sign to EBC

sign to EBC
Originally uploaded by jcforgod.

Do you need to get to EBC? Well this sign shall show the way.

Today has been a relaxed day. I've been reading and doing little things on the computer. Editing pictures is a lot of fun!

I was starting to feel a little panicked, as I realized we only have three weeks of class and a week of finals left. Then I sat down with my schedule and wrote out exactly what I have left. While there's a lot of reading, six papers, and several tests, I feel better. There's something about sitting down and making a list of what needs to be done. Very satisfying!

Okay, so I got two responses to my story, but what about the rest of you? What did you think? Constructive criticism is welcomed, but be nice.

I'm starting to pack for my move. You can tell that I'm a bookophile... I have the majority of my books packed and I think I have almost a dozen boxes! *laughs* I'm starting to want to take inventory of what books I have and most of the fiction books got entered when I packed them. I was in too big of a hurry to do that to the non-fiction books. When I get into my new apartment, my plan is to go out and buy some boards and some cement blocks at Home Depot. I'll then unpack my books, organize them, inventory them, and have a nice display of all my books.

March tenth can't come soon enough. I'm ready to have my own place and not have to make all those little compromises that you have to make when living with someone. I know that the day will come when I have a wife and life will be full of those, but right now I'm ready to live alone and without having to compromise! *grins* Not that Reece is a bad roommate. On the contrary I think he was the best guy for me to have an apartment with. We've had a lot of fun.

On the list to buy for my new apartment:

• Boards and cement blocks.


• Table and chairs


• Cleaning Supplies

Well, time to go do some reading for Revelation.

I wrote a story today that was a challenge from my brother. So David, here ya go.
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How to Become a Dwarf: A Short Story

I didn’t want to become a dwarf. I was just fine being a 20 foot, 5 inch, giant! Life was good, though finding a tailor in certain cities was difficult, but I usually carried an extra set of clothes just in case. Most people look down on giants (though I’ve always wondered about that saying, because being a giant means that most people have to look up.) and think that they are rather dimwitted. That isn’t true! I was top of my class at the Giant Academy and I am, well, was, the best builder of the entire country of Merst. So get rid of your preconceptions of giants! We have feelings too, you know!

Well, back to my story. It all started when my team of builders was called upon by a magician’s guild to build them a fortress. Normally we don’t work for magicians (magicians are known for their bad tempers and they have this superior attitude that makes it hard to work for them), but we were hard up for cash. After conferring, the five of us told the dispatch that we’d build that fortress. Little did we know…

Building a fortress is actually a pretty simple procedure. We first mine the stone out of a quarry. In this case there was a large deposit of obsidian near the building site. Obsidian is rather tricky, but my cousin Carl has this tool he bought a few years back that makes it a breeze to create the right size stones. Thus we had the keep built and the outer walls started within a week. That was when the trouble started.

One of the magicians, a guy named Mercius, was constantly watching us. Honestly, it made me nervous, but since a rather hefty amount of gold was riding on this project, I wasn’t going to tip the boat. One day, when Carl was operating the block cutter (we didn’t really know what to call it. All we knew was it emitted a beam of light and that light could cut through stone like butter.) I watched as Mercius approached him. Turning off the cutter, Carl responded to a question. Then he started to look angry. Alarmed, I started across the quarry when a bright light flashed and both Carl and I were thrown back.

Recovering, we saw that Mercius had disappeared with the block cutter. Needless to say, we weren’t very happy. That cutter was what gave us the edge on all of the other crews. I resolved to approach the chief magician about this.

That evening, after installing the gate, I approached the keep. The servants brought Chief Magician Heric out to me and I voiced my concern. He looked at me thoughtfully and then told me that this was a grave mistake. “You aren’t supposed to have any access to magic. Giants have no business running implements created for the use of magicians.” Then he turned to go. My brain raced. If I offended him, then I wouldn’t get the gold promised. But if I didn’t say something, our livelihood would be gone.

“Sir, our livelihood depends on that machine. If we are to survive as giant builders, we must have that machine!”

He turned and said, “Well, perhaps we can remedy that.” Pulling his wand out, he muttered something under his breath. Pointing the wand at me, he said, “Gianticus Dwarficusfy!” and a bright light hit me on the chest.

I blinked. Looking down at him, I raised my eyebrows and boomed, “And what was that supposed to do?”

He smiled, “You’ll see. Your current problems are solved. Come to me in the morning and I will give you your gold.”

