I like leaving messages for my roomies. Sometimes they’re nice, sometime’s they’re not. =)

On an entirely unrelated note, I tried the “shortcut swim” again, but this time giving Kathy my shoes before doing so and it went oh so much better, haha…

“Beautiful day,
wonderful feeling,
I feel like singing,
psalms meaning songs singing praises all day long.
Joy fills the weak,
joy makes us strong.
Filled ‘till we burst,
songs of praise to the God of the Universe.” - Five Iron Frenzy

You guys need to blog more, I can’t keep the blog count up for everyone here. What am I supposed to do when I’m waiting for a kernel to finish compiling, huh?

I was thinking of cool things to do in Florida and somehow thought it would be funny to bring a bag full of LEGOs to the beach, but decided that was probably a bad idea (I’m sure you can come up with quite a few reasons why). Then, I thought it’d be cool to bring that bag on the airplane to build something cool on the flight, but realized I would probably drive everyone around me insane with all the LEGO shuffling, haha.

So I think I like the 50mm on the 5D a lot better than the 85mm. I think the 85mm still seems a bit too “tight” for me for everything except solo portrait shots (which it does insanely well with… oh the bokeh…). I bought a 50mm f/1.4 which should hopefully arrive before the Florida trip. Highly considering selling the 85L, if my run with the 50mm f/1.4 goes well. I know it won’t be nearly as sharp… but since I already have the 85 f/1.8 (which is nearly just as sharp as the 85 f/1.2, just can’t stop down as low and doesn’t have as nice bokeh), I’m not sure if I use the 85L enough to justify keeping it…

“halogen, the lights will flicker
incadescent burning lies
and the silence stands for nothing
desperate, I search the skies aching for a spark
trembling in pitchest dark” - Brave Saint Saturn

Freescale has a concierge service (which I think they contract from another company or something) which I’ve found useful on a few occasions. Today, I had the guy take my car to get an oil change. Wheeee!

Although, I just realized that since I’m taking tomorrow off, I could have done it then. Oh well, more time to relaaaaax. =)

Uh oh, meeting time…

“When the toast is burning
And all the milk has turned
And Captain Crunch is waving farewell
When the big one finds you
May this song remind you
That they don’t serve breakfast in hell” - Newsboys

I have the Snakes on a Plane song stuck in my head now and I’ve had it on repeat in iTunes in an attempt to cleanse it from my head by making me sick of it, haha. That reminds me of this time I ate this bag of beef jerky when I was young and I ate so much of it so fast, I felt sick and to this day whenever I go back to San Francisco and see that type of beef jerky in the asian markets, I get a sick feeling in my stomach. Why is too much of something “good” bad? Is it because in our selfishness for temporary pleasure, we gorge ourselves with things that ultimately make us sick?

How in the world did I end up going from Snakes on a Plane to a question like that? Hmmm… Pause. Bed time. =)

Edit: Aw poo, I like all the lyrics of this song too much to just take a snippet… so here’s all of it.

“He’s washing his face to start his day
He’s lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely
Nothing in the mirror ever shows him
what’s within

He’ll push the pedal to the floor
Like the day before
He’s trying to be always trying
Try to find an end to justify his means” - Switchfoot

I took Kathy to Town Lake to run with me (well, kinda… I left her behind a few times =) and showed her where I hopped into the water to take the “shortcut.” She points and says “you went through poison ivy?” And yes, apparently, I did. Despite the little warning tags on vines along the trail which clearly state “POISON IVY,” I just went right on through and swam across. Haha… man, I am hardcore! uhhh… just kidding. =)

After running, I came back to my apartment to my sister and her friends having a BBQ and got some steak and chicken from them. Mmmm… thanks. =)

I looked at my PTO today and I will apparently accrue nearly two weeks of vacation between now and January (not including what I’ve already accrued). I’ve got about a week right now, which I’ll be using most of for the trip to Florida… but now I might take an extra day (maybe this Wednesday) if I get my work done tomorrow. Maybe I can use that time to work on the Vox Veniae website which is going to be quite rushed……

