This guy

"The police often question him just because they find him interesting. His beard alone has experienced more than a lesser man's entire body. His blood smells like cologne."

"He's been known to cure narcolepsy just by walking into a room. His organ donation card also lists his beard. He's a lover, not a fighter, but he's also a fighter, so don't get any ideas."

"His charm is so contagious, vaccines have been created for it. Years ago, he built a city out of blocks. Today, over six hundred thousand people live and work there. He is the only man to ever ace a Rorschach test. Every time he goes for a swim, dolphins appear. Alien abductors have asked him to probe them. If he were to give you directions, you'd never get lost, and you'd arrive at least 5 minutes early. His legend precedes him, the way lightning precedes thunder."

"His personality is so magnetic, he is unable to carry credit cards. Even his enemies list him as their emergency contact number. He never says something tastes like chicken. Not even chicken."

"People hang on his every word, even the prepositions. He could disarm you with his looks... or his hands. Either way. He can speak French... in Russian."

He is....the most interesting man in the world.

And yet

I wanted 2ft of snow so I could be in harsh weather and be one of the few able to get around,
And yet the landscape is covered in a beautiful blanket of white and everyone can still get around.

I heard something at noodles last night that made me do the "facepalm-fail" thing,
And yet it reminds me that my Grandparents are move loving and caring than I.

I have a long way to grow in, well......essentially all of the fruits of the spirit. How does one go about growing in such a way? How do you become more gentle, more faithful, more peaceful, more loving, more joyful, more kind, more goodness (grammer?), better self control? Its interesting that as I look at the fruits of the spirit, It's Immediately apparent that I will need them all equally.

To become more kind and loving, I will need more patience and self control. To become more joyful and peaceful I will need more faith. So on this Saturday, I am starting my day by praying that my faith will grow, and that I have more self control over my attitude and how I treat my interpersonal relationships.

Then, just maybe, I'll find the rest of that fruit.

All of my non-blogs

I would say I actually publish about a third of the blogs I write. The other two-thirds get pushed into the following categories:

(my thoughts upon completing it)
-Well....this blog is cool, but its not that cool
-Hmm I think if i post this people will get offended
-If i post this, people will want to argue the subject and I just don't feel like devoting more time to researching my point, and backing up my claims, even though I know I'm right.
-Only a handful of people read this, so this research and topic matter is pointless to post here. It provides information on subjects that those who read this have no interest in. Perhaps better to post elsewhere

What % of blogs do other people not publish?

Why Taleah is so awesome.....

Let me just say I have the most awesome girlfriend.

-She understands when I'm so hungry that I can't even hold a conversation. (it happens a lot lol).

-She understands when I'm super stressed because of school/work/whatever.

-Logical reasoning skills are found in abundance in her. (something I failed to encounter in most girls I've dated)

-She cares about what I care about. I tell her things about cars often and she pays attention and likes learning! (ok sometimes i can ramble a bit and I'm sure that gets boring.....but most of the time she likes to learn about car stuff)

-We share very similar views on a lot of things. Which is pretty great!

-She at least samples the cookies I make, even if I burnt them and they would make good charcoal briquettes.

Just a few of many, but its the little things that count. (even though some of these are big things).

Goodnight :)

about the warnings...

Wind chill advisory
Wind chill warning
Heat advisory
Heat warning
Union College's notice to students that they will get frostbite in 10 minutes

What do all these things have in common?

Let me ask anyone that reads this a question:

-If it were hot outside, and you stepped outside, would you not know that you felt hot, and should be careful about how hard you exerted yourself? Or would you need the government/other institutions to warn you about it first?

-If it were cold (like now) would you not realize this upon stepping outside? At the 10 minute mark would you look down and suddenly say to yourself.."aw crap I'm getting frostbite". Or after 30 seconds of SUBFREEZING EXPOSURE would you not think "gee it sure is cold outside, I should really get inside where its warm".

Thank you American government/institutions/colleges, because the average American was just not loosing common sense at a fast enough rate before.

The best Christmas ever

This Christmas was the best one ever. Let me tell you why.

I love severe weather. Usually its because I love driving and playing in it, which, consequently means most other people don't so i can have the roads to myself. This Christmas, over a 48 hour period, we got over 12 inches of snow with blizzard condition winds. For a good part of a day visibility was below a 1/4 of a mile.

