Thursday, December 28, 2006

and i want to thank you for giving me (one of) the best day(s) of my life

8:35am incoming call: Natalie 0m 55s.:
N: ''Were you sleeping?''
me: ''umm...no? :-)'' *totally got up and jogged in place for 5 seconds before answering the phone to try to cover all traces of recent
slumber in his voice*
N: ''you were! :-p okay, so, how 'bout i come over there at 9?''
me: ''okay that'll work :-)''
N: ''alright, i'll leave in a little bit''
me: ''okay, i'll be awake'' *still not fully awake, as evidenced by his 'wtf brand of humour' *

1st Stop: Original House of Pancakes. sOoOo delicious. Good day, sir!

then, we went here: (''here'' = the dana harbour marine institute ;-) )



and walked over to the jetty, which was closed, but we saw this:


and then we walked over a ways onto the really rocky part of the beach:




got back home at about 11:51. looked around online a bit, found someone who wanted to know about the eye exercises, so i told them about it.

then Mike, from AZ, now in Cali (in the marines at Camp Pendleton), imed me. he was granted liberty for the day, so he invited me to go see him :D had hella fun, chilled, ate some taco bell, played ghost recon on xbox 360, listened to hella stories about boot camp, walked around a bit, and pretty much just chilled. this dude is my brother from another mother.


Mike: ''hey mike, take a picture of me doin' the splits so i can send it to someone on myspace!''
me: ''okay, well, lemme use my camera.''
Mike: ''okay, well, come over here cuz i gotta do it over where there's room!''
me: ''okay, now hold it. *goes to different camera angle* *snaps a pic* aww you moved!''
Mike: ''well hurry up! :-p''
me: ''okay, just lemme get a few more angles....*awnriness has taken over at this point; snaps another pic* ''
oi, today was so much fun. i should have made every day here like this. i guess i just didn't see how precious everything was until i realised i wasn't gonna be around it much longer. it's chill, though. i plan to be out here again, not making the same mistake twice ;-)

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

the pic is actually a thumbnail ;-)


-U2, with a special editing from me :D it's gotten clearer and clearer these past few days that i am going to regret leaving cali. that's okay, it's not permanent. i plan on coming back here someday. i'm gonna miss it while i'm gone, though. *le sigh* you didn't know i could sigh in French, did ya? ;-)

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Read Genesis 5 REAL quick!

it's one of my favourite chapters in the bible about prophecy! =D

(i got this whole thing from Chuck Missler's radio show: 66/40. so when you hear how awesome it is, give credit to whom it's due....to God)

Geneology of Adam: the deal with this list of names is that they're only transliterated into
english in the bible, not translated.

1. Adam, Adamah - synonym for ''man''
2. Seth - ''appointed,'' Genesis 4:25 - ''And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son and
named him Seth 'for God has appointed another seed for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed.'''
3. Enosh - comes from a root ''anash'' which means ''incurable.'' it's a term that's usually
used for a wound, or for grief, woe, sickness, or wickedness. and so the term ''anash'' suggests
the idea of mortal, or frail, or even miserable.
4. Qenan - ''sorrow'' or ''dirge''
5. Mahalalel - comes from two roots - A. ''Mahal,'' which means ''blessed,'' or ''praise,'' and
B. ''El,'' which is the name of God. Mahalalel means ''the blessed God,'' or ''the praised
God.''
6. Jared - it's from the verb ''Jarad,'' which means ''shall come down''
7. Enoch - ''commencement,'' or ''teaching,'' it's an academic term. the flood of Noah didn't come as a surprise, it was preached on for four generations, starting with Enoch, who also prophesied about the second coming of Jesus (Jude 14 & 15), so he is seen as a teacher.
8. Methuselah - comes from two roots: A. ''muth,'' which means ''death.'' and it occurs 125
times in the old testament B. ''shalak'' which means ''to bring,'' or ''send forth'' so
Methuselah means ''his death shall bring.'' Methuselah died in the same year the flood came. his name is a prophecy. also note that his was the longest lifespan in the bible. it's like a model
of God's mercy. his death marks the start of judgement, and it is also the longest lifetime in the bible.
9.
Lamech - means ''despairing.''
10. Noah - his name comes from a root ''naham,'' which means ''to bring relief or comfort.''
Genesis 5:29 - ''And he called his name Noah, saying 'This one will comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands...'' so Noah means ''rest'' or ''comfort.''

