tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61096334099549744252024-03-05T03:54:42.596-06:00A Colorful AmbitionJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-71511701586880571272013-07-01T16:09:00.001-05:002013-07-01T16:09:17.259-05:00Hello Hello! New Video!I like titles that make me feel good at rhyming. As implied by the title, I have uploaded a video of my newest song, called Redeemed: <a href="http://t.co/Rk4cRe0zdG" target="_blank">http://t.co/Rk4cRe0zdG</a><br />
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I enjoyed writing this song. It just has some nice chords.<br />
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What have I been doing in the mean time? Well, the last semester of school was absolutely insane! I got NO sleep. (Ok, I did get SOME, but I would often go two or three days between getting any). But I made it, and graduated with my BSEE! Now the hard part is finding a job in this economy. I've been applying to everything that pops up, but the problem is that so has everyone else. God has something out there for me; I just have to wait and see what it is. But that's all I had to say. I will bid you adieu (wow, I spelled that right on the first try).<br />
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Thanks for watching that video!<br />
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You did watch it, right? RIGHT? You're not dreaming that you watched it? You'd better watch it again just in case.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-70998073273797748752012-11-22T13:51:00.001-06:002012-11-22T13:51:43.049-06:00I'm still alive, I promise!I'm taking a break from the Bubble right now to spend my first Thanksgiving at home in 5 years or so. Projects are killer during senior year. I mean really, it's insane. So far this semester, I've designed oscillators, power supplies, radios, several logic controllers to control lights and things (one of which I should be writing a report in right now) and a few other small devices. I still have to design a system of power lines, one more digital logic controller (this one is supposed to control the operation of a bell tower...but I don't like the bell tower, so it'd rather just make it turn off) and a voltmeter. <br />
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The big kicker though is this senior design project. It's...wait for it...an automated weather station. It's designed for pilots, so it'll measure things such as pressure, wind, visibility, temperature, and humidity at their destination, so they know what they're flying into. The biggest challenge is the budget. We're basically supposed to take a device whose cost typically reaches 5 digits, easily, and design, build, and implement it for under $200. Obviously, it won't have quite the quality you'd expect from a $20000 full-scaled AWOS, but it's supposed to have most of the basic functionality, with the biggest difference being how the pilot interacts with it. We've gotta come up with some crazy little tricks to get the acceptable accuracy with these devices on the cheap. I'm in charge of the visibility sensor. I've studies these things so intensely the past few weeks that I could write a book about them. But when you get down to it, there's so much going on with them that I still don't know exactly how I'm going to go about designing it all. One thing's for sure. If I can get this thing to work like it's supposed to, I'll have some pretty cool stuff to show future employers. <br />
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In other news, this semester is wrapping up pretty fast now. It's exciting. December 14 will be here soon, and in many cases, not soon enough. I just THOUGHT last semester was busy. If I could go back and do last semester again, I'd find it quite relaxing in comparison lol.<br />
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Well I hope you all have a happy Thanksgiving. I'll be watching some more football and getting some last bits of Internet before getting back to the grindstone in a few hours. In the meantime, enjoy this picture of me and my sister. <br />
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I use Google Chrome. I like Google Chrome. However, Good Chrome wouldn't let me post any blogs. It wouldn't even let me type the blog. All it would let me do was a title...and I doubt you want to just read a title. That's a waste of your time, like knocking on your door during dinner just to give you a blade of grass that I found on your sidewalk. You'd probably e-slap me and slam the browser window in my face. So I had to use Internet Explorer. <br />
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Now that I've bored you half to death, I'll talk about more random stuff. I intend to at least hand you an entire tree that I found on your sidewalk. You know, something you might want to build a fort in. Hopefully your other half doesn't get as bored.<br />
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So I was going through my C++ book, trying to make it past the section Miss Yum ended at (which was surprisingly not far) so I could learn how to program something that was actually useful. Somehow, two hours later, I end up here, posting this blog. And I don't remember how I got here. Those ADD gnomes must have hit me in the head with that tree I was planning on giving you. Sorry to interrupt your dinner for that.<br />
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All day, I've been trying to pull a new song out of the Magic Cloud of Undiscovered Songs Waiting to be Written. I frequent this cloud, looking for things. The contents of this cloud are very difficult to spot, however, and when I do spot them, I've got to grab them quickly before they fly away. I have one by the tail right now, but it's slippery, and kind of heavy. How it manages to stay afloat in a cloud must be part of the "Magic" of the cloud. At any rate, I've been pulling and pulling, and it might take a while before I have the whole thing crammed into my cheap cooler I bought at the Dollar Tree. Maybe I should have sprung for a big net to catch these songs with instead of a cooler to put them in. Songs don't need coolers anyway. What was I even thinking? That's the last time I listen to a sales clerk operating entirely on commission-based pay.<br />
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We had VBS this past week; it had a western theme. It was pretty awesome. I cowrote a skit with the Michael. In the skit, he was a crazy gold digger named Bart, and I was a more rational gold digger named Wayne. The condensed version is as follows:<br />
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Wayne: You sold our horses for popcorn!<br />
Bart: I'm going to shoot you!<br />
Wayne: You hit my foot! You're a horrible shot!<br />
Bart: Is that Bible there true?<br />
Wayne: Of course it is. I got saved!<br />
Bart: I got saved too! I'm getting rid of my gun.<br />
Wayne: You shot my other foot!<br />
Bart: I found gold!<br />
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The long version is, well...long. But it makes much more sense. The kids wanted us to do the skit again. Too bad I couldn't do that because somewhere in the middle of the skit, some of the kids stole my hat and my gun. They'd been trying to steal them all week, and finally succeeded DURING my final skit. I really hope that when I get married, my wife doesn't have triplets or anything. If I have to put up with three 4-yr-olds at the same time, I might go totally nuts. Someone could use those kids for a source of free perpetual energy.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-27868995120241753662011-07-18T15:06:00.002-05:002011-07-18T15:13:56.197-05:00Aaahhhh Blogger changed!Ok, so I went to Blogger and found it all different. I don't know how long it's been different. But now I gotta get used to thing all over again. It probably looks no different on your end. Just on the posting side. Actually, it looks like everything is pretty much laid out the same. It just looks different. It's all minimalistic now. I guess I can go for that. Penguins look kinda minimalistic, and i like penguins, so I guess if Blogger takes after them (only in orange and white instead), I guess I approve. But the penguins better not imitate blogger, because I don't want orange penguins running around the internet!<br />
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Ok, so in case you haven't seen it, I uploaded a new song, called Sixteen Candles. There's a description in the video's info box that I wouldn't duplicate here. You don't have to read it; I think you can figure out what it's about well enough. Anyway, <i>aquí es el enlace:</i> <a href="http://bit.ly/phOWHu">Sixteen Candles</a>.<br />
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I'm almost done with my Revelation class. This will be the last Bible class I'm required to take. That's a good thing, since I won't be able to fit in my core classes if I have to take a Bible class next semester as well. But my spring semesters will be light from here on out, so if I want to take another for benefit, I might be able to.<br />
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Did I tell you I'm going to be a floorleader at school this coming year? I probably did. But if I didn't, I am. It's kinda crazy, but I'm going to be an awesome floorleader, I guess. I had about 20 guys ask to be in my room. But I can't fit 20 guys in my room, so I said no.<br />
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Well that's about all I have to tell you for the moment. If you check back in about a year, I will have several more posts up that will be very old by then. So you should probably check back before then.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-37951817285759001422011-07-04T16:05:00.000-05:002011-07-04T16:05:20.919-05:00Don't hate me.Ok, so I KNOW I said there would be a new video a while ago...and i honestly tried, but I've been fighting off something, and I've mostly been succeeding, but my voice has suffered, and I just can't get it to sound any good.<br />
