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That's my dad driving my car in the Spartanburg Veterans' Day parade last week. (He was Joe Spigner's unofficial campaign manager, IIRC.) Cool, no?
#AFEEEE |
Your dominant hues are green and blue. You're smart and you know it, and want to use your power to help people and relate to others. Even though you tend to battle with yourself, you solve other people's conflicts well. Your saturation level is low - You stay out of stressful situations and advise others to do the same. You may not be the go-to person when something really needs done, but you know never to blow things out of proportion. Your outlook on life is bright. You see good things in situations where others may not be able to, and it frustrates you to see them get down on everything. |
Not bad.
(Via Uncle Sam's Cabin)
No, I've got a paper due for Practices/Protocols of International Business.
Which I just started working on today.
And which is due tomorrow.
I've got to quit doing this to myself.
Anyways, see you tomorrow!
This music is hard to describe, especially since I don't know the vocabulary of music. I'd describe it as all melody. It's just... well, Ashby called it "improvisations," which is probably the best word for it. The music just meanders, but it sounds good. It's nice especially when I need background noise to study to, because it isn't distracting. Absolutely beautiful stuff.
It's been a pretty decent week though, all things considered. I aced my stats test on Wednesday and I did well on a salesmanship test. I had one other test in international business which I barely had any time to study for, and the teacher decided to make this one open notes for some reason. I heard the best chapel message of the year on Tuesday. I found out my new chapel seat is outside of the Academy (read: high school) section (thank goodness!). I had to videotape a sales presentation for my salesmanship class yesterday, and it went.... well, as well as could be expected. I'll be honest, I'll probably never take a career in sales. Salesmanship is a valuable skill to have, but a career in selling is definitely not my first choice of what I want to do with my life. I'm shy, and don't particularly enjoy meeting new people. But, as I said, the video project went as well as could be expected, and I enjoy talking to my partner in the project. (According to a personality survey activity the class did, he was an "Expressive," while I was the only "Analytical" in the class.) Pretty good.
Next week looks pretty decent too, although I've got a lot of work to do this weekend. There's a high-school Fine Arts Festival coming, which means that there are going to be visitors in the dorms (Yet another reason to be a town student!), so the Bible faculty decided not to assign any Bible Doctrines assignments this week. There is a test over all the verses we've had this semester so far (EEEEEEEEK!), but after that, nothing. And my Ops Management class is meeting in the snack shop on Tuesday. It's all good.
But I am so tired.
Sleep comes....
My name is Jeremy. You can't have my last name, sorry. In fact, you can't even be sure that Jeremy is my real first name. Because this is the internet, that's why. I might be a 48-year-old guy named George from Massachusetts smoking marijuana listening to hip-hop, and you'd never know. I might even be Larry King. How could you tell?
But, you can call me Jeremy. I'm currently a Junior at Bob Jones University. (Betchya would have never guessed that if I hadn't told you!) Just to dispel a myth about BJU right now: It's not a racist institution. There's no ban on interracial dating. We did have such a ban at one point, but it's been gone for years. (In fact, the ban would probably have been lifted sooner had some idiot not tried to sue the university over it and (successfully) revoked our tax-exempt status. BJU doesn't like to be pressured into decisions, especially by legal coercion. The institution moves slowly and cautiously, but, generally, in the right direction.) Dr. Bob has never once preached against interracial dating in chapel in my time there. BJU treats people the same, regardless of race. That's probably why they're called racist; they don't pander to minorities.
ANYway, back to me! I'm majoring in Comprehensive Business Management, and minoring in Public Relations Writing. I don't know what I'm doing with my life yet. I really like my Operations Management Class (Hi Mr. Wilch!), so I might look into that direction. I think It'd be really cool to set up my own business that sells board/card games, following the Comfy Chair Revolution line of thinking.
Religiously, I'm still deciding. I've gotten to the point where I'm starting to question what I've always been taught. I try to keep an open mind, realizing that even though people I love and respect believe something, that doesn't necessarily mean that they're right. Their viewpoints are important, and I'm always willing to listen, but in the end the decision of what I believe is up to me.
