McKinney Falls

Went there on Tuesday to do some bouldering with friends. Climbed some of the classics but didn't send any of those. I got a V2 and flashed some V1's, but no serious problems. Apparently McKinney ratings are harsh, they say it's graded about a full letter grade below what an equivalent problem would be anywhere else, so I guess that makes me feel a little better. Regardless, I still need to work on my outdoor bouldering because real rock, limestone here in Texas, just feels so much different than those fake gym rocks. The gym really can't prepare you too well for outdoors. I think I'm gonna try to find different outdoor boulders to climb on this summer and see what happens.

In other gym related news I got a clean ascent of this crack route I've been trying. I only tried it two times before and got it clean on the third try, so it wasn't a very difficult route. It's unrated but I'd guess somewhere around a 5.11a, nothing too difficult but it's a different style of climbing then what I'm used to. I really enjoyed it though, using different types of holds and locks in order to climb straight up the crack, using a lot more friction climbing than anything else since you really don't get good places to pull from or stand off of.

Here's a picture of the crack, it's the one on the left hand side and is about a 50 foot route.

Well that's all for now. I might go to Reimers tomorrow or Pace Bend on Saturday, possibly neither but hopefully both, if I do I'll blog about those trips as well.

New Idea

I decided I'm going to change this blog to a blog where I basically just post on dates when I achieve something cool, or something I've been working at in rock climbing. I can't remember how long it's taken me to move up in bouldering or top roping grades, so I think putting the date down on digital paper somewhere will help me out, help me gauge progress. And since no one reads this blog anymore anyway, and we've got Facebook for important stuff, why not?

Ok so, past few months...started bouldering when school started at the beginning of the '09-'10 school year, started bouldering around a V2, and couldn't send a single 5.9 climb yet.

May 1st, 2010, the end of the '09-'10 school year, I'm bouldering V5-V6, and top roping 5.11's. Not a huge improvement, but whatever.

Most recent achievement: 4/23/10: Sent a 5.11b and a 5.11c that I'd been projecting for a while. These are both indoor routes so the grades are a bit subjective, the towers though are 54 feet so they are some pretty long climbs even if the moves aren't all that difficult.

Not a whole lot of progress on the bouldering front recently, I was hoping to get my first V7 before I left for the summer but with only 2 more weeks that's probably not going to happen. I have one more move and then the top out which I have yet to stick on the V7 I'm projecting in our gym. Like I said, probably won't get it within the next two weeks but if I do, well then that'll be cool and I'll post it on here...maybe, I may not even keep up this idea. :p

As if you didn't already know

As the title would suggest the topic of this post is something anyone who has the perseverance to still be coming here would already know.

I've been going to school at the Texas State University in San Marcos for the last few weeks now. I'm actually living on campus, have a dorm room, and a roommate (although he is never really around and doesn't sleep here).

The main reason I'm writing this is just to get some more writing practice in. My English 1310 (which is College Writing I) teacher has assigned a number of different papers, writing assignments, and short essays throughout the year and I thought I could get some practice this way.

So what do I spend my time doing in college?

Well I've been getting up early again (7 A.M, may not be early for most but it sure as heck is for me). I've typically been going to the gym on the weekdays which I don't have classes, that's Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Actually I have 2 classes on Wednesday, but they are both only an hour long and are spaced several hours apart. The rest of my classes I take on Tuesday and Thursday, and it's pretty much back to back from 8 AM till 5:00 PM, with a hour-and-a-half space around noon for lunch. When you look at it like a work day that's really not so bad, but it does mean a lot of studying needs to get done. Speaking of studying, the amount of studying you need to do totally depends on the class. For example math (which is College Algebra) I am more than a little bit behind in thanks to not having done it for so many years, and as a result I need to study much longer and harder to keep up in that class, but I'm managing.

Apart from the classes there's lots of recreational things to do here. My dorm is about 5 minutes walking distance from the local park where you can go swimming, tubing, play volleyball, cookout, basketball, skate, or just generally chill.

The west side of campus (a good 15 minute uphill walk for me) has the rec center which has about 4 full sized basketball courts, racquetball rooms, and a 53 foot rock wall to climb. According to the folks there it's the third highest in Texas, and I've been doing that quite a bit. There's also every type of weight machine imaginable, around 50 or so treadmills, a few dozen stair steppers, bicycle machines, and free weights galore. The best part is that it's all free (apart from the rock climbing which charges 45 dollars for the semester) and you can go pretty much whenever you want.

