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Let me do some recapping ::defragging mind:: Ok.

During this past week at work I’ve typed thousands of odd combos of characters that simply exist to retain a file/doc. In the midst of this random digit typing, I discovered the greatest name/pronoun. Milan. oooooh…sounds so Italian-ishtically exotic yet refined and powerful. So I’ve simply fallen in love with this name, and eventually want to visit the city for myself.

Friday night I saw Bringing Down The House with Jeremiah. Great movie. Seriously wonderful. While the acting on Queen Latifah’s part seems to drag somewhat (or perhaps it was just the poorly written dialogue, but some of it is acting), the movie moves along…swell. My only complaint is that it is nearly two hours long; a lot for a light comedy. But still, definitely worth $8 and worth getting the DVD. 6.6 out of 10.

Saturday I went to a graduation reception thing at my ex-church (I suppose that’s how you would enunciate it). It was very nice. Good getting to talk to Justin too. Also I was able to tour the new facility (aka the new church part) and was pleased at seeing how close to finish it is. I wish them the best, and also the best to Justin in his future pursuits.

Then Saturday night, Jeremiah, Sherrie, Ez, and I went to see XMEN X2. I’m definitely not a fan of comicbook movies, and I truly hated the first XMEN, but…woooah…X2 is goood. I liked it better than Reloaded at least in some areas. The plot is full and exciting from start to finish and action is appropriated fluently and not in gaggles of uselessness. Definitely see this one. 7.2 out of 10.

Jeremiah also showed me some clips from one of his SD friend’s DVD. Apparently, one of J’s church friends got inspired and bought a miniDV cam and started his own film company basically. And wow…I’m seriously impressed. Not to forget he uses Apple computers. Check out his site.

Then Sunday I saw Bringing Down The House again with J and Rianna. Again, some good stuff.

And also this weekend I finally sold my soul to the Dell-vil. My Inspiron 8500 will be great, but I regret paying so much for something I will quickly, hopefully, replace with a PowerBook or iBook. So I suppose I will need to get an external FireWire harddrive eventually…but hey, no complaints because it’ll be a nice laptop and a nice college experience as well.

Well, I will be gone all this week and I have no ability to control the server fluctuations. So my site may be gone for some time. If that happens then suck it up and wait until I get back and get my talkin on.

Creation, here I come.

Until the server gets fixed, almost no one will be able to read this update. But luckily, the new server will be an Apple, so I can expect great results in the future. Since AOL has the worst file cache system, some of you may have been still able to ‘access’ my site but it would have been an older blog. So welcome back all of you viewers. And thanks for putting up with the house cleaning.

Next week is Creation. The East location has been changed to Hershey Park in PA. I’ve heard from several people, and Creation’s own website, that it will be packed at the park since it’s definitely not meant to hold nearly 125,000 people. But still, hopefully I will get some great photos to bring back (hopefully only digital photos…::please work this out God::) to make it even better.

With my immense amount of talk radio intake on the rise, I’ve learned to love WLNI. I was able to hear a complete summary of yesterday’s news this morning, including the excerpt about the FDA’s new find. Apparently, PAXIL, a prescription anti-depressant drug, is unsafe for children under the age of 18. Why? Because it causes “suicidal thoughts.” Oh my. Somehow this is laughable, but then again this is a very serious and concerning find. Let’s get this fixed right away boys (quoting a movie).

The news also mentioned that David Beckham is leaving Madrid! England must already have started their riot planning phase one. Oh well, we’ll always have the ever faithful Brazilians.

Well, it’s been a long week at work and at otherwise. The weather seems to be clearing up for the next couple of days, so maybe that will provide some hot/humid/uncomfortable relaxation. I’ll also be testing my last fleeting evidence of patience with BestBuy and be opening up a very, very, very weak and undesired business deal with DELL. Hopefully, something will come along the way this weekend to make it all the better. Yeah…

While I’ve spent the last days of work trudging away at doc after doc, the weather has started to clear up, at least for a time. Our annual precipitation thus far is only an inch away from Virginia’s record annual rain/all-types-of-precip fall (in ‘88 I think), and we still have 6 more months in the year. Hopefully, this weekend will be sunny like the forecasters have foretold.

I listened to the interview with Brad from Mercy Me on WJJS this morning. It was interesting to see how much this blatantly Christian song has been affecting people even without such beliefs. David Lee, of the morning show at JJS, continually mentioned to Brad how much this song has affected his life and his outlook thus. I remember hearing the song a while ago…easily more than a year ago, and can remember how I thought, musically, the song wasn’t very good (and I still will maintain that soapbox to a degree, or perhaps it was more of the production standpoint). Yet, the lyrics intrigued me then and they still have me in their clutches since. It’s definitely one of my brighten-up songs.

I’ve been listened to so much talk radio lately (WLNI) and have enjoyed much from Clark Howard and Sean Hannity. On Clark’s show today he mentioned the new study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and their latest study revealing critical crash test results from SUVs. In side-impact tests, 9 out of their 11 SUVs completely failed. The pictures are awful, some have cavernous holes that destroy from driver to front passenger. Sickening. I can possibly fathom ever changing my views on SUVs; their low mileage is enough for me to never put my foot on a Blazer’s gas pedal, and now with this study…wow…just be careful if you’re light-hearted enough to purchase one. I’ll stick to my ‘03 TDI and my ‘00 M Roadster anyday (which I will purchase…soon…hopefully…assuming money starts falling from the sky).

