I'm not gonna lie

job hunt

2010-06-02T19:39:00.001-07:00

I'm going to sharpen a stick, carry it around with me, and snag a job

inspired

2009-12-05T10:58:00.000-08:00

After spending a good 2 hours on several "green" blogs. Apartment therapy and chezeraby I have decided I want, ok probably more than that do some of these ideas. So to start it off these are a few of the requirements I want. I want a house near or at least commutable to my work, with Kit in school I don't see this as always happening but at least I should be able to commute most days, plus it's not like it's a hard idea. I want a front porch that is covered and gabeled, To hang the kayak, or kayaks. I really like the idea of building my own kayak and staining it the same color at the house, though our red kayak will still be my favorite. Also a small "inside" porch for the bikes. I want it to keep the bikes out of the house but still in a semi warm area some times it would just be nicer. Also it would be nice to have a a buffer which is a two door entry way. Also with 3-4 years of us starting out I think a project would be fun, and I really like the idea of doing a renovation of an older house, which hopefullly would make it a cheaper house. Other small ideas that I think would be great. plus make most if not everything recycled.

Kitchen.
integrated so that the things that we eat a lot some how is incorporated, kit likes wine lets use a piece of an old wine barrel that would have been thrown away into a pot holder.

old jean insulation

i'll think of more I'm just in that mood

thoughts

2009-10-31T20:00:00.000-07:00

ok there are a couple of thoughts going around me head right now.

1. NEVER EVER should senior teachers assign project, test, and test and projects due the class after homecoming that happens to also be Halloween. I'm basically studying me life away while people are, 1. downtown (ehhh so don't care but better than here), 2. watching movies (ok so im doing this but still), 3. doing nothing (ok so that just sounded lazy but I said it)

2.I'm kinda tired of this point in my blogs life. It happens inevitably. I have had friends, family, ex-girlfriends, girlfriends, fiance's and soon to be wifeys follow my blog. I've shared thoughts and angers, and I've even shared some loves. I just thought that I should really say this as it's my blogs part of it's life. I'm tired of drama caused by ______. If you think it's about you well a. your paranoid forget it or b. you caused it, I'm involved involuntarily, and it's senior year grow up get over it and make up. I feel like most of the things people complain about are pointless. I know I have my flaws, I promise you I do, and I promise that if you want to talk to me about my flaws I have an email so find it, email me and we'll talk. It's sad that I have to even think about this, I feel like a woman, and you know what some times I feel like sonny's life would be better than this because well that's about it.

3. as for above every one read the "It's the great pumpkin: Charlie Brown"
it probably describes life better than any philosophy book ever could think of.

4. Riding my bike with kit, even thought it doesn't happen much is probably one of the most relaxing things if im in the right mood, which honestly sometime I'm not. It teaches me things to slow down for a bit. Before I was riding with her my hill climbs sucked after about a week of riding with her my hills improved 150%. Shows you some small things and how it work.

5.the whole idea of I soon am going to be a husband is scary, I'll admit. It takes some thinking about. In less than 8 months i'll be married, go figure

6. I need to get with chad and write a stupid blog post for the other blog, it's a fantastic idea and other people have already gotten on it before us, and we've already had a tasting party

a little late

2009-09-15T08:00:00.000-07:00

So Greenville hosted the national cycling championship and George Hincapie won the stars and strips jersey. With only one other team member Craig Lewis who just came back from the swine flu. What a great domestique, he really showed his level of expertise. It's kinda sad though, because this might be his last great race as he has switched to a national team but I mean he does have two children and why not. He is going to be signing with BMC, and Lance Armstrong is signing with radio shack along with the rest of Astana besides Contrador, which I feel like most people will be more than fine with. Hopefully radio-shack can take the lead and hold the group, and it's too bad that Hincapie didn't take Armstrongs offer but I'm sure that his new team, hincapie's will be able to take advantage of his skills, and I hope they do.

kinetic typography

2009-09-15T07:52:00.000-07:00

I have been looking around and have decided on some of my favorite kinetic typographys

V for Vendetta

Derek Zoolander

I figure I should share

2009-09-07T20:20:00.000-07:00

getting back in the saddle

2009-08-20T09:04:00.000-07:00

it's been two weeks so far of training, and getting back in the saddle, from only 100 miles this summer to 200 a week, it's been kinda rough and plus the move in, but you know it's good for me. Lost most of the summer weight, most being the key word and planning on what I'm going to do with my life during school. Some times I wish that it would just end sooner than later and these next two semesters are going to kick my butt. Yet it's still not as bad as it could be so I'm not going to complain, it's senior year, 1st year on the cycling club, and road racing doesn't start until the spring. So here's to training, here's to friends, and most of all here's to all the seniors at clemson, hurah and let's get it through this

