Phew.  Long day.  Just got home.  Things going well with the kids...mock trial next Wednesday.  I realize I never put the link up.  Enjoy if you're bored.

So, I'm shutting xanga down for a few days.  I'll come back next week.  Don't give upon me, eh?  I'll be back.  Promise.  I'm a little scared to leave, but maybe that's the point. 

I'll be reading, just not posting stuff here.  I hope you come back when I do.  I've been pretty bad about posting and I know this is a weird time to consciously shut down, but it must be done.

And yeah, much of this is ctrl-x'ed, so I don't wanna hear it

 Ciao

Currently Listening Blueprints for the Black Market By Anberlin

Currently Listening Keep Guessin' By Hockey Night

SAD :(  My camera's shipping date has been delayed   won't ship till NEXT Friday!  waaaaaa

About to teach.  Only today and next week left.  Sad!!!   I'm currently applying for a new fellowship.  Pay cut.  bummer.

Golfing tomorrow w/ the duder, skully, and slowhands.  We'll all be little kings out on the links, for sure. Haven't dusted off the clubs since we last played, which was probably around october or something.

Band practice sunday afternoon, then the meister is having a little memorial day bbq.  singing at 8AM on sunday.  going to be a busy day.

Hanging back in Chicago for a bit tonight to meet up w/ a friend. 

Usual usual.  Can't wait for my camera!  booooya!

Oh yea, duder, I can't sell my old one for that cheap.  Maybe my car, but not my camera.

Currently Listening Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness By Coheed & Cambria

Currently Listening Never Take Friendship Personal By Anberlin

Worked from home this morning - spent the morning debugging but didn't actually manage to find the cause of anything.  Did narrow things down, though.  I've had a pretty good with with my "codes."  haha they're like my babies.

Missed a free lunch courtesy of GK12 b/c of some car issues.  Hrumph....I had put in an order for a sandwhich and everything.  hope no one is mad at me

I bought a new camera last night!  Nate buys guitars...I buy cameras.  Colin buys WOW subscriptions.

I love that second pic.  I'm such a nerd   Got a sweet deal from Dell/Slickdeals.net/eBay'd $35-off coupon.  Here's Steve's review (I trust this man with my life.  Er, well, my camera.  haha).

In summary...it's got a beastly 12x optical zoon, flip screen like my old A80 (which is missing from the A6xx's and A7xx's), runs on AA's (like the A80), maxes out a 1/3200s (compared to the A80's 1/2000s), records in stereo, and, um, is a beast.    It doesn't have ISO800 but those usually looks like butt anyway.  Yeah, it's hot.  You can get a lens converter for separate wide-angle and telephoto lenses like the older A-series too.

I'll inaugurate it at CJ's wedding I think.  whooooot .

Haha...this article cracks me up.

Work's going pretty well.  Got the dual-surface continuum code running, although it's full of bugs and gives nonsense results.

At least it's running, right?

"Lowerrred expectaaaaaations."

I'm in the middle of like 12 books right now.   I definitely need to start finishing what I, um, start. 

I hate it when you get to the end of a sentence and realize that it was a bad, um, sentence.

Crap - two in a row.

CRAP forgot the 4-track again.  Sorry diamante...still love ya baby.  Like Kojak and his lolly.  Whoot!

Slept at the HUB last night to watch guard.  Got up early in the morning and visited the prayer room.  Figured out how to sleep on the couch without having a backache in the morning.

The secret is to ditch the ghetto cushion-pillow and just sleep without one.

Have some major cleaning to do around the Castle tonight.  Maybe some L&O.  Ok, definiately some L&O...who am I kidding?  Got some BEEF defrosting in the drudge, so I guess it's what's for dinner.

Holy crap...i really did just right that didn't I?  I've been reading the Fridgereport way too much.

This entry is poop.  Consider it splitsville.

Ciao bambinos!

Currently Listening Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness By Coheed & Cambria

Currently Listening Stadium Arcadium By Red Hot Chili Peppers

Wow...it's been too long.  Busy times, though.  Saw DaVinci Code over the weekend.  Had a good band practice too, on Sunday.  We played a show last night at IMC for some Cancer benefit or something.  It was organized, um, a little tightly-packed.  There were like 6 bands and we ended up only playing like 20 minutes each.  We were a last-minute addition b/c they wanted one more band, and played first to like an empty hall.  Our shortest and emptiest gig.  booya!

Oh, the band website is finally updated too.  I'd been dragging my heels on that one for awhile.  We've got three more shows coming up - June 10, 15, and 17 (Mustachefest).  Busy June!

Doing that Chemistry on Trial business with my class again.  Not sure if the long-time readers remember that from last year, but here's the website.  We've changed it to a different case from last year.  That stupid movie took me like a whole day to make.  Hrumph.

Gonna learn Korean.  Had made progress with Japanese a long time ago, but had no one to speak it too.  Got tons of Korean friends though.  It's high time I bettered myself.

ChemE BBQ had some tasty food on Saturday.  Good times.

Good times. 

Xanga implimented their own Xangastalker last week.  http://www.xanga.com/private/feedbackfootprints.aspx  should take you there if you're signed in.  Looks strangely like...Xangastalker.  Although it's easier to read and better organized.  But you can't do any of the slick sorting that makes Xangastalker particularly useful.

Not that I really care who comes. No, seriously, I don't care.  It's just fun to see where people come from and which entries of mine have gotten the most entrances.

I'm back on my diet.  I need to lose some weight before CJ's wedding.  That's my goal.  We'll see if i can meet it.  haha.