Politically, I'm from minarchist branch of libertarianism. That means I believe government has legitimate functions, but not many of them. The point of government is to protect the citizens from those who would do them harm, within and without. So, the government should consist of national defense and criminal justice. Not entitlement programs, environmental studies, or education. Oh, and they can print money too. They did a decent job setting up an interstate highway system, but I think the private sector can handle roadbuilding more efficiently from here.
One political issue I differ from BJU on is gay marriage. They seem to think that American society will collapse if the Federal Marriage Amendment isn't passed; I think that marriage is a religious issue that the government ought not to be involved in anyways.
In fact, this issue is like a number of others. I believe that the government ought not to intervene unless someone is threatened by physical danger or loss--so, government ought to protect us from murder, theft, rape, etc. On the other hand, the government ought not to try to protect me from myself or tell me how to live, as that's the function of my own personal ethics and/or religious beliefs. For example, it's no one's business but mine what chemicals I put into my body, so long as I don't steal my grandmother's social security check to pay for the drugs or kill somebody by driving under the influence of drugs. In other words, so long as I'm not hurting anyone else, I should be allowed to do whatever I want to do without fear of governmental involvement.
(In case you were wondering, that's the difference between libertarians and conservatives.)
Oh, and I was and am for the war in Iraq. See also, Bill Whittle.
Enough about politics already!
In addition to the traditional religious music that BJU promotes, I like Irish music. I also like bluegrass/"Appalachian" music. I don't like heavy metal or rap music, because I don't like music that makes me angry. I do like jazz piano, because it's pretty; you can follow it, but you don't know where it's going.
I think that Pirates of the Caribbean is about the best movie ever. Also, anything made by Pixar. (I love Toy Story 2.)
Relationships: I have two younger brothers, a mommy, a daddy, and a doggy. I couldn't ask for a better family. Seriously.
Oh, you meant with a girl. I'm still looking.
And, on that note, I'm going to end this post. I'm going to put this up on the sidebar so that anyone who cares can find out all about ME!!!!. I hope you enjoy reading my blog! (Leave comments!)
UPDATE: Because of comment spamming idiots, I've had to close comments on all of my Movable Type entries. If you want to add comments about this particular page, go here instead. Thanks!
Jesse showing Dad a card trick
And now: Absolutely the coolest photo I've ever taken:
That's Jason unloading Jesse's newest Nerf gun at me. Twenty rounds per salvo. (We had to wait to buy this until after the assault weapons ban expired.) Where were these toys when I was a kid?
Anyways, good night, and may Jesse have at least ten times as many more happy years ahead.
UPDATE: Apparently though, I'm not that good of a geek. Otherwise, I would have caught that typo in my html tag. All better.
Anyways, to make up for it, in the extended entry is a series of fun-filled questions about me. Because I know you care. You can blame Bryan from Spare Change for the list.
Well folks, that's it. I hope you enjoyed it!
Also in the news: This is my 101st post using Movable Type. It is a day to celebrate my migration from Blogger! Yay!
What? You wanted valuable news? How about the discovery of a 182-carat diamond--bigger than a computer mouse and worth millions?
Oddly enough, I found about that via the radio before I found out about it via the internet. Usually the traditional media has more lag time than that.
Speaking of time, it's one o'clock in the morning. You know how most people have a 24 hour "sleep cycle"? I think God gave me a 24.5 hour one, because I stay up about half an hour later every night. That needs to stop, and not only because it means my posts get more meandering and less focused as I stay up into the wee hours of the morning. It makes things difficult Sunday mornings when I need to get up at 7:30 to get ready for church. I guess I ought to try to stay synchronized with the rest of the world.
So, in keeping with that goal, I'm going to bed. I'll try to talk about something important later.
For example, I might write about, "How do we decide what is important?" Well, obviously, stuff that impacts us personally ranks at the top. For example, if I wrote "Your hair is on fire," you might touch the top of your head just to make sure. Because you (if you're normal) like to keep your head as unburnt as possible. Or if I told you that the nation's food supply was about to be poisoned by terrorists, that would matter to you.
