Great weekend

This weekend is going to be so fun. First Sarah, Alycia and Amy are coming in to town. Second Sarah, Erin and I are going to see the world famous Lipizzaner Stallions on Saturday!!!! Third is Super Bowl Sunday! Going to be lots of fun and restful at the same time. I will post more details when I have them. Not much else happened in the last couple of weeks since my last post. It snowed on Thursday, but it didn't stick. :( Nice while it lasted though. Have two tests coming up next week and the week after. Last weekend, Zach, Matt and I went an saw Rambo. It was a good action movie and ended the Rambo series perfectly. I also went riding two weekends ago, about froze to death on the way back. I am also trying to begin running regularly, but I gotta get some better shoes or I am going to kill my knees. I got a playable version of tic tac toe up and ready for download at www.rabiddesignstudios.com Go check it out. I am done for now. ~Semper Fi

Made it through the first week.

I just finished my first week of school and work. Getting up at 6am everyday wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, made the week longer but oh well. My last two classes are going to be fun, especially discrete math. The teacher is funny in a nerdy/geeky way. Sara B left for Greece on Tuesday and made it there safe and sound. I miss her. I am not sure how bible study at the house is going to go or if I am even going to go here this semester. My king will give me direction though, which I trust. Not much else is going on. Work has been busy and pretty much the same. I have been programming a lot again. Been working on tic tac toe and should have a playable version soon and available for download from www.rabiddesignstudios.com Anyway, I am getting hungry for breakfast, so till next time. ~Semper Fi

Living Well

I just got back from Christmas break at my parent's house. It was a good time and relaxing for me. I got to just hang out at the house and play video games mostly. I also moved wood and trimmed our horses hooves and I got to learn how to install a wood floor, which was a good time working with my dad. I did go see a couple of movies, I am Legend and AVP R, both were good. My dad, brother and I watched the whole Band of Brothers series together, which is a must see. It was really good to see the parents and grandparents and especially my brother. Finally got to see our dogs, Chester and Tessa or how my dad refers to them as Stinky and Dinky or Mut and Jeff. Any i am keeping this short on purpose and I plan to write more often in the coming weeks. ~Semper Fi

Thanksgiving Break

Monday I flew down to Abilene, TX to watch Sara B play basketball on Tuesday. My plane was supposed to leave at 6:55am, but just as the plane was getting ready to taxi on to the runway the pilot comes on and announces Dallas has had an equipment failure and all flights are grounded in and out of Dallas. We sat for about 30 mins and then the pilot tells us we are going to get off the plane and wait. Long story short we didn't leave till 10am and I didn't get into Abilene till 2pm almost three hours later then I was supposed to. Sara B and Kristen came and picked me up and we went to Walmart and they got some food for lunch on Tuesday. After Walmart they took me to Kristen's brother's house, which is where I was going to stay the night, while they went to basketball practice. After practice they came and got me and took me to Chickene, Sara B's favorite place to get sweet tea. The food was good, fried chicken and mashed potatoes, and the sweet tea was really good, I got a sugar rush from it. After dinner we went to their dorm and hung out. They made a cake for a friend and since Sara B was involved, a fight broke out and end with both Kristen and Sara B with chocolate cake batter all over their faces. I only got some flung on my clothes and so I got Sara B in the face, since she had gotten Kristen really good. It was really funny and fun to be apart of. hehe. After the we watched some tv while Kristen did some homework while waiting for the cake to cook. Then we went and delivered the cake and hung out there for a little while. It was getting late and they had class plus their game tomorrow, so we headed home. They stayed for a little while and then we said goodnight. A long but very enjoyable day.

Tuesday, Sara B was in class till eleven, so I slept in and watched some tv till she came and got me for lunch. We went to her dorm and her and Kristen started cooking the pasta and bread. They invited Bryce over as well, he seems like a good guy who they just met this semester. After lunch, Sara B and Kristen, had to go get ready for the game, so I hung out with Bryce till it was time for the game. They game was good, even though they lost. It was great to watch Sara B play again. After the game we said goodbye to Kristen and headed out on the road. Sara drove the first hour and half or so till she got hunger and we stopped in Ranger, TX for dinner. There was a beautiful sunset when we came out of DQ and I took a couple of pictures with Sara's camera. I drove the rest of the time. We talked the whole way home, except for about an hour or so when Sara took a nap so she could keep me company later. We talked about what was going on in our lives and what God has be doing for us and to us personally. I really enjoyed immensely and something I'll be sure we do more often. Other then that it was a pretty uneventful drive. I did see what was left of deer after it had been run over by a semi. We got home around 1:30am and said goodnight to each other and went to bed. It was a really good trip, wish I could do it more.

Wednesday not much went on during the day we both slept in and got some much need sleep. I got my programming assignment done and relaxed. Sara B spent most of the morning helping here mom get Thanksgiving dinner ready, she made mashed potatoes and cranberry stuff, both were very good. We all went to Roma's for dinner with a bunch of Sara B's family and cousins. Sara and I sat at the kids table with her cousins and had good time. Shooting straw wrappers, ice fingers, telling really really really cheesy jokes and laughing a ton. After dinner everyone came back and we watched Muppets from Space, it was pretty funny. Thursday was of course turkey day. I was a bum and watched a lot of football, and Sara watched too when she wasn't helping her mom. We everyone that was at Roma's came for Thanksgiving dinner at four. Sara B and I ate at the kids table again and again it was much fun more lame jokes and good conversation. Kids are great. After eating way to much food and desert we watched some more football. A bit later we watched Amazing Grace, which was good movie. Friday morning Luke came to see me, since him and Emily were in Memphis. He came to house and visited with everyone that was here and then he and I went to Harding so he could see the new hotel lobby. After that we came back to the house for a little bit while we waited for lunch time to come around. I took him out for lunch so we could catch up and just talk with the two of us. It was good and we talked about future plans, relationships and various other things. It was so good see him, it was like we had never been apart. After lunch he had to head back to Memphis so we said good bye. Friday night we watched Shrek the Third, I had forgotten how funny it was.

Saturday, Day of Adventure, dun dun dun. The day started at 6:30am, so we would have plenty of riding time because we had to be back by noon. It was Sara B, her cousin Shelbi and I. Shelbi had never gone riding before, so today turned out to be a really good adventure for her especially. We took our normal trail for the woods and out to the far field for some galloping. Sara was on Jake wasn't doing and running on him, so I asked her if she wanted to switch and ride Pedro. We switched and she started riding around on Pedro. I had to go and help Shelbi with Heart because he was given her trouble and she had never ridden before. After some coach she got Heart to listen better and at this point Sara B came galloping across the field. Then the three of us headed to the far side. After a bit Sara B went galloping across the field again and Shelbi and I did a little trotting and some walking in that direction. All of a sudden Heart starts loping and I was thinking, "WOW he broke a trout". Then the adventure began. Heart started crow hoping while loping, so of course Shelbi lost her seat and fell of, good thing hear is only about four and half feet tail and doesn't move that fast, I trotted over to make sure she was alright and she was. I was about to ask her to climb up so we could go get Heart, because he was making a b-line for Pedro, but he didn't stop. I told Shelbi I better go catch him before he gets out of the field. I give Jake a kick and go full speed for the entrance. As I get near Sara, who is near Heart, I yell, "I got him", as I go flying past. I just beat Heart to the entrance, but now he is trying to get around me, so now I'm herding him and after a bit of that he stopped moving and I was able to grab his reins and lead him back to Sara B and Shelbi. It was amazing, it was like Jake knew exactly what I wanted him to do and I knew exactly what need to be done and it all fell into place. It was exciting and I got to be a hero. After that Sara B and Shelbi were pretty much frozen and ready to head home. Shelbi did really well for her first time. The trip home was uneventful. Looking back I know God had a hand in the event, with Sara and I switching horses and keeping Shelbi safe during her fall and giving me an opportunity to step up and use my strength for the benefit of others. Life with God at the helm is never boring. For dinner the house family went out to a chinese buffet and when we got back I made a fire and Sara B and I sat on the couch and watched Miracle on 34th Street, which is Sara's favorite Christmas movie, with BK and her mom. Sara slept for most of it. After the Sara and Cole were having a tickling war so I jumped in to assist Cole and got a hold of her feet and went to town. Needless to say I ended up on the floor after some wrestling. Good times indeed good way to end the day and our break, at least I think so, Sara may have something to say though. :P

Sunday was bitter sweet having to say goodbye to Sara B, I will miss her presence, but she will be home in three weeks and I am looking forward to it already. At church God spoke to me through the preacher and put two things on my heart to share. One for Sara B and one for Kristen. Sharing what he put on my heart definitely put me out of my comfort zone because I was not sure how they would be received. All went well and I am getting much better at speaking when prompted by the Spirit and not worry what others will thing about it. Well this post turned into a beast, but I think it pretty much covers all the big events of my break. Definitely one of the best if not the best Thanksgiving break I have had. God be praised. ~Semper Fi

Gifts From God

Just wanted to share a couple of gifts God has given me over the last couple of days. On Monday we had a quiz in calculus, which was worth half a test, and I was pretty sure I bombed it because I got confused on the second part and started to second guess myself on the first part, but I said bag it and moved on and finished the test. Tuesday we got the "quiz" back and I made an A. I thank God for it because I know he had a hand in it. That was the first gift. The second one came today while I was eating breakfast, cheerios of some generic nature, and I as about done and as I was about to put the spoon in my mouth I looked down and low and behold a smiley face was looking at me. Two cheerios for eyes and a half one his smiley face and that was all that was on my spoon. Another gift from God.

