The Right Stuff

Jon, that website that you sent me to is just what everyone needs to read when they are sending an email. I get so many emails that have little or no punctuation, spelling correction, or even proper word usage. It's amazing that people have just simply forgotten how to write.

Anyhow, enough of my complaining. You don't want to hear that. A bit of news: After nearly a week of downtime, my computer is finally on the mend. I was able to make the backup image of my hard disk drive. That took 30 CDs and let me tell you, it was not fun. Then, one after another, I am in the process of loading them. This is attempt number 3, though. The first two attempts were subverted by some seemingly evil hex that must have been placed on my computer. The first one was a power outage and the second was the anti-keyboard demon inside my computer. For this third attempt, I have decided to put up a defense against the evil hexes cast upon my machine by attaching it to an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and attaching a PS/2 keyboard to the machine on a port that is not plagued with problems like the one that my main keyboard is hooked to.

So, wish me luck on this install. I tried, last night, to install Suse Linux 9.0 on my poor computer, but for some reason, while it was installing, it kept freezing up and not letting me do anything. Hehehe. *Needs to try Suse 9.1*

Therefore, my life as of late has gone thusly. It has been one sad tale of computer problem after computer problem. :) But, hopefully, I can get it resolved and gain a few gigabytes in the process.

By the way, Kris, sorry I missed you at the office. I had gone to the store down the street to get a drink.

Anyway, y'all, take it easy. Chao!

An Notice

Jason, let me just refer you to this endearing article.
Yale and TBC. An odd combination.

On, to the Announcement. Ok, not really that much of an Anouncement, but still, I thought I should post it. It looks like I'll not actually be here in town on the Saturday after OCB returns from far lands. Rather, I'll be driving back from the DCI semifinals in Mile High City. I suggest, then, that the festivities/socializing occur on the Saturday following the one I suggested before. Everyone ok with that? If not, please contact the service described here on my post of June 8 @ 2:09 AM by following the directions given in said post.

Talk about a roundabout way to tell someone to take a hike (in more ways than one).

Did anyone, by the by, discover the answer to my Trivia Time querry from a while back? The one about Fett.

10 points to anyone who can name all the subtle references/puns contained in this post.

Laters.

Stuff of the day

Album of the day: The Blues Brothers Soundtrack
Songs of the day: "Shake a Tailfeather" by Ray Charles and "Think" by Aretha Franklin

Mr. Webspace to the Rescue

So, Jarrett, you need some web space, eh? Well, look no further! I think that I could probably donate you 50MB or so to your movie. I'll need to do some research into how to make a page that streams a movie and protects it from being downloaded. Hopefully, that won't be too much of a problem to figure out. I do worry a bit about streaming something as large as 50MB because that is a HUGE stream taking up lots of bandwidth. If there is a way to shrink that down a bit, that would be very helpful. I do have some video editing software on my computer, but my machine is currently undergoing a hard disk change. I'll discuss this with you at the meeting. Hopefully, I will have my maching fully functional in a couple of days and we can get together and see what damage we can do. ;) Gee, this feels more like an email than a public blog. :) Anyhow, yeah, I should be able to host your movie and allow all to view it peacably. If I have any problems, I'll be sure to let you know.

Take it easy!

Okay, folks.

I need somebody with lots of Net Space to put up a page on which I can put my CD version (or a further-reduced version) of Jinglesthula, so that I can link it to the JÞII Blog. I don't want to use the Full DVD Version, 'coz it's huge -- and if it's going to be on the Web, I want a lower-quality product. Unless y'all know how to make something viewable but non-downloadable. I know it's possible, but "Do we have the equipment?" becomes the question. We are talking about 40 or 50 MB, even with the CD version. I suppose that if somebody has film-editing or movie software of any kind, I could reduce it even further - but it's not pretty.

If you visit the Jinglyblog, you'll find I've put up a links table, with a map of Beus Park and Robert's Rules of Order in Brief. And other good stuff. Aren't I clever?
Ask me before you add a link.

Anyhow, I must go.

New Legislation

I am putting in for new legislation that allows for the immediate imprisonment of people who write emails without proper grammar, punctuation, or sentence structure. Who's with me? I mean, seriously, in my work, I get emails from people all over the world and I would bet that a good 90% of them require the use of a Urim and Thummim to decipher.

An email could go something like this: Well i was using ur produt and it jsut stoped working, can u help me i really need 2 get this working by tomorrow and on top of that my grandmother of 91 years died yestrday and wer havin a funrel 4 her and i hve thee cats and a pig and 4 horses, they dont need much for food just some hay and oats evry once in a while, and then this gy came up 2 me and sed can u tell me what time it is and i told him to take a hike and then he just pushed me over and i fell on my nose and it turned inside out, i was running up and down screeming becuz my noz was inside out, but then the firemen cam and told me 2 be still and thei took a rok out of my noz, so u see i need u too help me with my program, my license code expird 7 days.

Now, I gave you all the luxury of SPACES between the words. Somepeopledon'tevendothat. It's really annoying. And whatever happened to the proper usage of it's/its? And since when did the word macros (plural of macro) have and apostrophe in it (macro's)? I don't claim to be perfect in my selection of verbiage, but at least I know how to write. (Do not complain about the preceeding two sentences starting with 'and.' That is acceptable under certain circumstances.) What's absolutely amazing about this whole thing is that I can receive an email like the one modeled above from a PROFESSIONAL person. This is not email from some trailer-trash person living in a van down by the river. No, this person might very well work for an insurance sales office, or a hospital. How do people get hired with these types of writing styles? I was always taught that when you are in a professional environment, you should always write in a professional manner, using complete sentences and proper punctuation and spelling. I can maybe understand bad grammar from someone who doesn't really know English, but I get this type of stuff from people in the Queen's England. What's up with that? It's just really annoying to me. I don't like to rant constantly about life because it's mostly good, but if there was ever a pet peeve of mine, this would be it. I think that our dependence on instant messaging and cell phone text messaging has led us into a spiraling vortex of writing inabilities. Yes, I use instant messenger and I must admit that my grammar and punctuation isn't very proper in that forum, but when I am conversing with someone in a professional manner, I make sure that my grammar, punctuation and spelling are as close to 100% as they can be. Quick emails with a small instruction on meeting times or something related, I can excuse for their poor grammar, but descriptions of problems and requests for service? Sorry, it just makes me not want to help these people because I may boggle them with my proper English.

Anyhow, I'm done venting... I think we should do something about this. Any ideas? ;)

I shall see you all later! ;)

THE MEETING IS AT NOON. NOON. NOON.

So the meeting is Saturday at noon, at Beus Park. Lunch is at 1 pm, but THE MEETING IS AT NOON! So be there, in your seat, by 11:55.
Ben, come along when you can; there will be food for you.
A map to the park (it really is right by Weber State) is available on the Jinglyblog, on a recent post.
THE MEETING IS AT NOON.
THE MEETING IS AT NOON.
Any Questions? Email, call, or visit my house.

Question

Ben, how do you say "chicken" in French? I refer to the live animal, rather than cooked poultry (In Spanish, Callena (or Gallena) rather than Pollo). How would you say it as a nickname?

Ping pong

I'm all for ping-pong. I'll even bring my very own paddle, since I was so much into it at one time that I bought one. What day is that anyway? When are all y'all leaving to go visit my second country of France? I wish I could go. And, Jon, before you go, remember to talk to be about buying that one comic book... er... graphic novel, ok?

So...

I meant to mention in my previous post:
I had a very weird dream -- not as detailed as Ben's usually are, though. What I remember is that I was, I guess, a dwarf; only I was just as tall as I am right now. So I was a really tall dwarf. And I and my dwarf associates (of ordinary dwarf height) were trying to defend our Mountain Fortress (something like Erebor in The Hobbit, with the big wall on the one side) against an onslaught of Trolls. Not goblins, not Orcs, Trolls. Which is a Scandinavian thing. I was fighting them with a 2+1/2 ft. long 3/4 inch thick dowel. (Which is something I have, and kept for a long time in the corner with my staves and swords.) And the Trolls didn't look like Orcs in the movie, or in any of the Illustrations I've seen for LOTR books, or for that matter any other Orc, Goblin, or Troll illustrations I've seen. They looked like the scary people you see riding the Public Bus System sometimes. It was on the whole kind of cool. I mean, I never get to beat people with a stick in real life. The vast majority (99%) of the time, I don't even want to.

Also an Idea: Rock-concert lighting for the Four Seasons by Vivaldi. I think it would be cool.

Hard(er) drives

The life of a hard drive is one that would make most dizzy. (Pun intended) They spend their existence spinning at a very high speed, reading and writing data. Sometimes, things go wrong with them. This is the case with my venerable laptop machine. The hard disk drive in the poor thing is simply going out. I have discovered this due to some problems that I have encountered lately with disk access and sounds the device is making. I'm writing this here to inform anyone who reads this as to the symptoms of a failing hard disk drive (hereafter referred to as HDD.)

Clicking and/or grinding sounds emanating from the disk (more than normal disk access sounds) - This indicates that there is something potentially wrong with the motor or the bearings in which the spindle rotates.

Slower than normal program launch/recovery. For instance, your operating system may start up slower than normal. Programs may also suffer some performance hindering. For me, this is most noticeable when I launch a program, switch the focus to another program, and then switch back. Normally, this should be a nearly instantaneous process, but with my machine, it has been getting very slow. This could be due to the fact that since the HDD is not spinning as fast as it should, the data access time for the disk is actually increased.

Hard drive temperature fluctuations, especially in the positive direction. This could indicate friction in the drive housing. Do not attempt to open the disk case as you WILL damage the HDD. Hard drives are meant to operate in very exacting conditions. Even so much as a particle of smoke on the disk platter surface could crash the head.