The food is one of the things here that I'm a bit disappointed in. It's not that the food itself is bad, but a meal plan was required and is rather expensive, and looking back I'm sure I didn't get enough. I bought 150 meals for the semester, and now two weeks in I've already used almot 20, and that's been sparing. Next semester I'll definetly go for the 200. There are 2 different all you can eat buffets, and a number of food court style dining areas, so there is quite a lot of variety in the food.

In addition to all this there's also the whole "party" thing. Apparently (and I say apparently because I don't know of anyone who's experienced this and been around to tell me about it) there is a tradition amongst the fraternaties and sororities every year when the new freshmen come in called "Rushing". This is when each fraternaty or sororoty holds a bunch of parties and events in order to recruit new members. Most of them have little booths set up around "the Quad" (which is the main walking area in between classes and on any given day between 8 AM and 3 PM will be packed out with around 3000 students) where they try to get people to join up. Due to this there are a lot of things to do on the weekends, and lots of parties to attend.

One final thing about campus life is the fact that there really isn't ever much time to do anything. Always rushing from one class to the next, or to go exercise, or study, or do something with friends. On that note I'll leave you and hope that you enjoyed this small insight into the new goings on in my life.

Campus

The title of this post can mean 2 things...most people will know immidiately what it usually refers to, and probably only Ben and David will know the other thing it refers to, but unfortunately for Ben or Dave, I'm talking about the former, not the latter.

So I went on Saturday to check out the campus of Tx-State University with my parents. The size surprised me, it's at least a mile or two from end to end, and with all the rolling hills which the campus is built on it's sure to be some great exersize getting from one class to another. We didn't get to see the dorms, but I'll see those when I go to New Student Orientation, which I still haven't picked a date for. Not sure if I should do it before or after this Indianapolis-Family Reunion trip, but I'm thinking after, too much of a headache otherwise. I've also got another test next week so hopefully I won't fail that miserably. If I do fail it blocks me from taking certain courses and I have to take some remedials. I'm pretty confident that I've got the English, and writing sections all locked up, but the math may present a problem. I suppose either way it's better to fail that section and have to start learning again than to be taking math classes in college that I'm not prepared for.

I did get some good news about the financial aid though. When you sign up for the FAFSA they give you a number called your EFC (Expected Family Contribution), I thought the whole time that this was a number used by the college to determine how much you should get in financial aid, and while that is true, it's also the actual dollar amount that you're expected to cover. My EFC is 140. So if the cost of attendance is going to be 17,000 anually, then financial aid will try to cover 16,860 dollars of that. The federal pell grant is only 5,200 (approx) but the Texas Grant is another 6,000, then they have loans and work-study programs, I'm not sure how much I'll get but I am glad that I'm still able to handle it all.

In other news we had a party lastnight, lots of alcohol (I had to drive home so I didn't drink too much), lots of old friends, a few old flames, and a pretty decent time. Unfortunately I seem to have caught something there because today I can barely talk. And since my job requires me to talk pretty much non-stop all day long (and because I would've only gotten 4 hours of sleep if I'd gone to work) I decided it'd be best all around for me to stay home today and take care of business instead. 

Anyway, that's pretty much what's been going on, sorry it's so boring, and sorry I don't have pictures of the campus, if I ever get into photography I'll be sure to post plenty, but 'till then you'll have to just settle for the written word.

Accepted!

Okay so where to begin, haven't updated in a while. First things first I guess.

So I put in a few applications to a few schools, colleges that is, in order to further my education...although really it's just to make lots of money. One of those applications went to a school in San Marcos Texas known as the Texas State University, and as of last week I have been accepted to join. Yes it's a strange prospect indeed. Most people have older siblings who did the whole college thing, just a part of life like highschool, only one of my older siblings has gone to college, and he's still going. I guess trade school kinda sorta counts, but this is it, I mean, this is like for real college, living on campus, with dorms and parties and fraternites and mid-terms and the whole deal, it's just a little bit exciting. 

Obviously I have a few opportunities that my siblings didn't have which are helping to allow me to go, such as timing so don't nobody get offended and feel like I'm taking a crack at you. 

Having said that it's also not set in stone that I'll go either. I still have to come up with tuition and room and board and all the rest of that good stuff.

