Rootisms Page: Reloaded

Very literally, in fact. The IP address of the Rootisms page has changed again. The router that my server is connected to that serves the page had a hiccup today and needed to be rebooted. So, when it did, it came back with a different address. The new address is 67.177.61.39/Rootisms.htm. I appologize for the incovenience. It has been several months since that has happened and I wasn't expecting it to happen any time soon.

I actually had an experience when there was a police officer when one was needed. It was great. Yesterday morning, on Hwy 89, I was heading north at about 60 MPH, in the inside lane. I was in a little group of cars that was just happily tooling down the highway. So, all of a sudden, this car came screaming through us, bobbing and weaving through traffic. He was followed very closely by a UHP officer who let him just bob and weave for a little while before turning on his lights and ended the maniacal driving. I smiled happily as I drove casually past the crazy driver who was now stopped on the side of the road. :) Moral of the story: The state makes money off of bad drivers.

Rock, Rock On!

It happens TODAY!!!

Honestly, Jessica - nobody really wants to hear about most peoples' lives. But that never stops us all from posting here about our lives. That's what bandhallism is all about. It's all good.

Nice message, theBen. I had to use my Secret Decoder Ring to read it. You know, the one I got in the box of Pufft Crunch-ios.

I'm out to prove myself wrong on a theory I've held for quite some time. I do hope I'm wrong. It will be ever so nice if I am. Demandage is what I think you called it, KB. Which is hilarifun.

event of the yesterday: getting the top score on Furious George.
geeklink of the other day: Hack-A-Day

Later. Than usual.

What Pippin Forgot

Then world behind and home ahead,
We'll wander back to home and bed...
Fire and lamp and meat and bread,
And then to bed! And then to bed!

Free dollar lunch was awesome today! I got a snickers and a smoothie, but Jon had to choose between friends. Tee hee. Anyways, it isn't very often that I come on here three days after I last posted and post right after my last post. Finals week = sparse blogging, I guess.
He stood upon the bridge alone
and Fire and Shadow both defied;
his staff was broken on the stone,
in Khazad-dum his wisdom died
Over and out, yoyo!

Jazz Monkeys Bite

Moms always tell you not to talk with your mouth full. Well, I found out today that that can not only be disgusting, but very painful as well. I bit my tongue so hard that it drew blood. Ouch! Its not fun to have a liquid on your tongue that originated from your tongue.
Go ahead and check out the monkey game that Andrew posted and check the Hall of Infamy. Guess who is #1? Why that would be me of course. At the moment, I'm about 3400 points above anybody else; wanted in 19 states, committing 71 crimes, and my particular specialty was vandalism.
Reno was fun, but it was one dirty little city. I spent most of the time there inside the hotel and was very happy to get back to my lovely wife. We actually didn't to half bad at the competition got the equivalant of 2+'s on all the judges score sheets. 84 was the lowest mark to get a 1 and we got 80, 79, & 77. Way to go us. I got complimented on my bass bone playing as well as wowing the front row of girls by the tremedously cool, tremendously low sounds coming out of my instrument. Hava even said she didn't mind them oggling, as long as they didn't get to touch... which they didn't.

Rootism of the Day: You're the least mentaly unstable person in here.
Benism of the Day: Songs are just poems set to words.

Later all y'all!!!

Rootisms page...

...for now.

I have temporarily moved the Rootisms page because the site I have it on is not currently accessible to me. I can see the page, but I can't update it. So, I moved it over to my server. The address of the page is http://67.177.60.107/Rootisms.htm. I moved it because Jon provided me with some more nuggets of joy and I needed to get them posted. There is a new "Updated" section at the bottom of the page so you can see what the latest updates are.

Zeeky Boogy Doog

Misc.

Jon, I have found a game to accompany the "picture of the indefinate period of time":

http://furious-george.net/

I thought some folks might get a kick out of it, and I found the connection to the picture to be quite hillarious.


Jarrett, good to hear from you. I like the illustative "seductive" in your description of the pan pipe CD. I got a good laugh out of it. Dr. Root is very strange. His reply is a classic and ought to go on the Rootism page. I don't know what else to say. Now I'm just rambling.

