2.29.2004
 
I've got that joy, joy, joy, joy that everybody talks about.
The Rock was really cool. I'm now more joyful than I have been in as long as I can remember. [that's like a few weeks] I had a great day. Got to play for big people church, then got to work on my car, then got to worship with my bestest friends at the Rock. A Sunday of the highest quality. I'm now closer to the Lord than I ever have been, thanks to a string of great events: Winterfest, running sound in bigchurch, the Rock, The Passion Of Christ, playing in bigchurch, and then the Rock. All were amazing. I'm still having flashbacks of those images of Christ suffering for me, and I think they will sortof haunt me for quite awhile. Not haunt in a scary way, more of a quiet sad remembering sortof way. But had that not happened, I'd be in some trouble. So would everybody else. I'm still quite joyful right now. I met new people at the Rock and got to worship and pray and listen to Aaron speak. Deep topic too...spiritual gifts. And demons. Made me think. I'm still thinkin. I'll tell you what I'm thinkin once I'm done thinkin about it. But because this will be on my mind for awhile, and I need sleep, I'm done writing for now.


posted by dave @ 10:11 PM


 
[stunned silence]
I saw the movie. Amazing. Go see it. Now.

The thing that bothered me the most was my lack of emotion. It could be that I was just too stunned to comprehend what was happening before me that my mind started disconnecting from the story. It started wandering to things like I wonder how they shot that or why'd they skip that line? ["Surely He was the Son of God."]

But go see it. It will show you what your savior went through just for you. It will show you what the consequence of your sin was. It will make you thankful for the sacrifice.

Did I mention that you need to go see it? 'Cause you do.


posted by dave @ 12:39 AM


2.28.2004
 
While we're on the death topic...
Yeah, death sucks. I learned yesterday and today that a ton of kids die cause they have no food. We're talkin a heckofalotta kids here. 29,000 per day in fact. That's alot more than it sounds like. Crazy. Here we are, with America's problems with being overweight and all, totally unthankful for what we have [of course there are exceptions to this, I'm talking mostly about mainstream America here] and even less aware of what's goin on in the world around us. We need to pay attention. We need to give until it hurts. We need to give up some of our luxuries in everyday life to help a little kid we don't know and will never see live another day. Like it says in Matthew 25:45...

"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these you did not do for me.'"

You know who said that? A really smart guy named Jesus. He happened to know a few things about this world and how we screwed it up and how to make it better again. When He's talkin about the "least of these", He's referring to the hungry, the sick, the naked, the stranger, basically anybody who has a need you can meet. We can meet alot more people's needs than we think. It doesn't cost much of anything to feed a kid like those I spoke of before for a week. 7$ in fact. That's like less than lunch in some cases. A whole week! Helping save a kid's life! Here's a link to World Vision, the people in charge of collecting donations and such.

Next topic? Lent I think...


posted by dave @ 1:52 PM


2.26.2004
 
blog#210842.879 72/168
Hey, remember how I telled allay'all aboot how I was the cool guy who brought the little kids at school their lunches? Yeah, well today I got fired. Apparently if I'm on this "restricted list" of theirs, I can't do anything. Which brings me to my brilliant idea. Do nothing. I did it today and it worked out pretty well. After finding out about my misfortune 4th hour, I slept through 5th hour english, 6th hour CCT [contemporary Christian thought] and 7th hour math. Yep, apathy rules. Stupid D's. It's all their fault. And I found out yesterday that my CCT [Bible class] teacher is an undercover Catholic [he likes to call it "Anglican"]. That would explain all the reading and response crap in chapel. Yeah, he always tries to force his wrong views on me. I know the real stuff. He's really too prideful. He needs to be more humble like me.

Yeah, I'm definitely not a fan of school. I can tell you right now that I will miss not a single aspect of student life at Timothy. The place freakin sucks. [sorry Bekah, but this is a legit usage] The only possible good thing is the fact that the teachers [some of them] care about you. Man, maybe I should give up brackets for lent.

