Meg's graduation wknd

Christians vs. Atheists

i just got done watching an abc nightline special including kirk cameron and his partner from "way of the master." nightline had them debate an apparently well known atheist couple...martin brasheer ran the debate (the guy who notoriously interviewed michael jackson)i wasnt too fond of how abc ran the debate, but thats not my point here. the show was pretty lame and they showed maybe 5 clips from the debate. all the while God was breaking my heart for these people. after the show they opened a chat room on their site to let people debate the existence of God. too often, we as Christians get caught up in our own wars between conventions and legalities, when there are lost and dying people that arent attacking which side of the baptists are correct, they're attacking that our Saviour even exists. we have our blinders on and focus on pointless stupid things within the body when our focus needs to resemble that of Christ's. please recognize i include myself in the "our." i just wanted to share some of what these people are saying. there were thousands of posts, but these 2 really broke my heart.

"I agree, and also, it is funny how many books were left out of the bible, such as the Gnostic Documents. No Christians really know about them though. It is funny how Atheists are better educated about Christianity than the Christians are. That is probably why we are atheist, because we know about the ludicrous religion and have come to the conclusion that it is irrational."

"I would like to know if God does exist, why would he let me as a child and so many other children be molested. That is all I want to know. What kind of God is he."

hopefully thought provoking..the link up top is to the chat room and you can read the what im sure will be several thousand posts.

2 from my collection

the one on the left being john mayer's room for squares, and the one on the right being the police "synchronicity"..i also have obtained U2's "War" (see the Goodwill post) and John Mayer's "Continuum" and my latest is John Mayer's "Heavier Things", his second studio album and the one which is out of print. All i now need is the John Mayer Trio "Try" album and i will complete my mayer collection. and then whatever else i find next..

deuces

support creativity

hey people, our buddy kyle lent's (lead guitar from the Justin Cofield Band) new cd drops in a few hrs (apparently already on itunes though) so go check it out..its called "In Harbors Gray" its awesome..and he tracked pretty much everything on there himself...which is definitely a rarity these days..

deuces

tennis w/sizzle N jmizzle

the Goodwill extravaganza

dear fellow bloggers,

have you ever wondered if God gives you things in your day so that you can have something to write? not necessarily life changing, just an occurrence...

anywho, so this past wknd i was headed home again...long story as to the reason why i was headed home, but anyway my friday started off with class as normal at 11, then i was to head home after...on the way home from class, my battery light pops on and off a few times...so i take it in to firestone here in CS to get her seen about...well they call back and tell me i need a battery...which is fine, lets do it and i can be on my way...i get the battery, head out and find myself 45 mins out of CS and about 40 mins from any sign of civilization and the light comes back on. i think to myself "those peeps apparently didn't fix the dang problem." so i call the guy and tell him what has happened. he says "you have 2 options, either bring it back here, or head on to austin to another firestone. either way, it might die." im thinking oh great. these people are real professionals. so i figure i will head on and limp my way to austin. i make it fine to the firestone on research and the lady will take a peek. i needed a black sport coat for saturday evening, and i needed to look at goodwill anyway, just so happens the firestone was nearest my most favorite goodwill in austin...so i end up crossing 2 access roads and walk about a mile to the goodwill....find a jacket thats a tad too big, dont end up getting it, but i do end up sorting through their thousand or so t-shirts and i only get 2...but hey, they're 1.99...thats some SWEET ACTION...but wait..there's more...while waiting for my car to be done, i realize they have records there...

side note-i am in the middle of collecting some sweet old and new school records for a little artwork to adorn whatever digs i may obtain next yr...kind of like itunes on my wall so-to-speak...i love my itunes and i love the new artwork thing...so im gonna obtain records from ebay and wherever else (2 john mayer vinyl's are currently en route from ebay people) and then proceed to put them in record frames from urban outfitters and mount those suckers on my wall...

