Am I Still Here?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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'

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?

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

A Real Post

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.