Christmas is coming, but not santa.

'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the skies
Air defenses were up, with electronic eyes.
Combat pilots were nestled in ready-room beds
As enemy silhouettes danced in their heads.

Every jet on the apron, each SAM in its tube
Was triply-redundant linked to the Blue Cube,
And ElInt and AWACS gave coverage so dense
That nothing that flew could slip through our defense.

When out of the klaxon arose such a clatter
I turned to the screen to see what was the matter;
I dialed up the gain and then quick as a flash
Fine-adjusted the filters to damp out the hash.

And there found the source of the warning we'd heeded:
An incoming blip, by eight escorts preceded.
"Alert status red!" went the word down the wire,
As we gave every system the codes that meant "FIRE"!

On Aegis! Up Patriot, Phalanx and Hawk!
And scramble our fighters let's send the whole flock!
Launch decoys and missiles! Use chaff by the yard!
Get the kitchen sink up! Call the National Guard!

They turned toward the target, moved toward it, converged.
Then the tracks on the radar all finally merged,
And the sky was lit up with a demonic light
As the foe met his fate in the high arctic night.

So we sent out some recon to look for debris,
Yet all that they found, both on land and on sea
Were some toys, a red hat, a charred left leather boot,
Broken sleighbells, white hair, and a deer's parachute.

Now it isn't quite Christmas, with Saint Nick shot down.
There are unhappy kids in each village and town.
For the Spirit of Christmas can't hope to evade
All the web of defenses we've carefully made.

For look how the gadgets we use to protect us
In other ways alter, transform and affect us.
They keep us from things that make life more worth living
Like love for each other, and thoughts of just giving.

But a crash program's on: Working hard, night and day,
All the elves are constructing a radar-proof sleigh.
So let's wait for next Christmas, in cheer and in health,
For the future has hope: Santa's coming by stealth!

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Yesterday our family went to see Philip sing in hi choir event. I don't exactly know what it was called, but we had to be coat checkers to get into the event free. This I really didn't mind, it wasn't that hard and besides that we (me and Benjamin) got tipped by most of the people. That was pretty nice since I thought we were only "volunteering" and even remarked to Benjamin before we went that they should be paying us for how much the tickets costed (almost $20 each ticket). Anyway, it was a good show, all the choirs sounded really good. But, even then I told Benjamin; "put our choir up there (meaning our homeschool choir; "the show choir" ) and we'd blow the socks off all of them." I was somewhat kidding, but our choir does have the advantage of having a base section (I'm in that part, and we're only the best in our choir! :D ). Anyway, the Young Voices choirs really did well, unfortunatly they were deprived of having any base sections except when the alumni choir joined in, which wasn't a problem, except that I happen to really like that.
We went to wendys afterwards with our family. It was a good thing too since I hadn't had dinner and it was nearly 8:30.
Well, today we're going to see Chandler's sister get married, and right now the house is empty, so I'm really wondering where my Mom took Sarah and Philip.. anyway,

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

~
"Is it my imagination, or do buffalo wings taste like chicken?"
~

Narnia Thoughts

Well, this movie is really a winner. The graphics and music,
lemme tell ya. Makes me cry.
At first I had concerns whether they were going to do the talking animals right, but I was really impressed the way the expressions, mouth movments, and body movements were made believable in the movie. Not to mention the expressive and beautiful expressions and great voice of Aslan the lion.
There were a few things I wish they had stuck with the book on. But all in all they didn't mess up the plot too badly. A few parts were not as impressive as I would have hoped for, Peter's fighting and the queen's power weren't quite as powerful and astounding as I thought they would be.
I'd give this movie 4 stars out of five and definitly a must see.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
~

~
"Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is." - Will Rogers
~

(great quotes, I have quite a few so I put up two this time)

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
Well, I'm off to see narnia. Gotta go!

blog about it later!

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

Quote

I found such a good quote that instead of it going at the end of a post, I'm posting it as the highlight of this post.
It's really a good one:


~ People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw ~


And there you are people. Post your thoughts on it.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

~ (and then, the end-of-post quote)
"Never give the devil a ride; he will always want to drive."
~

Update and stuff

Update?

Well this week I've been with our youth group almost every other day. First we had Sunday school and sunday night youth group meeting. Then on Monday most of us went to the Operation Christmas Child event. Next, on Thursday most of us were again at AWANA helping out as leaders. And finally, the youth Christmas party and caroling event last night.
Anyway, that was all quite fun. Today, after sleeping in till 11:30 I went and finished my Christmas shopping with Benjamin and got something for the munchkins. :D

well thats all for now.(and tomorrow I see the youth group again twice.)

