Nothing

I have always hated going to a blog and reading posts about absolutely nothing. Hearing things like "well nothing has changed since last time I posted" or "My life is boring and so I have nothing new to say", just bug the snot out of me. So I kind of have a silent pact with myself to never sink to that level. Telling people absolutely nothing just seems pointless.

Here is my attempt at just a little bit more than nothing.

I was thinking the other day about religion, Christianity in particular. Before you put on your Sunday school ears and tune me out or say "im not saved forget this hippie im getting some icecream", please listen and see if you agree at any level. It seems that the ultimate goal of a typical Oklahoma Christian is to get the unsaved to church. "Gotta get me some sinners to church". I've always kind of felt like I wasn't quite cutting it as a Christian because it was never one of my priorities to get people to come to church. And as I was thinking about it I realized that this was completely uncouth. (I learned the word uncouth from strongbad! www.homestarrunner.com) Being like Christ should be our ultimate goal right? I mean come on, the meaning of the word "Christian" is "Little Christ". So tell me did we ever see once in the Bible where Jesus said "Hay you, your not saved, why don't you come to church with me?". If im wrong let me know and I'll buy you a coke. From what I know about Jesus in the Bible all He did was walk around tellin people about God and Himself. Is there something I'm missing, or are we just supposed to show people the awesome love of Christ and share the word with them?

Maybe it is just me, but I felt that I had the mentality that if you didn't bring people to church you were a bad Christian, or you just didn't care about God.

The bottom line is people need to know the love of Christ, and of his saving grace. I need to hear it constantly, or I forget and fall back into the same ole fleshly rut. What can we do differently, what should we do differently.

Cripple Guy V.S. Overweight Drunk Hick

Well it is a sad day when you hear screams coming from behind your store. Then the next thing you see a cripple guy run around the front of your store, followed by a well rounded hillbilly. Winded the hillbilly had to stop chasing turn around and get back in his truck.

It turns out that the hillbilly was drunk and started yelling insults to the cripple guy. The cripple guy waddled up and punched the hillbilly in the face. They proceeded to scream various insults at each other. Threatening to sick his dog on the cripple guy the hillbilly started to open his door to get out and give the cripple a good ole fashion country butt woopin. As the hillbilly was trying to open his door the cripple guy slammed it shut again. This happened several times until the cripple turned and ran in a way that only a cripple could run. That's when I saw the pair chasing each other around the front of my building. Seconds later the large drunken hick came waddling by on his way back to his truck.

For the next hour or two the hillbilly and his dog were patrolling the streets in search of the cripple man. The cripple guy being my friend I didn't want the hillbilly to find him. Thankfully he didn't.

If there is a moral to this story I do not know what it may be. Leave me a message if you have any clue/insight on what it is.

monk

THIS JUST IN!!
Come to find out a week later, the overweight drunk guy was an off duty Police Officer! Wow talk about some guts. That is a sticky situation. The new moral of the story is dont pop someone in the face unless you know if they are a police officer or not.

Funny

Well some guy just pulled into my parking lot, I could tell he was coming into my store merely from the fact that he looked like he still lived in his mothers basement. I prepared myself for the impact of him walking through the front door. He got out of his car, looked at our store and walked a few steps. Then he stopped, and veered a little to the left. Then stopped again looking at the Greek place next door. Well needless to say he walked in about three circles, stopped, then walked back to his car and drove off. Why, I have no idea. I just don't understand random people.

That reminds me of friends. A good friend just put up a photo gallery that is awesome. Its fun to be able to look back at things and think "man I look funny". Well actually to remember the good ole times. It makes me sad when I realize how much I've let some of my old friends slip away. I think I'll start working on the whole keeping up with people thing.

Tcom Fundamentals

I have a friend that told me the following story would be very entertaining(he also said that proper punctuation and spelling would be great as well).
Last Wednesday I was looking up assignments for one of the classes that I was currently enrolled in. I decided to look over the big end of the semester project that had just been assigned to us. Reading through the assignment I noticed a couple of various company names and things to do that looked familiar. Wondering why I would have already known what the final project for a class was, I decided to check into things a little bit. Digging up my transcript I scoured through the list of classes that I had already taken. And there it was. Tcom Fundamentals, the very same class that I just got through doing homework for. Talk about frustrating. After three weeks of agonizing homework and things of that nature, I found out that I had already taken the class. That just really hurts. The deadline to drop a class with full refund is at the end of the second week. Im glad that I decided to wait until a couple of days after the deadline to figure it out.
I was very glad to find out that the lead instructor of the Networking department liked me, and put a request in to drop that class and pick up another one. That was an extremely close call.
So the moral of the story is to NEVER enroll in a class unless you have written proof in front of you that you haven't taken that course yet.

Monk

Monkey Ball and Beer

Well I turned 21 on monday. I found it quite odd that the first thing that was said to me when people found out that I was turning 21 was "Are you going to go drinking tonight?" I guess that I just wasn't near as excited about it as the rest of the world. I found it kind of odd that alcohol was the first thing on everyone's mind. Well a couple of friends and I went out to dinner to "celebrate", and do you know what we ended up doing all night(until 3:00 AM to be exact)? Super Monkey Ball 2. Yes we played Super Monkey Ball 2 well into the night. Forget alcohol to help you have a good birthday, just put a bunch of little monkeys in plastic balls and you will have the best time ever. Now a few of you may be wondering exactly im talking about. Monkey ball is a game for the GameCube, you play various games such as Bowling, putt putt and my favorite the game where you ramp your monkey off of this huge ramp and try to glide to a perfect landing on a little pad far away. This one particular game was the main one we played. It is a strangely addicting game that seems like the most stupid game ever thought of. But it rocks. I definitely give Super Monkey Ball an 11 on a one to ten scale.
until next time. Beware of monkeys in balls.
monk