“You gotta slow down SLOW DOWN sweet talkin’ woman SLOW DOWN
You got me runnin’ RUN RUN you got me searchin’.
Hold on HOLD ON sweet talkin’ lover HOLD ON
It’s so sad if that’s the way it’s over.” - Electric Light Orchestra

Tonight was Liquid’s last service. I don’t remember if I was at Liquid from the very beginning (I either showed up sometime during the first or second semesters it was around), but it was really cool to see Liquid grow and change and to be a part of it for the past few years (particularly the website, haha). I remember making a multitude of video promos with Tim Yip, making Bubbleman Flash animations, working on Worship Without Words stuff, website grunt work, and many other things. Good times. =)

Next Sunday (which I unfortunately will not be here for) will be the first Vox Veniae “preview service” at our new location. Please pray for Vox Veniae and that it may show God’s love to everyone it comes in contact with. =)

“You look hot in all that plaster,
drink some Fanta faster, faster!” - Fanta commercial

I was digging through my blog archives and I think I’m setting some kind of record for blogs in a month. Anyways, I ran across this and it still crashes Safari.

I also noticed that in January of 2005, I only blogged twice. Haha, I think that was also a record, but I didn’t go through every single month to make sure.

“Whoo-hoo-hoo
It’s a beautiful thing
To be loved by you
Oh, that’ll be enough to get me through
It’s a beautiful thing” - All Star United

Yeah… was in an All Star United mood (two in a row). =)

I went all over town (and by all over town, I basically mean up Mopac with slight deviations) doing random things and went to Target to get a duffle bag for my workout gear that usually is just randomly thrown around in the back seat or trunk of my car. Anyways, while I was there I passed by the back-to-school section when a pink basketball bounced in front of me from who knows where. Well, I figured it was fate so I picked it up and bought it… uhh… for Oriana, of course… yeah…

Okay, time to mess with apartment networking… giga giga!

“Get off my back
It’s a big mistake
Together you and me
Get off my back
It’s a big mistake
Can’t you see?” - All Star United

So today I ran around Town Lake (the Mopac/Lamar loop) starting on the north end heading east and going south on the Lamar bridge, then turning back west towards Mopac again.

When I got to this part:

I was like, hey, I can take a shortcut and swim across, so I hopped on down to the end of the water and stood there for a while wondering if I should actually jump in. Finally, I think “what the heck, I can blog about it” so in I go shoes and all. I get about half-way when I realize that it’s not so hot of an idea to try to swim a decent distance after running nearly two miles (actually, I knew this, I just underestimated the distance… actually, I thought I’d underestimate the distance, but I’d underestimated my underestimate)… so I spend the next half of the swim inching my way to the other side. It was fun! haha…

Needless to say, after adding like ten pounds to myself soaked in water (especially my shoes), I just walked the rest of the way. So there you have it, I risked my life for the blog and learned that swimming in shoes is not a good idea. =)

“Freedom like a song
The weak shall be made strong
I may sink before I swim
but I’m not giving in to you” - Five Iron Frenzy

Saw Snakes on a Plane yesterday with Kathy and Sam at that cursed far south theater, Westgate. It was actually not as bad as I thought it would be and the crowd was very much like one you’d expect at an Alamo Drafthouse (probably because it was an early showing). I hear that originally the movie was supposed to be serious? If so, someone up in the movie business ranks made a brilliant decision to overhype this movie into oblivion and make it blatantly obvious it wasn’t to be taken seriously.

I had a fun time watching it and Samuel L. Jackson was great fun too, haha…

Worked on a new OliverWEB design a bit a few nights ago… it’s coming along okay, but I think it’s still a bit too plain so I’ll be tweaking it a little/lot over the next month or two. Yipppeeeeeeeeee…

“Oh, I’m ready for it
Come on, bring it.
Oh, I’m ready for it
Come on, bring it.
Oh, I’m ready for it
Come on, bring it.
Oh, I’m ready for it
Come on, bring it.” - Snakes on a Plane