Drive head crash. This is the worst thing that can happen to your HDD. What happens here is when the read/write heads come into contact with the disk surface. Normally, they ride on a cushion of air a very small distance from the platter. If the heads come into contact with the surface of the disk, they scratch the disk and destroy the data on the disk. Data in the path of the crash are usually unrecoverable.

Anyhow, these are some of the things to look out for when dealing with a used HDD. Since mine has been going out, I have done some research and decided to post what I have learned. I knew some of it already, but stuff like the clicking that I described, I had no idea about. Of course, when my HDD decided to start clicking, it didn't take me very long to realize that something was wrong. :) TTFN.

Ah ha ha!

Actually, only SCUBA and LASER (of Jon's list) are 'acronyms' as such. An acronym is an abbreviation that forms a pronounceable word. The others are merely abbreviations, or what the word is (it's a lot like acronym) that I can't remember.

Oh, I looked it up:
A&W is the initials of the last names of the guys who founded it, Allen and Wright.

But I think it should be Awl and Widget. Or Algae and Weeds. Or... Asterisk and Whatnot.
Of course, to an extent, those are my initials too.

Okay, I'm wrong about acronym. Odd.

Aardvark and Wildebeast? Arsenal and Warcry? Air and Water?

Well, I really don't know what A&W stands for. But that's where the pictures were taken Jarrett. We were trying to refuel after another round of penultimate frisbee. That was Monday long about 2pm or so in the afternoon.

The Legend of Johnny Lingo. Hmm. It had its moments. Overall it seemed a bit amateurish, but still a fun flick to see. And it definitely fit with the island theme of Beth's surprise birthday party. Thanks again one and everyone who came. I'll be posting the pics here later.

Also, I propose an amendment/adendum/addition/adrenaline to the proposed ToasT. Er... party. After the swim and BBQ, anyone and everyone who so wishes to may come over to my flat for a starparty/ping-pong challenge/tounament (yes, I double checked the spelling on tounament). We've got a nice telescope (bigger than myself) which should be fun if the skies are clear that night, and a garage with plenty of space for singles, doubles, or lightning ping-pong. Sorry, I don't have the original Pong here. Though my nuncle does have a Commodore 64. I remember he mentioned that he had one, and then I saw the box when I was helping him move the other while. Tangent. Snap. Yeah, just in case some people are busy during the day or don't feel inclined to ascend the incline or are maybe hydrophobic (fear of water, not rabid). Then they can still join in on the socializingness. Well.

TTFN, FFY, RNA, NRA, USB, FTP, ATST, SCUBA, LASER, and various other acronyms.

Laters

HEEEEELLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

(He says in a very high pitched voice with a tinge of British accent)
It's been a long time!!! Sorry!
How is everyone? I'm fine
I move on July 2nd(friday).
Anyone willing to help, let me know. (there will be free pizza, and later, spanish rice!mmmmmmmmm)
email me at jeff(dot)johnson(at)gmail(dot)com
to let me know if you can make it!!
PS In the mood for the inane of band geeks? need a break from the solidarity of your life? completely bored because of having no band hall randomness?
Visit THE TALKING BAND HALL!!! website!!

By the way! I'm offending that I wasn't invited to the Lena farewell party!
jk, I understand!!hehe!!rotflmbo!!!

<----- Thataway! ----->

1. That's an excellent picture of Ben. Vive le Roi.
2. Where, When, what, why, did those pics come from?
Thank you Jon for your C:\Reply (anybody remember that vintage? a good year). C:\ness is a virtue. Or even more old-fashioneder, C> ness.

a thing on the screen, a foul-mouth, an angry Gypsy woman

a cursor

random blank verse by Jarrett.
Here's A Link of funny photo-shop work. You might not get it if you haven't seen any Jane Austen flicks.

And I think "Darth Vader loves a Country Dance" is going to be my motto.
Oh, Jason -- slow Waltz, or the fast Viennese?
I'M afraid of Virginia Woolf! ME!

if we shadows have offended,
think but this, and all is mended:
that you have but slumbered here
while this blog-post did appear;
and this weak and idle theme
no more yielding, but a dream....
.......
Else the Puck a liar call;
So Goodnight unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends
and Jarrett shall restore amends.

Actually

I didn't check it yesterday. And yeah, I think I'll be attending the meetin'

Great farewell for the Lena. Cory has a drinking problem. Well, at least as far as Root Beer is concerned. He can't get enough of the stuff.






I morgen, as it were.

And I'm looking forward to about a month from now. Yippee. That's when we all become a flying circus for 10+ hours. After that, its the traveling circus. Excitement! Great feats! Acceptable feets! High-wired fun and entertainment! Music! Magic! Melodrama! All coming soon.

Thank you Cory for prompt reply -- does no one else check the Blog on Mondays?
Tenderly I remain, Cableman Jorge.

Huzzah.

Thank you Jon for the jinglylink. One of these days, somebody's going to have to show me how to do things to my blog, which I don't know how to do. Now --
take your Jedi weapon. Strike me down with it -- and your journey to the dark side will be complete.
Wait, I mean, Now --
Take your jinglylink. Use it (there's new info) -- and "Journey" will be completely to the Dark Side. Maybe they already are, I don't know.
But do, visit the JÞII blog...for important meeting info.

Oh, and I saw the film 'Secondhand Lions' last night. Quite enjoyable.

This just in:

The JDA (Jingles Direct Access) link just went live. And it was small enough that it even made the top of the list. 's'right folks! We've got a new #1 link on the charts! Try: it out.

Also, some stuff. It's fun.

And if you think this is geeky/cool, check this out.

More for the blog at a later date and/or time.

A very subtle request

After much pain and deliberation (meetings lasting longer than 7 minutes), a request has been put in for a link in the sidebar to this website. Could this be added?

tx.

A Queer Idea

And by that I mean 'odd.' I don't give up using good words just because they're associated with obnoxious people.

Anyhow, the thought is this: What if the Emperor were a Surfer-Dude?
(some of these are direct paraphrases, some not-so-direct, it's been awhile since I last saw ROTJ.)

"Dude, Vader-meister, He'll turn to the dark side. I've like, forseen it."
"Righteous! Now -- Release your hatred, man."
"Dude, dig the power of this totally jammin' battle station."
"Now you're gonna see your pitiful rebellion totally wipe out."

I just thought I would prove to you all again how crazy I am.

Jon's deplorable math skills

Jon. 14, 18, 38, 31. Where the heck did you get those other numbers? I mean, 25, 27, 25, 6? I don't know. Either way, I'm all for the Crystal Springs idea. I'll not be able to make the Ben Lomond climb (I have been already about 4 times) because of work. But what else is new?

Never Mind... :)

Howdy all! I'm sure y'all are doing great this fine summer afternoon (or morning, or evening, or winter, spring, or fall for all I know.) Anyhow, yeah, I mentioned in a prior post that I would be taking a bit of a jaunt down to Manti this weekend. Well, I must inform you that I am not. However, I am not completely full of bad news. I must report that I learned to waltz the other night. Yeah, I feel pretty good about that. Now, it's off to practice this new-found ability.

So, Jon, are you getting a nice portable video player? Is that what you're saying? I think they're pretty cool. Kind of expensive though. Well, for me, everything is expensive. Especially car stuff. Geez! A wheel bearing cost me $225 to install. But, the good news is that now, riding in my Saturn (Lizzy), you can have a normal conversation without shouting over the tire dragging on the road. :)

Talk at y'all later! Ben, I'm going to have to relearn how to do the @bash puzzles again. I seriously can't figure it out. Perhaps if I read the book...

TTFN

Song of the day: Breakout by Swing Out Sister
Website of the day: YetiSports

I propose a toast.

And by "toast" I mean "party."

I was thinking of hiking Ben Lomond on the saturday after OCB returns from Germany. We can meet at the little parking lot at the top of North Ogden Divide where the trailhead is about 7:30am and leave about 8am. I'll provide donuts and juice to any and all who come, but eat a good breakfast first so you don't die. The hike takes about 5 or 6 hours if I remember right, so bring sunscreen, plenty of water, and lunch to eat at the summit. Trail snax are also a good thing to have to keep the ol' energy up. After we get back from that, we can all retire to Crystal Hot Springs (lap pool, hot tubs, mineral pool, water slides, and an area for barbeque I think - I'll have to call and ask) for an evening of fun and relaxing. That way people who don't want to do the hike can still join in on the fun. I can call and ask them about group rates. The barbeque at the water park would be a bring your own meat and another item to share deal (like chips, drink, ice, salad, buns, ketchup, mustard, kim-chi, etc.)

Well, whaddayasay, all? Sound like a plan? Tell all your friends. Tell Montenegro. Tell Marshie. Tell, William. Tell-Emitry? Tell me off if I'm too random. Then tell yourself a joke. Brightens the day, you know.

And Ben, I tried the @bash and got the first 2 words, but it's been too long and I'm not sure if I'm doing it right for the third one. I got 25,27,25,6. Does that sound right? Or is my math skills off?


Peace

The Future is almost here

And it's about time. Check the links. Out.

To be released near the end of this year.

Tom's look at the current box.

And an independent review.

Well, Circuit City sells the 320 and the RCA Lyra 2780, but for now I'm going to go with the 320.

Movie of the while: How to Steal a Million

Hey Mister Grumpygills!

All right! I'll do the @bash. And by the way to go on the prospects for Street. 'S'sweet.

