video of beat boxing, amazing, funny, and from england

click on the link below! this guy has some talent. not only is he good at beat boxing, he's also very funny. i think the video starts on its own.

click here!

cheers . . ..

31mar07 today's quote

in my garden there is a large place for sentiment. my garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. the thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.

-abram l urban-

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i'm upset that for some reason the blog time is off by a full hour. i made a post and it said 11:24 for its time. but it's 12:24 right now. i posted a comment on kyle and lori's blog and it posted at 12 something. i can't figure out what's wrong. now is prime time for posting. i shall have to wait. arghhhhh! to bed i go.

i am loving the rain. i got a chance to walk in it and get wet...and cold. the sniffles are already coming on. cheers . . ..

new kicks

it has been that time again for some time now. that is, time for new shoes. i've always been in the habit of wearing shoes out completely (or more than that even) and then buying new ones. it's hard for me to find shoes that fit well. once i find a pair that does, i stick with them for awhile. my last pair lasted three years. i wish they'd have lasted longer. i still have a pair of shoes that i bought BEFORE i went to boot camp. that makes them 10 years old this summer. they are, hands down, the most comfortable atire my feet have ever known. my last pair have disappointed me in their falling apart so quickly.

alas, here are the new kicks. they are my first pair of pumas. there isn't much bulk to them, they are low to the ground, light weight, and black. i like them a lot. if they continue to feel great at a week's end, then i may consider buying another pair...for back-up.

some other things of note, the time on the blog site must be off. for it is past midnight thirty already. this puts me into the 30th of march. but this post (because of the blog's time being off) appears under the 29th of march. no big deal. also, the andy osenga concert was a blast. i really like his music and more importantly, i like him as an individual. there was excellent company too. and nintendo. hand and foot was had at village inn afterwards. and the rain inspired a new answer phone message on the way home. now, it's bed time. i have the windows open hoping to hear some rain tonight. sleep well all. cheers . . ..

30mar07 today's quote

if a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. but if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

-henry david thoreau-

here's your dumb joke for the day

three horses, at a racetrack, were talking amongst themselves. the first horse says to the other horses, "i'm sure i'm the best horse here because i've won 20 of my last 30 races." well, the second horse says, "no, i think i'm the best horse here because i've won 25 of my last 30 races." then the third horse chimes in, "it's me. i'm the best horse here because i've won 28 of my last 30 races."

just then, a greyhound walked past. and he said, "i've got you all beat. i've won all 30 of my last 30 races."

the first horse looks to the rest and says, "wow! a talking greyhound!"

i told you it was dumb. lol. cheers . . ..

29mar07 today's post

music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.

-oscar wilde-

shaving is the devil

shaving is one of those things in life that if i could do away with, i would. my reasons for this are:

-it takes too much time,
-it is expensive (look at the price of mach 3 blades when next at the store, EEGADS!),
-i cut myself all the time,
-it's uncomfortable and can hurt,
-little bits of hair are eventually going to clog the plumbing i'm sure,
-and it needs to be done everyday.

i am not a huge fan of facial hair, or hair for that matter. unless it's long and flowing and on a lady (grrrrrrrr, baby!). perhaps i should learn to like facial hair and begin to wear a beard. then, i could go without shaving for quite some time. hmmm... *scratcheshairlesschin* not to sound too anti-facial hair here, because i do like the scruffy, two day unshaven look. well, i'm off to shave then. cheers . . ..

28mar06 today's quote

there are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.

-irena chalmers-

i feel like a girl who's craving chocolate

because i have a craving for ice cream. i had it going to work today and it was driving me crazy. ice cream specifically from zesto's. anyone know when they open up for the season? cheers . . ..

27mar07 today's quote

any fool can count the seeds in an apple. only god can count all the apples in one seed.

-robert h schuller-

it's time for a car wash

it's been nice enough, and we've had rain to wash away the winter's salt, so i think it's time to wash the car. i miss working at the detail shop where i could wash it everyday if i wanted. maybe i'll get to it this weekend? cheers . . ..