I move back to Morgan in the middle of next week sometime! (Not sure when though) I have been bugging the Sears store in Ogden for some time and finally got an interview set up to be transfered back there, but when I showed up for my interview last week, the person who was supposed to be doing the interview never showed up! I have left several messages at the store and on the guys personal phone, but no reply. I am getting really worried at this point. It's too much to deal with right now. Moving out, finals, signing up for next year, getting a job, my folks moving to Texas, etc. I am terribly stressed and just wish all of that was said and done. Anyhow, it will be great to see everyone again once I move back. Cheers all!

Everyone's your friend in Bloemfontein

Two random things:

1.
A Cd at the house of a member:

"Pan Pipe love moods -- featuring the seductive sound of the Pan Pipes"


2.
An email and Reply:


"ARTHUR JARRETT WHEATLEY 04/18/05 2:26 AM
18 april 2005. Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Dr. Root:
Greetings to you and Good Morning. I thought I might drop a little note today and wish you the best for this semester. I trust you are well; I myself am doing very well. My question for you is as follows:

You once said that Hot Fudge promoted unity. Why is that? In whatway does Hot Fudge promote unity?

Anyways, you can see I am my usually jovial self. I hope that all is well with you and the Band. Have a wonderful day.
--Jarrett Wheatley"

"Well, Jarrett--I don't remember when I said that, but at the same time I don't think I have ever met anybody who didn't like hot fudge, and everyone feels good after they have it, and for the same reasons. therefore it is a teambuilder when everyone has it together! I am well, looking forward to the end of school, of course. We have had a great year. TR"


Why ask Why?
Why not?

So I hope you are all well. I hope that I may continue to have a place in your faith and your prayers. I pray that God will bless each of you -- and remember:

I know that there is a God in Heaven. He is our Father and loves us; that's the reason for the whole plan of salvation, the whole church, the whole Gospel. He wants us to succeed, too!
"If God be for us, who can be against us?"

And again, "When you stop squirming against the great catastrophe that is 'being alive',
Music flies out of the Dog-Doo."

Also remember the love of your friend,

Elder Jarrett Wheatley

Jon, Roger

I'll see what I can do. I'll swing by there on my way home tonight and hopefully they have at least three (3) tickets left.

Wisdom of the day: You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Mustard, me. Giraffe, fear.

Status Report: Kx4^-3=D

People I have money for:

Jon

Roger, Jon...

... that's afirmative. Jason/Kristin would like to be included in the fray for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.

Status Report::..::[_T_-_Minus:_] -// 27::09:51:46 //-

Here are the people I have tickets for:

Mellissa
Mark/Connie
BJ
Sarah
Andrew
Ben/Hava
Britteny/Travis
Aaron/Lena
Tim/Amy
Ricky/Jessica
Kristina/Liz
Kristen
Myself/Herself

Jason/Kristin, are y'all wanting to go with to the same midnight showing? If so, we're doing Tinseltown/Newgate. I can buy tickets or you can get them. I couldn't remember if I'd asked you if you wanted to go so I didn't get any. They still had about a hundred left yesterday, so they'll probably still have some it you want to go. Anyone else who I may have forgotten or overlooked you are also welcome and my apologies for being forgetful.

And yes, I will be dressed like unto an idiot for this event.

A tentative plan follows:

*Bring food/drinks/games/mobile furniture/yourself.
*Show up as early as possible. (There will doubtless be people waiting in line as soon as the mall opens on the 18th to line up, but those people are idiots. Anyone for 6ish?)
*We really should watch Episodes One and Two as close to just before the event as reasonable.


I'm going to see if the theatre will let me bring my inflatable couch or camp chairs to sit in during the wait. I'll have Epic Duels and probably Jedi Unleashed. There's nothing wrong with a bit of paper phone, Phase 10, UNO, or whatever else anyone wants to bring along.

Since there will be 20+ people there we should try to save a big enough spot in line that there will be room for the latecomers. If there are 3 people in line at 7pm it will be difficult to squeeze the 17+ other people in later when they show up at 9 or 10, especially without offending all the rest of the line by asking them to scooch on back to make room. Of course, we don't all have to alllll of us stand in line in one big group. You can show up whenevertheheck you want, but remember: the more the merrier.

