I just got back from the movie called Hero. It was an amazing movie and just like all movies I try to find Christ in it ands it is not hard to find it in this one! This movie is very similar to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. This is one movie that you go to it for the fight scenes because they are so well thought out and done, but then the story catches you and it becomes just as amazing, and all the while the Cinematography never lets you even blink. Thank you so much! I can’t wait for this one in High Def! What an amazing movie, and it does not take a rocket scientist to see the Christianity in this one, but I guess for some you might have to look deeper than if it would be sooo plain.
Well, I highly recommend it. I also recommend that you get the DVD because I am sure that it will explain all the symbolism through out the entire movie, of which is so much I could not even try to explain it, but I will give you this quote from IMDB.com when it came to the costumes:
“In the flashbacks, the characters’ costumes go from red (imagination) to blue (perceived reality) to white (truth). In the final flashback, the costumes are green (enlightenment/peace).”
Now that is some fun with film! They did not even have to pull a Matrix and digitally change the tint of the film…they just did it with good old fashion cloth, and die, heh.
Oh and yeah the fight scenes are truly amazing, especially the water scene, leaf scene, and arrows (both of them) scene/s. Really really cool!
Oh and if you go just like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon this one is only English in the subtitles, so only go to this expecting an Artsy Fartsy film, because it is well better stated foreign film. ha ha.
Jay Update:
Well, I did not talk to Jay that much today, because when I called he was showering and I talk to my parents, but they said he is doing great and they were too. So good news all around. I am feeling better today too, but I am still coughing a little bit, but no biggie.
I did pre-order the new Halo 2 XB-Live headset today, and man it looks hecka cool!
Well, yall have a great day today/night and know I love you…and even more importantly God loves ya! Take care and May God bless!…you that is, heh.
Well, I don’t have too much time because I have to get to my accountability group, but I wanted to tell yall that Jay is doing very good…can’t sleep sometimes, but doing good.
I also wanted to tell yall that I have very fond memories of some home made pickles that my family received one time when I was a kid and I think I will try to reproach them. All I remember was they were in a huge jar and there was all kinds of herbs and stuff floating around in the jar. I can’t remember if we received them from Nan or one of my name’s friends or if it was someone else that my Dad knew, but I am asking any of you to start your SEC’s now for the best DILL Pickle recipe that you can find and let me know the receive. I have no idea why I am craving Pickles (isn’t this something that pregnant women do? Maybe my body is thinking that it is my job to do all the baby work, instead of Tiffany, ha ha). What ever the problem, I really would love to have a great dill pickle recipe! Well yall have a great day and God bless you all! I will leave you with my dreams…ha ha ha
Oh, and sorry about no posts yesterday and maybe the day before, I have been crazy busy trying to get ready for the church events that we have been having. The first one was on Saturday where the church came up with a new vision statement (actually it is not necessarily new, but it is up-to-date, ha ha (this way the people who are still around who came up with the old one can’t get mad, heh) That took all of Saturday morning and then I help decorate the church for Rally Aloha Day which is our church’s kick-off day to say, “OK summer is over you can stop skipping church now lets start coming back and enjoying ourselves by worshiping God in fellowship, etc…) It was a blast on Sunday and every one was wearing “lays” (sp?) and fun shirts. I even got to wear a fun shirt (untucked) and sandals!!!1 Woo Hoo It was lots of fun, and I truly believe that I am called to serve a church some day that does not care about a dress code (even if it is just an understood one) and everyone can be comfortable in their worship to God. But I better not get on my soap box now. Yall have a great week and know I love ya! Take care and God bless, and even though Jay is feeling good….Please KUTP!
Please pray for our church’s Leadership Visioning retreat this morning. We are hoping that the church can be able to really be unified in the mission and vision God has for his Church St. John’s United Methodist Church and that the people who attend will be the leaders in producing the unity and passion that our church really needs.
Thank you for your prayers and God bless you and your church too!