I was tellin Alie last night that I want a little girl. Not right now of course unless suddenly right now I was like 20something and married. But yeah. I wanna be able to make a difference in somebody's life and what better way than to be their father. What spurs on this crazytalk you ask? Ah, glad you asked.

I want to hold you
Protect you from all of the things I've already endured
I want to show you
Show you all the things that this life has in store for you
I'll always love you
The way that a father should love his daughter

-Staind

That's where my crazytalk came from. That's what I want. Call me crazy I don't care anymore. Got somethin better to think about in your spare time? I can't wait to be a grownup. I wanna have a family and a real job I enjoy. It'll be so nice. So far away. Stupid time. Takes forever. I guess it's just my version of the natural quest for importance. Yeah, while I'm on the topic, the idea of love itself is so screwed up these days and it makes me really mad. When guys are just lookin for stuff that's not theirs to take and girls are willing to give that up for some acceptance and a few kind words. It's just so incorrect! Love is sposta be selfless! What happened to that idea? But love is another topic that will take up like 7.2 blogs all on its own, so I'll leave that be at the moment. If you want good insight on it, go to Bekah's other site, its good.

Stupid screwed up world. Never gets nothin right.


posted by dave @ 7:22 PM


2.24.2004
 
Apathy is...bliss?
I dunno...could be argued either way...who cares? uh...maybe I should start caring about stuff. I learned today that thanks to my apathetic outlook towards school, I now have earned D's in english and math. But honestly, how often am I gonna factor stuff, do long division, or discuss romantic period satire as a mechanic? Really, this stuff is utterly useless. You could argue that it's teaching me to learn. I'd just tell you that I already know how to learn, I just don't want to. Or I hate math. And english. Stupid school. It hardly seems worth staying in. I could just go get my GED and go to COD. Who would care? It's then that I realize that I'm sposta be doin everything as if were doing it for God, not men. Does God care about romantic period satire, or utterly useless math? I suppose so. Or maybe He cares about my attitude. I wish He didn't, cause it sucks right about now.

Is the world coming to an end? Well, I dunno, I'll hafta read up on the subject. It seems like everywhere we look, there's death and/or destruction. I'm gettin pretty tired of it. Widespread sorrow is never a good thing. Neither is death for that matter. Life is gettin too scary. I used to be safe in my little bubble playing with my Tonka trucks in the sandbox in the backyard. What happened to those days? Nothing bad happened in the world back then. I had this cool tractor model that my grandpa gave me. He had the same thing, but the real-life version that I'd always play on when I was at his house. It was cool. Then he died and they sold it. Now life is scary. I gotta find that tractor. Maybe innocence is bliss.

I can hear innocence. You can too. All you gotta do is close your eyes and listen to Learning to Breathe by Switchfoot. Not so much the words as much as the music and melody. I see images in my head of myself as a little kid popping out of bed early on a summer morning and running outside before breakfast to the sandbox and starting the day's construction. Then come images of treeforts and banana seat bicycles with playing cards in the spokes and little license plates hanging beneath the seats. I see myself conquering the big hill by the fire station on my bike without using my feet. I see riding through puddles as fast as I can then slamming on the brakes and leaving skinny black skidmarks all over the path. I see my lemonade stand, with all the neighborhood kids standing around. I see our rainy day forts made of couch cushions and all the blankets we could find in the family room. I see me sleeping in the fort at night and getting scared and running up into my mom and dad's bed. I see innocence. [as innocent as any little boy could be I guess]

Wow, I feel old.


posted by dave @ 9:30 PM


2.23.2004
 
The Rock is cool, mkay?
Yeah, it is. So is the big people church. Lets start at the beginning.