Further, if an event affects a group that you are a member of, then it stands a pretty good chance of mattering to you. Say, for example, a suitcase nuke goes off in NYC. That matters to me, even though it doesn't directly affect me in the same way that getting poisoned does, because it means that members of my group--the country--are being harmed. Or, say, Congress passes a Canada-style ban on "hate speech" that makes preaching against homosexuality illegal. That affects me because it affects another group that I'm a member of--Christianity.
Is there any other critera for something being important to us? As Machiavelli said, "When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content." I think we can safely add "nor that of their friends" to his statement. Do we care about things that don't affect us in the slightest degree?
Of course we do. Why else do we read Lileks or other personal blogs? Why is that? Other bloggers' personal lives don't affect me at all, but yet I'll read a select handful of bloggers' entries about their lives.
I'm thinking that there are three main reasons to read such personal, and frankly, unimportant (to most people) notes: A) Amusement, always a valuable commodity, opiate of the masses, etc.; B) inspiration, by which I mean both those things encourage us and those things that make us say "Aww....." in a "that's cute" manner; and C)enlightenment, for the occasional nugget of wisdom or the practice in the art of debate.
It's now 1:30. I think this thoughtline has run its course. Congratulations for finishing that; something tells me I'll wake up in the morning and read the above, and regret boring everyone with it.
But that's the great thing about the internet; you are under no obligation to read everything, or even to pretend to care. If this post bores you, you can skip to the next one, or go to some other blog for a while until I come up with something good again. I wish that it worked like that in say, classroom situations. I hate it, I hate it when a teacher wastes my time in endless review (for the slower members of the class), or follows some irrelevant, uninteresting rabbit trail, or even teaches something that's in the curriculum that's utterly irrelevant to life (such as post-modernist English literature). I'm paying you to teach me, so teach me something valuable for crying out loud.
"The worst thing a teacher can do is waste me time, for in so doing he commits a miniature murder." I wrote that down during an accounting lecture once. It's a bit melodramatic, but if Franklin's adage of "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of," is true, then so my frustrated sentence from accounting.
Kind of ironic that I mention that when I'm wasting my sleep time writing this post. Does that mean I'm committing miniature suicide?
1:44. Bedtime. Seriously. Must put down laptop.
Goodnight everybody!
I need to find something to occupy my time. Maybe I need to find a good temporary job for the summer. On the other hand, my Dad suggested that I work for a SC Senatorial political campaign (I'd do either Jim DeMint or Thomas Ravenel), partially for the experience in the political process and partly to put it on my résumé. I'd like to be working at a summer camp in California, Camp Lucerne, but I ended up turning in my application too late and I was put on a waiting list of some kind. So, that's a (remote) possibility, but one I won't know about for another week or so.
Other ideas: Hugh Hewitt, in his excellent book entitled In, But Not Of, suggests that to be influential in the world, it's important to have a good understanding of history, and suggests about a dozen books to read on the subject. Considering my less than stellar understanding of history, it might be prudent to spend my summer reading them.
He also suggests, "Your obvious need is to go deep into at least one area of material that will be of interest to many, if not all, people of accomplishment" (page 53) as a means of demonstrating the desire to develop "depth of intellect." To be honest, this is probably one of my weak points. Naturally, as a Christian, brought up in a Christian home, going to Christian schools all of my life, I have a fairly in-depth knowledge of the Bible, at least by comparison to the world. I could teach you how to customize a windows-based computer to look and act like a Mac (or whatever you wanted). I could bore you to tears about Star Trek. But are any of these interesting to "influential" members of society?
I could learn to golf, I suppose. That seems to be a useful skill for any aspiring businessman.
Anyways, I'm open to suggestions.
create your own personalized map of the USA
or write about it on the open travel guide
Now obviously, I didn't include instances where I was just passing through on my way to another location; if I didn't spend a night or see some sight there, then it isn't listed.
For those of you who are really interested in the boring details of my life, I describe my travels in the extended entry below.
Idaho: My grandmother lives here, so we visit every coupla' years.