More later, but this is just a crazy weekend for me. Thanks!
Oh and for those of you who care…I just ordered this monitor! I can’t wait to get it in. God bless you all and take care this day….oh and give that family member a hug….they probably need it! 
Ξ August 26th, 2004 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Jay |
Well, my sickness has moved from my head to my chest, so I feel a little better, but I cough all the time…..good news is that it is a productive cough, heh.
Jay Update:
Well we were hoping today for Jay to have his Bone Marrow scan to check and see if he still has cancer or not. Well, they all showed up to the Dr.’s office today and @ the Dr.s office they did a blood test to see if his white blood cell count was high enough. Well, the good news is his WBC count was very high, BUT…….the Dr.’s thinks that his high WBC count is due to one of the drugs that they gave him, so the dr. has told Jay to come back next Friday and they will do the tests that they were planning on doing today. Jay seems to think that the Dr.s believes that he is in remission, but we will never know until the results come back from the test that they will do next Friday. (and then it will probably take another 4-5 days to get the results) So…basically we think this is al a good thing, but we will not know positively until the test next Friday and then how long it will take to get the results back.
As my Dad said this morning….”I think you are the sick one in the family right now” heh. Man, I sure hope so!!!!
Thank you all for your love and care and please KUTP!
Ξ August 25th, 2004 | → 2 Comments | ∇ Jay |
Well, I will not post a long blog post, because I am very sick! I am also very tired….so I guess that makes me sick and tired…nothing more just sick and tired. heh
Well, I just wanted to give you all an update on Jay:
Jay Update:
Jay was not feeling good today and had a small temperature (100 something) so it was not as bad as last time, but still not great. They were expecting this one so it is not as much of a shock as it was last time. He is still on course to go see the Dr.’s and to check to see if he has cancer still or not….so please pray hard for the results to be “no cancer”. I am not sure how long it will take to get the results back from the tests tomorrow, but how ever long it takes please KUTP!!!!
Love yall take care, and I am going to see if I can get some rest now. bye bye!
BTW: I must say my wife is the greatest person on the planet! She cooked for me today and even help clean off my desk @ work while we had our prayer service tonight! Tiffany is the bestest of the bestest, heh Love you girl!!! (if you ever read this, heh)
Oh and….
BE COOL!
Ever wonder how we get the phrases we say all the time? What exactly does feeling “under the weather” mean? Maybe that you are just out in the rain? hmmm.
Well, I did not do too much yesterday other than sleep a bunch, and I should probably do the same today, but I might try to go to work for a little bit.
I did go eat Sushi last night with Tiffany and the boys of her youth group for their (guys night out) In our churches there is something called Safe Sanctuaries. And this new model of protecting children and the workers of youth and children requires that there be at least 2 adults with youth or children at all times especially if you go somewhere off campus. Tiffany was not sure if any of the other adults would be able to make it, so I crawled into my car and drove to White Rock. (It was not all bad, I mean I got to eat Sushi, heh, but even I think that eating Sushi might not be the best thing for you when your sick, heh.
I woke up this morning with less muscle soreness, but I still have that “my head is going to explode” feeling.
Well, last night I was surfing around and out found out 2 interesting facts @ Slashdot.
The first said that George Lucas maybe thinking about making the last 3 movies of his Star Wars movies. For those of you who don’t know what I am talking about…. The first three movies (back in the 70’s and 80’s) were the middle three movies of a 9 movie series. He has gone back now and filmed the first three movies (the prequals (sp?)) and now people think he may be thinking of making the last three to pick up after Return of The Jedi, because the workers @ Lucasfilm have all been made to sign an agreement that they will not talk to anyone about the movies 7, 8, and 9. Hoooooo, man that would be really cool! To read more go here.