So with that being said, Happy Independence Day! I honestly tried my best to get a video up today, but it just wasn't going to happen.<br />
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Not much is going up here today. I can just tell you a couple things, like that I have been dog-sitting for some friends. They have a Great Dane and a Doberman. Not your little lap dogs, for sure. The Doberman is pretty young, so he's, of course, way too excited for his size. I'm also watching their other pets, one of which includes this parrot that is just....well, if i don't look it in the eye while I pet the dogs, the thing will let out a screech that no doubt stretches across the expanse of the universe and deafens half the host of Heaven. At first, I thought it was a "Get out of my house" screech...but then it just got louder when I started towards the door. You can imagine my aversion to heading TOWARD such a horrid sound, so it took a little while to discover he actually wanted me to go over towards his cage and watch him strut around. And of course, this happens every time I go over there, so he apparently forgets he already showed himself off to me.<br />
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Well, I want a coke. I know it's not healthy, but leave me alone. it's a holiday. I can do what I want. Coke is American, thank you! Good day, sir. I said good day!Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-36137570018556051062011-06-17T15:56:00.000-05:002011-06-17T15:56:42.830-05:00As promisedSo I promised a real update on Friday. No, I didn't promise you, I promised someone else! For cryin out loud, it's not all about YOU ok? Well actually, it might have been you I promised. I don't know, since I can't watch who reads this....So as I promised someone who may/may not have been you, I am updating my blog. Enjoy. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Disclaimer: The following material may not represent the views of the We-Hate-John-Andrews Society (TM 1746i A.D.). Any resemblance in this material to any persons, living or dead, is a hallucination, since I do not intend to write about anyone living or dead. Possibly undead, we'll see. John does not see this disclaimer because it is in fine print. Inform him of it at your own risk. If you experience nausea, heartburn, freckles, or death, it may already be too late. It wasn't our fault, so go call a doctor. Please don't consult blogs for medical advice.</span><br />
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Ok, so....Guess what! Nope! You're wrong! My topic has nothing to do with koalas! I have a new song I'm working on, but the weirdest part is that I can't figure out what it sounds like in part of it. I know it sounds strange that I would have no idea how part of my song, which I wrote, goes, but it's true! I hear this music playing faintly in my head, and I wish I could find the volume knob to make it louder so I could actually figure out what it sounds like. Twisting my ear only hurts, and twisting my arm only reminds me of countless introductions to the latest "Indian Rug Burn" techniques from first grade. Oddly enough, they were all the same. Good thing I was a real he-man, like every other six year old boy, so it didn't hurt.<br />
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Well, so far, there are no jobs. I can't find anyone who will hire someone for just the summer. If I do, there are at least 50 other zombies (why did I say zombies? I meant persons, not living or dead) have already applied, and I get thrown in there, and they still hire those who won't be leaving in September. Everywhere else requires a CDL or a college degree...which I have to wait another two years for. That or it's a CNA job. I see lots of CNA and similar jobs. I wish they would stop showing up.<br />
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So I attempted to teach a certain person, not living or dead (I have no idea why I keep typing that, but it's against my religion to use a backspace key when typing a blog), who is directly related to me and seven years my junior, how to play guitar. This did not work very well, because this individual claims my guitars are too large for her. Luckily, we had two 3/4 guitars. Unluckily, one had an insane action somewhere around an inch and a half off the fretboard, which made it impossible to play. I could take a reinforcing piece of the nut and improve that, but that didn't help, because the strings just vibrated horribly inside the main nut (which was designed solely for right-handing use), causing an insanely irritating buzzing noise. The second guitar said "First Hawaiian Conservatory of Music" on the head. I believe it. This was probably their very first guitar. And they were probably the First Sandwich Islands Conservatory of Music back then. It probably carries the US patent number 2. I'm serious. I tried to restring the thing, and the pegs disintegrated when I touched them. Scout's honor (does that work for me?). So anyway, four guitars (three and a half) in the house, and none that I can teach this midget how to play. Something about tiny hands and being left-handed. Oh well. Maybe some other day.<br />
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I think either Facebook should make their likes send a like to the link of the original source of any content that was posted. Because it's weird when content gets all this attention from an external source, but nothing on the original website from whence it came, to bump up traffic to it on that website itself. It's kinda like if Walmart brand potatoes get super popular at Kmart. Why that would happen, I don't know. But it's weird. i don't even know if that makes sense, but, you know, my religion and backspacing.<br />
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Oh well. Tha-th-th-th-that's all folks. ....Yeah..... yup. Gonna click "Publish Post" anytime now.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-76896405024317923022011-06-15T02:34:00.001-05:002011-06-15T02:34:54.181-05:00Woot SquaredThat was a joke among us nerds in high school. because you see, (woot)(woot) = woot^2 ...ahh nevermind. You want me to just get to the good stuff. Well, so far it looks like I'm going to be eating a lot of giraffes, because I promised people that if they didn't watch my newest video, I would have to eat a giraffes. Well, 464 people could potentially read that promise, and my view count is only 38. So I now must eat 426 giraffes. I love animal crackers, but that's a lot.... Hey, maybe you could help me, internet. You can watch it for me! It's a song I wrote called All Things Through Christ. I promise you'll enjoy it. And I make good on my promises. I already ate about 6 giraffes (this takes time, ok? giraffes are big). Anyway, yeah, you should watch it. Here it is. But, if you click the video and go to Youtube to watch it, you can see it in high def (1080p), AND you can click that fancy little like button, and save some elephants as well. So yeah. Listen to this song. I dare you.<br />
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Did you like it? I hope you did! I really like that song. It was fun to write, and I get a lot from the message of it. Philippians 4:13 has been my life verse for quite some time. Not to be confused with my favorite verse, which is Leviticus 13:41, which in the KJV says "And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean." Well, that's all for now.<br />
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But Wait! Before I go. I just want you to know that if it weren't for you, my music career would be nonexistent. I write songs to deliver these messages to you, after all. So thank you for all your support, internet. Now go tell the world how much each and every one of you means to me!<br />
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Unless you're determined never going listen to anything I write. In which case, get off my blog.<br />
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Bye everyone else! Look for another song in two weeks! =DJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-28019613986724465052011-06-07T13:04:00.000-05:002011-06-07T13:04:21.512-05:00Up and runningSo it's kinda been four evers (how long an ever is...I'm not sure) since I put anything up. I was busy moving into my new room, and building my new computer. Yes, that's right. Now I actually CAN make videos. My laptop was on its last leg. So this desktop will do me while I'm home. I'll have to decide what to do for a computer at school though. But yeah, now I can do everything i want with audio and video. Hopefully in a week or two, I'll have another video up. This time of a song I wrote. You can see what I did this time though. This blog will be short. Just wanted to tell everyone That I sound amazing. Just kidding ;)<br />
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Enjoy. If you click the little "youtube" logo in the bottom right, you can watch it bigger on Youtube. Watch it a million times. Or just once. I don't care, as long as you watch it. I just got a new computer, so this is my most expensive video. Watching it is the least you can do =PJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-10680767557905978292011-05-17T13:52:00.000-05:002011-05-17T13:52:47.231-05:00This Title Intentionally Left BlankSo Raquel is sick. She's in a coma. Poor Raquel. She'll get her coma fixed on Thursday. The starter that we had replaced two years ago had a lifetime warranty, so now all we have to pay is labor costs. (Don't worry, Raquel is my car, in case you did't know)<br />
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So I'm taking a Revelation video class this summer. The same one that Mullenix teaches. Soon, I get to hear all about his cat! Yay!<br />
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I've spent the last few days moving into my new room, which is my old room, but my sister decided she can't stay in any one room, and keeps moving. And in the process, I got a new bed frame that wasn't broken! Woohoo! Now all I need is a new computer that can consistently handle working on music and videos.<br />
