The Electric Typewriter

God's Timing and His Ways - D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

2012-01-25T12:00:00.000-08:00

I was reading D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones' sermons on Romans 1 and came across this portion at the end of chapter 7, where he's preaching from verse 2. He's speaking here about how vitally important and reassuring the Old Testament is to us.

There are two things here that really speak directly to my heart and remind and comfort me deep down which I wanted to share. First, is the fact that God's timing is perfect, but often not what we would expect. And, the second is the last part where he uses Hitler as an example. I think it's possibly the best example you could find for the importance of the Bible as a whole (and here specifically, the Old Testament as a whole.)

"... you and I must learn to submit ourselves utterly and absolutely to God's ways and never question them. I am a preacher, says Paul, of wonderful good news. Ah yes, but God had said aforetime that it was going to happen and going to come; but all the centuries passed and nothing seemed to happen. What is the lesson? Just this - put yourself, and everything that is a concern to you, entirely in the hands of God. His ways may seem strange. You remember He tells us through Isaiah,

'As the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts'
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Put your case into His hands. Is it a personal problem in your life? Leave it there, Are you worrying about the conversion of some dear one? You have been praying for years and nothing seems to happen, and you are on the point of giving up, and you say, What is the use? If you feel like that, go back to the Old Testament and realize that after God gave the promise about the seed of the woman in the garden of Eden, four thousand long years passed before the seed of the woman actually came and was born as a babe in Bethlehem.Don't give up.That is God's method. These are God's ways. I don't understand them, but that is the teaching of the Old Testament. That is what I deduce from this little verse in brackets. [(Romans 1:2)]

Or are you troubled about the state of the church, the dwindling congregations, the plight of the world, the might of the world, the organizations of the world, and all these things? Oh, I say, go back to the Old Testament and take hold of the comfort and consolation of the Scripture. Or are you troubled by something that has happened in the world today? Then put it in the context of the Old Testament.
I was never worried for a second about a man like Hitler; it was enough for me to read the thirty-seventh Psalm, and there I read of a man like him spreading himself like a green bay tree, a sort of colossus striding the whole earth. But I read on and learned that a day came when a man wanted to go to see him and to speak with him, and he could not find him. He searched everywhere for him; he could not find any trace of him; he had vanished. Why? God had blown upon him." (bold, italics, and underlining added)

I hope this spoke to you. This example about Hitler he gives when put in the context of the Old Testament is so potent, but even more so, to me, coming from a man that lived through the world war II era.

Psalm 38

2010-10-31T19:21:00.000-07:00

O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger,
nor discipline me in your wrath!
For your arrows have sunk into me,
and your hand has come down on me.
There is no soundness in my flesh
because of your indignation;
there is no health in my bones
because of my sin.
For my iniquities have gone over my head;
like a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.

My wounds stink and fester
because of my foolishness,
I am utterly bowed down and prostrate;
all the day I go about mourning.
For my sides are filled with burning,
and there is no soundness in my flesh.
I am feeble and crushed;
I groan because of the tumult of my heart.

O Lord, all my longing is before you;
my sighing is not hidden from you.
My heart throbs; my strength fails me,
and the light of my eyes—it also has gone from me.
My friends and companions stand aloof from my plague,
and my nearest kin stand far off.

Those who seek my life lay their snares;
those who seek my hurt speak of ruin
and meditate treachery all day long.

But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear,
like a mute man who does not open his mouth.
I have become like a man who does not hear,
and in whose mouth are no rebukes.

But for you, O LORD, do I wait;
it is you, O Lord my God, who will answer.
For I said, "Only let them not rejoice over me,
who boast against me when my foot slips!"

For I am ready to fall,
and my pain is ever before me.
I confess my iniquity;
I am sorry for my sin.
But my foes are vigorous, they are mighty,
and many are those who hate me wrongfully.
Those who render me evil for good
accuse me because I follow after good.

Do not forsake me, O LORD!
O my God, be not far from me!
Make haste to help me,
O Lord, my salvation!

(ESV)

Life after school

2010-09-29T12:07:00.000-07:00

This summer is coming to an end (maybe it technically has already, I don't know). Its been a productive summer and a fun one. It's been a busy summer with lots of work too. This summer I my realest job yet. What I mean by that is that this is the closest thing to a full time job I have yet. I work 40 hours a week, and will be doing so for the foreseeable future. While I've had a 40-hour-a-week job before. It's only been in the summer. And, at the same time, this job is technically not full time since I am a contract employee. At this point it seems there is a good chance of having my contract extended or being brought on officially as a full-time employee.

My company (www.IHS.com) is developing a international operations center. This is essentially why we are right now, but the idea is that we will be larger and much more equipped to solve our colleagues problems almost immediately instead of escalating to another tier of support all the time. Hopefully this means there's more opportunity for work. However, nothing like that in life is too sure. God may have other plans.

A few other significant things that have happened/been accomplished this summer are that Benjamin and I moved out for the first time ever, I learned to type on the Dvorak keyboard layout, I read George Orwell's '1984', made some new friends, and chose a new church.

I'm praying for God's guidance and provision of wisdom as I make decisions in the future about what to do with my life. There are so many opportunities. Above all I pray that Gods will would be done (and I hope you'll pray for me about this too) as that's where I would be most joyful and most productive.

Thanks for reading,
~Billy

Update 9/4

2010-09-04T18:49:00.000-07:00

Hello reader. I feel like I have some things that need writing, but unfortunately I can't pin it down to anything in particular. So, I'll just give you an update on what I've been up to and maybe even keep you till the end of the post.

Ever since arriving home and starting work I've been looking forward to moving out. I thought it might have happened sooner and thought it might have been later. But, I was definitely looking towards sooner. Well, after getting plenty of things situated here we've arrived at the end of summer and somehow my brother and I have worked our way into a pretty nice place at reasonable rent.

I know I just sounded like I've already moved in, but we haven't yet. I think I'm just betraying my excitment at the plans. Soon, however, I can speak as if I have moved out since the plan is for that to happen this weekend. We are trying our best to do well something we've never done in quite this way. Yes, this is the first time we will be living on our own, for the most part. I believe that you can never fully be completely independant (unless you're like this guy ). My brother is moving out for the first time, and I'm moving into an apartment for the first time, though I've moved into the dorms many many times. It's going to be really interesting but exciting I anticipate.

Anyways, my thoughts are that I really love my family, but am really excited to be more independant. I love being on my own, something I'm sure I developed a taste for after being mostly independant at college. Family is awesome but sometimes there are times where (most people I'm sure) family is not awesome.

Well, family is back. Definitely not going to be able to concentrate on anything else worth reading.

Till next time,
Billy A.

Economy of the Rich

2010-07-24T16:56:00.001-07:00

Working for someone who is well endowed with economic wealth and assets is almost always a good thing for one such as, perhaps, yourself.

In economy and society we learned the ever present principle of supply and demand which I find applicable to situations ever increasingly. The wealthy person has a large supply (and usually quantity) of those rectangular verde papyri we like to call dollars. Now dollars are an interesting thing. The materials they are made of, though the ones we make today are pretty fancy, are nowhere near what they should be valued at. If I were to give you a stack of paper (even very nice paper) you probably wouldn't give me back anything like a car, a phone, or computer. However, a stack of paper with the right numbers and symbols (money) will cause this to happen. This is because money has two values. One would be the most obvious (or maybe less obvious depending on how you look at it), the value of the materials they're made of. The second would be the value we really might accurately say is mostly imaginary. This is the value we attribute to each piece based on it's number.

Now, down to the point. When there is more supply, there is less demand. And, inextricably related is the fact when there is more quantity there is a lower price because there is less demand. Thanks to modern mass production we see examples of this all the time. I skip the examples. Because of these inherent market mechanics, those with large amounts of dollars put an internal value (a third, imaginary, but no less real value) less than that of one (very probably like yourself) who has less dollars. Because of this, when you or someone in the less dollars position works for someone in the more dollars position you benefit simply because the person who has many more dollars than yourself puts a lower mental value on each dollar. This difference in mental value cause there to be a sort of positive (in your favor) exchange rate of currency through imaginary values without ever leaving the country.

Put very simply it is (very) beneficial for you to work for someone who is much wealthier than yourself because when it comes down to what really happens, this employer pays you more dollars to match their mental impression of what a fair wage is. For example; this is what happens when a somewhat eccentric piano teacher pays you twenty bucks to hand out halloween candy to trick-or-treaters for a half an hour (true story).

So when you're looking for an employer. Work for the rich. That's right. Hop on the caboose of that gravy train and enjoy the view! Of course, this only works if your employer has a personal mental value for their money. A just business employer instead only has one value, the number on the bill.

Do you have a mental value for the dollar?

~Billy

Fate Vs. You

2010-07-19T11:44:00.000-07:00

Do you ever have the feeling that fate is conspiring against you? No, I don't mistakenly refer to the hand of God as fate. Fate is not powerful like God it's just the little things like walking along and getting your headphones ripped off because they caught on something. Or, like trying to do something on your computer while on the phone and suddenly you can't find the cursor. But it's back within about 15 seconds. Or, you keep dropping random things for no reason. But, annoying things like that keep happening all day.

Monday.....

~Billy

On a Grassy Knoll

2010-06-29T11:52:00.000-07:00

I'm sitting on a grassy hill in the shade feeling the cool breeze drift over me as I stare at a small pond. I feel I cannot thank God enough beyond even this peaceful moment. He has brought me so far and taught me so much. There's too much to describe. Even still I ponder my experience, knowledge, wisdom, and understanding and see that I have in my grasp no more than even a grain of sand within my vault.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

God continues to bless me, even though things don't happen the way I would plan. I keep pondering and my curiosity grows as I think of God's will for me.

Pray for me: that I would continue to grow in my knowledge of Him, that I would be a good example and testimony to the unbelievers around me, that I would be wise in the things I say and do as my life changes in so many ways.

~Billy

New leg of the trip

2010-06-20T19:43:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm onto a new chapter in my life. I've just finished getting my bachelor's degree in business and I'm now working and living in Denver. I bought my first car ever last week and now I'm going to be working to finish paying for the education I just got and the car I'm now driving. Life is about to become a lot more normal. It's hard to know how to take it.

I stopped blogging about... well let's see here... the last real thoughtful post I wrote was about two years ago. And those posts came about twice a year or once a semester.

So, I'm thinking it's about time to start writing again. I kind of stopped writing because I felt like I had started to put out more than I had inside. That, and I was really busy. Now that I've had quite a bit more life experience (I know, not a ton, but you can pack a lot into four years of college) I think I'd like to start writing a few things again. Now, it's summer, so things are busy. It still may be too busy to post, getting used to work and looking for new things and getting things taken care of, but I'm hoping to do this more regularly now. I've had a lot of things on my mind that I've wanted to write about. Hopefully I'll get the time to simmer them down into something meaningful and easy to read.

I need a new signature... I transferred my new gmail account to be the author now instead of "Yokanchi" since I feel sort of "grown up" now.

Till next time,

Billy A.

Spring break missions trip Pt. 1

2010-03-17T14:54:00.001-07:00

Wrote this during the trip and forgot to post it, so here's a mid-week review:

We're halfway through the mission trip here in WA and we're all getting to know each other very well. We've gotten the church painted and numerous other odd jobs done. We've done a couple services (actually three I think) for bible study and Sunday school and night church. Our music people are really helpful. They've played worship music for four different things I think. Today I got to give a little testimony about my time at the college to a tiny Christian highschool. It was good, I was happy I got a chance to partipate.

(got interrupted here while I was writing this)

This evening we watched Nacho Libre (first time I've seen it), played mafia, and had pizza. Good times for sure. God is blessing in so many ways!

~Yokanchi

iPod

2010-02-16T00:30:00.001-08:00

I got an iPod and found a blogging app and I'm tired of thinking to myself. I think this is a good excuse to start blogging again. I think I'd like to start a new blog since I have a new username, but I might just switch to that one.

It's been a long time and I've learned a lot since I stopped blogging and still have much to learn.
The earth is still turning and I'm getting older by the minute. Time to try going to sleep one more time.

~Yokanchi
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Man's true purpose

2009-08-11T12:45:00.000-07:00

I was just looking through my blog and found this post I wrote two years ago on Winter Break, but didn't post. As I'm reading The Slumber of Christianity (Dekker), Mere Christianity (Lewis), and Desiring God (Piper) my mind is once again drawn to this subject but with even more clarity and this post becomes current in my mind again.

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Why does man suffer? Or, why do we not find answers to why we have suffering for different reasons?

I think this all goes back to the purpose of man.
All people are created with purpose. The need for a purpose is easily visible in people today throughout our nation. Many people make this purpose out to be the old "American Dream" of wealth and independence. Some people take the apparent morals which are popular in society today such as a happy family or the advancement of mankind. While not bad, these purposes are not the ultimate purpose of man which he was created to fulfill. This purpose, I believe is to glorify God through the means which God has provided and through the plan which conforms to His will or plans for our lives.

Is man's purpose to fulfill his desires, to be happy for happiness' sake, to have knowledge for knowledge's sake? This brings up another question: Ultimately, what fulfills man's desire for happiness, and joy. Is it being free from pain? Or is it from being healthy? Or, does material wealth give ultimate happiness and fulfillment?

A look around: There are wealthy people that commit suicide in every generation. How can wealth bring happiness? It would appear that it does not. According to the scriptures, it does not. In Ecclesiastes 2:1-10, Solomon, one of the richest and most wise men ever to walk the earth talks about how he thought wealth and material possession was his fulfillment. He talks about how through hard work he built up wealth and possessions for his enjoyment, but in verse 11 he says "Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun." He explains more in the rest of the chapter, but that seems to answer that question.

