last post yet, I strongly suggest that you read that one as well. I wrote a paper and I thought that you might enjoy it.

“A Well Thought-Out Englilsh Paper”
by: Kyle “The Yellow Dart” Smith

Since maybe like the Middle Ages, there have been many differing opinions about

hustle and bustle. This cannot be denied. It is my intention to sit down and play video

games for several hours.

First, moving around quickly, and with purpose, is a true sign of character.

Secondarily, bustle(e.g. hustle) yields more product for the working types. “Hustle and

bustle are like my right and left arms,” said Li’l Spicy in his famous “Hustle and Bustle

Are Like My Right and Left Arms” speech. Webster’s defines bustle as “excited and

often noisy activity; a stir.” A stir, indeed. Finally, sometimes gross stuff can be funny.

In conclusion, I, “The Yellow Dart,” think I have done a great job illustrating the

many differing opinions about hustle and bustle, may they both rest in peace. Also, I

think Strong Bad should decrease The Cheat’s allowance.

“Eating One Battery”

fig. 1

“Eating Five Batteries”
fig. 2
I'm really sorry if the diagrams don't show up. They're great and if you ask I'll tell you where to see them.

You can all return from the edge of your seats

2005-12-15T17:46:00.000-08:00

Some of you might know that I was debating which game to get for our twenty hour drive. I knew for sure that I was going to get a certain one. That one was Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time. I played the first one and I really liked it. It is kind of a Mario rpg. The reason it's called "Partners in Time" because they somehow go back in time and meet up with their younger selves:
The two games I was considering were Mario Kart Ds and Harvest Moon: Friend of Mineral Town. Mario Kart is, of course, is a Mario Kart game and is rated the best Mario Kart game ever. Harvest Moon is a virtual farming game and is rated the best Harvest Moon game ever. As many of you probably know, Mario Kart isn't amazing as a multiplayer game. Harvest Moon, on the other hand, is said to be very addicting and addicting is kind of what I need for a twenty hour drive. So after alot of other things that I considered, I decided on Harvest Moon. I hoped you liked all the pictures and all my words.

The Year Without a Santa Claus

2005-12-08T11:18:00.000-08:00

Now, some might call it lame.
And some might call it dumb.
But I think that it's great
And I think that you all should come
And watch one of the greatest movies
That was ever played
As a Rankin-Bass special on one quiet winter day.

So much for my rythming ability. Anydangway. This is probably my favorite Christmas movie. I got it on DVD this year and got Mom and Dad to watch it. They didn't care for it as much as I do. I don't know why......
The only reason that I watch it is for Snow Miser: and Heat Miser:" If you listen to my entire song (which I strongly suggest that you do) then you'll learn about them.

In addition to my movie, another thing more than deserves a post:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURI!!!!!!!!!
I hope that you have a wonderful day and that you enjoy all of your nice presents.

Happy Birthday Chuck!

2005-12-02T09:10:00.000-08:00

For your birthday, I got you your very own blog! All of the expenses of the blog are paid for! I know that you want your own template and everything so I haven't designed it yet. Just click on the big "B" up top to start your gift that will last all year.(No, it's not the one in the title of this page.)

And Now, The Rest of the Story.

2005-11-28T15:22:00.000-08:00

I always struggle with coming up with snappy titles and closing comments for my blog post. This post isn't really a continuation of anything but it's kind of a good title. If the G-Padges get around to reading this, Lauri and I have decided that you have trouble reading my font because your screen is a little darker and it isn't a flat screen. Do any of the rest of y'all continue to have trouble with reading my font? I just watched Episode III last knight (sorry, night.) It was sad and good just as it was the last three times I saw it. I need to watch it of Granddad's tv. Fifty inches. Man, that thing's big. Star Wars HD. Whoa.............. That'd be awesome. I don't have a fancy widget but here's what y'all could get me for Christmas. http://www.jedigear.com/Doublehelix.htm If you all worked together.. Who knows? It could happen

Hey Y'all

2005-11-25T15:16:00.000-08:00

Happy Thankgiving! I hope you got lots of presents and remembered that Jesus is the real reason of the season. I suppose half of that statement is incorrect. I was thinking that maybe we should get like one Thanksgiving present. Not that I'm saying that we should get docked one present at Christmas or that other people should spend on us money that we don't have, but it would be fun. Say hi to the Binghams for me if they haven't already left. Around here we played pool and ate and played gameboy. I think I heard something about a football game too. Charlie Brown Thanksgiving was on at seven but, heaven forbid, that we watch anything while Surviver was on. So Paul and Granddad and Lauri and I played pool while it was on. We did get to watch Charlie Brown Thanksgiving because Granddad has Tivo. Anyway, I'm really excited because we are going to Zoo Lights tonite! The tonite is for you Katie 'cause I know that you miss England so much. Mom asked If I was being philisophical so here's the last thing:
How much chuck,
Could a Woodchuck chuck
If a Woodchuck
Was actually a Wolverine?