The Best bike ride ever

2009-04-27T13:34:00.000-07:00

So after my past for 4, and the three weeks before that were there was little or no biking except for the morning and afternoon commute I think I've had the best bike ride of my life. Last Friday I did a small short ride with Austin I was hurting, everything felt wrong absolutely horrible. Saturday was a nice ride but still getting over the pain from Friday and going where in the heck did all of my speed go. Saturday night we went to the Athens criterium 2009. It was amazing from watching in the infield and the outfield and watching the start of the mens race off of turn one there was nothing wrong with it. Sunday I went on a ride with justin and still feeling a little pain but nothing to bad and speed really picked up. Which brings us to today, first off my speed was there ok so the first two hills I defiantly didn't think I would have made it up and was getting ready to turn back because I was hurting so bad, but decided to get better I have to push for it. I got up the second hill pushed hard and my 2nd wind came and it seems like the rest of those just feel in behind it was crazy. Pedeled hard up the hills, down the hills around corners. Then to top it off as I was coming off of Maw bridge probably a mile out of Central I decided to finish a good ride right, which means off the saddle and pushing at 80% until the end and finishing with a 100%. Well out of no where a ferrari comes up behind me the guy goes "you look like your pushing it", gets in front of me and leads me all the way into central pushing the whole time playing a game of cat and mouse with a Ferrari I'm willing to bet there are guys who ride in italy who have never done that. So to top a good ride of and make it a great one I got a Ferrari to bring me in from the end of my ride!

I see no down side

2009-04-06T21:00:00.000-07:00

there has to be no down side to owning a manual transmission
except for the fact that 95% of your friend's won't be able to drive one
and that there are none to be found

so for that reason I say, manual transmission you once and in my mind are still a statement of how much of a man you are, but people do not see it like that anymore, though it was what it once was a thing of legend it is now nothing more than what use to be, for that I am sorry manual transmission.

new promotion

2009-03-08T20:51:00.000-07:00

Next time your biking and something starts sounding weird, LUBE!

after not lubing my bike for several months of what most would call neglet, I finally lubed the chain, derailleurs basically anything that moves, and you know what it feels like the day I bought it and I love that.

Also the Clemson collegiate bike race went well

best quote by matt damien ever

2009-03-07T12:08:00.000-08:00

in relations to jeremy clarkson asking if matt damien and tom cruise have the same interest in cars

"I wouldn't know, we go to different churches, I go to the one with Jesus in it"

Tour of california

2009-02-19T11:19:00.000-08:00

So were in stage 5 of the Tour of california, I wish I was there, but levi leinghberhine is the yellow jersey (basically the winner) of the stages so far. Lance has said that he wants levi to win. but I think that that the picture above describes the king of the mountains, it's semi cold and always a good ride! Also Lance's time trial bike was found in Sacromento so who knows!

twitters from lance armstrong

2009-02-17T17:56:00.000-08:00

Random thought: The Tour of California should be in late April. Better weather, can get into the sierras, final tour of italy tune up, etc.

Getting a massage post race. Listening to a little Jose Gonzales.

Another tough day at the ToC. Had a spill half way. Moto with a photog crashed in front of me and I t-boned them. Body's ok tho.

http://twitpic.com/1i8t1 - A pic of the stolen tt bike. There is only one like it in the world therefore hard to pawn it off. Reward bei

wow the life of lance during the tour of california, first you wreck because guys with cameras and scooters shouldn't be allowed to close to you. Then your time trial bike gets stolen, atleast Trek has promised that by friday they will have a brand bike of the same type and style.

Thanks for the rants

Also if every one wants to know were doing a ADA (american diabetes association) century on June 13, were pretty excited and hoping to raise 2000, ok so we have some motives to raise because we'd love to show our riding because we can get jersey's made for the event.

any other race or ride events that poeple wanna talk about give me a heads up.

Also to Rob Johnson I know it's early but I hope the training is going well for the triple bypass

it's been a while so here are some rants

2009-02-04T14:03:00.000-08:00

For the Ibike portion of the blog, over the past two weeks it's been total of a 150 miles, with 40 of them in a single trip.

Cat bus drivers can see bikes, which means that there is full right to stop, try to kill me, and then drive on like nothing happened.

Do we really need clear every single tree 5 feet from the side of the road, especially if it blocks the noise of cars to a neighborhood, seems they'd want them there.