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I keep getting those emergency updates from NWFSC about their power outages. I wish I could turn them off, cuz I don't go there, so it doesn't matter...but I can't remember my login. Which reminds me! Story time! *all the kids cheer and gather around*<br />
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*Ahem* One upon a time, I had an AIM account. It's scary, I know! But that's not the worst part! I never used it, you see, because all my contacts had Yahoo Messenger anyway. One day, I met a friend at camp who wanted to chat on AIM, and requested me. But woe is me! Suddenly there appeared a huge fire-breathing dragon threatening to eat the fair mai--oh, sorry, I forgot which story I was telling. Anyway, I tried to log in, but I forgot my password. No big deal: all I have to do is have it emailed to me, right? So i request to have it sent to me. Then I look, and it says "Your password has been sent to soccer4wrd2004@<b>aol.com</b>. Yeah, they sent my AOL password to my AOL email account. Obviously, I haven't been able to log in since. And the dragon lived happily ever after. (Wait...what? I think this book was published by PETA or something.)<br />
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Ummm...I'm done typing. Bye!Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-7503075261088207172011-04-29T23:53:00.000-05:002011-04-29T23:53:55.570-05:00SkillsI can't believe how amazing I am at forgetting that I have a blog that I'm supposed to update.<br />
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What would you like me to talk about? I have a cornucopia of subjects. (Yay! Vocabulary point!) I could talk about the plethora (ooh that's two! I'm a winner!) of homework assignments I'm currently blowing off. But I don't want to do that. I could talk about the fact that school is almost over. That one makes me happy. Let's try that. Yeah, so less than two weeks, and I'll be a senior. Crazy. And I don't mean just kinda weird....I mean like insane...as in astonishing, unbelievable, incredible, boss, heavy maaaan. (Someone else can count up any vocabulary points from here on out, cuz I'm done.) It's all I can do to wonder where the heck those last several years went. But that's all I have to say about that.<br />
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I love watching ghost-hunting shows. Any random noise always warrants a sound amplification played 50 times, and you still can't actually make out anything, even AFTER they tell you what the ghost told them. And what i find even funnier is that the person that died might have been a German from the 15th century or something, and whatever they say sounds exactly like "Get out of here before I eat your soul." ...According to the ghost hunters. All I ever hear is ****static****pop**static****.<br />
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So I know I promised a video, and I know i promised it a long time ago, and I know I haven't posted one. Please don't hate me. I ran out of time. Don't you realize how busy I get being an engineering major with a math and piano double minor? I mean, I guess I should have considered that when I signed up for it. And I probably should have anticipated the school making it more difficult any way they can. Next semester is gonna be biiii-Z. Emags...Electronics...Linear Systems...choral conducting (wait what?) and others. This past semester has been busy enough, between the major, the minor, and work. I won't be able to work next semester...which doesn't bum me out too bad...workin in the distribution center can get incredibly monotonous after all.<br />
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Let's see...one more topic. You pick what it is. Animals? Ok....but remember...you did ask for it....This might seem random, but I want a pet hedgehog. I've wanted one since I was eight. Chances are, very few (like maybe one) people reading this blog knew that about me. But I want one. I can't get one now though, cuz I can't have it at school, and while I'm at home, I'm pretty sure the dog would eat it. She caught ate a bird the other day. I'm proud of her. My parents aren't as proud of her because she brought it in the house. My sister isn't as proud of her, because she firmly believes that when the dog gets a taste of blood, she'll turn into a vampire dog and want to eat us or something. Teenage girls say the darnedest things.....<br />
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Oh well, I'm going to quit typing now. Well, not yet. A few actual news bits. PCC is now officially seeking accreditation, if anyone reading this wasn't already aware. So that's pretty awesome. Speaking of them, they've changed the name of their handbook to the Pathway. Sounds like PCC is becoming its own religion, with the Pathway as its holy book or something....But whatever, just speculation based on name choices.<br />
Anyway, NOW I'm going to quit typing in 3...2...1...Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-3411946343953351302011-01-14T16:39:00.001-06:002011-01-14T17:04:00.943-06:00Oh Yeah! I have a blog!I almost forgot! Well i did forget. i haven't posted a single thing this entire break. But that all changes today! I haven't written any new songs, and I'm not putting any of my songs online in the near future (meaning next week or two), but I am planning to do a cover of a song and put it up soon. I'm having a bit of difficulty with the video portion...but if I can manage to get it to work, my drummerist, Captain Rafael, will make his encore appearance! I think he got a bit camera shy because not very many people saw him last time, and I promised him the whole world would see him....since the whole world didn't, he thinks he must be a bad drummer, so he doesn't want to "appear before the world" again. Maybe I can trick him into complying. I can tell him my camera is a fancy-looking sandwich. I think it'll work. I can convince him of anything, partially because his head is just a hollow piece of plastic. That wasn't an insult, by the way. He would rather be that than a hollow piece of felt. His words, not mine.<br />
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So let's see, what can I write about? Well, I got back into reading Ted Dekker, which is something that's hard to do at school because the school library doesn't carry this genius Christian fiction author. (HINT HINT! Pensacola Christian College, please Google your name, read this post, and find some Ted Dekker books to carry. The Lost Books series would be good, since I haven't finished those.)<br />
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Only one night left of the revival services at Faith (1309 Valparaiso Blvd, Niceville, FL.....just thought I'd throw that in there). Tonight at 7. It's been a great revival so far. At least four people have gotten saved, several have rededicated their lives to Christ, and countless decisions have been made. Tonight should be really good. I'm excited.<br />
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Just a Gir keychain thing? Oh that's not so special. BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE! Call today and you get not one, but zero of these! Because it's all mine! Check out what's insi-i-i-i-i-i-ide him!<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This has been <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Blogs with Johnbobz</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">. Tune in next time to see Johnbobz post a blog</span></span></div>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-77645593532919233062010-12-21T14:36:00.000-06:002010-12-21T14:36:01.380-06:00Back home!So...One more semester is done with! That leaves only....five more...woo. But at any rate, this was the best semester by far. I started with my music classes, and that was fun. Well, theory wasn't fun...theory was boring as all get out. But Piano, Voice, and Hymnplaying were fun. I also had Circuits, which made me feel like such a nerd. In the labs, I would just build a simple circuit with a light bulb or something, and be sitting there dimming the light going "Woah! this is so cool!!!" and then hoping no one was watching me get so much enjoyment out of such simple stuff. If I were to walk outside and randomly find a couple grand sitting placed on the ground, arranged in a pattern that spelled out "for John," I would seriously consider buying myself a little home circuits lab lol. And then the other class that made me feel like a nerd was Complex Variables, because even though it was hard, I loved it. It showed how all of math fits together in such an intricate way. I never thought I'd be able to see a few numbers show the glory of God, but hey, math just works way too well to be the product of man. And that is as far as my nerditude will reveal itself for today. New topic please.<br />
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Did anyone else see the lunar eclipse last night? It was incredible. I love looking at the sky, and that being the first total lunar eclipse on a full moon in 362 years, I thought that was pretty awesome. Makes me want to rerecord Night Sky and do a good job on it this time lol. And speaking of recording, I finally get to record the song I wrote at like the beginning of this semester, now that I'm back home. I tried to do it at school, but not only did I not have a lot of time to work on it, but also, those practice rooms were made for the opposite of recording things in. The most definitely were not meant to record pianos in. Then again, even if they were made for that, a certain nameless person at school had a habit of breaking the pianos anyway, which made it impossible to play on them.<br />