Well enough of that topic. In other news I also got a promotion in my job. Actually I got promoted about a month and a half ago, but I'm finally reaping some of the benefits, such as a not-so-shitty schedule. For the last few months I've been working this job I've worked the weekends with tuesday and wednesday off, but now I get to work like a normal person and get Saturday and Sunday off, quite happy about that. Now mind you, I'm not NOT complaining about my job, it's still terrible, has lousy pay, and could quite possibly make a person lose their sanity, but it's getting better. 

I think that's about all that's happened to me since I last posted, gotta do my taxes and stuff...oh and there was the whole episode with my car, getting that ticket for not having inspection but not able to get inspection on it because there was something wrong with the catalytic converter and having to pay a bunch of money to get the catalytic converter fixed and it STILL not passing inspection and then taking it back to get repaired and them telling me there's nothing wrong with it and then getting it inspected AGAIN and FINALLY passing (5 inspections total). But I'm pretty sure I already told everyone about that. 

Hmmm, oh yeah, I'M GOING TO COLLEGE!!!

disclaimer: The above statement should not be taken as a fact, as I actually may not end up being able to go to college but should rather be taken as an exclamation of joy and excitement at the upcoming prospect. If things do not turn out in my favor and I cannot go to college this disclaimer prohibts anyone from teasing/laughing/mocking or jesting in any manner about said failure.

People suck

No such thing as a good friend...

Don't trust anyone that's not related to you...

Good people are only good because they want something in return...

Nuff said

Vehicular Update

So I don't know if I mentioned it in my other post, but a few weeks ago the faithful old subaru I was driving around bit the dust. To be more accurate I was chugging along when all of a sudden it started to sound like it was going to explode, sounded as loud as a train. So I pulled over and eventually figured out that one of my spark plugs was loose, no big deal I thought, so I screwed it back in and went on my merry way. But apparently it came loose for a reason, and about 20 miles later it popped out again, and this time it wouldn't go back (I later realized that the threading in the hole which the plug screws into was stripped out).
Since then I've made a few attempts at fixing it but so far none have worked, (not even that JB weld stuff...:( ) so I've been driving around my new car, the 5-speed Saturn instead.
You actually learn to drive a standard remarkably quickly when it's forced upon you, and the 15 mile stop-light-infested parkway that I drive down twice a day to get to and from work only makes the learning process that much faster.
Of course there's a good reason I wasn't driving it earlier besides being new at it, and that was the lack of insurance, registration, and inspection on the vehicle.
I have since purchased insurance and registration (which was surprisingly no headache at all, I didn't have to go back to the house for missing documents or sign a 110 pages of legal documents, I did have to pay $170 tax on the car though...that was a disappointing, but not nearly as much as the headache I've been having getting the thing inspected.). Yes so far this car has failed inspection twice...why?
Well the first time it was because I had my check engine light on. The guy said "Well it might be an error cuz we don't see anything wrong with it, so I'll delete the code and after about 100 miles or so if it doesn't pop up again we'll get it taken care of."
Naturally I listened to him, not being much of a mechanic or really knowing anything about cars myself and after about 150 miles I took it back, still no check engine light. When I took it back however it failed inspection again, and this time they discovered it was my emissions. Turns out I've got a bad catalytic converter (I did some research and figured out what that does, and now I'm cursing my luck), so apparently the car runs fine, a catalytic converter isn't even something a car needs to run, but in order to ensure that I don't pollute the atmosphere more than is necessary I have to reduce my emissions with one of these things, and of course they happen to be made out of a precious metal like platinum, making them rather expensive.
The final price the guy quoted me for getting a new one installed was just under $400 dollars. I'm currently looking around for a better deal, but man...I'm honestly a little fed up with all these car issues.
I learned a while ago not to fret about stuff like this or make a big deal out of it, worst case scenario I pay the $400 and get it repaired and inspected, and really that's not a huge deal. I just hope this car has no more little expensive surprises waiting for me.....

And I thought I had nothing to post about

Ok so this is the 3rd time I'm trying to post this post. A good rule of thumb for posting should be that you shouldn't do it at the same time as trying to reactivate your copy of windows vista. Anyway it's all activated now so I'll get it actually posted this time.

As I was saying the last 2 times I bought a new car, it's a 2000 Saturn SL1, 5-speed manual. The only problem being that I've never actually driven one before so I'm learning. It is however not as hard as I thought it would be, I think I'm learning fairly quickly.
Another thing about getting my first real car is that it needs insurance which, for a 19 year old, single white male who's only had his license for about 10 months, can be pretty expensive. So once I get the money to buy insurance I need to get the the car registered and then inspected and then I can start driving it regularly, for now I'm still driving Dave's car.