Jason, I'm waiting to hear from my boss on whether I can take friday off and go with. I'd love to. Are Tim and Amy going? And Mike and Ben? I'm glad to hear about the Tiki torches. I'm afraid Christmas lights are a bit out of the question without a noisy generator nearby, which the denizens of the park would probably not enjoy. As for the lawn gnome, why not just bring your laptop and there can be a GNOME there instead. That is, if you still have your partition. I have something for you and andrew that I'll give you tonight, presuming that I'll see the both of y'all at OCB. It's a surprize, so I dasn't say more now. After all, the ears have walls.

Well, that's it for a whiles. 'cept that I broke my cell phone last night when I dropped my alarm clock/radio on it. Just cracked the faceplate, that is. Oh well. These things do happen you know.

Trivia time: Who was the only person in the Star Wars saga to refer to Boba Fett as a twerp? Post responses or just say them (preferably when someone is around to hear).

Ok then. Bye.

Often regrettable

I can't ask for saturday off, so there's no way that I can go to Manti. Sorry, I wish I wish I could go.

One more time...

Okay, if anyone is interested, I made an announcement on Sunday night or Monday, regarding the Manti Pageant. I don't know if anyone has read it, but I am hoping to get a group of all y'all together to go down to it Friday and Saturday. I think it would be really cool. If you are interested, either send me an email (j s c h i l l [at] w i n t o o l s [dot] c o m) or post a blog about it. It's a lot of fun and I think that you would enjoy it. Again, I appologize for not posting something a week or so ago.

Chao!!

News and Riddles

The top guy at Street Magazine really liked my story and wanted to publish it... however, it may be too long to make it in the issue that will be published in the next couple weeks. It is always a possibility and he said to keep submitting. He was surprised at the depth and wisdom to come from one as young as I am. I was, shall we say, flattered.
Onto the riddles. I decided today, whilst waiting for my sister to get done with her orthodontist appointment, to reprise @bash. Now, I know that in my hayday I wrote 8 @bashes and NOONE took the time to decipher them only to read them and think, "Oh, that's nice." So, I have a new one.

Tut, tut

Sum guy
Really was
Guiding Egypt to home
Aptly


Ok, so, now's your chance, all of those of you that have the key to the lock can open it up and get the third and mysterious word. Oh, and if y'all think you can just read it and think, "Oh, that's nice" then I'm just gonna go pout in a corner and never share my riddles with you again. I mean, I thought this was something people liked doing, right? And I hope that all you slowpokes out there are smart enough to catch the sarcasm spattered all over the second part of the post.

Later scum

I overmorgen

That's how it's said in the land of the Golden Summer, anyhow. At least, that's what my title would've been a few hours ago. As it is, I'm just getting done with the main rush of business for the evening, and decided to blog whilst I'm zipping along at 44kbps. More like Trial-up if you ask me.

Soooo.... today I had good fare and plenty of it at my sis' house. My grandparents who live down the street, and my other sis who lives with them came over as well. Currently I'm sitting in the Prancing Pony with Strider & co. Frodo has just read Mithrandir's belated (courtesy Barliman) letter. Hopefully I won't be past Khazad-dum before Hof. I hope to enjoy the trip on the trip, if you catch my meaning. And if you don't, then just remember what they told you: keep your eye on the ball. Um... or the meaning, if that's what you're trying to catch.

Well, if no one has yet tried out Scorched3D, I have to plug it again and say that I'll doubtless be trajector-izing some tomorrow at work. Ben, when do you work? Maybe I'll see you @IM. Way 2 go on the trip and the letter. Although I have to say that I hope your southern accent wears off soon. Unless you plan on wearing no shirt or shoes and for pants wearing overalls with one strap hanging down and a big felt hat and carrying a shotgun. Or something. Ok, well, I guess it's the acute minority of the South that fit that bill, but still... that's what I guess the accent conjurs in my pate. Well, I have plenty more to say, but not enough mental reserve to correctly compose it here at this time. Correctly. Mmm. Reminds me of Caroll's caterpillar. WHO R U? Which gives us BB||!BB, leading us then to ph34r th3 cu73 0n35. rua n1nj4 2? 2 much l33t/g33k5p33k 1 th1nk. Although I though that 323k137 was clever. If indeed that's how it's spelt. (No use crying over spelled milk?) How I love free association. It's often a very liberating form of humor.

If I ever did an arrangement of Pictures @ an Exhibition, I think I'd change it up quite a bit and call it Forgery Gallery or something like that. And I did decide to use either Bydlo or Ballet for Tian's boyhood antics (he being the main character of the first segment of my starry saga). Which reminds me, what do you get when you mix Mussorgsky and Williams? Why, Motion Pictures at an Exhibition, of course. (Jabba Yaga, the Hutt on Han's Legs? A chart that would crush any normal smuggler's extremities.)

And, to return in closing to where I began, may I just say this: Jeg glaeder mig til det. Og det hele.

Peace

PS. Indescision still on which jukebox to go for. Archos or RCA?

Sea Quail

I'm am so looking forward to the commencement of Jinglesthula 2 in the next week or so. Oh, and everyone, hello. I'm journeyed far and wide, from the Great Salt Lake to the Atlantic Ocean and back again and now I find my self blogging. Go figure. I've replaced Strongbad as my second voice. After spending a week in the south, a southerner's accent has crept in and taken over. Too bad Strongbad. Oh, speaking of, his last e-mail was the most quotable e-mail I've seen in a long time. Also, he made that elusive homage to the e-mail I sent him months ago with the reference to a motorcycle. Way to go me! Ok, I'm outa here. I'm gonna blog the events of my trip with links included, so go ahead and check that out. E-mail me if'n ya wanna chat er something. I'm all about hanging out now that I've been gone for a whole week. Laters

Montjoie!

Which, in case you were wondering, was Charlemagne's batttle-cry. Kind of a Rallying-Cry, too, because his troops used it as well.

The reason for my elation, you ask? I finally have a good job. I am, as a matter of fact, now an employee of the Deseret Book company. In Layton. Yes, I get a discount; No, I can't share it. Sorry!

So, I begin my workingness today with a good deal of gusto.
And, with help from my parents, I paid in the last of the Europe-Tour Money -- and saw Scott Sneddon's house. Very interesting.

(It's not Gandalf - it's Saint George.)
Gesundheit!

It's That Time of Year Again...

Yes, it has come to the month of June. We all know what that means: Manti Pageant. I appologize for not reminding you all about this earlier, but I have been very preoccupied myself and so some things have fallen onto the back burners. But, Kristin, being the wonderful person she is has put me up to the task of reminding any and all wishing to make the trek this Friday and Saturday to Manti, Utah to see the Mormon Miracle Pageant. Price: Only the price of gas and having to be stuck in the car with your best friends for some two hours or so each way. But, to be safe, bring ten bucks to buy food in the evening and then again in the morning. Jon, if you're coming, you should provide the lawn gnome; I've got the tiki torches covered. If any of you have any questions, please contact me at j s c h i l l [in the house of] w i n t o o l s [dot operator] command prompt. The dates that I am available are this Friday (18 June) and Saturday (19 June). It is an overnight thing seeing as the pageant gets over about 11:30pm. Please feel free to check out pictures of last year's adventure.

TTFN. I hope we can get a nice group together this year to go down to this shindig. It's a lot of fun. Again, sorry for the short notice.

JDS

Hot potato, hot potato, hot potato...

Etc.

That's how I have felt the past 2 weeks with having to transfer my work phone from me to my coworkers and back every single day instead of once a week. Our other phone was down - THAT'S why. Oh, wait... you didn't ask why. Well, now you know anyways. And today, I worked a monster 22 hour shift. A record, for me. Too bad I only get paid for 15 1/2 hours of it. Still, that's not too shabby.

Today I got my line of credit limit raised. Woo who. I've heard that it's a good idea to make use of a line of credit as you go along (always making sure to pay it back, of course) so that you can build your credit history. That way when I apply for a house mortgage I'll be able to get one. It also has the added benefit that the biggest check I've ever written in my life won't bounce when it gets cashed here in the next few days. 'sright, kids! I wrote out a check for the balance due on the trip to Europe this summer with OCB. I'm looking very very much forward to it. I only hope that the A70 and the Lyra work swimmingly together so's I can be a digi-mobile shutterbug there. I read a bit of Kapitel 1. the other day. I don't think it's so much effort that's going to be the problem, but finding time - or chosing to use my spare time for that purpose, anyway.

Speaking of which, I'm going to really push to get the TWCD done within the next couple of weeks. I think it's almost there. I just have to record the soundtracks and fix the timing. Looking also forward to that day when I can publish that thing - like a year and a half now... sheesh.

Ok, well, now I'm off to wash a car and pick some fresh peas from our garden. Good times? Too right!

Also, then. Scorched3D on download.com. Check it. Out. If you liked "the mother of all games" then you will love this one. And get this: you can play as two different Hoth guns, or an ATST. Plus all the usual fare: Apache, Bradley, Hummer, Warthog, SCUD, Patriot, some SAM vehicles... well, there are about 50. And there's one of Kenny, and Death, and other fun stuff.

Peace

Oh Yes Indeed

Because it's purpose wasn't originally to control things, but to prevent passengers and driver from being dashed (splashed) with mud. Probably originally a carriage term.
If you want to know how I find this stuff out -- Well, it doesn't show the etymology, but This might help.

I think it depends on the starship, too. The Enterprise is probably Automatic Trans; but an X-Wing has got to be Standard. And I'm willing to bet that though we didn't see it, Darth Vader had detail work and a loud muffler on his TIE fighter. Obi-Wan's ship in Episode II is probably a stick as well -- possibly, what with the outside-ring-thing, a bit like driving a car that switches back and forth into 4WD.

Couldn't even tell you on the podracers - probably depends on the driver's tastes.

My starships are all Standard.