Not much else to mention lately, just plenty of thinking and contemplating during my 8hr daily stay at work. I’m hoping I can get a vacation soon, not specifically from work but just in general to get out of town. Yeeaaah..vacation.

The never-ending weekend of reunions.

Friday, I met up with Jeremiah and Rianna for dinner (hadn’t seen Rianna is several months and Jeremiah since lunch, but he was in SD for a looong time so the lunch doesn’t count). Jeremiah cooked a nice tofu stir-fry, so I enjoyed several vegetables and food-supplements for the first time. I also tried Naked Juice, the most healthy and also most putrid assortment of pro-vitamins/minerals pureed into a bottle. So the evening was filled with catching up, good/new food, and all of the best music to ‘melt your speakers with’ (the last part was an allusion, so if you didn’t catch it then just don’t bother).

Saturday I slept in somewhat and woke up to find this baby turtle outside on our front walk. Very cute. Especially even more cute after seeing that beast turtle earlier in the week. Yes, this baby turtle was definitely awww.

Then I met up with Jeremiah for a long day of shopping and harassing store clerks. We had a prolonged stay at BestBuy with much looking into digicams because I’m wanting to get one soon. Then we eventually made it to the mall (many stops along the way) and had a great time at GAP. The store people there were very helpful in collectively providing insight to aid in my search for the ‘perfect jeans.’ Some nice times. After a gift card and a store discount I only paid 15$-ish for a pair of jeans, a dress shirt, and a niiiice jacket/coat. Then we were sure to stop by DQ to see Rachel and get some ‘Misty’ drinks.

Saturday night, we both met up with Adam to see a movie. I hadn’t seen him since the last time I saw Jeremiah, so this was absolutely another reunion. We chose The Core because the rest of the movies were mainly cheesy comedies or chick flicks and we happened to be in a let’s-laugh-at-a-movie-not-with-it mood. Wow, I haven’t been so amused since Vertical Limit after Jeremiah’s graduation last year. This movie takes unrealism to a whole new level. This is one of those films to see just to entirely make fun of it and its feeble attempts to even be melodramatic. Could I even possibly score it higher than a 1 out of 10?

We then proceeded to Barnes for some Frappucinos and conversation. Enjoyed. Then back to Mark’s place for some computer geekiness time. Adam whipped out his 17″ ::gasp:: Powerbook. Not to mention the 30GB iPod. Wow (a different type of ‘wow’ from my The Core ‘wow’)! Never before has user-friendliness, professionalism, and detail been so nearly perfected. The OS is rock solid and unshakable and the apps and various programs work uniquely without affecting each other. So great; and you can’t forget the back-lit keyboard! and the invert screen command for night-computing. This is a dream machine. And the new iPods are so much better. They get rid of scrolling and actual buttons for touch sensitive materials (you have to use it to understand how much of a plus that is) and the edges get nicely rolled out. Fun fun fun. A great evening and great catching up, once again.

Sunday night I had dinner with Kristine. Great food, great service, and incredible conversation. Enjoyed much.

Oh, and before I forget, I’m totally out of the liking country music thing. Yeah, that was definitely my late spring fling.

There must be 8 thousand Gigawatts of energy in this body right now. I just want to expend it as fast as I can though because it makes writing blogs very difficult.

Ok, well going to work Thursday, there was this huge turtle in the road. And it looked like a devil turtle or something. It had spikes all over it and this loong tail. The diameter of the shell was easily no less than a foot. Someone told me it was a snapping turtle. I would believe it because this thing looked like it could cause massive wrath and destruction. Anyways, so that started off a nice Thursday.

Then Thurs night I met Allison, Tabitha, and Anna for some ice cream at the new Mustard Seed coffeeshop place in Graves Mill. Aww, it was so great. It was kind of like a ‘goodbye’ time for us because I don’t think we’ll see each other as a group anymore. But, yeah, it was great to say goodbye to my sophomore lunch kids

::Brain rushing…gotta type faster:: For some reason the last couple of days have taken a serious toll on my left wrist. I can somewhat blame it on my more vigorous wrist actions during workouts (due to new types of reps etc) and to the fact that I’m definitely doing more left-handed activity in my basketball work, but still this really hurts. Especially when typing as fast as I am now. Not to mention the eight hours of typing every day at work.

Then today I had lunch with Jeremiah. The first time I’d seen him since Christmas. A great reunion of sorts, lots of good conversation.

Well, sorry to end this blog so abruptly, but I must be off, time for some more Nutrigrain energy bars!

“Sitting on stage at graduation, waiting for the never-ending role call to commence, Josh & I discovered a direct corrolation between the amount of applause for a graduate and the degree of surprise that they were graduating; although, realizing the size of his own cheering section, Josh wanted to deny this fact.” - Erin Crowder 6/7/03, JF graduation. Thank you Erin for your wonderful addition to my blog