SERENITY NOW!!!!

My allergies are driving me flippin crazy!!!!!!!! AAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!! MY NOSE!!!!

Been a few days

So I had a somewhat hectic Sunday, and an eventful Monday, and just a plum lazy Tuesday.

So Sunday is the normal deal. Church, all day! Monday went out to Simi for Shepherd's golf tourney to film that. Needless to say got sun burnt, sun baked and sun fried. Tuesday went on a little stroll through town, which was quite refreshing until I had to go back home. That was the painful part. Then I locked myself away at home missing my cousin's birthday because I didn't have my car. Sorry cuz. :(

So I played games most of the day at that point.

And today, got up early, had a staff breakfast, doing some work and waiting for Ben to go to lunch.


There you have it folks.

That is if more than two people read this.

A Violent Reaction

In life, things are said about one group or one person, which is then answered a with a defensive response. The response is often time a backlash of anger and offense. Even when what was said is true. We don't stop to think about what was said, looking at ourselves to see the wrong.

I think the church is that way. We often react with anger to those who need grace. I think the church loses some credibility when the petitions start flying and the picket signs start flowing. Granted we should stand up for what we believe, but I think we should look at how we do so. We have removed ourselves so far from the world outside our buildings with steeples, that there is no influence in the communities. How does it look to those outside of the church when we react with a hateful protest or a distant, I don't want to get my hands dirty, petition?

The church has lost whatever influence it once had. We as a body seem to have lost what the first church had. When faced with opposition, they proceeded in faith not once complaining. They continued to make disciples of lost.

In 1966 I think it was, John Lennon confronted the church with a challenge, a rightful challenge at that, that his band was more popular than Jesus. He wasn't saying that his band was better, but that people were more concerned with The Beatles than with Jesus. And then the church reacted the wrong way. Instead of looking at the situation and seeing that they weren't serving each other as brothers and sisters in Christ, they lashed out with a witch hunt. This still goes on today. Our gadgets and wealth is more popular than Jesus. What we wear is more popular than Jesus. OUR ideas are more popular than Jesus. Celebrities are more popular about Jesus. Dare I say, we view ourselves more important, by how we live.

So instead of condemning the condemned, let us look at ourselves for once and realize that we need grace, as much as they do. I think Christian America is full of spoiled brats. Instead of complaining, show love.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Beatles video of the week

So I'm gonna try to do this at the end of the week as long as I can find a video to put up.

First one

Duuuuude

So yesterday was fun for the most part. After work went to a surprise party for two good friends of mine and I think I went insane while I was there. I remember at one point holding interviews with the Rockband mic. So yes, between that and actually playing the game, I am sure some sanity was lost. I wish I had some pics from the shin-dig.

Feel like dropping everything and leaving

All relationships, all contacts, everything, I just want to drop everything, leave and start over somewhere else. I'm just tired of everyone around me. I feel like I'm being taken for granted. Just done with all of it.

The reason why the Empire fell

"I knew there would be something wrong with the new batch of clones." said Admiral Piett, captain of the Super Star Destroyer

So this was the craziest Sunday

So much like the Saturday where the truck almost didn't work, today was the same.

The switcher in the truck had a power supply problem, with no fix in sight. We almost had to run the service from the back of the sanctuary. But the genius that is Paul Cracium, managed to stabilize the power supply and Steve got the replacement for it, so all was good.

It was kind of fun though. There is a kind of high I get from high stakes situation. Not a bad day. Yesterday was pretty crappy, but today was good.

This is probably one of the weirder ones.

Yeah...

Ugh

So we're out of the house we were staying at. First time in like 2 weeks since I had to get up this early on a Saturday.

Bah! *sobs*

So went down to LA yesterday for a WeSC warehouse sale. Dropped some bills on some threads, but it's a bargain for what you get.

Want to start a new project soon. Have to think about it though. I think it will be fun.

5+5=?