Luke 9:23-24

I understand this now. The more I give myself to Christ the more he gives me the things my heart desires. Which leads to a much better and full filling life, that can only be obtained through Christ and the death of self. I am having a really hard time putting in to words my thoughts and feelings and the complete understanding I have of these statements by Christ. I read it and the meaning just hit me in the face like a 2x4. There is no point in doing anything with your life without Christ, your dead, period. But if you kill your false self for Christ and he will restore your true self in such an amazing way you won't even recognize yourself any more. BAH, I don't have the words for this.I hope everyone comes to know this understanding and the peace it brings. Pursue Christ, death to the false self, Christ restores your true self. Well I hope someone will benefit from my sharings and ramblings. ~Semper Fi

My Adventure

I was between the Reynolds and GAC on my way to the Reynolds to deliver some packages, when I see this person laying on the ground curled up and the first thing that goes through my mind is what is some club doing to their poor pledge, but something didn't feel right so I stopped and got out and as I was walking up to the person another thought went through my. This better not be a body. I reach down and touch his should and ask, "Are you all right", to which he responded, "Cold chest hurts". I call security, while talking to the dispatcher lady and try to find out who he is and is he a diabetic or has any allergies. Then the security guy shows up and checks him and asks me some questions and then calls in an ambulance. While waiting for the ambulance a couple more officers show up and on of them is a medic and he starts checking him out and asking questions, but he was barely cognitive. About then the ambulance shows up and the put him on a gurney and take him to the hospital. Before the ambulance leaves my boss Frank came walking up, because he was looking for me because I had a package that needed to get somewhere asap so he was going to take it. He was worried at first because the security guys had parked a golf cart right in front of my van, so he thought I had hit it and sent the driver flying ten plus feet. He was relived it was not what happened. I will give a update when I have have more info about how the guy is doing, because he is a Harding student, so please keep him in you prayers. Well that concludes my adventure for the day. ~Semper Fi

Not dead yet

I have been really busy and or to tired to write in this thing much, plus I have been putting of a post I need to write, but I am still going to put it off. :P This post is about this weekend.

Thursday night, but really Friday morning, Sara B and Kristen got in for the weekend, but I didn't get to see them till after I got home from work at 4:30 :( I was looking forward to seeing Sara B all day and for the get together Erin and I had planned. We had invited some people over to play games and have dinner. We ate and I don't even remember what we had, but it was good and the conversion was even better. After dinner we played a girls vs guys game of Pictionary, which the guys completely dominated. It was probably the most fun game of Pictionary I have ever played. Then we played another game of 2v2v2, which was fun and Rachael and I won, with Zach and Holly very close behind and Erin and Matt nowhere in site, lol. It was fun.

Saturday morning Sara B, Kristen and I went riding. We rode for about two and a half hours and went to the far field for some galloping. After I galloped and cantered on Pedro a bit, I let Kristen ride him, because he was being really good. After I gave her some direction and what to expect from him, she rode him a bit before galloping to see how he would do for her. Pedro was really good and Kristen did well too. It was a lot of fun and it was just wonderful to be on a horse again and especially with great company. After they got back we watched some home videos and just hung out. We said our goodbyes that night, because they were leaving at 7am and I wasn't going to be up. It was a good visit, short but good and it was really good to see Kristen and especially Sara B again.

That is all for now. I will try and keep this thing updated more often. ~Semper Fi

Last Two Weeks

I am still alive, even though it has almost been a month since my last post. I finally feel like posting again so here comes a new post and update on my life. Two weeks ago I started my finale year of school and will be graduating in May. I also started working the same day. I finally had found a job the previous week with Aramark, but I needed my birth certificate or ss card to get approval to work, which I had neither, so I had to wait till my birth certificate showed up. It didn't show up till Friday evening, the weekend before school started. I had looked Friday morning at Harding's student HR page and saw that they need workers for some stockroom and hours were from 8am-4:30pm M-F, which was just perfect for me. Monday I call them and ask about the position and after my 10 o'clock class I went over there with an application and resume and got hired on the spot. I started working that afternoon after lunch. The first week of classes and working was really tiring as I would get up at 6:30am everyday and come home at 4:30pm do homework and fall asleep. It wasn't that great and I was not sure how well it was going to work out. The next week was much better, because my body has gotten used to the new routine and I enjoy going to work. The three people I mainly work with are pretty laid back and good Christians and just nice to be around. Thursday was a really good day at work. First when I was delivering stuff to the Admin building, which is about as wheelchair unfriendly as you can get, some girl went out of her way to get the doors for my which was really nice and quite unusual, as I have found out. The other thing that was nice and funny, was my boss helped me deliver eight boxes of paper. The paper was on a pallet, so we moved the pallet to where he could pick it up with their big Skytrack forklift and drove the eight boxes of paper to the library with it. I was laughing the whole time as I was following him in the van. I was too funny. Wednesday night bible study has gotten off to a good start and I think the group I am in will be really good and we will learn and grow a lot this semester. Anyway that is all for now. ~Semper Fi

Texas Trip

The trip to Texas went really well and was very relaxing and refreshing. We mostly just hung out at the house and did nothing, which is relaxing for me. We did go shopping on Tuesday and just walked around and visited some stores and went to Chipotle for lunch and got some really good spicy tacos, which burned on the way down and on the way out hehe. Wednesday we made dinner for them and got to go to a really nice grocery store and then went to a fabric store and I got some really neat fabric that mom is going to make into a pillow case, wall hanging and a curtain. I cooked the beef and chicken, the beef was amazing, while mom made a really good salad and aunt Valere made the bake beans, also very good. Very good meal with great conversation. We just had really good time visiting with them all and I realized how nice it would be closer to them. My mom and her brother, Uncle David, are crazy and just egg on each other, we got a lot of laughs from the two of them. It was just really neat to see are cousins and get to hang out and talk to them. We do have pictures and I plan to get them up real soon. On the way back we stopped in Dallas and had lunch and a good visit with Alycia for a couple of hours. It was really nice to see her again. We also had some really good conversation and sharing on the way down and back, which was really good for all of us. God was speaking to me very much through Wild at Heart and brought somethings to my attention and called me to do two things, which are scary for me, but I must do them as part of my journey to true man hood. Anyway, I think that is about it for the Texas trip, I may add more detail later but I am very tired. ~Semper Fi

Overwhelming Presence

I will start from the beginning. My mom came down to see Erin and I and then her and Erin were going to Texas to see my cousins for a few days. Anyway I was not going to go because they were going to be gone to long while I am looking for work and I needed to spend the time during the week looking for a job. I was fine about it till about 11:00pm tonight when I was hit with an overwhelming feeling telling me I had to go. I laid in bed for several minutes trying to get it to go away but it only got worse. I finally ended up calling my mom and telling her I was really torn about not going with them and seeing my cousins. The feeling was so overwhelming that I could not even talk about it with out breaking down and crying. Mom and I met outside to talk about it but I was not able to talk with out crying and then Erin came out and we all talked and finally said a prayer about it. I am at peace now, but still recovering from the presence of God. This is the second time I have had an experience like this. The first one was not nearly as strong and it was when I was supposed to go to Colorado for Thanksgiving but God said no and to stay. I did and it was a very wonderful week and one of my most memorable times with Sara B. So I am going now and feel at peace. God will speak very loud and clear when you need to hear it most. God is amazing, seek him at all costs. ~Semper Fi

God is Amazing

Since my last post things have quieted down a lot for me and God gave me a wonderful surprise for sticking it all out. I don't remember what day it was but earlier this week I got an email from my math teacher with our grade for our last test and our final grade in the class. After failing the test during the most intense part of the fight, I needed to get at least an eighty or more to get a C in the class. I took the final test and totally felt like I had failed it for sure therefore failing the class, cause I totally felt like I blanked and couldn't remember how to do anything. God is amazing and thanks to him I made and 86 and got a C in the class, which was just what I needed. I was so surprised and excited, I couldn't believe it, God is good.

Yesterday was wonderful. Sara B and I got up early to go riding, because we wanted to beat the heat so we could do a lot of running and have plenty of time to work with them. Pedro was being really good and Jake was being kind of tooty, wanting to run off and not listening, especially when Pedro was around. So I rode around different parts of the field and to get out of sight while Sara did circles and lots of them. Anyway we did that for about an hour or so and I would comeback and check on her and to see how things were going. Then we rode down to the river and sat there for a bit in the cooler air. After that we rode some more and thought about seeing how over grown and accessible it was. We started heading over there and Jake was still not listen real well, so I kept going while Sara B did some more circles with him. Anyway I got over to the other field and waited a bit for Sara B and when she didn't show up I headed the rest of the way to the entry and rode down to the river. It was a bit steep but doable with out dismounting. I scouted it out and then headed back to find Sara B. After I founded here we both headed to the river and when we got down there we both thought about rolling our pants up and standing in it, so we walked the horse of over to this nice long that is just right for a hitching post and tied them up and got ready to get in the water. At first the mud was about six inches deep and so we walked a little further down the bank and found a much better place. There was a long that extended out into the river a ways, so Sara B started to climb out on it and did just fine until she tried to come back. On her way back she lost her balance and ended up jumping of and landing waist deep in the water, which by the way was ice cold, she made some great nosies and faces, lol. After that she just sat down on the log in the water and so I joined her on the long but on a part that was not under water, but covered in mud. After getting cooled of and chatting she got of and tried to fall over in the mud, cause she doesn't have the leet mud walking skills I do, so I helped to keep her from getting all the way wet. After that she tried to push me over on the log, which didn't work because I was leaning kind of forward and she didn't push hard enough. Of course if she had pushed harder I would have grab her and took her with me which would have been funny. The water was cold but it felt so good after getting hot and being in the sun so long. It was a really good time and Jake was doing much better by the end of the day. Both of us thought it was one of the best times riding we have had in awhile. It was such a good time.

