Flying like a bird at 5,000ft, the winged wonder | the Daily Mail

Flying like a bird at 5,000ft, the winged wonder | the Daily Mail

This is crazy cool! Go check it out.
That guy is awesome! Well, our winter camp trip turned out to be a day longer than we meant it to be. The camping at TPBC was great. I went sledding, but didn't play snow football because of my ankle that I rolled earlier at home. Well, Chandler's dad came a little early on Thursday morning to pick us up so we could outrun the snow that was coming. However, we obviously didn't leave soon enough, because the road to come home was closed so we ended up staying at a hotel in Glenwood Springs. That was pretty fun, we played Farckel and Loot. then we came home pretty easily this morning. Well, that's the down low for this week.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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I'm not a complete idiot -- Some parts are missing.
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Mail Truck

Well,
Yesterday we spent the whole morning shoveling our grandparents driveway and unstucking cars. One of them was a mail truck. That was kind of cool (well, interesting, it wasn't really that cool because it took like 2 or more hours). So I was going to go Christmas shopping again, but we didn't have time.
We were planning on going to Chandler's house yesterday which is why we didn't have time. They were coming down in the jeep to pick me and Benjamin up. Then we found out that they were coming later, so I went shopping for like a half and hour. That worked out pretty well.

Now, today. Well, yesterday. We spent all day backing up and reformatting. It went really well till I had to find drivers. Then I spent an hour trying to find one stupid driver. I found it eventually and had it mostly set up when I realized that my hard drive was way fuller than it should have been. We then checked it out and realized that my hard drive hadn't gotten reformatted so I spent another couple hours redoing all that, but it was much easier because I had everything already downloaded. So now here we are, almost ready to go to church.

Well, I don't really have time to post anything else.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
- Randy K. Milholland

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(hopefully there's something a little more interesting about my posts than that, sorry I couldn't post much more but I don't have time today.)

Snow Falls!

Wow! We just got like 2 feet of snow in about a night and day!
Yesterday me and Benjamin walked to King Soopers (the grocery store) through the blizzard. Just making it through was pretty fun, but we also got coffee and doughnuts to eat on the way back. We got a Monster House and watched it also. It was a pretty good movie. The movie is about a possesed house which you would know from the trailers (I think). I really liked the graphics. That was a really cool part of the movie, but there were some things I didn't like but overall it's a pretty good movie. I watched a few other movies too including Superman, Cars, and Pirates of the Carribean dead man's chest. I liked them all well enough. My favorite was Superman. I don't understand why some people didn't like it. I guess it was a little sentimental, but it seemed to fit. Cars unfortunately was way too sentimental. For an animated movie about cars there's just not alot of room for slow sad scenes or slow happy ones. whoever made the movie obviously wanted alot of that but tried to pack too many in. Really it did have some good personalities and some really good parts that I did enjoy though. Obviously Mater was the best character in there. I think he pretty much made the movie for me.
Anyway, then there was Pirates 2. I liked it, but I did understand why people liked the first one better. It seemed like it was a little too packed with action and a little lacking in good wit. Overall. however, it was pretty good and a good watch something you should see after watching the first one. Oh, there was the scantily clad ladies. I noticed whereas in the first movie it was pretty clean and not so abusive with the cleavage but in this movie there was too much.

Yeah, everyone's probably already watched these movies lol, but I've ended up watching alot over older movies this semester instead of the newest ones. Well, I just thought I'd post my opinion.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Responsibility: Something you should accept if, and only if, they have irrefutable photographic evidence."
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HomeNow!

Well, yeah, I'm home.
The flight home was made on two different planes with a stop at Pheonix. It was pretty good. Coming over Denver was a little bumpy. I left at 6:30pm and got to DIA at 11:30pm. Ending up getting to bed at 2:00am I slept in till 11 Saturday morning and now it's Sunday.
Should be a good break :)
Chandler, figure out when Moriah wants to see that movie next time you talk to her.
Not much else to say... I forgot how cool my room was, it's awesome and so is my cat.
Well, not much to do this week till the reformation party. Got a dentist appointment on Monday though.

Outreach Team

Here's another picture from outreach week. This is all of our outreach team + Jim and Judy King. And then there's two other deaf folks that came for church on the right

 

Outreach week picture

Look, it's me interpreting for Lee :)
(Wow, my hair is short in that picture. I wish it was that short now)
Well, I gotta study.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
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This is how my living room looks right now.
Here's my bunk bed and my desk. If you saw the pictures I put up before you can see there's quite a bit of a change.
Check out my dual moniters!! :)

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money in prolonging the problem."
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Happy Feet

Wow, aren't our animated childrens movies so uplifting these days. I'm so happy Hollywood is pushing humanistic ideals. Aren't they just grand....
Yeah, this doesn't look like a movie I'll be going to see. According to Michael Medved it's a movie that is "dark, disturbing and deeply political." Scary.
Read the whole commentary He's made on the movie if you get a chance.

Here's the conclusion of the movie Happy Feet on plugged in movie reviews from focus on the family.


