The_Wandering_Fox's Xanga

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:30:36 GMT

This is freakin hilarious!!!!!

Warning: Gripe Post

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:16:42 GMT

Here's my gripe. The bulletin board on myspace is rendered completely stupid as it is constantly spammed with little quizes and chain letters. If anything significant is ever posted on it, you would have to be logged in close to the time it was posted, because in a 1/2 hour or less it will most likely be out of sight as more useless spam has overflowed and pushed the message out of the top 10 new preview window.

"Ah-ha!" you say. "I have a solution! Unfriend the people who spam so no more clutter will clog your bulletin board."

Sorry friend, not that simple. If I were to unfriend the spammers, then I would soon have no friends as they would tell my other friends that I am a snubber and should snub me in turn. I guess my request to remove those retched little quiz thingies is prideful. But really, it is rather shallow and selfcentered is it not, to constantly ask people to read what 50 colors are your favorite, what features you like in the opposite sex, and to not tell your most embarrasing moment. It's like your advertising yourself and only the parts you think will sell well to the other people out there. Oi it's annoying. Every once in a while something good comes through on that bulletin and I have illusions of what it could have been used for instead of the worthless bit space that it is.

A Question of Pain

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:04:29 GMT

We were discussing torture today in my world literature class. The teacher asked my class if torture was something the characters and people of our story were afraid of. My classes reply was one of silence. I found my mouth somewhat shut-up by the silence of the class and lay in my seat dumbfounded. My teacher sharing the same emotions as me fired off another lively inquisition. He asked if we thought torture was something to be afraid of. Still no reply. So he decides then to force an answer out of a randomly selected soul. They reply, yeah I guess. His eyes get wide and he exclaims, YEAH YOU GUESS!

He then asked another person, they replied, I dunno. YOU DUNNO! .......

The discussion then began to take form as people were roused from there lethargic mental states, but I wish to know your thoughts on torture. What do you think of it's practices, should it be allowed? Is it just or unjust, right or wrong? Hit me back with some replies.

Love is all you need

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:22:49 GMT

Love is all you need.

I have come to this realization during this pass week of my wife's absence. I can't think of anything that I would want or need more then to have her loving presence simply back by my side. I don't want any movies, games, trips, money, flirts, etc. I just want my wife back. That's all that really matters to me right now. With her back, life will take on a new shine and joy.

Take this concept beyond me and my wife now. Is this not true of all things in life? If you had all the power, wealth, technology, everything material the world could offer, but had not one soul to love you, what would you have? Nothing I say. You would be a miserable lonely wretch. If not for the love of a mate, family, or friend, life would be a dull hollow hell.

If you don't believe my word on love being biggest thing in life, look at God and Christ. For God so loved the world he gave his one and only begotten son..... The importance of love is littered throughout the Bible. And for any sensualists out there who might mistake my meaning of love, I do not mean the sensual and sexual side of love, though it has its roles and joys. I am talking about the sacrificial side of love! The side that says, "Hey I'll forget my oneself and look to your good and betterment instead! To you your health and care not mine.

Life is all about love. The rest is just details that go along with it.

Is this Professor real?

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:21:59 GMT

I just finished my first class meeting for African American History and was joyfully surprised with the experience. My professor (who is black) walks into the class and begins to introduce himself and the class. He uses some very accessible comedic lines about football teams and such things and then to my jaw dropping astonishment announces that he is a Christian as he's going through his past careers before teaching. It went something a little like this.

" So I quit my management position and decided to go into fulltime miniseries and the service of God. I am a Christian, a 114% to be exact. My christian viewpoints will tend to pop up from time to time in this class. You can argue with me about my faith if you like. It won't matter, you'll be wrong, I'm right for I am the teacher. And if you don't believe in Jesus Christ, I'll flunk you. How's that for being open minded?

..........silence

The class went from happy laughing at light jokes to dead silence.

Inside I was screaming Halleujah! He was of course not serious about the last couple of bits, but I thought it was great how he sarcastically demonstrated what all those supposed "free-thinking" liberal teachers have been hypocritically promoting in there own classes all these years (by this statement I mean there telling you different ideas are good, and then when someone brings up something different from there own savagely attacking and patronizing it).

