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Friday, April 11, 2003
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12:56 PM :
I miss Fox News
I miss cable internet
I miss Chris's coffee table
I miss Johnny's pool table
I miss knowing where to go
I miss only paying $275/mo
...and I miss the guys too. =)
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Wednesday, April 09, 2003
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3:27 PM : I can't belive it, my last day here with the guys in old 1840.
I leave in a few hours. For some reason, even though I have been packing, it still doesn't feel like I'm moving. But this is the time and I'm about to take off. Knowing that I won't be too far away helps, but also knowing that I won't be seeing the guys on a daily basis is a bummer.
It's been almost 3 years that we have been living together and it has been some of the funnest years of my life, I guess it was the "college life" that I was so looking forward to while in the AF.
But its over now, time to move on and get cheesy about all the memories.
See you guys.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2003
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4:13 PM :
Crazy, thats how it goes...
I'm all packed up, have been for a few days now, it just took a couple trips down to Beaverton to find a place to move to. I'm so glad I didn't go with my first choice, I'll be moving into a place that I will actually enjoy living in now.
I head out tomorrow. Move in on Thursday, drive to Spokane on Thursday night with Sarah, get back Saturday and start work on Monday!
I'm bummed to be moving out, but things are changing and we are all moving on. Chris has his job and will be gone in a few weeks, Johnny will be gone in a few months and Steve isn't here that much anyways.
We'll see what Weyerhaeuser has in store for me.
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Thursday, March 27, 2003
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4:43 PM :
So Nates wedding went off without a hitch, it was a very cool wedding. As soon as it was over Sarah and I headed to Whistler.
It took forever to find out place, then find a place to park...but it was sweet, her Mom and Dads timeshare was right in the upper village, about a 2 minute walk from the gondolas.
We had a great time, went snowboarding on Monday, relaxed and just enjoyed being there.
I got more info about my job, the application is in, the background check is started...it looks like I may move to Beaverton/Portland for 6 months during training, then they may have me move up to Seattle, which would be very, very cool.
Tomorrow is my last day with Kraft, then I'll get started on moving. It's pretty surreal in a way, but as soon as I start packing some stuff up I know it will hit me.
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Friday, March 21, 2003
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11:47 PM : I got the job...oh my gosh I got the job.
NW.
Weyerhaeuser.
Cool.
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Monday, March 17, 2003
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11:14 PM :
Well, things are really going to be changing around here.
It started tonight with Steve coming back from France last night. Today he came up and brought his stuff, its good to have him around again.
John and Stacia are busy planning thier wedding, not to mention the fact that Nate is getting married in 5 days!
Chris might be moving out soon, depending on if he gets a T-Mobil job down in Seattle...as soon as Steve and John graduate they will be outta here as well.
I guess this part of my life has to come to an end sometime, but I had some of the best times in the last few years. We'll be parting ways soon, but in a way we will always have the 222 Ninja Warrior Brotherhood, or the "222NWB" as I like to call it.
Why does this sound like a eulogy? Or even a you-googley? Not sure, but I do know that this week will be a busy one, then Nate will be a married man and I might know what I will be doing and where I will be living.
My final interview with Weyerhaeuser is on Wednesday in Beaverton, OR. I got the Kraft job, I'm just waiting to see what Weyerhaeuser has to offer, if they offer anything at all. If they would only give me the NW territory it would work out SO well! Maybe if I gave them subtle hints like wearing a Space Needle pin on my suit or something.
So after Wednesday things really may change, all this waiting...and waiting...and interviewing and waiting.
I know it is in God's hands...and that is a great place to be.
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Thursday, March 13, 2003
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11:15 PM : 
The cutest niece and nephew a guy could have.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2003
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9:17 PM :
I think C.S. Lewis put it the best when it comes to music.