Happy Feet: "Happy Feet, shot with a true director's eye for camera movement, scene composition and detail (the little Mumble wears 6 million feathers and his dance steps are all motion captured from virtuoso tap-dancer Savion Glover), gives us a digital Antarctica that's both bone-chilling and beautiful. It also boogies down a path that kids' movies have just about worn down into a rut: Be true to yourself. Gratifyingly, although that theme has been hijacked in recent years by (anti)social agendas, the film doesn't appear to boast any banner other than, 'Friendship and love can overcome any difference.'

OK. It does hoist one other banner. The cute little penguins (humanized with romantic desires, teen angst and even a kind of religion) are being threatened by a horrible and mysterious alien. And that evil entity is ... us. If only mankind would go away, they seem to be saying, then all the creatures of the world could be happy and live in harmony. Of course the film's creators overlook the fact that if man went away then there wouldn't be anyone around to anthropomorphize all that is cute and cuddly anymore. How would the penguins tap-dance then?

So, what's on the dance card for families who're itching to move their feet toward the local cineplex? A pouty Prince song, 'perpetual indulgence,' a bit of defiant behavior, oddly unpleasant interjections of spiritualism, Footloose-style loosen-up-you-old-fuddy-duddy "moralizing," and a few bodily function jokes. But also images of sacrificial love, friendship, courage and loyalty. Not to mention (again) the idea that nobody should be shunned just because he likes to dance and you like to sing. "

Broomball and Finals

Well tonight was pretty awesome! I got to go to the Slight/Sweazy dorm Christmas party. That was fun, but the real fun started when we went to play broom ball and various other games on the ice. For those of you who have not heard of broom ball (I hadn't) it's where you have two large teams and two goals similar to ice hockey. The thing that is different is that nobody is wearing skates. Contrary to the name we do not use brooms either, but we used these sticks with a small rubber thing on the end. Then instead of a puck, we use a rubber ball about 7 inches in diameter.

I almost didn't go because it costed 5$. My roommate ended up paying for me to go though, so that was really cool. Thanks Sean! Well, I also got to hang out with a really cool girl too and that added to the overall fun-ness.

Well, I don't have much more to blog. For next week I'm just praying that I study enough for the finals. Honestly I don't think they'll be too hard now that I've finished my finals for Aural Theory (That's music theory that you have to hear and know exactly what you are hearing). The English final could be a little bit hard. The study guide seems a little bit vague and I'm so I'm really not sure what all to study, but I have some notes I'll read and hopefully that will help. Then there's my old testament final. That will be somewhat hard. There's a significant amount of information to study, but I think it will be pretty easy. He's such a good teacher that he makes the learning easy. Unfortunately I'd have to say looking back I really didn't like my English Comp. Class so much. Realizing how much we actually have to do. The teacher is nice, but sometimes hard to understand. The thing I really don't like though is how we have to write 5 papers throughout the semester, then write a really big research paper, and then after that even take a final. Apparently this is the only English comp. class that we have to take a final in. None of the other English teachers require it. Oh well, it looks like alot of stuff I know. Oh, and there's even questions like the SAT. I thought that I was done with dumb SAT questions, but obviously my English teacher thinks that everyone wants more experience taking SAT like questions since we'll be doing that so much later in life..... Dunno....
oh well,

Till next time.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
- Peter de Vries
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PS They found Popeye's mom....

Chariots of the Gods.

Thanks to Astrosmith at True Anomaly For today's post material. I went and bought this really cool book I'm going to look at during christmas break. Chariots of the Gods
It's probably not theologically correct, but looks really cool, and I got it for 1 cent on Amazon.
Hey, if you want to read it and you've got $3.50 you might think about getting a copy yourself.
Anyway I have homework to do for now so I'll post more later.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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If you want the last word in an argument, say, "You're right."
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It's All Who You Know

"In life and in death, it's not what you know, it's Who you know!"

I just saw this on an e-mail and I'm at work so I can't blog much.
But I thought that was a really cool quote, because it's true. The concept also reminded me of the Newsboys song "It's all who you know"

Listen to it. Enjoy it

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Live every day like it is your last - one of these days it will be."
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(BTW I do not agree with that quote/philosophy, but that's another blog. Remind me or let me know you want to see one and I'll write a post up about it later)

Update

Ok, Here's an update.

Well, I'll try to post quickly. I have alot to get done and alot of sleeping to do so....
We did christmas concerts every night from Tuesday till Saturday. We also did a condensed version of a concert on Friday for chapel. Then for Saturday we did an extra one in the afternoon. And then today, we sang in front of like 2000 people or so at Grace Community Church (John MacArthur's church). We did that for two services. That was pretty fun. The first time we pretty much were really sad sounding, but the second one was pretty much amazing.

So, to sum it all up. Now I'm exhausted and have homework to do along with my extra sleeping I plan on getting done.
Well, it's 6:08 pm Sunday and I have alot to be doing so I'll post again later.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Gas prices are so high that when this college girl pulled into a gas station and asked for 2 dollar's worth, the attendant dabbed some behind her ears."
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PS



This is me and some of my buddies in Slight, along with our cool RD Jeff! WOohoO!