Also, it's tax season, Wes turned 21, and the duke basketball game is tonight, and tomorrow is the IPTAY national meeting

im engaged

2009-01-23T14:38:00.000-08:00

so it's been almost exactly one week, since I asked Kate tanner Johnson (kit) to marry me. For all of you who didn't know or don't know or want some details here's the low down, for MLK weekend me kit and 10 of our other friends went down to Ocean Isle beach, they all said on friday I drove to the beach like it was going to burn down, I was in a race for time. We get to the beach is freezing (litteraly it's 22 degree's F, and luckly for me there was no wind. I get a couple of poeple involved in the whole situation, carmen and britney put the sparkling wine (a rose), on ice with a string of lights around it so acentuate the glasses, all while we went on a walk on the beach. Which conveniently we didn't go on a walk on the beach last time we were down, so the whole week I bothered kit about it. As we get down to go walk on the beach she about put her gloves on, I told her you don't wanna wear those I wanna hold your hand. So we go walking she complains about it being cold as she would any other time, and she knows I'm just going to wave her off. So as my nerves build up to equal my braverly I start playing with kit's true love waits ring, I turn to her and start to pull it off she claims "You can't do that", I reply "trust me", I drop down to one knee and ask her to marry me.

Yet I still find it approriate for me to add a few quotes that sum of this week.

"I think your room mate is taking our picture" -kit

"So I really think your going to enjoy marriage...he he he...well yea man that's awesome" -justin scott

"she's more frightened by a bee than a hurricane" -Rob Johnson

"welcome to the family, kitty kat hinkle" -Ethan (my brother)

"so I'm guessing everything went well judging by the smile on your face" -jamie williams

calvin & hobbes

2009-01-14T08:48:00.000-08:00

when life gives you snow
make art!

Ibike

2009-01-12T08:56:00.000-08:00

we hit up 57 miles and were a little less than 6 miles than from the NC border.

I have to say thought that I messed up and didn't eat well enough for the ride so I had to have kit pick me up about 6 miles before central because I just about passed out

Ibike

2009-01-08T14:30:00.001-08:00

it's the longest ride yet so far
1/2 from six mile to keowee toxiaw location.
for a grand total of 34 mile hopefully tommrow we'll make a 60+ miler through liberty and up to NC!!!

I have no clue what I'm training for, we've looked into doing some 100+ for foundations and stuff and you know I'm healthy I'm young, and I really like biking might as well

also I forgot to introduce you all to angie, she's just about 4 months old and has about 500 miles on her she's a 2008 specialized Allez pro with the white and red paint, she has shamanio tiagra shifters and derealiers and weight just short of 18 lbs. nothing to customized on here except for the mar 1.0 blackburn taillight hopefully some more to come also she is pretty dirty right now because of all the wash outs around clemson

new years goal called Ibike, a new segment

2009-01-07T20:28:00.000-08:00

I would like to introduce you all to the new segment called Ibike located here in this blog, I have made a new years resolution to bike 5000 miles this year, which is something like 85 miles a week so hard but not impossible. so here are the trekings of the week and how long they were
Dutch fork middle school ride 25.7 miles
Six Mile Ride via Maw Bridge *UP the hill 24.9

the weather has been poor hopefully it wil pick back up!

so far so good right?

you know what

2008-12-18T19:47:00.000-08:00

I'm going to rant
that's right rant, I mean I guess that what a little bit of the blog is, complain about things get other things off of my chest. All I have to say is WHY?, why is it that people act they way they do, inconsiderate, self centered, imbecile. Don't get me wrong I'm sure I have been called my fair share of names but really I hate it especially when it it towards other people. I guess that I must but still I am going to try my hardest to keep my tongue still yet it's so hard to keep it that way, I want to scream it I want you yell it, I want to get up in there face and ask WHY!. WHY WHY WHY.

second note, ehh yay senate for not passing the auto-bail out?

WHAT, come on I expect better digg

2008-12-04T22:34:00.000-08:00

So at 1:30 this morning, I lost respect for about 148 diggers. What is this http://www.upi.com/topic/electric_cars/, finally the electric car get sexy

what about tesla, what about fisker, I mean come one both are electric, both top out over 140 mph, and both get over 70 mpg, or even better since the fisker gets somewhere like the 70 mpe, or the mini e which will get you 70 mpe

mpe being the how many miles per electric charge, maybe it should be mpec

on a side note
GM: helped develop car financing, open heart surgery, killed the steam locomotive, invented the fuel cell, helped put a man on the moon and this sept. was there 100th b-day
if only they weren't 73.4 billion dollars in dept

awesome pic, called opertunity

2008-12-04T10:27:00.000-08:00

I gotta give the aussies credit where credit is due
http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6380688,00.jpg

It's done

2008-11-21T12:49:00.000-08:00

So After careful deliberation, I have decided, thought I thought I could support obama until

a national car
a national bank
a national church
the election of 3 democratic judges
or several other things (that might just happen)

Including but not limited to the fact that 50% of whites voted for him, and what 94% of blacks voted for him (and they say were racist, that factor is now over)
But a coin to commemorate him as being the 44th president, since when do we need a coin to say we support the president.
I'm done, therefore running options are cuba (why not), new zealand, and costa rica

also in other terms
FORD, CHEVY, and chrysler are wanting a bail out, I remember when some one said if we give one company a bail they will all ask for one?
why would major corporations act like small children, why?

