My site is slightly older than two years now. (It’s been two years since I began using MT to run this site — prior to that I ran on Blogger for a while.)

Just so y’all know, I am still contemplating removing most of the archives permanently once I hit the workforce purely for privacy reasons. I’m not sure as yet what the best way to remain in touch with everyone while also maintaining some level of privacy from prying eyes would be. I’ll let you know once it reaches that point, but I thought I would inform you that such a day is coming.

Categories: The Site

Main Event 2004 pictures are available for your viewing pleasure. I captured a fair amount of people, but I managed not to get pictures of a lot of people as well. If I didn’t get you captured on pixel, I apologize, but enjoy what’s there nonetheless.

(How ’bout that Allie! Isn’t she gorgeous?)

Update: Sorry, the pictures aren’t up at the moment.

Categories: Life
Tags: Allie

I saw many friends yesterday. I got to Nebraska shortly after noon. I proceeded to my former place of residence on campus and spoke to my Residence Director, some friends in a connected hall (Dennis, Zach), bought a book of undergraduate literature which includes three of my poems, saw and talked to more friends, and then went to SpaghettiWorks. At SpaghettiWorks, I saw more friends.

From there, I proceeded to the Crescent Moon and talked to Wiggins for quite a while. It’s incredible having somebody in my life who can listen to whatever I say no matter how personal it is and not have them think any worse of me. Wiggins is like that with me and he definitely threw a lot of truth and ideas to think about in my direction. If you don’t have somebody like that in your life… get it! It’s good. One of the hard parts about being in Colorado is I don’t have somebody like that in my life as consistently as I used to, but it’s good to have it at all.

At 8pm many people converged upon The Pit (Jake, Varv, and Phil’s house). A few episodes of Invader Zim were watched and some talking was done. I got to see Jesse Luebbe, Tyler, Jake, Phil, Cora, and Tracy. Grant also came by and we talked for a little while.

Once that was done, I left to go visit Pizzo. We were able to walk around and talk for a while and it was good.

So basically, in the last day I’ve seen, talked to, and spent more time with friends than I have probably in the last month (other than Main Event). I needed it.

That’s all for now. G’day.

Categories: Friends, Life
Tags: Cora, Crescent Moon, Jake, Nebraska, Phil, The Varv, Tracy, Tyler, Wiggins

I went to Main Event primarily for social reasons. I figured it would also be a good time to worship God through music and hearing a lot about him, but I considered that it would simply be another advantage and not so much my focus. It turns out this idea was wrong. God totally used this weekend to tell me some things. One of the biggest is that Japan still matters and missions still matter and that if I’m not going, I better be staying for the right reasons. So I’m evaluating my reasons to make sure they’re legit and not excuses.

One of the other big things is the importance of spending time with him. Having been a Christian most of my life, it would seem like this should be obvious. I know about it, for sure, but so often it’s easy to put aside the simple things like spending time reading the Bible in order to run off and gratify my own selfish desires. That ain’t cool! I need to spend more time listening to him and talking to him.

My primary reason for going was also satisfied. Thursday night, I got to Kansas State and was able to spend a large amount of time with Allie and also go to Nav Nite. The time together with Allie was wonderful. God gave us some good opportunities to talk and he certainly answered some prayers.

I really enjoyed seeing my other friends as well including many from this summer like Engle, Larry, Leslie, and others. I saw some friends from Nebraska including Cora, Jake, and Double-J. There’s also Jenny who somehow seems no longer a Nebraskan while she’s wearing purple, but is certainly not somebody I would consider a “Wildcat” yet. But she’s a friend, so the color doesn’t matter.

As soon as I finish posting this, I’m gonna get ready and drive up to Lincoln and spend the rest of today there before heading home tomorrow. Yay for that!

This is me signing off. G’day.

Categories: Friends, Life
Tags: Allie, Cora, Double-J, Engle, Jake, Jenny, Navigators

If you signed up to vote in a registration drive, you may want to check and make sure you’re really registered before election day. Some Republicans who signed up in voting drives have reported that their registrations, at least in some cases here in Colorado, were never turned in. Most voting drives are sponsored and paid for by Democrats in an attempt to get people who may not have voted otherwise to the polls. As such, there’s some suspicion and some evidence that people who register as Republicans in these voting drives may have their voter registration “misplaced.”

So contact your county clerk or some other election official ASAP if you want to make sure your right to vote wasn’t lost.

Categories: Politics