It was so bad in fact, that I actually was blocked on our street by all the snow. I had to call my dad so he could clear a lane with the bobcat so that i could get home. The snow drifts were over 2ft deep!

The storm continued to blast us, and it snowed our road shut. We had to dig a path with the bobcat to get out temporarily, and it would drift shut only a few hours later. Nothing, other than our snowmobile was getting down our streets.

So I was stranded at home. The best place to be stranded! We had food, a warm fireplace, a snowmobile, a bobcat, and each other. I got to spend some quality family time, and enjoy a little R&R. Snowmobiling was one of the most fun activities, followed by hot tubing.

Saturday we ventured out into the City. I'm not going to lie it was awesome! None of the idiot drivers were out. No one with a little car (non AWD type) was out. All the bad drivers were either wisely staying home, or already stuck in a ditch/side street/etc. We got to enjoy driving around looking at all the beautiful drifts and snowy fields without the "man I can't believe I'm stuck behind this clown" or "what a dumb@$$" thoughts.

Today, sadly, I have to report the idiot drivers have returned to Lincoln's streets. People with their FWD/RWD cars that, when the light turns green, and their tires start to spin, only press the gas peddle harder........right. That will sure help you go! People that pull out into traffic, only to realize that they cannot accelerate fast enough to stay ahead of everyone and force everyone else to panic stop. People that do 20 mph in a 40 mph zone when the street is completely plowed and clear, once again, causing a traffic clog.

Overall this was definitely the best Christmas ever! I can't wait until the next storm! I hope it drops even more snow!

on the bandwagon!

So I know I've been to at least 13 of these places. I honestly cant remember whether or not I went to Versailles or not, so i left that out.

Now....PLEASE OH PLEASE LET ME GO TO MORE OF THESE PLACES!

For the ones I've been to:
Most beautiful: Florence
Most boring: Metropolitan museum of art...hands down. Easy decision :D
Most lethal: Amazon rainforest haha

my phone

my phone is trying to sabotage my life True story.

Here's a list of why:
-Sometimes it won't receive calls or texts for hours on end, even when its on. Why? No idea. Honestly. Just now (12:30 AM) I had two texts show up that were sent hours before. Apparently its a long journey for it to get to my phone.

-It won't let me send texts to Taleah's email account sometimes. IM NOT JOKING. Seriously....today i showed her because it sounds so ridiculous that i wanted to prove it. I can send to my email just fine (or other people's email for that matter), but sometimes the phone says "cannont send to email" when i try to send it to her. If anyone out there doesn't believe this, or thinks "that's ridiculous, he must be doing it wrong" I do not blame you in your feelings. That's exactly what i would think if someone else were to have said this. You'll have to believe me.

-My phone cuts out a lot during calls. Doesnt drop them, just goes silent for very breif moments

-Sometimes when I'm typing a text (not with T9 because T9 sucks) instead of hitting a button 3 times to get one letter, I'll hit it three times real quick and wind up with 3 random letters from that key. Its weird. I can't explain it.

-Sometimes it restarts itself. This one I'm guessing is possibly due to dirty battery connections. I need to clean it. Although my last phone did this all the time, and i know that one wasnt the battery....hmmmm

off the grid

Its warm outside. A hot sunny summer day.

"where will you go?" I say.

"I don't know. Somewhere they can't find me." He says.

"Where would that be? They can probably find you anywhere...." I reply.

"No I'm pretty sure they won't look that hard" He says.

(I wonder if he ever will leave, or is just all talk)

Now its a mostly cloudy day. Windy. Late fall.

The company vehicle is returned. Keys, credit card, and radio all accounted for on the passenger seat. Everything is in order.

The house is sold. (when did that happen?) The new owner says "I have no idea where he went. I closed on this house a couple weeks ago".

Phones are dead. No forwarding number. No two weeks notice. All items purchased, were done so with cash.

Just, simply, gone.

"He finally did it. He did what he always wanted to do. He's finally off the grid." I say to myself.

May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
The sun shine warm upon your face
The rains fall soft upon your fields
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand

People....

I don't know where to start. Why do so many people I know (acquaintances, not friend....i can't really be friends with people like this) blindly believe whatever they hear about new products on the market? Do they enjoy throwing their money away on useless products? Do they not care they are essentially being scammed?