California: My uncle and his wife (and assorted cousins) live here. My brother also worked at a summer camp here, and we visited on his birthday.
Nevada: Frequent stopovers in Reno when we travel to California and Idaho; we've stayed in a hotel here at least once.
Utah: Frequent stopovers in Salt Lake City; also saw the Mormon Temple which is cool. We also met a guy who was witnessing for Christianity outside the Temple. He told us that he comes every year.
Texas: My other grandmother and step-grandfather (? Or is it grand-stepfather? Or just grandfather?) and assorted aunts, an uncle, and a cousin live here. So we visit every now and then. And we drive. From South Carolina. This is not a short drive.
Tennessee: Saw Chattanooga; liked the Tennessee Aquarium.
Alabama: I think my Dad, brother, and I went on a church camping trip here. This amused me, because Alabama (in Georgia) is the butt of all the stupid people jokes ("Pollack jokes" rewritten).
North Carolina: As a young child, visited Discovery Place, one of those "Fun Science" complexes. Pretty cool. Had a birthday party there where I received some really cool "Spy Tech" stuff, which they don't make anymore. Like a folding periscope and a irritating hypersensitive motion sensor. Let me tell you, you never have birthdays like you do when you're a little kid.
South Carolina: My home. When states are ranked, we're near the bottom in every good thing and near the top in every bad thing. And it's really hot. But it's nice anyways. Having your immediate family nearby does that to a place.
Georgia: Former home. Good riddance. Even hotter, in the middle of *nowhere*. About an hour from Atlanta. Half an hour from church. A little further from the mall. Had to be schooled by video, because there wasn't a good Christian school nearby and my parents were (wisely) unwilling to put my brother and I in a public school.
Florida: Visited Orlando's Sea World and Clearwater Christian College. CCC looks like a good school, but it was much cheaper to go to Bob Jones (LIFE scholarship and the ability to be a town student). Sea World was a lot of fun; my youngest brother and I got soaked by Shamu the whale.
New York and Washington D.C.: Visited on my Senior Trip. Best. Trip. Ever. I loved it. I threw a paper airplane off the Empire State Building, the place where they print money, the White House (the outside), Library of Congress, Smithsonian; it was so much fun. I only saw the outside of the White House because the President was giving a speech (security, I guess). So, we got to see that. We went through the metal detectors, stood in a big crowd outside, and noticed huge numbers of police officers, even more than you'd expect for a presidential speech. Turns out we had stumbled into a meeting for the Fraternal Order of Police (I think; working from memory), and the President was giving a speech honoring policemen who died in the line of duty during the previous year, especially those who died on 9/11. Later we found that it was supposed to only be open to police officers and their families. Whoops....
Places I would like to visit: Chicago, maybe Philadelphia. Also, I've never been out of the country, so it'd be interesting to visit Ireland or Scotland or something. Israel too, perhaps someday.
Anyway, it's the classic word-association deal. They think of ten words, we write whatever comes to mind. Here we go!
Condemn: Death
Promiscuous: Dance (It's the "prom")
Pro-life: Its the image of an abortionNO truck I saw the other day.
Mona Lisa: smile
Crown: prince
Mumble: Mutter
Hack: Computer
Diet: Root Beer (it's late)
Introduction: Conclusion
Latin America: Romans
I also made a phone call to California, to Camp Lucerne, where I had hoped to work during the summer. As you can tell from the use of the past tense, I probably won't be going there after all.
I sent in an application more than a month ago, and I hadn't gotten a response yet, so I was calling to find out what was going on. Turns out the program director was waiting to see if anyone was going to drop out, because they're "kind of full" right now. So, I've been put on a waiting list.
I'm disappointed, but either one of two things will happen: Either I will get to go, or I'll find something better. I had prayed before I turned in the application that I wouldn't be accepted if God didn't want me to go. So, I think that something good will be coming. I just hope I don't waste my summer like I did last year. I thought I was going to be able to work a lot of hours at Chick-fil-A, but then, so did everyone else who was working there.
Anyways, there's some sort of job-recruiting thing tomorrow afternoon, so maybe I'll find a great summer job. Stay tuned....