I'll bet Captain Kirk would have loved to direct the enterprise from his dashboard. Probably an old T-Bird or a Camaro or something.

Which reminds me:
Why do spies insist on driving such cool cars? I mean, if I were just walking down the street and saw a car like that, I would say, "look, there goes a spy." They should make their modifications on more normal cars.
But, James Bond would never drive a 1985 Chevy Celebrity. Or even a mid-90's Nissan Sentra for that matter. Q might. But Q would probably drive an old Volvo Wagon. Wouldn't it bet great to have a Volvo Wagon that could fly, and shoot missiles, and drop Oil Slicks at the cars behind you?
I guess if your Volvo was old enough, you might get Oil Slicks.
Or, even better - an old Woody, a surfer's station wagon. No one would expect THAT to be a spy car.

Anyway...
And there'd be a lot less throwing-about of the crew if they had seatbelts. It makes sense to me.

Driver's Ed cars should be built with Passenger-Side ejection seats.

<----- Back to Dashboard

All I need to go back to my dashboard is my car key. Just out of curiosity, have you ever wondered where the term dashboard came from? I just barely thought of that. Dashboard--a board that you dash against something, like a tree or a buffalo? How about something that you grab onto when you dash someplace? I've done that second one! Now, some cars come built with "Oh Crap" handles built into the dashboard for just such occasions. Seriously, why do we call them dashboards? A dashboard in the sense of the Internet and computing is a place where you have controls for something (gee, the same as in a car), but then there's also a Control Panel, which is what is common to both Windows and Linux operating systems. (Sorry, a little Geek-ese there.) And besides that, if I were in one of those sci-fi movies controlling a starship and I went to the control room, I would walk up to a control panel, not a dashboard. I can just see it now: The USS Second-prize blasting its way through the black abyss of space with her captain controlling her from behind the dashboard of his 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity. Hey, it has all the controls needed for starship operation: speedometer, gas gage, warp speed selection indicator (PRNDL) and direction control. Hmmm. I wonder if starships have a neutral setting... ...or for that matter if they are manual or automatic transmission. NO!! Even the USS Second-prize would have a control panel rather than a dashboard. It's more sexy to say "Control Panel" than "Dashboard."

Anyhow, I was just wondering about that. If any of you have a solution for me in my wondering state of stupor, please help me out.

Come to think of it, that thing that Data sits behind on Star Trek TNG looks suspiciously like a dashboard...

And where the heck are the seatbelts in the Enterprize? Ralph Nader would have a heyday with that design. So unsafe to shoot through space at multiple warp speeds with no passive restraint system.

TTFN

Jinglyblog?

That's either offensive or a great way of putting it - we'll have to see.

Which reminds me of Han Solo: "Interesting girl - either I'm beginning to like her, or I'm gonna kill her." And it's clever dialogue like that we missed in Episodes One and Two. Though they have their moments, especially Obi-Wan in episode two.

"We were trying to rescue you..."
"Good job!"

Which gives me a thought to put on another blog far, far away.

Nice save!

And the crowd goes wild... with one lone exception who simply wears a perplexing smile. What a weird place for a gravity experience. I mean, all I did was stand there and continue to hold on to the handrail. Talk about being in the wrong reality at the right time.

Ok, so that's my random bit of random for today.

Did you know that there are two nerve pathways from each eye to the brain? The main pathway (commonly called the optic nerve) goes directly to the visual cortex and deals with color, shape, recognition, etc. The second pathway goes to the brain stem, then continues to a place just above the visual cortex. It deals mainly with contrast and movement and is used mostly for reflexes and such. It is more developed in animals than in us humans. Interestingly enough, people who have had their primary nerve pathway damaged can be 100% blind, but can still use this secondary pathway to sense movement. This strange condition is known as blindsight. The person can see, even though they cannot see. What fun stuff you learn on NOVA.

And even weirder than that, when people have the connection between the emotion center and the visual centers of the brain damaged they develop a strange dilusional condition where they believe that people and places they are familiar with are not the real thing, but imposters. A man with this condition thought that his parents were people that looked exactly like his parents, that his dog was not his dog, but rather another dog that looked exactly the same, and even that his appartment was not his own. And even trippier - when he looked in the mirror, he believed that he was not himself, but a look-alike. When this happened he would refer to himself in third-person. The condition corrects itself over time, which is nice for those who suffer from it (it is usually the result of a head injury).

I'll be adding people to the jinglyblog today. Enjoy.

I am so smart, s-m-r-t, I mean s-m-a-r-t

I laughed quite a lot at your great link Jason. Hillarious.

Everyone, please come and visit the Jingles planning blog. Feel free to add your suggestions and make yourselves available for filming in about four or five more weeks.

Okay. I just thought I should put some words here today.

This. Hi.

How to have fun

...in a movie theatre.

Movie theatres are warm, dark places generally filled with lots of people engaged in a mindless stupor. Gee, sounds to me like the only thing that will have fun in them is a colony of mold spores. If you suffer from this Lack-of-Fun syndrome, please check out the website of the day: Everything not to do in ROTK. For the rest of you who may not suffer from the boredom bug in movie theatres, which, I might add, includes me (I like going to movie theatres), you could get some good ideas for the next time you patronize the movie theatre establishment for your afternoon or evening entertainment.

TTFN.

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This

is what happens at this time of day.


Ok, so um... my brain is buzzy from taking so many phone calls for work. Crazy peoples.

Favorite music of the while:

La Suerte De Los Tontos (Dumb Luck?)
And... pretty much all the music from Guys and Dolls, especially
Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat

Mistake of the day:
Forgetting the xylophone for the OCB concert. (where was everybody?)

Did you ever hear the one about the 3 deep holes?

Well, well, well

And that concludes my reader nerve abrasion for the day.


Peace

JINGLESÞULA II!

Come Visit the planning blog!

Also: Welsh Poet of the Day:
Dylan Thomas

Movie of the Day:
Much Ado About Nothing

One of the finer installments in "Bill and Ken's Excellent Adventure" (Bill Shakespeare, Ken Branagh).

Ahoi hoi!

Okey Dokey now peoples. I never intended there to be any snafu about the title of "the film" (as it shall be refered to from this point forward). "the film"'s original title was meant as a joke on the ridiculous titles of the ever popular "Star Wars" saga. I just thought to myself "self: why don't you satirically point out the poor-ness of George Lucas' title-ing abilities?" But, I do think the "the film" blog is a great way to get communication going. Jarrett, I may consider your suggestion, but don't count on it until I've mulled it over a good deal. You can reach me at:

s p i e l _ f a n [at] yeaoooozzzzzaaaaaaaa [dot] comedy camp

or yahoo works too.

I think all suggestions were great and I hope you have a great drunk immitation Jarrett. I also thought it would be funny to create a prologue a la Lord of the Rings. I dunno, just something to think about. If anyone else has a funny idea occur to them, feel free to share it and we may haps will use it in "the film"

Panther vs. The World

Yes, that's right ladies and gentlemen, in this corner we have the Panther taking on his opponent The World, better known as Microsoft. It appears that while Panther has some great moves, The World is just too big to tame. Ouch! That left hook looked like it hurt. Panther tries to get a piece of the action, but it just seems that it's not his piece of pie. Everytime Panther tries something, MS just grabs him and sits on him pinning him to the mat and hurting him badly.

Yeah, it's not a Panther's world. It seems that everything out there is written for Microsoft Internet Explorer. Yeah, that includes WildCat Mail, unfortunately. I haven't found a browser that works properly with it except MSIE. However you could try a new browser out there called MyIE2. (three double-Us [dot] myie2 [dot] commandos.) This might work for you if you're using a Windows machine. It's just kind of a confusing browser to use. (lots of buttons) But it does look curiously similar to the Konqueror browser on the KDE desktop for Linux. ;) If you're using a Mac, well, good luck. You have, well, Internet Explorer and hmmmm, Safari. But then again, you might be running OS 10.2, whatever release Panther is. So that won't help. You could try running Linux, but then you might be accused of being a supervillain or trying to take over the world with your orbiting brain lasers. Hehehe. Linux runs on anything, man. But, if you really want to be able to use WildCat Mail, just bend and use Windows like the rest of us. Grrrr. But, if you really want to know, I'm not using MSIE to write this. :) I'm using Windows, but not Internet Exploder.

_

Sometimes Macs don't like wildcat mail either. Try refreshing. Or being fresh. Or freshening your breath.

Always brush your teeth before using a computer.

Panther does not like Wildcat Mail

How odd.

That is, the compose link (and the others) never show up on the left. Jarrett, my email is sten _ paa [at] yeehaw [dot] combustible. Or yahoo. Whichever, really.

Allez-Vous!

It's on the web!
the link is

hat top://, jinglesthepirategoesquantitysurveying , blogspot, commie.
or Here -> _

I'll repeat, send me your email addresses and I will invite you. In fact, send me the email addresses of other people you know would like to be involved. There are some ideas there already.

En Avant JÞ II!

Other Ideas

I really like the idea of having a 'discussion-forum-for-Jinglesþula-sequel" blog. And I will be responsible for it. So, all you involved in the JÞ II Project, email your addresses to arthur wheatley (a) mail, weber, edu. I'll be setting up the blog tomorrow morning.

Another thought: for those of you in Marching Band, and maybe in the whole Band Program, I think we need to have a WSU Band Union. So that Announcements made in one band but forgotten in another will get through. So that issues can be addressed, and whiners forever silenced(unless they're righteously whining). A rep would come from each section.

Also -- do we all only blog on Thursday?
Also -- for now, we don't even worry about the title. What works works, and we won't mess with it.

