Bike ready kit, minus chain, lines, and pedals

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

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

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

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

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

a bleak out look

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

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