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Does anyone want to hear about my roommates? I roomed with a guy I've been friends with for forever, and then a freshman Indonesian and a Japanese PCA student. I kept a quote book for funny things they said because they were either bad at English or just said things funny for no reason. One of my favorites was "So I just realize Janet Jackson is not a man." It wouldn't have been nearly as funny if it had been on-topic.<br />
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Enough about my roommates. I made lots of good friends this semester. I met quite a few new people now that I had some music classes, and several more new people now that I'm having electrical classes. And then other people I already knew, but became good friends with just because. It's been a great semester of making friends and growing closer to God, and it's been chalked full of new experiences. I almost felt like a freshman again, but in a good way, without the feeling of "what the heck is going on?" (well, no more of that than is normal for me to feel anyway lol).<br />
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One last topic. I'm done typing. End of topic. Goodbye.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-21734238221846070852010-12-04T01:27:00.003-06:002010-12-04T01:30:02.491-06:00Oh nose!!Post number 40! The number of judgment! Be afraid! Ok, just kidding. I haven't updated in a while...not that you needed me to tell me that. most of you reading this are probably quite aware of this. Unless you've just joined us with this particular post. In which case, let's all take a moment to welcome our guests and newcomers. (*waits for people to applaud, then remembers the internet doesn't actually have hands*). <br />
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Our first order of business is to say the following: school is going pretty well! Except for one class that really holds no bearing on my life whatsoever anyway, I'm doing great, and totally understand everything that's going on, despite the fact that I can't understand half the words that one of my teachers says. But that's not her fault...she just has a Chinese accent. So it's actually REALLY funny most of the time! And, the most exciting part of all is that we only have two weeks left! <br />
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Second order of business: the Christmas lights concert was tonight! Well, last night, by the time I finish typing this. It was great. I love Christmas. I really don't know how to expound on that. Just that I love Christmas. It's by far my favorite holiday. I love Christmas too much for it to be an order of business. So who'd like to motion that the meeting be adjourned? (*remembers the internet doesn't have hands again*) Oh yeah, ok, well then um...meeting adjourned...motioned and seconded by me....Ok there we go. Now I can continue. Christmas is the only holiday that can make me happy just by existing! Yay for Christmas!<br />
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I'm assuming I've made my point about Christmas by now. So I've been thinking a lot lately just about the sheer power of God, and honestly, it just doesn't stop amazing me. They touched on it in chapel the other day with a cool video, but I'd been thinking about it for a while, so it was a well-timed video lol. I just can't help but marvel at the kind of power God has if the Bible can say, just sort of "in passing" that "he made the stars also." I did the math on this, and our sun alone generates about <i>27 trillion times</i> the amount of power that we use worldwide. That's 384 septillion watts. Scientists estimate there are about 300 sextillion stars in the universe, and that our sun is pretty average for a star. Put it together and these stars generate 1.15*10^47 watts of power. Just to get an idea of how big that number is, imagine you had that many playing cards. Stacked on top of each other, they would reach from earth to our nearest star (at 4.22 light years away) and back 360 septillion times. For another idea of scale, imagine those same playing cards, this time stacked in layers all over the earth so that there is no spaced between any of the cards. This many cards not only could make a sphere that stretches to the sun, but could do it nearly 12 million times. Now, as far as we have been able to estimate, that many watts of power is emitted from the stars in the universe. And the Bible says "he made the stars <i>also</i>." As if it were almost sort of an afterthought, like it wasn't really that big a deal to God. I don't know about you, but I just can't get it out of my head how indescribably amazing our Creator must be to have the kind of power to create all of those stars in one day with nothing more than His spoken word. A lot of people may try to explain it away with the Big Bang Theory, or something similar. But why would anyone choose to believe that that kind of power emanated from a random explosion that happened without plausible cause, instead of a God who has control over everything? And then to think a God that unimaginably powerful loved us enough that He came to earth as a man to give His life just so that we could live with Him, when he could have had no problem just destroying us and making a new creation that wouldn't sin....why in the world would we not want to serve Him?<br />
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Well, it's late, and that's the little tidbit that's been on my mind lately. Did I mention this has been like the best semester of school ever? Don't get me wrong, deciding to be an electrical engineer with a piano minor has NOT made things easy, but I'm loving every minute of it. Well, I must leave you. I'm waving now, so wave back! (*waits*) (*hears crickets*) (*remembers once again that the internet has no hands*) Oh yeah.....ok.....well bye then!Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-86038408846419062192010-10-23T15:11:00.000-05:002010-10-23T15:10:55.305-05:00Ah-ah-ah-ah Stayin Alive!<DIV dir=ltr> <DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Segoe UI'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <DIV><FONT color=#fcfe96>Ok, So in case any of you wondered, no, I did NOT fall off the face of the earth. Partly because gravity currently makes that impossible. School has been really hectic this year, but I'm halfway through! Not sure if I mentioned this in my last post or not, but I wrote a new song. I really like it, and maybe if I ever get a chance to record it, you will too! Or I could torture you and make you wait until I release my CD to hear it. Muhaha.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#fcfe96></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#fcfe96>So...where to start? My short term memory problem makes it really hard to keep things straight right now lol. We're halfway through midterms, which so far are going pretty well. We also had a paper due in the middle of midterms, which I wasn't too incredibly thrilled about, but God helped me get it done on time (even if it did mean skipping my voice class. Not like I really wanted to go and listen to people sing for an hour though). The paper ended up being six pages, and I hadn't had time to start on it earlier, so I pretty much did it all last week. But What took more time than writing it was getting all the resources. I had a two page bibliography. And I, for once, didn't use a single internet source. It was like a word study kind of thing for Bible class. I did mine on the passage of Zacchaeus. The title? "Christ Loves Short People." Don't lie; you know you like it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#fcfe96></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#fcfe96>So tomorrow, I should be going with my sis and bro-in-law to find some costumes. I said we should do Phineas and Ferb....but "Ferb" wants to be able to wear our costumes to church. That's no fun. I was looking forward to seeing him try to walk around in enormous purple pants. I also wanted to make myself a giant triangular head....I could even stick a periscope in it so I could see out the eyes! But...oh well...we'll see what Goodwill has lol. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#fcfe96></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#fcfe96>We only have one soccer game left. I don't want to talk about that.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#fcfe96></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#fcfe96>I keep having dreams involving ninjas. or things similar to ninjas. I think this having a Japanese roommate thing is getting to me. He doesn't even look like a ninja though! I can see his face and everything! Oh well. I think I will remedy that by eating the chips I got from firehouse and then playing piano for a while. Because that makes sense.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#fcfe96></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#fcfe96>Until next time, remember to never underestimate the power of underestimation!</FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-21971025992299230842010-09-11T16:22:00.003-05:002010-09-19T09:23:57.951-05:00Week Number Uno!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So I got to the Camp a week ago, feeling like I was virtually starting over (which makes sense, since I'm in several freshman classes). I got put in a room with one of my good friends, and two international students. There were a few bumps in the road to registering. I had no time to do it when I got there, because even though it's all online, I kept getting an error saying I didn't meet the prerequisite for what would have been my freshman electrical engineering class that I was told last semester I HAD to take. The problem was that I did meet the qualifications, so there shouldn't have been a problem. I wasn't able to see my advisors until Tuesday to get it all worked out, so I just filled out a form and hoped it would be resolved before then.