Easter Re-Cap
Almost 8,000 people heard the message of the Gospel at CedarCreek over the past three days…. NOTHING went horribly wrong. God ROCKS! It’s so amazing to be used the way He uses me…. I’m so unworthy. THANKS GOD! 
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Easter Weekend
Today is the start of 3 days of Easter services at the Creek…. dun dun dun… HERE WE GO! Hopefully God will use this as a time to bring 7 or 8 thousand people to CedarCreek so they can hear the story of Jesus… AND, hopefully… with any luck…. I’ll survive all 6 services! 
Come check one out!
Fri: 5:30pm, 7:00pm
Sat: 5:30pm
Sun: 9:00am, 10:30am, 12:00pm
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Faking Productivity
So I’m diong this project for my screen printing class. We’re supposed to get quotes on all kinds of printed projects from print houses and then pool them into a giant proposal and presentation…. In other words, we have to call print companies and pretend to have a massive job for them to bid on. We gather all these quotes and then display them to the class.
So I found a site online that you just put in the data of the job and then it emails itself to hundreds of print houses in the world. Within an hour, I had 2 emails and 4 phone calls from different print houses… some in California, New Jersey, Florida, Canada… it’s crazy! The kicker is, they’re all asking me questions about this “job” and none of them realize that it’s not real… They think we’re really going to print 312,500 48 page catalogs. So I have to answer all these questions now… like… “Is your fulfillment facility able to take bulk boxed skids?” or “Are you a broker for another client?” or “The profit margin is 8% for the sales rep, and your profit is 18%, so we can’t mark up the cost that much…. what we can do is run the 4-color process colors to match the 2 Pantone Spots and save money that way…. Do you know that Pantone Reflex Blue smears if not run on a heated coil web press?” And I’m like….. “uhhh….. yeah…”
It SUCKS! I’m not a fan of lying to these people… and I really technically have never lied… I just requested a quote and they are providing it…. but I just feel dirty doing it…. I know I’m wasting their time and money and it bugs me…. ::sigh:: oh well… 32 more days and I’m done with school…. FOREVER!
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Who needs sleep?
So why am I up at 5:30am? Well, the time change happened tonight… so technically it’s only 4:30am…. 
But I can’t sleep. Go figure. I have to get up for work at 7am…. and I can’t freaking sleep…. GRRR! Oh well, back to tossing and turning…. nights like this…. SUCK!
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10,000 visitors!?!?!
Who will be number 10,000? Check your number at the bottom left of my page…. and let me know if you’re the winner….
Oh and, HAPPY APRIL FOOLS DAY! Sarah and I get the lease to our apartment today, so we can move furniture and junk into it this month…. woot for that. Only 43 days left until our wedding!
On the down side, I have no medical insurance right now…. thanks to some goofed up paperwork on my dad’s behalf, I am currently very expensive to injure or get sick. SUCK! Especially since I need medicine and can’t get it until he gets this fixed, or June 1st…. whichever is sooner…. and two months is a LONG TIME to wait for a daily perscription for acid reflux…. so…. this could be a sucky and painful wait.
Ok…. I am gonna go shower… I smell bad.
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Lessons Learned
So let me tell you fine folks out there who are still in high school a tip. Never…. and I mean NEVER…. put wadded up paper through the openings in a running vent or heater. I bring you, one of my most embarrassing moments:
Five or six years ago, it was a high school day like any other day. My best friend Luke and I were sitting in class. The room was dead silent. Noise was not an option for the 6th period you see, because this was a Study Hall. Room 206 is composed of two rooms that had the wall knocked out between them and thus it is rather large and oblong. The desks are all turned to face the front of the room, which is about 80 – 100 feet away from the back row. Like all budding prodigies, Luke and I sat in the back corner.
The teacher who oversaw the period was Mr. Koontz. A rather portly gentleman, who waddled ever so slightly when he walked, but had a demeanor that he carried which led one to “behave” despite other urgings. That is… except me…. because I’m stupid.
It was raining outside, and with no homework to do, looking outside wasn’t all too pleasing. I was turned backwards in my chair and talking to Luke who sat behind me in hushed voices so as not to let them travel the 100 feet to the ears of Mr. Koontz.
While talking I was ripping up a piece of white notebook paper into small sections, then wadding them up and tossing them into the vent beside me. The blowers were running inside of the vent and anything I put inside was softly tossed back out to me. All was going fine until a misplaced wad of paper made its way to the sweet spot. It hit another object that was in the vent previous to my interaction with it, and thus dislodged the object. The object started to move and was touching the blower wheel, thus producing a whining noise. My eyes instantly lit up. I looked around and no one else really noticed at first except for Luke and I.
Then it grew louder. And louder. And LOUDER. Soon the vent was spewing bits of yellow paper and random items into the air amidst a loud humming and whining the likes of which had never been heard by any human being to ever have thrown items into a vent. (I know this because if anyone ever HAD experienced this, they would have invented a screen to block items from going into the vent in the first place to spare someone what I was about to go through!)
