Don’t let me go running today.

Haha, that is all… for now. =)

Edit: Haha, reading my previous post reminds me of:

“Apple core!”
“Baltimore!”
“Who’s your friend?”
“Me!”
smack!

If you think I’m entirely insane… wiki link.

Bought some Apple stock back in January before the MBPs were announced. Since then, the stock went down and I was in the hole for a while, but it’s since risen back up and I’m making a very tiny bit now, haha. It seem as if “iPhone” rumors are gaining a bit more substance and I think that type of product is very likely in the Apple pipeline (disclaimer: none of this is speculation based upon information I have gained at work) as they’ve all but said they’re working on one. I think an Apple cellphone could be pretty cool… I hope they allow Nike+ to work on it as it would be nice to bring a cellphone on a jog (I usually leave mine in the car). Anyways, if the rumors are true, I think they’d probably cell a decent amount of them, especially once they break out of carrier exclusives. I’m considering picking up a few more shares… but I don’t really know if it’s worth it (probably not, actually… since I don’t really have enough money to buy a significant amount).

Olivia has been learning the ways of my mother in the culinary arts, it seems. I went over to her place tonight and she made me food. Yay! Haha, good job, little sister, thanks. =) And that Oink… he’s getting large.

Oh yeah, apparently two (at least) mosquitoes hitched a ride in my car and bit me a total of about eight times. It is not cool. Curse you, blood sucking fiends!

“Looking in your eyes I see a paradise
This world that I’ve found
Is too good to be true
Standing here beside you
Want so much to give you
This love in my heart that I’m feeling for you

…

And we can build this dream together
Standing strong forever
Nothing’s gonna stop us now
And if this world runs out of lovers
We’ll still have each other
Nothing’s gonna stop us, nothing’s gonna stop us now” - Starship

Haha, that song reminds me of the lovely 80’s movie Mannequin… haha. The tagline from IMDB is: “Just because Jonathan’s fallen in love with a piece of wood, it doesn’t make him a dummy.” Haha, that’s awesome.

Maybe I’ll go into modeling…

Haha, totally just joking. That shot did turn out much better than I was expecting though. =)

I’ve got my iPod on shuffle right now and it played World Without End just now. I think Nancy’s mentioned the chorus of that song being one of her favorites and I am in total agreement.

“In the soundless awe and wonder,
words fall short to hope again.
How beautiful,
how vast your love is,
new forever,
world without an end.” - Five Iron Frenzy

I have a presentation/training to give in a few hours and I’m really tired of looking at PowerPoint slides.

I’ve got a few things queued up on my to-do list now…

• VoxVeniae.com work


• owiber.com work <– still a little iffy on what I want to do with this


• andrewapproved.com work <– this is going to be good =)


• take more pictures


• get more proficient with Photoshop


• Nike+ XML data stuff

Mmmmm… if only I didn’t need to sleep…

I ran three miles around Town Lake today despite my shin not feeling entirely alright yet. I think it went okay, but I’ll probably take it easy tomorrow. We’ll see. I took it a bit slower and did nine minute miles, but I think I’m definitely going to be ready for the Hairy Man 5k in October. Whheee, I’m really looking forward to waking up early, grabbing some Round Rock donuts then running that 3.1 miles. =)

My first Elements meeting was today and I think it went pretty well. I’m glad Sarah decided to co-lead with me (thanks, Sarah! - I don’t know if you’ll ever see that, haha). She brought almond jello for us all to eat and apparently loves to feed people (this is not the sole reason I am glad she decided to co-lead with me, but is a definite plus, haha). We played a game called Mad Gab and Mafia, both of which I hadn’t played before. Mafia kinda reminds me of BANG! Mad Gab is pretty fun. =) It seems like the people in my group are pretty open and not too shy, so I’m hoping discussions will be lively. Looking forward to it next week, thanks everyone who came. =)

Sam’s mohawk is awesome.