If it in anyway resembles a pyramid scheme you can be about 99.99% sure that your getting ripped off. Why? Pyramid schemes are NON-sustainable business models. That means the guy at the top realizes he's gonna eventually have to pack up and disappear. Why pack up and disappear when your selling an honest product that has a good customer base?

People are SO STUPID! sorry I have to rant. Why oh why do snake oil salesman continue to thrive? All these car products, nutrition products, anti-aging products, special water, exercise gimmicks....they are BOGUS!

-Octane boosters: More or less useless for this purpose. You'd be better off buying two gallons of 100 octane unleaded and mixing it with your regular gas, for the price of that fancy "octane booster".

-Gas mileage increaesers: Completely a joke. 100% no doubt. Don't buy anything related to this.

-Special high antioxidant drinks with flashy names and vitamins: Eat a healthy diet rich in fruits and veggies and this will do nothing for you. Its sure not worth its price, and your body can only make use of so many antioxidants at once. its like taking emergen-C. 1000mg of vitamin C? Your peeing out 3/4 of that at least. Good job on more money wasted.

-magic magnets making you live longer, not get airsick, ect: Again 100% fake.

-"Magic" water that is absorbed better because of its ionic properties or whatever other claim: If you took general chemistry in college you already know this is ridiculous.

-Get ripped in 10 mins a day for 6 weeks: If you expect to look like the guys/girls in these pictures, then you = fail. Maybe you could get ripped in 6 weeks if you were on powerful steroids and growth hormones (like the people you see in those pictures). Otherwise, getting cut and bulked at the same time? Good luck...


It's come to the point where I won't even argue a point with hardcore fan boys (and girls) of these products. In fact I usually say "good for you. We'll see how this works for you then". Then whaddya know, 3 months later they are not using said product anymore, but don't really feel like admitting its because they know they've been duped.

The point here is this: THINK FOR YOURSELF AND DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOUR SPOON FED. Also taking a basic course in biology, chemistry, physics, and marketing, will help you recognize bogus things.

*This rant made possibile by an acquaintance on facebook claiming how he's venturing into the buisness aspect of essentially being a snake oil salesman. Of course your product is legit.....sad thing is there is plenty of dumb people out there who will believe you*

88

Just got my Mechanics test back, 88%. Class average was a 60%!!! Yikes! High score was a 90%. The one question everyone missed is ridiculous. Its very arbitrary and vague on what it asks. Hopefully we'll get a scale....which *crosses fingers* would put me above a 100! (since he'll likely scale it to a 75 if he does scale...)

Topic change. I saw God today. In the youtube comments of dawg*** (name partially concealed). I think I was ADD for a reason. I think Kutless's "I lift my eyes up" came on pandora for a reason. And I think I need to take my own advice :) Point taken J.C.


peace!

good luck

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the rough-ness factor

I want a chance to get out my epic fail last night. Not as i, myself, were failing, but i was encountering much fail emanating from others....and inanimate objects it seems.

Last night i was attempting to help with music for the girls dorm worship. This sounds simple no? Well there was already a guitarist, ukelele and 3 good voices, so i thought "I really need to find another instrument to play....I'm rusty and my fingers are gonna die". So with that thought i head out to find a djembe.

Now i don't have many unionites phone #'s, so i called around and finally got the # of a guy who has a djembe. (all names will be left out).
-Well i called that #, but instead, it was the # of a different guy. Darn. Ok.
-I call someone else to get thte #, but no answer.
-I call someone else who has the djembe guy's #. I call him and he's already using it.
-I call someone else who knows of djembe guy #2. So i get his number and call it.
-Its a non-djembe having girl......"sorry wrong number" I say
-I call someone else to get the right #, no answer.
-I call someone else and get a different #.
-I call that #, and its non-djembe having incorrect guy #2. *this is getting old i think.....*
-I call that person back and get a different #. A room phone this time, not cell #.
-I call that # and no answer.

So i gave up on getting a djembe. (this whole process took about 40 mins) I drive to apartment to get my capo (10 more mins...), since the songs were in keys that required one, or deal with a million bar chords with tons of buzzing and pain.