Another look at today's people shows that people with health and wealth alike are equally not happy and bring themselves to bitter and untimely ends. How can health alone bring happiness? We see people that are in some of the worst of physical cases with the happiness not found in ten people around at a glance.

Does knowledge bring happiness? Do we have knowledge today? As my Prof. Mr. Phillipps said in class "knowledge for knowledge's sake is not knowledge at all. Knowledge for the Lord's sake is true knowledge." (that's a paraphrase since my notes are still in my dorm) With the invention of the internet we have knowledge galore. Everyone's knowledge is everyone else's knowledge. Again from Solomon we hear "For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." (Ecc 1:18). Knowledge has not fulfilled man ultimately.

If the ultimate purpose of man is not fulfilled with health, wealth, or knowledge what brings ultimate fulfillment of man's purpose? Ultimately nothing can be as great or as noble as bringing glory to the creator of man. Bringing glory to God, the creator of the universe and mankind is the greatest purpose mankind can ever have.

All people are created with purpose, or the need for one. The need for a purpose is easily visible in people today throughout our nation. Many people make this purpose out to be the old "American Dream" of wealth and independence. Some people take the apparent morals which are popular in society today such as a happy family or the advancement of mankind. While not bad, these purposes are not the ultimate purpose of man which he was created to fulfill. Those without purpose become enslaved with depression and self-loathing because of the lack of purpose, the disillusionment that is cast by the thought that one is useless and worthless. This purpose which is ultimate fulfillment, I believe, is to glorify God through the means which God has provided and through the plan which conforms to His will or plans for our lives. Bringing glory to God is the greatest purpose.

~Yokanchi

Fall 2008

2008-12-23T19:33:00.000-08:00

Well, this has been quite the semester. My friend and next-door neighbor eloped and dropped out of school, I was put on chapel probation without even going over the 6-miss limit, my roommate and good friend graduated this semester, I had a new boss, and I punched someone in the face while I was asleep.

Learning all along the way, I feel that I've matured greatly in the school of life, with my grand God the presiding head professor.

The most important lesson I feel I've learned this semester is how to let go of strong feelings impeding godly behavior like anger and resentment as well as feelings stemming from desires for revenge and stress from various things, not excluding homework, work, roomates and other trials of life.

God has shown me my innermost thoughts can be revealed when I least expect it, and therefore the importance of developing the right mindset brought about by correct beliefs in truth, and evidenced by correct attitudes, producing ultimately right, godly actions in my life.

Though I haven't reacted perfectly and maybe not even in the best way, I feel that overall God has brought about these situations, and sometimes even trials, while providing me the strength in maturity and discernment to have come about through each of these things having provided an adequate and righteous reaction. In this way I feel that my experience, knowledge and wisdom have been increased this semester in a visible way, and for this I thank my almighty Creator for His providence, wisdom and loving care towards my soul through these times.

I also want to tahnk all my friends and professors fora ll the things you've done for me and taught me, Thanks for being there for me. Whatever happens in the future, whether I see you all again or whether your path in life departs from where God has led you to in my life. I pray that God would heap blessing upon your life and bring prosperity and joy more and more into your life!

Thanks friends!

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Billy A.

Doing Something Different

2008-07-27T16:45:00.000-07:00

Sometimes you just want to do something different. Something that will get noticed. Or, maybe it won’t . Maybe you feel like doing something different and seeing if people even notice. Maybe you do it to reassure yourself you aren’t invisible. Or maybe it’s just for fun?

Maybe you’ve never done that. Do you ever look around and see people that you can imagine have never changed a single thing about their lives for the past 20 years. Makes you feel sad for them. But maybe they are more content than you. Do you think contentment is happiness? Why does that scare you? They probably are different unless you haven’t changed in 20 years either. Maybe they are afraid of change. But maybe they are really happier than you.

People say the only thing you can expect to remain the same is change. It’s always going to come. Often it’s inevitable. Maybe your house is washed away by a hurricane, or collapsed by an earthquake, or carried away by a tornado. That’ll make something change. Are people created to be dynamic in nature? Why does habit bring comfort then? Why do we fear too much routine? Or do we really?

Are we naturally creatures of habit really? Or are we really creatures on the move? Always pursuing, always chasing, always working, always accumulating, always thinking, always eating, always breathing, always speaking.

Seems ironic that we can’t even figure out ourselves sometimes, what is our motive? If we never know our motives, what will become of us? Are there people who never question their own motives? Are there people who always question their motives? Is it better to do it or better not to?

Maybe we were meant to always question, but never fully answer. Perhaps it is part of our endless (by all appearances) pursuit of what we want or need. If you knew everything would contentment come? Or would you be dissatisfied by the lack of pursuit?

Many have said contentment is a state of mind.

“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”

~ Frederick Keonig

Psalm 37:7 - Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him;
Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way,
Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.

Proverbs 16:8 - Better is a little with righteousness,
Than vast revenues without justice.

(http://www.biblegateway.com NKJV)

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- Baltasar Gracian
(That's confusing, anyone know what it means?)

Hey if anyone has any good ideas for the layout of my blog I'd really like to change it. Maybe even go to another blog host, I don't know what's good. Any ideas??

The Majority

2008-07-12T10:15:00.000-07:00

One day, at a drag race while they were giving away prizes I realized how often I’m in the majority. A white middle class American teenager.

I’ve never really won prizes. There are different groups of people those who got the prize, and those who watched. I wondered why it always seemed to be this way. Maybe I was created to be average, to be in the majority. Someone has to be the majority, after all with no majority, there is no minority.

People always laud upon the unique. They encourage it. Seems like those who have something practical to accomplish always encourage the opposite though.

It never bothered me to live in the majority, though. Yes, it could be exciting to be the one who wins the prize, who is unique, but in America, to be average us really pretty good. I was actually pretty happy with my life. Not happy, as if I had accomplished something, but content to where I never really longed to be in some other situation.

I’m riding on a bus now. Every time I’m on a plane I feel more average than ever before, enough that sometimes I have dressed up and down to be unique. Different.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

The Electric Typewriter

2008-07-11T07:42:00.001-07:00

If you'll take a look at the new title you'll notice I changed the title slightly by removing an errant 'R' which once blotted the face of the white title parading across the top of this green glob of wordiness.

My writing teacher took a look at my blog about 2, 3, or 4 years ago and I finally realized, "you know, I could actually change that so it says what I meant."

Anyways. For an update.
I haven't been too specific here in this blog, at least about my current life. I've been a little busy for that. Seems like that started ever since I came to college. Looks like it has no signs of changing either. I like writing still, but don't spend nearly as much time. So, I will try and update, but if you're curious for more facts or a closer look, or want to know how I"m doing, just ring me up, shoot me an e-mail, fly by me on facebook, or drop an IM on me. Or attack me like a ninja (though the aformentioned methods of staying in touch sound a little less effort filled, I still enjoy a good ninja attack once in a while. or something).

So anyways...
Tomorrow, I'm going home for a two week vacation from work and most school. That'll be fun. If you're anywhere in CO, give me a call or something and we can hang out or something. (or ninja or something)

Also, hopefully I'll have more time to blog. Which I really would like to do. Blogging seems to only occur on vacations now, but I decided I will try to post without going into the slimy details of my mostly mundane life and boring you to death.
Anyways, thanks for reading. I have about 10 minutes till work, so...
TTfN, and hopefully a new post awaits your ever curious eyes in the near, future.
Praying for you all and,

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
- JRR Tolkien

(woah, I just figured out what that means finally!)

Stuffalufagus

2008-06-15T21:11:00.000-07:00

Yep, that's the title. Didn't want to write anything else.
So Cooper my friend who works with me found this really really random site. I would say go check it out if you have a few minutes to spare reading strange little poems and stuff.

It's http://www.nobodyhere.com/justme/me.here

Just go there and start clicking things and enjoy :)

So it's been pretty boring here on campus. There's not a whole lot to do. Luckily I get to go do things with friends alot of weekends, but it's kind of random, and if I don't find someone to do something with me then I'll end up having the most boring weekend ever.
This weekend was kind of fun, actually pretty fun.
More than last. When I have a blast again it will be a milestone. i don't think I will be able to have a ton of fun for a long time. I'm still getting over things, learning to live differently and stuff.
If that doesn't make any sense you can ask me, and I'll explain, ha.

Anyway, I got to go to a jazz concert with Danny and his girlfriend this weekend and then go play guitar hero and stay up late at his place. That was fun, then yesterday I went with my roomates to someone's house they are housesitting and we watched like four movies in a row lol. Two Arnold movies, and then both Transporter movies. That was sort of fun, but they're pretty quiet during movies. I like talking and hanging out unless it's a really good movie, but oh well.

Then today after going to another church I went to Placerita again, and then tonight got some friends together to go to Pho's and that was cool. It's a vienamese resturant with really good soups and great serving sizes.

Well, tomorrow I'm going to go in an hour early to work and watch them upgrade the wireless network controllers.
And.... my contact needs to be put back in, it popped out like 5 minutes ago and I've been typing with only one eye open.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

PS if you're in town or nearby the school, let me know, I'm always up for hanging out and doing whatever. Especially since I have so much free time.
Just give me an e-mail or get my number and call.

That green gentleman (Things have changed)

2008-06-14T12:05:00.000-07:00

I love this video.
The song sounds really cool, and the video shows what it's really about.
I think it's really well done. Enjoy it!

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
yokanchi

Real Update

2008-05-22T11:52:00.000-07:00

Ok, well here's what's happened since last August (ish).

This will be condensed, if you want to find out more about what's happened with me I'm free to talk through IM, phone, or e-mail.

Well, now I'm a junior in college.
Still signed up to come here to TMC next semester. In October I started dating someone, but just recently (a month ago) became single again.
It was quite a year. Busier than ever before. The first semester was busy because I joined Choral. This is the show choir of our school. Because I was so busy I dropped almost all my music courses including Choral.

However, it was at least as busy, probably more because I took 18 units, which was more than I've ever taken in a semester before. And also was dating, until the very end. This made last semester the all time busiest over all.

Anyway, finals week was absolutely killer and drove me into the ground, but I made it.

As for the summer, I plan on staying out here and working on campus for the summer. I will be an interesting adventure (I doubt I will do it next year, but that remains to be seen).

Well, I'm out of time. I plan on going back for a week or two to visit family, do something fun and visit some friends.

Time to go back to work.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

A long due update

2008-05-15T00:49:00.000-07:00

Here's a long due update, after two semesters of school.
Here I am at Bob Hope airport, a junior in college. I just got in trouble for leaving a $20 air-soft pistol with only 140 fps in my box which I originally intended to check with my luggage, not bring as a carry-on.
What happened was that last night I packed a lamp and some assorted junk that I wanted to keep at home in the best box I could find, which was unfortunately very small. Well after I packed that, I found some other things that I wanted to bring home and didn’t need at college and realized I should pack the lamp in my clothes so it didn’t break.
One thing I found was my bag of air-soft stuff. So, of course as soon as I took my box of assorted junk to get checked at the airport and check it in with my suitcase I forget that I have this packed and assume I have my lamp packed inside instead of my air-soft junk. So then as I’m checking my luggage outside, the guy tells me that they won’t be liable for what happens to the box and that I can take it with me on the airplane. Of course dumb me starts thinking that, “well, they’re not afraid of breaking everything in this box I’d really like to see my working lamp survive the trip, and so I should bring it with me.” So I take it with me.
Of course once they see this gun thing in the x-ray scanner, they stop the box and pop it open with me okaying it all the way since I figured there being all this random junk they would want to look inside and expected it. Then they find that, and ask me what it is, and I realize what it is, and tell them they can trash it they decide that we should wait a little longer, so we wait like 15-20 minutes. Granted, it’s probably not that long, but the TSA security guy brings over the cops and they look at it and stuff.
Then after writing all kinds of things on a piece of paper in his illegible strange writing after looking at my driver’s license, the little Mexican man with his strong accent and face that has probably not cracked a smile in several weeks, tells me: “it ees your luchky day de police are not going to press charges”. I was very thankful, but started wondering how the heck the police are going to press charges on me for carrying a plastic toy gun that can’t even break your skin.
The frustrating thing to me was that the stupid TSA security guy wasn’t smart enough even recognize what kind of weapon toy this was, considering the fact that it is a widely known sport and is available at almost every wal-mart store for as cheap as $10. Shouldn’t the security for an airport be well enough educated to recognize the difference between a clear plastic toy and a real killing utensil. Obviously not. Whatever, this is LA.
Well, this is longer than I thought, so I’m going to do more update next post. Now I’m in the plane waiting for the boarding to cease and the flying to begin. Home, here I come.
Written at 6:51pm, May 14th, 2008

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

On Hold

2008-01-24T08:26:00.000-08:00

Yes, that is what this blog seems to be on for now.
Quick update.

Winter break was good.
Went to winter camp.
Kelly came for that. So Christmas was amazing.
Got to go skiing the day before I came back to college (where I am now) again (which happened last year too, lol).

I am now in my 2nd semester as a sophomore.
Classes look hard, but manageable.
I'm taking the most classes I've ever taken before in a semester, or at least the most units.
On the upside (at least for my time's sake, I've got less work this year to fulfill my work/study award), also I have no real music classes anymore. I have to drop piano and Choral, but am still in one choir for fun.

Well that's enough for now. Thanks for reading.
Prayers are appreciated. Have a good day!

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

Just sittin here

2007-12-12T09:19:00.000-08:00

Well, half of my finals are over. They seemed to go well.
I still have a really hard one and a moderately hard final to get through.
The accounting final shouldn't be hard, but I don't seem to do the best on these tests, so I'm trying to study alot for it.
The theology tests are always impossibly hard and then he curves it.
Amongst all that mish-mash of grade basketball, I usually don't come out with more or less than a B or B- unfortunately.
This is something I don't like (obviously). Soo, I'm going to study my brains out if I can do it, and go for the best. I would appreciate every prayer.
People use prayer as a joke for test, but some of the best grades I've gotten are because I've asked the living almighty God for the power of His knowledge, and then take my tests with the best of my ability. One of these, was my final programming test.

