Welcome, welcome!

Welcome back to school, y'all!

I hope y'all's days have been good. I know mine has. I had two classes today that were the same old same old as far as class introductions go. I did learn in my database class that hobbies count for something in general class lecture, as do your pet's names (Psycho, in my case.)

The real meaty lesson of the day came from my Client/Server programming (UNIX) class, taught by the infamous Dr. Bob Capener (those of you in CS will recognize that name instantly.) Let's see; what did I learn today? Oh yeah, I learned about this:

• Fly fishing takes a good deal of patience and knowledge of the river.
• Do not, under any circumstances, take a bomb-laden B-52 through a hard turn maneuver. You might lose the bombs.
• Democrats = Commie Pinkos :)
• The Standard Examiner is Democrat. (see above statement)
• Microsoft is one of Satan's imps incarnate on the earth. Nothing they create makes any sense or works like it should.
• Diabetes is caused by working for WSU.
• FORTRAN is the inspired word of God, or at least something very close.
  

So yeah, that's the basic jist of the lesson in Client/Server class today. Productive lesson. If any of you happen to get a chance to take a class from Dr. Bob, do it. At least sit in on a lesson of his. I think his best lessons come when he's in the UNIX lab. He talks about everything from fork() to how we should take our kids out of the public schools and teach school in the churches.

Oh, and I just saw a guy drive by on a motorcycle with what looked like a saddle blanket between him and the seat of the bike. The excitement never ceases.

Ta ta!

Wow, Lena...

...that must have been something.

That was seriously the longest spelling of the word sleep I've ever seen. Hands down. It was even longer than antidisestablishmentarianism, which is commonly regarded as the longest word in the English language. So, Lena, you must have really needed a break and who am I to get in the way of some well-deserved R & R. ;)

"We 'Heil! Heil!' right in Der Fuehrer's face..."

Everything's Catching On Fire

It is, too. Ben I didn't get a chance to talk much last evening on account of the potatoes, etc., but everything is dry and brown and people are being careless with matches.

Ok, so I'm uber-looking-forward to trying out the new cards. They look like they'll work fine. And fun.

Marching band is going grrrrrrreat! Dr. Root picked a great staff for us this year. They're even doing good (IMH/AO) at problem-solving. Dynamic. Just what leaders should be.

I might've titled this post "Please pass the milk", but that's already been used. You see, I ran out of milk here at work and I have all this cereal calling my name.

Love the new toon. "Cheer up Mr. Grasshopper; you have no central nervous system!"

kbye

Laughing my butt off!!

You HAVE to check this out!

www.dooku.net

Click the rectangle below the picture to change the music. I particularly find the Benny Hill show music hillarious.

I'm having a....

heartattack!

Cards for the bicycle gang are complete. Stay tuned!

Marching, marching...

Please, please, please get photos of the band this season and pass them on to me. I'll post them on the band photo album (as marked on the links to the left.) Try to avoid sending pictures that are over 200KB in size because it makes it difficult for me to upload them and seriously, no on wants to wait a long time to view the pics because they're huge. Gotta keep up the photo album because we're at 469 photos and counting.

Again, please send me pictures! I may not be actively in the band, but I still like to maintain my contact and help out wherever I can. Fear not, though, I still do play my trumpet. :)

Oh, and if you have pictures that aren't necessarily related to band activities, it's okay. If you want to share them, go ahead and send them to me and I'll post them on the band photo album.

My email address is jschill [at] wintools [dot] com.

Chao!

Holy Cow......

....Batman, what an AMAZING BAND!!!!!!!
Today, we put ourselves a full 4 days ahead in band camp on Marching and Maneuvers!!!!!!

And that music rehearsal?!!!! WOW!!!backwards WOW!!! upside down MOM!!! backwards MOM!!!

Matt and I are SO impressed at the way today went, and how well everything took.

Can't wait for tomorrow.

Knock Knock

Lemme outta here! (Kids can be so cruel.)

Small Locker

Rufio folds in half for a laugh.

Cram

Rufio finds his own personal space. Nobody will bother him in there.

Carpe Manus

A real quick post 'cuz I gotta run here in a sec.

Today was a once in a lifetime experience for me: I got to play for the VFW National Convention with the combined WSU Wind Ensemble/Ogden Concert Band at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, for which the keynote speaker was the Commander in Chief of our nation's armed forces. After he spoke he came down and shook my hand...along with a few hundred other peoples'. But still - it's not every day you get to shake the President's hand.