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Here are some more funny articles I found on this site, mainly about morons who tried to get into crime. (or maybe they were just morons)

99 years for stealing a cellphone

IBM customer support nabs a thief

Thieves steal Segways, can’t figure out how to sell ‘em

How not to steal a Cadillac

Gizmondo thief busted by GPS

Teens get busted attempting to ransom stolen iPod

Crook steals cellphone from gathering of phone experts

LITE-U Portable Criminal Booking System

Clueless crooks toss gear at cops

“Messing” with OnStar gets men arrested for drunk driving

And the grand finalist

Woman with phone glued to ear robs four banks

I could find more, But thats surely enough to entertain you for far longer than you need.

Till next post.
Your faithful poster,
Yokanchi

In light of the not-so-true quotes I've been posting, I decided to post something a little more true.

~
"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." - Oscar Wilde
~

Bored again. Or perhaps not.

wow I'm really bored....

And that's why I'm posting so soon....

bad reason, I know.

So this weeks events?

HMmmmm... thats a good question!

ah, yes! I do need to do the Youth Group newsletter. and then this saturday I'm doing.... something.
oh yeah, going to someone's christmas party. Possibly.

Hey, chandler, are you going to Marvin's Christmas party? He's a guy from your church and lives on a ranch (heh, thats all I know).
Anyway, you should. Then I can try to see if we can come.

Oh, well....
I guess I'll go write that newsletter.... maybe do some english...

oh what a boring life I lead.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

~
The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.
- J. Jacques
~ (what an awful quote)

once again
(The ideas and opinions expressed in the end quote do not necessarily represent the moderator of this blog.)

A Little Break

Here's a little break from the stuff I usually post.
Some stuff to take your mind off whatever your doing (even if your supposed to be concentrating.

I've been thinking of putting a link to a guest book for The Electric Typerwriter. Post what you might think of this. If you really want to, you could make me one and host it Chandler. But I can use bravenet just as easily.

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Two men dressed in Pilots' uniforms walk up the aisle. Both are wearing
> dark glasses, one is using a guide dog, and the other is tapping his way
> along the aisle with a cane. Nervous laughter spreads through the cabin, but the men enter the cockpit, the door closes, and the engines start up.
> The passengers begin glancing nervously around, searching for some sign
> that this is just a little practical joke. But none is forthcoming.
> The plane moves faster and faster down the runway and the people sitting
> in the window seats realize they're headed straight for the water at the
> end of the runway.
> As it begins to look as though the plane will plough into the water,
> panicked screams fill the cabin.
> At that moment, the plane lifts smoothly into the air. The passengers
> relax and laugh a little sheepishly, and soon all retreat into their
> magazines, secure in the knowledge that the plane is in good hands. In
> the cockpit, one of the blind pilots turns to the other and says,
> "You know, John, one of these days, they're gonna scream too late and
> we're all gonna die.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

~
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
- John Cage
~

(The ideas and opinions expressed in the end quote do not necessarily represent the moderator of this blog.)

The Sat and Christmas

Ok, So here's all the stuff I did
in the last two days.

So last saturday I woke up to go take the SAT...
AT 6:30!! then we got there a half an hour early, so I had to stand around for a half an hour waiting. I finally got to take the test. There were quite a bit of people there. They put us into two different rooms depending on what our last names were and we took the test, taking the next five hours or so of my life answering dumb questions and fixing sentances. We got two five minute breaks and one one minute break. So after I went to get my brain removed. I went with my mom to clean the church for an hour which we couldn't finish becuase the other church came to have their service (we also share the building with a korean church, on sundays, and a russian church, on saturdays). Then I came home for about a half of an hour.although I couldn't be sure becuase my brain is now warped beyond repair from the merciless wrenching of information from it) Then I went to the Christmas program our homeschool group puts on and sang for people in the "Show Choir". That was pretty fun. We sang two songs, "sleigh ride" and "little drummer boy".

Yesterday our church had potluck, so after sunday school and choir practice we had a scrumptious lucullan potluck. Afterwards Max's parents somehow decided that max would be coming to our house for some reason, even though we weren't planning on going home that day (we were planning on staying at church till youth group that night). So we completely filled the church's van with everyone we had to take home that my dad had already picked up, plus Max, Sergey, and their cousin. After at least an hour, we got home. and immediatly left, leaving them to be picked up by their parents. After a good night of toilet paper dodge ball and practicing for Christmas caroling with the youth group, my dad finds out that there is a guy that we dropped off at somone else's house that needs a ride to his house. So, we take a one hour-45 minute detour and take him home and finally get home at about ten.

Today I'll be helping out at the "Operation Christmas Child" unpacking boxes and repacking to make sure the silly uneducated people didn't pack any thing dumb like guns, razors, spillable items, or any chocolate.

*sigh* life in the city....
Oh well, it's not all bad. I don't mind being really busy too much. At least I'm not bored (as I type this I'm thinking to myself; "I wish I had time to be bored!")

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi (there! I finally posted something! Whew!)

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"It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles." - Pascal
~ (not sure what that quote means, but there it is)