At least that wasn't my fault. Anyways, I got it back on Thursday night, and it works beautifully again. It's really, really nice to have my own comfortable car back!
While we were at the dealership, Dad and I looked at some of the cars in the showroom. Dad had his eye on a convertible PT cruiser, while I was more intrigued by the Chrysler Crossfire. The coolest part: The spoiler retracts. (Look at the third picture on the top row). My only problem with it (besides a $35K price tag; my dad raised me to be a cheapskate. :-)) is that it's a European-esque car, which means that it's tiny, even for a two-seat sports car. Hopefully the new convertible version of the car coming out next year will be a little less confining.
I'll stick with my Seabring for now. :-)
Unfortunately, it's gotten sick. I was driving to the interstate to go home when the little temperature warning came on. Naturally, I pulled off on the next exit and bought an overpriced bottle of pre-diluted coolant and put it into the appropriate hole. I can also put more oil in; that's about the limit of my knowledge about cars.
I pulled out, and the temp. gauge had gone down just a touch, so I figured, problem solved! Then it went back up into the red zone. So, I figured, maybe it just needs a little while to kick in, and I go ahead and head home. The light stayed on for about 15 minutes. Then it goes out, the gauge hits the bottom half of the "cool" side, and the "service engine soon" light comes on. Well, sure enough, I'm past-due for my 3000 mile tune-up. I think to myself, "I'll have to take care of that."
At this point, I've just pulled off of the interstate. I stop at a light, then the service engine soon light goes back off, and the oil light comes on. I don't really have time to think about this, because when I step on the gas, I get about no speed at all. I pulled off to the side of the road, and steam starts to come out of my hood. Oops. Figures this would happen when Dad's on a business trip.
Several cell-phone calls (roadside assistance, Mom, who gets Dad to call me, etc.) and a tow-truck ride later, I'm picked up by Mom and go home. Soon, I got a call from the dealership: My water pump had gone out (so the overpriced gas-station coolant did no good), causing the "head gasket" to mess up somehow. I brace myself.
$1400.
Fortunately, my Dad was actually expecting it to be more, so he didn't kill me over the phone when I told him. (I have such a nice Daddy!)
Today's Lesson: Don't drive with the temp. light on. Ever. Just don't. It's expensive.
UPDATE: Oh, guess what? My ignorance magically transformed what should have been a $400 job (replacing the water pump) into a $1400 job. They say experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is so expensive!
1. What was the last song you heard?
Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All, the title track of the newest Steve Pettit CD. They play a sort of blue-grass-esque sacred music. It's great. Buy it.
2. What were the last two movies you saw?
Well... I just saw Dr. Dolittle (the Eddie Murphy version) tonight. And, as I blog, I'm watching Gold Through the Fire. It's not that great; I've never seen a really good Christian film. I attribute that mainly to practice; compared to Hollywood, the Christian film industry has only a tiny bit of experience. That, and Christian movies are entirely too concerned with preaching at the audience, rather than delivering a good story. When I want to see a movie, I want to be entertained; leave the preaching for Sunday.
3. What were the last three things you purchased?
The CD I mentioned, David Kincaid's "The Irish Volunteer CD," and lunch at BJU yesterday.
4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
Study for Bible Geography, work on Investment project, go to church tomorrow morning, and just relax!
5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
Mom, Dad, my brothers, and... Taylor, my little brother's best friend.
I had an accounting mid-term, PR test, and a investment chapter review project today. Yesterday was full of preparation for the above. It's so nice to be able to sit down and relax, instead of sit down and study lists of facts.
::scene of luxuriating in a recliner with the laptop::
This is my room. It's a lot cleaner than usual. I was expecting company, after all. :-)
Found one of these while I was digging through my mailbox. Here we go!
1. LAST MOVIE YOU SAW IN A THEATER?
Some IMAX movie. Both BJU rules and parental units forbid going to theater at the moment. Which is too bad; I'd LOVE to see Return of the King and/or the Passion of the Christ. Oh well; guess I'll wait for the DVD.
2. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING NOW?
I'm taking a survey right now, silly! Really, I don't have much time for pleasure reading. I did just finish a couple of novels by David Weber that I had put onto my PDA. BTW, I *love* the Baen Webscriptions website. The files are downloadable in unsecured Rich Text format, which means I can do find/replaces on them and convert them to iSilo format.
3. FAVORITE BOARD GAME?
Hmm. I like Settlers of Catan a lot. The only thing I don't like is that there is no way to take over opposing cities/settlements. It's kind of a cool little empire-building game.
4. FAVORITE MAGAZINE?
Reader's Digest, mainly for the occasional original humor story.
5. FAVORITE DRINK?
Dr. Pepper
6. COMFORT FOOD?
Chocolate, I guess. It's great stuff.
7. FAVORITE SOUNDS?
A good chord in the middle of a good song. Especially if it's a deep bass chord. Pirates of the Caribbean Soundtrack has lots of these.
8. WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD?
When you know you've done something wrong, and you didn't even try to stop yourself. Or, when you know you should have done something, but didn't. Kind of the same feeling, really.
9. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP?
I usually wish I had gone to bed earlier. I have to get up at 5:30 to get to school and have any chance of getting a decent parking space.
10. FAVORITE FAST FOOD PLACE?
I like Wendy's, Chick-Fil-A, and Pizza Hut, among others.
11. FUTURE CHILD'S NAME?
Haven't given it much thought. I like Sandra or Sasha, but they both sound like the Russian spy in a James Bond movie.
12. FAVORITE VEHICLE?
I love my car, a '96 Sebring convertible. It's the perfect color, dark green with a black top. If I couldn't have that car, I'd like to try a black or a silver Mustang.
13. FINISH THIS STATEMENT, If I HAD THE TIME I WOULD... sleep; write a book (but I don't have anything to write about yet!); go to Ireland.
14. DO YOU EAT THE STEMS ON BROCCOLI?
No, thank you.
15. IF YOU COULD DYE YOUR HAIR ANY COLOR, WHAT WOULD YOU CHOOSE?
Black.
16. HOW MANY DIFFERENT CITIES/TOWNS HAVE YOU LIVED IN?
Greenville SC, Douglasville GA, and Spartanburg SC. 3.
17. GLASS HALF EMPTY OR FULL?
If it's Dr. Pepper, then it's completely empty. Otherwise, half-full.
18. FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH?
Watching sports, IMHO, is a waste of time unless you personally know at least one of the players. So, my old high school's basketball games, but that's about it.
19. SAY SOME NICE THINGS ABOUT THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU:
She's my mom! Great cook, and a lot of fun to aggravate. :-)
22. MORNING PERSON, OR NIGHT OWL?
Night Owl. If it weren't for my 8:00 accounting class, I'd sleep in 'til about 9 every morning and go to bed at midnight or one.
23. FAVORITE PLACE TO RELAX?
My room, or my living room.
24. FAVORITE PIE?
Pumpkin, every once in a while; I like Hamburger pie too: A layer of Hamburger under a layer of mashed potatoes under a thin layer of cheddar cheese. Yummy.
Oh, look! That's the end of the survey!
beep-beep-beep-beep-beep
I quickly shut the door, hoping that it would deactivate the alarm. A few seconds more of beeping then a
beepbeepbeepbeepbeep
and then a
WAH!!-WAH!!-WAH!!-WAH!!
as the alarm klaxon sounded. It's quite loud. I was not looking forward to explaining to the police what happened.
Fortunately, we encountered the school janitor, who called the church's business manager on his cell phone. I think that he must have deactivated the alarm remotely, because it turned off before anyone did anything in the office.
We quickly fled the scene to go to the college we were supposed to give the flyers out at. And there was no one there. No one. So we did the only natural thing: We went to prison! The SC Department of Corrections was across the street, so we left a stack of flyers there. We also gave some to a local soup kitchen, a YMCA, a gas station, an Army/Navy surplus store. The last one was my friend's suggestion; she wanted to check out the camo/uniforms. I can't wait to find out if she actually told her parents everywhere she went.