Quite the start for a week of band camp. Things there are looking interesting. Fewer people, but my main concern is that I'll enjoy all the music we're going to play. I have never been a fan of rock tunes as main show material, but I guess I'll just have to rewrite the stock parts to be kickin'.

Last Saturday I got the CD of Thenami's show music and wrote the tenor and bass parts for the opener. (Actually I have a few measures to change for the bass part still, but it's basically done.)

Ok, hope you enjoy the band hall news flash video posts. Tha's right! Crazy things are already happening.

Episode 3 is recorded and editing will begin soon.

Peace

How To...

A Brief Tutorial.

To delete comments, just view the comment, scroll down and click on the little trash can icon. Simple, eh? I just tried it on the Jinglyblog comment and it worked wonders.

I hear the wind blow, I hear the wind blow...

It seems to say, "Hello. Hello, I'm the one who loves you so."

Question: Does anybody know how to edit comments. In essence, there's, apparently, a new wave of spamming where the people put the spam your blog as a comment and I would like to know how to get rid of it. Any ideas?

All alone all alone...

...all by myself.

Guess what? I got a work study job at the Utah Museum of Natural History! Wooo Hooo!!!! And last night was just fun. There were four busts for alcohol and whatnot in my area and I had to assist on a possible marijuana bust. Fun times. So, now I'm really tired because I was forced to stay up 'til 3 am last night no thanks to the rule breaking. But despite stupidity like that, I am really really enjoying being an RA. I have really good kids living on my floor. They're all pretty nice and respectful. I'm too tired to think of anything else to write here.

Some things...

...to think about.

• 1. "Peoples' Choice Award" is America's greatest honor.
• 2. Styrofoam is not made from kittens.
• 3. The U.F.O. was a paper plate.
• 4. The nerds on the internet are not geeks.
• 5. The word "cheese" is not funny in and of itself.
• 6. The older Flanders boy is Todd, not Rod.
• 7. Lyndon Johnson did not provide the voice of Yosemite Sam.
• 8. If you are reading this you have no life.
• 9. Roy Rogers was not buried inside his horse.
• 10. The other U.F.O. was an upside-down salad spinner.
• 11. Our universities are not "hotbeds" of anything.
• 12. Mr. Dershowitz did not literally have four eyes.
• 13. Our viewers are not pathetic, sexless food tubes.
• 14. Audrey Hepburn never weighed 400 pounds.
• 15. The "Cheers" (1982) gang is not a real gang.
• 16. Salt water does not "chase the thirsties away".
• 17. Licking an electrical outlet will not turn you into a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger.
• 18. Cats do not eventually turn into dogs.
• 19. Bullets do not bounce off of fat guys.
• 20. Recycling does not deplete the ozone.
• 21. Everything is 10% fruit juice.
• 22. The flesh-eating virus does not hide in ice cream.
• 23. Janet Reno is evil.
• 24. V8 juice is not 1/8 gasoline.
• 25. Ted Koppel is a robot.
• 26. Women aren't from Venus, and men aren't from Mars.
• 27. Fleiss does floss.
• 28. Quayle is familiar with common bathroom procedure.
• 29. Bart is bad to the bone.
• 30. Godfry Jones' wife is cheating on him. (note: Jones was the host of "Rock Bottom")
• 31. The Beatles haven't reunited to enter kick boxing contests.
• 32. The "Bug" on your TV screen can see into your home.
• 33. Everyone on TV is better than you.
• 34. The people who are writing this have no life.

--The Simpsons: "Rock Bottom"

The Day that Love.....

Came to play!!!

strongben(@)hotmail(.)com

Andrew, that be my addy. Sign me up and we'll go at it again this year! Yay!

I jump the band wagon and join the crowd. I'm so ready for school to start. I have the coolest class. At least that's what it looks like it'll be. I mean, its Dinosaurs and Fossil Record. It looks down right up my alley, but then again, its a 1020 class and might be filled with idiots and stupid heads. And if you know me, I see (hate) dead (stupid) people.

Hava and I met Orson Scott Card and his wife last night. It was awesome. If anyone wants to help me gloat, they can ask to see my two personalized and autographed books that Mr. Card signed for me. He's quite an awesome guy from the 2 hours I saw him in allowed me to see.

