Women safe from my powers of seducion...

In defence of the Candy King, he was unaware of the bow tie... probably wondering why I was trying to take a picture of him.

So, Fall Fest is over, at least for those nerds of us who are not going to the banquet on Saturday. Just as well for myself, as I have to help set up the concessions for the talent show. It has truely proven to be an interesting experience thus far, being the first time that I have done the ground work for this sort of thing. Anyway. A bunch of 41'ers from years past have come down today for the reuninon this weekend. There's supposed to be a picnic down at the pond of all places. I know that there are picnic tables down there, but it doesn't seem to be the place you would want to bring your alumni for a meal. Then again, these are 41'ers. It has been pretty cool seeing the guys that graduated last year again. Igloo showed up yesterday, and Aduma, Abu and Aduma's roomate Sam showed up this morning. Rumor has it Ed is comming tommorow and Nacho and Joker are already here. I ran into a couple of guys from '85 in chapel today, I'd imagine that they will be at the picnic tommorow. Forrest is here too, so I finally got to meet him. It's been really cool seeing everyone again. Anyhow, I need to be getting off to bed. Be seeing you.

An adendum to the doctrine of the Power Suite - "If possible, live at peace with all men..." (Schmorgan) to which Ludwhig added "If not, kick them in the nuts."

A New Look

I changed my template, I hope that you noticed, because if you haven't then you need a doctor. I shamelessly stole it from the blogger template site, i'll probably mess with it more in the future when I am struck by a errant bolt of motivation. That's all for now, I need to be getting off to sleep. Oh, the picture below is from NW Haiti, where the Haitians claim Columbus first landed in the new world. Of course the Domincans have this other bay just across the border, and they say...

So, yeah, it's been a while. Family Conference was alot of fun, got to catch up with alot of people that I hadn't seen in a while, that sort of thing. I got into Longview on the 17th, spent alot of time bumming around until school started last Tuesday. It was an enjoyable experiece, that is unfortunately over. The semester looks like it is shaping up to be pretty interesting, and probably pretty busy. Thus far I have Digital Electronics, Dynamics, Biblical Literature, Fatness, Linear, Project Management, and Begining Karate. I also picked up Pheonix as a tech elective (one credit this semseter, two next). Anyway, that is all for now, I need to run off. Be seeing you.

YAY!!! The website lives! Many thanks to Fjord.
That is all, more later.

Well, after much foot dragging and alot of Guld Wars playing, I will finally post again. My brother and I tore the front porch off today so that we can dig the foundation for the new one. It was getting rotted in places, nothing to bad but defintly in need of replacement. We'll be pouring a concrete porch to replace it, it won't need to get replaced again in 40 years. Besides, we're still on a concrete kick from last summer.
Saturday Ruth and I went up to McAllisterville to help my aunt and my grandmother clean out my great Aunt Mary's house. My grandmother is going to be headed up there in a few weeks, so a little cleaning was in order. We cleaned out the basement some more, and found an old mechanical seed sower thing. Aside from being a little rusty it looked like it was in fine condition. It had canvas bag on the top that fed the seed thru a small hole and onto a rotating disk that cast the seed. It even had a cover over the feed hole that opened and closed via a cam. All you had ot do was spin the handle and pour seed in the top. I thought that it was a pretty cool little device. In retrospect I guess I should have takken a picture.
We have a kitchen install coming upon Tuesday and Thursday, do that should prove interesting. Not quite sure what we will be doing for hte rest of the week, probably working over on Ed's dad's addition. It'll be a short week, which will be nice too.
I might wind up going qown to the shore this Saturday with some of the guys from church. Hopefully the water will be warm and the weather warmer.
Well, I need to be getting off to bed. Be seeing you.

To answer Ludwig's question, I'm working with one of the general contractors that goes to my church. Every day is a little different,but typically we work from 7:30 to 4:00 or so. Friday I had the wonderful opportunity to install the fiberglass insulation in one of the additions that we are working on. For the record, fiberglass + 90 degree weather + people = itchy - very itchy. Fortunately we got off early, and I was able to get home and shower in fairly short order. Drywall is comming Monday, so we will probably rock it on Monday and Tuesday. We have two other jobs we're waiting for the cabnets to come in for, I guess we will porbably hang them in the latter part of the week. All in all it should be an interesting week.
My brother bought a copy of copy of Guild Wars the other day, and has let me have a charecter on his account, so I've been playing that for the last week or so. Thus far I have not completely leveled my charecter, so I have not seen much of the PvP side of the game. At this point it is mostly a coperative PvE type game. It's still pretty good, though the novelty wears off alot faster when all you do is wander around killing AI charecters. The graphics are pretty good. Anyway, I unfortunately have need of sleep before I go to work tomorrow, so I'll have to write more latter. Be seeing you.