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So I went ahead and started my job on Monday. Easy job...anyone who can count to 10 can do it. It just makes it that much better because I don't even have to be awake, really! I was supposed to work 8 hours, but got off an hour early because we had already finished all the available work. I thought, "Perfect! Now I have an hour to go see my advisor and get these registration errors taken care of!" Right before I went, I checked my email, and got a message saying that there in fact was no need for me to take that class because the material had been covered in other classes I've taken, (which is what I had been saying all along) and I would therefore not even be allowed to register the class at all. Stuck a Literature class in its place, and now I'm good. Except for the papers I'll have to write.....</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I wasn't able to buy books until Tuesday, and I ended up finding some deals with various people (I'm renting some books from one person in exchange for packs of gum...how awesome is that???), and the price of my books dropped from almost $800 to $220! That felt like God saying "Yup, this is what I want you to do. I'll make it work" Then the preacher brought a message that night that in a way seemed to verify that again. He talked about having harmony amongst ourselves, and not getting worked up about one person having some minor belief or standard that you don't agree with. Then he turned that into an application for the students who felt that coming to the Bubble was what God was calling them to do. Just because we may not like certain rules, that's really not a good excuse to leave the will of God. Then it all clicked in retrospect. That answered why it was so hard to register with other colleges. I can't explain how, but it answered so many more questions I had ever since I decided to forego registering with UWF. I now know beyond a shadow of a doubt God wants me to finish out here. What He plans for me to do with the degree I get out of this, I still don't know, but at least I can rest assured I have another 3 years here.....which should be more fun than it sounds lol.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Well, that was a lot of writing. If you read this far, you deserve a prize. I'm a poor college student, so I won't give you one now, but just take comfort in the fact that you deserve one. Soon I'm going to rule the world, and then I will give you all your prizes. They might include little Ninja figurines. Or tacos. People like tacos.</span>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-21631899043750357272010-09-03T08:15:00.000-05:002010-09-03T08:15:13.617-05:00Something's different.I woke up at 6 today. Why, I don't know. But it wasn't normal "waking up at 6" where I'm tired still and go back to sleep. No, I was wide awake. Maybe it had to do with the fact that I slept for 12 hours the night before last, fighting off a cold; my body just decided "Ok, mister. You've slept enough. Get your butt out of bed."<br />
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I will say one thing though: I love the dreams I have when I'm on Nyquil. They are sheer awesome in its truest form. I'll spare you the details, though, because I don't want anybody assuming I'm crazy.<br />
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Most of my day today will consist of me getting the rest of my stuff together to leave for the Bubble tomorrow. I set up blogging via email, but I'm not sure how much time I'll have to do it. We'll see. Blogging doesn't take up too much time, though, compared to videos. So don't expect any of those for a while. If I can surprise you, I will. Just don't hold your breath for one. I'll be working on campus this semester, and my homework will change dramatically from the past. In previous years, I've been doing straight engineering work, so my homework was all math stuff. This year, I only have two engineering classes, and the rest are music. That means a lot of practicing. So while I'll inevitably have more time for music, I'll likely have less time for MY music lol.<br />
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Things I'm looking forward to:<br />
<ul><li>Seeing friends I haven't seen in a while.</li>
<li>Meeting a ton of new people (With the major and minor change it feels like I'll be among a whole different class of people. I'll only have one class this semester with my usual classmates)</li>
<li>Being guaranteed to finally have a girl in one of my classes now.</li>
<li>(Hopefully) only rooming with two other guys.</li>
<li>Soccer season.</li>
<li>I might try for the volleyball team if I have time.</li>
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<ul><li> Seeing people I don't want to see.</li>
<li>Meeting a ton of weird people (There are bound to be a lot. It always seems to me that half the new music guys are gay)</li>
<li>The one-on-one piano lessons. I love learning music and stuff, but one-on-one lessons always kinda terrify me for some reason. Maybe it had to do with the fact that my first piano teacher had a Siamese cat that I hated. Siamese cats look evil.</li>
<li>The possibility that I room with 3 other guys, and one might be the last person on earth I want to be stuck in a room with. If you knew the guy, you'd side with me, I promise. Don't get paranoid dude, I'm not talking about you.</li>
<li>Soccer practices.</li>
<li>Waking up early every day and needing to be alert.</li>
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Driving west, into from the sun.<br />
Junior year, coming with all its thunder.<br />
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...I should actually stop there. However apropos it may or may not be, I feel weird, knowing that I'm sticking words about doing to school into the tune of a military song.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-6518765633337346372010-08-26T02:37:00.000-05:002010-08-26T02:37:10.113-05:00Short updateOk so, the video was a couple hours late in coming, but that's not my fault! Someone tripped over an elk (which translates to "technology hates me"). Seriously though, I must have done something to anger the world's computers when i was young. It took forever to match the video to the audio because, somehow, the video recorded slower that it was supposed to (which means I have a time-traveling camera!!) Anyway, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp20nNffNzE">this is the video, right here. Click this link. This one here. Do it.</a> In all honesty though, this is one of my favorite songs. There's a chord in there that literally sent chills down my spin as I listened to it a few minutes ago. But enough of that, I'll just let you hear it.<br />
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I recently held a "Facebook election" to decide whether to go watch a soccer game on Friday or to go to Milton to hear bro Kenny Baldwin. I was completely torn, because I love soccer, but it's also been a while since I've heard Kenny Baldwin. Well, in case any of you were wondering, the election has been decided (partially because of a mandate from mom 2.0; partially because in the end, when my fellow short friend and I pooled our votes together, Kenny Baldwin really did get more votes than soccer), and Friday will be fun! I'm excited! If that paragraph didn't make a lot of sense, get over it. It's late, and I'm going to bed. *Looks around at pretend audience* Goodnight, person. Goodnight, that other guy. Goodnight, cute girl. Goodnight, rest of world. Goodnight, Jeltso Falkroff, the alien from Saturn who has it out for me and keeps praying to the overseeing powers of technology to rain down their curses on innocent me. Even though you are mean, I will return kindness to you. May your children grow three extra heads in plenty of time for the convention, and may your aerobatic cattle bestow wonderful gifts upon your family for 3.2 generations.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-67423508729581859052010-08-21T13:35:00.000-05:002010-08-21T13:35:50.840-05:00Woah...Time is WeirdSo I can't believe it's been only a week (and a day) since my last post. Feels like it was almost a month. What with people leaving for school, gettin married, and everything else. I won't elaborate on any of the time-stretching details that come to mind, because they're all long stories. Anyway, I guess another video is due soon, hopefully within the next few days. If I give myself a deadline, maybe I'll actually do it lol. Let's say before Wednesday at 10:07pm. Sound good? Ok, good. But let's make that Pacific time, so I get a few extra hours to procrastinate. I like my deadlining style!<br />
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So last night was fun. Went with some friends to the mall and hung out in the arcade until they kicked us out. I was pretty sure we were going to get locked in the mall, but it was all good. We took off to the bowling alley and played pool for a while. Enough for me to remember why I don't play pool too often. After that, went to the bowling alley on base so we could do laser bowling. I love laser bowling. I also bowled my best game ever last night (but I won't say what I got, because I don't think I'm supposed to be as happy about the score as I was lol). Anyway, stayed there till the kicked us out again, then headed back to el casa and watched Green Zone. That movie definitely wasn't worth watching till 3am. A slow-moving plot and an embarrassingly short attention span don't mix very well. But it was definitely a lot of fun just hangin out with friends all night.<br />
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This morning, I got to go out on the bus visitation and invite some folks to church. There weren't many people home (or just not many people answering their doors), but we handed out a few tracts, and it went pretty good. <br />
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Well, I really don't have much else to say. If you promise not to trip over an elk on the way out of your front door, then I promise to try to stick to my deadline. Gyuunyuu! (That means milk in Japanese. I randomly wanted some. I think I might get some, which involves me getting off the computer and going to the fridge. Goodbye!)Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-50880618423471671752010-08-13T14:12:00.000-05:002010-08-13T14:12:11.744-05:00Smile big!Smile often.<br />