We've decided that Mofia will be our preferred game of the year. The optimal size of the group being 8 to 10 players and a narrator, expect Hava and I to be hosting quite a number of these events in the months to come. And, as we all learned on Tuesday, bring your thinking caps and your strategery and we'll have a greatness time. We'll also be much about clamping down on the whole 'Dead people can't talk' rule; much to the fun of all of us!

Anyway, Mr. Card (being a fantasy writing mormon that he is) has inspired me, so I'm off to fill more pages with my fantastical prose. Tootles all!

Come on...

...and wreck my car.

Football season is upon us once again, and as such, I have created the annual football pick-em group over at Yeeeeoooowwwwwzzzzaaa.com...er. yahoo.com, that is. If'n you'd like to participate, and yes Ben I am specifically talking to you, just get me your e-mail addy someway or another before too late so I can get you an invite.

In other news: my world as an RA offically begins today with early-bird check in. I am both excited and nervous to start this new chapter in my education. There is A LOT of information that was given to myself and fellow RAs over the last ten days and it seems a bit daunting, but just as with any other job, I suppose you get the hang of it after a while. Any way, time to be gettin' myself back to work.

Cheers!

Leave me alone...

...leave me alone.

Who's knocking..

...on the wall?

Time of Firsts

And lasts...

This last week and half has been extremly...well fullfilling, i shall, for everyones knowledge, be returning to our lovely home of ogden on friday, but i will not be returning to marching band or symphonic band this year...circumstances beyond my control are forcing me to quit music....for the time being.

Hope everyone is ready for school...I am!

Batman out!

Good News......

Dr Root has come through, and we've been informed that our new uniforms
should be in our hands no later than the 22nd of Sept, and Matt, Jessie, and I
intend to debut them at the Oct 8th game. YEA FOR DR ROOT AND PURCHASING
POWER!!!!!!!!

Ultimate Destruction - $10

For all you demolition derby fans, I have the info about the Les Schwabb Demo Derby at the Davis County Fair. To get there, take State Street in Farmington west over I-15. You'll go past the Davis County Sheriff's Department (they teach HAM radio classes there) and you can't miss the fairgrounds on the left. Parking is free. It should be really fun!

Something grabbed ahold of my hand....

I didn't know what had my hand. But that's when all my troubles began.

I'm not angry with the world anymore.

I found a new friend...

...underneath my pillow.

And speaking of friends underneath my pillow, my very own blog is back up and running. Now, go ahead, click the link on the left. You know you want to. All the cool kids are doing it.

Bad News......

The University to which we all attend, mostly, in it's infinite wisdom, decided last May that instead of finalizing the purchase of our new uniforms on time to have them for homecoming, delayed an ENTIRE MONTH!!!!! YEA FOR UPPER STINKING MANAGEMENT!!!!!
Right now, projected SHIP date is 11/12/2005.
Matt and I are livid!!!!! Dr Root is taking it to the Pres of the Univ, to see if we can get extra funding to ship faster (even though 165 days from order is ridiculous to make and ship 150 or so uniforms).
If that doesn't work, we're gonna yell reAlly REALLY REALLY LOUD at the stupid people who take too dang long to make stinking uniforms. I REFUSE TO ALLOW THE BAND TO MARCH IN CAT EXCRAMINT!!!!!!!!!
so there you are.

The internet is great!!

I just found a really cool website. For all you LDS people out there (and I know that's most of who reads this blog) I found a resource to download all kinds of church publications in audio format. This does include songs from soundtracks, and even Jesus the Christ, by James E. Talmage, in a 448MB .zip file. (Yeah, the Windows XP ISO image is smaller than that.) Click here to see the page.

Tootles!

I heard a sound....

Turned around. Turned around to find the thing that made the sound.

Don't have much to say other than I'm angry with the world.

Laters

What...

...do you mean?

People with rubber necks should be ticketed? The last time I checked, the only humanoid beings known to possess rubber necks are crash test dummies (like Buster from Mythbusters) and I suppose they probably could do with a few driver improvement courses. Y'know, crashing into barriers at 40 mph isn't usually a good thing, especially for the airbags which have to come out of their nice warm steering wheels and dashboards just to keep the dummies' heads from exerting 108G's on the driver controls.