In other news I have started looking for a job I can have for the next year while I finish school, to make money to get a car and to be able have enough money for when I finally move out and get a really job, so please pray for that and for vigilance and open eyes. God is good! ~Semper Fi

Satan is an Ass

Thursday was a rough day for sure. For most of the day Satan was in my ear whispering get mad at Sara B, get made at Sara B and would not stop. Along with that was a very strong feeling of being completely ignored/tossed aside, which was completely false and was not coming from me. Along with fighting that, I was trying to study for my test on Friday and was not able to concentrate because of what was going on inside me. I even tried going outside to fishing/have quiet time and pray while in the boat and that was not working so finally I went to the weight room to play some NS to get my mind off of everything and that finally helped. I prayed that night and the rest of the week was good. I talked to Sara B on Friday about Thursday and Satan being all in my face and she said he has been in her face a lot lately which didn't make me happy at all. Sunday I skipped church to go spend an hour or so in the woods praying and talking to God about what has been going on and for Sara B. It was a really good time and before I got up to leave I asked god what verse he had for me today and just opened my Bible and there was Jonah 2:2-9

"In my distress I called to the LORD,
and he answered me.
From the depths of the grave I called for help,
and you listened to my cry.

You hurled me into the deep,
into the very heart of the seas,
and the currents swirled about me;
all your waves and breakers
swept over me.

I said, 'I have been banished
from your sight;
yet I will look again
toward your holy temple.'

The engulfing waters threatened me,
the deep surrounded me;
seaweed was wrapped around my head.

To the roots of the mountains I sank down;
the earth beneath barred me in forever.
But you brought my life up from the pit,
O LORD my God.

"When my life was ebbing away,
I remembered you, LORD,
and my prayer rose to you,
to your holy temple.

"Those who cling to worthless idols
forfeit the grace that could be theirs.

But I, with a song of thanksgiving,
will sacrifice to you.
What I have vowed I will make good.
Salvation comes from the LORD."

Just what I had been experiencing lately and needed to hear. God is amazing. Always remain vigilant in watching out for the devils schemes and know they can never succeed against the LORD Almighty, God be praised. ~Semper Fi

Yep, I'm Not Dead

I was trying to do more studying for my tests, but I am really distracted and the information is not sinking in. It is kind of pissing me off atm. Maybe cause I got too much going on in my head right at this moment to focus enough to study. I am some what tired but I think it is mostly just feeling ignored by Sara B because Bethany came for a surprise visit for her birthday, but at the same time I am not being ignored so the cause is Satan trying to put wrong thoughts/feelings in my head, so I am having to fight him off constantly. He has been after my quite a bit this month and I am getting tired of it. The last couple of weeks especially when I am tired and don't feel like doing much on my computer Satan is right there with the desire to go look at porn, so I have to tell him to go away in Christ name and walk away from my computer, because there is no way in hell I'm going down that road again. Seven years was much to long the first time. So that is what is going on with my spiritual life at the moment, war time. Life is good though. As I mentioned above Bethany got in yesterday evening and the look on Sara B's face was priceless, lol, makes me smile and laugh just thinking about. Sara B and I have started working out together this week and it has been enjoyable, I have been sore pretty much all week. Monday we did legs, Tuesday we did arms and Wednesday we did sprints and today we were supposed to do should and back, but since Bethany is here that's not happening, I am kind of bummed about not working out, but I understand. Sara B and I have gotten to go riding quite a bit, which has been wonderful of course. Tomorrow a whole bunch of us are going to Georgetown for catfish and that will be lots of fun. I have been so busy with school and working and homework, it feels like all I do is work, school, sleep and that does not make me happy. I am pretty sure that after I finish my school the coming year that I will be moving to Texas around Dallas or Abilene for a couple of years while Sara B finishes school and then after that I may be off to Montana or where ever Sara B decides to go to grad school for her doctorate, but it all depends on where God want me to be, which atm I feel is Texas for a few years and the to Montana. I think that is about it for now. ~Semper Fi

Moonlit Ride

Riding under a nearly full moon is pretty much amazing! Sara B and I went riding last night under a nearly full moon. It was so pretty and peaceful just riding bareback in the moon light. We road around the field for a bit and then took the wooded trail to the wonderful open field, which is right next to the river and makes it feel like you are out in the middle of no where. We rode and talked for quite awhile and about 10:30 fog started coming up from the river, which was kind of eerie and cool at the same time. The woods were kind of spooky to ride through but we had Buddy and Sport with us for body guards. Anyway it was a wonderful time and we are planning to do it again Tuesday. That is all. ~Semper Fi

Just an Update

This past week as been very busy because we were getting the yard ready for a Memorial Day cook out. The fun started Monday with the rental of a rototiller to till areas around the pool and out front to get them ready to put sod down. I tilled for about four hours on Monday and also spent time raking up the tilled up grass and rocks. Tuesday I did some more tilling and raking, plus digging around the edges to getting it low enough to match the other parts of the grass and concrete. It was very tiring and hard work. Wednesday I spent some more time finishing the raking, leveling and digging, by the end of the day my arms felt like jello and were pretty much gone.

Thursday we got the sod and spent six hours laying it all down. It wasn't very difficult but by the end of the day my lower back and right between my shoulders was very tired. That night though we, Sara B, Amy, Natasha and I went to Georgetown and had a really good time with lots of laughing and talking. We stayed there for about two hours before we finally got up and left. We also had a bunch of fun on the way to and from there, with lots of laughing, it was a great time.

Friday was a really relaxing day compared to the rest of the week. In the morning Sara B and I went riding for about two and a half hours. It was hot out and the horses were be a bit tooty, so we didn't do any galloping. We did go exploring more and finally found a way to the river!!!, wahoo. We are playing on going swimming this week but will see what happens. After riding I went for a swim to cool off. That evening Amy, Natasha, Erin and I went to the movies. Erin and I saw Shrek 3, which was about as good as the other two and Amy and Natasha saw Pirates 3 and they said it was good. Any way it was a really good day.

Riding Adventures of Sara B and Jacob

Sara B and I went riding in the woods today and found our way into a very large grass field in the middle of the woods. The field was picture perfect for galloping through, with tall grass and rolling hills. Sara B asked me if we could run through it and of course I said yes. We take off at full speed across the field and about three quarters through was somewhat of a muddy patch which cause Pedro to change strides and speed very quickly, which in turned caused me to be pitched forward nearly onto his neck and it took me a few moments to recover, after that it was all good. We road in the field for close to an hour, exploring and trying to find a way down to the Little Red River, but alas we failed to find a way down to the river this day. Now we have a great trail ride to take people on with some challenging parts, tree dodging and field galloping.

On Tuesday we had wonderful weather for evening riding, so we went. On our way back we got to see part of the sun setting in the clouds, beautiful. We also spotted something black and it appeared to be standing on its hind legs. We road towards it and it started moving away, but it wasn't on its hind legs, it was just its tail in the air and it had a white strip. Then Sara B exclaimed, "It's a skunk!" About that time the two dogs spotted it and started chasing it further into the field and then it turned and started coming towards us, ahhhhh! We were both not going to let that happen so we took off and put safe distance between us and the skunk before we turned around to watch where it went, luckily it went down the road and away from us and the house. The skunk left a wonderful choking, make your throat burn, smell behind and the dogs got it on them too. :( Away we got a good laugh. Ya never know what will happen when you go riding. Adventure for the win!!!!

Make up your own title. Just like choose your own adventure

7am I wake to wonderful weather just perfect for taking the trash to the road. I make the journey and return with the trash safely at the curb. Breakfast with Erin and Sara B was enjoyable with eggs, bacon and fruit making up the meal part. We ate in a rush, so we could get out to the horses asap. Now the adventure begins. Sara B and I went riding. On the way to the woods Buddy and Sport took off into the woods after something and then Buddy came running out and Sport sounding like he was getting killed, so I rode towards the noise to see what was going on and to scare it off. As I got closer I could see something, which seemed to be rather large, chasing Sport but could not tell what it was. Getting closer it stopped chasing Sport and looked right at me and dun, dun, dun it was a doe, ahhhhhh oh noes!!!! The End.

Past Two Days

Thursday was a good day. In calc 2 the teacher gave us a take home final that isn't due till our schedule final time so we have like a week to work on it. I'm going to try and get it done by Tuesday and I may just be able to pull a C in the class if I do well on the final. Then in probability we final got our tests back and I made a B on it, made me very happy to finally do good on a test in that class. After school I worked outside and then played a bunch of WoW with my brother for a really good time. After dinner Ray took us out for ice cream, so we all piled in the van and had a family trip to the Bulldog for strawberry shortcake, mmmm good. On the way there and back the girls were going crazy, hitting and slapping each other like they were on crack.

Today I was out at the Jackson's working on a stone pathway for them. I worked for two hours and then went riding for two hours. I also brought them some mouse traps for the grain/tack room and I had gotten a mouse before leaving. :) The weather was beautiful with a bit of a breeze, perfect for riding. I went exploring on Pedro, looking for new places to ride and took a trial that ended in somebody's field and since I didn't want to go riding in the middle of their field I turned around and headed back. I did a bit of galloping and loping too. Anyway it has been a good last few days. ~Semper Fi

My weekend

Friday night, Allan, Bethany, Erin, Zach and I went bowling. We played three games which was one to many for me. My arm was getting tired from throwing a fifteen pound ball as hard could, so my game went down hill. The second game was by far the best and it was really close. Erin and Allan tied at 127 and I came in second with 126 and would have won if I had made my spare :( Over all it was a good night with lots of laughing. Saturday I removed all the bricks from the top edge of the pool to get it ready to be formed for concrete this week. Then I went fishing for quite a while, didn't catch to much. Fish still aren't bitting a whole lot. After that I didn't do to much else. Sunday I went out to the Jacksons and gathered rocks for an hour, because I am going to build a stone walk way and wall for them. After that I went played with the horse for about an hour. Pedro was being a turd and I didn't really feel like riding, because I was tired from all the work I did this weekend instead of resting like I normally do. As I was leaving I got asked to play baseball with them so I did that till Mark had to go pick some stuff up, so I went and helped him move so things and then ate dinner and chatted for awhile. I was officially made part of their family at dinner too :) I was out at their place for about seven hours and enjoyed it for the most part. I also talked to Sara B and Betheny this weekend and they are both doing good. I am really tired and being lazy today, so that is all I am writing in this post. Good day. ~Semper Fi