a cause worth getting behind

2008-11-10T15:24:00.000-08:00

As the idea of missions and what not come up, as it always does around this time of year. FCA just announced there mission trip, and several others are talking about other things. I have started doing research in something I think would be interesting, doing an engineering mission. Get on board with 1 laptop per child, the roundabout water pumping station (places a merry go round for the kids to play, and a school, the merry go round pumps water as the kids play, who says you can't harness the kids energy), placing cheap wind turbines in remote areas to harness the power, and the best to me or possibly one that I would love to get on (either in research, though I have no clue maybe in the dispersial or something), the color changing land mine detection. We always hear the US spends 200-300 million dollars to remove 10,000 mines while 24,000~ people die because of mines, it seems just stupid, yet if you plant a plant that will tell you where they are, it woundn't be hard to remove, you could just create special guns or what not, and also people could use fields. This comes about when it's said 90% of angola is not livable because no one know where the mines are located. So that's just my thought on the whole mission trip thing.

10 days late

2008-11-09T20:42:00.000-08:00

So I realize that 10 days after my 1st presidential election I didn't write what I thought of it. 1st off if you didn't realize my candidate didn't win. I think he held himself together, hate the idea of palin running for anything but the Governor of Alaska. and I've decided that I can't say anything about Obama until she untilized everything under his power, bails out every american industry that is in trouble and produces a "goverment" version of every one of those industries that he bailed out. Which after this happens I'm planning on moving to one of these few locations
1. Mexico (I get to help out there economy, but use my american skills)
2. Costa Rica (like mexico, just we already know where we can get 200 acres of beach front prop)
3.New Zealand (it's rated like the most stable economy and Lord of the rings was filmed there)

so out of those, I guess when I graduate I'll be down in New Zealand, (no knew language, and britain might still like us?)

a time to count down

2008-10-27T10:30:00.000-07:00

So as I go through the products of life, start at A, go till I reach B. I have to wonder why is the global warming issue so blind to people. So I started doing research on it.
84% of MIT graduate level student under guessed the amount of reduction that we need to have to reach acceptable green house gasses.

The description I've gotten about greenhouse gases is this ". To do that, we need to reduce global carbon emissions (which hit about 10 billion tons last year) until they are equal to or less than the amount of carbon sequestered by the oceans and plant life (which removed about 4.8 billion tons of carbon last year). It's just like water in a bathtub — unless more water is draining out than flowing in from the tap, eventually the bathtub will overflow." from time.

so lets change the whole "wait and see" idea that most Americans have to pursue stuff actively

women

2008-10-21T14:46:00.001-07:00

I grrrr....
that's all

a new way to reach

2008-10-14T10:46:00.000-07:00

I love seeing new ideas that people use to reach others and bring them to Christ
one thing that I have seen in recent culture is a love of lego's by grown men, and what better way to reach them then use Lego's to make the sets of the bible come true.

just watch, read, and view the
http://www.thebricktestament.com/genesis/index.html#garden_of_eden
the bricktestament

the end of a 10 year flop

2008-10-13T09:54:00.000-07:00

nanana nannana hey hey, good bye, Tommy Bowden.
and hello to what we will now call the post Tommy apocalypse. Where Clemson will be a top 10 maybe even a national championship team, go figure what could happen, In this new no Tommy Bowden coaching era.

things about websites, and gas prices

2008-10-12T20:36:00.000-07:00

so as I was going through trying to figure out something cool to write about as we got back from mama meows this weekend. A couple of things have came to mind. The price of gas has dropped from 147 dollars mid-summer to 83 dollars Friday. With opec calling for an emergency meeting I think it will be interesting to see how long this bottom fallout last. Yet it begs the questions can Americans hold onto there ever faithful we want more fuel effiecency and greener options for clean energy. I only hope that americans are not this ill cited to say we can afford gas now, so we need to forget about tata's air powered car ideas, tesla's electric car, and the ever mindful chevy volt's of the automotive world.e I think the only way for us to stay a viable nation is to push for these, and help reduce the cost of home solar and wind, and encourage the idea of microhydro electric stations around the USA.

and on a side note cool things about my favorite websites
www.gmail.com - gmail goggles, makes drunk emailing harder
www.digg.com - freegreen.com, free green house designs for FREE!!!
www.ted.com - who doesn't love a good ted talk, also look up the giant nuclear space thingy
www.instructables.com - how to make your own tent, now I regret the 100 purchase I just made
www.google.com - watta ya trying to say, elmor fude is fun in google
www.blogger.com - a new way to comunicate
dcf-clemson.org - who know DCF had a website, well ok I did but still it's freaking AWESOME
www.facebook.com - they just changed, and millions hate it
www.blueletterbible.com - hundreds of translations of our favorite book

that's a good list for now
more to come

breathe in, breathe out

2008-10-10T10:16:00.000-07:00

So for the first time this week I feel like I can breathe. If it wasn't studying it was 5 guys crashing at my apartment just so we can all hang out and that there tent flooded. Which I guess is always a good thing to hang out with your amazingly awesome friends from Carolina and get a picture of them all in orange (ohhh it would be sweet if we were a good team). Just everything seemed to fall on this week. At least next week is only one test and a rough draft, now that, that week I can handle. Yet I have to admit that house church really helped calm me down.

off to monks corner this weekend,
catch you latter

today

2008-10-06T20:10:00.000-07:00

So we have a 2.6 trillion defect. Yet bush says that we are "all right", and I found this video of Squirrel launcher.

do you love it when you shoot a squirrel off of your porch after they annoy the crap out of you?
I know I enjoy watching people do it.