Okay, I have to comment on something. Kristin and I tried the restaurant on Harrison called Jasoh (pronounced jay-SOH.) The food there was excellent, but a bit on the pricy side. I had a filet mignon that had an MSRP of $31.00. However, since I had a birthday coupon, that knocked 25 bucks off the sticker price. Kristin had a really good chicken breast covered in this amazing sauce. The crab cakes were pretty good too. Our waiter's name was Trevor and he was the most laid-back waiter I have ever seen. I really enjoyed the service. They do offer cooking classes at Jasoh which run through the summer at a price of $40 or $55 with wine. I don't know about you, but I don't drink wine, thank goodness, but it sometimes is nice to cook with. Though I would have a hard time cooking with a 1908 vintage wine commanding a price of some $40K per bottle. This wine can be had at a certain hotel in Las Vegas. Jasoh also offers such desserts as Tiramisu (though it's best to have this dessert at someone's house who knows how to make it without making it laden with alcohol.) All in all, however, my experience at Jasoh was a good one. It sits atop the list of restaurants I have visited this month (seeing as the only other restaurant I have visited this month was Arby's.) No, seriously, it was a very good restaurant. Highly recommended.

Oh, yeah, they also have a wildberry lemonade that is really quite tasty, but you have to ask for it specifically.

Hmm, this one was loaded with lots of numbers.

What's that blue thing...

...doing here?

Please pass the milk please!

Please pass the milk please!

"you guys are freaks!!" as said... er, typed, by my sister Melanie.

Happy congratulatoriness to Dave and Melanie (a different Melanie from that quoted above) on their nuptual union today. Hava and I shall go and offer them personal sulatations of congratulations this afternoon and then return home to a new roomy and a deeply touching episode of Lost.

Rubber-neckers should be ticketed!

Bye

Lights, Camera, Action

Just checking to see if the video feature works ok.



Actually, the blog does need to become a TV station as well as a radio station, no?...


:)

High Quality Sound Equipment

Test... one two free... test.



Is this thing on?

Mysterious Whisper

And yes, I do happen to walk along darkened corridors.

But only every so often.

The guy...

...who hit you in the eye?

Are you talking to me? Did I hit you in the eye? If so, when? Also, if so, I appologize vehemently. I would feel terrible if I hit someone in the eye. Well, if the person was attacking me or something, I might not feel so bad, but I don't remember being attacked in recent history (as in the last few years.)

Oh yeah, I watched a little movie the other day called "The Fifth Element." Strange movie, to be sure, and kind of a cliche (hopeless situation about saving the world) but I did like the stylization used in it and the music. Plavalaguna was cool.

Hack of the day: Change Internet Exploder window title. Example: Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by DO NOT USE THIS BROWSER!

:)

Aren't you the guy...

...who hit me in the eye?

Yay...

...I mean, Hooray!

Cool. Silly Putty! You can never have enough Silly Putty. By the way, does anyone want a black D.A.R.E. antenna ball? I have four extra that I picked up from the Heber Days Parade.

A sound editor for the Mac? Hmmmm. I'm kind of surprised that Audacity doesn't work because it's an open-source project that's originally built for flavors of *NIX, which MacOS X is a part of. The only sound editor that I've ever used is Cool Edit Pro which is now an Adobe product and it's definitely not free. You might try looking on pure-mac.com for some software. I'm not really savvy about audio software too much. Image software is a different story, but even there I have a very nice little set of tools I like (MS Image Composer, Fireworks, etc.)

Anyhow, gotta go! :) Take it easy, y'all!

Right U R

Jason takes the silly putty. We might have to make the questions a bit harder in the future.

Kudos. Props. Etcetera.

I was vaguely pondering having a podcast of my own aside from WBHR, but I can't think of much that people would find interesting.

Anyway.

Also, Andrew is looking for some quality free sound editing software for Mac. Audacity and Cacaphony didn't work so well for him. Any help would be great.

Also, this friday is our stake Lagoon day. If anyone wants to go with I can probably get you a ticket for $20 or an entrance pass (no rides) for free. There are a few coupons for free rides and dollars off stuff.

Also also, how's about a hike this saturday morning? I'm thinking Ben Lomond or Mt. Ogden or Mt. Timpanogos.