How does someone go though life planning everything ahead of time. I guess it's good to set goals and what-not, but to come up with a plan and try and live by it? I guess I grew up with too much uncertainty in my life to actually commit to a plan that is longer than 3 weeks. It seems like everything I ever planned on got disrupted.

Yup, didn't plan on failing 7th grade
Didn't plan on losing almost everything when I was 16
Didn't plan on working at church
Didn't plan on playing an instrument
Didn't plan on a lot, yet things seem to fall into place.

So I need a plan I guess. I have a vague image of what I want within 5 years. A job I can enjoy each day, a wife, the possibility of kids, a decent place to live (for Cali standards). But what I can't bring myself to do is come up with freaking details. Settle for stability, or live on the edge? I don't know which I am called to. I don't know what decision I need to make.

I don't know how to go about it. I hate thinking too much about what is to come, yet I would be irresponsible if I didn't have something planned. Life is the ultimate time bomb. You only have so much time until in blows.

Ok, so I'm a moron

So today, I went down to Westside Shepherd to have lunch with my dear friend Danny Furukawa. So I drove over the hill, battled with traffic and finally got there. Went to the office and boom, it hits me. Where the crap are my keys? My iPod occupied the pocket where I keep my keys. So I frantically check my remaining four pockets in shear terror. Then I realized what I had feared. I locked my keys in my car!

I felt sooooooo stupid. So I decided I would worry about it after lunch. So we had pizza and a long talk about church and life. I missed having that guy around. So we went back to the office, pull in and my buddy Marty (who also works at Westside) had been trying to get the keys out of my car the whole time we were at lunch! I felt so bad, and yet I felt appreciative.

It's great knowing that people care about you.

Anyways. I feel bad. Haven't been posting much. It's mainly because I don't have that great of an access point where I'm staying right now. I will post more this week.


OH! And never watch The Mist! Sooooooo incredibly stupid. It was a crappy ending, crappy middle and an even crappier beginning. The ending was suppose to be sad, but I started laughing. I may be a heartless person for that. O_o

Where The Streets Have No Name

In light of my excitement, I am posting my favorite U2 song.

U2 is in the studio!!!!!!!!

And remastered Boy, October and War!!!!! Holy crap!!!! This is awesome! I can't wait!

U2

Lord of Lords

I absolutely love this song. It just pulls the strings of my heart. Ok, so I'm being some what reflective today.

Life, Love and Peaches

Wow, it's been a few days since I last posted something. Where to begin? It seems like each day this week has been crazy busy. Even on my days off, it has been crazy. Life is crazy, love is jacked up, and peaches, they're fuzzy.

It's interesting how life just takes you over. It seems like a race that you can't hold your own in. It's lap 150 out of 200, you're a lap down in the middle of the pack. What are you going to do?

I often times feel like I'm a lap down. Busted quarter panel, been in the pits a few times during caution laps. Race ends, what now? Load up and get ready for next week. That's the thing, one race can't let you down. Just like one day shouldn't let you down. Even if day after day you feel like you can't get there, you still suit up and race. Paul says this in Philippians, "Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Michael Waltrip is the little brother of a NASCAR great, Darrell Waltrip. Darrell was a 3 time Cup champ, with 84 wins. Michael's career has been as stellar, but Michael still goes out there and races. He has had many difficult races, but still looks for that win.
February 18, 2001, Daytona Beach Florida, the last lap for Michael Waltrip seemed to be the greatest ever. His team mate behind him, his owner coaching them along the way. The thing is, his owner and dear friend, Dale Earnhardt was driving behind Michael in third place. Then it happened. His owner and dear friend was involved in a crash. That day, February 18, 2001, Dale Earnhardt passed away.

Did Michael quit from there? No, even though he still hasn't had a stellar career, he still races looking for that win, that goal.

Thus should be life. Don't dwell on what brings you down, but press on towards your goal. Live, Love and eat Peaches.