Also I found out @ Slashdot that Microsoft made a huge translation mistake in a piece of it’s software when it asked what gender the user was, heh. Apparently it had made an entire country of women very upset. Oh man, that has to hurt! If you want to read the article then just go here. (Actually this is a lot of mistakes that MS has done over seas!) Let this be a lesson to you (anyone) who wishes to do business over seas.) heh.
Well, I am going to go have my quite time now, and pray for healing….(For Jay of course) heh.
Oh yeah….
Jay Update:
Jay sounded the best I have heard him sound since he started all this stuff yesterday! His mouth is doing great and he is feeling a lot better! We are all hoping that this is a good sign! Please remember that he goes in on Thursday to find out if he still has cancer OR NOT! heh. Of course it is all of our prayers that he is cancer free and that we can celebrate about the healing, and of course if not, then we can still celebrate that God is continuing his good work in him and we will just bare down even harder on the cancer with the chemo and go on from there. All that said to say, please pray hard for these results to be cancer free!!!!
I (and Jay of course) really appreciate your prayers! It is obvious that our prayers were answered with him not getting mouth sores, so lets increase them another notch and see what happens!
Thank you all and God bless all of you! Take care and have a wonderful day!
Oh here is a photo (actually several satellite photos) that shows what the earth looks like at night:
For a BIG high rez image you can go here. I just thought it was beautiful and really amazing! I used to have a poster of this kind of image taped to my bedroom wall growing up! heh good times! I never knew how much Japan looked like a Dragon from space @ night, heh.
Ξ August 21st, 2004 | → 2 Comments | ∇ Jay |
Well, a wonderful day and a half in Taos and Angel Fire was experienced by Tiffany, Halo, and me. We had a great time and it looks as if our house did not burn down while we were gone, heh.
Well, I spent a few mins checking out all the tech news I missed on Friday and today, and man I love this thing:
The River Table
I wonder how hard it would be to make that thing? I think that would rock as a computer table. Can you imagine working on your sermon on your computer that is cooled by water (all you non-geeks out there….some computer run so hot due to so much power some people cool their computers with water running through tubes inside their cases.) with the cool blue neon lights shining from the inside of your case, the cool blue LED lights shining from your keyboard, and now a small stream flowing inside your desk! WoW, talk about Feng Shui (<-- Please don't get into all that junk, it rreally is a form of Spirituality that does not agree with Christianity so just realize that) All you would need after that would be a trout stream or lake in your living room and you would have the ultimate "peace" house, heh. Jay Update: Jay is going to the Dr on Thursday for them to test and see if he still has cancer or not!!!!!!! Very big day so please put lots of prayer into that one and leading up to that one!! (i.e. KUTP) Well, I am very tired with lots of stuff going on @ church tomorrow, I know I will be tired, and besides Tiffany and I saved some more money for tomorrow evening to go eat some sushi! Oh yeah!!!! You people really don't know what your missing (except you Thor) unless you have tried it (from a GOOD place)
Love yall take care and God bless ya all!
P.S. the Easter Egg is a fav past time of mine, heh. buh bye!
Have you ever felt over whelmed with what was going on in your life (I really am not right now, but just saying it) that you wish you could somehow have about three Weeks set aside. Week one would be a homecoming of your high school, but just of your best friends, week two would be the same but this time it was your college friends, and then week 3 would be (in my case Seminary) the friends you had developed after you were married/got a real job. Man, there are so many people in my life that I wish I could introduce to others. Man, I just know that they would automatically have something in common right off the bat…..me, heh)
Besides that would be the greatest three weeks Even, and yet, that will be Eternity some day won’t it! I know all my friends except only a handful are Christian, and if I believe all this Christianity stuff, then man, I can not wait for Christ to return (but I would love to have at least one baby before that time…maybe come back before the teen years, ha ha)
Really but I must tell you all I did a funeral yesterday, and to tell you the truth I think I like funerals better than weddings. With funerals you don’t have to put up with the mother-in-law, heh (just kidding Toni, I love you) No one is telling you what to do, and there is something very special about honoring a life lived well. One you get to look back the other you look forward. This is nothing wrong with weddings at all I love them too, but funerals are just a little more meaningful to me.