Die Unendliche Geschichte

Atreyu was played by an actor named Noah Hathaway (who is now heavily tatooed.) He was originally supposed to be green, but said that the green reminded him of fungus. He also went on to play Harry Potter, Jr. in a film called Troll from 1986.

Fozzie Bear is hip

Andrew, the last line of your post is as hilarious as it is bewildering.

Audacity

And by Episode 2 I mean WBHR ep 2. I'm currently fixing the 30 second silence that accidently worked its way into the pcast and will re-upload it shortly. If you've already dl'd it, grab the new version when it's up. Enjoy.

A new week dawns...

...literally, if you look out my office window this time of the morning.

Welcome back, Andrew!! Long time no hear, er something like that. ;) I hope that your move-in was pleasant and fairly uneventful (as in injuries, deaths, dismemberments, etc.) Oh, and by the way, happy birthday (a few days late.)

So, I spent the weekend in Heber City at Kristin's grandpa's property. We went there to spend time with him and to ride the horses. I was really excited to ride, but soon after starting, I realized that I was in a bad situation. My horse, Raindance, was a bouncy horse and I had the saddle from hell. It was a very uncomfortable hour or so. My legs felt like they were being twisted right off at the knee and I bounced all over on the way down the hill. Raindance also has this thing about being in the lead. If he's not in the lead, then he freaks out and tries to run to get in the lead. When you're as inexperienced as I am at riding horses, it kind of freaks you out when the horse decides to run. So needless to say, I don't think that Raindance was very happy with me at the end of the ride because I kept pulling on his reigns to slow him down. I think, based on this experience, that I'm better at controling poorly-tuned motorcycles than horses. But, if I have a better saddle, I'm more than willing to give it another try. It's funny getting off the horse when you're not used to it because your legs feel like Jell-O under you. :)

Also, during the weekend, we had to wash the horses. Oh my word, that's a funny sight. Kristin simply grabbed the horses by the halter in one hand and sprayed them with a hose in the other hand. The horses hate being sprayed and so the run around in a circle trying to get away from the hose. Spraying their face is really funny too. The monster horsefly that kept bugging us was not so funny. They make the horses jump around because they hurt when the bite.

On a geeky note, I did get a full Unix system running on my Windows machine last Thursday. No, this is not Linux and it's not virtual machine. It's a project called Cygwin and it's a port of most packages available to Unix over to the Win32 platform. It's so complete that I can run a full X desktop on Windows. One thing to note: because it's not native Unix, Cygwin may not be as stable as, say, SVR6, or BSD/OS.

Da Da Da

Back and Better Than Ever, Baby!!

Woo Hoo!!!

Moved into my dorm today. It's quite lonesome as there is not another soul in the building at the moment, but tomorrow my co-RA moves in downstairs.

Jon! I really can't remember what the URL for the site with the recording program was (Ya know? For the kids. er, I mean, for the radio show and CD making). Please post it!

Don't know what else to say except I'm tired. Must stop. He is our hero. I promise not to kill you.

School approaches.....

and we begin preparations for marching band. Matt sent out a newsletter to everyone we had an email for about marching band, and band camp, and other details. If you did not receive the email
just email us at wildcat_marching_band@hotmail.com
Please try and get everyone we can out there on the field. We have a HUGE season ahead of
us, what with the new football coach, and our NEW UNIFORMS!!! FINALLY!!!!!!
there's also a full list of the games, and performances in the email.

Up

Episode 2 is out.

Right, then

A warm welcome to Mr. Burns. We hope you don't take offense to our screening process, as this forum was originally intended for people who hang out in the Val A. Browning particular band hall. But what the hey. This place was designed to bring band geeks together electronically when they were separated physically. So jump right in - the ASCII's fine.

Kristen moved?

In other news, I have finally gotten around to editing the second episode. It's about 1/2 way done so far. Expect it early next week. When the regular school kicks in we should also be adding a Morning Show (or is it Mourning Show?) hosted by Jessica, Hava, and Suzanne. Andrew has also agreed to be our field agent and shoot us audio content from the far-away and most magical land of That School Down South But Not That Far South. Bling bling, as it were.

Diegs, you have my most sincere empathies for your (pardon the pun) current plight. I've woken up to the sound of dripping water in my room before and it's not that fun to be flooded.

On the other hand, Flood is one of TMBG's best albums, both by my own opinion and popular concensus as evidenced by the retail sales figures.

