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!