Let's re-examine the geneology of Adam:
Adam, Seth, Enosh, Qenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, Noah.

Let's read this geneology in english:
Man (is) appointed mortal sorrow. (but) the blessed God shall come down, teaching (that) His death shall bring the despairing comfort.

This is a summary of the christian gospel, tucked away in a geneology in the old testament.

some of the ramifications of this are:
1. this, of course, is no accident.
2. there's no way you'll ever convince me that a group of jewish rabbis contrived to hide a
summary of the christian gospel in a geneology within their venerated Torah.
3. This also means that God's plan of redemption was on His mind even before the flood of Noah.

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Beautifully Foggy :-)

This was two days ago, was on my way to work, but i just had to take a pic. it can get pretty foggy here when it wants to :-p i walked outside and i could just smell the ocean. ...okay, so i can do that pretty much every day =D

Thursday, December 14, 2006

Q & A

Does anyone else wonder?
how christians can say evolution is absurd yet believe that adam was created from dirt and eve created from rib? in all honesty which makes more sense....

Additional Details
3 days ago
ok ok, many christians.





evolution basically states that i could break my wrist watch, put it in a bag, and shake it up for millions or billions of years, and not only have it come back together again, but have it working better than it ever did. we are so much more complicated than my wrist watch.

and don't get me started on the big bang :-p ''first there was nothing, and then it exploded.'' or where did that ''central mass'' come from? i say it takes the same leap of faith for either idea.

some ppl say ''well, you can't trust the bible, it was only written by men.'' so...by that same logic, we can't trust anything that was written by humans. and since nothing written exists except that which is written by humans, our only hope of reading anything with a grain of truth would be something written by humans, but inspired by God.

modern quantum physics is actually supporting the bible now more than ever in terms of the age of the universe and the age of the earth, by means of the expansion of the universe, the slowing down of light and radioactive decay, and especially the red shift, which turns out to be quantised. it's not a result of stars moving away from us, it's a result of light slowing down in quantised amounts of speed, oi, but that's another entry ;-)

and findings in the bible itself such as microcodes that prophesy about events in modern times, and make very eerie ''authentication patterns'' like the heptatic structure are found throughout the bible. i'm not sure just any human on his own could cook up something like that.


lol, no! i'm not makin' this stuff up!
re:

http://www.khouse.org/6640/BP078/




think i jumped the gun on that evolution stuff? well, i spec you need the proof more than i do -- just remember what i said about proof
re:

http://www.khouse.org/6640/BP045/

Friday, December 01, 2006

lol...z

Missiz Jóní: omg
Missiz Jón
í: i just coughed doritos everywhere
Missiz
Jóní: and instead of cleaning it up i told u
obcMike: hahahahahahahahaha

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Coin BAHHHD!

I got about one foot away from this bird. he was very cooperative :-)

California

Huntington Pier is so photogenic : )





















the infamous ''Huntington Pier,'' see that building at the end? that's Ruby's on the pier, where Missiz Joni and i first hung out. watchin' seagulls fight the wind and eventually give up, good conversations, walking along the beach, swimming in the ocean, that day was really great. =D





This is a hotel (at least i think it's a hotel :-p) on the other side of PCH from huntington beach.






















''California'' with sea weed on the ''o'' but that's okay. i heart it just the same :-) i took this picture from h-bomb pier, each letter is about 5 feet tall. so yeah, that seaweed is huge
















this bottle is filled with shells and ocean water from huntington beach. you see, California, i'm taking you with me. and that's final ;-)






















O.O a sand dollar!! so what if it's broken? that's okay with me. today is thanksgiving. i know one thing i'm thankful for is California. i know i'm going right back to Missouri, where i started from, but before i left, i didn't have all these experiences i now have, didn't have all these new friends i have, the work experience, i'd like to think i've grown as a person, i've found God again, and i've seen such beauty out here that Missouri can't provide in the same way. So detour as it may have been, it's been an overflowing of blessing to me. But i know that i can't stay out here forever. i have goals in life that can't readily be reached from here. yeah, i'll be sad to have left it, but just like my first visit here, i'll be even happier that it happened, and even more hopeful, since i know it's not the last or greatest beauty i will ever see. California? thank you : )