I want to appreciate my God. I am his dependant and he is my provider. The one true source of all knowledge.

Бог Хваления (Praise the Lord)

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

Something I found

2007-11-30T07:54:00.000-08:00

Two things I request of You

(Deprive me not before I die):

Remove falsehood and lies far from me;

Give me neither poverty nor riches-

Feed me with the food allotted to me;

Let I be full and deny You,

And say, "Who is the Lord?"

Or lest I be poor and steal,

And profane the name of my God.

-Proverbs 30:7-9

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

I-5 remains closed after truck pileup in tunnel - Los Angeles Times

2007-10-13T14:08:00.000-07:00

I-5 remains closed after truck pileup in tunnel - Los Angeles Times

So, today I was supposed to go to the beach, but this is what happened last night at 11pm and so I couldn't because the route to and through LA to the beach is through there.

Kind of crazy. It's like something that doesn't happen unless you're watching an action movie.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer-writer,
Yokanchi

Rain...

2007-10-13T01:26:00.000-07:00

I'm sitting in my living room at 1:21am listening to the rain.
I love rain. The wetness, the coolness.
It's amazing.
I even love cloudy weather.

Call it gloomy if you want. It makes me so cheerful.
It's like a present from God that frees us from the norm.
Sun is nice, but there's plenty to go around.

Clouds and rain are like an exotic import from the tropics.

Even the cool weather is wonderful.
It makes wearing something thick cozy and comfortable well worth it.

I think I wnat to move to washington someday. I would love it.
I think if it ever rains when I have to write a paper, it'll be the best paper I've ever written.
I think if I moved to washington I could become a writer......

Praise the Lord, who shares the wealth of his heavenly storehouses full of wet cool liquid life that rains from the beautiful mystical clouds and washes the earth, grows the plants and cleans the air. Blessed be the name of the Lord and all who praise, serve, and adore him. He loves the World. The evidence is crystal down to the smallest feature of his beautiful masterpiece of magnificent machinery we call the world even after sin has corrupted for so many a century.

Our God is an awesome God full of love, kindness, mercy, forgiveness and beauty.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer-writer,
Yokanchi

Indians Take To Streets Against Wal-Mart - Forbes.com

2007-10-11T07:20:00.000-07:00

Indians Take To Streets Against Wal-Mart - Forbes.com

Aw, that's mean! That was my second reaction to this article.
The first of course was, "oh those poor indian workers losing their jobs to Wal-mart" That's what they want. Really why it's mean is that people just don't want to change the way they do things. If someone comes up with a brilliant business plan that revolutionizes business and culture, we shouldn't freak out so easily just because that's not what we're used to. It's not like Wal-mart is destroying jobs! They're only creating as many as are destroyed. There's always places to work for Wal-mart. And, if people don't like working for Wal-mart. Then they're going to have to get innovative and creative! Sounds mean, maybe, that's capitalism. Not real friendly, but honestly not that mean if you really look at the options.

Input please! Leave comments! What do you think?

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

Science validates Biblical princibles for marraige

2007-10-09T12:33:00.000-07:00

Wired News - Study Ties Marital Strife, Heart Disease

I always wonder if God thinks, told you so. When something like this happens.
This is an instance where Science has found that it is very important to marry the right person, and most importantly keep a good marriage.

"'What we add here is that, 'OK, being married is in general good, but be careful about the kind of person you have married.' The quality of the relationship matters,' said lead author Roberto De Vogli, a researcher with University College in London."

Of course, divorce is left out of the possibilities for someone who is a Christian and has a bad marriage. Their best and technically only option is to improve their marriage by being servant-like and trying to make their spouse happy as much as they possibly can.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

School business

2007-09-08T15:43:00.000-07:00

Well, lately I've been too busy to even think about updating this blog. Unfortunately, it may be that way for a while. I don't know how much I'll update this blog, but I would expect not much.

Of course inspiration comes at strange times and in strange amounts. I will try to blog when I have the inspiration. In the mean time, remember I'm here, but I'm sorry about the lack of content.

In the meantime. Just a few things I'm doing.
Right now I'm trying to get a paper written on Predestination and free will. We have to read a book about 200 pages and write a 2000 word essay about it. It looks like it'll be hard. It's due Tuesday (trust me I started reading as soon as I found out, it kind of came on very quickly (only the second week of classes).

Also, I had an idea this morning. Nowhere on campus can you buy Arizona tea. The other day I saw someone with a big case of it. I'm thinking I should find out where I can get one of those and sell them for about a dollar each to whoever wants them from my dorm room. If people like Arizona tea as much as I do I'm bound to make some sales. I figure for buying a whole case I'm bound to save some money on each individually and that way, if I sell for a dollar it might make a little profit (just for fun mostly). And I'll have Arizona tea on hand for myself. That'll be nice to have if no one wants any.
Anyway,

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

PS let me know if you drink Amazon

Psalm 78

2007-08-26T08:34:00.000-07:00

Wow, I was just reading Psalm 78 and it amazes me what can be found.
If you ever want to teach a lesson that covers the history of Israel this is a great chapter to use as your base.
You don't have to go and make your own summary, it's already written for you! This whole chapter (and yes it is a bit long as you might imagine) covers from Abraham (Israel) to David.

It's really a great history, only including the important stuff, which would be Israel's relationship with God.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

On campus for two weeks no-school?

2007-08-23T22:46:00.000-07:00

Classes are starting tomorrow!!!
It should be fun, interesting, crazy. All that.

These past few weeks I worked on campus full time.
After work I found things to do, like watch movies with people nearby, or work out at the fitness center or take walks.

Anyway, I gots stuff to do, and so do you!

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

Being a Christian is Paridise.

2007-08-15T18:22:00.000-07:00

Why you ask?

Because, of course, and I knew you were wondering. Because, my good friend, you always have good news!

And that is why!

Till next post (however long it may be).
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

Back to Ye Old College

2007-08-10T16:41:00.000-07:00

Here I am rumbling west in a giant motorhome over the mountains.

This is another update coming. I guess the best thing to hope for this year and last is for at least 4 updates a year or so.
Anyway, I'm sitting here writing this blog on a freshly reformatted computer which sadly has not been backed up properly.
For some reason I wasn't thinking and didn't check the backup very well. I made one with windows onto my external and hoped for the best and it didn't turn out so well.
It looks like all my pictures and music are intact, however, and that's all I really care too much about. The only other thing I really miss is my installers file which had a myriad of software installs that I use regularaly.
I will have to download and repopulate my computer when I get to somewhere with WiFi provided I can find the right network card driver on my uncle's computer.
Well, the reason I'm rumbling west in a big motorhome towards Grand Junction (while I'm writing this anyway) is that my boss asked me if I could come out a little earlier than school starts (which is about the 20th or so)
I figured a couple weeks would be alright and agreed to that. My uncle, aunt, and cousin who've been staying with us all summer decided it had been long enough in one place and so offered to give me a ride to college.

I've had quite a good summer for the most part. The only sad part is that I wish I could spend so much more time with the friends I have here. I will miss them.
Stay in touch guys!!! And that's an order!

Anyway, I finished up working at DQ last week Wednesday and then headed up to camp on Thursday to catch the banquet and stay till Saturday to take everyone home. That was pretty fun.
Friday night involved warding off invaders of the cabin next door with airsoft guns and aeresol deoderant.
There was less sleep that night, but more fun. After we came home our youth group gave our presentation of pictures and information about what we did during the week long missions trip to the
New Mexico Farmington area in a Navajo reservation church called Da-Na-Has-Ta full gospel church. I got to put all the pictures in order and into a presentation, which was alot of work, but made the whole presentation look pretty good I thought.
After that I packed and packed and packed up for about three and a half days to get ready for today (Thursday Aug 9th) when we were supposed to leave at about 2 or 3.

We left about 6 or 7 o'clock.
So. now I'm blogging at 11:45 on Wordpad (because I don't have Word installed anymore :( ). Anyway, I'll get that fixed sooner or later.

Plans are, for me, to be at the college two weeks before classes start, like I said before. I'm really wondering if or how many people will be there and what I'm going to do for fun when not working.
But even more than that I wonder if I'll make it for two weeks mostly eating in my dorm room. That will surely be interesting. I am planning on getting a microwave and coffee maker to make food with.
If all else fails I suppose I can always find sustinance off of ramen noodles. Hopefully though, I will figure out how to make more than that and still have enough food to last for one or two weeks. The second week I'll be there will be WOW week (week of welcome for the freshmen). So that's going to be more interesting at least. There will be a little more population on campus to interact with. I am planning on not going to the cafeteria at all, but I am also still holding a little hope that the caf may be open at some point. I hope to get my meal plan going a couple weeks early. I'll have to ask about that though. I don't expect it, but who knows.
All in all God provides, but prayers I would severely appreciate. There's alot of hoping in that last paragraph I just wrote. We'll see what happens.

The plan is to arrive Sunday and move in sometime between one and five o'clock and begin work on Monday.
Well, I don't have a whole lot more to write. Drop me some e-mails and comments though, so I know I'm not totally alone though and I'll try and respond back when I get my computer back online and running correctly lol.

To everyone else that is not back at school already, have a great summer and enjoy the rest you still have.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

I Love Jesus Christ

2007-07-11T14:01:00.000-07:00

Just lettin' y'all know.
I was inspired to declare after reading my good friend's blogpost at
Affectional Writ

:)

Till next post.
Yokanchi
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1Pe 2:17 Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

My Simple Guidebook to life - Abridged

2007-07-09T23:27:00.000-07:00

This here is my simple guidebook to the good life. I guess alot of it is thigs I've learned throughout 19 years of my life. I wanted to make this more comprehensive, but I'm going to have to post more later if I get around to it.
If you want to see more, or if you have questions, holler.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, but this is the simple guidebook. That means that it is summarized and each solution to something or advice to remember is the easiest or most convenient while still being most effective. Think of it as an optimum mix of fuel and oxygen for the engine avaliable. If you don't like that analogy you can just be sad, because I'm not coming up with another one.

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General

#1 Go do it yourself.

#2 Don't be a slave.

#3 Don't be controlling.

#4 Don't be uneconomical. This goes for alot of things, but if you can afford to be uneconomical in whatever it is, and you feel like it then go right ahead. Just don't tee people off while you do it (very much).

#5 Share. This doesn't go for everything. Be polite. But share your interests, share your stuff. That's basically it.

#6 Don't be selfish (see number five for more information)

#7 Loyalty with friends is gold.
Have it, don't let it go.

#8 Fun. Have it, share it, remember it's like money, you can't always have it.

#9 Be happy, and relax. If you're a Christian that is, if not I would worry and figure out how to get to heaven. If you're wondering just ask, any Christian knows and any Christian is dying to tell you.

#10 Remember you can't always be happy, but even when you're in the dumps, don't go dumpster diving.

#11 Be crazy, but don't get in trouble. There's a million ways to accomplish this, without getting in trouble, trust me.

#12 Remember, your influence reaches alot farther than you probably think. People notice how many times you blink. You are watched and you effect.

#13 Advice is helpful, experience is life-changing. (of course I have to note that the wise learn from Advice, but remember the people who do so have probably learned from experience)

#14 Have real conversations to sift away the silt or you will become shallow.

#15 Always use your time for something productive. (refer to number four)

#16 Sometimes things are the way they are. Keep that in mind and know when to realize that.

#17 Change is good

#18 Change is bad

#19 Paradoxes are everywhere, deal with it.

#20 Too much of something good is often not good.

#21 Collect maturity within yourself, and be patient with those that have less and don't seem to be trying.

#22 Pray often.

#23 Don't quit on what is important. Read your Bible everynight no matter what. Don't fast your eyes from it!

#24 If there is a problem Don't worry about it, just keep it in mind, and try to fix it most efficiently and

#25 Summarize everything, unless people don't get it. Worse than not unerstanding something is understanding and not being able to do it, because someone won't stop explaining it to you.

#26 Don't take everything too seriously (This includes your self, you can cry if it helps you get over it). See the humor in everything but don't get hung up on it and miss the big picture.

#27 Bluntness can be a useful tool in communication, just like a hammer is useful. You can't always use the diplomatic chisel to get your point across, but don't forget hammers aren't pretty and they don't make things pretty. Blunt honesty is just one tool, not your toolbox.

Health

(these are a little longer, the human body is more complex and diverse and that's just the way it is)

#1 If you want to lose weight, drink lots of water and avoid fatty foods (aka foods with fat in them) and processed sugar (aka anything that doesn't come out of a fruit or vegetable). The more strictly it is followed the faster you lose weight and the slower and more loosely the harder it will be. Of course some type of excercise must be involved weekly preferrably at a minimum of two times a week.

#2 To stay extra healthy. First of all, lose some extra weight (refer to #1) and follow instruction number one easily. Second, get more and more excercise. This means excercise consistantly at least every other day.

#3 If you want to grow more muscle. The best start is to do a bite size se of pushups every night. Something that pushes you a little beyond your limits. Most important to this tip is to continue faithfully. Try 25 pushups a night or something. You'll be looking better before you know it. After that you can expand all kinds of ways. Don't push too hard, but don't back off.

#4 If you're having problems with your moods (which is part of your body, do not forget) or any other health problem don't worry about it, just keep it in mind, and try to fix it by being more healthy in the particular way that directly effects the problem you have.

#5 Don't forget to relax. That can be very bad for you.

#6 Eating dead animal is never really good for you even if there may be some benefits.

#7 The dairy companies have lied to you, milk is not really that good for you. It's not worth the benefits they advertise. Just take calcium vitamins or something. Sorry to pop your bubble.