And speaking of music, 4 or 5 drum peoples will be driving to Park City this evening to for to hear an concert extraordinaire: Close Encounters of the Percussive Kind. Should be rockin'.

Ok, so now I'm off to add Brian as my post implies.

Peace

Circus Circus

Let the dude in. Let's see what he's got to say. I'm up to meeting new people. If he posts things we don't want him to post, we'll warn him and then later kick him out. But, if someone is truly intersted in being a part of (WBHR) the band hall, then who are we to refuse entry. Besides, its almost the start of fall semester when we let in dozens of unsuspecting freshman to the randomness and insanity that is the paradise we know as the band hall.

In other news, flying trapeze artists are flipping out!

Later, all y'all

Meeting People...

...often results in great surprise.

So I went to OCB on Wednesday and was very surprised to run into Lena! I was really happy to see a familiar (and younger) face there at OCB. Not that I don't know practically everyone there, but no one would really qualify as my peer in that group if it weren't for Lena being there. I was happy. :)

Also, I discovered that Kristin and I have a familiar new neighbor. Yeah, yesterday when I got home from work, I was putting some stuff in my trunk and who should pull out of her parking stall at Christopher Village but Kristen Vesper! I was really surprised to see her there. I seriously didn't know anyone there other than Kristin's swing dance friends (and the people in my ward who live there, too.) It was really fun to see Kristen. So yeah, we'll have to have a party. :)

Cheers!

ps: It's good to hear from our "foreign" band geek. Hopefully, we'll be hearing more from him in the future. It's always a good thing to meet new people.

umm.....

I say thumbs down, but who cares what I say? LOL!!!!!!
I'm not sure it would be good to let in outsiders, no, no, not at all. I mean
what if we scare him into telling the police about all the dead bodies in Jon's locker,
or how about the fact that we cloned Aaron Chavez so he could go to school forever?????
HUH?! HUH?! HOW ABOUT THAT?!!!!!!

What about sideways??

I'm going to give it thumbs sideways to the left! No offense to the guy (because he is probably going to read this) but I don't want to give a definate thumbs up or downwards mainly because none of us know him. I'm sure he is a good guy but it would be kind of bad if we all said yes and then he came in here and started posting bad things. I know this is for Band Geeks and not just necessarily Weber State band geeks (current or former) but it's hard to say thumbs upwards when none of us know him (as far as I know).


Well, I've thought about it for a little bit longer (actually, I went and got a root beer float!!!) and I'm going to say, lets give him a try. I give a very, very slightly hesitant thumb up..... kind of like a thumb up - (minus).

Whaddaya think, y'all?

I recently received this from some guy who wants to party here. Everybody vote a thumb up or a thumb downwards.

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Band geeks UNITE!!!!

Salutations. I am posting this to you bacause i stumbled across your site on accident, and i must say, i have become deeply interested. I like you and your fellows, too, am a band geek.i love music. So, i was hoping you'd get around to me and give me a lil info about this website, because im hoping to carry on as  a musician for all of my days. Thank you for taking the time to read this painstakingly long letter, for i would dearly like some info on this and i would be delighted to join. Have a good summer!!!

Yours Truly,

Brian Burns

100% pure, unadulterated band geek!

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And yes, he did the crazy colors/fonts in the email.

how about that storm??

thanks for the NWS info. If only they knew. So Tiffanie and I got a washer and a dryer on Tuesday as we watched the storm move in. I started hooking it up but got tired and stopped. We were going to watch the cool lightening and stuff. Dr. Keipp called and delayed us for a moment. While I was on the phone, Tiffanie informed me of a bit of water entering our door (for those that don't know, we live in a basement.). The little bit of water kept increasing exponentially. We also noticed water coming in our washroom window (which eventually busted out due to water). Where is this story going you ask?? In the end, there was 5-6 inches of dirty, leafy water covering every lower corner of our apartment. Luckily for us, the elders quorum quickly came and helped get our stuff to dry ground. Also to thank- Lena, Aaron and Kristen also came to our aid with two towels (they did do more than that though). Thanks guys!! So if anyone wishes to find us, we are at my parents until further notice. Thanks and have a grand day (hopefully dry).

Marching Band Email!!