Only-Jarrett-would-find-such-a-thing-website-of-the-day:
Essential Norman Conquest (Bayeux Tapestry available for download!)

Happy Gerunds and Zeugmas to all!
Oh, and I get the Þ character by pressing Alt+0222, and the lowercase þ by Alt+0254. I'm on windows 95, so.

Not Fare

$20, actually. If you paid on time. $25 late, and $30 at the door with no Maddox.

So I was thinking that the party in Cedar City was the best ever as far as graduation parties go. Then I was listening to my sister tell about hers. They had Maddox cater from 11-12, and then later they came in with stacks and stacks of pizza from The Pie. In the library they had tons of TVs set up with Halo on XBox, ping pong, inflatable toys from Some Dude's Playground including one where you attatched a bungee cord to you and then ran and see how far you could get before you get thrown back (yay for friction burns). They had ping pong and a DJ and everybody that came in had a wrist band with a number on it. In the school office there was a duffel bag with a corresponding number on it that you could keep your stuff in and come check it out whenever you wanted to. Then at the end of the night you got to keep the duffel bag, which was huge, really nice and came with a water bottle and mesh holder for it on the bag. They also showed The Creature From the Black Lagoon on reel-to-reel, and 1/2 way through the sound got off from the picture by about 1 second. Hilarious, cheesy and totally awesome. They also gave out about $1700 in cash and stuff like a moped and other items. So now there are two (2) graduation parties that I've seen or heard tell of that simply kick my graduation party's backside. What did I have, you might ask? the Ogden Recreation Center something or other was rented out (some of the rooms weren't even opened) and they had weird food that wasn't that great. I won some candy in a drawring. I don't even remember anything else. They might have had a DJ at ours, but the whole thing wasn't very impressive and we left 1/2 way through to go watch The Fugitive over in Eden. Now I'm through drooling and complaining. But speaking of Cedar City, after DCI finals the Cadets and Vanguard are going to stay there on their way to Cali. Ricky was thinking of going to see them. Road trip, anyone? You won't even have to eat prickly pear, I promise. More later.

Here's to hopin

I sure hope that you guys don't start fighting over the title or anything. I mean, the one that Andrew had was funny and doesn't even need to have anything to do with the plot. I always find that bickering whilst corroborating with a fun project, takes the fun and makes it not fun.
Anywho, yes, Jarrett, congregations on your DL. However, staying nice and patient with the other stupid Utard drivers that seem to accost me at every turn. I mean, sometimes I think that it's secretly Cut Ben Off Day and everyone decided not to tell me about it.
My story, "The Sleepy Dozen", is finally into Street Magazine and all's I get to do is wait and see what happens. My older sister is the copy editer for that particular publication and if my story makes it, which my sis is almost certain it will, then she'll know about it... because she'll have to edit it.
I'm also hoping that a letter will come to my house before my vacation.

Lates, yo.

Tropical lazor beams of love

Tropical lima beans above.

Woo who. JII. As I was cruising down the road on the south side of campus I thought that it would be nice if the browning center were a castle being stormed at one point. Maybe the other buildings on campus could be other buildings in the movie.... kind of expand our horizons. Shoot, we could even shoot at many and various locations in the area. Maybe we could even start another blog as a script/other movie ideas forum for working on the movie so as not to clutter this blog with the preproduction gab.

Jarrett, to put it in the words of a crazy old wizard: "That's good. You have taken your first step into a larger world."

(Unfortunately it is both a world of freedom and of frustration.)

And congrats to Jason also on the recovery of his site.

And congrats to me on my 9.3 rating. [what a geek I am]

Sooooo.... the puppet jam 2 sounds an awful lot like Saphire Bullets of Pure Love from Flood. I thought it was very funny. Also the new Cheat Commando's Oh's Cereal commercial.

And by the by, Venus is scheduled to cross the solar disk on June 8. A rare occurrance (from our vantage anyways).

More.

Later.

Laters.

Jingles's saga andersonar

Sorry - like the original "Jinglesþula" that's an obscure Icelandic Joke, and Andrew, mebbe we continue to hammer on the title. I spent 2 hours on the title for JÞ 1 - hard work pays off. Yes, JÞ II is a go. I certainly agree that it should be done, and am happy to be collaborating (and/or corroborating, corrupting, corroding, corrugating, kayaking?) with Herr Schvaneveldt.
Andrew, I think that despite your likely role as High Camera Lord (experience dictating), you should consider playing the BadGuy. Whom I think -- and tell me your opinion -- should be called Dennis. Good Ideas begin to dribble forth already.
Other than that, Jarrett is the Band Hall's most recently Licensed Driver. And I am suddenly aware of how many idiots there are in the world.
And since I prefer short blogs, that's all for today, except a poem link.

Speaking of Eggmuffins, Ben

I wen't to Mr. Donald's this morning and ordered the Big Breakfast. But all it had in it was a muffin, sausage, and scrambled eggs. Sure, it came with a drink, but it's like they just gave me a dissembled Sausage Egg McMuffin. I thought it'd come with pancakes too, but I was wrong. Sad.

Ok, so that really IS TMBG playing with puppet H*R. Puppet Jam 2 is up now, by the by. And I went to tmbg.com to confirm it. Apparently they are doing a music video soon of one of the songs off TMBG's new album. And also, if you go to tmbg.com they currently have Birdhouse in Your Soul for their listen-to-for-free song. Just shoot the picture of the ear that goes by on the wire and then shoot the accordian below to hear it.

I got 5 hours of sleep last night - up til after 1am working, and then I had to get up just after 6 to work again. Shortly thereafter I went to my uncle's appartment to help pack up stuff to move. That took a few hours. Then, by lunch time I was so tired I did something funny. I was sitting there with a gallon of milk in front of me and the thought occurred to me "Hey, I wonder what the ingredients are in milk." After a few seconds of looking on the front and sides of the container, it struck me that - duh - there's nothing in milk but milk. Only later did it occur to me that they are required by law to put the ingredients on the food. I went back and checked and it was sure enough there on the back, where I'd failed to look the first time.

Ok, well, I thought it was funny. But then, I only had 5 hours of sleep.

Go figure.

More later.

All Better Now

Put your hands together for the incredible power of Nate Zaugg!! He singlehandedly slew the dragon and got my website back on the internet all while eating orange Jell-O. Well, I may be a bit exaggerating with that bit about the dragon and Jell-O, but my website works again! :) But you never know, maybe he did do all that stuff. ??????

So, I don't know about you all, but something like having my website back up is a really cool thing. It's like Christmas, though I'm not going to compare my website to the Lord Jesus Christ or anything. That would be a little bit incredulous and a lot bit blasphemous. It's just like the feeling you get when you're a little kid and you go to open presents on Christmas. Yeah, I was pretty excited about it.

A reiteration: Kristin and I are getting married! (I'm way excited, by the way.) If you would like an announcement, please email me and let me know. I need your physical address too. You can reach me at j s c h i l l [at] w i n t o o l s [dot] c o m.

Have a great day, y'all! Talk to you later. Please keep me informed regarding Jinglesthula Episode II.

Chao

Sounds D

lightful.

I'd be up for part II. Speaking of which, today I ate at Gandolpho's again. Thank you Ben for showing me what a good sandwich is supposed to be like. I had the Empire State. 'Twas great. Well, then, here I go. Now I'm going to go read something.

Laters, all.

Well, what have we here?

I don't really know the answer to that myself. Actually, I think I have come to a solution to end my bitterness and do something that everyone will have fun with. I propose to film-

"Jinglesthula Episode II: The Curse of the Phantom Clones or Jingles the Pirate goes Quantity Surveying"

- Everyone will be invited to partake of the filmmyness that it will be, pending approval from the almighty creator, Jarrett. My proposal is this: we utilize all the bad techniques and jokes that made the first one work so well, but make it even longer and more unbearable than the first. It will be hilarious. Ricky has already agreed to return as the all around stunt person, providing stunts for all, and Ben is excited about a possible "return of the king". I would love to have Jon reprise his part as Jingles and Jarrett as Father Benedict. Here's hopping we can get all us band geeks together one more time for some fun at the expense of those band geeks who will not be able to be present, er, I mean..........bye now.

Look what you did! You broke it!

Hey, sorry guys, for having my blog down for a while. I have no idea what is going on with it. I've sent an email to the great Nate Zaugg and asked him to take a look at it. As far as I know, I didn't do anything to take it offline, but sure enough, it is. I can't even log into it properly anymore. Geez! I go away for a weekend, come back and BAM! My website is down and my life is in a shambles!! Well, okay, you can forget the second part of the previous statement, but MY WEBSITE IS DOWN! Gaaaah! What could be worse? Okay, it could be raining in the library or something. Now that would be bad. Sorry about that. Like I say, I don't know what's up with it. It's just being tempermental, I think. In the meantime (time can be mean, eh) have fun with this site: LoserCars.

TTFN
Jason

YOU LOOKIN AT ME???!!!!!!!

visit me If Only the Band Hall Could Talk Jarrett?!

We've searched every crook and nanny

Well, just about every one.

The trip down to Cedar City was most excelent. Thursday morning we loaded up the equipment at the school and then headed out. We did not stop in Nephi. Rather, we stopped in Scipio where the gas prices are high. Diego provided provender in the form of donuts and Capri Sun and bagels and Red Vines. Mmm. We had a couple of Talkabout
walkie-talkies between the two cars (Diego and Cory drove) which provided much entertainment. There was much quoting of movies and Homestar along the way, as well as other assorted randomness.