Unanswered Prayer

An unanswered prayer is a painful thing even when it involves an animal. Sometime this morning the Jacksons lost one of their mares while she was giving birth. She was not very healthy when I saw her yesterday, but she didn't look like she was going to give birth soon, nor die. I had asked God to keep her well, but it was not to be. Life is an interesting thing, one day I am flying in the clouds with the real possibility of owning a horse by summers end and the next walking with the loss of a horse and colt. What can you do but trust in the infinite wisdom of the most high and know things will come out right. ~Semper Fi

Good weekend

This weekend was pretty fun with lots of laughing. Friday Allan, Amy, Erin, Zach and I went to the movies to get away from the house because Bethany's club was having a retreat at the house. While we were in line to get tickets Dan and Hannah showed up, it was pretty fun because they had come to see a different movie, a chick flic don't remember the name, so of course we or I should say Allan gave Dan a hard time about it. Anyway we saw Ghost Rider, which I thought was pretty funny because of the cheesiness. I laughed quite a bit during it and at one point Ghost Rider gets put in jail and starts to get beat up by the inmates and then turns in to Ghost Rider and beats them all up and right before he leaves he points at this kid in the jail cell, I leaned over to Zach and said, "Stay in school", but Ghost Rider didn't say it, but if he had it would have fit in with the movie just fine, that's how cheesy it was. It was a good time nonetheless(is a strange word, because it is made up of three complete words).

Saturday was pretty uneventful till after dinner when the girls, Amy, Bethany and Erin, got into a towel snapping fight while doing the dishes. Provided much laughter. Then Zach got in to it for a bit a gave some good shots and provided more laughter. Makes me laugh even thinking about it. That's about it for Saturday and it rained a lot :(

Sunday turned out to be beautiful weather wise, so of course I had to go riding. Amy and Erin came with me and we rode around the field and then in the woods and then back in the field for some faster riding. Anyway we had a good time and I had some good laughs provided by Erin and Amy while we rode in the woods. hehe

Today I took a bunch of grain out to the Jacksons for the horses because they needed it and got to talk them about the horses and coming out to help them get their place cleaned up and taken care of, so I will be over there most Saturdays from now on. Also I may have some other interesting/exciting news to tell later once I have more info. That is all for now. ~Semper Fi

What a week and weekend

This past week and weekend was a lot of fun, especially the weekend. I'll start at the beginning. Little Zach's school was on spring break so he was here for most of the day on Monday, Tuesday and part of the day Thursday. I got to be big brother on Monday and Tuesday. Monday, he helped me clean the apartment, he mopped the bathroom floor, scrubbed the shower and did one of the mirrors, because we couldn't go fishing or play video games till I had got the apartment cleaned. After cleaning Zach decided he wanted to go fishing so we went and fished for probably close to two hours till lunch time and didn't really catch much. During lunch we watched Spider Man 2 and just as it was getting good the power got turned off, because Jim was working on something, so the put an end to our movie watching. We got the BB guns out and shot those for awhile and then went fishing again to end the day. Tuesday I was in class till lunch time, so we ate lunch and then went fishing for a awhile. Zach caught a good sized bass and ran inside to tell his mom and to get a camera. So we got a picture taken, I was holding the fish because he is still afraid of them, go figure, and that was how we ended Tuesday.

This weekend was wonderful. Thursday night Sara B and her roommate, Audrey, got in for the weekend. Ray and I helped them bring their stuff in after everyone said greetings and gave hugs. After that pretty much everyone went to bed except me because I was watching tv and waiting for Sara B and Audrey to get unpacked. They came out and we watched AFV and chatted for an hour and a half, mostly laughing, and I was really enjoying hearing Sara B laugh, she was cracking Audrey and I up because she was laughing so hard.

Friday, I got up and cut some more cedar logs and put them in position to be picked up. After that I got cleaned up and eat my lunch and visited/listened to Sara B, Audrey and Rebbecca talk and we worked out when we could go riding, which was Saturday. After lunch I my haircut by Erin and while that was happen Zach and his dad come over to go fishing and Zach wanted me to go with them. After I got my hair cut I went and got a pole. Sara B and Audrey came out to see Zach and Sara B wished me luck with fishing before they left to have lunch with Ray. The wind was blowing pretty good and so I was working my way around the pond to get the wind at my back and didn't get and nibbles or anything till I got to the far side. On the far side I caught a smaller bass finally and a bit later I had a bass come up a bump my lure just as I was pulling it out to cast again. The next cast I hook a monster four or five pound bass. She didn't put up much of a fight because it was so cold out but man I was really surprised at the size, she was a monster. Has to be the biggest fish in the pond. It was a really nice gift from God to catch such a big fish after not getting anything in the past several days. I fished for a bit more but the sun went away and the wind kept blowing, which made me get the chills so I went in to warm up. Around three Luke called so I talked to him while he was on his way home from work. We had a good visit, just talking about stuff. Anyway while talking to Luke I got a phone call from Montgomery and figured it was Rebbecca, so I waited till Luke and I finished before calling back. Turned out it was Sara B asking if we could go riding, so I called the Jacksons to make sure it was ok and the three of us, Sara B, Audrey and I, headed out there at about 4:30. We got the horses and I had the girls brush them while I got the saddles ready. We rode around the field for a bit so I could see how Pedro was going to be and to see how Audrey would do on Heart, because this was only her third or so time riding. Everyone was doing good, so I asked if they wanted to go ride in the woods and of course they were up for it. We heading into the woods and right near the start Pedro started getting freaked out over a pile of leaves, so I was talking to him and got him to cross them after a few tries. Pedro has definitely not been in the woods much, because he was like, ahhhhhh nature! get it off get it off!!! Anyway I had a lot fun riding him in the woods. We rode around in the woods dodging trees and branches and listening to Audrey "talk" to Heart, because he likes to take you under trees with low branches, as she was dodging branches and getting him to go where she wanted him to go. We survived the woods and got some good laughs, so we headed back to the field to do some loping and galloping. I did some galloping on Pedro and a lot of trotting, man his trot is brutal, bouncy, bouncy. Sara did a lot of loping and some galloping on Jake. It was beautiful to watch her ride and the motion of the horse as his tail and mane are flowing in the wind. The harmony between rider and horse is just beautiful to see in motion, thank you God for such a privilege. While Sara B and I were doing that Audrey was riding Heart around a bit and Heart decided he wanted to go to the lower gate. I rode over to assist in encouraging and directing Audrey to show Heart who was boss and that he could not get away with what he was doing. After a bit of a battle Audrey won and Heart was much better about listening for the rest of the time. We rode some more and before we headed back to the barn we did a cooling off lap around the whole field to get the horses cooled of, mostly for Jake though. After riding we went and got the horses brushed and put back and before leaving we went and said hi to the Jacksons and chatted a bit. We ended up riding for about two and half hours. Everyone had a lot of fun, Sara B and I could barely walk but it was all good. When we got back everyone had eaten dinner already so the three of us had dinner together from the left overs and it was nice.

Saturday we had breakfast and sat around the table talking till about noon, before doing some other things. About one I was going to call and make reservations for Georgetown but first I had to find out if Sara B and Audrey could come. They where going to go to Spring Sing because Sara B didn't want to waste the tickets she thought her parents had bought. When she found out they hadn't paid for then the decision was easy. I made the reservations for 7pm since that was the earliest they had open for eleven people. About then Ray called seeing if Zach and I could help move some wood and Sara B and Audrey wanted to come. We piled into the Explorer and headed to Al's to load up some wood. They were big trees cut in to about ten foot chunks. We had to make three trips because the were so heavy. Sara B and Audrey were are moral support team since most of the wood was so big. Zach and I surprised them in what we could lift and we got called Hercules :) hehe. Anyway it was fun and a good work out. It was about 4:30 when we finished so I changed clothes and got some food and came and watched Hidalgo and after Sara B and Audrey had finished getting there food ready they came back and joined me. At first Audrey didn't want to sit on the couch because she was afraid of spilling beans on the couch, so we gave her a bad time about it and got her to move to the couch hehe. We watched Hidalgo till it was time to leave. Sara B, Audrey, Dan, Abraham, Zach and Bethany all piled into the van and Erin, Hannah and Amy got in to her car to follow us. We got to Georgetown a little early and had our picture taken out front. Oh yeah, it was Audrey, Amy, Bethany, Dan, Hannah and Zach's first time coming to Georgetown and they all liked it. On they way back we had to go over some railroad tracks and bit of a dip right after them and I did it a bit fast and everyone got a good laugh out if it and later one we got back to Searcy I did a break check at the stop light and that really made everyone laugh. It was a really good day.

Sunday was good but a bit sad at the same time. We had a big easter lunch and got easter baskets that we had to look for. We also had family pictures taken before lunch and looking for the baskets. The reason it was a bit sad was it was time for Sara B and Audrey to go back to ACU. Audrey told me she didn't want to leave :( I definitely would have liked them to stay around longer, but that's life. We said our goodbyes and gave hugs and wished safe journeys. I was glad to finally meet one of Sara B's ACU friends and she was a really cool girl. After they had gone Zach and I went fishing and didn't catch anything :( I did find a baby turtle, which was neat. I think that is pretty much all the big stuff that happened. It was really a wonderful weekend and I had a great time hanging out with Sara B and Audrey, riding was the best part for sure. God is good. ~Semper Fi

Nature for the Soul

Lightning flashing in the distance while warm rain comes down in a soft sprinkle, making tiny rippling rings on the surface of the pond. Peaceful and quiet it was, just me and a fishing pole. Fishing away enjoying the soothing touch nature has ones soul. It was beautiful and really nice, just to be outside enjoying the freshness after a good rain. Sunday was really nice as well. I went out to the Jackson's and spent the whole time brushing, doing ground work and a bit of riding with Pedro. He is a good horse, just people shy. It was really nice just to go out there and be around horses and the quietness. Nature for the win. ~Semper Fi

Robbed by Raccons a True story

Allan, Dan and I get back from walking and eating ice cream to find food from inside our cooler has been taken. Found a broken egg on a bench. Open cooler to find a piece of chicken is missing. Take our food stuffs to van, while up there a raccoon comes and sits on our table. We are not even 50ft away. I charge with our axe, coon runs. We hear a bunch of noise around our camp and get the flashlight out and see at least five different sets of eyes. They begin to encircle us, making growling noises. We through rocks and scare them away. Here is where I begin a time log, it follows.