Puzzled at why I wasn’t feeling like arguing, I nodded and went back to camp. After a celebratory dinner, we went to bed.

In the morning, I put on my shoes, noticing that they seemed a bit loose. That was rather strange, but I didn’t think anything of it.

We gathered our things together and walked up to the gate of the black fortress. Heric was there with five wagons filled with gold. “Here is your payment. I wish you well on your new life!” With that, the gate swung shut and we started on our journey home.

Each morning after that, I noticed my clothes getting bigger. The others were having the same problem. By the time we were halfway home, we were ten feet tall.

It dawned on me that this was the meaning of that spell he cast on me. I don’t know why everyone was affected, but I do know that instead of giants, we were rapidly becoming the size of men. Camping in a remote location we waited for the shrinking to stop. After another month, we finally stopped at three and a half feet. We were now dwarves.

Too embarrassed to return to our towns, we made clothing out of our old garments and each one took his wagon of gold and left the area.

So now, I am a rich dwarf who was a giant, living in this small town. Ah, I see you don’t believe me. Well, if you go fifty leagues northwest you will see the Black Obsidian Fortress, and if you’re brave enough, go and talk to Heric the Great. Maybe you will come back a Giant.

Random things going on in my mind:

• I love Yumm! sauce! Put it on some rice and it makes a great meal!


• I also like bananas.


• I'm going to be kicked out of my apartment this afternoon. Adele is throwing a Bridal Shower for Alicia and there's going to be 17 females in this apartment! Yeah, so Reece and I are going over to Georges and hopefully we'll be playing video games.


• Blockbuster doesn't rent Playstation 2's or any gaming station.


• I hope Reece finds someone to borrow a PS from.


• I wonder where Reece is right now. We have to help a friend with some couches.


• It's cold outside, yet sunny.


• I'm thinking I wasn't very clear about my last post. That picture is the first in a set about my day on Tuesday. If you click on it, you'll be taken to it's page. There's a couple picture's thumbnails on the right. Just click next and you'll cycle through my day. I explain each picture and it's place in my day. Don't be afraid to leave comments.


• I like Jack Johnson's music

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Originally uploaded by jcforgod.

So, I uploaded my pictures to flickr and you can now view Feb. 14th in picture format.

To all of you who commented on the last post, Thank you! I like doing that every once in awhile to see who's out there and to know that I do have readers.

Yesterday was a great day to do the "in the day of" pictures. I'll have them up hopefully by the end of the day.

To do today:

Read Revelation Textbook
Read a couple chapters in the Evangelism textbook
Brainstorm and get started on two papers
buy milk
mail two packages
Go to DMV and change license plates
Go to Module Class
Do some more packing
Make "in the day of" blog post
Call someone

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So yeah, have a great day and I'll post sometime tonight, I hope.

So I feel like doing a random survey...

1. From where you are sitting right now, list an object that is one of each of the following colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, white and black.

Red: The wrapping paper on a Christmas gift my roommate has yet to send to his nephew.
Orange: My comfy bean bag chair that needs more styrofoam beans.
Yellow: The counters in my kitchen
Green: My plant!
Blue: There's a blue plastic cup on the table that I really should put in the dishwasher
Purple: A not quite purple blanket that my roommate's fiance keeps here.
White: The frame around a really cool picture of a forest.
Black: The modem I'm using to get online

2. What color do you wear most often? Why?

I usually wear Dark Blue. Sometimes maroon. I also wear black alot.

3. What color are your eyes? What color do you wish they were?

My eyes are blue. I don't want them to change, 'cause God made them that color and that is who I am.

4. What color is your desktop image?

Black and blue. It's a 3d image of floruesent mushrooms

5. What colors are you walls and floor?

Off white and Baise.

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That was interesting. Now, I'm curious as to who reads my blogger. Please comment if you read it. Thanks.

Ah, Blogger is no longer down. I be happy. I actually had to resort to myspace to write a blog entry. That's a sad event indeed.

Let's see, I'm missing out on spending time with my extended family this weekend because of two reasons: The first is that I have to go to a conference tonight as a requirement for a class. The second is that I just don't trust my car right now.

Speaking about my car, I finally got the arm for repairing the windshield wipers. I think installing it will happen tomorrow 'cause the engine was hot and now it's cooling off outside. Hopefully tomorrow will be as nice as today.

Luckily the church where the conference is being held at is within walking distance.