26mar07 today's quote

if you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

-david carradine-

25mar07 today's quote

polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

-lord chesterfield-

there's so much beauty there

eyes.

i am in love with them because they are simply amazing. they are the MOST colorful part of the body. eyes are the focal point of a person's face. they are brilliant, they are captivating - they are beautiful.

one of my favorite things about eyes is their lasting beauty. i have looked long into my grandmother's eyes and am amazed by them. i can bet they were equally as brilliant when she was a gorgeous twenty something as they are today. the color hasn't faded a bit. my second favorite thing (and it's a very close second) is the sheer spectrum of color god has used in people's eyes. from the most beautiful honey brown i've ever seen, to ocean blues, to subtle greys with just a hint of violet, to emerald pools masquerading as eyes - UGHHHHHHH! there's so much beauty there! and it is great.

but eyes are not only color. there exists something very unique about one's eyes. they are looking glasses into ourselves. looking into someone's eyes, you can see deep inside of them. they're like portals to another dimension full of all the stuff that makes us who we are. if you're not sure what i'm saying here, go find a quiet place with a mirror. simply stare right into the eyes of that person in the mirror. just focus on looking at the eyes and i think you'll see what i mean. it's something magical.

eyes are simply amazing. i think i could go on and on about them and how awesome they are, but i must finish up. so... have a good one, okay? cheers . . ..

24mar07 today's quote

the average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

-robert brault-

but i really think you have the wrong person...really

this afternoon i received a text message on my mobile alerting me i had a new picture sent to me on my mobile. there was a link to follow so i could hop on the internet with my mobile and view it. the funny thing is, that i didn't recognize the number. it did have a 402 area code. i disabled internet on my mobile so i couldn't check it.

so i continued getting text messages from this girl (lori). i text'd back that i don't have internet access right now with my mobile so i can't see the pic. she didn't believe me saying that i sent a pic to her. she obviously had me mixed up with someone else. it took a few texts on my part to get her to see that. then she asked where i was and wanted to chat. she's from omaha. though it would have been neat to stretch out this random weirdness, i did have work to do. so i told her cheers and that's that.

it was more funny than anything, her thinking i was someone she knew. cheers . . ..

23mar07 today's quote

though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

-ralph waldo emerson-

system crash

never click on an email that you shouldn't. especially when it automatically installs a program that opens new internet windows every second or two full of advertisements. well, i made the mistake of doing this. the mouse was clicked on something i didn't want clicked on. i tried living with it but my laptop was so bogged down with programs opening up all over the place that using it became extremely difficult. so alas, i reformatted the entire thing.

and with two and a half years of info (pictures, photos, videos, words, etc.), i was too impatient to back it all up. that would have taken FOREVER. :sigh:

so i'm starting over on a blank slate. this laptop is as brand new and full of storage space as the day i bought it. that's the news i have today. work was poo-ey tonight. levi ran into me at yia yia's. that was unexpected. and jonathan came down and joined me for a beer at o'rourke's. i'd be lying if i said i wasn't going to bed with a smile. good night. cheers . . ..

22mar07 today's quote

both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. the optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.

-gil stern-

21mar07 today's quote

if there comes a little thaw,
still the air is chill and raw,
here and there a patch of snow,
dirtier than the ground below,
dribbles down a marshy flood;
ankle-deep you stick in mud,
in the meadows while you sing,
this! is spring.

-christopher pearce cranch-

mommy! you're 49!

my mother's birthday is today. she's only 49. i think she's working. hopefully my father takes her out tonight. she'd like that. have a good day all! cheers . . ..

20mar07 today's quote

there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

19mar07 today's quote

there is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

-sir francis bacon-

the spring ogallala trip

elijah and i rolled into the farmstead 'round 10:30. it was really 11:30, but we past into the mountain time zone so clocks there read an hour behind. i was soooo tired. we stopped in to see josh (elijah's brother). we talked for a bit and i got to see his house - very nice! then we went up to the house, put our bags down, i had some chocolate chip cookies that elijah's mother had made for him and went to bed. i was really excited to be out here! i was so happy but was about to fall asleep standing up. then i saw one of the blankets elijah's mother left out for me, and my head about exploded into candy! it just made me really happy. so i took a pic of it and my happy (tired) face too. here's the pic of the blanket. SO COOL!!! and me.