Anyway I would follow this up with more information but, wouldn't ya know it, Vista is asking me to restart the computer again to help remove potential spyware or something. Curses.

Happenings, and then some drawn out musings about religion

Well I don't have anything worth saying right now, but since when has that stopped me? I sometimes wish I had pictures to post because then my blog would be interesting like everyone else that has pictures to post and have interesting blogs. But I guess I'll have to make do with words.

In recent news, a hurricane blew into houston and my parents, younger sister, older sister and her family all decided to chill with us over here for a week. Rosie and Ricky took my room and my computer, so I've been sleeping on the couch and writing this post currently on Jamie's computer. But I don't really mind, I figure a while away from the computer is probably a good thing.
I finally got some new wheels for my car, it's had some bent rims for a while, still need to get them put on the car though, wal-mart won't put my old tires on new rims, they'll only put brand new ones on, but they don't sell tires in my car's size. They basically told me that they couldn't help me. It's rare but this is proof that Wal-Mart is not ALWAYS your one stop shop. (Take note of my use of the word "Always" being that it is the Wal-Mart slogan.)

It's amazing how quickly you can start seeing the world from a non-religious standpoint. It can be quite liberating to stop wondering all the time whether what you are thinking, believing, watching, reading, listening to, or playing, is "out of it" and just do something because it makes you happy. I guess some religions would argue that most things that make you happy are bad for you or something crazy like that. They would probably use parellels like candy being really tasty but really bad for you. Of course to that I would say that anything in excess is bad for you. But nevertheless, whether something is bad for me or not, life is so much less stressfull when you can just say "maybe so, but even if it is I'm willing to take that risk".
I don't think I could ever again be in a group or organization that tells me what to believe. Now you family members reading this don't think I'm trying to say that the familiy is a controlling organization that tells it's members what to believe. I'm simply saying that about all organized religion, it doesn't matter what church, what religion, what group, they've all got their own rules and regulations, their own beliefs, and really there is not much room for personal expansion and accomodation.
Perhaps you don't believe everything that you're required to, does that make you wrong? I think if given the chance to express their individual beliefs freely, without running the risk of discrimination both minor and major, very few people would have exactly the same beliefs about anything. Which leads me to believe that organized religion, or any group that demands that people believe exactly the same things, is fundamentally flawed.

Now lets just call a spade a spade here. Anyone who reads this knows that most of my references are going to be towards the family. And rightfully so as it was the organization I was involved with. That being said don't be offended or take it personally if I seem to be specifically targeting the family, most of what I will say about the family goes just as much for other religions but as the family is the one I have experience with it is the one that I'm going to be referring to.
(However the fact that I'm not capitalizing the family's name is done out of pure spite!! :P)

Now a lot of people are probably going to ask "Is it any better now? Now you aren't sure what to believe. Isn't it better to believe in something and be wrong than to believe in nothing?".
To which of course I would answer yes, it is I agree with that. But a person can believe in a great many things. A person can believe in ideals, moral values, ethics, and be a good samaritan, but not believe in Jesus. Is he so wrong?
The way I see it, a good person is a good person. There is no religious criteria for being a good person. Most of the founders of the greatest religions in the world realized this. Most educated people in these same religions realize this. Unfortuantely many of the masses do not. Many of the masses are led to believe that their twist on religion is correct and anyone who believes otherwise, while perhaps remaining a good person, will be just ever so slightly behind on the spiritual totem pole.
Not only do I see this as lacking any substantial evidence, but ignorant as well as contrary to the teachings of most founders of religious organizations.

As for whether or not I still consider myself a christian, still believe in Jesus, that remains to be seen, but what I'm trying to point out here is that Jesus never started a church....Peter did that.
John the baptist could well have started a religion (Christianity) but instead chose to wander in the wilderness baptizing and preparing the way for Christ. Most great men did not get to where they were but following the masses, by involving themselves with groups and organizations.
Most of the great christian missionaries of the 19th century had to branch out on their own, with little or no support from their churches.
Sometimes in order to do what they believed their god wanted them to do, they had to break away from organized religion. And most did not break away in order to start their own. Most ended up alone, doing what they thought was right without having to worry about anyone telling them otherwise, and they knew better than to try and convince others to follow them on their path.
Each man walks his own path, and it is for him alone to walk it. Paths might intersect and join for a while, but when the time comes for them to break apart each man must be willing to continue down on his own path.
And because that was just a little bit to deep for me I'm going to insert a goofy analogy...they say everyone walks their path because walking is something a person does alone. Otherwise they might carpool, or ride the bus. Which would indicate many people following the same path, not just a similar one or one that merges with another for a while, but the exact same one. A person that does that cannot have a path of their own.