back to my goodwill story, i sorted through a few hundred records and found a police record entitled the synchronicity as well as a U2 War album..both 1.99!...so im pretty excited about my collection...so the second firestone found nothing wrong w/my car, except they would love to put a new alternator in...i bet they would...just like i would like to fly to the moon...which would probably be chaper than a new firestone alternator...so we take it to our mechanic in lockhart.....everybody has one of those...everybody is a tim the tool man taylor and likes their own mechanics....especially my dad....even our mechanic couldnt find out anything...so i drive on...if you see a silver mercedes on the side of the road...its not me....but if you see a silver taurus..then thats me....and im broke down....cuz my car has baffled modern mechanics..i dont recommend it

until next time

the turgeon general

so we hired a new men's basketball coach this wk...you might not know that because ut announced kevin durant going pro on the same day, within an hour of our press conference...funny how that happens...but i was skeptical about this guy, he supposedly was a good player at kansas, and had some assistant coaching experience and a head coach gig, but could he coach big XII? that still remains to be proven, but what i was impressed with was his character...he was here monday of this wk seeing the campus and whatnot, job was offered to him monday night....instead of waiting on the press conference and sending his players text messages telling them what was about to happen, he flew back and had a 3 hour late night mtg with his now former players....and when asked about that in the press conference, he teared up and had to compose himself..and he made the statement "guys, there's a lot more to life than college basketball...there's a big world out there." most big time college coaches would never say that...they want their players to believe there is nothing else but basketball...not the turgeon general.....now i cant say we're gonna be a great team next year, but i know it's gonna be done with class...gone are the days of the infamous smirk on the aggie's coach...the turge is here!

good riddance

yes yes i know..i know what your thinking...haha your coach left...or at least nic is...well personally, i appreciate what he did for our program the past few yrs, but i refer you to Richard Justice of the Houston Chronicle:

"Here's the other thing to know about Billy Clyde Gillispie. He was never going to stay at Texas A&M. Never. If he didn't have a legitimate reason to leave, he was going to invent one.
His monstrous ego wasn't going to be satisfied in Aggieland. He wanted more. He has been that way his entire coaching career. Ask some of the people who coached with and against him along the way. Billy Clyde never lacked ambition."

i leave you with this quote from an obvious whorn fan, who commented this on justice's blog:
"they were a joke before BCG and they will return to their rightful thrown as losers..."

sounds like a sad, sad person..(that was not nic's quote. nic did a little UK cheer, and was said with the utmost respect. i think)

first, a little somethin somethin for you guys....





next, a sweet video

Signing with Jon Boy

"now this is a larry the red-neck cable guy weddin"-O daddy

well people....it happened...the day of holy matrimony happened...and for them, it couldnt have gotten here soon enough....thats right, the wedding of Jeremy and Kari (jer bear and kar bear as i like to call them)....and it was magnifico....i had planned to do some sort of ring trick to begin with, i let some of the guys know what they thought, they loved it...but warren had an idea to do a little twist on it....if you were there, you saw, if not, here's the story...unfortunately i have no reaction pics...

moments before we entered the sanctuary to escort the beauty's (bridesmaids) on stage, the plan was put into motion..plan was put the ring in his coat pocket....but how? feel him up? while tempting, mark tate wasn't around to handle it for us, so we had to go a different route (just a joke mark...just a joke buddy)...so we have to commandeer the sucker....well..only way to do that would be to convince him he needed to take it off....and that wasnt hard...as nervous as he was, he could've used having it off for a while...so we, stan warren and i, convince jeremy he needs to use the bathroom prior to us going in, (which is a smart idea anyway kids)...catch is, we told him to let us have his jacket so he wouldn't pee on it, bcuz i had told him i had....now i can't go into my bathroom experience, but it would've been easier had i in fact taken my jacket off...but i didnt and thats beside the point...so he takes it off, gives it to us, and goes....i slip the ring in his coat pocket, and we're good to go....he comes back, we go in..it's all good.....well first off i didnt know when they would ask for the ring, so i prolly woulda dropped it anyways...but now that he had it i didnt have to worry...so the time comes, pastor asks me for the ring, and jeremy doesnt turn around at all..just sticks his hand back...well i reach in my pocket, then begin to feel around everywhere i would think it might be in my suit..doing probably the worst acting job ever, but apparently i sold it...so the groomsmen go down the line each feeling around their coats and whatnot looking for it....jeremy stays glued to kari, probably knowing something's wrong...kari's eyes get big, and im pretty sure i saw some sort of death look, (AKA "The Look" every woman has in her arsenal)..she looks at her mom, then back at us, then at him..stunned...well stan finally says "jeremy look in your jacket pocket"...he fumbles around in it, while my heart beats about 1000 times per minute hoping that pocket doesnt have a hole in it....he eventually found it, and we're all good...everything else went off w/o a hitch....

my speech went down, forgot some stuff to say that i'd like to make public (or to all 4 of you that read this): "Thanks mom for letting me hang out with Jeremy."

reception was fun, i filmed and took pics for em...got home about 10pm old time...time change hit me and i ended up not making it to church the next morning...met the newlyweds for lunch..and thats a whole different blog!!