(part two!)

elijah went into town early saturday morning so i was on my own to explore the farm. which i fully intended to do. i was out in one of the pastures when elijah's father, dave, drove up. i hopped in and we went driving through the pastures looking at the cattle and the calves. we had to go slow at times to let the little guys get out from in front of the truck. it was fun. i got to ride along and feed them, too.

later, i went with josh to check on some of the mothers who were calving. i got to see two live births. we were riding the four wheelers. fun!

elijah came back and he and i went to see his grandmother. there, we shot some bluerock aka clay pigeons. that was a blast, no pun intended. i had a good conversation with his grandmother. she's a wonderful lady and i like her. we left around 5:30 as we were going to eat at junie mae's.

IT WAS AWESOME!!! if you're in ogalalla, then you must eat there. it's such a great place. an odd thing happened though. a man who was eating there started to choke, but another man administered the heimlich and the piece of food was dislodged. this cute little guy here is one of the calves whose mother died. he needs to be bottle fed now. when we went out to feed him breakfast, he was all wet and cold. he had fallen into the water tank! poor guy! and this is bucky. he's a very big calf, but that only makes him cuter. his mother also died so he needs bottle fed too. i had the honor of feeding him breakfast. he drank an entire bucket of milk in no time! this is just another pic of bucky. i scratched behind his ears and found out that he really likes that. so i spent time to go out and scratch his ears for him. that made him happy. here is elijah's mother, deb, trying to get a photo of bucky. he wanted to play and wasn't staying still. he kept bucking into her. but she did get a pretty good close up of him!

(part three!)

the night sky out in the open country is so brilliantly lit with stars...JUST stars. the rest of the sky is sooooo dark. ahhhhhhhh! i love it. the pics i took with my mobile, sadly did not turn out. i was really really tired saturday night. i remember elijah talking to me as i lay on the couch in the living room and then, a few hours later, deb, asking me if i was going to sleep on the couch all night long. lol! didn't realize i'd been out like a light for so long! so i went to my bed and slept like a champ.

in the morning we fed the calves, had breakfast, and went to church. this is the little country church that we went to this morning. twenty people there maybe? i was introduced to everyone there, of course. the service was nice, a good ol' fashion lutheran service. this here's a sign right outside the farm house. i took it as i was leaving because it says "welcome" and that is exactly how i felt the ENTIRE time there. cheers . . ..

18mar07 today's quote

life's greatest moments are made better in the company of friends.

gone fishin'. leave a message

i'll be out of town this weekend. elijah's parents had invited me to stay at their place in ogallala last summer and i'm taking them up on their offer. this weekend that is where i will be. no posts from me most likely 'till sunday night. spend the remainder of spring break well. and return to your normal lives safely. i bid you ado, aloha, and goodbye. cheers . . ..

16mar07 today's quote

the best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

-francis maitland balfour-

nyquil is potent

i awoke this morning around 6:30 and made my way downstairs. my throat was still sore and my nose was crusted up. yeah, that's gross, i know. i flipped on the light and reaced for the nyquil. it's the red kind. and it tastes like red would taste. yeah, it's gross too. i chased it down with a big glass of water and went back to bed. then, i was out like a light and slept quite soundly.

i feel pretty good today. moving is less stiff and i'm more loosened up. it looks as if my strength and energy level is coming back. let's hope for the sake of those i run into today, that my head's on straight! it's definately been on some other planet the last few days. looks like i'm back. weeeeeeeeee! cheers . . ..

15mar07 today's quote

it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

-bertrand russell-

scottieb-topia

when nathaniel and i were roomies, i would often talk about this wonderful, fairy tale land called scottieb-topia. scottieb-topia was a place where only happiness and joy could be found. it is a lovely place with a 24 hour all-you-can-eat buffet, doors tall enough to walk through, sensible bike lanes, and other young dreamers' fantasies. ah yes, scottieb-topia was the dream we dreamt to escape reality for just a bit.

it most often came up as a solution to this world's quandries. for example, as nathaniel and i were having a beer on the front porch of the parsonage he could say this about the roundabout, "no one seems to know how to navigate this thing. look there. that one's going too fast, that other one didn't use his blinker, and still that one there didn't slow up in time at all and went straight over the middle of the whole thing!" i could then say, "well, in scottieb-topia that would never happen because there, people know how to properly utilize roundabouts." then he'd say, "ah yes, cheers to that."