4:16 p.m. Phoenix time

About time.

2005-11-21T18:06:00.000-08:00

Today's lesson is about time. One o'clock is forty-five minutes after twelve fifteen. Remeber that. Meditate on it and get back to me. I haven't written in a while because I really haven't had anything to talk about. And I still don't really but y'all are getting mad at me. I tried to pull ideas from other's blogs. So I shall update you on my tv shows. Um. Hmmm. Yeah, I forgot. I don't watch tv alot these days. In my thought process, I came to the subject of houses. For all some of you know, our house is the newest one you have ever seen. Jobs.... no. Computer degrees.... no. Scrapbook pages and blankets.. DEFINITLY NO. To update all of you on my life, I feel like Jay (yes he has finally updated). I do school. We watch a movie in the evening. Then we go to bed. Today however, Wal-Mart had a new Star Wars action figure display. Commander Gree, yeah, there was like five of him. But I did get a new guy and he was the other one that I wanted. His name is Commander Bly. I also got another guy that does not have a proper name but is known as the Clone Commander. I can't get a picture of him but he is cool too. Some of you may ask why Clones need names anyway because they're are clones. And I have an answer for you: I don't know. If you are bored or curious enough to find out, you'll get extra points.

Okay

2005-11-12T19:30:00.000-08:00

I've decided that most people leave comments if someone got a new pair of shoes or of pants or something. I got something new today. No, not a new pair of shoes. But a new Star Wars action figure!! Yeah! I've wanted to get this guy ever since I heard that he became an action figure. This is a picture from him from the movie:No, he's not the little green guy. His name is Commander Gree. So I go to Wal-Mart and I look for him everytime. We went to Vegas today and went to a Target. I went to the action figure aisle and there was this little kid and his grandpa. He was probably 6 or 7 and he had three Star Wars action figures in his hand. He was like ' Look at all these green guys! I need one more and then I'll be fine.' His grandpa said, ' Are you sure that you want all the same ones?' He said, 'Yeah!'. So I start panicing, really hoping that there would be one left. So I sneaked up and looked on the top rows where this little kid couldn't reach and thankfully found one. There was one left after I got mine so I hid him up high in the back so that some greedy little kid couldn't get his greedy little fingers on it. I mean he called it the 'green guy'!

A little note

2005-11-08T13:53:00.000-08:00

As I'm sure many of you already know, Burger King has put out a new line of Episode III toys. If any of you get kids meals and throw away the toy you should reconsider. Those toys are not just some child's insignificant plaything. They are child's plaything that I would be more than happy to save from the garbage. I'm not saying that you should buy a kid's meal just for me ( of course Christmas is coming up:)) but I'm merely saying that if you were going throw them away anyway, you now don't have to!

The Saga is complete.

2005-11-04T17:52:00.000-08:00

While I am writing this, I am listening to the Star Wars theme song and wishing that I could have it playing on this post. Sadly, everyone that could help me is either at some party or in the process of moving. Excuses, excuses. Anyway Zachary and Katie had to leave today but to lighten the mood around here they purchased for me the final chapter of the best saga of movies that has ever been created. That's not an opinion but rather a certified fact. For those of you who have not seen the third episode (I would be rather shocked if you haven't) or for those who have downloaded it and never watched it, I would strongly suggest it. May the force be with you all.

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2005-11-01T20:32:00.000-08:00

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Well, we made it through the hoe-down. Actually, Lauri was sick( yes for real) and Katie and she got to stay home. Thankfully, I have loving parents a

2005-10-29T18:41:00.000-07:00

nd they let me come "check on Lauri." Hopefully they will get to come home soon since I kinda backed out when they started do-si-doeing. Anyway, we did get some good geocaching in today. 5 for 5. Don't forget to set your clocks back tonite at 2:00 (or is that 1:00?) All of you of course except for those of you in Arizona. I guess you could if you wanted to.