I'm going to love this class. He comes right out on issues such as the death penalty and racism, no hiding behind relative answers, and coolest thing of all, is that when he address's problems such as these, he looks at the root of the problem, the nature of man. I'm afraid I'm liking this guy too much and am just going to swallow whatever he says. But still, it's a better feeling then all the nausea other professors have shoved down my gullet.

Update from the man in Spokane

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:02:45 GMT

Hello world! We finally got interent up here and I am much elated as to the end of my blogging hiatus. First off, I would just like to give a tremendous hug and big thankyou to you, my church in Pasadena. Your support of Dann and my mom has been shown in leaps and bounds and is a demonstration of brotherly love. Thank you

On another note, I promised people I would post some pics of our apartment up here. So without further ado, here they are. This first pic is looking down our entrance hall as you enter the building.

This next one is of our walk through kitchen as you go down the hall towards the living room.

This one is of living room as you exit the hallway.

Our dining room

And kitchen again from the other side.

The rest of the house I'll show you some other time

Hope all my friends in Pasadena are doing well. Peace out.

Alive

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:30:48 GMT

I am alive.
Oh yes I can see the shock registering on some of your faces now. You must have thought to yourselves,"Jessie was really a black widow in disguise and ate Ian shortly after the wedding! I would like to assure all my dear friends and readers that is indeed not the case.

I am alive.

I have moved up to WA state, started working at my new store ( which I might add is very different), and have sat by the bed of my very critically injured dad. Thank God ,he's alive too.

I was talking with Troy Evans about life and he said that a survey was conducted on the top most stress-filled events in a persons life. The top listed were: death of a family member or close friend, moving to a different area, switching up your job, getting married, and going to a new school.

It would appear that I have lumped, both intentionally and unintentionally, a bunch of those it to one bulging stressfilled burrito which is now being shoved down my gullet of nerves. Honestly I haven't been sleeping well at night which might be due to stress. The ironic part of it all is, I do not feel all that stressed. I am actually pretty comfortably at ease knowing my trust is in God, and I wonder how different things would be if I didn't have that trust to draw upon.

I have to go to work now, but I would like to do a post later on a sermon I heard this last Sunday. It really struck a thought node in my brain.

I miss friends and family in Southern Cal and Pasadena, I hope you are all doing well.

Monday, July 02, 2007

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:52:30 GMT

5 days left of being a single man, God willing. I think other people are more nervous then I am about this wedding because they keep asking me how my nerves are with expecting looks of disaster lighting in their eyes. I really am quite surprised about how at peace I am with the whole thing. A friend at church was telling me that getting married and major moving are among the top stress filled things a person will do in life, and I happen to be combining both of them at the same time. I guess I always did go against the odds.

I think that my peace comes form two things. First, I believe that I am doing what God is calling me to do, and God promises us that if we put His kingdom, His glory, His will first before our own, then He takes care of all our other needs (note I said needs, not wants here). So this trusting in God is definitly first and foremost for my calm.

The second reason ,which is just a drop behind the first, would be the lady I am marrying. I knew she was a treasure when I first wanted to marry her, but I could never have guessed how preacious she really is to me. Everyday she becomes just that much more preacious to me, and may God help me, may that never change. I am definitly as Foster would say,"marrying up." Jessie if your reading this, I love you and thank God everyday for bringing us together. and just 5 more days now

In conclusion, I would have to say that things have never before been so uncertain in my life as far what things are going to be like in the near future, but never before in my life have I felt more like a man wallking with God in faith.

Good nite everybody and may God bless you and keep you safe. Amen.

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:42:24 GMT

Sad news friends, I have lost all my poems...

Please mourn with me

Friday, June 08, 2007

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:37:54 GMT

Wow.........

I haven't written on this thing in forever. Is xanga dead? Never

How's all the peoples out there doing? Leave me a comment with one cool or exciting thing your pursuing in your life right now. I would love to hear them