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Each little sincere grin I receive carries a much bigger impact than the person who gave it ever realizes. When someone else is happy, it brightens my day. I think we all need to strive to have this effect on others. I have noticed at times that I'm not completely happy unless I'm helping someone else. You never know what a person might be going through when you meet them, and for all you know, a smile could make a world of difference. I can think of instances where I couldn't t imagine my day getting worse, but once i get a peek at the joy someone else has, it can bring my day into a new light.<br />
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Simplifying everything down to its purest form, it's easy to recognize that joy stems from love. Most importantly, the love of God. Accepting God's love for me (shown in the giving of His Son so that I might fellowship with Him forever) has given me the truest joy I've ever known. If I turn away from Him, or question His love, the joy is gone, and I have no song.<br />
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Recognizing and accepting God's love for us then leaves us with a choice -- to return that love or not. If we choose not to love Him back, we sink back into that state where true joy is gone, and you often feel like something is missing. This is because God made us so that He could have someone who chose to love Him back. Without a love for Him, there's something not right, like sometimes when you make Jello, and that weird crust forms on the top. It looks like normal Jello on the outside, but dig a little deeper, and something's just not quite right. He loves us regardless of anything we say, do, think, or feel. Rich or poor, regal or pauper, righteous or profligate, God's love stretches no less to you than it does to me than it does to the most unlikely person you can imagine, and He gave His Son for each individual. The least we can do is love Him back. <i>When we choose to love God to the best of our finite human ability, we've completed </i>Part<i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">1</span></b></span></i><i>.</i><br />
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Some people make the choice to not return His love because they can't accept God's love in the first place. Some see their lives full of trouble, and don't believe God loves them because they don't believe He would allow their circumstances. God still loves these people just the same, and He would never give a person a trial they could not bear. Sometimes He allows things to happen to us so that we have a chance to grow stronger, sometimes it's to teach us something. If God had the power and wisdom to breathe the world into existence, who am I to question His plans? An uncut diamond doesn't look so hot in a piece of jewelry, and gold can't serve its purpose until it goes through the fire and is purified.The only way through trials is to keep our eyes on Him and know that He, as the Master Gem-cutter, is beautifying us. He will give us the peace to come through.<br />
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If someone we know goes through difficult times, then we as Christians should be an encouragement, and lovingly point them to God. It is important to realize that the Lord never forsook Job when he lost his family, his possessions, and his health? No, God was there the whole time, strengthening Job, molding him into a priceless work of art. Job focused His eyes on God, Who brought him through and gave Job twice the life he had before. It's often difficult for us to see God's in control when we are in the middle of the situation. We need to be there to encourage them through love and prayer, and to be a friendly reminder that God always has been and always will be in control. Job's miserable comforters did him no service, and neither will we if we point someone in a direction other than God's. Sometimes people need help a hand to hold through a difficult life crisis, and sometimes they just need something much less significant in our eyes, such as an extra hand to help them carry a bag of groceries. Regardless, the least we can do for God is to be his servant and point others to Him. <i>The best way to do this is by loving others. This is </i>Part <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">2</span></b></span><br />
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There you have it, two key elements for joy in the Christian life: love God, and love others. All that's left is to observe the effects of joy. It is my goal to spread some joy and the love of God in whatever I may do, and wherever I may go. I have no idea whom I could serve and in what way with just a simple smile.Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-7236748549441928972010-08-07T18:24:00.001-05:002010-08-07T18:24:38.998-05:00Woohoo!<p>So I finally finished that Who Am I cover. It took for-E-VER (scenes from the Sandlot flash through my mind). My computer forced me to use Windows Live Movie Maker simply because I was running Windows 7, and Microsoft is irritating. I finally managed to get a copy of the old XP Movie Maker, thought I still kept having to switch between the two. But it was still a lot harder than it needed to be. I had considered switching to Apple when I got rich. I have no problem with the accompanying actions of only eating at Panera Bread and going to Starbucks twice a day…but I’m still not ready to drive a Prius, so I can’t get a Mac. Anyway, after lots of slaving over a hot CPU, here is the finished product: </p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: right; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:c07c6ed4-5e95-4d69-ab9e-fcb59532954b" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div id="96505034-d752-4c62-b23f-f7c2472a0b99" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjbkhrmcFBQ&feature=youtube_gdata" target="_new"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr7e1luVKda_RWfFzteiSUXKnNy6HgUYkGn8iy535AHCCvc60TizSQlonuwx0sh9jyWsQIK8hpItzwJfc9AQlYlZDo5J2lpEXgaNN6R8InUPWHPpBKOK-YUxE_ZhrTX0N4vpJM36BQW2Y/?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('96505034-d752-4c62-b23f-f7c2472a0b99'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/GjbkhrmcFBQ&hl=en\"><\/param><embed src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/GjbkhrmcFBQ&hl=en\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""></a></div></div></div> <p>The little Lego guy (Captain Rafael…he is the captain of his soccer team, as shown by that captain’s headband) gave me a bit of trouble. He was very fidgety, which is not an admirable quality for a stop-motion film actor. But by the end of shooting, he had learned his place. He may even show up again sometime. Just as long as he doesn’t raise his rates. He certainly drove a hard bargain. Luckily I have a sister who will work for free. If she reads this and demands payment, I’m quite prepared to offer her 10% of my profits that Youtube pays me (lol).</p> <p>Still waiting on some good movies, too. We got <em>Lovely Bones</em> from Netflix last weekend. After we watched it, we sent it back. Then there was some weird mixup, and Netflix sent the movie back, saying that it hadn’t been opened, so they didn’t think we had received it in the first place. Then it just got left on the counter for the next two days, instead of being mailed back to them again. Guess we just can’t get rid of that movie. It was a good movie and all, but I want to see <em>The Book of Eli</em>. In the meantime, I’ll just spend my free time working on music (shocker, I know) and reading books. Right now, I’m reading White, the third installment in Ted Dekker’s Circle Trilogy. Ted Dekker is a fascinating writer. Rarely does a story that exists in another reality/fantasy world and still feel so incredibly realistic. I would definitely recommend the Circle Trilogy (or anything by Ted Dekker, honestly) to anyone. It has quite a strong allegorical value, as well, with each event in the book’s other “dimension” lining up with Scriptural teachings. All of that going on while the entire world is scheduled to meet a very abrupt and catastrophic end. </p> <p>My sister (not the one in the video) insists I’ll be working in the dish room when I get back to school. I hope she’s wrong lol. But if she’s right, I can’t complain too much, cuz I need the job either way. My car needs some repairs done. I’m actually getting excited about school. It’s been a while since I’ve had any music classes/lessons. I’ve got a music theory class, a hymnplaying class, a voice class, and a piano lesson. Then two engineering classes and a Bible class. I’m actually hoping that I can get lucky and they’ll movie some of the classes around so that I can keep those classes and add another engineering class, so that catching up won’t be so tough my senior and super-senior years.</p> <p>And with all that being said, I bid you all good day, I’m going to go listene to the auto-tuned Bed Intruders song again. It’s by far my favorite Youtube video now</p> Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-26481894313524483612010-08-03T21:31:00.000-05:002010-08-03T21:31:59.996-05:0032 posts, 32 days leftSo I go back to that little bubble that we like to call PCC a month from tomorrow. I'll be working on campus this semester, So I'm headed back a few days before the semester actually starts. I'm not sure where I'll be working yet...I'm supposed to find that out the day I go back. It's funny every time I think about it, how that place is just its own little world. The mall looks like a completely separate country in comparison. The PCC people are always so easy to pick out, because 50% of the other people are wearing baggy shorts (so big you could use them for shelter on a rainy night if need be) or mini skirts, have their hair bedazzled with each of the three primary colors, and look like that just came straight out of a hip hop video (you know, the ones that are trying to express their individuality that just so happens to match the individuality of everyone else they hang around with). Then 20% are dressed like typical human beings, and 30% are walking around in groups wearing khakis and a collared shirt (or skirts if they're girls...obviously). Then you get back to this Bubble that's running completely independent of the outside world (apart from US Mail and water) go to dinner with friends, and laugh at things that, really, no one in that mall you just came from would have found funny...for the simple fact that they've never experienced this other world you live in.<br />
