Things you hear in Bible school

Things you hear in Bible school...

"So you are going to be here next year, right?"
"I dont know. Who knows? All such planning is evil."
"Ah, yes. James."
(laughter)

Time to Update

Well, I guess its time for some sort of update, eh? Well, lets see, I'm almost done with the semester. Next week is finals and all the rest of the big projects are due. It actually looks like I will be able to get everything done with time to spare. Thats really encouraging. Ive almost finished with my lesson plan, the final project for my Educational Foundations class.

Tonight I go to junior-high youth group as I have started being one of the leaders. Should be fun. I need to get to know the kids.

Right now I am headed off for a bike ride to circumnavigate the airport for a little exercise. Im telling you, with my single speed bike and the wind we get out here it can be downright tireing to ride that bike.

The Filibuster

I wrote this comment responding to this post on Liberal Youth. I just thought Id post it here for your edification and commentation.

Chris, Im going to tell you straight up, you got it totaly messed up. Democracy is supposed to work differently than this. The filibuster does not allow democracy but impedes it. If the majority is going to rule it is going to do so because a majority of the voting population voted them into that ruling postion. Filibustering makes it so that nothing can get done. Not so that the minority can have a voice in doing something contructive. Filibustering simply makes it so that the minority can impede the voting on an issue. The majority vote wings. Voting is done by the congressmen (there are women too but I am politicly incorrect). The congressmen are elected by vote and it is the majority vote that puts them in office to represent those who voted for them. Therefore, it is indirectly the voting populace who vote for a bill. This is democracy at work. Democracy is made so that the majority rules. Filibustring throws a spanner in the cogs of democracy.

Low pressure and the smell of wet earth

I have my two bedroom windows open and I had to put paper weights on my desk to keep my notes from blowing across the room because there is a stiff breeze blowing through. We are currently experiencing our first thunderstorm of the year. I love the thunder and lightning, the show of brute power. I love the low pressure with hightened sound and smell. I love the smell of wet dirt.

Im listening to Blessed be Your Name on the Newsboys' Devotion CD. I loved that song the first time I heard it. I want it played at my wedding and my funeral. It brings tears to my eyes.

You give and take away - You give and take away - my heart will choose to say - blessed be Your name

My bug

I discovered last night when eating my can of chopped spinach that when I had bought it on the way home from church that I had got a special bonus with it. I had an almost whole bug (a true bug) with only its head missing right in with the rest of the stuff. The poor thing looked dead and was sitting upside down at the top of my bowl. I think maybe it had drowned. Altogether it was about exactly a centimeter long. I wondered whether, if I took it to Safeway, they would give me a free can of spinach since my bug was incomplete and was missing its head. Then I realized that I was special just to get the bug in the first place and I really didnt pay for it since it was a bonus deal so I descided not to complain. This sort of thing really gives you a new perspective of the food industry. And of your spinach as you sit there eating it while admiring your bug sitting on the side of your bowl.

Driving Miss Daisy

I saw Driving Miss Daisy last night. The best movie I have seen in a long time. Very very good. Its about a very set-in-her-ways southern woman and the black man, Hoke, her son hires to be the chauffer for the aging woman. The movie portrays the conflict as the woman comes to accept Hoke as part of her life and comes to depend on him for his services, but more importantly, his frienship.

I went flying

Well the other post I did about this was eaten. But anyways.

So I did get to go flying. The weather was ok but not totaly clear. We were going to go back into the back country up in the mountains but the visibility was too low up there. So we ended up just tooling around south of Spokane checking out all sorts of small grass strips. The air was pretty rough but not intolerable. I took a ton of pictures but unfortunately a lot came out poorly cause of the rough air I think.

Cessna 185

I might be going flying with Aaron and another guy, Jay Pemberton, this afternoon in Jay's 185. That will be really really cool if it comes off. You can be sure I'll be taking a ton of pics so be prepared. ;)

Im Famous

Man people keep coming to my site after searching for Quest Kodiak on Google. It turns out if you search for Quest Kodiak on Google, two of the first ten pages are mine. Weird. I guess theres just not much out there about the Kodiak yet.

Im a real photographer now

Wow, Im a real photographer now! Stephen Priestley, the editor of CASR, an academic webite at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia on Canadian military affairs, came accross my Webshots album of the Quest Kodiak and wants to use them in a review they are going to do on available bush aircraft. He said they are great stuff and far better than the pictures on the Quest Website. It might help that the pictures I took are of a painted airplane while the pictures on the Quest website are mostly of an unpainted aircraft. :D