Well, every time I do a funeral I use the Methodist book of Worship, and man I love the words of that ceremony! But I also get to have a small homily. Yesterday was for Betty Goodrich. She was a child of the depression and had to take care of her dying father at age 5 while her mother and old sister worked low paying jobs. She became a designer and just after she developed Alzheimer’s they placed her in a Elderly care center they looked in her closet and they had created over 500 garments for her to wear! Hoo Dang! That is a bunch of sewing! Well, doing funeral always gets me excited about heaven. There is always so much discussion about how the second coming of Christ will occur, and probably not near enough dreaming of what it will be like! I can’t wait to have a dinner in the presence of my enemies, because I know who will also be seated at the dinner table!!!!!! And I know that if I will get to eat with my enemies (by the way I hope it is a small company) then I know I will get to eat with my friends also!
Well, lets just say, I love yall and everything I type it I mean it! I can’t wait some day to be bale to have my three weeks last an eternity, and who knows maybe me and Paul, or Peter, or Timothy, or Moses, or even John, or heck Joe Schmo from BFE will become best friends, ha ha ha ha.
Yall have a great day and God bless every single one of ya! And Keep Spreading the Good News (KSTGN) as well as KUTP for Jay and the Kingdom to come (to it’s full restoration)
Talk to yall in a few days, cya!
Ξ August 18th, 2004 | → 5 Comments | ∇ Jay |
Well, all I know is I wish that my week was as cool to include battle Axe lessons!!! Oh man that would rock! Well, I am leaving tomorrow to go…..hmmm…...to a place with my wife for our anniversary….and we will get busy……..doing……stuff. Ha Ha Ha. Actually I can’t wait to be in a peaceful place and maybe get a movie in @ Taos. Not the best theater, but not a bad one either, heh.
Well, love yall take care…..oh and….
Jay Update:
Well, Jay is doing good. My parents made it up there and will be there for a month (punks, I wish I could be with my brother and his wife for a month!!!) I know he is doing good, because before he went home yesterday they ate @ Denny’s and then when I called this morning our Mother was bringing breakfast burritos to feed them all. So, life is good for him right now, heh. Actually they gave him blood before he left and he said that is always something that will make him feel good. (The blood thing is normal he just needs some every now and then since his body is not producing it due to the Chemo.) Please KUTP because this is the time last time that he got sick and had the mouth ulcers, so I know he would greatly appreciate them!
OK well, find the Easter Egg so you can actually understand my battle axe lessons comment, heh. (Yes, I am weird, but there are a few others that even beat me, heh!)
Yall have a great rest of the week and God bless ya!
P.S. Does anyone still read this? I know Mark does….thanks for the comment man!) But I just know the comments have been down. Sometimes it just gets a little lonely around here and it is nice to know others are still reading, heh. Thanks!
I normally hate spam (not the food, but the emails) with a passion that is only tempered by my “dislike” (my Momma taught me never to use the word “hate” when talking about people) of those who actually write them for the purpose of being sent as spam, heh (harsh? yes, but you and I both know I love them (the people that is) anyway, heh.
But her is one I consider worthy of being placed on my blog….(please don’t sent me more spam thinking that your is worthy of this too, heh) but I thought this one was great and therefore I will post it here:
In today’s world, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello’s
famous sketch “Who’s on first?” might have turned out
something like this….
COSTELLO CALLS TO BUY A COMPUTER FROM ABBOTT . . .
ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: Thanks. I’m setting up an office in my den
and I’m thinking about buying a computer.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: No, the name’s Lou.
ABBOTT: Your computer?
COSTELLO: I don’t own a computer. I want to buy one.
ABBOTT: Mac?
COSTELLO: I told you, my name’s Lou.
ABBOTT: What about Windows?
COSTELLO: Why? Will it get stuffy in here?
