A Memory Of Light

I've been thinking recently about the twelfth book in The Wheel Of Time, the one currently in the making. So at the library today I got on the Internet and found out that it is called A Memory of Light and it won't be done until sometime in 2008. Two Whole Years, Oh my goodness. Oh well, I'll find something else to read in the meantime.

John

Snowfall

I've said before, you never know when the snow is going to fall, and that's true; this morning when I woke up it was snowing. Then the day began to clear and I thought it was going to be crisp and clear for the rest of the day. But later it began to snow again and this time the flakes were a lot bigger and there were a lot of them. After snowing for about 20 minutes it stopped and the sun came out, now you can't even tell that it snowed this morning.

John

Arrgh!

They chopped my word in half. What the doon.

John

Then & Now

It's a Thanksgiving tradition!

Ella and me

Swing and a Miss

Well hunting season is over and I have successfully failed. I would have preferred to fail at failing though. Anyway, Today was the last day of the season and Adam and I diligently went out in one last attempt to achieve our ultimate goal of possessing two bull elk. We started at a really great spot but the accumulation of all our efforts fell short of the mark. Game Over; Elk:1, Adam & John:0

John

Swing And A Miss

So far I have been hunting for four days and have not seen anything but a big cow elk, a small blacktail doe, and a coyote. The weather has been less the tolerable and I haven't had any good chances even to get were the elk are. I have two days left in the season; two more chances. We'll see how I do.

John

*Steer Clear*

Headache, pain, swelling, sleep deprivation, out of control, failure, soreness, cold, wet, soggy, dirty, tired, can't sleep, can't not sleep. That's my life.

John

Fill It Up, Regular

I have a full day today. At noon I have to be at the Expo Center for a gun show to pick up some ammo for my gun. After that, I'll be heading out to the woods to shoot and sight in my rifle. As soon as that's done I have to be home so I can get to a piano recital. Later, after the piano recital I'll being going to the house of the guy with whom I will be hunting tomorrow morning.

As you can see (unless you are absolutely blind, no offense Tim) I have and extremely busy afternoon, such that I don't have anytime for school. Oh Darn.

John

A Start

My life over the past week hasn't been terribly exciting but I figure I should at least summarize it for those of you who still visit this revamped yet still visitor lacking blog. My thanks to all of you who still do read it once and a while just keep me going.

Last week, on Thursday, I went to Westgate's first Varsity basketball game. I had never been to any high school basketball game before and it was a lot of fun, although at some points the gym was absolutely filled with noise. The Gators were playing against the Crusaders and the Gators ended up winning, that was good because it was their first game of this season. Throughout the whole game Julie wanted me to take a picture of one of the guys on the other team because she thought he was hot and I had my camera with me. During the game I couldn't get a good shot of him though, so after the game I stopped him and asked if I could take his picture. When I told him the reason he just thought it was funny and let me take a picture.

On Friday night we had the fall banquet at the Holiday Inn in Wilsonville. Afterwards, some of the teens in the youth group went bowling at Tigard Bowl. We had a good time but once again I didn't do very well. At least this time I wasn't the worst one there. When we had finished I drove home and went to bed about midnight. I really wanted to go to Shari's where I knew that some of the others were going to be. But I had to get up early the next morning so I just went home. The following morning I woke up at 7:30 and I had to be at the church by 8 for the Men's and Young Men's Breakfast. It didn't take me long to get ready and go so I got there at about 10 'til. After the breakfast Pastor Bruce Hamilton gave a short challenge about how to walk in the light (1 John 1:7). He used an acrostic of the word WORSHIP to as the outline. Wait on the Lord. Offer yourself to Him. Repent of sin. Surrender your will. Holiness is required. (I actually can't remember what "I" was for right now). Praise Him. After he had finished I helped clean in the kitchen until everything was done; then I got a ride home with Mr. Ballard. I spent the rest of the afternoon making stuffed Focaccia bread for the youth activity at the Ellis's house. At 4 I got a ride from church with Mr. Bickle to the activity. I had a pretty good time during the afternoon and evening. The only interesting thing that I did was volunteering for a game were I was blindfolded and had to guess the flavor of baby food that was being spoon-fed to me. Then Pastor Hamilton spoke to us on his burden that he has for Christian young people to reach out to the lost youth of the world. Afterwards, when I was supposed to be helping clean up I was in the back of the house brushing the horse that the Ellis's have. Then I got a ride back to the church and from there got a ride home.

On Sunday, following church and lunch, I went to G.I. Joe's to get my general season Elk hunting tag. Then I drove, in the rain, back to the church for evening service.