until next time

abstract johnny cash's are fun

well folks, i'm sitting at a new coffee shop in town, its been open a few months now, but i had never brought myself to try it...i'm overly picky about not only my coffee, but my coffee shops....well this one's a winner.."it's a grind"..its not real big, and the music, although cool, is a bit too loud making my norah jones listening experience off my ipod a bit difficult....the workers have a bit of the ci ci's feel....someone walks in, they say "hi welcome to its a grind"...friendly atmosphere, they bring your coffee to you, right beside ben & jerry's (which both of these together could make me spend large sums of money real quick)....one more and i'm done...they have this huge abstract painting of johhny cash sitting over their fireplace....2 very unique things im digging...i think i'll be here more often..

was supposed to work twice last wk, both were canceled (thank goodness) due to rain....this wk i was supposed to work today, tomorrow, sat. and sunday...today and tomorrow have been canceled due to big screen issues...which is fine bcuz

1. i dont like tennis
2. i need to study

so thats what im attempting now, studying about geography....whatever that really is....wedding and morning after wedding blog still in the works...stay tuned..in the mean time check this guy out:
www.myspace.com/johnwaller

until next time

wedding pics peeps...

Jeremy & Kari Hellums' wedding

i have a wedding post and will post a few pics when i get a chance...my internet at home is not working so i must work on it as coffee shops allow....so stay tuned...i promise its coming...until then, enjoy march madness!

rehearsal day/wedding early morning

well im sitting in the hotel...on this, officially march 10...wedding day of jeremy and kari...pretty sure you already knew that....

well the rehearsal went fine, took about 30 to 45 mins and then we went and ate at the reception hall...pretty good bbq...then we (groomsmen) headed to temple to do a little bachelor-partying.....we set out to go see a movie, but passed the bowling ally on the way and decided to hit that up instead....low and behold it was a club-like bowling ally atmosphere..black lights, strobe lights, loud music....it was pretty slammin....so we bowled, i had a horrible game, nic had probably the best showing of his life, and we had a great time just hangin out....loooooonnnnng day tomorrow....look forward to it, and i know the stars of the show are ready to git-r-done....so until next time

dan hawkin's rant-re-enactment

the impromptu-surreal movie scene

so im sitting in the MSC flag room minding my own business, downloading (legally) the new passion itunes bundle, and the guy sitting directly across from me is also on his computer....and we both are just minding our own business, then all of a sudden he gets a phone call....im not one to pry, usually, so i didnt listen at first, i listened to my newly bought music.....well not 2 minutes goes by when he is talking at a normal tone of voice, which is too loud for such a "study-full" place...so i begin listening, thinking "he must not care if i listen due to the fact he is talking so loud." so soon enough i begin to see he has not far removed from a relationship...apparently his ex-girlfriend was on the other end, and her voice was raised on the other end of the call, so i can hear bits and pieces of her too...this guy basically sounded like a torn up individual, he went home yesterday after class and threw up all afternoon, his thoughts on her leaving him for another man was that she just left and didnt take her long to jump in the sack with the other guy......this is not a paraphrase folks, this was exactly this guy's words....i felt like i was in the middle of a movie scene honestly.....and the guy was you know, a pretty hefty guy from what i could see....well apparently he started to tear up, i know this bcuz i heard the quiver in his voice, and he said he was doing ok until she brought weight into their argument.....and at this point i feel sorry for the guy, thinking he is just another victim of our sometimes ruthless, yet God-given counterparts- WOMEN..(just playin mom...i love you)...poor guy.....so after about 15 or probably 20 mins of this convo about how he is such a mess, he packs his things and walks out...still on the phone....and i must say.....even though i felt sorry for the guy, i had to seriously hold myself back from laughing out loud.....it was very surreal....a quote from a professor i once had came to mind..."i dont own a cell phone bcuz i dont want other people to know my personal business."....i think this guy should've followed suit..people..strange interesting guy,...lets not air our dirty laundry out so much...for the children's sake

its been an already interesting 3 hrs in my day, at least i now have my coffee...

until next time, have a blessed day

Amazing Grace

i forgot to say last wknd....i went w/my dad to see the new movie "Amazing Grace"....i hadnt heard much about it, but i was expecting it to take a different angle than it did...of course i wont spoil it..

i leave you with this, from Chris Tomlin's version "Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)"

"my chains are gone, i've been set free.
my God, my Saviour has ransomed me
and like a flood his mercy reigns
undending love, Amazing Grace"