10:20pm
set trap with remaining piece of chicken
make spears
11:30pm
egg is broken
got more wood
bait shifted to optimal position after raccoon pattern of assault is known
12:20am
raccoon escaped with chicken
we pursue
recover half of the chicken
1:20am
last of the wood put in fire
1:40am
assaulted by five from the water
spear launched negative hit
2:00am
Allan is being surrounded while Dan and I look for more wood
2:05am
Distress call received
2:06am
Dan set back to assist
2:10am
I return with more wood
2:20am
attack pattern changes again. 4th pattern used
raccoons very cautious
2:30am
Peanuts become rationed
too quiet
4:15am
While singing to God raccoon comes
Wait for him to be upon the chicken
I launch spear. Direct hit!
No blood drawn
chicken reset for his friend above us
God has been good to us
5:00am
I score a second hit on a raccoon
Scripture reading
5:30am
Another attempt
Ended night with a prayer
Dan remains vigilant
5:50am
Dan hits raccoon with rock it limps away
Allan and I get back out of bed
5:55am
Another sitting
Smell of skunk in the air
Not a skunk, stupid raccons

After that nothing else showed up so Allan and I went back to bed while Dan stayed up longer. Nothing else happened after that and Dan finally came to bed around nine am. We had a ton of fun that night try to kill a raccoon and just waiting for them. It was really creepy at first because they weren't really scared of us and the growling noise and the sound they made, sounded like something much bigger moving in the woods, when they weren't trying to be sneaky. We had a huge dinner of a two and half pound steak and chicken. After dinner we went and each of us got a pint of ice cream to eat. While eating the ice we walked over to the diving cliffs and just sat and talked and laughed. We went hiking earlier before dinner on a nice trail, so we ended up walking close to six miles that day. On our way back we stopped and Sugar Loaf and climbed to the top which pretty much wiped us out completely. That will be camping trip I will never forget, it was so fun and relaxing. I have pictures of course under the album - Camping Spring Break 07 That is all for know. ~Semper Fi

Yay! A New Post

Today I went out into the woods and built myself a little fire to help focus my thoughts in preparation for time with only God and his creation. While I was looking for my old spot God gave me a couple of nice gifts. The first one was a two point buck skull, a bit later a came upon a tree in full blossom, which was just beautiful out in the middle of a pine forest and I even found a softball from last year, home run for the win. I never did find my old spot because the forest has changed so much, but I finally found a nice place to sit and make the fire under some trees. After the fire was going I got my Bible out and just opened it up and started read some random page. But the wind was blow at just the right angle to flip the pages like a person would, so it was like God was right there show me some specific verses, because he would stop on a page long enough for me to read and then move on to another page, it was really neat. The book of Colossians and Romans 8:6-8 really spoke to me. I really enjoyed my time outside in the quiet with just nature sounds around me and the crackle of the fire. God is good.

Yesterday Allan, Erin and I went to visit Caleb and Lindsey. Caleb had gotten some massive, like 20oz size, steaks to cook for dinner. So the guys were outside around the charcoal grill cooking the steaks, while the girls were inside chatting and getting the rest of the food ready. Caleb and never had cooked steak on a grill be for so I was giving some advice on that while Allan kept the fire from getting to hot, because the streak had gotten put on to early. Oh man was the steak good. We also had mashed potatoes and spinach and carrot salad, mmm tasty. After dinner we played apples to apples for awhile and before we left we had a little devo with singing, a verse and a prayer. On our way back we got caught in a speed trap, because Allan's, speed odometer is broken, but got no ticket. The best part though was as the cop was looking at Allan's stuff his cell phone rang and it was the theme song to Cops, lol. Anyway after that nothing eventful happend. It was a really good time and was great to see them. Spring break is going great so far. ~Semper Fi

This weekend was great

I had such a great time this weekend. Sara B came in Thursday, which was somewhat of a surprise. Friday night Ray, Sara B and I went to a academy game, which brought back memories of going to Sara B's games with Bethany. Saturday was the best day for sure. Sara B and I went riding even though it was really winding and cold. The Jackson's oldest son, Rayel(spelling is probably wrong), went with us for awhile. First we went riding in the woods, which kept us out of the wind and pretty warm, after that we road around in the field doing some trotting and I was giving Rayel pointers on how to keep his seat better. After awhile Rayel got cold and went in. Sara switched to the pony Rayel was riding, because she wanted to go faster then a trot, she was on a pregnant horse. After a bit more of riding and Sara B getting run through tree branches by the stupid punk pony, she got battle wounds on her face but nothing serious. I finally got her to give Jake a try, he was getting tired because I had been galloping around moving pretty fast with him, so he was not as wired and rearing to go as normal. Sara B got on and I watched while I used the pony for an arm rest, she started off trotting and loping. She lost her hat a couple of times when she started going faster. She got to gallop back end forth several times and it was so neat to watcher and I was really happy she finally had a great experience going faster then a trot. She did almost get wiped out on her last trip across the field because she went under some pine trees, but she dodged and ducked and came out unscathed. I got worried for a sec when she went under, but was very glad she made it. We both got ridiculously sore from it and Sara B had to drive eight hours on Sunday, yesterday she said she could barley walk and I believe it. We both had so much fun, it was the highlight of the weekend. Saturday night Caleb and Lindsey came over and we played Catan, it was pretty fun. That's it for now. ~Semper Fi

Update

Not much really went on last week. I didn't have school because the teachers was gone, but he did give us take home tests. Thursday I painted one of the bathrooms and it only took about four hours to mask and paint it all. I think the fumes from the nasty oil based paint got to me and made me really tired for the rest of the week especially on Sunday. Saturday, Zach, Ray and I cut up some downed cedar for poles and post. That night we watched Braveheart and I had forgotten how much I love that movie. It was really good to watch it. Today the guys actually out numberer the girls at dinner and of course we had fun with that, lots of laughing. That pretty much sums up the weekend, lots of laughing, it was good. Anyway that's all for now. ~Semper Fi

Snow. Snow. Snow

Wednesday was a really good day. Class was fun because the teacher was showing us objects that could have a finite volume but infinite surface area, yeah wrap your head around that :) hehe anyway that was fun. Came back and spent about two hours preparing for leading group and while doing that I realized I was misplacing some expectations and needed to redirect them at God, which I am now doing and my mood has improved. Group went really good and had some good discussion. I am really glad Ray decided to have each of us take a turn at leading the group and we even have to sit in the "teachers spot". I know it is really going to put a few of the guys way outside their comfort zone, because I was a bit, but it will be good for them. Before Bible study was over it snowed and started getting icy and Erin and Allan got stuck on a hill, so Branson, Jeramey, Zach and I piled into the explorer and rode to the rescue. We almost got the explorer stuck on the hill but popped it into four wheel drive and backed out of or mess. That was our adventure for the night. Allan, Branson and Jeramey stayed the night and all classes got moved back two hours so we didn't have to get up early and so we watched Hidalgo. Both my classes got canceled which gave me a four day weekend, aw ya.

Not much happened on Thursday, did some programming, gaming, ping-pong with Allan and talked to Luke. Today was good as well. Played video games and ping-pong with Allan and talked to Luke again. Hopefully I will get to talk to Sara B this weekend since it has been quite a while since I have. She has been really, really busy with school, so she hasn't be able to talk. Anyway I think that's about it for now. ~Semper Fi

Tired I am

I am really tired at the moment so this post will have all sorts of typing errors and what not. You have been warned. Any way I don't know what the deal is but I swear I have had a dream just about every night since I have been back and this is really really unusual. I never have dreams and I is getting annoying. I haven't slept that great regardless of when I go to bed or get up since being back and it is getting old. To add more to it I am under siege again and it has been really intense at times, but I am holding and in constant communion with headquarters. Prayers are appreciated. This semesters Bible study is going to be really good. We have a small group of just guys and we are the 'old school' members. We are going to be taking turns leading the group in study and I have a feeling it is going to be very good for all those involved, especially for the couple of younger guys we have in the group. This Wednesday is my turn since I volunteered to go next to get it over with. Pray that it goes well and that God will speak through me. I need to get to bed. God bless. Semper Fi

First week of school done.

