Classical Surf Tunes

I can see that title now as a genre-- right next to 'pop' and 'rhythm and blues.' Just playing =D
--ah! a joke! just playing...like just messing around...ok. enough of my 'lame' humor for one post.

The discovery of this band came out of a Google search which was part of an ongoing pursuit along with a friend to understand music genres & my own personal, [everchanging] music style.

[The Baronics]
Bach. surf style. niiice.

Forgiveness: from the Heart, with His Help

Matthew 18

10"See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.
12"What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? 13And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. 14In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.


15"If your brother sins against you, go and show him his fault, just between the two of you. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. 16But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that 'every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.' 17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
18"I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be[d]bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.

19"Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. 20For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them."

21Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?"
22Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.

32"Then the master called the servant in. 'You wicked servant,' he said, 'I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?' 34In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

35"This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from your heart."

Say Cheese

You are "Face with Glasses"

What Japanese Smiley Are You?

Sing it Baby

Greaser Babies.
They've got it goin on.
Check out their moves...and their big heads.

An Apple a Day Keeps...Boredom Away?

Another Musical Discovery

Aaron Shust: Anything Worth Saying
My Savior My God

I am not skilled to understand
What God has willed, what God has planned
I only know at his right hand
Stands one who is my savior

My savior loves, my savior lives
My savior's always there for me
My God he was, My God he is
My God he's always gonna be

I take him at his word and deed
Christ died to save me this I read
And in my heart I find a need
For him to be my savior

Yes, living, dying; let me bring
My strength, my solace from this spring
That he who lives to be my king
Once died to be my savior

That he would leave his place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my savior

Eat Your Veggies

Q: What does vegetarianism have to do with the fossil record?

A: In Genesis 1:29–30, the Bible says:

And God said, ‘See, I have given you every herb that yields seed which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, in which there is life, I have given every green herb for food’; and it was so.

God’s Word tells us that Adam and Eve—and the animals—were vegetarian before sin. However, sin changed everything. In Genesis 9, right after the Flood, we read that God told Noah that man could eat meat from that time onward.

This is an important point. In the fossil record, there are numerous instances of fossils of animals with bones of other animals in their stomachs. These fossils showing carnivory could not have formed before Adam sinned. Yet, if you believe in millions of years of history, these fossils contradict the Bible’s account of history.

The Bible’s account is true—man’s ideas are fallible.

music: it expresses the inexpressible

It's amazing.
AOL AIM Radio is playing. Christian/Gospel: Christian. A song I've never heard starts to play. Not unusual. It's an artist that I've heard of, but have not had an interest in before. I catch a few lyrics. Then head to google to look up the rest. Tonight that song was Brave by Nicole Nordeman. When I googles, the rest of these songs came up. I had to put them too. I've never heard the music to the others; I would like to. As I read these words they just hit on several people or situations or personal thoughts that I've had lately. The purpose in posting: personal future reference.


Brave
The gate is wide
The road is paved in moderation
The crowd is kind and quick to pull you in
Welcome to the middle ground
You're safe and sound and
Until now it's where I've been

'Cause it's been fear that ties me down to everything
But it's been love, Your love, that cuts the strings

So long status quo
I think I just let go
You make me want to be brave
The way it always was
Is no longer good enough
You make me want to be brave
Brave, brave

I am small
And I speak when I'm spoken to
But I am willing to risk it all
I say Your name
Just Your name and I'm ready to jump
Even ready to fall...

Why did I take this vow of compromise?
Why did I try to keep it all inside?

I've never known a fire that didn't begin with a flame
Every storm will start with just a drop of rain
But if you believe in me
That changes everything
So long, I'm gone

What If
What if you're right?
And he was just another nice guy
What if you're right?
What if it's true?
They say the cross will only make a fool of you
And what if it's true?

What if he takes his place in history
With all the prophets and the kings
Who taught us love and came in peace
But then the story ends
What then?