So, instead, we played in the snow at my house. It packs even better today than it did yesterday, so much so that I've gotten e-mails announcing a snow-sculpting contest at BJU. We even... found this giant egg outside:
Imagine our surprise when we found my little brother in it!
We even thought he was dead for a while.
But soon, we were proven wrong.
But then the pod-version of Jason attacked! (No witnesses remained on the scene)
I'm sleeping in tomorrow morning! Woo-hoo!
Another reason why it's good to be a town student.
This is what passes for a blizzard here in South Carolina.
Isn't snow great stuff? This is the first time this year that we got real snow, instead of just ice. And it's the good kind of snow too; it packed really well. Now we have to spray it with the hose to get it to stick really well.
I've got more pictures, but I'll hide them in an extended entry for the benefit of dial-up users.
This was our first snow man. Yes, that's right! We got enough snow for TWO snow men! :-)
We invited my dad (who's from Idaho) to help out with the other one. It came out better, if only because of his greater experience with the stuff. And because we sprayed the snow off with the hose of course.
You can see the nose Jason built for it better in this shot. I think it looks cool.
Jason professes his love.
I think this is the coolest picture ever. Look out!
Do you guys get a lot of those little e-mail surveys with lots of questions to ask your friends? Well, here are my answers.
This is why Movable Type made Extended Entry.
1. What time is it? 7:43 a.m
2. Name: Jeremy
3. EDIT deleted as protection against ID theft
4. Nicknames: None, really.
5. Number of candles on your last birthday cake: 2, representing 19. Those number candles
6. Birthday: August 15
7. Pets: My little dog, Suzie!
(What happened to 8 & 9?) I don't know. you wrote the survey.
10. Eye color: brown
11. Hometown: Spartanburg, SC
12. Town you live in: Spartanburg, SC (so, what's the difference between 11 and 12?)
13. Favorite food: My foods are like my children. You can't have a favorite! Oh, except that I have my generation's fondness for pizza.
14. Been to Africa? No, but my little brother will be going soon!
15. Been toilet papering: I toilet papered a friend's car once. Only to find out that someone un-toilet papered it a little later.
16. Loved someone so much it made you cry? What kind of stupid question is that?
17. Been in a car accident? Um... I hit a car in the little, tiny Rodehaver parking lot at school once, but other than that... No.
18. Croutons or bacon bits? Croutons.
19. Favorite day of the week? I like thursdays. I get to sleep in 'til 6:30 on those days!
20. Favorite restaurant? I like Coronas, for their excellent mexican food.
21. Favorite flower? Flowers are pretty. That is all.
22. Favorite sport to watch? I like seeing my high school play basketball, but that's about it.
23. Favorite Drinks? Dr. Pepper
25. Disney or Warner Bros? Pixar
26. Favorite fast food restaurant: Wendy's
27. What color is your bedroom carpet? Brown. And my walls are a wood paneling. And the ceiling is white, with a blue part that holds a ventilation duct. It's almost nature-esque.
28. Before this one, from whom did you get your last e-mail? According to the date stamps, a message from dad about a scholarship.
29. Which store would you choose to Max out your credit card? Probably Circuit City
30. What do you do most often when you are bored? Play stuff on the computer. Do homework. Sleep.
31. Most annoying thing people ask me? (At Chick-Fil-A) Do you sell hamburgers?
32. What is your bedtime: 10:30pm-ish
33. Who will respond to this email the quickest: It's not an email anymore, Bwa-ha-ha
34. Who is the person you sent this to that is least likely to respond? ::shrug::
35. Favorite TV shows: America's Funniest Home Videos. Absolutely hilarious, almost every time.
36. Last person you went out to dinner with? Probably my family. If you asked about lunch, I'd tell you some friends at school.
37. Ford or Chevrolet: Don't care. Probably Chevrolet, because I've heard all sorts of bad rumors about the reliability of Fords.
38. Last CD you bought: I think it was Freedom Through Christ. The last track on the CD is absolutely awesome.
39. Time you finished this e-mail: 7:57am