Mae teh Fource B mit y'all.

Mission Accomplished

The invasion of Disneyland was a glowing success (though no radioactive material was spilled therby causing the glowing effect mentioned. It is only a figure of speech.)

Of note, the events described hereafter in this session will inform you as to the intimate details of the success of the invasion of said Disneyland park.

• Saw George Lucas in the store at the end of Star Tours.
• Was complemented on my hat by the Mad Hatter and Alice after affixing a small tiki umbrella on top of the hat and spoons coming down the sides of my head.
• Met up with my brother who was theretofore unaware of my presence in said park.
• MuppetVision 3D theatre suffered only minor damage.
  

Though this mission was a "glowing success," it was not without its shortcomings:

• Failed to achieve a Level 4 Space Ranger on the Buzz Lightyear attraction.
• Cut my finger on the wall of the queue for Indiana Jones and the Temple of the Forbidden Eye.

As you can see, the successes of this mission vastly outweigh the shortcomings and no one was critically injured, thereby giving this mission a distinctly positive feel. The success of this mission is due mostly to the support of the Disneyland cast members and a fairly cooperative body of guests.

Accidental Deception

I must apologize for all those that saw me online and thought that I was somewhere where there was a computer and that I would respond to you. I was, unfortunately, not. I had left messenger active whilst I went to the Jazz Band concert and didn't get back on my computer to turn it off later that evening. I finally signed out at about 2:15 this afternoon and got to X out of 5 different (on-sided) conversations that people had with me (themselves). Again sorry!
Accidental Deception would totally be a good band name!
Laters!

Who's Scruffy Looking?

Ok, yeah, I'll get 2 for the Brit and 1 for the Andrew. 2 for the Ben and 2 for the Jingles-wan Kenobi. Anyone else will have to purchase their own. I think Aaron and Tim/Amy were planning on going to the Gateway down-south-a-way, but Ben and I were thinking that was a bit far from home that late in the morning... Anywho, probably looks like Tinseltown at the Newgate Mall (Layton isn't getting it) for anyone who buys tickets later. Midnight showing. All that good stuff. I'll be costuming and there was talk of watching I and II just before hand. We'll make a day of it. Geronimoe.

Buy buy.

P.S. Sorry for anyone who read this post earlier and tried to purchase tickets at the Layton one. That was before I knew they weren't getting it.

On that note...

Andrew, who is not in Ogden, but will be by the time Star Wars is out will be needing a ticket as well. Any help here will be greatly appreciated and nominally compinsated.

Star Warsing

Jon- When are you buying tix and can I get two(2) I will pay you back if you are doing it before I see you again.....or i will give you money! Either way I would really apreciate it! Are we all going together? Or....am i just really confused?.....help!

And By You I Mean Ben

This post, anyway. This dude has lotsa pictures, many specifically from France, but lots of other places too.

How about...

My personal favorite:

Stomach Monkeys

And Now, Here's Something We Hope You'll Really Enjoy

The one, the only, the official < drumroll / >

List-O-Name-Your-Band

Produced by the staff of the Stick and their friends

Bye Bye Escalante
Take a Cracker
Pork and Mostly Beans
Youth in Asia
One Car Pile-Up
Nerdalicious
Wearable Dog
The Juice Tongs
Irreconcileable Similarities
Bubbleskunk
Therapist Assisted Marital Suicide
Hairy Weasel Feet
Narcissistic Sadists
Chai Cough Skis
Jed Aye Minetriq
I Am An Enamel Animal Lamb
Fiscal Responsability
Skeptic Tank
Bench Grinder Theorem
Semicolin
The Strange Attractors
Self Own
Shadow Tinkering
Treegate Silvan
Unexplained Bacon
Of Other Things
Band Camp
Surface Scud
Infinite Patience Gurl
Downline Load
Cut Up Credit Cards

Note that some of these may be actual band names. We didn't bother checking for sure. If you have any more to add to the list, please - feel free to post away.

Spinning in Neutral

Song of the day: Steel, Box, and Reeds

Congrats to the following peoples: Ben, Hava, Kristen, Aaron

Jason, you have my appologies for my rash judgement. I know that the AotC soundtrack was out illegally a few weeks before its release and I'd thought you'd found something similar for RotS. Although I'm sure that either is already the case or will be soon, thanks for the heads up on the Score Station. I went there and listened to a couple of the tracks yesterday at work.