When we arrived in Cedar City we stopped at Julie's parents' house and unloaded our gear and just sat around for a while. Then we headed over to Cedar City High to set up. As we were driving up to the high school we passed a high embankment on which were growing several trees - some of them dead ones. Cory's car, which had recently been damaged by a vicious charging canine, was nearly damaged again as we watched a small funnel cloud materialize just long enough to pick up lots of dust... and a dead tree - and set it down none too gently on the road right in front the C-mobile. It was the coolest thing (both to see it and the fact that no one died) - quite a welcome to the town.

The band director over there is incredibly organized and was very helpful in getting stuff set up. We did a couple of run-throughs and even tried on a couple of songs for size that we didn't end up using, but enjoyed playing. After rehearsing for a while Julie left to go to her brother's graduation and we went to grab some grub. Cory and Diego and my person ate at the Iceberg Drive-In and Aaron and Lena ate at... um... another place that I can't remember right now. Maybe Subway or something.

After dinner we went back to Julie's parents' pad and had a tour of the new house they're building across the street, watched two kids jumping on top of a tree, and generally just sat around watching Pirates of the Carribean special features and part of The Emperor's New Groove. After a whiles it was time to go back and perform, so we donned our costumes and hopped in the Piratemobile(s). When we got there I think we did another run-through, and then wandered around Disneyland. I mean the high school. They had that thing more decorated than a... well, a highly decorated high school. My high school grad party was not nearly that cool. : (

They had inflatable slide and race course which we subjected ourselves to multiple times. Several minor injuries were sustained. The race was really fun, because to get through, you had to start out with a headlong dive through a small hole. Once, when Cory and I were racing, we both happened to get stuck in the hole right at first, and then at the end when you have to climb up the wall and go down the ramp Cory was a bit ahead, so I did a flip to go faster (for some reason that actually does work on the ramp part) and accidently gave Cory a compression fracture of the spine. At least that's what I was afraid of, but he was still walking and talking after that, so I guess he's ok. Then we eventually headed back up and drank Pina Coladas, ate shish kebabs and won tons (sp?) and other various edibles and embibables.

At long last the time (11 pm) arrived for us to play. And play we did. We opened with the Pirates of the Carribean opener, followed by a quartet doing an improv piece on two djembes, a marimba, and a cowbell. After that we finished our first set with a latin piece that Aaron had written. It consisted mostly of solos, which were fun. The crowd seemed to enoy it.

After that we just wandered aroud a bit more and ate and watched Family Feud played by the high school kids. The best part of that was the question "which is the most popular day of the week." There were 5 survey answers and you had to get three strikes for the other team to steal. Do the math.

After that nonsense ended we played our second set. This consisted of the epic swordfight cory-ographed by Chore, Diego , and me. But right then we were, Jingles & crew. It started off with me dropping a gold coin (courtesy the decorations) "accidently" as I walked across the stage. Cory and Diego both went for it at the same time, and thus the fight began. They fought for a while until Diego was forcing Cory down with swords locked when I entered, tapped Diego on the shoulder, and totally K.O.'d him as he turned to see who it was. He lay out cold on the side for most of the rest of the fight. After I punched him I raised my blade to finish him off. But Cory wanted the honors, so he shoved me and then we started fighting. My sword broke during the first few hits, but we kept going anyways. We finished up as Cory charged and swung recklessly. I ducked under his slice and cut him a good one right across the back. Then I kicked him onto his back and went to stab him, but he stabbed me instead. At this point, Diego came to and came up behind Cory with the intention of doing him harm. Cory pulled his sword out of my torso and stabbed behind him into Diego's torso. Thus Cory ended up victor (not Wooten) and collected the gold coin from the dust and exited stage right. The whole time Aaron, Lena, and Julie were going on the toms, cymbals, timpani, etc. which greatly enhanced the effect. After the duel, we ended our second set with another go of Pirates of the Carribean.

When that was all over we broke down the equipment and hauled it back to the band room. Then we had a go at the rock climbing wall they'd set up out-of-doors. By the time we got done the Polynesian dancers from SUU were about halfway through with their show. That ended with them teaching everyone a Hawaiian line dance. There was more feasting (Dilly Bars) and drinking (ice-cold Sprite) and general merry making. We then broke down the marimba that we had brought with and made our exit. Sleep was both welcome and in and out of doors.

The next morning bright and not even early at all, we breakfasted on cold cereal and Pop-tarts and then headed out for Red Cliffs. The hike was very awesome. We climbed and swam and became injured and took pictures and ate cactus (literally) and reenacted scenes from Star Wars. There were lizards and butterflies and wolves and coyotes and snakes. I'll be posting pictures when I get them developed, which should be soon as I have three rolls now completed and awaiting the light of day... I mean the darkroom. The whole hike took about 4 hours and we were nice and tired when we got done. I really should've tossed my frisbee from the mountain top down to the others, since I had it with me. Twould've made a nice video shot.

When we got back we dined on KFC at the Casperson flat and then later went for ice cream at GranDee's. We did not attempt the Zion, but my Pound Cake Sundae was most satisfying. Mmm. Raspberries and almonds. After that we finished New Groove and watched The Burbs. Then it was hay-hitting all around. Except for Frank.

The next morning we packed up and did the cold cereal thing again and left for home. The drive home was uneventful with the exception of the girl in the black car that Diego kept playing leapfrog with. Back at the college we unloaded and then went home. All in all a thoroughly enjoyable trip. Trips like that need to happen more often.

And speaking of trips, I read some more from der Gefangene von Askaban today. And started LotR again. But that's not trip-related. I am very much looking forward to Hof.

Well. Laters, all.

If...

...you named a Ship after a Civil war General,
you would have the 'U.S.S. Ulysses S.'
which is fun to say.

How many Emu's eggs can you eat before you realize....

that nothing in your life makes sense with the rest of the emu's birds nest before the price of underwear in china goes so high they have to raise the price of emus rice?

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!
SPAM!!!!

Apples to Eggmuffins?

So, I called Jessica and her answering message on her cell phone is hilarious. Very band geek related! About the title? Dunno.

Three million dollars?

Well, it's worth every penny.

That's what the new fountain near the entrance of Lagoon cost. (The Farmington Star reports it as $1 Million, but I heard it from the park director.) It is a walk in fountain for people to play in when it's warm. Each of the guesstimated 100 nozzles that shoot the perfectly clear, round streams of water cost $5000. I got an earful about QA at the park yesterday at an ASQ I attended. Interesting stuff. The park opens at 11 AM, but they have people visually inspect every inch of track on every ride, starting at 5:30 AM. Every ride in the park is inspected every day by 3 different people before it is certified for public use. These people take fun seriously so that we don't have to. Well... I found it interesting anyways. And the free dinner didn't hurt. If it had, I'd've complained.

Well, yesterday I finished reading Quenta Silmarillion, read all of the Akallabêth, and started in on The War of the Rings. The whole collection is full of stories of heroic triumph, but leans more often towards tragic events. Still, I liked the note at the end of Quenta Silmarillion that said that it was unknown whether the Marring would be amended rather than just leaving you with a let down feeling. Kind of leaves it up in the air still. Good book, though.

Well, I am all the way happy about being able to get off both my works for the trip to Cedar City this week, which I am very much looking forward too. Today is our last (I think) rehearsal for avoiding the inflicting of the wounds of death as we thrill and impress our audience. I was just looking over the agenda Diego gave us an noticed that our performance time was 10 PM. They must have quite the party planned. Oh, yeah. That's right. Now I remember. Graduation parties go till the wee hours of the morning. We're not last. We're more like towards the beginning. Shoot - some of the kids might not even show up until after we perform. How silly of me. Well, their loss.

Yesterday I quite enjoyed listening to the soundtrack to O, Brother. As I was the only one home, the volume on the stereo was a bit higher than is polite to have it when there are other people present.

While I was home alone I put together two new slideshows and watched the first part of A New Hope. What a great show.

So now I'm just rambling on.

Buy. Now.

I mean bye, now.

Jeff, Jeff, Jeff. Where on earth did you get such a strange picture? Maybe I don't want to know. So.... why'd I ask? I don't know.

Oh, by the way, I messed up when putting my email address below (left part of it off). I've corrected the oversight.

All I have to say is this:

(In constant sorrow all through his days)

I am a man of constant sorrow
I've seen trouble all my days
I bid farewell to Old Kentucky
The place where I was born and raised
(The place where he was born and raised)

For six long years I've been in trouble
No pleasure here on earth I've found
For in this world I'm bound to ramble
I have no friends to help me now
(He has no friends to help him now)

It's fare-thee-well my own true lover
I ne'er expect to see you now
For I'm bound to ride that Northern Railroad
Perhaps I'll die upon this train
(Perhaps he'll die upon this train)

You can bury me in Sunny Valley
For many years where I may lay
And you may learn to love another
While I am sleeping in my grave
(While he is sleeping in his grave)

Maybe your friends think I'm just a stranger
My face you never will see no more
But there is one promise that is given
I'll meet you on God's golden shore
(He'll meet you on God's golden shore)


Well, that and this:

I liked Sonnet 29 Jarrett. It reminded me of a funny Shakespear T some of my friends had in high school from their AP Lit class (I believe). It had a picture of the playwright on the front, and on the back this quote by the same:
"I love thee not, therefore pursue me not, for I am sick when I do look on thee."
Funny stuff, I thought. (Although it was not the Sonnet but rather the author that reminded me of the quote.)

Laters

I take it that's another of Jeff's Wedding Photos.

Joke, of course.
Today, I learned to play a new Instrument.
That's all.

Your Father's Moustache

One Word:

Hamster.

And so forth. Greetings, one and everyone. Today I have been enjoying a certain website, bet you can guess it by my links.

Not all classical music is as interesting as the rest.

Yay for Ganesh (the protectarrrr).