Thursday, November 16, 2006

A Simple Microcode

If you take every 50th letter in the Torah, it spells out the name "Elohim," the name of God, 147 times.

today's title is ''Chilli Mash''

it all started a long time ago, when i was talking on the phone with Missiz Jóní ...last night.

i said ''ugh. i'm so hungry. there's nothing to eat here. oh you know what i hella want tho? some mashed potatoes! that sounds soooo good rite now....''

then she sed ''oh, i had mashed potatoes earlier today! =D''

then i sed ''i wonder if instant mashed taters are good...i bet they're watery enough to drink..*drools imagining such a feat* ''

then she sed ''ew. i actually had instant mashed taters today. they were actually pretty good.''

the conversation ended shortly thereafter. then later she henceforth-thusright-whenceforto-herein and so forth, called again.

i said ''you know, i hella want some fresh french fries...''

then she sed ''omgz i'm totally at in and out rite now! =DD''

then i sed ''that's b/c we got that shiz on lock.'' wwwwhat? wo-okay! yeeeeaah :-)

so today, i get the instant mashed taters, i pour them into the hot water and stir. thinkin' to myself ''oh THIS won't end well...'' as the little flurries swing around in circles in the bowl and then all of a sudden it's MASHED POTATOES!!! no longer was it nasty ol' hot water and flakes, it was REAL mashed potatoes, rite in the bowl! i was shocked! how did they do that?! they're sooo good, too. i mixed them with a roughly equal amount of beef chilli with beans. ohhh yeah. this is what mum would call a ''stick to your ribs kinda meal'' and it works out to 1000 calories, 58 grams of protein, so it's almost good enough for a complete meal! :D

Sunday, November 12, 2006

At some point, you have to give up...

If your kids ignored you, did things you hated and wanted nothing to do with you, at some point, you have to give up on them. That point is death.

Sunday, October 29, 2006

You are the best

You, as you are right now, are the best, most perfect combination of all the genes that it took to make you, all the circumstances that've happened to get you where you are, all the things you've learned and discovered that've formed who you are, you, just as you are right now are the best combination of all that stuff that got you where and who you are right now. There is nothing wrong with you.
And i believe that when ppl have set backs, they don't just have set backs and then no way to overcome them, there is always a way for them to rise above the things that could drag them down, and the more set backs you have, that points out how much more strength you have.
So you are wonderful, there is no getting a better you. It's impossible, you are the absolute best, and no one could ever do any better. You take the cake. And any weaknesses you have, those are opportunities that you have where you can show yourself that you can overcome them. Things like sabotaging yourself, it's a hard habit to kick, but i know it can be done, and when you do, that's your weaknesses, don't compare yourself with somebody else who got over that weakness sooner, or maybe never had it, because they don't have all your same weaknesses, nor do they have all your same strengths. And when you defeat something that is very strong like that, that is a huge victory, no one can steal your thunder by having less of a struggle with it, because they are not you and you are the best you there can ever be.

a new record, THAT IS ALL.

today at work, we were SLAMMERED. i opened up the skills and speed like a firehose. i had a good hefty breakfast, but i guess i burned it all up in the first four hours of work b/c in 19 minutes, i had consumed 4 litres of cereal consisting of half dry cereal and half milk.

for those of you who are confused, look at a gallon milk jug. it says 3.78 litres is a gallon. yes, that's correct. my stomach can hold more than a gallon of food at one time. *scratches his head* i wonder how it does that...