Hillbillyness and Hoe-Downs

2005-10-27T15:36:00.000-07:00

Everyone is invited to the Hoe-Down at our church on Saturday. You may ask,"Caleb, did I hear you right?". Sadly, it's true. I won't mention any names but we are being forced against our will to go to the hoe-down( I've decided on no caps for that now, it's not worthy enough.) We get to go eat chili. Although I don't like regular chili this is super chili. You know, all kinds of yummy beans: red beans, kidney beans, etc. Amazingly enough, this was all Dad's idea. Oh wait, I lied. If Dad didn't absolutely have to go he wouldn't. Anyway, Isn't this a Christian Community Church? Where I come from, you just don't hoe-down at your church. Or anywhere for that matter. 3+3=b

It's Salad Time!!!!

2005-10-24T21:16:00.000-07:00

No idea where the salad idea came from. I've been watching Strong Bad again. Maybe it has something to do with Nasal Toner? Imagine, the fun of noses on your laser printer. Just think about that and comment. Please?

Y'all are wimps

2005-10-21T22:50:00.000-07:00

At first I just figured that Aunt Carey was a whiner, but then Lindsay and then Crazy Uncle? Katie said that it looked fine and she could read it easily. I don't like the looks of the new text but for know it will have to do. 200% of blindness= Aunt Carey, Lindsay, and, I regret to say, Crazy Uncle. If you'd've kept your mouth shut it would have given us another reason to make fun of p.c users.

Cawcache is Reborn!!!!!

2005-10-20T15:51:00.000-07:00

Im very glad that Katie helped with my gnu blog template. Lot,s of time,s Ihave wished that I could redo it. Yeah, scrap the intentional spelling and grammatical errors. Dad got this letter that the guy put ,s's in place of 's's. It was funny. Anydangway, I would love your praise and criticism on the newness of my blog.

Thus concludes my silence.

2005-10-18T15:08:00.000-07:00

For a long while, I did not post. I could give you all kinds of different kinds of excuses but mostly, it's 'cause I took a vow of silence. You know, like the Poopsmith! I felt kind of guilty, but then I remember the enormous amount of inactivity on Aunt Carey's and Leigh's and Paul's and Jay's and Kara and Aaron's. But mostly, I wrote today to ask you a simple question, What do blind people dream? To all you Mac users, I wish you a good afternoon, to those with peecees, get a life.

I FOUND THE GAME NAME!!!!!!!!!

2005-10-08T19:41:00.000-07:00

It was a great game, what can I say? If I had a NES, I would definitly ( I don't know if it has an "E") buy it. I loved it. I read that you beat it by having the most food, if you get to the end first, or if you answered the most Bible trivia questions right. I'm off to look for it on E-bay.

A Reminder

2005-10-08T09:47:00.000-07:00

Just a little reminder, I did not make that post about music. I really want to know the name of that video game. Hopefully, Zachary knows but he doesn't have internet yet. Oh and I defeated Wormtounge and Sharku a couple of days ago. Eaoden has also joined my party and he is very cool.

Just a short little post

2005-10-05T19:56:00.000-07:00

Does anyone remember that game for the original NES that you were this little guy, imagine, and you walked around though this world and you tried to defeat vegetables? I think that it had a Christian imphasis but I can't remember anything beyond that. So if anyone knows it's name or can remember it just not the name or is feeling sorry that they haven't left any comments on my last post, I would appreciate it. Thanks. And also, I think that Jack Johnson is trying to take over the WBI (which I can't remember what it stands for). I know that Chuck, and I believe that Justin too, share my sentiments about music on the blogs. To tell you the truth, I mute the volume on the computer because the songs hinder my reading. I realise that this may stir some emotion among some of you. So this isn't a short post. So sue me. That's right, a boy named Sue. Thus concludes my internet journal entry for the day.

Well, I'm Home

2005-10-04T09:01:00.001-07:00

First the answers to the questions: I'm very glad that I am not British, I wish that I lived in Texas, I had an awesome time in Ouray, and I've seen the movie: The Importance of being Earnest and enjoyed it, though I've not read the book. The way I sees it, since everyone and their Mom and their dog has a blog, it is fate that one of these days, GrandDad and Dad will crumble and create a blog. They have this pitiful excuse that they "have no time"}:( Grand-Dad's retired for goodness sakes. I spent like a day and a half catching up on the latest blogs. We now have a Viking, some lady complaining about the gas prices, and almost everyone has a new blog template! Gosh. Maybe one of these days I get a gnu one. On another note, I got through three books on this vacation. I hear Ben is getting into the Star Wars Expanded Universe these days. Plus, on the Ouray trip, Dad came out with 415 3mega pixel pictures and we have 20 more geocaches to our name. Horsdoeuvres and out.