People

#1 Talk to people. No one likes being too shy. It's boring.

#2 Don't talk too much. Some people have this problem. Trust me I know some. If you keep saying dumb things or things you wish you hadn't, try talking less often.

#3 Listen to people. This doesn't mean stop talking, it means be patient and understanding when people talk to you.

#4 Be easy-going. That is the polar opposite of being anything people don't like. Don't forget, too much of a good thing is not a good thing (so to speak) so don't take anything, including this, too far.

#5 Laugh at people's jokes even if they're not always funny.

#6 If someone is never funny or thinks they're funnier than they are you can cool the polite laugh for a while and give them a chance to go have their fun on their own. If they still like it, good for them. They may find themselves short of people to hang out with.

#7 The opposite sex (boys or girls, whichever you may someday date or marry): Relax. Don't get so uptight. Their weird, but they're still human.

#8 Don't have too few friends, don't have too many.

#9 Have a good variety of friends. It's good for you.

#10 Be unselfish. The Bible says alot about this, but this is the simple version, go find it yourself.

#11 Don't get all uptight about annoying people. Especially if you're related.

#12 Don't be a wet noodle around annoying or obnoxious people. If they're running head on, let them run into you sometimes, but don't be a roadblock.

#13 Don't be so shallow you can't talk to friends about deep things.

#14 Always remember that what you say (or do, or write, etc...) can have unintended consequences no matter what it is.

#15 People are stupid.

#16 Keep in mind you aren't going to find many unselfish people.

#17 Keep in mind everyone is selfish but how much depends on how mature they are.

#18 Along with 17, people aren't perfect. Even if you don't see a thing wrong with them, remember something is there. Everyone has issues. Expect it, deal with it, forgive, forget, heal, help, and be unselfish and loving overall.

#19 Remember everyone is proud of themselves, whether you see it at first or not.

#20 Finesse in communication should be key over all. If you've got other problems it can be a cure or point towards what you're looking for so get some practice and get good at it.

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Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

PS Hopefully I will be able to add to this. Especially more sections. If you want me to do a particluar section, holler.

Paradoxes and stuff

2007-07-02T00:15:00.000-07:00

Dual post!!

I came up with some more stuff I just wanted to get out there right after I posted that. Just some things I've been studying and thinking over throughout life and lately and in my devos.

First about the paradoxes in the Christian life. I'm so amazed all the time about the paradoxes found in the Christian life/faith. It's amazing. I would have to say it makes the Christian's life so much more interesting and sometimes complicated.
Like the way that Christ's death brings us life and not only life, but eternal life!
Or the way that we are supposed to die to self to come alive. Or how in 1 John 4:18 John says;

"There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love."

And then at the same time we are best off having a fear of God (thus the phrase God fearing folk, or whatever).

Gen 20:11 And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place. And they will slay me for my wife's sake. Psa 61:5 For thou, O God, hast heard my vows: Thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name. Pro 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God. Job 28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Another paradox I've always found interesting and particularly emphasised specially well is where Paul is talking about the struggle within ourselves against the sin nature.

Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. Rom 7:15 For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do. (This is one of my favorite verses depicting what I'm sure many Christians feel all the time, the battle between the will to be righteous and the temptation of the flesh to sin) Rom 7:16-18 But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good. So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwelleth in me. For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good is not.

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Second Section

One thing I really wanted to write about and have everyone read is what I'm going to type about next. I really would hope everyone would read this or pay attention now if nothing else is read or gained in this post.

One thing I've been studying lately is the "love passage" as some like to romanticize it up as, 1 Corinthians 13. Specifically the first half and middle especially, emphasizing verses 4, 5, and 6.

1Co 13:1-3 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 1Co 13:4-7 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1Co 13:8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Doesn't fail,
didja catch that? It doesn't. Remember that, you'll need some of that stuff some day (scratch that, you'll need it every day!).

This is so very key and important I cannot emphasize it enough through the words I possess and so I will say this:

PAY ATTENTION!!!!

Basically the point I really want to get across is how important it is for every single Christian on this planet needs to read this because it has soo much information about how we need to love every Christian with a "Christian love"

The information is clear, the hard part is remembering it. Problem solved, your assignment, memorize it, NOW. I'm joking, but you really should memorize this if at all possible unless you've already got this covered 100% (so basically you better start memorizing)

Numero Uno (number one for those who aren't as incredibly bilingual as I am):
Love is patient and, is kind. We gotta put up with people, but the sentence doesn't end there. Don't be narrow minded! AND is kind! We can't just put up with people in our church or life. The Christians around us. We have to put up with them KINDLY! Remember that. I forget often.
2. Love does not envy or boast. Not too hard. Don't be jealous. Only God can do that and we aren't allowed to take his job. Remember that one angel of light (Lucifer) who tried that? Didn't turn out so well. But also, remember this; love doesn't boast. So often I think that's just that pride that is oh so prevailing in every person I know (so much the more myself). Love doesn't boast, when you serve or show love in anyway, it is not for boasting. In ANY way.
3. It is not arrogant or rude. This isn't really hard to grasp. Simple to grasp and hard to do. Easy for you to say, as some people might put it but remember it, always. When you're interacting in anyway with people you should be showing love, remember to kill the arrogance or rudeness. Just get rid of the hostility. It's not needed within the Christian family.
4. Does not insist on it's own way. This is another one that is not so hard for us to grasp. It's just something that we forget occasionally and we should be on the look out for in everything, not just the little stuff.
5. It is not irritable or resentful. This can come up all the time, especially within family relations. But, of course as a Church is so much like a family problems can arise. Moods, opinions, or disagreements are not to be affecting our love towards others making us irritable or resentful towards them, We are told to put away grudges.
6. It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with truth. Another seemingly no-brainer, but this one needs to be watched out for especially in close friendships. At least for myself. We should look to see that we are not exalting wrongdoings (even small ones, perhaps breaking the speed limit or making fun of people?) between each other and only rejoicing in the truth. Take that along with the first one of course. Tolerate with kindness!

And finally, Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. A great summing up of the feeling of how we should be loving each other. Remember that loyalty towards any other believe or friend. These statements exhibit in all reality a type of naive love that needs to be shown to each other. Don't be doubting or second-guessing each other. And please keep faith in each other. Every person on this planet has shortcomings and that should be kept in mind even for our fellow Christians. Remember that though they are not perfect they are trying their best, or at least we must have the attitude that they are and love serve and respect them and encourage faithfulness to our great God.

Keeping all this in mind is something that is vital to Christian life, as a good Christian life calls for fellowship with other believers. Show the Godly love to each other all the time. Perpetually. Write these verses in your heart (or on your forehead, whichever is most convenient) and remember to actually DO IT!
This I believe is one thing that is absolutely essential as the eggs in a good cake are to hold a Christian body such as a Church together. And much more to be remembered in interpersonal relations, where this is to be put to use.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

(all quotations unless noted from ASV)

More ice cream??

2007-07-01T23:39:00.000-07:00

Yep, more ice cream.
Our church gave out tons of free ice cream before fireworks tonight and gave tracts and stuff along with it. I was giving out free otter pops most of the time.
It was fun, but way too short. Pretty much like all of today.

Well, I'm planning on going camping in a couple weeks for a few days and trying to figure out what I want to do this week too. Should be interesting.
If you want to see pictures of the ice cream thing. Check out Chandler's album on facebook. I'm so freaking tired I don't even want to think about putting anything up and I don't have the pictures anyway.
Maybe if you get a chance upload the pictures to a google/picasa web album(the House of Yokanchi standard) let me know so I can link it to my site.

Ok,later all!
Have fun in de summer!

Till next post.
Your faithful typer
Yokanchi

Missions trip NM

2007-06-18T08:14:00.000-07:00

Nerds are girls from jupiter apparently. This is one thing I learned on this missions trip. Lol, that would be the famous quote from one of the kids on the trip, JP.

Last week we went to the area of Farmington New Mexico and did a four day VBS for a local church. It was fun, it was hard. The guys of the group did the games and the girls did the crafts. I also taught the last lesson of the week on Jesus' power over death, using the story of Jarius and his daughter (Mark 5). The kids were very quiet and shy most of the time. That was the hardest part. Their attention would wander and they didn't always want to participate. Otherwise, we did have some very participatory kids, like JP for instance. I think this trip was a good one for planting seeds and hopefully building a foundation. I'm hoping that this trip will help the church we went to (Da Na Has Ta full gospel church) to grow in their childrens ministry. Hopefully more of them will want to come to that church and learn more now.

Well, if I try to write anymore I'll never get this posted so

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

PS I wrote this a few days ago and don't have time to add to it. You can ask questions, if you want to know more. Or maybe I'll get really bored and post more lol.
Thanks to everyone who prayed also, your prayers made a huge difference.

DQ

2007-05-29T18:13:00.000-07:00

I'm at home now and I've got a job at Dairy Queen.
It's interesting. A little rough learning how to do everything. Kind of fun, but then not always so fun.
I don't mind the job at all, it's not so bad. I just wish I didn't have to spend so much time doing it. I'm working full time and that's why. It just seems awfully long.
Whatever though. I just found out that I got half as much financial aid as last year, so it's a good thing I have some type of job.
Kind of depressing. Oh well, eventually I'll have to have some kind of full time job, I should get used to it...

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

Music section

2007-05-26T23:35:00.000-07:00

New section on the site!

I added a music section to put up some info on my favorite bands. I still have plenty more to add to it. I'm going to keep updating it.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

Brain 'Pacemaker' Tickles Your Happy Nerve

2007-05-23T13:31:00.000-07:00

Brain 'Pacemaker' Tickles Your Happy Nerve

Wow, weird. Well, whatever. If it works it works I guess.
Strange though...

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

200th Post!!!

2007-05-16T21:47:00.000-07:00

All right.
We did quite a bit of picture taking today, so I posted two more albums on my site.

Go check it out. Also, since I'm on vacation I did a little changing with the theme for a bit.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

PS benjamin takes most of the pictures I've been putting up. Post comments and let me know what you think.

Grand Canyon

2007-05-14T21:20:00.000-07:00

Today I went to the Grand Canyon for the first time ever. It was cool. Benjamin took a bunch of pictures and so I got up an album. Go check it out over at the site.

The other people we were and still are with are my cousin, aunt, and uncle. We met them there stayed at a campground last night and then today is when we took all those pictures. Now we're at a campground in Utah.
Well, go check out the pictures. They're pretty cool.
I'll be home pretty soon. Probably sometime this week I think.
Me and Benjamin are going to travel with our relatives while my dad gets back tomorrow since he has some work to do on Wed.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

End of School 07

2007-05-11T00:43:00.000-07:00

The end of my first year of college!
Kind of a wierd feeling. I'll miss all my friends, and at the same time break seems sooo short. I'll have to pack in all the things I can that I want to get done during the summer. Hopefully it'll be easier since I'm so used to being so busy. Oh well.

I tried out for Choral for next semester. I hope I get in, but if I do I'll probably be crazy busy :(.
But, it will be good. It's going to be weird next semester. There's a ton of people graduating and then a bunch of my friends are going to IBEX (the israel bible extension that is part of Master's for those of you who don't know).

Well, I've just finished all my finals, but one that I'm turning in a revision in on since I only got like half of the questions (out of four) finished correctly for Web design. I'm thankful to God that my Prof let me do this revision. I was going crazy trying to figure out why my code wasn't working for what I was trying to put on my site that I was supposed to do. When I finally got back to do the revision on it I figured out that I just had to capitalize this one part and I would have had it made..... :(

Oh well. God's will be done. Maybe I needed humbling.
Probably..
Anyway, one of my summer projects is going to be to implement a part of my site that I can put up my favorite posts on this blog which should be a good amount of good content after nearly 200 posts over about 2 years. Also since I liked designing my site more than I even liked putting content on it. I think I'm going to make some sites and templates and put them up for show on my site. If any of my friends want to use them I'll probably let them and then I can probably change the look and design of my site occasionally to make it interesting.

Enough for now. Back to the javascript grindstone.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

House of Yokanchi

2007-05-02T13:53:00.000-07:00

Well, it's officially released folks.
My site is now up. House of Yokanchi will be an add-on to the Electric Typerwriter.
So, you can go and see the pictures of all the things I've been up to this yeah and last. I also put some other things up.
Please let me know about any suggestions or things you don't like about it, or things you wish it had. I'd like to add some things when I get a chance. And, I will get a chance with school ending.
To enter the site just click the title of this post or check out the link I added to the sidebar.

PS if anyone's blog is not linked on my blog list let me know. I thought I got everyone's that I read, but I may have missed one or two.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

Death

2007-04-28T01:52:00.000-07:00

Here's a cool post I found in my notebook I had been meaning to post. I wrote this some time ago. I think during chaper. The speaker probably said something that made me think of this or maybe was talking about it in the first place. In any case here it is in the entirety. I did minimal editing. That's usually what I try to do when I find something I wrote before to try and capture exactly what I was thinking then and it's usually more powerful when I wrote it all in one go.
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Why do people fear death? They stay away from even the subject of death, giving the conversations and things related to it a negative reference calling it morbid or depressing. Should it be different for a Christian? People's ideas of death always seem so similar. A funeral is almost never happy whether Christian or not. When a person dies we call it "passing away". People don't often say someone "died" but refer to it as "passing away". If you really think about it though, in reality, unless the person was a Christian that phrase is not accurate at all. When a Christian dies he is only passing to heaven, moving out of earth. When you say "he passed away" referring to an unbeliever the only way that is correct is that they are passing away from earth to Hell. Which is really just the same as death. Of course, this isn't something we like to think about, but nevertheless bring the painful reality to mind and think about it for a moment. All things considered, referring to the death of an unbeliever as just that is really the most accurate expression. A person that didn't accept Christ as savior before death really has "died". A Christian in all reality never dies, they only pass from death to life. The unbeliever in death really does lose his earthly life or body, but going to Hell really is the literal death of the soul.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"The world was made round so that we would never be able to see too far down the road."
- Isak Dinesen
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Semester ending

2007-04-25T10:10:00.000-07:00

Well, it's coming to the end of the semester. I'm just posting now to let everyone know why I won't be posting (or haven't been rather) in the next two weeks much. I have to finish a website and a book and a few books of the Bible while keeping up with homework and studying for finals. So, I'm busy spending all my time on that.
Speaking of which I have to get back to my website, which, when finished I will link to this blog hopefully.