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I mean, sure there are times when I'd rather be anywhere other than there...but when it comes down to it, I don't think I'd trade it (besides, we all feel like that about most places from time to time). I like being at a small school where everyone knows each other, and you've got so many people you can depend on. I just love the whole atmosphere and idea of smaller communities.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">That being said...here are some things I ponder when boredom sets in:</div><br />
<ul><li>When cleaning products say stuff like "It is a violation of federal law to use this product in a manner inconsistent with its directions," how much room does that give me? Can I land myself in prison for cleaning the grout in the tile with a product that says it's for counters? Or do I have to feed the Lysol to someone's cat before I'm charged with a crime?</li>
<li>Do whales snore? Can they? If not, do they "talk" in their sleep?</li>
<li>Who was the daredevil that decided eating eggs would be nice to try?</li>
<li>How many attempts at bungee jumping did it take before they managed to convince people to pay to do it?</li>
<li>Could it be that the chicken really DID just want to get to the other side, and has now become a laughing stock, just because of this one simple desire?</li>
<li>Why do so many people think it plausible that an alien race would travel many thousands of light years to come specifically to our planet and do tests on us, when we haven't even made our presence in the universe obvious until little more than 100 years ago?</li>
<li>Why am I still writing when I so desperately crave a snack right now? Goodbye</li>
</ul>Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-44126451261023286872010-07-29T14:09:00.000-05:002010-07-29T14:09:09.485-05:00I'm sorry, BlogIt appears i have been neglecting you these past two weeks. That "Blogger.com" button just kinda sits there on my bookmarks page looking lonely while I pass it up for Facebook and YouTube. I apologize, old friend.<br />
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... [*Blink*] .... OH! Hey there! If you're reading this, it means you care about what I have to say. Aww you are all so nice. I thank you all from the heart of my bottom! Ok, just kidding...that's slightly weird. I'll thank you from the bottom of my heart instead. I've had a busy week. I've spent a lot of time working on music, particularly Meant for Me. It's pretty close to done (considering where it was a few weeks ago, that is). There are a few spots I still need to smooth out, but after that, we'll be good. Don't worry, the other ones shouldn't take this long. This is hard because it's my first song I'm actually trying to do a really good job at producing, and I also feel like it's my most important song, so it has to be perfect. I can't help but analyze even the most minute details in this thing. it's starting to drive me crazy. I really don't know how professional audio engineers can do this kind of thing every day and retain their sanity. Then again, I've only met two people who ever do anything with recording and/or mixing. One's a musical genius (and I've never heard of a genius who was in his right mind), and the other is weird and annoying and hated by almost everyone I can think of at school. So I guess there's no sanity to retain in either of them. Now I understand how this works!<br />
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Steps to becoming a professional audio engineer:<br />
1. Lose mind<br />
2. Develop an excuse for said lost mind, so no one suspects it (i.e. music or nuclear physics)<br />
3. Get lucky. Win the lottery. Inherit Bill Gates' fortune by mistake, and unethically keep it.<br />
4. Use the aforementioned fortune to buy the kind of expensive gear you need or just think you need.<br />
5. Make money and get discovered by producing a song with a heavy enough beat that no one cares how good it is. They just listen to it anyway because it's the coolest thing to listen to when you're walking down the street with your pants down around your ankles, obviously.<br />
6. After step 5, you can record anything you want, because you're already a famous producer now.<br />
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Sounds like i've got a business plan! Let's just hope there are better fads by the time I get to step 5. Ok, just kidding again. I don't plan on working in a studio for a career. I'd actually like to design wireless communication or digital entertainment devices. I'd also like to make sure that whatever career path i embark upon, it consists of big words, so that I can still look smart, even with a retarded grin on my face! =D<br />
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So anyway, i hope you're still reading, because I have big news! I registered 5 songs today to be copyrighted! Woohoo! Now I get to wait for "up to 6 months" ( though I've read it could take longer =/ ) for them to mail me a certificate (providing I did everything right). It was kinda nerve-racking doing it all.<br />
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The US Copyright Office's site is not the most self-explanatory site in the world, and it was difficult to find sufficient help. I called them, but it took around 15 minutes for me to get in touch with somebody (and every minute, this recorded voice that sounded like it belonged to a guy who wore square coke-bottle lenses and had a pedo-stache would say "Sorry, but due the the very high volume of calls, there is no one available to take your call at this time. Please hold for the next available information specialist" or something close to that) I hope Mr. Recorded Voice Man doesn't read this. It might affect my success in securing that fancy certificate. Nothing against you, Mr. Recorded Voice Man. I was just really bored waiting. So i apologize for whatever offense I might have caused. Some hold music would have been cool. ANYWAY, I asked the lady all the questions i could think of at the time, and she sounded more like she was quoting things from an internet forum. her answers seemed sorta distant, like they only partially applied to me. So for the questions that arose when finally working my way through the confusing details of the site, I just resorted to reading the forums myself. That way i wouldn't have to say "I'm sorry, what did you say?" after everything she said (I'm bad at understanding people on the phone).<br />
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But oh well. While I would argue that the site could stand to be slightly more self-explanatory, it's all done now. I submitted Meant for Me, Timeless, Once Again, I Need You More, and Night Sky; all in an EP collection I entitled Actual Size. =D<br />
I know you haven't heard Timeless or I Need You More yet, but you will before too long. I like them both a lot<br />
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I'm off now. As the Beatles once sang, "Go dig a pony!"Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-5517587666488624702010-07-19T21:11:00.000-05:002010-07-19T21:11:52.240-05:00One small step for man = One giant leap for leprechaunsYesterday was a good day. I got the violin part recorded for my song, courtesy of Ericka Wright! It went pretty smoothly. We only had about an hour to record anything, so we got about 5 takes done. I told her to ad-lib for the first part of the song. Little did she know that I planned to use the ad-libbing. Muhahaha. I've also been arranging several other songs at the same time. (Ok, not like simultaneously or anything, but you know what I mean, right?) Some are a little intensive, others not so much. I was having a hard time getting my vocals to sound right today, so instead, I recorded a version of me singing with this weird british alternative-rock style accent. Only reason I did that was because my roommates made fun of the way I pronounced "man" in my first recording of it (the low-quality one that's on my youtube channel:<br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/JeevesBobz"><b>http://www.youtube.com/JeevesBobz</b></a><b> </b></div>...there are only three uploaded videos...it's not hard to find lol) and sang the whole thing with an accent all the time. There's also my video bar to the right if you don't like clicking your mouse more than once. So anyway, I told him I'd record a weird-accent version just for him. And I did! Woohoo!<br />
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Which reminds me! I need to put up another song, so yall don't think I'm just being lazy! I think I decided the next one I upload will be one I named Once Again. Piano is the main instrument (in the video, it will be the only instrument) in this one, as opposed to my oh-so-incredibly-cool Cougar-branded guitar:<br />
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</div>See that awesome-looking shiny new soccer ball next to it? My sister bought me a new one because mine is beat up. Isn't she the best sister in the world? Now I have a fresh ball to practice with as I prepare to have a rockin' season this upcoming semester. Last season wasn't so great, because we lost more than half of our team, and they were all replaced with new freshman. Don't get me wrong, we have some talented players, but the face that they were all newcomers meant that we lacked the chemistry that a team gets when they've played together for a while. But this season will be better, I can feel it. We had all last year to get to know each other and grow as a collegian, which always makes for great chemistry on the field.<br />