Today(Thursday), I finished my first week of the new semester. Thanks to an awesome part time schedule I only have school four days of the week. I get done at 9am on Monday and Wednesday and done at 11:15 Tuesday and Thursdays. The only draw back to being done so early is I have to get up at 6:45 those four days, but no school on Fridays makes it worth it. Flying back was a long trip but it went smoothly. I did get to see Sara B before she left and gave her her presents. She really like all of them even the Superman energy drink can. We got to talk and I showed her the pictures we had taken over break and told her about all the stuff we did, it was nice. She and a bunch of her friends from ACU are coming up for the weekend if the weather holds, so it will be nice to meet her friends. Man I have some much free time on my hands right now, I have been work on a programming project recently and will have to find so more stuff to do. It is really quiet here with only Amy, Erin and I living here. Not sure if I like that much or not. Allan is talking about moving and I am hoping he does. The other day I went to Walmart to get some stuff and I saw Batteries Not Included and bought it along with Mortal Kombat and Saving Private Ryan. Wednesday it was really good to see everyone got back to school and catch up with friends. Talked to Bethany Monday night and she is doing good minus more grad papers as usual. Did talked to her for a while and told her how Christmas went and asked her how her's went, good visit it was. Keep your eyes on Christ and you will be able to walk on top of the problems of this world. ~Semper Fi

Snow

Today it snowed for most of the day, so I went hiking up to Goose Rock while it was snowing and wow was it amazing, beautiful and peaceful. I talked to God and thanked him for such an amazing gift on my way to the top. When I got to the top I sat down to catch my breath and to just listen and enjoy the wonder before me. After I caught my breath I attempted to build a snowman, but while I was looking for suitable sticks for arms and a mohawk he fell over. :( I walked around on the top some more and before I started down I made a snow angel. It was a good adventure today, parts of the trails I took had me climbing and walking on trees, through flooded parts and up slippery rocks. Fun indeed. Pursue God first and foremost and life will be a joy. ~Semper Fi

Break about done

Friday, Nick and I hauled and split wood from our grandparents property to our house for most of the day. Then the whole family had dinner at their house. Chicken, rice, fruit and vegetables, it was a good meal after a good days work. Saturday, morning we had two trees across the bottom of our driveway, so dad, Nick and I spent the whole day cleaning that up. It was quite the work out and a very long and tiring day, but felt good to get something done. We also watched the Seattle vs Dallas game and man were we on the edge of our seats for the last quarter. It was one of the best games I have seen in my whole life, oh man was it a cliffhanger. Seattle did win in the end 21-20. Geez was it a game. That's it for the interesting stuff. Break is nearly over and I can say I am ready to get back. It has been relaxing and a lot of fun to be home with the family and see the grandparents. But I am ready to get back and see every one, especially Sara B before she goes back to ACU. God be your source of strength. ~Semper Fi

Nature. Good for the Soul

Yesterday it rained most of the day and I was getting restless being couped up inside, but God stopped the rain just in time for a nice hike before it got dark. Nick and I went up to the top of Goose Rock. It was so green, beautiful, lush, peaceful and physical. Just what I needed. At the top was a wonderful view of the ocean and little wisps of fog floating through the trees and just being able to see the sun setting through the gray clouds. Today, Erin, Nick and I went hiking down to North Beach and then around the base of Goose Rock. At the beach Nick and I continued the tradition of hitting rock in to the water. The sound of the ocean is so relaxing and consistent. On our way back we did some rock climbing and took some edge trails. Having to climb over massive fallen trees and up steep hills by exposed tree roots equals a good day of adventure. Adventure another requirement for a healthy life and soul.

I am realizing even more how much I need to get out and just sit and be still before the LORD and his creation. It is really refreshing and recharging after fighting against the dark one. Just siting, listening and praying in out in the woods by myself is so refreshing. I can completely understand why Jesus would go away by himself to be with his Father and nature. It does wonders for the soul to just be out away from everything and have nothing but what you can carry. Following God where ever he leads me has been a amazing adventure, filled with wonderful surprises, challenges, enemies and rewards. God is my king and friend. ~Semper Fi

Not much

The New Year party was pretty fun. We played a guys vs girls game of Pictionary. The girls got all the way to the end while the guys were only half way, but we came back and almost won the game. Nick, Mike and I began the new year gamer style by playing WoW till 3am in the morning, which was a lot of fun as well. Yesterday we didn't do much at all, just kind of relaxed and hung and played StarCraft. We were going to go paintball but it was all cruddy outside.

Break is going kind of slow, but I am having fun spending time with my brother and Dad. I do miss home number two and will be glad to be back when break gets over. I definitely miss my friends since I don't have any that are close, they are all at least 45mins or more away. Satan has been after me this week and it is really getting tiresome. He keeps trying to plant seeds of doubt in me towards a relationship I value very much and I am getting tired of it. I need to be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him. Keep me in your prayers. ~Semper Fi

Happy New Year!

Thursday night was a ton of fun, getting to see David and Kira was great and just picking up like no time had past was wonderful. We played a lot of Wii and man playing some of those games is a workout. Both mine and Nick's arms were sore a bit from boxing and Rayman's cow toss game and present delivery, the last two especially are a workout.

Friday we spent most of the day at David and Kira's before we came home and went to a Christmas party for my mom's dragon boat club. I got to play a fair amount of ping-pong and a couple rounds of pool while there.

Saturday was a blast. Uncle Paul and Sheryl came up for the day. First we all(Dad, Mom, Erin, Nick, Paul, Sheryl and I) went to my grandpa's to shoot clay pigeons and what was left over from the last shooting fest. I did really well shoot most of my pigeons this time. It was funny watching everyone who had not shot a 12gauge before shoot, especially my mom, who would take a step or two back after the recoil. After shooting the shotguns we moved on to the pistols, a .357 and a .22. We shot up the laptop, can of plums and generic spam, because they hadn't got shot up enough last time. When it was my turn at the .357 I got out a can of root beer I had been saving for my turn, shook it up real well and then shot it. Got a nice explosion out of it, not quite as nice as the 30-30, but close. After we had used up all the pistol ammo my dad got out the 12guage and put five rounds in and unloaded them on the can of spam and the laptop. That really wiped out the laptop and spam, it was so funny. Then everyone went upto the house, except my dad, Nick, grandpa and I, because they were all cold. Then we got the .22 rifle out and spent the rest of the .22 ammo on what was left of the two computers from last time. When that was done Nick and I split five rounds of 12gauge on the two to finish them off. It was soooooo fun and I got lots of pictures to post once I get back to school. For dinner Uncle Paul took all of us and my Grandparents out for dinner to a really good Chinese restaurant for dinner. Then we went home and visited for a bit while cleaning the guns.

Today has been pretty uneventful. Nick and I did some grocery shopping for mom and some other small errands, while her and Erin got the house ready for the New Year's Eve party we are hosting. We did do our final Christmas tradition today and that is to burn the Christmas tree. It went up in fifteen to twenty foot flames in about thirty seconds and was really hot, but lots of fun to watch.

Hope the coming new year is filled with wonder, surprises and adventures. Have a good day and give thanks to God for allowing us the pleasure of anpther year in his wonderful and amazing creation. God is good. ~Semper Fi

Yar there she blows

Tuesday was so much fun, even though it did rain so we couldn't shoot clay pigeons. Shoot the 30-30 was by far the most fun. I shot a unopened soda can and it completely exploded blowing the top off and making a nice four blade fan thing. I got lots of pictures of us shooting and before and after shots of the targets. The weather permitting we will go clay pigeon shooting on Saturday. We also watched Madea's Family Reunion and everyone liked it.

Wednesday was pretty uneventful. Nick and I went to my grandpa's and cut, split and loaded the Ranger with wood, so that was nice to get out and split and run a chainsaw again. Then ran some errands in town and got some more ammo for Saturday and went to lunch at Taco Bell, mmm good. Later, we watched Lady in the Water. It was pretty intense at times and overall a good movie.

Today Nick and I are going to my friend David's house for the night, haven't seen him and his wife in about a year. Going to have a gaming party, finally going to get to play the Wii. Its going to be fun. I think that is all for now. God bless. ~Semper Fi

Another Xmas Break Update

Wednesday
Sara B and I finished moving what was left of the wood, which took about thirty minutes. We had a good conversion the whole time. When we were done we got cleaned up and I took Sara B and Bethany out to lunch at Taco Bell, since I was craving it and they didn't have any other places they wanted to go. It was a nice lunch, food was good, company was good and the talking was good. One of the sauce packets had "Will you marry me?" on it for those random sayings and I told Sara B be that would have been great to use for how she got proposed to. She was playing a mischievous joke on her friends from ACU. After lunch we played Sequence and talked some more and then I showed them some pictures till Rebecca got home. She had gotten me my Christmas present, a nice light blue checker button up shirt and a gray t-shirt. Then we got ready to go out to dinner for Rebecca's birthday. I wore my new shirt and all the girls liked it, especially Sara B. We went to Western Sizziler(?), a buffet kind of place. The food was good and so was the fellowship. When we got back to the house we watched RV, its a pretty funny movie with a good moral. During the movie Bethany was trying to find out how soon she would be able to get home, since Denver had just gotten nailed with a blizzard that dropped two feet of snow and shut the airport down. She was supposed to go home on Thursday. She finally got a ticket to go home on Sunday. After Bethany wanted to watch another movie, since she missed most of RV, so we did. We watched Akileela and the Bee, doubt that's spelled right, it was a good movie and it was nice just watching it with Sara B and Bethany. Then we went to bed after a good day.

Thursday
In the morning Mandy made crapes for breakfast before she had to leave for the airport. Rebecca, Bethany and Sara B were taking Mandy to the airport and then going shopping. While they were gone Veasna and I took a old couch and mattress set to the thrift store. After that I started to clean up the weight room. I got a lot of it cleaned up and vacuumed. When Sara B and Bethany got back we watched several of Sara B's family home videos. We got some good laughs out them and it was neat to see Sara B's biological mom, she died of cancer when Sara B was quite young. Seeing them all young was pretty funny/neat to see how much or little they have changed. Then we had dinner with a family they watch the little girl once in a while and have helped out in the past. After they had gone Ray, Bethany, Sara B and I played dominoes for awhile. After that we went up to the barn to play ping-pong, but decided we needed to move the table to the weight room so we could have enough space to play and not have to chase/find the balls when we missed. It was a bit of a challenge getting the table from the barn to the driveway so we could roll it, because it was dark out and I had to walk backwards carrying one end while Sara B and Bethany had the other end. After we got it moved and setup in the weight room we played for a quite a bit and then Bethany went to talk to her parents so Sara B and I continued to play. We had a good time playing and laughing and talking. We ended up playing ping-pong for about two hours. It was a good last day till I get back from break.

Friday
Early in the morning, four am early, Sara B and Bethany took me to the airport. We said our good byes and then I headed into the airport. The only exciting thing, besides getting home, to happen during my trip home was in Cincinnati. While there the fire alarm went off and a funny message played over the loudspeaker till someone got on and said to ignore it as it was just a test and I found Sara B a nice present.

