This week at TPBC

Well, I spent a week at TPBC doing the A-team work. That was real fun. We got to go up and sit looking at the stars at the ball diamond twice. I played and got real good at playing ping-pong. One of the quite interesting things I never would have guessed I would have done is 1. learn how to play Yu-gi-oh. A pretty weird game but not too bad. and secondly I learned how to play basketball. It's not like I didn't know how to play before, but I haven't played a real (real is a loose term ok?) game of basketball in years. I did alot better than the last time I played basketball I'm pretty sure since the reason I wouldn't play it ever is because I stunk like you wouldn't believe. I'm still not that good because I can't make too many shots but I'm not too bad. It seems that at a certain point of my maturing from kid to near-adult my senses, acuracy, and muscularity have heightened making it feel like I'm more elvish than before. By the way that's what I compared it to because of what happens to Eragon in the books by Christopher Paolini (that might be wrong spelling).
Anyway I ended up doing those things on Friday after getting really bored out of my mind because I couldn't find anyone on the a-team that was doing anything fun except for the people playing basketball. I also managed to bloody Danny's lip during basketball (on accident of course) because I didn't see him and I leaned left to run that way and slammed my head into his chin.
I was sorry (not nearly as sorry as I would have been if it were someone else, but sorry nonetheless).
All in all it was a great weekend.

and an article that's freakin awesome for you to read and contemplate till next week.
Forest family had an elaborate camp among trees

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

These are too good not to post. They're not quotes but they're one liners that I couldn't pass up and I'm not going to hang on to the e-mail till I post them one at a time, so enjoy while I'm gone. Maybe you can read one a day or something.

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1. Birds of a feather flock together ... and crap on your car.

2. There's always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to lookfor it. For example, I am sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.

3. When I'm feeling down, I like to whistle. It makes the neighbor's dog run to the end of his chain and gag himself.

4. If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

5. Don't assume malice for what stupidity can explain.

6. A penny saved is a government oversight.

7. The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

8. The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.

9. The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.

10. He who hesitates is probably right.

11. If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.

12. If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.

13. The sole purpose of a child's middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.

14. Did you ever notice: When you put together "THE" and "IRS," it spells "THEIRS.
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(well, maybe 2 a day)

Check out the disco man!

Yup, here's my favorite disco brother.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday." - Senator John Glenn
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Stem Cell Research

I couldn't decide whether to post this on The Loudmouth, but I just decided to post it here especially since I can't upload pictures at Townhall.
Anyway, I like this not because I'm unhappy that the president vetoed the stem cell research bill, but that this is the first bill he's vetoed, thus the emergency box. Before I even read this I was joking with my dad about the president practicing up so he'll be in veto-writing shape when it came.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Centipede: An ant built to government specifications."
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Twin Peaks!!

Woo Hoo! Here comes A-team!
This Monday I'll be off for a week of funness at Twin Peaks, being an A-team member for the Jr. High week. Unfortunately this means I have to put up with Sarah and her airheaded friends, but It's not all that bad lol.

I wrote a post detailing a little better what I'm going to say here but my internet filter blew it out of the web so, I'll sum it up. I take notes as I do my Bible reading. The things I write down aren't usually all that great, but occasionally I write something that is really good and is pretty good insight (At least it seems that way to me) and seems like something that I ought to share. So, I've decided that I'm going to go through my Bible reading notes and find some excerpts and publish them here. Of course this won't be anytime real soon since I have a full two weeks of camping at Twin Peaks, but after that I'm going to have to try and get that going.
Hopefully I'll get a chance to update my blog in between weeks, but we'll see, I may not even be coming back in between if I get a place to stay while I'm up there. In any case I'm going to Max's house this weekend too, so starting tomorrow I'm gonna go have alot of fun stuff to tend to.

Till next post. (which would hopefully be the next time I see a computer)
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"The only thing that wakes you up faster than coffee is spilled coffee."
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Bible Reading Notes

I haven't been updating this blog that much and I have a good reason too! I haven't done anything worth blogging about! Mostly just delivering phonebooks, but besides that, the reason for this post is just to say that I've thought of something that will provide some "blog fodder" as Chandler calls it.
I have been reading through the new testament and taking notes while doing it. Just personal notes nothing really great, but while doing it I have written some things that might be worthy of blogging and so I'm going to post some excerpts from my Bible reading notes for you to read and (hopefully) comment about. Right now however it is after midnight and I have to get up early so I'll be hitting the hay and try to get a post up tomorrow with the first one.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"A reasent studdi haz shon dat peepal hoo aar werry samaarat end gudd lukeeng mak manee spallings misstake... Vatt iz yorr opeeneum?"
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Look! It's the president using the force!!

I certainly hope he's jedi not sith!