BADA BING!

2008-09-26T21:34:00.000-07:00

If it was only that easy I would have gone to staples

wind

2008-09-25T21:16:00.003-07:00

24 mph head wind
absolutly impossible after a long day at school
I'll take anything over that ANYTHING!

21st

2008-09-16T20:14:00.000-07:00

is only 45 mins away,
and im wasting time trying to figure out how not to study for the test I have thursday

guess this is a good one other include
the bible,
praying,
running,
biking,
thinking about tommrow,
thinking about how "great" of a football team clemson has,
thinking about how hyped up clemson football is,
thinking,
addictingames,
life,
digg
digg

ohhh did I mention did

#6 most obnoixous team (by fox sports)

2008-09-12T07:06:00.000-07:00

Clemson

Do you get the feeling that Clemson fans feel they belong in the SEC and tend to over-compensate for it? They call their stadium Death Valley and chant "Tiger bait" at visiting teams, but honestly, what have they done in the last 10 years? A golf championship in 2003? ("Spin that wedge! Sink that putt!") These SEC-wannabe fans are downright delusional. - Lisa Horne

I really don't know what to think, I mean, when was the last time your heard tiger bait, please I beg you tell me, poor showing fox sports, poor showing

a sombering time

2008-09-11T20:54:00.000-07:00

So with 6 mins left on the 7th anniversary of sept. 11. I sit back and analyze what is happening in my life. It strikes me as strangly odd how the feelings of remorse and anger I had that day. The utter confusion of how and why such a think would happen scaried me. My brother went into a mild depression and I think every one acted in one way or another different. I remember that after that day for the rest of the school year all of the teachers tried to offer moral support to a school, when they them selves were morning. Every one knew some one, or heard something, and all were scared what was going to come next. There were moments where all you could do was look at the TV and watch for the 100th time hoping that maybe this time the plane would just fly next to the building, maybe it wouldn't fall maybe this was a whole "war of the worlds" tactic just played out on tv instead of radio. We turned to God, alan jackson moved us, and for the first time since the early 1960's America wasn't a melting pot all jumbled together we were a group of people looking for a common cause, all looking and thinking how can I help the stranger next to me. We supported our goverment, and we looked to our leader our president that so many claim to hate for hope and he gave us that hope, and helped us think of how we would repay those who did this to us. In my 9th grade year not a year after this we had a model UN project, and our teachers gave us a senerio that the hoover damn just was attacked and I remember the silence, utter silence that the 9th grade class of Dutch Fork Middle gave, it was broken with "are you kidding" form some unknown girl in the back, with a releif a teacher said this was only a saneario. It seemed with a collective sigh the 9th grade class started work on what was happening. Because at that moment we thought we would have to relive the memories that we had before, not a year ago.

more to come,
God be with those families, and me and every one close to me as we don't forget to morn, yet look to a future.

god bless you all,
nathan

LHC, House church dinner

2008-09-10T19:16:00.000-07:00

so were still here it's and CERN hasn't ended the world, I guess the LHC might as well start doing experiments

nextly
house church dinnner on eaton
good food
good time

sum it up YAY FELLOWSHIP!

the bike store secrets

2008-09-08T07:42:00.000-07:00

There are a few secrets that the bike store doesn't like to announce to much
1. the new location sucks
2.you can make appointments and just drop the dang thing off
3. it takes an hour from riding your bike to the cyclery then walking to lowry
4.the old location would have taken 20 mins
5.There promoting your to drive your bike to there store, not ride
6. the clemson police probably hated the old location (1000 dollar fine for riding on the sidewalks
7.the people there are always nice
8.ask for a deal, they'll find you one
9.there's a used parts box above you, I bet you didn't know that
10.Mondays & fridays at 6, there's a local beginners bike ride

and on this same note I am now a proud owner of only two bycicles
a 2007 specialized allez
and a 2006 namatu mtb
yea for not having the 2007 denalli xxl and finally getting my last pay check of the summer

friday

2008-09-05T13:55:00.000-07:00

It's friday, next week apple is annoucing something (maybe a new macbook, new ipod, or my favorite Ishoes). But really it comes about me just wanting to say how amazing perry nobles speech was last night at, convisting and desicive. He took the idea of hearing a donkey speak, and how we as christians need to get off our "ass" and be on fire with God.

