@ Home - Lots of stuff

Today I got Starcraft II after doing the audio work for Head Start. At work today I won a free book from a raffle, it was My Lucky Day (pun intended). Then after picking up Starcraft II from Best Buy I picked up the mail and found Microsoft Office 2010 Professional in my mailbox for me. I'm so excited about today. Especially since I also got a TV tuner card today and installed it. Now I can watch my shows even though I may miss them. It wouldn't be such a big deal but Hulu won't post them till 8 days after they air; dang Burn Notice and Royal Pains :) Now I can also record Adventure Time, Wahoo!

@ CCC - Running audio

Today is a special day, because I am running audio for an organization called Head Start. It is my second summer in a row to help them run audio. This year I am paired with Will who is doing the video side of things. Really, I am getting paid to sit here and read news on the internet all day and blog about it; it's quite nice. Tonight I am especially excited because it's the release of Starcraft 2 at midnight tonight. I wouldn't normally be so excited, but many of us have been awaiting the release of the game. After getting delayed and delayed further it's just time. Today is a good day, and tonight is going to be a good night (black eyed peas style).

@ Home - Arizona Diamondbacks Flag Lady

We went to the D-Backs game against the San Francisco Giants. The Diamondbacks ended up loosing but what happened at the game was really cool. Keenan and Justin's friend Shannon and I went and talked to the Flag lady that is at every Diamondbacks game. Shannon said that she talked to her once and she said she was a really nice lady. We started talking with her and found out her name was Cindi. She told us about her flags and found out that she makes every single one by hand, for every player; as in each player has their own flag.   Each player has also signed their own flag, and the team flag is signed by all of the players. Cindi at that time asked us if we wanted to wave the flags with her, so Shannon and I got to cheer the players on via flags. After that Cindi asked us what we did for a living and Shannon told her about working at Cornerstone Christian Fellowship and then she told us that she was excited that we were Christians as well. We talked and then she hugged us both because "Christians hug" as she put it, and said goodbye. Cindi is such an awesome person, and it was an amazing night. 

@ Home - After Jr. High Camp

Ok, so by itself camp wasn't a life changing experience, but in some ways it is. I have found myself having an easier time loving others. More so of the people whom I care about, but still, I sure hope this continues. I also was invigorated with this passion of service, and more specifically service with the kids at Chandler Christian. I have to make lasting relationships with people in a ministry somewhere, and I already have a great base here at Chandler. It makes me sad that I'd want to move away from that just because I have closer friends in a different state. If anything it has refreshed my passion for ministry with Jr High and Elementary aged kids. Yay, Go God!

@ Home - Thinking about blogging

I think maybe in the future I’m going to try to see if I can review technology. I have been seeing Lito doing stuff with movies… I can’t tell if he’s actually reviewing them or just talking about them… and it got me thinking about things I can do that with.

My dad got a Casio G'zOne Rock because I showed it to him saying that it was the next version of my brother Drew’s phone the Casio G'zOne Boulder. It may be next version I’m not sure, but it seems like it. My dad’s Rock has all sorts of neat phone features:

 

·       “Earth Compass performs as a standard compass, showing the distance from and directions to over 40 domestic and worldwide locations

·       Walking Counter measures steps, time, distance, speed and energy consumption

·       Thermometer shows current temperature in both Celsius and Fahrenheit

·       Astro Calendar provides the moon’s age and days until a full or new moon

·       Sunrise Sunset shows the current time and position of the sun and times for sunrise and sunset for current, past and future dates, allowing users to view times for select major cities; shows the ratio of day and night in numbers and graphs

·       Tides shows the tidal graph for the day; shows the time of ebb and flood tides; shows the time of sunrise and sunset; shows past and future sea tide levels; shows tidal graphs for 100 locations made available by Surfline’s webcams, and GPS will show the nearest location; shows the current tide and the best time for fishing”

-Source

I tried out the pedometer in the Mall when we got it and it worked pretty well. Also the compass updated itself much faster than Drew’s Boulder... but whatev. I will try and play around with the phone more, but that’ll be a little later.


Oh and another thing is that I tried the Droid Incredible today at the Verizon store and it seemed slow loading pages to me. I’m not sure if that’s Verizon’s end (some would be quick to say “yes”) or if it was the phone, It didn’t impress me much from first look. I didn’t however try out the camera… that is one think I’d like to see how it works. I mean c’mon 8MP in a stinking cell phone, how sweet is that.

@ Home - 4th of July

It was nice to just relax for the 4th of July yesterday. I ended up spontaneously going with Scotty Daily to see Iron Man 2 which I like but didn't think it was worth the $8 I spent on it. It was a well placed movie because it was all about America and supposedly how Awesome we are. To watch fireworks Drew and I went over to the Anderson house to watch them from the backyard. It was nice to spend time with friends and eat good barbecued food and just sit and talk. This week I am working around 18 hours at Target and then next week I will be headed to UCYC again for Jr. High Camp. It's going to be a great week with the Jr. High students, I really hope that I can experience God's direction whilst there. This has been a trying time because our family was supposed to meet with the kidney transplant people and discuss what needs to happen before we can schedule the surgery. We ended up running out of gas on the way there and so we needed to reschedule for this Thursday, July 8th. It will be a pivotal meeting because I will hopefully find out the soonest we could do the surgery and a realistic timeline for recovery. God needs to be ever increasing in my life right now.

@ Home - Smiling

Today was just another normal day for GodSquad until something happened. For the first time when I was on stage serving communion I was thanked for it. It totally caught me off guard and I just smiled. It's nice being thanked for things every now and then.