I don't know if I mentioned on here that I'm moving out of this two bedroom in March. My roommate is getting married and I decided that instead of them looking for another apartment, I would do that instead. So I talked to our manager and he said that there was one coming open the second week of march. I put the reservation fee on it and will be moving in around the 10th of march. It's a one bedroom and I'm looking forward to having my own place.

Thus I'm slowly packing. It's weird how much stuff I have now. I never thought I'd have this much stuff. I have a couch, a recliner, two lamps, a bed and a dresser. Oh and a couple bookshelves. It's strange how you accumulate stuff when you have an apartment.

well, I'm going to get off and start thinking about dinner. I have to leave here around 6:30 or so to get to the church in time.

Ah, the joys of having internet at home. Yes, you read rightly. I now have clearwire wireless internet at home. All I do is plug the modem into the power, then plug in a LAN to my computer and I'm online! And the modem is light enough to take anywhere. So I can conceivably take it to anywhere there's an outlet and get online. It's pretty sweet.

I did this because I'm starting to sell things on Ebay and also have someone who is wanting a website designed. Thus the internet.

If you have high speed internet, this video is amazing! And it's real! Courtesy of Brian.
Free Run

Bleh. I am devoid of inspiration. I have a sermon paper to write based on Daniel and my brain is dead. I'm sitting in My Coffee (yes, a favorite place for me) and I've spent pretty much the entire afternoon procrastinating. I have my text: The story of the firey furnace. I have my subject: The Sovereignty of God. I even have an idea on how to introduce it. But everytime I start to write, I can't get anything together. very annoying.

I think I may have commented on this before, but you'd think that after 10 terms of writing papers I'd be able to write them in a snap. No, that's not the case. I have to struggle, procrastinate, panic, and then slap together a paper that either gets an 'A' or a 'B'. don't ask me how that happens.

I talked to a friend yesterday that I hadn't talked to in a couple of years. I had heard that he was married and yes, that was correct. Turns out that he had eloped. To Hawaii. It was a planned elopement though. Heh. That's the way to do it.

So, to my future wife, whereever and whenever and whoever you are, I want to elope!!
Heh.

I'm hungry. Should I spend more money and buy something here, or wait until I get back to my apartment after CCG to eat? Questions, questions.

I read Wuthering Heights this week. A very interesting book. At the end, I closed it and thought about how sad Heathcliff was. He loved, but when rejected, destroyed upwards of half a dozen people. It saddened me. It makes me want to be a whole lot different than that. I want to be able to forgive. I don't want to carry negative emotions, and then proceed to tear down everything, everyone I loved. It's not worth it.

I wonder if my friend will show up. I left a message on his phone to call me when he 's on the way to my place, but he hasn't called yet. hmmm... That may mean I have to walk to my place, and then to CCG. Man, I can't wait to get my car working again.

which reminds me, I'll have to get a ride to Honda when my part comes in. I'm hoping that the weather will be nice enough for me to work on my car and get it fixed. Then I'll be able to start looking for a job. (which I really don't want. I like my life the way it is. But, since I'm moving and going to need more money for rent, I'm going to have to get a job).

Reece and Alicia were happy to hear that I'm moving into a one-bedroom when they get married. That'll take some stress off of them. 'Course it does put some on me, but I'm okay with that.

I learned that my friend Josh and his wife are moving up to Seattle soon. At first it hit me hard, but then I was happy for them. Josh is called to much more than working at a bookstore all his life and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens up there. Gives me more reasons to travel up north though. funny how people move...

Okay, I've rambled enough.

Life has been interesting these last few days. God's working on my heart and emphasizing surrender. I have had to constantly surrender my plans for my future up to Him.

I thought I'd post a list of the last four movies I watched, complete with comments.

Peter Pan – I love this movie! 5 stars!

Aeon Flux – Sci fi/assassin thriller about a young lady who is sent to kill the leader of the last city on earth. She discovers a secret that changes her loyalties. Good special effects, but the plot line is rather messed up. Plus there’s a couple questionable scenes. I give it 2 and half stars.

King Kong – Peter Jackson made his classic horror movie. Over three hours long, it slows down in places. I think that some of the mush between gal and giant ape could have been cut out. They did good casting. Jack Black was great as the slimy director. 4 stars.

K-19 – The Russians send their new nuclear sub out to test it. The Captain, Harrison Ford, pushes the crew hard. Then the reactor springs a leak. Crisis! Intense thriller. I like how they had the older crew come together at the end to honor those who died. Liam Neeson is unrecognizable as an old guy. 5 stars.

I had a good birthday yesterday. Thank you to all of you who remembered and sent me cards and did things with me.