Saturday
In the morning I went with my mom and sister to my mom's rowing group. We rowed in a dragon boat. It was a lot of fun rowing around in Oak Harbor bay and trying to stay in time with a lead. I did pretty good for my first time and will probably do it again next Saturday. Later I went with my dad and brother into town to pick up some ammo for the .357 and .22. After the store we went to my Grandpa's to get some wood. It was nice getting to split some wood once again. I could tell I hadn't used those specific muscles in awhile. Later that night we went over to the Beaches and played Joker and talked and ate for quite awhile.

Sunday
Went to church in the morning and then to the store and Dairy Queen for lunch. Got home and watched the Seahawks throw another game away they should have won. For dinner the Grandparents came over. We had our Christmas dinner with duck, mashed potatoes, corn caserole, roles and salad, mmmmm was it tasty. After dinner we played boggle for a bit and then watched Nacho Libre, a very funny movie.

Monday
Had french toast for breakfast along with sausage and fruit. After breakfast we opened our presents. I got a new book by John Eldridge and two button up shirts. We will be doing some more shopping later. After present time was over the whole family, even mom, went paint balling in the yard for about three hours. I was the only on not to get shot the whole time. Man it was so much fun, I had forgotten how fun it was. Then we did some yard cleanup and moved and fixed part of our electric fence. When that was done my dad, brother and I went rat hunting in the horse barn, I was looking forward to it, but there was only one small rat to be found and he set the trap off and got out side before I could shoot him with .22 pistol. Its been a good Christmas. Tomorrow we are going to my grandparents and shoot clay pigeons and a bunch of other junk. We are taking our shotguns, .375, .22 and the 30-30 lever action, which I haven't gotten to shoot yet :( Oh man is it going to be fun. I will have some good pictures to post of our paintball outfits and the shooting carnage.

That is all for now. God bless. ~Semper Fi

Moving lumber

Today Sara B and I moved a bunch of wood that is being replaced on one of the outside gazebo things. I cut the wood into about four foot chunks while Sara B moved them to the burn pile, which took about forty five minutes. Next we started moving the new wood down from up by the barn which is treated wood and a bit damp from the weather, so it was quite a bit heavier then the dried and slightly rotten cedar wood. We moved wood for about forty five minutes and by then our forearms were dieing, so we stopped. We had some good chatting time while we moved the wood, I enjoyed it immensely, and it was just an very enjoyable time. That is all. Goodnight. ~Semper Fi

Break post

Break is going really well at the moment. Sara B and Bethany got in Friday night and something surprising happened, Allan stopped by the house for a bit. It was good to see him and get to chat with him before he left for break since I haven't seen him in months. Saturday was graduation and it was pretty short. We had a party for all the grads at the house. Courtni's, Sarah's, Ryan's and Veasna's families all came into town. Courtni's sisters, Sarah's family and Ryan's dad all stayed at the house, so it was a little crazy. I don't remember what day it was, probably Thursday, but I hung out with Ryan and his mom for a good part of the day and she took us out to lunch at Sonic and then Ryan gave us a tour of the chiropractor's office he interned at this past semester. Anyway back to Saturday. Veasna and her mom cooked most of the food, which was outstanding of course. We had about forty five people, most of them where family to the five graduates we had from our house this semester. Dana, Nate and Ryan all left at some point on Saturday. The apartment was a little depressing to go in to after Ryan and Nate had moved all there stuff out, but it is all cleaned up now and is the cleanest it has been since I moved in. Sunday I went to church with Sara B and Bethany. I wore my new button up shirt, which looks like a cowboy's shirt and Sara B really liked it. Caleb and Lindsay came to lunch and it was nice to get to see and visit with them. For dinner the Montgomery's church was having a soup fellowship, so I went with them to that. After that we all, the Montgomerys, Cole, Bethany and I, went to go look at the lights on campus and at Berry Hill Park. The lights at Harding where really neat. Monday was a good day. I spent most of the afternoon cleaning up the apartment, while Sara B and Bethany where out with Rebecca, so it is nice and clean now. Monday night was really nice. After dinner Sara B and I made almond bars, mostly Sara B as I was supervising. Sara B put the whole stick of butter into the mixer while it was going so a whole bunch of flour flew out and she freak out a little bit, it gave Bethany and I a good laugh. Earlier that day Sara B dumped half a dozen eggs on the floor and was having trouble getting pizza in her mouth and then she got a piece of carrot in her nose, so Bethany and I had a good time giving Sara B hard time. After the flour mishap everything went fine in till I put the bars in the oven before putting the glaze on them and realized my mistake when we got done making the glaze and was thinking this is going to cook to long, then I was like duh, put he glaze on first. Anyway they still came out great. Then Sara B and Bethany got cinnamon roll dough started in the bread machine. After that Sara B, Bethany and I watched Madea's Family Reunion. We all sat on one couch with Sara B in the middle, it was really nice. After that Sara B and Bethany finished the cinnamon rolls and while they were cooking we watched the home videos from Florida and our camping trip to Heber Springs, it was pretty funny. It was just a really good night. God is good. ~Semper Fi

Done with the semester

Today I am officially done with this semester, yay. Sunday night we had our software showcase for softdev. The showcase is a chance for the public to come and see what we have been working on all semester and the winner of the AI tournament is announced along with the overall winning team. My team won the AI tournament, but didn't win over all, so I was a little bummed. The team that won deserved it though. I really would like this week to get over a bit faster though, because that means Sara B will be home :) I have been work on a walking stick for Ray since he likes them and it should be pretty neat once I get it done. I also should finally have Erin's book case finished now that I have plenty of time to work on it. I the war with my false self has been intensify lately so please keep me in your prayers. ~Semper Fi

Checking in

Quite a bit has happened school wise since my last post. Wednesday after break our Softdev projects were due. It was existing to have the teacher install then play a game. The team I was apart of installed first since we were the only ones ready at the time. We did have a successful install and the teacher played a successful network game as well. Not much else happened the rest of the week that I can remember. I did talk to Sara B that Monday during half time of the Seattle game. It was a little strange because everything was back to normal here at he house, so it seemed as if break didn't even happen, Sara B felt the same. This week on Wednesday I had my computer science comprehensive exam at 7am, ugh. It wasn't very hard and I only had trouble with a few questions, but the test is only 5% of the grade in the class so its not the big of a deal. I think it is more for the teachers anyway. Then later the same day I had a calculus test, which I think went well. Last Sunday Seattle played the Broncos and won! It was a really good game. I also talked to Sara B for a bit on Monday and will probably talk to her tonight. I think that is all the interesting stuff the has happened since my last post. ~Semper Fi

Good times indeed

The second half of my break was fantastic/wonderful. Tuesday night Sara B got in and I talked to Luke for quite a bit. We(Courtni, Dana, Erin, Nate, Sara B) played phase ten and chatted and laughed that night. Wednesday afternoon I was over at the Holtz's helping Jeff get concrete poured. Three trucks worth of cement took several hours to do, but was a lot of fun. After dinner that night, Ray asked if we all wanted to go to Dairy Queen for ice cream, of course we said yes. We all piled into the van and headed to Dairy Queen. When we got there it was closed, so we decided to try Frozen D's, a local ice cream shop, it was open, so we all got out and had ice cream. It was wonderful, like one big family. I don't remember if we watched a movie that night or our not. Thursday we had breakfast in the morning then prepared for Thanksgiving dinner that afternoon at four. We watched a movie while waiting for food to cook. Dinner was a lot of fun with lots of laughing and a great time. Later Sara B, her Dad and I watched the Broncos play, they lost, so it wasn't a very good game. Friday was the best day by far. Sara B, her dad and I went shooting in the morning and then Sara B and I went riding for about two hours. We went riding in the wood first, so we had a fun time dodging branches and trees and riding up hill at the same time all while riding bareback. Adventure indeed. Then we just rode along the road for quite awhile, chatting a little but mostly just enjoying the sun and beautiful weather and scenery. We talked a lot on the way back. When we got back we watched the Arkansas vs LSU game with her dad, it also was not a very good because Arkansas lost. After the game we watched AFV and it had to be one of the best episodes ever. We were dieing of laughter, I had forgoting how much I enjoying hearing Sara B' laugh. We had a quick dinner before Nate, Sara B, her dad and I went to go watch the Harding Academy football game, it was a quarterfinal game and they are undefeated this season. It was a good game and HA dominated the other team. Over all a really good day. Today Ray, Sara B's dad, and I made breakfast for everyone, I made pancakes of course, Ray cooked eggs and got the table all setup and I cut up some fruit. It was really nice and the girls really liked it. Sara B left a little while ago, so I am a little sad and but will get to see her again in three weeks. All ready looking forward to it. Hopefully the weeks will go by fast. ~Semper Fi

Life is good

Since my last post things have improved and I am on Thanksgiving break till Monday. I have been doing a lot of programming, getting the sound system for our softdev project ready and fixing a couple of things in the network code. Both are nearly complete and the user interface is looking good. It is all finally coming together and I think we have a really good chance at beating the other two teams. Sara B gets in tonight for her break, so she will be here till Saturday and I am really looking forward to seeing and spending time with her. That is all for now. ~Semper Fi

Under Siege

Well the week started great then I came under siege from the Evil One big time on Friday. It started of with me not sleeping but a few good hours that night and I had to get up for class in the morning. When I got to school Friday morning I found out class was canceled, which ticked me off. Then I was just in a really grumpy mood the rest of the day and it kept getting worse till I finally just went to bed because I was in such a bad mood. So this afternoon I got somethings and went out in to the woods and found a nice little spot out there to build a small fire and I spent the next several hours in communion with God. Just talking to him and reading. I feel a whole lot better now. Pray for me as I am on the front lines and it seems I will be here for a while. Pray strength and fearlessness, my the Lord protect me and be my strength. ~Semper Fi