Upon coming home I had some food then got ready for bed. Proceeding sleep I lay in bed reading my Bible and studying for Bible quizzing. I had the window open a bit and the wind was chill and it howled through the gap; it reminded me of being on the mountain snowboarding. I hope toward the day that the season actually opens and I can finally go snowboarding. But for now I will have to wait and buy snowboard boots.

Thanks for reading about my boring life, whoever you are. You make this all worthwhile.

John

The Best Website

Anna just showed the ultimate website. Everybody needs to visit the Scottish version of wikipedia at sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page.

John

Strike or Strike Out?

On Friday I went bowling with Kevin and L.J. L.J. was driving his minivan and he just loves to take the most random ways to get to were he is going. Anyway, we got to the bowling alley and Kevin told the guy at the counter that he would need to rent shoes and that I wanted to rent little boy shoes; so I got "little boy" shoes. Actually it was pretty funny because when he asked us what size we wanted I said "eight" and Kevin said "thirteen." To reduce all the gory details I'll just say that I didn't do too well. It was only my second time bowling in my life and I didn't start off well. But Kevin and L.J. weren't doing exceptionally well either. Nevertheless, we had a pretty good time. When we finished up the guy at the counter (who looked just like a guy I know named Mike Roe that I go hunting with) drained all the money out of my pockets and we went over to Arby's. Kevin and L.J. ordered and then I borrowed some of Kevin's coupons to get some curly fries and a small roast beef sandwich. But I knew I was going to be eating when I got home so I didn't care about not getting very much. Besides, the food at home is free. Then L.J. got a call on his cell phone so he left the table. When he was gone Kevin and I decided that that would be the right time so steal L.J.'s milkshake. While Kevin was chugging milkshake as fast as he could L.J. was trying to describe him to his girlfriend, Kathy, on the phone, it sounded something like this: yeah, Kevin's like me but taller, whiter, and uglier.....AND he's drinking all my milkshake! At that very point in time Kevin could contain himself no longer and he almost sprayed milkshake out his nose. Fortunately for both of us he didn't, for if he had it would have gone all over me. Instead he just lost it out of his mouth, back into L.J.'s cup. L.J. quickly terminated the phone call and rejoined us at the table. When we left Arby's it was still raining pretty steadily as we made out way back to Kevin's house to drop him off. Once again, L.J. took some of the more random routes that probably increased to total trip time by 15 minutes or more, but I'm sure he'll never admit to them being inferior to Kevin's or my way. After dropped off Kevin L.J. took me home with a short detour to the Domino's to pick up some empty pizza boxes for the fundraising table we were going to do the next day.

All in all we had a pretty good time, laughing and making fun of each other. I did pretty terribly at bowling but it was only my second time and it's no real life skill anyway, so I'm not disappointed.

John

Steve Llyod, Christopher Lloyd, and Pink Floyd and What They Have in Common

Alright, I confess, Steve Lloyd, Christopher Lloyd, Pink Floyd have next to nothing common. But I'm sure that the title made you think.

Turning now to real life. I went to Lloyd Center today with Anna, Evan, and Sara. The main reason we went was that Evan wanted to go to Aeropostale to get some black polos but I went along anyway. I like Aeropostale and you never know what you might find at the mall for the upcoming Christmas season; so I went along. The ride across town was enjoyable, sort of. It was raining heavily all afternoon, which I like, and the traffic was heavy so the going was steady but we had to slow down a little bit heading into downtown. At Aeropostale I got a long sleeved polo but that was it. I really wanted to go to J. Crew but Lloyd Center doesn't have one; can you believe the outrage. I had actually never been inside Lloyd Center before today and I'm not really impressed; personally I like Washington Square better. When everyone had finished their shopping we went back to the car and I drove home. Pretty exciting huh? It was raining again on the way home but it was more on and off.

On Tuesday we didn't want to deal with any of the little Halloween creatures that inherently show up at your door on October 31st for some reason, so we decided that we would stop Evan's Starbucks and take a picture of him in his Halloween get-up. After ordering a Cappuccino we drove to the mall in the gail force winds to see if we could accomplish some pre-emptive Christmas shopping. I had a pretty good time despite all the little Supermans and Grim Reapers. I visited the Oakleys store and the Helly Hansen, but my favorite store is definitely J.Crew. We picked up Evan from work after closing then went home. What fun.

John

Shiny Like the Sun

Alright, so my new look isn't quite as shiny as the sun but I'm sure you can tell that I have revamped blog. Upgrading to Blogger Beta was the best decision I've made for my blog since it was created. Yeah, I know it looks pretty shwanky.

I just realized that this is my first entry in November. Happy November Everyone!

John