PS I'm going to move my cbox to my website probably so it may dissapear for testing occasionally. We'll see.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Goodbye dear pillow which I was once close to..."
-Yokanchi-
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Simple and short?

2007-04-18T20:15:00.000-07:00

I've decided to start posting more often and only posting a line or a few to just get a thread of thought out there. I encourage discussion of topics and this means...
COmmeNT!
:)
So, please do read and comment.
This way I hope to:
1. Make it short and easy to read and leave time for you think about it and comment.
2. Make it short for me to post and therefore be able to post more often and hopefully discuss more with my readers.

So, here's my first one:
I was walking up the hill to the dorms and as I did I saw the Moon which looked alot like the one in the Muslim symbol. I thought about the symbology. The Sun (or light) represents truth. Our God. The moon reflects it's light. Often this is used as an analogy of us as His children who can reflect His light to this world. Then it made me wonder why the moon was the predominant symbol in the Muslim symbol if it represents man so often.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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- "You can be on the right track and still get hit by a train! -
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Yahweh

2007-04-13T22:04:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to post about how great God is.

This week (and the past few) God's been teaching me how much he knows. I've been realizing how much I depend on myself and don't let him plan. I've still got alot of learning to do on the subject and changing my behaviour to match the reality, but it's wonderful to realize the good news of the fact that God works everything together for good to those who believe. Even though things that I don't like happen, the big picture (which is something else I've been learning in Old Testament Survey) is what's important and God is using whatever is happening for my good. I will be more experienced or trust God more, or bring Him glory more because of the trials OR blessings in my life always. It's hard, but I'm starting to get it more than I have ever before. I'm also learning to pray more.

Now, to what I wanted to post.

I just came back from a Lincoln Brewster concert that our school had in the chapel. It was an amazing time of praising Yahweh and bringing glory to our marvolous great almighty God. As I watched the 17 year old drummer up on stage banging away at the cymbals I was reminded of the ways in which the people would praise our God in the times of David. With bells and dancing and singing. And though we didn't have so much of the dancing, I began to praise God all the more remembering that this is what the nation of Israel had likely done in their times of exalting the Lord our God.

I'll have to post about what I did over spring break later. Remind me. I have some cool pictures from that and it was really cool.

But, for now, I just wanted to post about this while I was thinking about it and get it out to you all.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer.
Yokanchi

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"A healthy adult male consumes each year one and one-half times his weight in other people's patience."
- John Updike
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Proverbs

2007-03-25T00:15:00.000-07:00

Here’s some of the truths I decided to write down while listening to proverbs 11-20
These are paraphrased. I wrote down the ones that I thought I might forget or are very important to me in the things that I’m going through.

• By knowledge the righteous are saved.
• He who is trustworthy keeps a thing covered.
• He who hates striking hands in pledge is secure.
• Be assured the evil will not go unpunished.
• One gives freely but grows all the richer.
• Evil comes to him who searches it.
• Whoever captures souls is righteous.
• Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge.
• An excellent wife is like the crown of a husband.
• A man is commended according to his good sense.
• Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast.
• He who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.
• The work of a man’s hand comes back to him.
• Those who plan peace have joy.
• Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord.
• The hand of the diligent will rule.
• The slothful will be put to forced labor.
• Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word encourages him.
• By insolence comes nothing but strife.
• Good sense wins favor.
• Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise.
• Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord.
• You get what you sow.
• The evil bow down before the good.
• Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner.
• Whoever presses the poor insults his maker.
• The helper of the poor is blessed.
• A soft answer turns away wrath.
• The eyes of the Lord are in every place watching the good and the bad.
• Whoever ignores instruction despises himself.
• A whisperer separates close friends.
• The lot is cast into the lap, but every decision is from the Lord. (speaking of which, Have you ever tried praying and then using dice to decide what to do when you are feeling awfully indecisive?)

That’s all for now.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Consistency isn't always good especially if you're consistently wrong."
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Homework

2007-03-15T16:39:00.000-07:00

I have come to believe that to go to the library some have the belief that you are not allowed to wear normal clothes. To enter this vast sea of printed information you must find the most bizarre clothes or outfit you have and don it before coming here. A girl just walked past me with a purple skirt, stripey black and white knee socks, an unzipped hoody and a beany hat on. There's plenty more weird people too, lol. Anoher thing. I think all the weirdest people go to work or hang out at our King Soopers. It must be the best hangout to the strangest in our community. Anyway, if you're curious what's going on...
I'm sitting in the library getting started on an informational speech that's due Monday. I'm actually in Denver now after taking a long road trip with my buddy from camp Danny who was visiting Master's because he is probably coming to the school next semester. I got back to Denver on wednesday and immediately went into a frenzy of doing homework. Well, that's enough writing on here. I shall go back to writing my informational speech and watching weird people do what weird people do in libraries.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US congress."
- Ronald Reagan

"Everyone who got where they are .. had to begin where they were."
- Richard L Evans

"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."
-Robert Frost

"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details."
- Albert Einstein
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Motel 8

2007-03-11T23:40:00.000-07:00

Well I'm sitting here in a motel 8 wasting away my night and my laptop battery listening to the Psalms.
This week I have tons of homework to plow through before spring break is over. I have 40% of Psalms read, write a synthesis paper, read from to different commentaries, and study for a mid term.
All for ONE class!!
Then I have two quizzes to get ready for, for two other classes. I also want to get a book read for New Testament survey 1.
We'll see how that goes... I don't know about that.
I also have to prepare an information speech for monday. That'll probably prove to be the most difficult since I seem to have trouble doing well on speech preperation.
God's grace abounds. I pray that he'll give me grace to finish all this homework.
I'll be home this week by Tuesday, and back in LA again by Saturday. Tomorrow I'm going to visit Azuza Pacific because the guy I'm going back with is visiting there before him, his grandma, and me go back to Grand Junction and I get to go home.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"The true gospel is a call to self sacrifice not self fulfillment." John MacArthur
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He who finds it will lose it.

2007-03-10T10:13:00.000-08:00

I was just listening to a John Reuben song and it sounded like it was talking about the concept Jesus talks about in Matthew 10:39.
I had never really understood what Jesus siad in this verse: "He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it."

In the song Reuben says something like: if you live your life for things that don't really matter in the end and you die. Then really you had nothing all along.

It made me realize what Jesus meant. If you live your life to the 'fullest' as some people call it. Living for yourself and wasting your time. You may have lots of fun, but in the end you will lose your life. But whoever leaves his life to serve others and make the name of Christ great, then for losing your life at death you will have saved it.

It was kind of cool how it just clicked in my mind.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Trouble with grammar have I, yes."
- Yoda
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It's late (rambling)

2007-03-03T01:02:00.000-08:00

And I'm sitting here doing nothing but listening to the book of Job and talking to Deric. Job has (as of now) become my favorite book of the Bible. It's just so cool. Job is awesome and where in the rest of the Bible can you get such a long dialogue of wisdom straight from the mouth of God?? It's just amazing.
Well, I should get to bed. I'm happy that I finished Esther and I'm getting 10 chapters of Job finished. I have tons to finish before Thursday. That's gonna be crazy. It's gonna be interesting to see what grade I get on my Econ test I took Friday (yesterday). It was pretty hard, I found myself behind throughout the time. Dr. Mackey gives us about 50 minutes and 50 questions which is really annoying since we need to think about most of the questions because of the weird confusing wording. I studied for it. I suppose I could've studied more, but there's always more that you can do, and never an end really.
Anyway, enough rambling I should go to bed.
Read Job, it's cool!

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

~
"man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward"
-Job
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7:15 AM

2007-02-23T07:18:00.000-08:00

Here I am sitting in my dorm room in front of my computer at 7:15 AM. Don't know why, but today I got up at 6:35 or so. So, now I'm ready a little early and don't really have a reason to be. Mostly I'm just wishing I could have gotten more sleep last night but I have to be at work in about 5 minutes so it's not worth it.

This week's been crazy.
2 tests. 3 or 4 quizzes. One got cancelled so, I'm not sure whether I still had 4 or not. And I had to give my testimony. Which I did a pretty bad job of, unfortunately. and then I had at least two worksheets due and a bunch of reading. Didn't finish the reading completely, but I'll have to do that this weekend. Oh well.
SO MUCH HOMEWORK.

Ok, I'm done with my surprise. It looks like next week will be more calm?
We'll see. Never can tell, but at least I don't have any tests.
I gotta get ready for work.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"I just killed Dracula," said Tom Swift painstakingly.

"The interest span of a child is possibly thirty seconds. Higher if throwing food or annoying a small animal is involved."
- Erma Bombeck

"Accomplishing the impossible only means the boss will add it to your regular duties."

"I went to a general store, but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific."

"Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power. It is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits."
-Baron Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) German chemist

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Pearls and 24

2007-02-17T12:37:00.000-08:00

Ok, I would like to start off this post by saying that everyone should read Pearls before Swine and watch 24 so you can be like me and then we can all be the same. All the better to erase individual identity! WahAha!

Ok, that sounded a little too propaganda-ey... Let's try that again.
Twenty-four is a really amazing show that I think most of my readers would enjoy and I recommend it to everyone. Also, while I am recommending I would like to mention to you that Pearls Before Swine is a really really great comic strip that exhibits simple humor in the most grand and entertaining fashion. I would recommend you start reading it.

That was pretty good, no?

Anyway, I'll just give a little update and stop messing around (hmmm, nah scratch that last part I'll just give you a little update).

I'm over at someone's house with my good friend and work buddy Houston and we're housesitting with these people. It's pretty fun.
Last night we stayed up late watching tv eating pizza and experementing with the features of Windows Vista through an ad-hoc network between our computers.
This morning I made some omelettey goodness for me and Houston with eggs, onions, salt, pepper, and 3 kinds of cheeses (recipe straight from your favorite cook, Billy lol). It turned out well enough and we ate it with salsa.
That's pretty much all. Gotta study for like 4 quizzes, a test, and a speech due this week. (oh, 2 tests I mean, I better get busy, later y'all)

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

PS You may have noticed the abnormal amount of quotes in my last post. I have so many quotes to share I'm going to start putting about 5 for every post,
strictly for your viewing pleasure.

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"Success: How high you bounce when you hit bottom."
- General George Patton

"A halo has to fall only a few inches to become a noose."
- Farmers Almanac

"My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right."

"The road to success is marked with many tempting parking spaces."

"Never remember what you can afford to forget."
(sooo true)
~

What I did yesterday

2007-02-13T08:43:00.000-08:00

Here's some of the things I accomplished yesterday.

1. get up at 6:45am to start getting ready to go to work.
2. go to work at 7:30am and set off the alarm.
3. listen to John MacArthur (Johnny Mac to some) speak in chapel.
4. school, work work work.
5. eat some toast with honey on it that I dropped on the ground (honey side down of course). LoL, I surprised some people with that one, but it looked clean enough to me and frankly I just really wanted to eat that toast.
6. watch 2 hours of 24 woohoo!!

Thats all folks.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"It is bad to suppress laughter; it goes back down and spreads to your hips."

"If we are to learn anything of value from Star Trek, it's that the universe is filled with vastly different styles of foreheads."
- Chris Needles

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
- William James

(or as it was said in chapel. You know you're spiritually mature when you know you are free to not partake in freedoms)

~

NewPost

2007-02-11T14:00:00.000-08:00

Well, lots of interesting and exciting things have happened. But I'd like to start out with this:

That's right people. I have gone vista! I like alot of the features. There's some cools stuff. Unfortunately there are alot of things they need and here are a few:

Aeroglass effects need to be the user's choice, not windows. I have a modest computer. It's not a whole lot really, but I'm pretty sure it would work if I wanted it to. However, microsoft decided they wouldn't let the user choose that. Also, there are alot of driver problems. That's probably more of the driver companies problems though so I don't complain alot about it. There are a few more dumb things vista does, but I don't have time to talk about them. Otherwise it's not too bad.

Anyway, I also got office 2007 and that is pretty much amazing. I'd been using the beta version anyway, so I have really no complaints so I'm happy to switch to the full release. It is a wonderful program I would like to encourage everyone to use.

The next thing this week that was cool & worth talking about is Ruckus.com
That thing is AMAZING! 2000 free downloads with a school e-mail and the only disadvantage is you can't transfer to an mp3 player or cds, which stinks, but can't be helped with free music lol.

Well, I'm pretty much pumped about web design class. The homework is a bummer because of the way we have to do it. But other than that I love it. I'm going to be learning CSS which is AWESOME!! Already know some html, so now I'm out for the gold which is CSS. Our final project is to make our own webpages :) So I've got www.yokanchi.com all set up for me to put up as soon as I come up with some code and some things to put on it. So, I've been trying to come up with ideas for a name. And, since I'm not all that creative in words I'm needing suggestions for a name of my website if anyone has one that'll be great, as well as suggestions for things you want to see included in the site.

Well I need to go hit the gym, but I have one more thing to throw out to you reader (whoever that may be). Why in the world does blogger load this on the website title???