animals

2008-08-29T07:16:00.000-07:00

I know in college you start thinking wow I really miss my ________(insert animal dog, cat, paraket, marsupial from austrillia) it seems inert that we miss these things, even if you only had one for a while or your neighbor had one you miss an animal I just think this picture even proves that point more, I mean can you imagine being at work how something small like petting a cat could calm you down and help you relax if just for a moment

a new year, an old friend

2008-08-27T20:42:00.000-07:00

So school started again it's kinda weird I only have one more of these if I'm lucky (crosses fingers) and I'll be done we'll technically done with formal schooling. I got in to civil for all of you who don't know where I started out in mechanical and I switch to what some call the easy some call the slacker. I just call it the basics of mechanical with a little bit more thrown in for my enjoyment. So basically all of my professors are completly awesome and keep me more than entertained about what is happening. So on that stand point I'm happy. Hopefully next week I'll have finished all of my summer projects that either I was going to start or have started. The bike, the coffee table and maybe a couple more here and there. The room should be together (I want a weekend to finish it) and we'll then maybe a little bit on the walls and the apartment will be done. Tomorrow night will be the first of hopefully many guy only dinner nights. Were doing our own versions of the now famous acheaux blackjack, which for some reason is surprisingly different. I think tonight was the first time that I ever heard kit completely tell the story of her parents break up from beginning to end. It was kinda touching even though it was at eaton it was still pretty cool. I really think God for his amazing works for preparing me for that. I know in someways it's kinda weird to think about it but being around so many people before kit that had to deal with divorces it helped me better understand how to cope with her (not in a bad way just how to help her deal) and everything. I know that if God hadn't trained me there is no way I could have handled the emotional stress that she had weighing on her shoulders. I guess I should thank him more than I already do for that, I really do love how he prepares me. It's like running a marathon just way more cool and complete. I guess tomorrow will be the first of many ticket distributions, it should be interesting to see how this is going to work staying on the other side of the ticket line, instead of waiting im giving, kinda irony some might think.

not much else is happening except there are 21 days till my 21st b-day. Which i've decided I anti pated it and everything else, and now we'll it's not that big of a deal, asked 3 years ago and I would have said I can't wait. Now I just feel like i need to mature and everything else go figure right?

1 hour 47 mins

2008-07-24T15:12:00.000-07:00

as you can read above that is how long I have until I won't be working two jobs this summer, what a glorious relief from everything this will be, I'm so excited I can't even tell you!

have a great summer

Bike ready kit, minus chain, lines, and pedals

2008-07-20T19:16:00.000-07:00

So after a few minutes (3 weeks) of work we've went from here

and here

to here

ending with the glorious work that is now kits new road bike that hopefully we'll get here to ride to house church once in a while soon!, missing it is really a big bummer on the summer, working two jobs and trying to cook with everything seems like i'm just being slack, I promise were going to start as soon as school starts!

weddings, vt, and chinese internet

2008-07-15T14:38:00.000-07:00

So this past weekend was the first wedding of 2008, or maybe the 2nd we'll just call it the 1st of the summer, which is odd for me at least I would have thought that there would have been at least a couple more guess not right. So this was Tripp and alli's wedding Tripp is kits cousin how many ever away, and what surprises some people is that almost 2 years of dating and I still haven't been introduced to every one. The wedding was in Blackburg VA, so just a little bit of a drive. Yet it was interesting to see the memorial prepared for the students of VT that died. You could tell that the students needed something or some way to express them selves and that was how it was done, right in viewing distance of the engineering building where it happened. At Tripp's wedding one of his friends from china came to help him celebrate. I can't or don't even want to know how to start to spell his name and I know if I start that i'll just butcher it and make it sound basically what you want his name to sound like. But he was telling us about the restrictions that china puts on us and basically how he didn't know how or why in some cases that the same kind of restriction weren't put on every one. It was an interesting conversation because i've heard little snid bits of how the whole system works over there, and basically how horrible it is and how the human rights need to do something but still it's kinda interesting to hear from some one's own voice who lives there.

also does any one remember the continent of floating trash somewhere in the pacific ocean, I figured we'd still be hearing about it, I guess it was a good media now kinda thing.

the itsy bitsy spider

2008-07-08T20:29:00.000-07:00

So for all of you who don't know oconee, ok the upstate is in a drought. Yesterday Clemson was put on a severe drought warning, I was like really Clemson I figured we'd be the last because of the campus but then again here we are in a severe drought. Yet tonight it's raining ohh what God given blessing rain it is. First I was like I'm going to dread this walk coming from my car to the building I'm staying in. Yet no how can I miss this. It's pretty amazing, I felt cool rain on my shoulders, it's been so long since I nice night rain has came, and it was so refreshing, I want music to be playing, I want to see an old silver airplane come up and me in my rain trench coat say something memerable, yet for tonight I'll settle for nothing more than, the itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout, down came the rain and washed that dang ole spider out.