It's just a moment, this time will pass

Sometimes in this crazy life that feels like it's flying through time, comes this sudden moment where everything just shatters. What was once speeding by you seems to have frozen still. Words now repeating over and over. Actions being viewed as an instant replay. Deja vu had nothing on this. You seem to stuck in time. What is weirder is when it happens to a group, a family, a team. Something so shocking that you are left wondering, what next?

History has recorded it time and time again. Some old enough to remember, others learn about it through teachings. But no matter what, everyone will feel it. Sudden death of a loved one, the loss of something big, or the point where one feels like there is no reason for living.

It happens. Life happens. No matter who you are life goes on. People come and people go. Relationships start and relationships end. Tragedy happens and people rebuild. Though there is still that moment, that moment that replays over and over.

If we stay in the moment, what will become of us? We will look back and realize that staying there was a tragedy in of itself.


Live life, love life, never stop moving.

This day is gonna come sooner or later

They have the technology for this.

Like, wow

Today was a crazy day to be the one writing.

So like the past 9 of 10 Saturdays, I've had to be at church early. 8:30 to be exact! So my class ends and I go to the studio because I had virtually no time to go and grab lunch. So, I check my emails to see the I had a guy call in sick. From there I get on the horn and call whoever I could think of at the time. No contact from anyone, then I find out that our video truck was on the verge of melting. So I was down a guy with a back up plan I wasn't thrilled with, a video truck that wasn't working and then a grumbly tummy that needed food!!! So things resolve themselves. We start the truck back up, I got a crew, some food in the tum-tum, got the service rolling, we finish it up. Start to think about what to do for the next one when I hear the news. Video service for 6:30.

You don't understand, this Sunday is all video at Shep Shep. We knew this the whole week. So we planned of running out TV mix at 6:30. What we didn't know until 3 minutes after the sermon was over and going into communion was that Dudley wasn't feeling well and that he wasn't going to preach at 6:30!

This means I've got nothing! We never cut at 5:00 because we need to get the first service down for HD and the plants. So I was left out in the cold today.

ACK!! So yeah, just need to get that off my chest.

Friday's Antics

So Friday was a great day. I had quite a time trying to connect to Wi-Fi most of the afternoon. But seriously though, Friday was pretty awesome. Stephen attempted the Solid Snake way of getting around without being seen. Take a look for yourself.

Movies!

So last night I went to go see Leather Heads with a couple of friends. It was a really cool movie. It did a good job of setting the mood of the 1920s. I had some issues with it though. There were a few characters that weren't developed very well. I was left assuming a lot about a few of the characters. But all in all, it was a fun movie. I think it deserves a good 7.5 of 10.

Also with in the day, I got my new Mac Book. Good times.

Boba Fett Haiku

Boba Fett
A skilled bounty hunter
you're no good to him dead


Ok, so it may not fall in line with what a Haiku is, but, it's Boba Fett, who cares?

AAHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

This is sooooooo freakin funny!!!!!

The future, of baseball

Though, the crowd may have to get some mandalorian armor. : /

Today

Ok, so today I find out the Dual Shock 3 comes out this week! I also found out that nothing seems to make sense anymore. Then I found out that my laughing at an inside joke that only I can understand without the presence of two certain friends, does not end well. Then on top of all that, I totally thought Dustin and I were gonna get killed tonight.

Who do people think they are, approaching complete strangers and trying to impose their will on you.

So these two losers wanted a ride from us outside of Carl's. Their destination, a 10-15 minute walk! Yet they practically almost forced their way into the car. So I thought they were gonna pulled a piece on us. Between this and my bomb scare, I could qualify to be in the rap industry. lol

Oh and I am addicted to Coke Zero!

Well, hopefully I can get my new Mac Book this week.

YES!!!!

Ok, so I think I may have a YouTube problem. lol Anyways, I found this amazing gold nugget of a video.

Shabooya!!!!

So I stumbled across some old stuff on YouTube, and found my all time favorite cartoon intro. Just felt like putting it up.

Mmm...banana

Bunny like bananas I guess...