Saturday, October 28, 2006

''the smudge is on the lens, not the world around you''

i once asked a friend of mine if there would be peace if there were only one race. i know, think of all the wars that were started b/c of religion or other intolerances of differences. something's awry here...
humans are highly adaptable; they will adapt quickly to their environment; therein lies a problem. unless they're continually being sharpened, they will grow dull to adapt thuroughly to their environment. humans tend toward weaknesses under the gravity of sloth.
these intollerances would surely exist under some other names, but they would still exist. if you remove what seems to be causing a problem, and the problem is still there, then that thing wasn't causing the problem in the first place.
if you look through a camera and see a big blurry thing, you wouldn't think that there's some big blurry thing floating right in front of you, you'd immediately conclude that there was a smudge on the lens. that's what i'm trying to say: the smudge is on the lens, NOT on the world around you.
''and how can you say to your brother 'let me remove the speck from your eye,' when all the while there is a plank in your own eye? first remove the plank from your own eye, then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's''

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

This is one of the new pepper plants :-D


this is the first immediately successful picture message posting from my cell to my new blog. yes, it took some wrestling, and yes the wrestling was done by the blogger team. but let's not give general credit and just toss it at ''the team''...one specific member, Brenna, has worked on this problem for me for a little over a week, and has worked out a way for me to be able to update with text and pix messages from my phone. no other sites to go through, just send it to blogger and it gets to my blog. no other site can offer that. no other site lets non-members post comments. and no other site that i've ever encountered has employees like Brenna. so Brenna, if you're reading this, thank you again for your five-star customer service! :D

Sunday, October 22, 2006

and a ''rant-ily'' clad tire tech

warning: this blog contains rant. if you are allergic to rant, too bad. nothin' i can do for ya.

*thud* an impact wrench gun hits the floor.
me: ugh, i can't stand these ''new and improved'' guns! hey John, another new gun died.
John: ''aw not another one...''
me: say, we go through a lot more of these new guns than we ever did the old ones.
John: ''that's absolutely right.''
me: and we have these new guns b/c of why? the old ones overtorqued, right? no, that's bullcrap. if we can put the blame for that on the guns, then i put the blame of misspelled words on my pencil ;-). naw, it's the nut behind the wheel that needs to be tightened down....real tight ;-)

and ANOTHER thing....this deal with scrubbing the hubs and wheels. if the stuff is bad to leave on the hubs and wheels to the point where it simply MUST be removed, then what about geman cars? isn't that stuff getting pushed right into the holes for the studs? if it's so bad on the hubs and wheels, isn't it just as bad anywhere else on the rim/hub assembly? and doesn't the corrosion/asbestos affect torque more directly once inside the holes for the studs? the answer is ''get back to work.'' lol my supervisors didn't say that, they agree with me, but they're not the ones making the rules. some bendejo in a suit somewhere is screwin' everything up and makin' buxxorz for it.

however, i must say this, although it's a complete waste of time and money to follow these new proceedures, no other tire shop will pay me what costco pays me. the benefits are top ten in the nation. and the folk i work with are A+ i don't think i'll find any better setup anywhere else i go to bust tires. so the old addage goes ''costco pay, costco way.'' it actually doesn't really bother me till the guns break one after another. i just rant for the drama :D

Monday, October 16, 2006

This is a post from Natalie's livejournal

Art Trade Yay!
Oct. 10th, 2006 at 4:27 PM
The first five people to comment will receive an individual, unique piece of art, by me, about them. Quality, type, and delivery date subject to vicissitudes of life. No warranties.Recipients must repost this in their own journal.E.T.A:Only one person that commented has reposted this meme, so so far I've only got one taker for art! Repost! Dooo eeeeit!


sounds like some fun to me :-)

BBQ Chicken Pizza! <3

oi that was gooood.

i got to do one tire on this thing :D

Lolz

a cover to ''faint'' by linkin park

i have a little bit of simple green, a little, so i scrub real hard
my hand holds a washrag cuz i can't help the fact
that everyone can smell these tires
i am wet, i wanted to wash, before this stuff congeals
but it's like no matter how i wash, i can't scrub it off
unless i scrub it with zeal
so i go to the washing loo, you hold your nose like you always do
place the blame on the tire shop
but i'll clean up after all these spots...

Chorus:
i don't smell the way i did before
what's all this black on me?!
i work the tire store!
i can feel....this soap got in my sore!
it burns but that's okay, i must clean my pores!

i have a spray bottle of bleach, to kill my current scent
cuz you don't understand i do what i can
so you never have to wince
i am why you never want to slave over the tire mount
it's like no matter how i do, i can't finish two for once where no dirt abounds
so i go to the washing loo, you hold your nose like you always do
place the blame on the tire shop
but i'll clean up after all these spots... (spots...) (spots...) (spots...)