Concerning Hobbits?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Prologue

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:

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....

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!

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!

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

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!

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










Yet...

Happy Easter

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

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?

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!