I finally get back with capo and now theres new hope. Emily found me a Djembe. Sweet. I just have to go get it. So Taleah and I go to get it.....we walk to coopers but don't know which apt this guy lives in. Darn. We ask random people but no luck. Finally he answers his phone, but he's not home. He's doing gynmastics. We walk to the gym, get keys, and get back to the apt. No luck. None of the keys will work in the lock. Not ONE!!!! I consider myself a decently strong person, with some mechanical inclination and i could not figure out what was going on. We go return the keys, and walk back to Rees Hall......without a djembe. (goodbye another 40 mins)

So now its almost time to play music, so we rush through maybe 75% of the songs so i can learn the chords. Whew....it goes ok i guess. My fingers almost fell off though. This makes me feel sad that i don't have enough time to keep my love for guitars alive. I havent played before this in two weeks, and i Havent REALLY played for any length of time in a month and a half.

Top off the evening by enjoying my comforting headache i had since 4 or 5pm in the afternoon...contemplating the epicness of the evening's fail.

END THURSDAY

Today my teachers had no mercy. We had a quiz which i'm sure at least 90% of the class failed (enviornmental engineering). Then we were assigned a hw due friday (next week) and another due the wed of the week after that.

In fluid mechanics we got an assignment due friday.

I have a mechanics of elastic bodies assignment due wednesday.

I have a statistics assignment due fri

I two formal lab reports due on tuesday and thursday, respectively. Neither are close to completion.

I will be doing an hour of homework this afternoon (very rare) and an hour of homework on Saturday night (never happens). This week will contain 20+ hours of homework for me...not counting the lab group meetings i have on sunday afternoon, monday night, and most likely wednesday night.

Fall break come soon.....

fall is here

I love fall.

Hot enough for shorts and a T-shirt during the day, then cold enough for jeans and a long sleeve shirt at night. The raspberries are still going strong and yesterday i munched about 100 of them. Today i watered them so that friday i can munch some more!!! Also the grapes are still making grapes...which is cool.

Fall makes me happy inside.

Reasons why fall is so great:
Making apple cider
Harvesting honey
eating raspberries
The trees turning colors
high squirrel activity (lol)
Low humidity
Everyone is back at Union
Swing dancing season (ya it goes all year....but for some reason fall just feels better)
You can sit in the sun without getting too hot
Everything smells better in the fall

I'm happy about fall. But there's a little tiny piece of me thats sad because winter follows fall. I dread the short days and long nights of winter. To wake up in the dark, go to school only to see the light through a window, then return again in the dark.....that just sucks. I need sunshine. I crave it! I can't live here for the rest of my life. Colorado (mountain sunshine) or California are my top two future living destinations.

I love fall

its all about the thumbs...

So i haven't blogged in a while, but i figured I would today, as i'm taking a lunch break at our office and have time for it. So here goes my ever growing thumbs up/down list:

Thumbs down to:
-People who can't park right and take up a spot and a half
-Horribly obvious fake enthusaism (although it is sometimes amusing to observe...only half a thumb down)
-The news still covering micheal jackson things
-Anyone who panics more over swine flu, than normal flu
-Mr. turbo diesel truck guy that drives by our job everyday around 10:30 or so and tries to show off
-Having to watch people slowly destroy themselves with various issues
-Texting more than i ever have before. 7xx texts this month. I have a 1000, but i'm not a texter, and much prefer voice communication when holding a conversation. Texting a conversation seems like a digression in communication. (although occasionally very useful)
-Anyone who is convinced that they should buy into all these new "magical" antioxidant drinks/health drinks. Its a pyramid scam for a reason...no one would buy it otherwise.(think about that one...) If you do buy into for the buisness side....your a jerk for convincing other people it will cure anything that ails you. If you buy into it for health reasons your an idiot that knows nothing of proper nutrition. I can get all the antioxidants i need in a day by eating a handful of blueberries, or plenty of other berries or vegetables.

Thumbs up to:
-cherries (yum)
-E85 fuel
-Working out
-Polar Rose because they gave me a free shirt and stickers
-My hair stylist for giving me a sweet haircut and showing me how to style it
-Kohls and their excellent selection of mens casual and formal buisness attire
-fun dreams
-Making anklets

More to come, but that's all for now! Thumbs up/down is great.

suck it meteorology peeps!

The following is a rant on my fellow classmates in my meteorology class i just finished. This is in no way bragging about how good of a student I am. It's just saying how rude and stupid they are.

[RANT]

I got an A on the final. In your face! Maybe you should've called me when you got together to study....instead of "forget" like you always seem to do. I hope your study party was fun. You ever wish you could get better grades, like mine? Maybe it would've paid off to study with someone who knew their stuff. Too bad. Enjoy your mediocre grades. Oh and the fact that i only attended class about 50% of the time.....thats a little embarrasing for you isnt it?