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Where was I? British leprechauns...wright-handed rock...woo's and hoo's........Oh yeah! You should be able to expect an upcoming video in the next couple days. And by the way, if you remember when I mentioned going to Open Mic Night at Playground Music a few weeks ago...well, it's on Thursdays, and i somehow managed to have something else planned like every Thursday. So i might not get a chance to do that for a while, if at all. If I don't, it's no big deal. It's not like people who participate in it get the musical debut of the century. I'm pretty sure Youtube gets more business than Playground anyway lol, so it doesn't matter much. I'll only go if people write me and beg me to change my mind so they can come watch. Since I don't see that happening, looks like I'm safe to enjoy my Thursdays! (they're the new Tuesdays, you know).<br />
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Will all of that...and i mean AAALLLLLLLL of that...being said, I can now bid yall adieu (i refuse to say the word you and all separately in succession. I just won't do it) Do something good this week. Go adopt a penguin, or feed a starving leprechaun. Be a good example to every midget that may be watching you from underneath the couch! (bet that'll make you think twice before you sit down)<br />
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--- Me, myself, and JohnJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-1556491061371614272010-07-15T01:25:00.000-05:002010-07-15T01:25:40.323-05:00Recording daySo I got to spend all afternoon recording that duet I had mentioned earlier. If you didn't read that post, now is a good time to go back and read everything I've written! Muhaha! But seriously, it was fun. Had to relearn the song pretty much, because I found out like 10 minutes before the two spiritual attributes got here (I wonder how many of you guys are going to get that? her sister came too, if that gives a decent clue) that I had learned the wrong chords. So i tried to quickly relearn it, and then I had to transpose it down a key, because I just couldn't reach the notes I needed to sing today without sounding pubescent lol. I could reach those notes at midnight when we decided to do that song, but we started recording at 2 in the afternoon. It takes several hours for my higher notes to sound good lol. Needless to say, it took a while to get started. Good thing it's a home studio, so that whole "time is money" thing doesn't apply! We had fun practicing it a bit, then tried with the microphones. Those took a few tries to get set up right. It's not often I record anything for multiple people and an instrument all at the same time, so I'm still learning how to set up all those mics. Eventually we started recording with video too! Until the battery died. Then we just goofed off for a while. But amidst all our fun today, I managed to learn a very valuable lesson. Always check to make SURE a memory card will fit in your memory card reader before just sticking it in. I had to spend quite a while trying to fish the memory card back out of the computer, because it got stuck so deep haha. We almost lost all our video. I ended up taking apart the entire laptop, hoping to maybe get it out from inside, but that didn't do any good. After about half an hour of fiddling with it, we finally got it out with a bobby pin.<br />
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Speaking of bobby pins (by the way, if i awkwardly misspell that somewhere, i apologize in advance...spell check doesn't catch it), have you ever noticed how functional those things are? Think about it...there's very few situations where a bobby pin will not come in handy! Need to fix your computer? Get a door unlocked? Hold some papers in place? Find a fish hook? Increase your radio reception? Replace a zipper handle? Poke at something dead? Cause a short circuit in a large power station and take out half a city block? Stab someone who breaks into your house when you don't have a knife handy? (Yes, that was discussed as a serious use) There's virtually nothing these little guys can't do. And to think people actually pay good money for Swiss Army knives! And on top of all that, they can hold hair out of people faces! Ahh...bobby pins.<br />
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If you haven't gotten bored yet, I'm helping another friend record some music he wrote. He should be coming over tomorrow. I get to arrange stuff for it! Woohoo!<br />
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I watched a movie tonight...about Ramen. I love ramen. Have i ever told you guys how much I love ramen? I'm not sure why, but it's one of the most amazing foods on the planet to me. If I won a lifetime supply of ramen noodles, I would eat it all in a month. I'd be willing to eat it much faster, but I have to spend 3 minutes cooking it, and all those 3 minute waits add up. I sure hope Maruchan never goes out of business. I would probably cry at that sad loss of incredibly cheap ramen. I don't know how much this love of ramen stems from my limited cooking ability, but i just want to shout it out to the world that I love ramen. My roommate and I wrote a song about ramen noodles. It had an organ in it. I don't know why, but it sounded cool. J, if you're reading this, do you still remember that song?<br />
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What was I talking about? Oh yeah, so that duet turned out pretty good. I listened to what we had, and I like it. As soon as I get the video (since that whole getting the memory card stuck inside the computer still resulted in not getting anything transferred to the computer), I can start working on it, and if by the Grace of my duet partner, and if the camerawoman has enough Faith in her abilities to show yall, maybe I can put something online for yall to see! (That might be the first time I've said yall on my blog. Now it's there three times.)<br />
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Bye yall!<br />
Yall come back now, y'hear?<br />
(To certain possible readers, I add an evil laugh to that. Yall know who yall are)Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6109633409954974425.post-88725819758574807802010-07-09T10:07:00.000-05:002010-07-09T10:07:00.638-05:00Ok try this.So for the past couple days, I've been trying to make a decent video of one of my songs, but I just can't get them to turn out right. It's in a weird key, so it's still not often I can play through it without messing up, since it's a pretty new song lol (if only there was a transpose down button on my guitar). And when I do play it right, the video gets messed up on almost every take anyway. Why? I don't know, but the fact that this camera is about 6 years old, and I have to start my computer in Windows XP just to get it to connect doesn't make it any better. I usually end up with about 10 seconds of my video disappearing from the middle. However, I was playing around with another song I wrote last summer that I have a lot of fun with, mainly because of how upbeat it is. It's still not perfect, but I'm starting to think that there's no way I'm going to get a video just right without just going out and buying a brand new camera. Since a camera isn't on my list of priorities right now, I thought I'd just show you a video with not-so-great quality. My youtube channel is just looking so lonely...I couldn't no put anything up for much longer. Don't worry though, you'll get to hear the other one before long. Anyway, click the word "<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHAdw7hvn64"> PENGUIN! </a>" to see my video over on youtube. Why? I like penguins. Get over it. And because it's not letting me embed the video like normal. Standard computer weirdness.<br />
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Speaking of my list of priorities that got mentioned up there, something just got bumped to the top. I hadn't realized it before, but you can get Star Wars voices for your TomTom GPS. I don't have a GPS, but now I need one, because probably the only thing that could make my car cooler would be if I had Darth Vader telling me how much farther until I turn left. Shoot, I'd even use that thing jut to move my car to the other side of the driveway when I'm blocking somebody in! I'm sure you'll say it would just get old once the 'new" wore off, but all I can think about right now is hearing the phrase while driving, "In 200 yards, turn left you must. mmm?" You can just never go wrong with Star Wars, and I don't care how nerdy that makes me sound lol.<br />
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By the way, (actually, considering my last paragraph was about Star Wars and TomToms...this is probably about as far out of the way as I can get) last night, Michael came over to work on a new song he's written. He just wanted me to write out some sheet music to it. It's a pretty cool song. I like it. He's a pretty good songwriter. I won't say too much about it right now, but he's trying to get a CD made as well, and I get to help with some of the songs :D. <br />
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Happy Cow Appreciation Day! (Oh yeah, forgot to mention, today is Chick-Fil-A's "Dress-up-like-a-cow-and-we-give-you-free-food-because-anyone-willing-to-go-out-in-public-dressed-like-a-cow-deserves-something-free" Day. Yeah, they were so close to going with my catchy name there, till someone ran in at the last second and said "NO!! Call it Cow Appreciation Day!" Darn. So close. Foiled again by catchy marketers! Guess I'll have to try again later...Anyway, bye! Have a good day! Watch my video! Buy me a steak! (the first one is optional =P )Johnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12398702681142204238noreply@blogger.com0