By now the vent was so loud that it sounded like a playing card taped to a bike fender as the spokes hit it. The loud thumping and flying bits of paper drew all sorts of attention to that back corner of the room. I did the only thing I could think of…. I put my head down and pretended not to notice…
By this point Luke is laughing extremely hard and pointing his finger at me. What are best friends for, right? So every eye in the room is on me and Mr. Koontz is waddling slowly back down the aisle and I’m thinking, “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE STOP MAKING NOISE!” It didn’t. That was the longest time ever. It must’ve taken only 10 seconds to walk those 80 or so feet, but man did it seem like 5 minutes to me!
I looked up like a dog caught digging in the garden. “So what’d you do?” he asked.
“I put some small bits of paper in there…. not this stuff that’s flying out though… I must’ve knocked it loose,” I replied.
He just shut off the vent and shook his head… and that was that. Now I know you’re thinking, that was rather anti-climactic… Trust me, if you were there, it wasn’t. I was scared to death and it was freaking hilarious to Luke (and to me afterwards)!
So the moral of the story is, if you’re ever sitting in a study hall and you sabotage the vent to make loud noises and everyone is staring at you, don’t pretend you don’t notice it…. Instead, laugh and point at someone else before they can point at you.
So what’s your most embarrassing moment?
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What the…..
So Sarah and I are sitting at the Union last night eating some dinner…. when some guy at the table behind me just lets one rip…… REALLY LOUD….. and the 4 or so girls and one guy that are with him didn’t laugh, didn’t do anything. And I’m just shocked. I wanted so bad to turn around and say, “You alright?” But I just kept on staring ahead…. and no one else in the place laughed or did anything. Everyone ignored it. Now this is fine if you’re like…. mature…. but this is in a college Student Union! It was VERY strange indeed…. I felt like I was sitting in an episode of twilight zone.
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Wonderful Maker
You spread out the skies over empty space
Said “let there be light”
Into a dark and formless world Your light
was born
You spread out Your ams over empty hearts
Said “let there be light”
Into a dark and hopeless world Your Son
was born
You made the world and saw that it was good
You sent Your only son for You are good
What a wonderful Maker
What a wonderful Savior
How majestic Your whispers
And how humble Your love
With a strength like no other
And the heart of a Father
How majestic Your whispers
What a wonderful God
No eye has fully seen, how beautiful the cross
And we have only heard
The faintest whispers of how great You are
This song has been in my head for the past few days… It sounds so awesome… reading it doesn’t do the song justice… so I encourage you to hunt it down and listen to it for yourself….
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Stuff Is Happening
So yesterday I booked flights for the honeymoon…. and a rental car….. and the condo is already booked…. so now all we need is US and a marriage license and we’re on easy street for a week.
I got this voucher for a free companion ticket over the web by joining some travel club (that I since have dropped during the trial period so as not to pay anything) and we got one ticket for just the cost of fees/taxes (about $60). The problem is that they only are allowed to book 2 seats per plane with that deal, so I had to find a flight that wasn’t already using it…. So instead of flying Toledo to Pensacola….. and driving 60 miles to our destination…. we’re now flying Detroit to Tallahassee and driving 160 miles to our destination….. a 3 hour drive…. stink. Oh well, it hopefully won’t be bad weather and we’ll be driving in the Florida pan-handle along the gulf of Mexico…. So maybe it’ll be cool…. We coulda just flown without the voucher to wherever we wanted…. but the voucher let us pay $432 instead of $731….. so for that $100/hour drive time…. we’ll drive.
Now on to my ranting about being screwed over since I’m under 25…. To rent a car, the three major players won’t rent to you unless you’re 25 or older (Hertz, Enterprise, and Avis). A few other companies will rent to 21-24 year olds, but charge a fee of $25/day for being young. Over 7 days, this is quite the price hike! I was lucky enough to find one company (Thrifty) that only charges $10/day in Pensacola… but since we’re now going to Tallahassee instead…. it’s $20/day…. GRRR! So we have to pay $153 for the car, plus $75 in taxes and fees…. plus $140 for being 21. The car will cost us $367.10 for a week. Let’s recap…. We’re paying $367.10, when we WOULD be paying $227.10 if we were 25….. that’s SO GHETTO! We’re paying almost as much for a rental car as we are for 2 round trip tickets to Florida by plane! Freakin man…. always trying to keep us down….
ANYWAY, just thought I’d share. Word.
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Yeti / Penguin…. Explained.
The original Version: Yeti Sports: Can download it, play it online, enter your name, register your high score, among other things. Here’s the main site. Even has desktop wallpaper.Goes a little above 320.
Slightly Modified Version: Penguin goes far, but not that far–about 539.5. Still within the “realistic” zone.
The “Parphenos” Version: Couldn’t find a working link for it, but it goes over 1000. Modifier uses a bit more creativity by adding more signposts.
Absurdly Far Version: Again, no working link, but whacks go well into the 3000 range. The only version in which it’s apparently better to hit a nose dive than a skid.
“Rocket Up the Arse” Version: Apparently it’s what Whack the Penguin would be like on the moon. Hits take about 2 minutes each and run around the 8,000 range.
The Blood and Guts and Landmines Version: It’s definitely the version not to play if you have a weak stomach. The Yeti now has a massive club, which shreds the penguins into small bits. But the head flies on! And if you land on a landmine, the head goes even farther.
Yeti sports also released a new game where the yeti throws a snowball at a penguin that was flipped in the air by an orca…. the penguin then flies into a target on the wall head first and sticks there. Check it out here.