[/RANT]

On a different subject, I finally have a local source for 100 octane unleaded. I've added like 3* more timing from about 2K RPM, to redline, and leaned out my AFR's a FULL POINT! While keeping peak boost of 18psi in third. The added power has been really nice. I believe i could finally take a mustang GT now! The downside is race fuel is expensive :( After this tank, I more than likely will never fill up on it again.

making change....

Today in my meteorology class, i discovered i was missing a worksheet on lightening. Darn I thought, there's gonna be a test question on it too! Well about 20 minutes into class, a random student came in late and sat by me. I asked them if they had the worksheet, and they said "oh ya, you wanna go to the Library and make a copy of it?".

So after class its off to the Library. As i walk in the door I think to myself...."it costs 10 cents here to make a copy and the only money I have are larger bills. Where am i going to get change?"
We walk into the copier room and a few seconds after walking in the door the second copier further from us makes a weird noise and spits out a quarter, a dime, and a nickel.

I took one of the dimes and tried to put it back in the second copier, but it wouldn't take the money. The macheine was apparantly out of order. So I go to the first copier and deposit the dime. Sure enough it works. I then get this little voice inside my head essentially saying "yo holmes....I got your back!"-God.

1. There was no one else leaving, or in, the room when we arrived there.
2. The second copy machine spit out money only seconds after us enetering the room.
3. The second copy machine refused to take the money it spit out, so i don't see how anyone else could've used it and put money in it.
4. God knew i had no change with me.
5. The first copy machine DID take the money, which means the coins werent deformed or something.
6. I got my copy :)
7. God reminds me He is really in control of EVERYTHING.

The end.

how to make the world a better place

step 1. Everyone needs a naked juice of their preferred flavor, each day. Maybe even 2 of them.

step 2. Everyone now drinks said Naked Juice.

Results: Happiness and cheer for everyone. Not only does it somewhat quench your thirst, but it also provides wonderful nutritious calories. Wars end, world hunger ends, the muslims and jews get along, South Korea and North korea have a tea party (really a Naked Juice party), Hugo Chavez proclaims a new personal doctrine of peace, global warming stops (...oh it'll happen), religious extremists go live on a small pacific island to get away from all the happiness, car companies magically have enough money to survive again, bailout companies can now provide details of how they used OUR money, drivers tests in the USA will become like the drivers tests in some of the foreign countries (really difficult to pass), thereby only letting people who can actually drive, drive.

Law: Stealing another persons Naked Juice is punishable by a one-week prohibition of Naked Juice, and a Righteous slap in the face. (its gotta be a really hard slap).

The end.

Those UNL jokes just make more and more sense...

[Rant]

We have these things called cross walks at UNL. Now normally cars occupy the streets, but when pedestrians need to cross and there is too much traffic, what do they do? Press the walk button right?

Well UNL students (9/10 at least) don't. They will bunch up in groups on the edges of the road waiting for the walk symbol to magically appear on its own. Then after two lights or so, they get frustrated and just cross in front of traffic.

Usually I press the walk button, but lately I've waited to see when someone else will and it usually takes a while. Seriously. HOW HARD IS PRESSING A BUTTON?

[/Rant]

on cardboard boats and late night math

Today I designed a cardboard...well....box i suppose. It was to be used for crossing the Larson Lifestyle center pool. Turns out they didn't have enough cardboard, tape, or time to complete my design. After doing some quick math i think that's probably ok because i over-engineered it.

After completion the boat would have displaced about two gallons of water by itself, and with the girls in it, it would have displaced about 34 gallons. The carrying capacity of the boat before reaching a safety margin of 2 inches above waterline (not counting buoyancy from pontoons) was 1,440 lbs. The boat itself was strong enough that the weight wouldn't have been the issue. I used triangular tubes that were stacked on each other to provide a skeleton for the floor and corners. This would have effectively distributed any vertical load laterally We hypothetically could have put more weight in as long as the pontoons in the bottom layer of the boat remained sealed. (I'm guessing it would sink around 1600 lbs)

The best thing about this boat, had it been built, is it would glide nicely across the water. With only the two girls inside it would have rested very high in the water, allowing for a quicker crossing (less drag) of the pool. It also would have been quite water resistant.


That is all my tired brain can process. Goodnight all.