The Glow of Each Other's Majestic Presence

Yesterday was the month anniversary that Hava and I have been married. Awwww.

Free stuff is the best... or at least so says everybody that wasn't smoking at the bell tower today. Not me, I was Jazz Banding. Now, I think its good and all that we shouldn't smoke, but handing out Tarot cards as promotion for it isn't exactly what I call a divine idea, do you? And with all this blustery wind we're having, how are we supposed to take advantage of all those frisbees?
And maybe be getting a new job?
And...
we're....
OUTA HERE!!!!!

P.S. Is anybody out there even reading all my secret decoder messages with almost every blog?

It's all good

Lest any of you think that I have come across a less-than-legal copy of the Star Wars soundtrack, let me put your minds at ease. I listened to it on the ScoreStation, where they have been featuring it for the last couple of days. Don't worry, I haven't gone and downloaded some pirated copy of it or anything. I just heard it on the internet and it is really cool! I will be buying this soundtrack when it comes out and I will very much enjoy it.

Hasta la pasta

So. It has happened.

As we knew it would. Someone put the soundtrack up. I think I'll wait til the 3rd, actually. But I haven't watched the 2nd full length trailer yet (I heard there was a second full length trailer, but maybe I was misinformed.) and I don't even know if I'll be actually watching the DVD that packs with the CD until after I see the movie. I'm trying to go spoiler free on this the last chance flick. We'll see. I already know more than I wanted to. But what can you do when you work in an office with four other SW geeks and have a SW geek uncle?

For anyone who didn't make it to the Percussion Ensemble concert last night, you missed out. Absolutely hilarifunny. Taiko was pretty sweet, too.

Dang it Ben, I just don't know. I think I'm going to have to try again and see. I feel like I'm standing blindfolded on a barrel in the water.

Buy Buy

Jason, as you said it is a must buy when it is released on May 3 (otherwise, it would be stealing and that ain't kosher), plus, there is an awesome 70 minute DVD containing music videos of William's music from the whole Star Wars saga! Everyone, you now know what your mission on May 3 is. DON'T FORGET!

John Williams...

...does it again!

The Revenge of the Sith soundtrack is soooo cool!! I love the music. I think my favorite track is the End Titles track because it blends very nicely into the music from A New Hope. Overall though, the entire album is just amazing Star Wars music that only John Williams can produce. A must buy when it comes to stores!

CD Must-buy of the day: Woody Herman - Fatha Herman and his Thundering Herd. Oh, you just have to love Al Vizzutti's performance on Firedance! He does double-octave double-tonguing like it's child's play. And speaking of Al Vizzutti, another must-have CD is High Class Brass by him and trumpet virtuoso Jeff Tyzik. I saw these guys in concert in the Tabernacle in 1995 and it was the sweetest brass concert I have ever seen. The feature chart is this classical/jazz chart called High Class Brass Suite. It's very suite indeed.

Greetings From Africa

11 April 2005. Bloemfontein, RSA.

To all Concerned Parties and citizens of the Band Hall.

Hello everyone!
Well, it turns out that this is an email-friendly mission. So I thought a Quarterly or thereabouts Post might be welcome, especially as we're coming to the end of the semester. I apologize that I lack the internet time to read the blog regularly, but I can't afford it and honestly it's probably best that way. If you remember my wildcat email (arthur wheatley /at/ mail /dot/ weber /dot/ edu) you can contact me. Don't worry if it takes me awhile to respond. It might be coming in the post.

It is unbelievable that so much time has already passed. "Time flies on wings of lightning" as the hymn says. But let me share a few things.

I am currently serving in Bloemfontein, South Africa, capital of the province of Free State. Free State Province was at one time the independent Orange Free State, and the Anglo/Boer war was fought over this land. So you can probably guess that there are lots of Afrikaans people here. Yes, the white people 'prat afrikaans' and the black people speak primarily Sesotho. But everyone speaks English. This really is an English-speaking mission. And the Afrikaans accent is virtually impossible to imitate. Ach, Shame.