work

2008-06-03T15:02:00.000-07:00

So today will be the first day that I will be working a full 13 hours, five at the desk and 8 for the DOT. It seem like it should be a good bit but I guess I'm kinda excited. First off, I get to be here and interact with people. But most of all its a good chance for me to catch up on the daily news. Sitting at a desk where very little happens is a good way for me to be able to catch up on things that are happening. Plus I get to think things through, recently I've been trying to decide on what im going to do with part of my savings this summer. Every year I try to save a little bit up. But also every summer I save and purchase something, something I want and really don't need but I always enjoy it or atleast mostly. The first summer I worked I helped buy my first car, the second summer I worked I bought my first car. My senior summer I bought the replacement for my first car and last summer I bought a kayak. Normally before anything begins I've already decided on what I want, but this summer I'm having a hard time. The weekend end before last I was at kits, and I've always been admiring a C3 Corvette stingray, it's probably a 77 to 83 not sure exactly on the year, her mom and her have always said it hasn't moved for over 15 years and for atleast a year it's been a beautiful water hose holder. So I don't know what I want, maybe try and barter for this corvette, but if I get it where would I keep it. If I bought it off of passion I would never cheack this ever. But eventually because I'm an engineer this is going to attack me be logical. So I don't know what to do be logical and don't try to get a corvette, tv, or something else and just save or what, (the TV and what not were my other choices)

clemson

2008-05-17T11:19:00.000-07:00

Why don't you all just come, and join in the fun this summer, I have an open loft!

a bleak out look

2008-04-26T20:29:00.000-07:00

Last year the exam week was warm and sunny and made me wanna be out side, this year, looking on exam week is bleak to say the lease, and when your Igoogle home page gives you what looks to be on continuous rain cloud, the options don't look any better. I guess I'll study then!? ;-(

64°F
Cloudy
Wind: S at 0 mph
Humidity: 93%

Today

77° | 58°

Sun

74° | 58°

Mon
67° | 43°

modeling actions

2008-04-13T11:35:00.000-07:00

if you wanted to know having a either extremely badly jammed finger or broken finger makes it hard to do much typing, writing, ok basically anything. So here it goes. As the week slowly begins anew, and I start this last round of crazy made up exams that the teachers seem to think are threatening. I start to ponder the importance in this all. With getting emails about blocking your facebook so employers can't see. The thought of staying up here at Clemson for the summer and all this entails. I seem to be strangely complacent about everything that is coming up in the very near future. It seems like how, jackson one of our pastors sons at DCF decided today that as soon as his mom left that he wanted his snack and juice. Now I gave him a little bit of it, and saved the rest for towards the end of the service but he knew exactly what he wanted. Yet if I took away from him he found something else to entertain him, if you asked him not to get out something he was quick to put it back, and wanted more than anything to help clean up. His face lit up when a pop-up Frisbee was given to him folded and he got to pull it apart. This idea of being completely complacent with the moment you at, and being exuberant when something delights you, I've decided that is how I need to model my life after a 2 maybe 3 year old that I kept in the nursery this morning, that still brings a smile to my face. Also it basically helps me keep my mind off of the idea of what in the world am I going to do about rooming next year since robbie decided that he is leaving Clemson and going back to upstate

it's been a while

2008-03-27T15:52:00.000-07:00

So I know were not suppose to be turned down or even depressed about something simple. Yet this whole "how much the U.S. dollar is worth" is pretty depressing. I mean come one, were at like what 1 to 1.5 with the euro and it keeps going up I remember predictions that that would never be like that and that the euro would be lucky if it caught up with the dollar. I can just imagine the inventor of the EURO sitting on his stool and every time the dollar becomes more of nothingness he laughs, probably has some LED counter clock on his wall. So since the dollar is going down I've decided there are some things that I will promptly do as soon as I'm making money, yay 2 years.
1. BUY LAND, I don't care where it is if some one tells me I can buy an acre on top of a mountain I'm gonna do it, and then completely rename that plot.
2.Move to Puerto Rico I mean the need for engineers has to be grand, and plus you get all of the positives of living in the US, and very few of the negatives (ok so maybe crime but you get that everywhere)
3.Not even look at the stock market, I'm thinking something FDA insured, and once that bank acount reaches it's limit it's getting split

Ok, so I'm just ranting and raving and probably wont be able to do any of this in any timely manner I mean I might as well say this is how it's going to be in like 50 years.

P.s. How in the world do you read like 10 things telling you that the US dollar is worth nothing? I mean really how much literature can there be describing how bad our economy is doing, I guess some one finally decided hey we might be in a recession.