problem solved. well... not really. but we no longer held the negativity, the odd, the disturbing, the hurt, the pain, the brokeness most high. we looked on past it to something else, something good and better. we had many talks centered around scottieb-topia and came to the conclusion that it is not a bad thing. (we, both knew, that the next world is what we were referring to when one mentioned scottieb-topia).

so. to the point of this drawn out post. in scottieb-topia i am well. as now, i am not. i have a nasty, nasty case of something very nasty. i cough, sticky slime-like gunk coats my throat and nose, my nose runs, it drains down my throat, my throat is sore, there is pressure in my face, i haven't the strength i normally have, and i am delirious. rest is what i need right now and what better thing to accompany my dreamings of scottieb-topia! cheers . . ..

14mar07 today's quote

success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

a very neat use of sidewalk chalk

click here

this guy is my favorite. his use of perception and depth is amazing, very realistic too. i couldn't imagine how long one of the larger ones would take to finish. cheers . . ..

13mar07 today's quote

life, like golf, can be humbling. however, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. the next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.

i know it's spring...

...because this morning there was bird poop on my car. cheers . . ..

12mar07 today's quote

optimism is the human personification of spring.

11maro7 today's quote

courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

-mark twain-

the family came down

my mother and father came to lincoln this afternoon. they were in omaha for a st patty's day parade that my sister was in and when that was finished, they came to see me. my grandmother came, too. i love my grandmother so much. it was very good that jonathan got the chance to meet them.

my parents are usually "in and out" kind of people. they don't open up much and aren't extremely conversational. jonathan and i managed to convince them to stay. they were here for a little over an hour i'd say. we talked about so many things! as my grandmother was leaving, she said that jonathan and i must come to columbus and hang out sometime. i'm really looking forward to that.

now it's back to bed to get much needed rest. the back is healing up, slowly, but surely. and i'm so glad. none of the crud in my nose wants to come out and there is pressure in my sinuses. i think the little bacteria guys have moved south for i now have a cough. i don't have much strength and that's probably the hardest thing for me to deal with. i want to be active and moving. but i need to be still and rest. i'll see everyone on the morrow at late service. cheers . . ..

10mar07

you need someone and someone needs you. to make this thing called life work, we have to lean and support. and relate and respond. and give and take. and confess and forgive. and reach out and embrace.

today will be tough

my back hurts quite badly today. i think it's just wore out from being cooped up in too small a chair and cubicle at work. driving in my car must affect it too, for i'm too big for my car and scrunch into it. and also, yesterday was a long day where i went into work a little sore (i think i may have slept wrong or something).

well, i need to get four hours of work in before sunday night and i'd sure like to do them today. but i don't think it would be wise for me to try and do that. there is our grace group tonight followed by the andy osenga concert. tomorrow morning is men's prayer group, hanging out with jonathan, cleaning the house, and maybe comparing banana bread recipes if i've the time.

please pray for me as i'd like healing from this soreness soon. i'm such an active person and it seems every winter's end, i'm a bit worn out by the season and inactivity. but spring is very near. i am soooooooo looking forward to be able to run, jump, and play outside in the world again. keeps me fit and inshape. (: thank you. have a swell day and see you at the andy osenga concert. cheers . . ..

09mar07 today's quote

reject appearances as a standard to seeing the heart.

-mike hsu-

over the rhine

i'd consider them a cross between vonda shepard and nora jones. their music is laden heavily with soul, real and pure. it's the kind of sound that i can imagine being played in a bar, some hole in the wall where it's a little dark and there exists a slight haze of smoke in the air. i don't think the bar is much populated and happy hour's just about over. over the rhine's sound has that familiar understanding that real good blues has. it's not depressing but a good quiet, soft heart kind of feeling. it wouldn't be out of the ordinary to see one with a tear in his or her eye. and conversely, it wouldn't either be out of the ordinary to see that person with a smile of agreeance on their face.

all in all - good stuff. it's nothing that i could listen to while cycling trying to be energized though. it has its proper place for the right time and mood setting, that's for sure. i'd suggest lending an ear or two to it. cheers . . ..

08mar07 today's quote

some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they've hit a triple.