Really good week so far

On Monday we had our second AI tournament for softdev and we totally dominated the other two teams. We barely lost one game to team one and won all the rest, a happy day for the team. I have been working on sound programming now since networking is pretty much finished. My console version of the game can make sounds now, its pretty neat. The Seahawks also won on Monday night, so that was a nice bonus. Sunday I didn't do to much, other than homework and programming. Saturday night was a ton of fun. Ryan's sister's club had a retreat here at the house and they played capture the flag at about 11pm and invited Ryan and I to play with them. We both had a ton of fun playing with them and my team won :) hehe. I also did a lot of programming in the morning as well. Friday was nice here at the house since I was the only one there and it was all nice and quiet, a very rare thing. Sara B had her first collage basketball game. I really wish I could have been there to see her play. I miss getting to watch her play, especially since I went to all but one or two of her games last year. Tonight I went on a walk with Erin and had really good talk with her. I got a test in calc this Friday but so far it looks like it should be pretty easy, so pray that I do well on it. Anyway that is all for now. ~Semper Fi

Mmmm riding is good

Yesterday I went riding for awhile. The weather was just beautiful, blue skies, light breeze and about 70 degrees, doesn't get much better than that. Oh man it was wonderful. I went by myself again since nobody was here, which was nice to get out and just relax in nature. It was really nice after the past week being all rainy and cruddy. Plus on Wednesday I had a calculus test that turned out to be not even close to anything the teacher had giving us to practice and what the majority of our homework had been. So pretty much the whole class failed and we are retaking it this Wednesday. I will find out what is happening for sure today. Our softdev team is meeting today for some testing and network integration stuff, so hopefully we will get a lot done. Any that is all for now. ~Semper Fi

Riding for the win!

I ended up not going riding on Saturday because by back was still stiff from moving bricks, so I ended up just relaxing. Erin's MFT group came over for dinner and we ended up playing wiffle ball after dinner, which was fun for once. Sunday I went riding by myself to get some space and get away from the house. The weather was wonderful, blue cloudless skies, just a bit of nip in the wind and I could feel the suns warmth though my clothes, perfect riding weather. I rode for about two and half, three hours, long enough for my butt to start getting tired from riding so long. I rode in the woods, which was an adventure on a sixteen hand high horse. Plus Fancy was being a little tooty as well to increase the sense of adventure of dodging branches and trees. I did feel like I was on a plow because of Fancy's huge head, she would just lower it and plow through the bushes. Good times indeed. Then I went riding on the gravel roads for quite awhile. On my way back an old guy saw Fancy and asked some questions about her, so I talked to him for a bit. It was so nice to get out and ride alone, to enjoy nature and the peace and quiet of it, beautiful it was. ~Semper Fi

Meh

Not much in the way of happenings since my last post. Just going to class, programming and working. Softdev is going well for my part, but our team leader isn't much of a leader I have come to find out. Anyway I don't feel much like ranting or anything so I am not going to. I talked to Sara today while she was on her way to visit her grandparents for the weekend and will talk to her again on Sunday. I really need to go riding and get some space,i f the weather is good I will on Saturday. I really need to call Luke this weekend and talk to him, since I am feeling lonely again and just missing talking to him or anyone else I connect to. I am looking forward Christmas break since I will be going home. I haven't been home since last March? I think. It will be good to be home and just get to relax and chop wood, mmmm chopping wood, fireplace, home. This is quite the random post. My thoughts are all over the place and our Internet is being gay so I can't play online and relax. Oh well off to bed and reading. Semper Fi

Felt like writing

I have decided that it is much harder on me to see a close friend for a few days and then they go back to where they came from then to not see them at all. Seeing them though is very much worth the addition pain then to not see them at all. Another thing I have noticed recently is I am becoming much more in touch with my emotions/more emotional(?) as I have matured, continually seeking to be the man God needs me to be. It is a good thing because it is forcing me to become more transparent, ie people see my emotions and know exactly how I am feeling. These are all good things and are part of my journey to become a true man of God.

Last weekend was really nice with Sara B being here. She wasn't here long enough but I still really enjoyed it. She got in Friday night and we got to talk for quite a bit before we need to get to bed, since she had be in Little Rock for Race for a Cure at 7am. She was gone most of the day and we didn't get to hang out much but I did get to she the most awesome movie in the world: Killer Clowns From Space. dun dun. It was hilarious I can't believe I had never seen it before. Sunday Sara B had to leave right after church got out so we said goodbye in the morning, it was bitter sweet. I wish we would have gotten to hang out more but the time we did was great.

Not much else has been going on. I have been tired and pretty anti social today but I did get to work outside. Cleaning up the trees in the front yard so I don't have to be so careful about getting knocked out while I mow the yard. Softdev is going pretty well, I still have a lot of fixing and redesign to do, so that will keep me plenty busy. Anyway that is all. Keep me in your prayers. ~Semper Fi

Start of week :( End of week :)

My week started with me wanting to shoot my self in the face. Sunday I programmed for nearly ten hours, rewriting most of the game engine and then integrating networking to it. I was up till 2am coding and still didn't have all the bugs fixed but our game was talking to itself. Monday more programming and our AI tournament was that day at 8am. We didn't make it to the tournament. I was realty pissed off that day on top of that me and another team member but in another four hours into it and we finally got it to play. Man was a cranky and pissed. I got cooled down by Tuesday and the week started to improve. Wednesday night I filled in for Ray leading his group for Bible study and that went really well. Then our team had to do a sales pitch to the teacher about our game, it went well. Today, Thursday was nice even though it felt like it should be Friday. Sarah and I went riding, which didn't start off to well. I was riding Fancy, a huge mule, and this 3 year old stud comes charging at her from behind and spooks her, I didn't know he was coming in time to brace myself, so I am half off her and decided to bale because there was pretty much no way I was going to recover my seat being bareback and all. I got a nice bruise on my knee, another on my right thigh from my pocket knife and some scratches on my forearms, I am fine mom :) Anyway after that it was a nice ride. Tomorrow Sara B will be home! I am so excited to see her. As you can see this week went from crap to really good.

Other happenings. Last Saturday a group of us went and visited Caleb and Lindsay in their new apartment and we had a ton of fun. Plus it was nice to get out of the house for several hours and hang out with old friends. My opinion of my team has changed a lot and hopefully my leader has learned a lesson this week. I don't think any of them have a firm idea of how much planning and time it actual take to make a game, even a simple one like checkers. If it doesn't get designed right from the start its going to give you problems the whole rest of the time. Our engine is in a sorry state, being all hacked together from Sunday and Monday and needs to be redone completely in my opinion. Anyway other then that life is great. If you haven't used my photo link in awhile I have changed to a new place with free unlimited storage and have moved all my pictures over to it now. I suggest you check the new place out, I like it a lot better. Good night, Semper Fi

Busy Busy

I have been busy with programming and calculus this past week. Friday at our team meeting for softdev we watched our AI's play each other and it was very exciting. I am also nearly finished with the network programming so that will be a load off once that is done. I really needed this weekend to just relax and wind down from this week and get prepared for next week. Our first AI tournament is coming up, which I am looking forward to. It will be neat to see how our AI compares to the other teams. The other members of my team really know what the are doing which is really good since I don't have to worry about the quality of the parts they do and we get along really well. It's been a good team to work with. I really miss seeing someone I connect really well with everyday and I guess I have really felt it this week. I have just been in a grumpy mood lately. Oh well. Another thing that is really pissing me of is this stupid sign up list for kp duty. I don't see why we need some freaking gay list. We didn't need one at all last year, nor this summer, why in the hell do we need one now!?! Well that is all. ~Semper Fi

God is good and speaks through his word

This morning when I woke up I came to a realization that I must put these verses into practice: Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. James 5:16 and If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9 I have been fighting with masturbation for a very long time and finally realized that I can not defeat this demon on my own. I am asking all that read this to keep me in your prayers. Help me to carry this burden. Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2 This morning in church my bible fell open to this passage: Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up! Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 How fitting. God is good and speaks through his word. Just gotta be listening. ~Semper Fi

Update Yar!

Last Friday I went to Little Rock for dinner and a movie with Erin, Sarah, V and Heather. It was nice to get out of the house and have a really good time just hanging out with friends. I have been really busy programming the network component of my softdev team's project which is Reverse Checkers. We have about two months to make the game from scratch. We finally get to put all of our computer programming skills to practice and an other useful skills to use. I had my first test in calculus today and I feel pretty good about it, so we'll see when I get it back. I have also gotten my tent back out, because it as been wonderful sleeping outside weather. It is finally starting to cool off down here, which makes me excited. Tomorrow Sarah and I, don't know if anyone else is coming, are going to the Jackson's to ride and look through their tack. Other then being tired and I have been feeling a lot better and being less irritated by the girls. Anyway keep me in your prayers. ~Semper Fi

Yeah I know

I know it has been awhile since my last post, but I have been busy with school and adjusting to my new routine. I have been busy working on my softdev project and doing calculus this semester. Working around the yard and getting to know some new people better. I really do miss Luke, Bethany and SaraB. They brought something special to my life. I miss seeing them everyday and just chatting with them about nothing. I have been talking to Luke more and I have heard from Sara B a few times, so that has been nice. I haven't talked to Bethany in a few weeks, so I am going to call her tomorrow and if I can't get a hold of her then I'll send her an email. I don't know if it is just because I am really tired or what, but most of the girls were just irritating me earlier tonight and I just wanted to leave or go some where else. I really need to take time tomorrow and be with just God and myself. I know I need to do that tomorrow. I also gotta get most of the network programming done for softdev this weekend, which really shouldn't be that hard. Not to much else going on here. I just miss having someone I connect really well with around. I had that with Luke and was really starting to with SaraB. Dan and I are going to be in small group together. We get along really well and it will be nice to have another good guy friend around. I also need to get in touch with my gaming buddies and have them over more this semester. Man this sure is turning in to quite the rambling post. Stopping time I think. Keep me in your prayers. ~Semper Fi