What in the world does apple have to do with google???
Oh, well a mystery to be contemplated later. Adios

PS OkGo and Skillet are amazing!! I love these bands, their music is like ice cream for your ears.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

~<
You Vill Report Smoky Autos!
This was funny, read it if you get a chance.
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Sumthinbowl

2007-02-04T20:29:00.000-08:00

This morning the guys in the car I rode to church in were talking about how dumb sounding the name is for the super bowl.
"hmmm how about fantastic bowl! mmm, no, how about.... annual bowl. mmmm no, excellent bowl? great bowl? SUPER bowl!! yeah! super bowl. Because it's super! lol

Yeah, anyway.
Here's what's been happening this week. I started to get a little more homework. Yeah, I have 3 quizzes this week in one class... Not sure how that works. Last week we did have two of those classes cancelled, but we still only have a usual 1 quiz a week in that class, so I guess he just decided we became lazy bums while having that hour and a half off monday and wednesday. Then, I have one more quiz in another class too. And another one in another class. At least I don't have anything to write this week, but I'm doing my testimony ahead of time, because I'll have to give it for speech.

This weekend I played ultimate frisbee in the mud, and it was actually pretty fun. And I also ate sushi and made sushi with some friends. I had some from a resturant and then we made our own, and the ones we made tasted the best :9

Then today. I watched the superbowl. Actually I only watched half of it, but that was fun even though the team I was rooting for lost. It's alright though since that's the first football game I've even watched this year. Oh, yes. I also dressed up as a gnome with a group made up of all Slight guys we like to call the "Blue Zoo" and went with an assortment of other characters to the men's basketball game and cheered our team on.
It must have worked because we won. I'm kidding of course, but it was really fun except for how sweaty I got and how loud it was in the mask.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"When you're over 50 you can still do all the things you did when you were 17 if you don't mind making an idiot of yourself."

The "problem" with today's society, is that; (no one) knows how, to punctuate correctly, anymore?

The colder the X-ray table the more of you has to be on it.

"People are forever calling me a hypochondriac, and, let me tell you, that makes me sick."
- Sandra Wilson

"By doing just a little every day, you can gradually let the task completely overwhelm you."
~

Refridgerator

2007-01-30T08:07:00.000-08:00

Hey, check it out. I got a fridge!! Woohoo!

Even cooler, I got it for free! Yep, that's right. I got it for free from my work. It's a little old but works great.
So, basically it's full of energy drinks and sodas almost all from the week of welcome at the beginning of last semester LOL. But, it keeps my water and applejuice cold at least lol.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"I Used Up All My Sick Days... So I Called In Dead."

A watched clock never boils.
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Web design and HTML

2007-01-25T13:00:00.000-08:00

Sitting here in Intro. to Web Design and Programming.
I think this one is going to be one of my favorite classes, but I think I'm going to like all of my classes. Speech will probably be the hardest, but I've always been used to speech coming as something that would be hard.

At the beginning of the semester it felt like I was being drowned by the amount of classes and homework. But, with God's help I figured out that it would be easier if I dropped my Ethics class. I originally planned to drop New Testament Survey 1 because I am planning on being in Old Testament Survey 2 but I decided to drop Ethics because there was more writing involved in Ethics (I know I'm a wimp, but I don't enjoy essays as much).

For now you might not expect updates quite as often as you might have noticed since I haven't posted in like 2 weeks. I'll be focusing on sleeping and homework more than blogging unfortunately.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"I had a dream I was eating a hotdog. Man it was good!" ~Jason Hendrickson
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Truth & Life Conference

2007-01-18T22:15:00.000-08:00

So the first week of being here we are just supposed to go to conferences in the morning and at night. Tonight's speaker was really really good and one part of what he said really struck me.

If people are leaving the church or the youth group it is because we have not made the story of the cross brilliant, compelling, or clear enough. It is not because the church/youth group is not 'cool' enough or does not have contemporary enough music or media. This is a very adolescent look at it/ If people are leaving it is because we have not proven Christ to be worth more than money, power, sex, drugs, friends, or materialism.

Our speaker was Art Azurdia. He was really amazing. I think he was my favorite speaker so far.

Beta or no?

2007-01-08T10:17:00.000-08:00

Well this is my first post in blogger beta, which apparently isn't actually beta anymore. However, they don't call it blogger two. All I've seen about it is just saying it's not beta anymore, so apparently it's called blogger beta-not-beta... I dunno, anyway
I've decided I'm going to start posting in dialogue. That is to say I will start posting something as if it were spoken or quoted from something. I think after a few of those posts I'm going to switch to some other types of writing just to make it interesting and hopefully increase my writing skills.

"Right now I'm at Max's house and I stayed here last night. I think I'm going to go home later tonight playing games and watching tv late into the night is actually really fun, in case you've never tried it. Hmm, I wonder what's for breakfast. I'm hungry..."

(Not sure if this is going to turn out much different than my normal writing, but I had thought it would when I came up with the idea, we'll see)

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost."
- Corrie ten Boom
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Flying like a bird at 5,000ft, the winged wonder | the Daily Mail

2006-12-29T18:47:00.000-08:00

Flying like a bird at 5,000ft, the winged wonder | the Daily Mail

This is crazy cool! Go check it out.
That guy is awesome! Well, our winter camp trip turned out to be a day longer than we meant it to be. The camping at TPBC was great. I went sledding, but didn't play snow football because of my ankle that I rolled earlier at home. Well, Chandler's dad came a little early on Thursday morning to pick us up so we could outrun the snow that was coming. However, we obviously didn't leave soon enough, because the road to come home was closed so we ended up staying at a hotel in Glenwood Springs. That was pretty fun, we played Farckel and Loot. then we came home pretty easily this morning. Well, that's the down low for this week.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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I'm not a complete idiot -- Some parts are missing.
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Mail Truck

2006-12-24T06:54:00.000-08:00

Well,
Yesterday we spent the whole morning shoveling our grandparents driveway and unstucking cars. One of them was a mail truck. That was kind of cool (well, interesting, it wasn't really that cool because it took like 2 or more hours). So I was going to go Christmas shopping again, but we didn't have time.
We were planning on going to Chandler's house yesterday which is why we didn't have time. They were coming down in the jeep to pick me and Benjamin up. Then we found out that they were coming later, so I went shopping for like a half and hour. That worked out pretty well.

Now, today. Well, yesterday. We spent all day backing up and reformatting. It went really well till I had to find drivers. Then I spent an hour trying to find one stupid driver. I found it eventually and had it mostly set up when I realized that my hard drive was way fuller than it should have been. We then checked it out and realized that my hard drive hadn't gotten reformatted so I spent another couple hours redoing all that, but it was much easier because I had everything already downloaded. So now here we are, almost ready to go to church.

Well, I don't really have time to post anything else.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
- Randy K. Milholland

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(hopefully there's something a little more interesting about my posts than that, sorry I couldn't post much more but I don't have time today.)

Snow Falls!

2006-12-21T12:50:00.000-08:00

Wow! We just got like 2 feet of snow in about a night and day!
Yesterday me and Benjamin walked to King Soopers (the grocery store) through the blizzard. Just making it through was pretty fun, but we also got coffee and doughnuts to eat on the way back. We got a Monster House and watched it also. It was a pretty good movie. The movie is about a possesed house which you would know from the trailers (I think). I really liked the graphics. That was a really cool part of the movie, but there were some things I didn't like but overall it's a pretty good movie. I watched a few other movies too including Superman, Cars, and Pirates of the Carribean dead man's chest. I liked them all well enough. My favorite was Superman. I don't understand why some people didn't like it. I guess it was a little sentimental, but it seemed to fit. Cars unfortunately was way too sentimental. For an animated movie about cars there's just not alot of room for slow sad scenes or slow happy ones. whoever made the movie obviously wanted alot of that but tried to pack too many in. Really it did have some good personalities and some really good parts that I did enjoy though. Obviously Mater was the best character in there. I think he pretty much made the movie for me.
Anyway, then there was Pirates 2. I liked it, but I did understand why people liked the first one better. It seemed like it was a little too packed with action and a little lacking in good wit. Overall. however, it was pretty good and a good watch something you should see after watching the first one. Oh, there was the scantily clad ladies. I noticed whereas in the first movie it was pretty clean and not so abusive with the cleavage but in this movie there was too much.

Yeah, everyone's probably already watched these movies lol, but I've ended up watching alot over older movies this semester instead of the newest ones. Well, I just thought I'd post my opinion.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Responsibility: Something you should accept if, and only if, they have irrefutable photographic evidence."
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HomeNow!

2006-12-17T17:24:00.000-08:00

Well, yeah, I'm home.
The flight home was made on two different planes with a stop at Pheonix. It was pretty good. Coming over Denver was a little bumpy. I left at 6:30pm and got to DIA at 11:30pm. Ending up getting to bed at 2:00am I slept in till 11 Saturday morning and now it's Sunday.
Should be a good break :)
Chandler, figure out when Moriah wants to see that movie next time you talk to her.
Not much else to say... I forgot how cool my room was, it's awesome and so is my cat.
Well, not much to do this week till the reformation party. Got a dentist appointment on Monday though.

Outreach Team

2006-12-15T10:29:00.000-08:00

Here's another picture from outreach week. This is all of our outreach team + Jim and Judy King. And then there's two other deaf folks that came for church on the right

Outreach week picture

2006-12-12T16:08:00.000-08:00

Look, it's me interpreting for Lee :)
(Wow, my hair is short in that picture. I wish it was that short now)
Well, I gotta study.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
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2006-12-09T21:20:00.000-08:00

This is how my living room looks right now.
Here's my bunk bed and my desk. If you saw the pictures I put up before you can see there's quite a bit of a change.
Check out my dual moniters!! :)

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money in prolonging the problem."
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Happy Feet

2006-12-09T14:37:00.000-08:00

Wow, aren't our animated childrens movies so uplifting these days. I'm so happy Hollywood is pushing humanistic ideals. Aren't they just grand....
Yeah, this doesn't look like a movie I'll be going to see. According to Michael Medved it's a movie that is "dark, disturbing and deeply political." Scary.
Read the whole commentary He's made on the movie if you get a chance.

Here's the conclusion of the movie Happy Feet on plugged in movie reviews from focus on the family.

Happy Feet: "Happy Feet, shot with a true director's eye for camera movement, scene composition and detail (the little Mumble wears 6 million feathers and his dance steps are all motion captured from virtuoso tap-dancer Savion Glover), gives us a digital Antarctica that's both bone-chilling and beautiful. It also boogies down a path that kids' movies have just about worn down into a rut: Be true to yourself. Gratifyingly, although that theme has been hijacked in recent years by (anti)social agendas, the film doesn't appear to boast any banner other than, 'Friendship and love can overcome any difference.'

OK. It does hoist one other banner. The cute little penguins (humanized with romantic desires, teen angst and even a kind of religion) are being threatened by a horrible and mysterious alien. And that evil entity is ... us. If only mankind would go away, they seem to be saying, then all the creatures of the world could be happy and live in harmony. Of course the film's creators overlook the fact that if man went away then there wouldn't be anyone around to anthropomorphize all that is cute and cuddly anymore. How would the penguins tap-dance then?

So, what's on the dance card for families who're itching to move their feet toward the local cineplex? A pouty Prince song, 'perpetual indulgence,' a bit of defiant behavior, oddly unpleasant interjections of spiritualism, Footloose-style loosen-up-you-old-fuddy-duddy "moralizing," and a few bodily function jokes. But also images of sacrificial love, friendship, courage and loyalty. Not to mention (again) the idea that nobody should be shunned just because he likes to dance and you like to sing. "

Broomball and Finals

2006-12-09T01:15:00.000-08:00

Well tonight was pretty awesome! I got to go to the Slight/Sweazy dorm Christmas party. That was fun, but the real fun started when we went to play broom ball and various other games on the ice. For those of you who have not heard of broom ball (I hadn't) it's where you have two large teams and two goals similar to ice hockey. The thing that is different is that nobody is wearing skates. Contrary to the name we do not use brooms either, but we used these sticks with a small rubber thing on the end. Then instead of a puck, we use a rubber ball about 7 inches in diameter.

I almost didn't go because it costed 5$. My roommate ended up paying for me to go though, so that was really cool. Thanks Sean! Well, I also got to hang out with a really cool girl too and that added to the overall fun-ness.

Well, I don't have much more to blog. For next week I'm just praying that I study enough for the finals. Honestly I don't think they'll be too hard now that I've finished my finals for Aural Theory (That's music theory that you have to hear and know exactly what you are hearing). The English final could be a little bit hard. The study guide seems a little bit vague and I'm so I'm really not sure what all to study, but I have some notes I'll read and hopefully that will help. Then there's my old testament final. That will be somewhat hard. There's a significant amount of information to study, but I think it will be pretty easy. He's such a good teacher that he makes the learning easy. Unfortunately I'd have to say looking back I really didn't like my English Comp. Class so much. Realizing how much we actually have to do. The teacher is nice, but sometimes hard to understand. The thing I really don't like though is how we have to write 5 papers throughout the semester, then write a really big research paper, and then after that even take a final. Apparently this is the only English comp. class that we have to take a final in. None of the other English teachers require it. Oh well, it looks like alot of stuff I know. Oh, and there's even questions like the SAT. I thought that I was done with dumb SAT questions, but obviously my English teacher thinks that everyone wants more experience taking SAT like questions since we'll be doing that so much later in life..... Dunno....
oh well,

Till next time.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
- Peter de Vries
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PS They found Popeye's mom....

Chariots of the Gods.

2006-12-07T14:32:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Astrosmith at True Anomaly For today's post material. I went and bought this really cool book I'm going to look at during christmas break. Chariots of the Gods
It's probably not theologically correct, but looks really cool, and I got it for 1 cent on Amazon.
Hey, if you want to read it and you've got $3.50 you might think about getting a copy yourself.
Anyway I have homework to do for now so I'll post more later.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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If you want the last word in an argument, say, "You're right."
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It's All Who You Know

2006-12-05T12:37:00.000-08:00

"In life and in death, it's not what you know, it's Who you know!"