A true guide to manliness

2008-03-05T19:38:00.000-08:00

as I set here reading the Warrior's guide to True Manliness I ponder. This is the basic guide to being a true man in this new 2008 year. I read it and there are basically three points, like any good "how to book" our their. So I get to reading and it's basically be in control of your body, follow a path a that makes you happy, and live as if tomorrow is your last day. If it's not just me I would love to know but does this not sound like Jesus in the human flesh being told by what I presume is a non-Christian (don't take my word on this). Yet the idea hold up, be in control of our bodies. This is exactly what guys need to be told and we might loose this stereo type of trying to find loose women who will give us earthly pleasures, and not just that but be healthy, I've noticed that in todays society of over eaters, there's a green movement on health. WE NEED TO BE HEALTHY is what it's saying, and not just that it's easy too. Your parents did it (well for most of there lives) your grandparents every one, so why not us go run a couple of miles a day, set realistic goals for your life and in short obtain them, and when we do this it's amazing we feel healthy and we become healthy with out our consumer needs. I always remember this story a man is asked how will he become the strongest man in town and his father says every day put the newest born calf over your head and do that several times a day. Several months latter the man can lift the almost full grown cow because he followed his fathers instructions and took the time that was needed to grow his muscle.
Then the idea of following a path the path that is needed to be followed by a God fearing man are that of the foot steps of Jesus, and they'll do exactly what the guide tells us to do on our path, be happy and live as if it's your last day there's not much to say here but honestly as you make your walk with Jesus you fill up with him and are ready to go, your out look on life seems so much less bleak that the world tells you, and I know for me this is a daily struggle, with gas and other daily concerns it all seems to add up but with Jesus it makes it better.
finally to live your life as if your dying. Have you ever wondered what you would do if you knew that the next 24 hours would be your last, and God willing your at the top of your game. Would you loose all fear, how bout go up and just proclaim God to anyone you can think of. How much different would our lives be in that regard. How many more could we bring to Christ in that way. It's an amazing thought that if we changed our outlook on life how we would bring more to Christ. That we would fight a battle against satan and laugh when he tries to weaken our defenses because no matter what he says, The armour of God is so fierce so crazy that it's basically every thing you can think of one verse that I believe holds this little bit true is
Jer 46:3-4 (NIV) "Prepare your shields, both large and small, and march out for battle! Harness the horses, mount the steeds! Take your positions with helmets on! Polish your spears, put on your armour!"
WOW! I mean think about it not only put on your armour but POLISH YOUR SPEARS what insane awesome manliness promoting GOD. I can't wait till I get to be up there with him but until then I know what I want to wear.

Now to leave you with that same OMG feeling here is a great video that will basically make you feel sick nasty manliness.

So if you read this post, I want you to go see this with me!! (and don't you hope our armour will be this cool, I'm not gonna lie)

Cars

2008-03-01T08:09:00.000-08:00

Everyone who has no car – dreams of buying it, while everyone who owns a car – dreams of selling it and does not do it as can’t go without it.
-unknown

It seems this is so true, I know from experience that it was a dream to buy that perfect car, we have posters laid upon our walls when were children, I remember the first exotic sports car I saw and how I just wanted to touch it and was in marvel at how the cars were all bright yellows and reds. This seems to be our dream as children to own that amazingly fast looking, I don't even think at that point because we don't have a real understanding of what a car is or how we drive it we just want it to look fast, I mean that's the whole reason kids now have power wheels and even if you look back you could get this ride along modeled like the highest end Mercedes or BMW. It's a unrealistic dream for most of us. Yet I remember the first day I had my first car, a gleaming red 4runner, and how much I cherished this piece of metal, but I know with in the first so long of having it, I wanted a newer, faster, flashier car. I guess because of this consumer world that I've been raised in this is "normal" yet I just now want to settle but even when I believe that I'm on the verge of settling I always come back to the same points, and it's basically I have no clue how I can settle for such things, and though this seems contradictory, in the sense that I want to settle with things I have, as soon as my car breaks down I feel this whole point of gloom that I'm fed up with the car I have, and all I want to do at that moment is take it sell it, and find something else, which inevitably will have something wrong with it so while playing with my mind I come to the reason for this post.

My jeep broke down, and I'm frankly tired of it, but I guess because it's paid off it's the cheapest (??) car I can own so I might as well be happy with it and go on with life as if that is where I'm suppose to be. So I guess I'm not content but willing to be complacent.

2008-02-28T18:47:00.000-08:00

So I have no clue as why I've decided to do this but as for the post time that I have put into this simple blog, setting it up, and everything I can understand the frustration that can be experienced in this thing called blogging. Why we put so much time into it I have no clue, maybe it's the idea that we want to show the world, or tell the world what we have to do or want to do. It's a good idea none the less, and you know some how telling people about my life it sounds well entertaining. There's things that I want to keep updated, my running and how it's going, The planning of the .1k cooper library bridge run (im going to organize this thing), and a little about school and a little about church