ABBOTT: Do you want a computer with Windows?
COSTELLO: I don’t know. What will I see when I look
in the windows?
ABBOTT: Wallpaper.
COSTELLO: Never mind the windows. I need a computer
and software.
ABBOTT: Software for Windows?
COSTELLO: No. On the computer! I need something I
can use to write proposals, track expenses and
run my business. What have you got?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yeah, for my office. Can you recommend
anything?
ABBOTT: I just did.
COSTELLO: You just did what?
ABBOTT: Recommend something.
COSTELLO: You recommended something?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: For my office?
ABBOTT: Yes.
COSTELLO: OK, what did you recommend for my office?
ABBOTT: Office.
COSTELLO: Yes, for my office!
ABBOTT: I recommend Office with Windows.
COSTELLO: I already have an office with windows OK,
lets just say I’m sitting at my computer
and I want to type a proposal. What do I need?
ABBOTT: Word.
COSTELLO: What word?
ABBOTT: Word in Office.
COSTELLO: The only word in office is office.
ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: Which word in office for windows?
ABBOTT: The Word you get when you click the blue
“W”.
COSTELLO: I’m going to click your blue “w” if you
don’t start with some straight answers. OK,
forget that. Can I watch movies on the
Internet?
ABBOTT: Yes, you want Real One.
COSTELLO: Maybe a real one, maybe a cartoon. What I
watch is none of your business. Just tell
me what I need!
ABBOTT: Real One.
COSTELLO: If it’s a long movie I also want to see
reel 2, 3 & 4. Can I watch them?
ABBOTT: Of course.
COSTELLO: Great! With what?
ABBOTT: Real One.
COSTELLO: OK, I’m at my computer and I want to watch
a movie. What do I do?
ABBOTT: You click the blue “1″.
COSTELLO: I click the blue one what?
ABBOTT: The blue “1″.
COSTELLO: Is that different from the blue w?
ABBOTT: The blue “1″ is Real One and the blue “W”
is Word.
COSTELLO: What word?
ABBOTT: The Word in Office for Windows.
COSTELLO: But there’s three words in “office for
windows”!
ABBOTT: No, just one. But it’s the most popular
Word in the world.
COSTELLO: It is?
ABBOTT: Yes, but to be fair, there aren’t many
other Words left. It pretty much wiped out all
the other Words out there.
COSTELLO: And that word is real one?
ABBOTT: Real One has nothing to do with Word. Real
One isn’t even part of Office.
COSTELLO: STOP! Don’t start that again. What about
financial bookkeeping? You have anything I
can track my money with?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: That’s right. What do you have?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: I need money to track my money?
ABBOTT: It comes bundled with your computer
COSTELLO: What’s bundled with my computer?
ABBOTT: Money.
COSTELLO: Money comes with my computer?
ABBOTT: Yes. No extra charge.
COSTELLO: I get a bundle of money with my computer?
How much?
ABBOTT: One copy.
COSTELLO: Isn’t it illegal to copy money?
ABBOTT: Microsoft gave us a license to copy money.
COSTELLO: They can give you a license to copy money?
ABBOTT: Why not? THEY OWN IT!
A FEW DAYS LATER
ABBOTT: Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
COSTELLO: How do I turn my computer off?
ABBOTT: Click on “START”……….
Well I hope you read it and liked it have a great day and God bless you all!
Jay update:
Talked to him this morning and he will be heading home today. So now is the time the mouth problems occur, so please just say a small prayer for him right now as you read this. Love yall take care and God bless ya!
Oh,
I will be leaving Thursday evening to go be my wife on our 6th wedding anniversary, so sorry about no posts from Thursday through Sunday. Hope to be back and running on Monday though. Peace!
Easter Egg:
Oh and I am not promoting anything government wise with the up coming election, but this web site (i.e. Easter Egg) is the one that has been getting all the news coverage. And it is stinking funny! buh bye!
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