-barry switzer-

a quiz i'm not so sure you can pass

click on the link. then click on "play this game".

the impossible quiz

this quiz is HARD. i made it up to question 66 a few times then i gave up. i'll tackle it more when i have more time. give it a try. i'll buy dinner for whomever passes it first. cheers . . ..

07mar07 today's quote

to see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
and eternity in an hour.

-william blake-

and the stormy waters have been calmed

well i guess it all started late sunday night. i had quite the pain in my lower back. i have no idea where it came from. apparently, from out of nowhere. i iced it and lay on the floor as jonathan and i finished up the bleak house dvd. he then gave me a massage. he's a true friend.

i awoke with a tender lower back. it wasn't sore. just tender. i wondered how work would treat it. i lasted a little under four hours. my back was beginning to hurt yes, but the real problem lay in my shoulders and neck. for some reason, they became extremely sore. so sore as when i left work i could hardly keep my head up. i had to leave work. i could have went for another massage but had no one to give one. ): my bed was greeted a little earlier than normal. sleep, rest, and stillness seemed to help for by morning i was feeling pretty well. but still watching myself as i went into work.

i arrived. did ten hours. no problems. i attribute this to prayer both sunday and monday nights. the stormy waters were calmed. the distress, anxiety, and pain have all left. and i am so thankful! cheers . . ..

06mar07 today's quote

we are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequencial. hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

-eric hoffer-

a silly little thing to sit and watch

be sure and click on the picture below. then, if you have a minute, watch the machine. cheers . . ..

05mar07 today's quote

a bone to a dog is not charity. charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.

-jack london-

are girlscout cookies made by real girlscouts?

so here i am. eating girlscout cookies. and drinking coffee. listening to music. the peanut butter sandwiches are my favorite. oh so good! the thin mints are probably second best then. they're not as good as they were when i was a kid.

remember that time at megan and heather's when the little girl came to the door selling girlscout cookies? that was really funny. she came in and stood there for a while as we all impulsely decided to buy which cookies. she probably had no idea this is how it would play out when she rang the doorbell. there were a lot of cool people over at the house that night. good memories.

don't take my girlscout cookies. i'll chase you down. (: cheers . . ..

03mar07 today's quote

i'd rather have a life than a living.

-old punk saying-

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(20may07) it's taken me 'til now to figure it out. cheers . . ..

excuse me, mr webb? you're standing on my foot.

tonight's the derrek webb concert. i'm anxious to hear him play. i'm also excited to hang out at a bar with people i usually wouldn't see at one. as always, live music is best and that's what will be had tonight. so...live music, the company of great friends, and perhaps a pint of stout. what an excellent way to spend a friday night, eh? you have fun too. cheers . . ..

02mar07 today's quote

when we do not agree, perhaps it is because none of us sees far enough. people living on opposite sides of a mountain rarely see the land the same way until they meet at the top.

-old navajo saying-

a typewriter left for anyone to use became an interesting art piece

my friend audrey had people over to her apartment once. she and her roomies had their (and others') art on display. in the empty, back bedroom, there were two typewriters on a desk. there was also plenty of paper. the idea was that people would pass by, type something up, and move on. someone else then, would pass by, type something up, and move on. it was a living, real time art exhibit that we all took part in. i can't remember how many people added to it, but i copied down what was typed. here is just a portion. i only wish you could have seen the original (with its typo's and odd spacing).

there is a man there that tells you the way to the bridge to the underworld, and when you have been there life seems to be not so bleak as the worries of the day make it. the land of the dead is as dismal as the land of the hidden city is bright and full of life. so time stands still and you see the past laid out in front of you like a silk sheet. you can see the ripples that make up your daily struggles and when the sheet ends, there is nothing more than another sheet. and sheets make up the tapestry of untold beauty. you weep to see it. in it is those tears that bring you back from the edge of oblivion even if you've gone beyond it. once you've seen the tapestry of life and the endless valleys and hills that make it up, you no longer fear death.
i journeyed back from that land and when i resumed my place on ship, i was no longer the lowly seaman that i had begun the journey as. instead, i was the captain of my own destiny. and i have followed it ever since.

what are your thoughts? cheers . . ..

01mar07 today's quote

lack of money is no obstacle. lack of an idea is an obstacle.