I don't really have any news today -- I'm pleased to announce my newly released Blogger Profile, though.

But I must go.
Poem of the day (my own choice): Sonnet 29

I never met a chainsaw I didn't like

...until today.

Actually, I liked the chainsaw just fine. Until, that is...

The fact of the matter is that before today I'd never used a chainsaw. And as luck would have it, the first one I used turned out to not like me. Dear reader, are you even remotely aware of how very much not good it is to have a chainsaw Not Like You?

Let me tell you. Please.


IT IS NOT GOOD.

I'll be posting the pictures from the ER as soon as I clean the blood off my camera and develop the film.

Ok, ok, ok. So I'm really just joking about most of the foregoing. I really did meet a chainsaw that didn't like me, but how it manifested this dislike was not to attack me, as I was implying above. It simply stopped working like I wanted it to. I would push the trigger to rev it, and instead of revving, it would almost die. We finally figured out that the gas in the saw was old and that the filter was clogged and so it wasn't getting much air.

But aside from all that, I'm just really tired now from cutting down 4 or 5 trees and cutting them up. My poor arms feel like limp spaghetti.

Ok, enough whining from the wimpy department.

It was actually a lot of fun, though. And the yard certainly looks much better.
Jason, I sent u my address in uh email.
Jeff, you can send invites to whomever you want to. I didn't have anyone specific in mind. I got your invite 2x, but when you send it to hotmail addresses, hotmail ruins the link when you click on it and you can't accept the invite. Please resend mine to s t e n _ p a a [ a t ] y a h o o o o o o o o o [ d o t ] communism. Thanks.

And yes, Jason, the Windows RG was about the funniest bit of winhumor I've seen yet. Right up there with the Windows CEMENT

Well, that's all folks.

Four Yorkshiremen

Another website of the day: And you thought you were poor.

And it came to pass...

...that the look of blogger was changed. Methinks I need to visit blogger more often so that I can be aware of the goings on of the site. I visit Band Geeks quite often and read the latest postings. By the way Jeff, very nice picture. I wish you the best of success in your life's endeavors.

I have a favor to ask of all of you. Members of the band: Please send me an email with your physical address on it so that I can send you all announcements. Kris and I are putting those together now and need addresses. :) Send addresses to j s c h i l l [at] w i n t o o l s [dot] c o m. Also, if any of you would like to see previews of some of our announcement pictures, go to the announcement picture page. Keep in mind that these are not the final draft of the announcement, but i think they're pretty cool looking.

Yes, Jon, I was an absentee trunket player. I took a brief trip to Nauvoo, Illinois last week. It was way fun. Kristin, her sister Leslie and I stowed away with the University 10th Ward to go to Nauvoo. Aside from the two 24 hour bus rides, it was a very enjoyable trip. We got to see a lot of really cool things and we got to visit the temple. Alas, I was not able to take a session there because they needed me to help with the baptisms, but I came in very handy in that area. After visiting Nauvoo, on our way back home, we stopped at Carthage, the place of the martyrdom of Joseph Smith. We were able to go through the jail there and see the scenes that surrounded the prophet in the final moments of his mortal life. So, yes, I was gone for a while, but I'm back now. I appologize for taking so long to post anything on this blog. I have been very busy lately and will likely be busy for the next couple of months. It's been all I could do to just update my own blog.

So yeah, what's old with everyone else? I played another concert with OCB last night. Hmmm. I hadn't picked up my trumpet since our last concert on the 21st of April and suddenly, I had this concert. I made it fine through the first two songs and then I was just on borrowed time for the rest of the hour-and-a-half concert. Lesson learned: Always change your oil every three thousand miles.

Website of the day: Windows RG - online demo

Movie of the day: How to properly tow a car - rt click link, Save target as...

Bye, bye.

Okay.

jon: what are the exacts as to the other email addresses you would like me to send the invites to? you can let me know @ jeff(dot)johnson(at)gmail(dot)com
The first of the engagement pics are here, and my wedding looms even more closer in just over 2 and 1/2 months!!!!
RETURN OF THE KING RELEASES ON MAY 25TH!!!! IT'S FINALLY HERE!!!! (and there was much rejoicing) yeah!!!

To blog or not to blog...

What kind of a question is that?

I must say there are even more broken sprinklers now near the BC than I've seen ever before. The ones in the fountain... well, one is barely reaching a foot high, and the other is dangerously lopsided. Also, there is a genuine broken sprinkler gushing into the bushes near the library. It's fun to splash thru water when I walk. As long as it doesn't get my socks wet.

But... with the singular, isn't it still Zelda?

And yes, Jarrett, Bela Fleck is awexome. If you liked them, then check out the solo album A Show of Hands by their bass player, Victor Wooten. By the by, nice word of the day.

Speaking of french, I'm trying to pick up a little german for the trip, so I picked up Harry Potter und der gefangene von Askaban yesterday from my local public library. Ja. I mean, yay.

It appears that we've found our absentee trunket player. Jason, you didn't tell us you was leaving. But it sounds like you had a good time. Way to congradulations on the announcement again.

Jeff, it appears that hotmail does not like blogger invites. Each time I click on the link it says: You are visiting this page outside of hotmail and bla bla bla. The blogger page it loads is one that says that it can't find the blog. Try sending the invite to my yahoo email or wsu email.

Well. That's about it for now. Going to be scanning in some more pictures today. Looking forward to getting my copy of Jinglesthula on DVD. That'll add nicely to my collection of 3 DVDs. Let's see. I have the one from the nice Olympic people, one from On The Friday Productions of marching band, Dr. Keipps one of the percussion ensemble, and this will make my fourth band related disk. All my DVDs will be a direct result of being in band at WSU. Wired. And weird.

Peace

something else!

Really Funky Band I've fallen in love with today:

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Banjo + Jazz = weird music right up Jarrett's Alley.

Amd you know what, weird is spelled, well, oddly. I'm giving up a spelling it wyrd, just like they used to and still should.

Not a golf course, that would be plural

Link of the Day(or so):
Poetry Daily
A new poem every day. Some are good; some are weird and modern.
I think, and don't anybody else go setting this up without me, there should be a Wsu Band Literature Page; for the poetry, stories, and so on of the Band. But anyhoo.

Title? Who needs a title? I guess I am an author, I should do something more creative, shouldn't I?

You're darn tootin' it's french! Where else would I get such weird information? That's what we called our triple (BoM, D&C, PogP). So, after taking a week to rest and relax and take some much needed R&R... oh, I just said that... I've rejoined the work force and hopefully I'll be joining another sometime soon, since I really need to pay for school.
Shootdanggoshgollydarngeewhiz, I just can't get her off my mind... not that I'm complaining.
Timeline is a rather good movie. I suggest you see it... that is if you like film adaptations to Michael Crighton's novels. The novel was also top-rate, suggested more than the movie, but which of his novels isn't?
More news? Oh, yeah, my kick off the summer party is tentatively, yet very strongly tentatively, set for Fri. May 28. I'm hoping that most of y'all band geeks can attend. I'd like to have the lot of you there. I should also be making phone calls to people to inform and direct.
Have more fun than a koala!

MWAHAHA (or something to that effect)

I'll get straight to the point, remember no harm intended.
Jon, Ben misled you. It's

Triptych.

T-R-I-P-T-Y-C-H.
However, Ben, you are forgiven once more -- Because in French, I'm sure it's Triptique. And maybe, just maybe, in British. But who can tell with the British.

So the Southern Baptist says to the Jew,

"Well, you say it 'Yahweh' and I'll say it mine."

< Insert news flash beeping alarm here >

This just in.


I'm bored.

So I'll blog. Yesterday I enjoyed a wonderful repast of cajun food provided to me by the WSU Student Affairs types for the low low price of free, all the while listening to Joe McQueen and his group (Dr. Keipp on drums). After which... well, I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves. As soon as I finish the roll of film I'll develop them and scan them in - along with my Reno pics. I recenly spent about 4 hours in a row scanning and editing another batch of Taiwan pictures. Currently I'm downloading the latest version of ProShow so I can actually open my slideshow files (accidently used a later version and now the older ones won't open).

Suffice it to say that when I dined later last evening that the vanguard was still hanging around on the third floor. Too bad the doors were locked.

Today, I was unpleasantly surprised to find that my boss was not back from his camping trip yet, which means I had to work until he got back which means that I missed going to the Zoo with my family. Grr. <- Thus.

Yay. Only about 32 more minutes to go on my download. The story is coming right along.

Peace

Word of the Day:

Egregious

So there.

Two answer your questions

www.photobucket.com

And as far as blogging, I just log in directly through blogger.com to blog. No email is involved. As for sending invites to people, the invite sends them through an invitation service email through blogger. You just go to the members tab on the dashboard to send them. If someone wants to request an invitation they can send an email to
s t e n _ p a a [at] h o t m a i l [dot] c o m

The reason I write my address funny is to lose the web bots that crawl the web in search of what they recognize as email addresses to add to their nefarious spamvertizement email liststs. Go figure.

It's late.

Laters

Hmmmm.....and......EXCITING!!!!

Jon, what was that url for that free pic hosting website again? and also, what is your email you use for your blogger?
When two worlds collide, does spam become bacon frying in the middle of an egg?? Hmmmm........

Yes Yes

again.

A welcome to our newest fellow geek to come online. As to your previous post, Jarrett, no hard feelings. Sorry about the mix-up.

Four hours. Four long tedious hours, but now Mrs. Kosters photos are all scanned in and ready for editing and then to be added to the strange brew I've concocted for the CD. Jason, I don't know when I'll see you, but if you could bring the Taiwan pictures you have developed that I haven't scanned in yet to school sometime, maybe to OCB, I'd be much obliged.