But what if you're wrong?
What if there's more?
What if there's hope you never dreamed of hoping for?
What if you jump?
And just close your eyes?
What if the arms that catch you, catch you by surprise?
What if He's more than enough?
What if it's love?

What if you dig
Way down deeper than your simple-minded friends
What if you dig?
What if you find
A thousand more unanswered questions down inside
That's all you find?

What if you pick apart the logic
And begin to poke the holes
What if the crown of thorns is no more
Than folklore that must be told and retold?

You've been running as fast as you can
You've been looking for a place you can land for so long
But what if you?re wrong?


Real To Me
Every time I try to find you
Every road comes back around
Just another hoop to jump through
Another mile of covered ground

I am weary of the answers
More theory and cliche
They raise the letter of the law like a banner
'Til you're small and far away

All the questions in my head
Are from my heart instead

Every scribe and every scholar
No winners in this debate
Everybody seems to stand up taller
When you're easy to explain

I don't need to know what I don't know
Just got to let it go

Be real to me now
That's all I'm asking
Be real somehow
More than anything
More than anything

So lay down the sword
And put away the doctrine
Love a little more, love a little more
'Cause everybody's broken

Crimson
One choice
One tree
One fall for humanity
One lie
One liar
One bite is all death required
One great regret
One squandered chance, and yet
One hope
One day
One name above all other names
One bridge between then and now
One way to discover how
One price
One tree
One drop of crimson covers me

Hold On

So hold on
Love will find you
Hold on
He's right behind you now
Just turn around
And love will find you

To hang between two thieves in the darkness
Love must believe you are worth it


Live
Did you come that we might just survive?
Did you come so we could just get by?
Did you walk among us
So we might merely limp along beside?

I was bound, I have been set free
But I have settled for apathy
Did you come to make me new
And know I'd crawl right back into the skin you found me in?

It's where I am, not where I've been

You make me want to live
You make me want to live
You came to shake us
And to wake us up to something more
Than we'd always settled for
And you make me want to live

We've all been up on the mountain top
A golden glow that?s bound to soon wear off
Then it's back to the mundane telling tales of glory days
When we were hopeful that this change was here to stay

So why would a young man
Live in a waste land
When the castle of his dreams is standing by?
Why would a princess
Put on an old dress
To dance with her beloved and a chance to catch his eye?

Oh Man...

being sick stinks.
I got up off the couch and needed to do SOMETHING other than sleep and watch TV or read [since that just makes me fall asleep].

...I just did it.

Somewhat Sad Sentiment & A Few Current Thoughts

I officially don't really like IE's newest version.
Wists won't work with it.
oooohh say that baby 3x fast!
I really like the new stuff I've discovered with Google such as the home page & toolbar capabilities though...

took down the Christmas tree & all the other decor today. The top of the piano and mantle are looking rather bare. I got a couple of really cool shots of ornaments on the tree though.

Dad & I went out for a few hours. We stopped at Starbucks; people watching in SS is very fun. We headed over to the hot dog shop and did some more people watching around the campuses. Next came 5th Ave and the surrounding neighborhoods. Dad can ride down any given street over there & point out every third house as one he's painted! It made for some really neat convo about the history of the houses, architecture, what styles we both liked and little stories about several houses Dad had worked on. The whole time we had Casting Crowns Lifesong and later the Savior cd playing.

I hadnt been on an estimate with him for years, so the fact that he had one this afternoon was great. It was really neat to get a glimpse of how my dad works with his customers and conducts his business [always is!]. He deserves appreciation for the hard work that he does. I dont think I always realize the volume of information he processes daily. Phone numbers, addresses, dates, colors, prices--everything. It's the neatest thing to watch him walk through rooms. He has his silver bid case that he's used for twenty-five years, a pen and a sheet of white paper. He knows the dimensions of a room just by looking. He knows exactly what to look for when he walks into a room--cracks, baseboards, wavy walls. He had all the answers to the customers questions & asked exactly the right questions himself. He jots down simple notes, comes home, and from those draws up the estimate price and time the job will take.