Musical Taste
There are two musical situations on which I think we can be confident that a blessing rests. One is where a priest or an organist, himself a man of trained and delicate taste, humbly and charitably sacrifices his own (aesthetically right) desires and gives the people humbler and coarser fare than he would wish, in a belief (even, as it may be, the erroneous belief) that he can thus bring them to God. The other is where the stupid and unmusical layman humbly and patiently, and above all silently, listens to music which he cannot, or cannot fully, appreciate, in the belief that it somehow glorifies God, and that if it does not edify him this must be his own defect. Neither such a High Brow nor such a Low Brow can be far out of the way. To both, Church Music will have been a means of grace; not the music they have liked, but the music they have disliked. They have both offered, sacrificed, their taste in the fullest sense. But where the opposite situation arises, where the musician is filled with the pride of skill or the virus of emulation and looks with contempt on the unappreciative congregation, or where the unmusical, complacently entrenched in their own ignorance and conservatism, look with the restless and resentful hostility of an inferiority complex on all who would try to improve their taste – there, we may be sure, all that both offer is unblessed and the spirit that moves them is not the Holy Ghost.
Musical Intention
It seems to me that we must define rather carefully the way, or ways, in which music can glorify God. There is … a sense in which all natural agents, even inanimate ones, glorify God continually by revealing the powers He has given them. And in that sense we, as natural agents, do the same. On that level our wicked actions, in so far as they exhibit our skill and strength, may be said to glorify Good, as well as our good actions. An excellently performed piece of music, as natural operation which reveals in a very high degree the peculiar powers given to man, will thus always glorify God whatever the intention of the performers may be. But that is a kind of glorifying which we share with the ‘dragons and great deeps’, with the ‘frost and snows’. What is looked for in us, as men, is another kind of glorifying, which depends on intention. How easy or how hard it may be for a whole choir to preserve that intention through all the discussions and decisions, all the corrections and the disappointments, all the temptations to pride, rivalry and ambition, which precede the performance of a great work, I (naturally) do not know. But it is on the intention that all depends. When it succeeds, I think the performers are the most enviable of men; privileged while mortals to honour God like angels and, for a few golden moments, to see spirit and flesh, delight and labour, skill and worship, the natural and the supernatural, all fused into that unity they would have had before the Fall.
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Monday, March 10, 2003
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Today is Sarah's birthday, the big 23. I remember 23, it was a dang fine age. I stayed in Kent till this morning so I could make breakfast for her before we both headed off to work...
Meanwhile...back on Friday...
We celebrated by going out to the Owl 'n Thistle in Seattle, an old Irish Pub, with 8 of her closest friends. After having dinner and listening to the house band for awhile we headed up the street to Fado, a trendy Irish hotspot with more of a yuppie crowd. Its a very cool place though, good atmosphere and pretty people, including us. =)
It is so fun dancing with Sarah, just something about it...so we danced the night away.
On Saturday we celebrated more by going to McCormick and Schmicks in Seattle for a wonderful dinner, its safe to say the seafood is fresh there, they print the menus twice a day! After dinner we went to the 5th Ave Theatre for "My Fair Lady". It was a great show, I remembered watching the movie long ago, but the play was great and we both had a good time.
Sunday we kept the celebration going by attending church and treating ourselves to grub at the O.G. Shrimp and Chicken Limone is my new best friend.
Sarah also opened her presents early and we watched "Les Miserables", Sarah hadn't seen it before, and I forgot what a great movie it was, the redemption and forgiveness theme is so powerful. Now its back to the work week and hold out till next weekend. Hopefully of course I will know if I have a job with Kraft by tomorrow...although I am learning amazing patience with the while J-O-B thing.
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Thursday, March 06, 2003
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2:34 PM : Well, I thought I would try a slightly new design to the ole' weblog, I just got my tax return back (hoo-ah)so I'm thinking about hiring a full-time professional web designer/developer/graphic artist to do a complete overhaul of my online journal every single day. It would probably only last a week, but I thought it would be fun.
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