Well, it's been a while. In the excitement of moving home I guess I never really got back into the habit of posting. Of course, that would imply that there was a habit of posting in the first place. Anyway, life has been moderately busy since I got back. My sister graduated from Olivet Nazerene University this spring, so we all conveyed ourselves to the appointed place the saturday after I finished exams and got to see Ruth walk, and then went to her comissioning later in the day. I got into Philadelphia Sunday night, and immediately began to devote all of my available energies to doing nothing. After a couple of days of such a strenuous task I decided that I needed to rest from my labors and so I started work. That's pretty much all that I am up to these days, aside from getting together with friends on the weekends and such. Well, my stomach is calling, and since I promised myself that I would not wonder off untill I had posted something, I'll end things here and take them up later, hopefully tomorrow.

Well, this is most probably the fourth or fifth time that I have sat down to write this week, and it is the unfortunatley the first time thatI have actually finished the post. There really hasn't been much excitement in the last week or so, aside from getting my materials paper turned in and taking the I&M Lab test. Haven't really done anything else of the academic nature, save for the assorted homework here or there.
Shrug and I watched The Power of the One, a movie about Apartheid. A very good movie. Spent most of the daylight hours Saturday sleeping, watched a bit of Pony's MST-3000 showing, and went to bed early. The extra sleep was nice. Unfortunately one must now make up for all that sleeping with study for the rest of the afternnon. Be seeing you.

Well, I think that I set a new personal record the other day. Wenesday night I felt unusually tired, so I went to bed a couple of hours early, and woke up at 7 am feeling wide awake. It was most wonderful. But it gets better. I had a term paper due on Friday (I was writing on the impact of Voodoo on the people of Haiti), and I had put off working on it all week because I was waiting for a key interview to come in. So I stayed up all night Thursday writing the paper, finished it Friday morning, and turned it in durring Religions. After Religions I had Materials, and right after that I had a meeting. I had agreed to help Cedric set up concessions for Film Fest. After that we ran the concession stand. By the time that I started walking back to my dorm it was 10 pm and it occured to me that I had been up for 39 hours on only an hour and a half of sleep. So like any faithful 41'er I decided to stay up for the next two hours..which would make it 41 hours. Then I passed out for the next 13. Anyway.
Other exciting things in life..... that's pretty much it. Oh, I found out that my next materials assignment is due on Monday and not on Friday like I thought. That will make life interesting for the next couple of days. after that I am pretty much home free except for finals. I&M lab test on Thursday... guess I'm not entirely free. Well, I need to either get started on my paper or go to sleep, so I'm off. Be seeing you.

Ethylene Propylene-diene Terpolymer

I've been working on a paper for materials lately, picking out a polymer for use in a marine fender. Dr. Ayers wants us all to pick a polymer for some modern application and write a paper defending the choice. I was browsing the web looking for material and I came across a polymer with the harmless name of Gray EPDM that is used in marine applications. When I found out that, lo and behold, what EPDM really stands for Ethylene Propylene-diene Terpolymer I decided that it would be a less than gratifying experience to have that for a first name. Justy you try and spell that in the second grade. Anyway.
I've got a paper for World Religions due Friday, should prove to be an interesting experience. I chose voodoo in Haiti as my topic, so I'm interviewing my Dad and another friend from Haiti, Judy Muchmore, as my two primary sources. It should prove to be a fairly informative paper. All the time that I spent in Haiti, I never really learned much about that knid of stuff... didn't need to know. Well, life calls. Be seeing you

A picture from NW Haiti, taken durring a visit in 2003

Ever wonder what causes paper jams? This little dude is luck that he has a cartlidge skeleton.

Packed up and ready to go, minus the lid.

Mike, the crazy electrician.

The front end, right after the lift gears got a new coat of grease.

More robot pictures...