I just saw this on an e-mail and I'm at work so I can't blog much.
But I thought that was a really cool quote, because it's true. The concept also reminded me of the Newsboys song "It's all who you know"

Listen to it. Enjoy it

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Live every day like it is your last - one of these days it will be."
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(BTW I do not agree with that quote/philosophy, but that's another blog. Remind me or let me know you want to see one and I'll write a post up about it later)

Update

2006-12-03T18:04:00.000-08:00

Ok, Here's an update.

Well, I'll try to post quickly. I have alot to get done and alot of sleeping to do so....
We did christmas concerts every night from Tuesday till Saturday. We also did a condensed version of a concert on Friday for chapel. Then for Saturday we did an extra one in the afternoon. And then today, we sang in front of like 2000 people or so at Grace Community Church (John MacArthur's church). We did that for two services. That was pretty fun. The first time we pretty much were really sad sounding, but the second one was pretty much amazing.

So, to sum it all up. Now I'm exhausted and have homework to do along with my extra sleeping I plan on getting done.
Well, it's 6:08 pm Sunday and I have alot to be doing so I'll post again later.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Gas prices are so high that when this college girl pulled into a gas station and asked for 2 dollar's worth, the attendant dabbed some behind her ears."
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PS

This is me and some of my buddies in Slight, along with our cool RD Jeff! WOohoO!

Happy Thanksgiving

2006-11-23T08:58:00.000-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Be thankful for everything!

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to."
- Arnold Glasow
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Coffee

2006-11-21T21:04:00.000-08:00

The Coffee Fool

For the coffee drinkers you know this is certainly a promising site for Christmas gifts. It makes me want to go buy a package of blueberry cinnamon swirl! :9 yummy!
Check it out if you like coffee.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Don't regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many."
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Just an Idea

2006-11-18T15:54:00.000-08:00

I just had this interesting idea.
For a church to have greater impact on a community what if they decided to have an community committee for the unbelievers.
Now the first thing you would wonder would be, what in the world would they do. (I honestly just thought of this a minute ago and it's just an idea but...)
I think basically it would be led by someone who is very in touch with the surrounding community. They would have to be someone who was a very good people person so that they would know a good number of people that were not church-goers or at least not believers. The person that headed it of course would be a believer, but would have to be a mature one that was in touch with what people that weren't in the church thought and felt about the church. Speaking of the other "members" of the committee, there wouldn't actually have to be a specific member group, although it would be very interesting and possibly benificial to have one, but mostly it would be the one or two leaders from the church heading the committee that would go into the community and perhaps take polls, and generally communicate with the general public to find out what kinds of problems and issues they were facing so that they could bring them up and the church could be of more help to the community. In this way the church would be lifted up in the public eye and hopefully as another good effect people would be brought to the Lord through the committee's leader or leaders because they could possibly be one of the only contacts that some people have relating to anything that is of God.

Basically this would have an intended end-result of a ministry type of committee that would represent the communittee to the church board or at least the church members.

Haven't thought this over a whole lot, I just thought I would throw it out there and see what you guys thought. Leave comments!!!

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents."
- Charles H. Spurgeon
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British Humanist Association

2006-11-14T23:29:00.000-08:00

British Humanist Association

That's creepy, just creepy. Look at how many times they say non-religious. That, I find is weird. Why should they care so much if they're only for the "greater good" whatever they think that is.
I'm still looking at it. I haven't seen what they think that is yet.

If that doesn't creep you out, look what they think about christians in particular.

"BHA (British Humanist Association) works ... for an end to the privileged position of religion – and Christianity in particular – in law, education, broadcasting and wherever else it occurs. "

"The British Humanist Association exists to promote Humanism and support and represent people who seek to live good lives without religious or superstitious beliefs. "

Basically the fool's association...
Psa 10:4 The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not require it. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

Well, I want to write more on this, but I gotta go to bed, I'm exhausted. Tomorrow is more classes. Hopefully I'll get a chance to write about this more.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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There's a sign above the scale in my doctor's office that says, "Pretend it's your IQ."
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(Gotta love dumb people, just try not to hate them. Sometimes it comes easier than love)

Spiritual Warfare (To Christians)

2006-11-12T13:40:00.000-08:00

Today in church at Placerita Bible Church the pastor was talking about how there is a spiritual battle going on right now even though we can't see it. He was teaching from Daniel 10 where Daniel sees someone (an angel or something) and he talks to him. I think the pastor didn't want to scare anyone so he didn't go as in depth as he could've. That's why I figured I'd blog about it. I might as well talk about it if he didn't.

I think it's very important (extremely important in fact) for us to realize that there is a real spiritual battle that has been raging for thousands of years. Ever since satan left split heaven and created his own rebellion he has been God's enemy and we are sitting right in the battlefield whether we like it or not (which I am most sure we do not). This battle is very unreal to us. The reason it is so unreal is the fact that much of this battle is being waged by spirits, meaning demons and angels.
If you've ever seen one of those fantasy video games, it's very much like that. I don't mean to bring it down to that level, and it's not the same, but just to give us mere humans a picture of what it's like I would like to appeal to the fantasy games that some people play. Of course the real difference that we must realize is how real and consequential the real battle is whereas the video games aren't real and are completely inconsequential in all ways. I just want you to realize that I don't take spiritual battles lightly and think they're just like video games. Understand that I realize how real they actually are. Of course I hope you realize the same exact thing. Most Christians, I believe, don't think of it as this real. They seem to think of this as a fantasy itself.
The reality is this and we must accept it; that angels and demons battle amongst us. There could be a demon standing outside this room battling for entry. There could be more, I don't know. Now this sounds really weird, but it's something we have to take as real. We are at war!
I figure (and this is just speculation) that for the most part all the spiritual battles take place in another kind of dimension which is why angels and demons don't necissarily have a certain physical position. However this dimension is obviously somewhat interwoven with ours and they are able to be in both. We see that angels come and speak with humans all throughout the Bible. We also should take notice of how demons inhabiting humans were very commonplace back then. I think that today there's not nearly anything close to the amount of people that are possesed. But, why is this? I believe that probably the territory that demonic forces had gained during the time from the fall till Jesus had gained was significantly large. After Jesus came the apostles and disciples of Jesus were traveling around and kicking alot of demons out. This is what I believe has brought about the situation today where the demonic forces (at least in the area of human possesion) were significantly pushed back then.

Anyway, this is all to give you a little picture of the colossial thousand + year battle that continues to rage about us. Remember what side you are on and don't fall into laziness. We need to remember to always be fighting back. Now obviously we are hopelessly unequipped. That is why God has given us prayer. Always call for backup. Next, we should always be equipping ourselves. Always be ready to give a defense for the hope that is within. There is no lack of improvements we can make upon ourselves spiritually (and very often physically) to better equip ourselves while we live our lives through this battle. Prayer is one of our most powerful weapons. The Bible is our powerful personal artillary. We must know how to use it effectively. Study it and know what it means. Also, not only is it our personal arsenal but it is also our source of nourishment. Our meals ready to eat for an analogy.
And lastly, do not forget under any circumstances what we are fighting for, what side we are on as Christians, (of course as far as I'm concerned if you're on the other side you can just not worry about forgetting what side you're on. Don't worry about it at all) and continue to fight actively so that you are not taken by the enemy to be used for his purposes or cut down by him so that you are rendered ineffective. What are we fighting for? So that all may know the power of our God and that they can love God or go to hell (I don't say that flippantly, for I hope that you know as well as I do that those that reject our Holy God will burn eternally and this is very important to consider). What side are we on? We are on side of the most holy almighty omnipotent omnipresent and all transcending God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This means that we are supporting him whole heartedly and every action we do glorifies him and that we should seek forgivness if we do not. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, and soul.
Finally, we must continue to fight actively. Therefore we must remember to examine all our actions and seek to glorify God in everything that we do. We must seek whole heartedly to do all that he wills us to do and nothing else with our lives.
With all this in mind again I would like anyone reading this to remember what battle we are taking place in at this very moment. Are you fighting? Remember to always be on guard and always examining every action to see that it glorifies God. I pray that I can do the same.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer
Yokanchi

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"God does not ask your ability or your inability. He asks only your availability."
- Mary Kay Ash
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(that sounds suspicously like mary kay and ashley, but I don't know....)

(two quotes today, I couldn't decide which one was better to post)
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"When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship."
- Dick Gregory
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Segway | Concept Centaur

2006-11-08T23:31:00.000-08:00

Segway's got this sweet concept vehicle. It's sort of like a superduper cool ATV except not quite as rugged. It's much more manuverable than any atv though. One of the coolest things I like about it is how you can drive on only two wheels for as long as you need to. Definitly wish I had one of these. This would be for sure one of the coolest ways to get around campus.

Watch a video here

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
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It's my birthday!

2006-11-07T11:15:00.000-08:00

Yay!!
Thanks to everyone who made this day so fun for me :)
I got cards from lots of people and a great big package from my cool youth group and a package from my family too!
I love you guys!

Look, I'm on our school's website! I'm famous!

I just wanted to show you one of my good friends. This is Chan at a pep rally :) He's pretty cool

Well,

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers."
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PS I just got this e-mail from my government prof :D

Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday to you,

Happy Birthday dear Billy,

Happy Birthday to you.

Dr. Frazer

My favorite interval

2006-10-27T22:12:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I figured out my favorite interval is definitely the major 3rd.
And the best one is when it's sung by two people in harmony. It also sounds quite nice on E and G#
I also found another favorite band.
It's called X-ray Spex and they have really weird, but funny and cool music. They're also really talented and have alot of major 3rds in their music :) lol

Grammar

2006-10-26T15:33:00.000-07:00

The florid blop frumples over the zorp
Barfy zeegles were fiffling through the wamp
A gaffy floz alwyas ents the woozzles
Plithy himps have blilken ben
With tha slinty scupples, a wiggen seldom glubs
Two worken sleebs were sneetingby nim lind
Many pildy snarfs pondled at the rills
Mulky tarks had tallen at a criff
His woldy cran polts all the bims
Wold blooks, nimning the rolm, are dilming across the wirk

Those are the example sentances we were using this morning in English composition class this morning.

Till next post.
your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Whoever said there is no such thing as a stupid question has never worked in customer service."
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Sad News: E.Coli Death Claims First Celebrity

2006-10-24T22:05:00.000-07:00

Sad News: E.Coli Death Claims First Celebrity

I don't know if you guys already heard about the E. Coli thing, but there was an outbreak of it in spinich and this death really saddens me. He was a hero of mine.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Judge everything by appearances and nobody would ever eat an oyster."
~ (oysters are yummy! well, at least clams are in soup :9 )

Are you dumb sometimes?

2006-10-19T16:35:00.000-07:00

Yes.
Ever go and do something you probably should have thought about before going and doing, but you decide that instead of waiting, thinking about it, or researching it you just go do it and decide, "well if I shouldn't have done it I'll just live with it and maybe try to undo it" ?
Yeah, I do that. Probably a little to often. They say people don't like change. Sometimes I think it is good and I should stick to that rule, less change is good.
I don't know.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology."
- Jay Leno
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The Loudmouth

2006-10-18T23:21:00.000-07:00

An update

Homework can be fun?

2006-10-15T14:10:00.000-07:00

I think I've realized why people like working under pressure. It's really just the thrill of getting something done quickly and on time. Being efficient and good. And so they work to get better at being fast and efficient at the same time. They do this by using the deadline as their time limit, not starting till they are forced to do it in a small amount of time and do it well. Of course this probably doesn't apply to well over half of people that do this. Alot of it is probably laziness, but some people do "work better under pressure" and I think that's how it works for alot of people. I think I do like doing it that way sometimes.
Well, I have alot of homework to do now.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"If you want your spouse to listen and pay strict attention to every word you say - talk in your sleep."
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sleep evades

2006-10-15T02:46:00.000-07:00

Yeah, I'm pretty much wishing I could sleep right now, but I just can't so I'm wasting my time on the good ol' internet.
Oh well.
It's like 2:30 almost and I'm only going to get like 4 hours of sleep if I can even get to sleep right now.
I might miss church tomorrow and sleep in a little, or just go to the church down the road that has later services. I'm not sure. Before you think I'm a terrible person for saying I might miss church, realize that I haven't missed one yet.
Anyway, tomorrow is going to be homework day. Finish one paper and write another. The one that needs to be revised is an english comp paper. We have to turn in a cause/effect essay on Tuesday. Then the other one is a one page paper entitled. Leviticus synthesis paper. It's really not too hard, but I'll have to make myself do it. I got a 95 on my first one (Genesis) so that makes me pretty happy. I've also got an A+ in Music Theory 1 :)
As for my other classes, I have an A in Biblical fundamentals, but that is because it's graded on pass or fail basis. All you have to do is finish the reading assignments and come to class. Then, if you're wondering and I know you all are... jk, but I'm gonna tell you just in case you are, I've gotten two papers back from English Comp and gotten a B both times, which pretty much makes me really happy. I'm shooting for B-A in that class, it's not really a hard class but I'm not really the greatest writer. Then there's US Government. Not really worried about that class even though I've got a B. B is about average for me I guess, but I think I can bring it up to an A. I just got a D on one of my quizzes for getting like 4 or 5 questions wrong and then I got a b on the last exam, but it's ok.
Well, I don't really have anything else to write on...
Oh, tonight I went to a deaf night at a coffee shop. That was very interesting. It was pretty fun. I went with most of our Outreach team that went to Grace Bible Deaf church. Jim came too.
Well, I should probably go try to sleep now. Of course now that I'm hardly going to get much sleep I don't even feel like going to bed... but I will. Goodbye cruel world! (for a few hours lol)

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind."
- James Waddell Alexander, II
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(So true)

PS I really don't have the time or will to start updating The Loudmouth anymore :( Maybe I'll start that up again next summer. For now though I'm thinking about deleting that blog unless anyone has any better ideas.