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Why is it that our children can't read a Bible in school, but they can in prison?"
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New links

I updated the links to the right --->
Also, notice the new link (not The Loudmouth one)
But the one below it.
It's a really great blog, fun to read!
I put below mine because it's so good that mine needs a little more publicity so that I can hopefully compete with this guy's lol
I really like how he writes.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"as long as you have a battery you will always have friends"
-Chandler
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The Loudmouth

Yes that's right, The Loudmouth.
That's the name of my new blog. This one is purely for political commentary and commentary on current events. I hope I can keep it going for a while. Took me long enough to get it set up and looking at stuff to blog about.
That's at http://www.theloudmouth.townhall.com bookmark it, write it down, tattoo it on your bald hamster.
Visit often.
Link soon!

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"I'm sorry. Am I driving too close in front of you?"
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Dex knows!

At least that's their slogan. I spent all of today (well enough of it) and most of the week delivering phone books mostly to gigantic and extremely wealthy looking houses. The amount of money that must have been spent on these houses has to be amazing!
Well, Today I found out another interesting thing. Benjamin's brain apparently is run by two old men playing chess inside it LOL.
That's pretty much all I have to blog about. I'm going to try and spend today as much as possible reading up on political stuff. That is if I ever finish doing the other stuff.... cleaning the bathroom, calling people... *grumble grumble* anyway!

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Money is a awful master but a wonderful servant."
- PT Barnum
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A new blog??

Ok, so I'm finally going to try and get serious about political commenting. I've signed up at Town Hall and I'm going to attempt to keep updating consitantly on current issues. I'll be making this blog after I do some more research. Not everyone may know this but *looks up at the description of this blog* ... oh nevermind it does say that hehehe. This blog was origionally inteded for a purpose like that. So hopefully I will be able to keep up and keep it going. I'll post when I get one made. But for now it will be off to read up on current events and familiarize myself with politicans.
Adios!

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

PS oh one thing I might mention, I'm still commenting on the last post. Let me know if you have any good advise on the amazon situation. Thanks!

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"There are more important things in life than money but they won't go out with you if you're broke."
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Don't buy xbox controllers from Amazon

Well I've about had it with the idiots selling xbox controllers on Amazon. I ordered two controllers for Philip's birthday (yeah just keep that in mind when he tells you that I'm a rotten brother) and only one has come. The one I did get came with a nearly severed cord and didn't even have the connection cable that goes from the cord to the xbox. I posted a really angry comment about that seller. After that I e-mailed him and asked what in the world he was thinking. He replied with an e-mail in all caps asking why I didn't let him resolve it first. This is the first time I'd actually left any negative feedback and so I didn't really think he'd do anything. In that same e-mail he'd said remove the feedback for a refund. I did and told him so, this was before I read a thing on Amazon that said not to remove negative feedback under pressure from sellers. So far as much as he's concerned about me now he's dropped off the face of the earth (idiot). Well, as for the other controller the seller very well could have died and I wouldn't know. The very least they could do is send an obituary to let me know. The controller hasn't arrived, the money is gone and the seller hasn't replied to the e-mail I sent him A COUPLE WEEKS AGO. I just now sent another one threatening him with a negative comment if he doesn't let me know what's going on. Unfortunately that's all I can threaten. Apparently you have to send back the merchandise to get a refund. As for the other controller, it's usless and even if I sent it back I'd only be getting about 3 dollers of my money actually back since they don't refund shipping and I'd have to pay 8 bucks total in shipping costs (here and back) as well as getting it all ready and sending it. So I'm pretty mad. I might try to go to Amazon and see if I can complain to them about it. The controller I got was described as at least usable, I wouldn't buy anything less :(

Well...

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"The reason I like heavy metal is well... I just like heavy metal, thats why I like aircraft carriers."
- Michael Savage
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(that's a funny one, he's one of my favorite talk show hosts.)

Backpacking.