“Oooooooooooooooh!
Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch
You know that I love you
I can’t help myself
I love you and nobody else

In and out my life (in and out my life)
You come and you go (you come and you go)
Leaving just your picture behind…. (ooh)
And I’ve kissed it a thousand times (ooh)
When you snap your finger, or wink you eye,
I come a-running to you
I’m tied to your apron strings,
And there’s nothing that I can do

I can’t help myself,
No, I can’t help myself” - The Temptations

So I’m just playing with some WordPress plugins and as disappointing as this will be to Mark (when has that ever stopped me? I know… never =), I’m trying out a Xanga crossposting plugin. Basically, whenever I make a post to OliverWEB, it’ll also post to my Xanga and link back to here for commenting and stuff. We’ll see how that goes… I created an oliverweb xanga…

This is also the first post I am making with the plugin activated, so… wheeeee…

Edit: Let’s see if editing works. =) Anyways, so you punks who always check Xanga subscriptions can now subscribe to my oliverweb xanga and see when I update OWeb. Have fun. =)

Back when we moved into The Legacy, we came up with a constitution that really didn’t do much good because no one really followed it. There were lots of “good” rules in there and ones that I probably shouldn’t quote here… haha. One of the better ones though, was this gem:

9.  GUESTS
   a.  Sam’s hands shall not be guests to Sam’s pants.

Haha… good times.

Visited Olivia yesterday for a bit to see how large Oink has gotten. He’s 30-ish pounds and Olivia says he’s “supposed” to get to 60 or 70. Haha… have fun with that! =)

People feel lonely all the time, it seems. They get into relationships hazardly, limit themselves, bow under pressure, etc. etc. out of fear of being lonely. Should Christians feel lonely? If you’re close to God (which you should be, or at least trying to be), why should you feel lonely? It seems to me like that shouldn’t happen, but it does. I suppose it’s because we’re never as close to God as we should be and loneliness comes out when we long for something physical (I don’t mean sexual) we can connect with on a more basic level in an attempt to find comfort.

I find myself getting pangs of loneliness sometimes (not right now =). I usually don’t let them last long, but it puts me into a state of solemn thought where I end up thinking about the friends I’ve had/have and where I could be in the future. I realize that I shouldn’t feel lonely and God should be enough for me and end up praying about whatever’s on my mind a the time (uhh… other than being lonely), so maybe it’s not so bad of a feeling afterall if you don’t let it consume you. Maybe it’s not so much of “should Christians feel lonely?” but “what should Christians do when they feel lonely?” Loneliness isn’t the problem, it just depends on how you handle it and what you do as a result of feeling it.

When it comes to single people feeling lonely, a lot of times people get into relationships to “cure it.” I don’t think that’s a good reason to get into one and kinda puts a shakey foundation on the whole thing as a primary motivation to get into it was “just to have it.” Of course, what do I know, I’ve never been in one. ;)

So yes, these are some thoughts going through my head right now as I switch back and forth between writing a sentence here and there and working on a presentation about image processing units, MPEG4 encoders, MBX 3D modules, Linux board support packages, and the like. =)

On a lighter note, guess who has andrewapproved.com. =)

I wanted to find lyrics to post that were completely disjoint from the rest of this post…

“Life is like a hurricane here in Duckburg
Race cars, lasers, aeroplanes - it’s a duck blur
You might solve a mystery or rewrite history

Duck Tales, Oo-oo
Tales of daring-do, bad and good luck tales, oo-oo

D-d-d-danger, watch behind you - there’s a stranger out to find you
What to do? Just grab onto some Duck Tales, oo-oo!
Not pony tails or cotton tails but Duck Tales, oo-oo!

When it seems they’re headed for the final curtain
Bold deduction never fails, that’s for certain
The worst of messes become successes!

Duck Tales, Oo-oo
Tales of derring-do, bad and good luck tales, oo-oo
Not pony tails or cotton tails but Duck Tales, oo-oo!” - Duck Tales

I know my previous post is going to drive some of you crazy. You can contact me for the password… or you might figure it out. =) It’s really not as exciting as it seems though. =p