Officials: Kids shot to death, left by Florida road - CNN.com

2006-10-13T12:14:00.000-07:00

Officials: Kids shot to death, left by Florida road - CNN.com

Terrible news to read. Like something from a horror movie.
I don't know what to say, but it's sick.
It's hard to even imagine. News like this makes me really sad. I'm just sitting here feeling awful after reading that. [edit] I just heard the news again on the TV, and personally I hope the guy (person, whatever) dies a horrible death for doing that. I don't care about what the family did at all. He shouldn't have done that. I hope he dies![/edit]

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Capitalism is man exploiting man. Socialism is the other way around."
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PS If anyone wants to get me a present I want to get the book Saint by Ted Dekker more than anything right now. It looks like a really really really really really sweet book. That's the best way I can express how cool it looks to me right now through my limited vocabulary.

PPS Something interesting: I just found out through my e-mail I have a package waiting for me at the mail center, but I have no idea what it is. It's so exciting. lol can't wait till class is over and I get to go see what it is :)

Tongue in cheek humor and mini BibleDevo

2006-10-10T22:30:00.000-07:00

Genesis 18:26
The LORD said, "If I find fifty righteous people in the city of Sodom, I will spare the whole place for their sake."

It's a good thing for LA that the Master's College is here.
lol

Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God

Unfortunately, but!

Acts 16:31 And they said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."

and

John 10:28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"The foundation on which we build our lives is where we believe divinity resides"
-Yokanchi
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Monday after Outreach week

2006-10-09T09:09:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm back from outreach week. I have alot I could talk about, but I'm only going to write a few sentances. I've decided that whenever I feel like blogging I'm going to and only write a few sentances. Because usually when I want to blog I don't because there's so much I want to blog about, and I don't have time to write that much. Anyway, outreach week was good except for the fact that I lost my cell phone at the deaf blind apartments. I think it'll be found soon enough, but I'm not sure. So that's a total bummer. I only lost it on Saturday, but I'm pretty sure it's in the rec room there so I think my friend will find it.
Other than that it was a really great week. I got to know some people and got to know others better. I got a chance to interperet and that was fun. Well, That's all I'm going to write.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience."
- Google
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What is life worth?

2006-09-29T18:25:00.000-07:00

Actually that title doesn't have anything to do with my post *snicker snicker*
But it got your attention didn't it? Anyway,

Yeh, it's been a while since I've posted.
I know, sorry about that.
I've been doing well. Had a week where I had like 3 tests (like 3 because I only had two but one of them was like two because it had two parts two different days).
and then this week I just had normal homework but a paper to do too.
Next week I've got outreach week, that'll be nice because we have no school. I'm going with a group to minister to Grace Bible Deaf Church. It should be pretty fun.
I'm pretty happy because I got my computer to be able to type Russian. I'm trying to learn some more Russian. There's quite a few Russians here or people that know Russian here. So next week we don't actually have a week off of school. It's really just 4 days off (besides Sunday). We still have Monday and Tuesday classes.
Not a whole much else to post on. My classes aren't too hard. If you ask me how hard they are on Monday or Tuesday (maybe Wenesday too) then I'd probably say they're really hard. My week is kind of more unbalenced in the way that there's more work on the beginning than the end, it starts out extremely hard and busy but when i hit Wednesday it starts to get easier. I'm working down at the Computer Services and tis' really a great job. I'm loving it. I'm getting better and better at fixing computers every week and it's really fun, I can usually count on work to be something that I have to do, but it's relaxing and I can't do homework while I'm doing it.
Well, I don't really have anything else to post about. I don't usually do much of anything on the weekends, it's not real exciting, but I feel like just relaxing after a week of work, homework, classes, and lack of sleep.

College life...

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi
Дудзеданя

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"Make friends before you need them."
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Google Calendar

2006-09-06T23:13:00.000-07:00

Hey guys I put my class schedule on Google calendar.
If you want to check out my class schedule check out the button that looks like this:

Till next post.
Your faithful poster,
Yokanchi

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"I used to have a handle on life, but it broke."
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I like that quote.

Dorm sweet Dorm

2006-09-01T21:41:00.000-07:00

I took a few pictures here in my dorm for y'all to see.

Pic #1 This is my room, the view from my bed towards the door.

Pic #2 This is what you see when you come into my dorm room. (see, we actually have more than one room in a dorm room, so this is like the living room. then there's two bedrooms and a bathroom.)

Pic #3This is my desk and the bottom bunk which is my bed (Yeah I know it's a little messy. I just got through a week of school so it's the weekend and I'm just hanging out and relaxing.

Pic #4This is the living room that you come into first. The door to outside is just to the right of that window.

Oh, I would like to note for everyone that likes Crazy frog, that there is a new crazy frog CD called "more crazy hits" and it looks really cool.

I could really use an extra laptop battery.
Yeah, another one. Just in case anybody really feels like ministering to a dirt poor college student. If you so happen to feel some generosity towards me then I'd really like an extra laptop battery :)
Or you could just give a gift card to buy music too lol, that would make me smile *Grin*

Till next time.
Your faithful typer (and picture poster),
Yokanchi

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"Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day."
-Sally Koch
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Pigita

2006-08-29T18:52:00.000-07:00

I gotta study now, but I got a great comic for you guys to read :)

[EDIT]

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Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought."
-Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
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Old camp post

2006-08-27T19:46:00.000-07:00

I was going through my things and found in a notebook a thing I wrote that I may have been planning on writing to put up. I don't know if I ever actually posted it, but it's pretty good, and after not seeing it for so long I want to post it now. I think I wrote it last year during camp (which is why it didn't go straight to the computer, and also probably why it's so good. I tend to write better when I do it on paper away from a computer screen. Too much distraction on a computer I guess.) Anyway, I'll just type this up. It's nice to have something of substance to post without actually having to think it up lol.

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Humility

-Humble
a humble quality or state
That's the definition in the Webster's New Dictionary of the English language. But what is humility in God's eyes? God says: "Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself; Do not merely look out for your own interests, but also for the interests of others.
Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who although, he existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God to be a thing to be grasped, But emptied Himself, taking the from of a bond-servant and being made in the likeness of men."
Philippians 2:3-7
Originally I was going to only quote the third verse, but Paul just explains it so amazingly well and thoroughly that I just had to keep going.
What we need to realize is that Paul is talking to people like us! And we need to apply these God given instructions to our own lives and attitudes. Simply stated, we need to squash the ego and trash the pride. Because this isn't just a suggestion, it's God almighty demanding that we "Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself" And that is the kind of humility God wants from every one of us as Christians. Besides that we have a testimony to the world. We need to show what real Christians are made of and be "intent on one purpose". And that purpose is to further the christian cause and ultimately God's great plans and his desires for us to grow in his word and teachings. And thus allow the potter to form our lives like soft clay. Give into God today! And let him take control. As you follow the commands that God has plainly given us.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"The meeting of the clairvoyant society has been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances."
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Saturday after WoW week

2006-08-26T16:05:00.000-07:00

Yessiree, it's the Saturday after WoW week. It was completely and amazingly fun this week. The only problem with it is that now I'm going to have to adjust to not having a schedule of one thing to the next right after each other throughout the days. When I first came and started WoW week I felt like I should be doing a class or something, and so doing a whole week of welcome felt, well it just felt kind of weird. But the problem is now, I'm going to have to go through a whole different kind of adjustment and getting used to having classes. *Sigh* Isn't life lovely lol.
But I'm going to be happy getting into classes. I've got my first classes on Monday. Those will be music theory, biblical fundamentals, US government, and collegiete singers (sp I know).
I also start work at the computer center (which I was very happy about getting a job at). That's going to be fun. Well, my friend Jim is here so I'm gonna go now.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it."

- Mary Wilson Little
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WoW week today.

2006-08-24T15:09:00.000-07:00

Well, today and yesterday actually.
Yesterday
We got to go to the beach for a few hours and have dinner there. That was incredibly fun. I got to go skidboarding, which is where you have this roundish, pointed board and you wait until the wave is going out and then you run and drop the board and jump on and skid across the retreating wave really fast. It's amazingly fun. I wiped out quite a few times, that was though, as I told a few people, half the fun when you'd get a really cool wipeout. That would usually happen when you went pretty far and then a wave came and you hit it coming in. Then you'd either ride over it and then stop or totally flip off and get soaked lol.
Some people did some really great sand sculptures too while we were there. There was a really super looking horse lying down which they called "monty lying down" since the mascot is a horse named monty.
There was also a really cool living room. Yes, a living room, they had a full sized couch carved into the ground with a ditch where you put your feet so you could actually sit down on the nearly real looking cushions. Then there was one more worth mentioning that was a face that was really nice looking and had a funny lip-sticking-out look on it.
Today
I went to "The Master's Distinctives" that I get to go to every morning, which is actually basically a chapel time where we get to sing worship songs. And while I'm thinking about it I need to mention that their band is really good, and really sweet sounding. Then we had a seminar called "new student success seminar" and that was basically another thing where he talked about us not being lazy and remembering to plan and go to bed at the right time and other stuff like that. Then we had lunch which was number 1 of what has made this day really awesome. The first reason that made my day great was that we had lasagna and that's like my #2 favorite (raviolis is my first in case you were wondering) and we also had rice krispy treats that were really good. Then the #2 thing that made my day was that as I was walking around a car was pulling out from the parking lot next to me and the guy that kind of manages the computer center leaned over the driver to hey to me as they drove by. So that was really sweet, then later another guy that worked at the computer center said hi to me. Then the #3 thing that made my day was I finally got my mailbox open, that was awesome. I got my new Visa card, and then I got my contacts. Next the #4 thing was that as I sat in our computer orientation class with my computer (which I was happy that they let me have since I was gonna be pretty bored in that since I pretty much had everything figured out) I checked my e-mail and that same guy that is the manager of the computer center sent me an e-mail that seemed to say that as soon as the job fair rolls around tomorrow that they'll give me a job there right off.

Well, I can't think of anything else to post except you should check out this podcast they're making for every day of this WOW week. You can check this out at This here link .
Thanks to Cliff, my new buddy here at TMC for the link.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
Aeschylus
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A little one

2006-08-22T23:04:00.000-07:00

Well I don't have really any time to blog but I'll say this: I went and had a talk with this guy in the computer department and although I have to wait until friday to actually get a student-employment job it really sounds like they are totally ready to hire me. I'm gonna look around at some other jobs too just in case, but it's looking really good and I really hope I get into that job.
Pray for me, I'm having fun, but there's work ahead and lots of it just in case you want a little too :)

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"Thou errant dread-bolted death-token !"
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One more

2006-08-21T07:28:00.000-07:00

One more post, just because I like this quote and I have a fast connection.
WOOHOO!!!
Then, breakfast and a whole Monday that actually looks fun.
Oh yes and in this post I would like to put up that Disiance needs to get Dustin to fix his blog, and you should get on Aim more often.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
- Leo Rosten
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(oh, and a definition for those of you who play Euchre, I saw this on my google homepage and thought you'd like seeing it)

renege: to go back on a promise or commitment.

Bloggin at College now

2006-08-20T22:16:00.000-07:00

I'm gonna have to start getting used to having internet so fast I click and a page just appears with virtually no waiting. Yep, I'm at TMC now.
I really gotta go to bed now, but I just wanted to make a quick post.
When I got here I was excited because I got the dorm I wanted. Then we went up to see the dorm room I got. We went and found out that I got to be in the most recently remodeled room. This was way better than I expected, it's really nice because everything's new and besides that there's central airconditioning for this dorm room itself. I'm getting used to having the temperature kind of low since I can't figure out how to change the thermostat. Also, the reason my roomates can't figure it out either is because I don't have any! Not really, but I won't have any for a week. This week is the WoW, week of welcome for those of you who didn't read Jeremiah's comment. That's the week for all of the first timers here at master's. The reason I don't have any roomates though is because I'm the only freshman in a dorm room of 5 which is pretty neat (I think it is) but weird because I have the whole thing to myself for a week. One thing that felt a little weird to me was having this week of welcome. While it's really really fun, I felt like I should be learning something or something and having more free time. I think this Wow week is to keep freshmen busy so they don't get homesick, but I found it kind of strange when I was expecting more time to go places I felt like going and taking classes and stuff. I don't know maybe I'm just weird for wanting to take classes right away lol, I guess it's just the homeschooler in me. Anyway, I did get to go to John MacArthur's church today which was really fun. He's a great pastor and I think I'm going to have to go to his church for a while. I didn't think I'd like it at first because it's such a humongous church (like 3-7 thousand) but I really liked the music at first (I guess that has something to do with the fact that they have a little orchestra and a huge choir right there for the singing of hymns in the Sunday service), but then also I liked our "Sunday school" which was actually "college group". That was fun, both messages we heared were really really good and I kept my classroom urge satisfied by taking notes in the 1st service and then at the night service. What's cool also is that they give you a bulliten for that day and it has all the songs your going to sing (mostly) and then a really nice area for taking notes that is made of really nice writing paper and has a place to write the main text and the title of the sermon. They also give you one of these for the night service which is really sweet and a nice way to take and keep your notes. I'm gonna like getting these little things every Sunday :) Well I have a really busy day tomorrow and I gotta go spend some time under them sheets so I'm gonna hit the shower and go to bed.

Till next post.
Your faithful typer,
Yokanchi

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"The Christian life isn't difficult--it is impossible. If we don't know that, we will try to do things ourselves. Faith is not necessary when we think we can do it ourselves. Faith comes along when we realize that we cannot do it on our own." - Joseph Garlingen
~ I surely have been believing that lately :) pray for me!