Gotta start growing the 'stache for Mustachfest too.  The rest of the boys have already begun, but I swear I only need a few days.  Here's to hoping . haha.

Ok I gotta get to work.

Ciao!

Currently Listening Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness By Coheed & Cambria

Currently Listening Lonely for the Last Time By Seven Places

Man...lots of new music going through the pod and computer.  good times. work's been going pretty well.  I was pretty sick last week, so it's good to be mostly over that.  i still have a cough though, and all kinds of thing going on in my lungs.  not cool.

Gonna try to fly out to CT this summer and see daltoman, and then fly out to Alaska to see the folks.  Gotta coordinate with my work schedule.

crap, also need to send my old MD plates back to MD.  they're gonna start complaining about how the car hasn't been reregistered otherwise.

Brought my amp and old strat to CV's for maintenance on Saturday, then hung out w/ NKV for a bit.  Napped hard after. 

Been playing FF7 a lot lately...a good blast from the past.  Downloaded the PC-version...plays swimmingly on comparatively-hot hardware.  forgot how sweet of a game it is.  haven't played halflife in awhile...requires too much committment...freaky game.

slept at the hub, but have altered my sleeping pattern so that my back hasn't been hurting so much lately.  we're gonna keep the prayer room open over the summer...things have calmed down a little bit but people have still been coming in.  it's been pretty cool.

I'm probably going to lead a cell group next year.  cell group is like a bible study, i guess.  different people have different names for stuff. 

Not much else.  Back to work. 

Ciao

Currently Listening Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living By Streets

Currently Listening Broken Boy Soldiers By The Raconteurs

Currently Listening Pearl Jam By Pearl Jam

Currently Listening How To Save A Life By The Fray

Currently Listening The Greatest By Cat Power

Might sound crazy but it ain't no lie...

More of an evolution of popular music than dance, which a couple large gaps.  Haha.

when did things get so comlpicated :þ

Ciao

Crazy weekend.  I was really sick on Thursday, and still pretty ba on Friday.  A friend actually dropped off some medicine and cough drops, though!  That helped, and I made it through our show that night.  It actually went really well.  A bunch of people came, including hte pack contingency and some of my Excel buddies.  Good times.  We were supposed to hang out w/ some of the other bands after, but they ditched us!  Nuts to that.

Didn't do much on Saturday except recover and play FF7.  Yeah, I downloaded the PC-version and have been playing like mad.  Good times.

Sunday was crazy.  I covered for someone on the praise team and sung at all three morning services.  I was definitely still feeling pretty raspy, but it worked out fine.  Bought some new jeans in the afternoon, and then got re-baptised at night!  haha...yeah rebaptised.  When I did it at CFC, it wasn't full immesion b/c they don't have the facilities (plus like no one from my own church could make it since it was on Easter and everyone was scattered).  So I did it again at UAG in their big tank.  And then changed in 3 minutes flat to get on stage in time to sing.  I don't need to do 4 services in one day again for awhile.

I've debated writing more, but i think actions over words the way to go. 

Yeah that's vague.  I'm not sure what I'm talking about either.

I still have a wicked cough...I need to get some expectorant.  Maybe that one with the talking glob of mucus.  the one who moves into your lungs and has parties with his wife and friends?  yeah...that stuff.  I bet it's crazy-expensive.

Ciao

Currently Listening Never Take Friendship Personal By Anberlin

Currently Listening Keep Guessin' By Hockey Night

Currently Listening How To Save A Life By The Fray

Ungh...stomach not doing so good.  my sickness just keeps diversifying.  Nice.

Basically been working all day.  Had a teleconference.  Bleeblahblee.  Praiseteam practice at 6, Johnnyork practice at 7.  Looks like we'll be playing around 8, 8:30 tomorrow.

My friends from Maryland are supposed to be coming tomorrow too, but I'm heard neither hide nor hair of them in awhile.  So we'll see.

Didn't stay at CUCC as late as usual last night.  Was feeling way too sick.

New Pearl Jam...I'm on the fence.  We'll see.  I do like avacados.

Ciao

Currently Listening Pearl Jam By Pearl Jam

Currently Listening Clean By Shane & Shane

Still feeling sick, but lunch was good.  I hope I'm on the mend.  Our bassist suggested that I start drinking tea.  Perhaps.

Basically been working all day.  Listening to music, catching up on stuff I got from the duder and myself.

Recieving an INSANE amount of teragrid emails since NCSA switched over.  Like, 10+ a day.  I had to make a separate folder in Outlook to dump them in.  Ridiculous.

Looking forward to the SG BBQ tonight.  bringing deviled eggs.

Ciao

Currently Listening At War With the Mystics By The Flaming Lips

Currently Listening Meds By Placebo

Currently Listening Clean By Shane & Shane

ugh...definitely sick.  woke up feeling like hell.  had to mow the lawn yesterday, which made things even worse, I think.  I can barely talk...I don't know how I'm going to sing this weekend

Yesterday kinda sucked.  Work was a bummer, and I'm frustrated about a lot of stuff.  I feel kinda lost.

At least the diet is going well.  Too bad YQ is having Papa Dells for all of us today b/c she passed her defence. 

Actually, that's a good thing.  Congrats, Y.  I'll just have to go easy on it.  Or not.  Being a fatty isn't that bad, is it? KP?

hehe...j/k.

Ciao

Currently Listening Black Sheep Boy By Okkervil River

Currently Listening Young for Eternity By The Subways