I had a good Sunday [even though this is Monday, I do actually remember what happened] It started out kinda mediocre [if that's how you spell that] when I had forgotten about the problem with my car and on the way to church at 5:37 in the morning, I turned my defroster on again. Yeah, the conditions happened to be right for ice to form almost instantly on both the inside and outside of my windshield. Needless to say, it took me awhile to get to church, but the Lord provided and messed up my internal thinking a few minutes before, making me think that I was sposta leave at 5:30 instead of 5:45. So I ended up getting to church 4 minutes early! It was cool.

Once I got there, everything else went good. Really good in fact. The whole sound deal went amazingly smooth after a kindof rough practice time...and I only screwed up the services once! And it was so small, most of you either didn't notice it, or don't remember it now, so I was successful.

After doin that whole deal, I cleaned up and went home to go relax. It was sweet, but then I got bored right quick and decided to go learn more about my car. It was nice out, so I got out the big ole ramps I have and put my car up on them. I then used [for the first time!] my Christmas gift creeper and got under it. It was cool. I found out 2 things: 1. my car has a GM TH-350 transmission in it [which in english means I can fix it up to make it handle lotsa power and shift really fast for more speed] and 2. my car leaks oil. I found out #2 when I got under there and was lookin at the transmission pan and I felt a weird drip on my arm. Yep, it leaks oil. Quite a bit of it in fact. But enough with the car talk.

After my fun car explorations, I packed up all my guitar crap and went to the Rock. The Rock is a cool place. We get to worship, pray, listen to Giles' wisdom and insight and then hang out for awhile. You should come, it's great. The worship was really cool last night. Don't ask why. It just was. It might have something to do with the spiritual renewal from Winterfest. It was cool.

Time to go bring the food to the little kids. [ok, I'll explain. My school [Timothy Christian] has k-12 students here. The little kids wing has no cafeteria. They get hot lunch. I bring the hot lunch to them. I get free lunch for doing this.] Yep.


posted by dave @ 11:22 AM


2.21.2004
 
Life with an old car.
To counteract Bekah's recent girly post, I must tell you about the most recent development with my car. You guys have all seen it, the only one at IIT thats 3 different colors? Yeah, that one. Well, this morning, I was driving and my windshield started to fog up so I turned on the defroster only to find the windshield almost instantly fogged all the way up. I was like woah! and tried to keep driving with my head halfway out the window while wiping the fog off with my hand. It was then that I realized that the defroster was blowing out vast quantities of steam! It was crazy. Apparantly I blew my heater core, so now anytime I want hot air, it's accompanied by some coolant steam. It's like a sauna! Now all I need is wood paneling and some brass accents...

Today in Japanese news, all I gotta say is Cheeks, I ain't hating, I'm just hassling! For those of you that are clueless, Cheeks is the local import lover that I always hassle. You see, I strongly believe that American iron and a big blower is the way to do things, but Cheeks is in the turbo/nitrous crowd. That's his choice. He could prolly take me in his CRV right now anyway...plus he's got all those good looks with his glowing pedals and exhaust tip...but yeah, imports aren't as evil as I may say they are. You're gonna hafta decide for yourself. But enough with the car talk.

Today was cool. My fellow blogger Bekah came over and we played and recorded music. It was cool. [She sings really good]

Well, until next time, keep on commenting and I'll keep on...not seeing them because my computer must not like seeing comments...or maybe they're just invisible...in any case...


posted by dave @ 3:51 PM


2.19.2004
 
Highpoint? Yes!!
Yep, done. Here's my 2003 Highpoint pictures.