This Area is a wonderful area; we teach a great deal; the new program ("Preach My Gospel") is Powerful. This area is so good because of the members here. They have the fire of Missionary Work and eagerly share the Gospel with their friends and relatives and so on. Bloemfontein is such a fine place really because of the families here. Families are the very best for the Gospel -- even as the Gospel is very best for the Families.

Cultural notes: Well, I'll wait until some of my photos develop and then we'll see.

I would be remiss not to leave a thought of some kind, so consider with me a moment.

Our Savior, Jesus Christ, atoned for our sins, that through Him we might be clean and return to the presence of our Father in Heaven. The promises to the faithful are very powerful: Eternal Life, Eternal Joy, Eternal Love, and Eternal Progression through which we may become like our Father in Heaven -- become Deities in our own right. But the promises in this life are also exciting: Peace, Happiness, Support through trials and grief, strength to follow the commandments, continuing growth and knowledge, and so on.
There is another promise of the Atonement. Not only does it justify us, or take away our sins and negative things; but it sanctifies us, or helps us become perfect and have positive attributes. It gives us Good Things. As it says in Moroni ch. 7, every good thing comes by the Atonement and redeems us from the Fall. So beautiful, inspiring things; excellence in all pursuits of life; joy and happiness; art, music, literature, and so on -- all these come through the Atonement and help us become perfect, and redeemed from our 'carnal man'.
This brings us to the 13th Article of Faith. "If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report, or praiseworthy, we seek after these things."
As we 'lay hold of every good thing' in our lives, we will grow in wisdom and in Joy. As we seek and enjoy good things (I know, I'm preaching to the choir) we will be happy.
So I challenge each of you patient enough to read this: Seek out good things. Have Joy in your life.

That's my sermon. I am the least among missionaries, but sharing these things gives me Joy. I will extend a request again for letters and emails. I wish you all the best of semesters and summers. God be with you.

With love,
Elder A. Jarrett Wheatley

Communica Obtanica

Ben has a new cell phone... er... A cell phone, since I didn't have one before, but it is new. Talk to me for my numero if'n ya want it. It is small and light weight and oh so much more shiny than it will be in a couple weeks.
Bake the Hall in the Candle of her Brain
Whitestone Bridge!!! What a sandwhich, for lunch AND dinner. YAY!

Over and out!

Quotes Quotes

If anyone has any really good quotes (funny, inspirational, serious, etc) please post them here!!! I really apreciate it!

BTW(BY THE WAY)

Jessica....I miss you here at the blog its been a really really long time since you posted!

Appellation Exchangica

Hava and I went down to downtown and did proper steps to get her name changed, so far as her drivers liscence is concerned. Of course, we didn't dare to brave the Social Security office yet.
Is it strange to anybody else that Social Security is abbreviated SS?? Just a thought.
Andrew, Jon went back and edited your previous blog so that your link was hyperlinked! (sounds surprisingly like something Strongbad would say)

Anyway, I'm gonna make like Superman and clear this website in a single bound... or is it click?

???????????

What link are you talking about Jon? Me so confused...


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Find Me

geeklink of the day: BugMeNot.Com (check out the Firefox plug-in)

wish of the day: To be a real boy. (Not just a well-drawn wheelchair.)

Good to see you here once in a while, Diego. You're always welcome to rant here. By the by Andrew, I got you covered with the link there.

thought of the day: Why has the Skyroom escaped my mind so often when I've been hungry. For like a buck more you can go to town on a buffet with all-you-can-eat. Why, oh why do I tend rather to visit the all-you-can-pay-for variety of food establishment?

TFD of the day (in commemoration of my meeting with my department advisor).

Parting thought:
I should win.

$#%%@

Hey everyone, remember me? I haven't blogged for a bit so I thought I would five minutes before the choir concert starts. have a good day.
PS @#$^#%@#%!^$&% (I'd thought I'd rant a bit)

The new pope

Has anyone heard they got a new pope? Yeah, I guess his name is Anton Siccolla and he is from somewhere in Italy. I guess he will be known as: Pope Siccolla....

Get it? Hahahahahah!!! Just kidding. It was only a joke. There is no new pope yet. Happy late April Fools Day!