Got a ? and don't have an answer from Dr Root or personal Email addresses?
Here's the answer. An email for the Wildcat Marching Band has been created.
We'll also be sending out newsletters from this address, so add it to your contact lists.

wildcat_marching_band@hotmail.com

Remember, Camp starts on the 22nd of August and goes through that Friday. BE there or BE
Square!!!!!

Exciting Rainstorm

Uh, yeah. Severe weather would be a good description. I was out in it all! Kristin and I decided to take a drive last night and watch the storm as it rolled in. Wow! What a cool cloud display! It was sweet. Then as the storm gathered over us, we realized that this was going to be a real drencher. The raindrops were pounding relentlessly against the top of our car and virtually rendering the wipers useless.

We decided to go over to the institute and check on Kristin's sister who is an EFY counsellor. Normally she'd be fine, but she decided to ride a motorcycle to EFY this week and we didn't want her to try to ride in such a storm. When we got to Harrison, it was a river. There must have been between four and six inches of running water on the street. I was sending up plumes of water from both sides of my car driving down the street. Water was seriously coming down in sheets. It was great! It reminded me of rainstorms on my mission in Texas where it floods every time it rains. Although this storm was considerably slower than real desert thunderstorms, it was impressive nonetheless.

Now, for all you Windows XP/2003 modders out there...

I found a great website where you can download icon sets, skins, and even themes or visual styles. The site is CrystalXP.net. If you want to install a visual style, you will first need a UX Theme Multi-patcher to patch your uxtheme.dll file so that you can install non-Microsoft themes on Windows XP/2003. Email me if you would like a copy of the UX Theme Multi-patcher. (j s c h i l l [at] w i n t o o l s [dot] c o m) My theme currently looks like the included picture: kind of a subtle replacement of the original Windows XP Luna look with a more glassy, shiny look, complete with a Tux penguin as the Start button. :) Another good site to visit if you're modding Windows is Everaldo.com. Everaldo Coelho is the graphic artist who brought us the awesome crystal icon set used in many Linux distros. He makes some of the best-looking icons in the industry.

Also, for any of you wishing to try out Linux, I have good news for you (at least if you have a broadband connection and a nice CD burning suite.) Visit Slax to download a very nice copy of a very nice pocket operating system. There are various flavors of Slax to try out. Download the ISO and then burn it to a CD using the "Burn ISO Image" option on your CD burning software. Once you have the CD burned, you can simply boot the computer off the CD and you'll be off and running Linux in no time. The best part is that it is a live CD which means that it won't mess up your Windows installation already on your hard drive. It'll just run off the CD (or out of RAM if you use the copy2ram option when booting.) Special thanks to Tim Mikesell for pointing this great flavor of Linux out to me.

Anyhow, I just wanted to post some stuff today because it's been a while for me.

Take it easy, y'all!

But if I can't swim after 40 days...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SALT LAKE CITY UT
857 PM MDT TUE AUG 2 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SALT LAKE CITY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTH CENTRAL DAVIS COUNTY IN UTAH
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...SUNSET...LAYTON
WEST CENTRAL MORGAN COUNTY IN UTAH
CENTRAL WEBER COUNTY IN UTAH
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF OGDEN

* UNTIL 945 PM MDT

* AT 854 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SYRACUSE...OR ABOUT NEAR
SUNSET...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
6 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAYTON BY 900 PM MDT
RIVERDALE...ROY AND SOUTH WEBER BY 905 PM MDT
SOUTH OGDEN AND UINTAH BY 910 PM MDT
OGDEN BY 920 PM MDT
NORTH OGDEN BY 930 PM MDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM.
WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A
TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

LAT...LON 4115 11224 4095 11214 4115 11171 4140 11194

*glottal stop*-hh

That's as close as I could come to the sound of indignation that people sometimes make that means something along the lines of, "Sure, don't invite me to the Lena welcome home party!"

Just kidding. I was out of town, so I'm not to terribly miffed about not being there. And yes, welcome home.

I'll surely try to get to Episode Dos soon. For info on the delay, see my blog.

Just finished my final for CS 4780 Advance Windows Programming (C#). Going to work on my last homework assignment and my group project for a bit. Jinglesthula: The Game is coming along nicely. I'll soon have an update ready for Ben the Beta-tester. Diazinon has quite a kick. I read two books in 5 days, and I'll start on HP6 after my class ends on Wednesday.

Peace