Pictures!


posted by dave @ 8:25 PM


 
Winterfest!!
Dang! I posted and totally forgot to tell everyone how amazing Winterfest was! I guess alot of you guys were there tho, so it'll be kinda redundant. That's ok. So it was the best Winterfest of my 2, and could quite possibly be the best retreat I've been on so far. It's hard to judge these kinda things. But yeah, it was sweet. I totally got to talk to a lot of people and get to know them more than I normally would in like 3 months! That plus some sweet spiritual stuff happened, not so much in the revelation category as much as the repentance and 180 category. It's pretty sweet so far. I do have pictures of people! I started printing the guys tubing pictures today and I still have a few pictures left on that other roll that I need to take before I can develop them. But when I do [shakes fist], it'll be cool. Oh, and I was asked by Alie about all of my Highpoint '03 pictures. I'm gonna try to put them online somewheres...and give you guys a link to them. I'll see what I can do. Till then, keep driving cool cars, listening to good music, goin on amazing retreats, walkin with the Lord and reading our blog!


posted by dave @ 6:26 PM


 
Studyhall...?
Well, here I am in studyhall procrastinating my Bible-class assignment time away. I am proud to announce that I have invited the famed Rebekah Gillette to be a co-host of this wonderful blog. That also means that it won't be turning fully automotive as of yet. She will also lend a much needed sense of reality to this crazyness. So, let's see what happens.

Well, since this isn't automotive talk, I guess I could talk about other fun things...suchas...uhh...well, there's always music...and racing...and photography...and the ever controversial guns...those can't not be fun. See, if Bekah was here, she'd be tellin me I'm stupid and that guns are bad. This is why we need another writer.

Meanwhile, back in reality land, I'm deciding about what kinda project I should waste my time and money on. There's the constant craving for a pre-emissions control muscle car, there's the idea of the Mopar v8 powered go-kart/cornfield buggy idea that would never work safely...or the "build a studio in my basement" thing I've been trying to do for years...or maybe a darkroom...

But in any case, I'm quite broke at the moment so it doesn't matter anyway. Plus, Bible and english are calling. Not in a good way for english. Bible's a cool class [except for the teacher], but english is unbearable [especially the teacher]. So is math [that teacher's cool, his subject material just sucks].

I can't wait to get out of high school. The only positive thing is being able to be in the Rock. That's the coolest. I don't want to leave that. I do want to get out of school tho. It'll be so nice to go to COD with a bunch of people I know and learn all about cars and welding and machining and photography and pro audio stuff. I could do so much if I knew the physical stuff about cars and welding and machining instead of just the head stuff that makes reading my blog so interesting [read boring] to allay'all. [there's the first Bekahism to appear...] I could weld things...and machine things...and fix my car up real fast...and do lots of fun stuff with garbage from the junkyard or my aunt's backyard...speaking of which, we hafta all go out there for fun burning of things and some sweet night games and the like. Lots of room to run around plus a field next door. How could we lose? I'll work on gettin us a weekend to go out there asap. We'd invite everybody we could think of and even people we couldn't!!

But really, I must be going now. English is in like 15 minutes.


posted by dave @ 11:20 AM


2.12.2004
 
New Stuff.
Yep. I gots some new ideas. Tell me whatcha think.

1. this could be a sweet automotive blog where I talk about cars I've driven and review cars I don't have
2. well, it's not really an idea, it's a new thing. real intornet!! the kind that stays on!! woohoo!
3. v8 powered gokart
4. honda powered blender...

Yeah, stuff like that. Tell me if you like any of it. Till then, I've got better stuff to do than blog.


posted by dave @ 3:49 PM


2.06.2004
 
Call me crazy...
Yeah, people do call me crazy. That's probably cause I am. I got so bored, I made up that car collection list I talk about. It's crazy. My definition of a real car collection.