Well well well. The end. For now.

Peace

semantics

So Jon. You "resent the invitation to the blog." Whose invitation, and why do you resent it? I've never thought of you as Resentful.

Or did you ment re-sent?

So tonight, I went to an Opera. Julius Caesar, down in Salt Lake. Only it was set in the 1930s-40s Golden Age of Hollywood. Caesar enters on a tank, looking like MacArthur in a red jacket.

Handel with machine guns -- It worked.

Yes yes

The parting comment then.


Hmmmmm... What in the world was I going to say. I have no clue. All I can say is that the phone rang within a few minutes of starting, and I was on until late into the wee hours. Fun stuff.

Got part of the itinerery for the EU trip. I'll be posting that later.

Peace

Hope is that thing with feathers

that perches in the heart. -Emily Dickinson

So I watched Disney's made for TV movie A Wrinkle In Time. Part of it anyways. The last part. Interesting. They took some licence with it. Nicely done, overall though. At least for a TV movie.

Andrew, you are exactly right. We should include you next time. And Jason. Speaking of which, we missed you at OCB today, Jason. Rod commented on your norseth.net Taiwan gallery - said it was nice. I spent some more time today scanning in Mrs. Koster's other sets of prints from the trip. I only had three to start with and she has about 10 or 15 total. Jason, I also would like to scan the ones you got developed following my first go-round at the CD project. And yes, I still think it's a great idea to give Rod his own personalized copy. I hope he'll be cool with it. If it were me, I'd just get the biggest kick out of that kind of thing.

The format I was thinking is a 2-Disc set to accomodate a music only soundtrack version and a directors commentary version where the narrators will relate anecdotes from the journey with some music in the background. Also included on the CDs will be wallpapers made from the pictures, the .jpg pictures themselves (probably only some of them), and, of course, some easter eggs. Gotta have easter eggs. The hunt just wouldn't be the same without something to find.

I must here express my displeasure with my computer. I have written multiple sessions to a CD before, but this is the first time I've had it erase everything on the CD before adding the files I wanted to burn. And the annoying thing is I did a session after that one to see if it was just the CD or if I had some settings all funky somewhere. No - the next session I did left the files on. Just a fluke I guess, then. But an annoying one.

Aaaaaaaand I'm on call now, so I'll have to blog more later. As a parting comment though

Well, this is different.

Well, my dislike of Sears notwithstanding, I'm really enjoying my new position there. I transfered from the lowly shoe stocker to the way awesome In-Store Marketing dude. I feel so important. I must make sure that things which appear in the ad have a sign on them to alert customers that the item is in said ad.

I really don't quite know what to say. I wish Ben and Jon would tell me about potential dates. You know, I do enjoy taking the ladies out for a good time. You could always let me know once in a while. Don't make me turn this blog around!

I am sitting in the computer lab at the WSU lybarry. I am just attempting to waste time before Ogden Concert Band rehearsal and wondering if Jason is going to show up this time or not. Perhaps I'll go find a white phone and try to track him down, or at the very least find out if he is ever planning on showing up again.

Here's a few thoughts to keep you entertained...

Gee, it is a long week...

so, I have no work or school this week. Its already Tuesday, and I have nothing to do. I shall have to make things for me to do, such as brush my cats' and dog's teeth. That will take time I hope. Oh, well. Blog to you all later.

I must say

that I like the new blogger interface. The blog itself looks just the same, but for those of us who post here. Zowie.

Well, I'm guessing that 1/2 the bloggers out there in the blogosphere (at least the ones that use blogger to blog) will be commenting on it. So I'll just leave it at yes I like it.

Thanks for the spelling help, Ben. Yes, the golf, gandalfos, game, etc. was enjoyable. As you might suspect, I'll talk to you more about it in person... or IM person. Whichever happens first.

Rrrrr... I really need to add some links to my last post for it to deliver the full inside joke/reference effect.

Stand by.

Sword and sheet

Triptique.
Jon, see you tomorrow. I hope the date is as fun as I'm hoping.
I'm hoping that I can get my DVD, since I played hookey from the band picnic.
Sorry everyone.
Later.

Apples to Apples

and dust to dust.

Today was a good day. I slept in until about 8:30, which I haven't really done since this semester started. I hit one of my friends in the head with a sword. My life was threatened in more ways than one when I played penultimate frizbeeee. I rehearsed music for our gig in Cedar City later this month. I chilled with the band at the park with burgers, pennies, and After Eights.

Aren't inside jokes fun?

Favorite movie line of the day: I'm obnoxious. - from Finding Nemo

That fish just cracks me up.

Well. Now the semester is ended, I've a lotta free time on my hands... and feet. Hmm. Maybe I should wash them off or something. Looks like work, OCB, A2D, WSU, ETC. I'll be guitaring, writing my epic trilogy, and, with any luck, producing the trilogy as a shabby movie tryptich...er.. trip-tick? Something.

Ok, buy.

The point of no return

aka lim (x->oo) S m(y) + br^i(n) dx = P^i(n)

Or, to make things not clear as mud, my calculus final is over. I only say it because it was a great amount of stress studying for it, and such a relief to have it over and done with. For some reason I find myself missing Las Vegas right now. Not the strip, just the parts of it that I visited on my last trip there, which was the temple and someplace just south of Vegas where my cousin's wife's family lives.

Maybe it's just that I like the summer weather. Lukewarm summer evenings with a bit of a breeze. How very nice. If I lived in southern Utah, that's probably the part I'd like best about it - the evenings. I'd sit on the porch (I'd have a porch of course) and play the guitar.

Ok, more later.

Why can't

this week just end! I want it to be saturday afternoon when I'm on my date and mini-golfing and such. That'll be sooo much better than being at work right now. I'm working 12 hours today! I know that translates into more cash for me, but still! Or, it could be tomorrow at one of my many activities of the day... but I still have to work tomorrow night. Shucks! I'll have over 50 hours this week. Ok, I'm done griping. Later y'all

I'm sorry

but the "new" "fountain" between the BC, SUB, and Lampros reminds me of nothing so much as a garden sprinkler - and a broken one at that. It's nice to see they finally fixed the thing, but now, it's almost as sad looking as it was before. At least before it had potential. Now all it has is my sympathy. Still, it's good to at least have water in it.

Today

TODAY

is my last item for this semester: Math 1220 Calculus II - Final Exam

I'm off in a few minutes to study for it. How will it all go down? Who can say?

In other news, I had my very first night of working for Direction One where I received exactly 0 phone calls. Actually getting a nights rest was, well, restful. Party tonight hosted by Corcunda. Party tomorrow hosted by various angry citizens.

Again, if you'd like to post to this blog, just email me. It's
s t e n _ p a a [at] y a h o o [dot] c o m
In case you're wondering why I put my email address that way, it's to confuse the web bots. Go Bears.

Peace

You all have severe mental issues...

Been a while. Two weeks to be exact. I was wondering why Jason didn't show up to OCB. Now I guess I know why. I won't delve into my already troubled mind over that. I will just smile and say "It's about damn time." As for you people who have no band for which to be geeks to, I say to you HA HA HA HA HA. Ogden Concert Band rules! Okay, that was going a bit too far. How about this: Ogden Concert Band is adequit. Have fun in the sixth dimension.

Movie of the day: The Last Samurai
Album of the day: Alan Silvestri's Van Helsing
Word of the day: Floppy
Web Page of the day: Spielbergfilms.com

Each night I ask the stars up above -

Why must I be a band geek in love?

Good times, good times. That's what this school year has been all about. There were highs. There were lows. There were a lot of lows. There were high highs. There were great expectations. There were thrills. There were chills. There were pennies, goldfish, balloons, movies, music, dancing, singing (there should never have been singing), hi-jinks, lo-jinks, kitchen sinks, pots, pans, alfalfa, albinos, and other assorted random acts of humanity. We laughed (a lot). We cried (alone, mostly). We did homework (but rarely). As far as great moments, there were a few that outshine all the rest. As far as great other stuff... well, I guess there was a place for that, too. In a word (and by "a" I mean "several"):
Reno
jazz run?
Cheers theme
Swap
nananana hey hey good bye
Joe's last mix
stress
RANDOM
@bash
blogosphere
Rootisms
lockers
concerts
bees
dreams
farewells
and not least...
lots of friends.

I may add links later, but for now, suffice it to say that there are a few jems of websites out there. A few are listed on my links, quotes, and favorites blog.

Merry Summer to all, and to All, a good buy.

Tenderly I remain,
Jingles the Pirate
(Jon)

Happy and Sad

I'm so happy for Jason and Kristin. What a great thing and time for you two. The sad from the title only comes from me getting depressed about everybody getting married and me not. Oh, well, that's life. The same thing'll happen next year, everyone'll be getting married over the summer and I'll be left behind, still waiting for my shooting star to return to me (there's no crime in hoping, right?).
Anyway, I'll be having a party in the next couple weeks, so keep yourself posted for my posts!
Tootles!!

There was an answer to "my question"

Okay, for all of you who may have been wondering, the answer is yes. Yes, Kristin Fink and I are engaged and we are getting married on the 7th of August. We would like to hear from all of you, so please send us your information so that we can let you know the details (aka announcements). ;) Click here to send email. We thought this might be the best way to let everyone know seeing as probably not many of you will be regularly in the band hall during the summer. :) Take it easy, y'all. Oh yeah, if you don't have an email client like Outlook Express or something like that, mouse over the email link and copy the text that shows up in the bottom bar of the browser window.

Oh yeah, check with the WSU Trumpet also for more information.

Is there an answer to "the question"????

I applaud your goal to continue to be band geekish whilst the summer months plod on. I accept your challenge (if there was one).