The way that he completes jobs and gets things done is an inspiration since that is an area I struggle in. He reaches for a higher level of professionalism, quality and ethics in a professional that is usually not highly regarded. He doesnt just paint walls. He has a creative side that gets to come to light through pulling together the architecture and history of houses into color choices.

Owning your own business and running it successfully isnt an easy task. Gee, dealing with/having to please people everyday isnt an easy thing. It's a cool thing to think about...

Biology Today

that title sounds like the name of a magazine!
but that title is exactly what this post is about. My biology lesson today. It was fairly easy work amount today; it was a lab day. For me, lab day translates into watching the bio teacher on my video program do the complete lab, the next best thing to doing it yourself really. On the menu for today: sheep's brain. Yup. The first dissection [besides plants] of the year. I took an awesome and rather extensive dissection course two years ago at a co-op, so I already have the credit. We didnt do a sheep's brain though... =D

As I watched the teacher hold the organ in her hand and point to each part, it put a new dimension on the technical terms associated with the brain that I had been learning. I saw God's AMAZING creation. When one looks at say the medulla oblongata, a section of the brain stem, at first glance it seems just like a physical object, a piece of fleshy, squishy stuff. It isnt just that, contrary to the belief of materialists. It processes some of the everyday actions of our body that we take for granted and just expect to function smoothly. We dont always take time to ponder the sometimes unexplainable intricasy with which the Lord designed us. Chemical reactions, nerve impulses and other such things can explain a great deal. In the end though, every reaction must have a cause, every design a designer. The highest link of the chain leads to the Lord. Human beings are so much more than animals as some wish to believe...

I suppose the difference between the brain and the mind clicked for me today. The mind cannot be operated on; it cannot be fully explained. Man's inner thoughts are such a wonder. God knows them; most times He is the only One who can know them. The mind is part of man's spiritual existence, not the physical. It is amazing.



picture curtesy of my googling skills...

Yours truly,
my inner nerdish-scientific self

awesome animation deserving of awe

i wish i had an easy button right about now...

if you've never seen the office depot commercial that I guess that title line wouldnt make much sense =P if Mr R stopped by then he could just do it for me!

Check out the cube animation bout halfway down the page:
Prrrreety nifty

New Year "New Start"

Yup.
2007.
New Year.
Stayed up until 2am last night. Slept in until 11am. Everyone else was sleeping by 1am. We banged a few pots and watched the neighbor across the street fill the street with smoke from these humungo fireworks in his backyard. Kevin set off one that he had saved from July. Banging pots & mainly seeing Steve bang pots was a nice memory.
My enthusiasm torwards the new year has decreased compared to past years I think. I'm trying to maintain some level of it though, and that making that memory helped =)

My first thought when I woke up this morning was "It's just another day."
Not the most positive, energetic thought, but there it was. I know its the beginning of a new year. Beginnings and endings are milestones in life when ya think about it. In that respect I would say its worth acknowledging.


Television last night was horrible. We thought that there would at least be some good old movies on. Nope. nothin. just trashy singers and all the regular junk that's on late at night. Kevin and I played Monopoly.

My only resolution is to read my Bible. I read my Bible now as it is, so I guess the resolution part comes with my attitude and willingness and desire to do it. My nature is to make it into just another step on my To Do list & as of yesterday I realized I dont want it to be that. The plan that came to me yesterday at lunch is what I think I'm going to do: read a Psalm and/or Proverb every day and then decide on a few books in the NT to read.

I was looking through a list of verses that I compiled this summer and these stood out to me as I looked at them tonight:

Proverbs 31:8-9
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Ecc. 7: 23-9
All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me.
That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out?
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
Which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found.
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Ecc. 12:13-14
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

As I was looking through the list I also had Revelation 22:13-14 written down. "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city."
The words 'begining and end' continue the thought aprx 52 lines above =D

Final words: I have no clue what the activities of the day shall be [nothing new there]. I'm thinking of all of our friends and family. I hope they're all well & safe & happy.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007
[gotta get used to writing that date]
TO ALL FROM ALL OF US