1969 Dodge Charger R/T
1970 Dodge Charger Daytona
1970 Dodge Coronet R/T Hemi Convertible
1970 Plymouth Super Bird
1969 1/2 Plymouth Road Runner
1970 Dodge Challenger R/T
1970 Plymouth HemiCuda
1971 Plymouth HemiCuda Convertible
1967 Shelby GT500E
1969 Chevrolet Chevelle SS396
1967 Pontiac GTO
1954 Dodge Pickup
1967 Shelby Cobra
1970 Chevrolet El Camino
1964 Chevrolet Impala
2002 Dodge Viper GTS
2002 Dodge Viper ACR
2002 Dodge Viper GTS-R
2002 Dodge Viper RT/10
2004 Dodge Viper SRT-10
2004 Dodge Viper Competition Coupe
2004 Dodge Ram SRT-10
2002 Hennessey Venom 1000TT
2002 Porshe 911 GT2
2003 Porshe 911 GT3
2002 Pontiac TransAm WS6
2002 Dodge Dakota R/T
2004 Dodge Ram 3500
2003 Chevrolet Corvette Z06
2004 Ford GT
2002 Ferrari Enzo
1996 Mazda RX7
2004 Mazda RX8
2004 Subaru Impreza WRX STi
2004 Ford P71
1996 Chevrolet Impala SS
2004 Morgan Aero 8
2005 Ford Mustang GT
2004 Cadillac Escalade EXS

Yep. Alla those would feature manual transmissions, except the P71, both Impalas, the Escalade and the Dakota. The Enzo has a F1-style manumatic deal goin. Otherwise, all the old muscle-era cars [67-71] have 4 speed manuals and the late-models have 6 speeds. And the caddy would have 24's on it with a fancy billet grill and really dark windows. And the 1971 HemiCuda Convertible would be a Plum Crazy Purple 4 speed Super Trak Pak billboard car. [ask Royce] Done and done. Tell me if I'm missing anything important, and rice is definately not there for a reason. [with the exception of the Mazdas and the Subaru, just cause theyr cool] And the only turbo'd ones would be the RX7 and the WRX STi. The '70 Challenger R/T would be a blown 528 Hemi in a totally super-streeted car. Everything else...bone stock. And, they could all [cept maybe the P71] burn any Honda any person not from California has. Even if somebody does have a Honda faster, I could bring out my Challenger and burn them cause it'd do like 8 second 1/4 miles. Or my Venom 1000TT. That thing's amazing! 0-60 in under 2 seconds and a 1/4 mile in 8.93! 1000HP and 1000ft lbs of torque! All without your crazy NOS stuff. Hah!


posted by dave @ 7:51 PM


 
mmmmm...snow...
Hmmm...I spose I should post on the dealie so people will keep coming back. I also decided that maybe I should start capitalizing stuff sortof as a tribute to the now-hibernating theunashamed. So, here we go.

Well, while sleeping through my math class I determined that school sucks. I cannot wait to get out of high school and go on to bigger and gooder things. I can go to COD [which is the plan] and learn about cars and only cars. Maybe some photography or audio production, but definately no math classes or english. Those suck.

Hi Ashley.

Winterfest is on its way!! It's gonna be sweet. [sorry to all of you who are too old to go on it] How much better could life get? Sittin around in the snow or in the nice warm cabin burning things...or melting words into the carpet...uh...maybe we didn't...yeah...didn't... But in any case, it's my last Winterfest, so it better be good. We'll get to experience Jody's shirt rippings...sleeping while Giles is talkin in the cabin...throwing random liquids on each other out in the like -400 degree cold...

It's also gonna be the debut of some new-to-The-Rock worship songs that I really really like. How could we lose?


posted by dave @ 4:40 PM


2.03.2004
 
new! words of the post!
words of this post? blown HemiCuda. [ask your dad] i think thats enough for today. i could bore you with a list of dream cars, but...


posted by dave @ 6:56 PM


2.02.2004
 
well, here we go
here it is people. my very own blog dealie. now i no longer hafta abide by any rules or regulations or contracts. this is gonna be cool. bear with me as i have no idea what i'm doing when it comes to this html stuff. workin on it still. but until then, it'll look like this and i'll write things. as for the title of the blog...it means what you want it to mean. [also known as i'm really tired and that was the first thing that came to mind]

well, i'll tell you how the learning the stuff goes. till then, deal with the boring template. hah!


posted by dave @ 9:55 PM


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