Yessirree, that's where I was for exactly (more or less haha) 6 days. We left last Sunday and drove for a long long time to get to the end point of where we were planning on going to. We then drove to the start point of where we were going to start. That's what we were planning on anyway. We drove for a real long time (probably over an hour, but that's a guess) on this trail that was as bumpy as the Indiana Jones ride at Disney Land, probably a little more bumpier actually and not as fast or as fun :( . anyhoo we finally got a point where Fred (the owner of the truck we were riding in) figured he might have blown out some gears. It was also getting dark so we stopped and camped up by some trail head. The next morning we drove down the road a ways more and got to the trail head we started the backpacking trip from. I'm not sure exactly whether we were supposed to start there or not. I didn't pay much attention to the navigation of where we were going because to tell the truth I didn't care that much. We had six people with us and enough that knew what they were doing so I didn't pay much attention to the navagating junk. Anyway, we hiked all day that day mostly through marshy muddy stuff. We finally stopped. Me and Benjamin were really exhausted and sore. I think that was probably the longest day we did on the trip ironically. We couldn't find a good camping spot so we camped on this area that was kind of slanted but good enough (at least for me, some of our group griped a little about it) We ate an MRE (meal ready to eat) that night. It was delicious too. Those are the meals they get in the army. The next day we hiked a while then got to this mountain range we had to cross. So, we walked up and over. It wasn't exactly the easiest way over, and in fact I think it was probably one of the harder ways over, but we made it (finally ). We climbed up what was probably like a 45 degree slant (or more, some of the time I was pretty much crawling and using the three points on at all times rock climbing rule too.)
So, we got over and then took lunch and a little lay-down rest. I got to have the rare privelidge of using the exotic Chandler picture taker. So, I got some backpack nappers on photo :) After we left that place we walked for a little while and then crossed another pass (AGAIN!!) lol. that one was fun because we found a gigantic snow drift at the top and I wrote my name in it and then we went to the top of the pass. We sat at the top of this pass longer than any other one. This was fun, one of the best views on the trip either way you looked too. I also got to see a pica (I think that's how you spell it). Those things are the funniest little bunny/mouse things I've ever seen. Then we climbed down a steep muddy and snowbank filled section of mountain intent on being slippery. We lived through that easier than most of the hiking though :) I enjoyed sliding on the steep portions of snow. After we went down a ways finding a camping spot pretty close to a small stream we set up our tents. There was so little flat camping ground (that was covered by some scrawny trees we used for wind buffers) that the tents were actually touching except for one. We camped there for a few days and that was actually our last camping grounds of the trip. While Chandler, Benjamin, my dad, and I stayed here. During this trip I had been applying suntan lotion like a crazy man because I'd learned my lesson after skiing, as Chandler, KC, and Traci could tell you lol. Even so with all my sunscreen drenched skin I got some sunburn mainly on the areas of my skin that got exposed when I was forcibly made to get a haircut. Can you believe it? I had to get a haircut!
lol, I actually had wanted to look as shaggy as I could for the backpacking trip so I tried to avoid getting a haircut till afterwards, but my dad said I'd have to pay for it if I waited (awfully mean eh? lol).
Anyway these last few days of the trip we saw some deer that stayed around our camp for like 2 days. We got really close to them too, that was cool. Chandler spent most his time taking as many pictures as he possibly could of the deer lol. We had to stay in the tent one time for a long time playing euchre, which was fun but they were small tents!
I think in all reality they are supposed to be one person tents but we had two people per tent. For euchre however, we had four people packed into one tent to play for a while lol.
After one day we went down to see if we could get any reception on a cell phone to see if Fred and Mr. Prall left a voicemail as to how their situation was. They had gone to see about getting the truck out off the mountains. (I don't know if I remembered to mention that.)
So after we got about 1 mile away from the parking lot we met up with Mr. Prall who told us how things were going and stuff. That morning we'd taken a little hike too. That night Fred got back and he'd gotten the truck out really well with the help of some really nice folks. Well, the next day we hiked all the way back to the parking lot and then went into town and ate at a resturant. That was pretty good. Unfortunately they were pretty expensive for how much food they gave. On the way home we all had monsters (well the kids did). And Chandler was going wacky with caffiene lol. I don't know if I was or not, but it seemed like I wasn't reacting much to the caffiene at all lol, I think I was just really tired.
Overall I think that the trip was really really great and I'll remember it for a long time. To the tell the truth however I'd say backpacking is really boring, and not really worth the effort it takes. If you're planning on going packpacking I'd advise you just go rent a campsite somewheres where there's a lake or a swimming pool or something and go have lots of fun. However if you do go backpacking be sure and bring a camera or your hard work will only leave you sore (although more buff)and picturless. I think besides the good fellowship the sights are probably the best thing on the whole trip. That's pretty much all folks.

Actually there's more.
Last Sunday,
We went and gave out free ice cream with our church along with newspapers from our church and tracts. We, as usual, had fun with the dry ice :) :D XD
Me and Sergey went around and held cups of water with pieces of dry ice and telling people we had hot coffee lol. Later after we went to get ice cream me and Sergey made a dry ice bomb hehehe. The water bottle we put the ice in swelled up bigger than I thought a bottle could. Then Sergey went and poked it with his toe and it blew. That was really really loud too lol. Then tonight we went and watched more fireworks near our home. I think they were better than the ones we saw Sunday. Even though they shot them off more slowly they were way bigger and the boom level was much better :)

Bits and peices

During the backpacking trip we decided that you couldn't have a rockslide unless you had molasses.

We started calling Chandler's Mp3 player the little red thing of happyness.

We started laughing at certain flowers for no particular reason.

We came up with; "lethargic slug" Isn't that great? LOL

Yeah, so the moral is. If you have sanity save it and don't go packpacking if you know what's good for you!

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"if the shoe doesn't fit, get a blister"
~Chandler
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Isn't that a great quote I think it fits alot of liberals. If the environment doesn't make you happy get offended?