Now I'm sure I'm going to get teased a lot for those last few paragraphs, people saying that it doesn't make any sense, that organized religion has nothing to do with taking people off their own paths and following the path of one person, but honestly that's the way I see it.

How I got onto that subject I don't know, it's just something I was thinking about at the time.
Anyway, I don't think too many people read this blog anymore anyway, so what better place for a little contraversy huh?

Stay tuned next month where I will muse about....politics!

The latest buzz

So for those of you who don't know, I've been excelling as an employee in the food industry for the last several months at a fine dining restaurant, (Quiznos). For those of you who don't know we happen to specialize in sub sandwiches.
Needless to say, customer satisfaction was up along with sales, and I was rapidly rising through the ranks, achieving promotions and increased salary.
Now before I go any further I have to point out that I myself was perfectly happy working there, I made enough money for what I needed, I didn't have to work too hard, and apart from my hands smelling like onions waaaaay too much it really was not so bad.
Unfortunately it turns out that most people look down on an 18 year old having a job like this. "Isn't that the kind of place where highschool kids work?" they would ask of me. Although the most common phrases were more like "So....how's Quizno's? (giggle, cackle, snort)". Well as you can imagine, my world started to come crashing down on my quicker than you can say 'five dollar footlong'.
To add to my shame and humiliation my younger brother (my junior by a full 2 years) began to work in the food industry as well, (a respectable establishment which shares it's name in common with an even more respectable blue hedgehog) and to my surprise/dismay, was making more money than me, due to an inordinate amount of tips.
Now you must understand that as an older sibling there is a constant need to remain ahead of my younger brother in almost all things. Winning and the appearance of dominance/superiority are crucial. Second place just will not due.
Now granted this may be a shallow, narrow-minded, and egotistical viewpoint, but it is the one I was born with, and as such it must be respected. Well of course this travesty could not be tolerated. I knew there was no way I could remain at my current quarry and get ahead of my brother financially. (And between you and me the Quiznos comments were getting a little bit old)
And so it is that I have new employment.

I have changed my specialization as well from the food industry to electronics/computers. I will begin my new job as a computer/electronic tech support specialist for the good people at Samsung Electronics on Monday. (I feel I should perhaps mention that this position is temp-to-hire, although I have been assured that because of the great need for staff I will most certainly be hired, I would feel dishonest if I did not point this out.)

Now of course there will always be the nay-sayers who will say "you should just be a waiter, you'll make more money in tips". Unfortunately I have never fancied the idea of waiting tables, firstly because it is a common cliche, that is all too readily made fact, for young people who leave the family.
That is the path trodden by the masses, and as anyone who knows me will attest, I will more often than not choose the less common, the side not often taken, even to my own detriment.
The second reason is that I could not think of a job I would rather do less than wait tables. Some people may have been made for it, I was not. (This is in no way meant to be taken as an insult to those who are in this fine profession as I am sure many are not only good at it, but enjoy it as well, but like so many things that are done en masse, it is not for me.)

This is the predominate focus of my life at the moment and as such there is not much else I can report that has been going on. I did also purchase a skateboard recently and have been attempting to learn, but...I'm no Sean White.
(Yes I know he's a snowboarder, but everyone says he looks like me so I hope you forgive me for using him rather than a more commonly revered skater such as Rodney Mullen, or Geoffrey Rowley.)

Well I hope this post finds you all in good health, don't be afraid to drop me a line sometime, as I am never too busy stop and chat...unless I am too busy, in which case I will politely request that you call again at a later hour.

Until next time.

Well I guess it's about time to update this boring ol' blog. Not that there is really anything to post about mind you.
I'm still goin through my same old routine. Wake up, eat breakfast, go to work, come home, chill, go to bed. Repeat.
So yeah, it's not like I have anything new to write about. But I figured it was time to move those photo's of me down a post or two. In case anyone didn't make the connection within the last month or so, the photo's meant that I got my haircut. Yeah, I know you knew that, but there might have been at least one half-wit out there who is slapping his or her forehead right now going "DUH! I can't believe I didn't realize that".

Speaking of foreheads, mine is doing well, it's been pleasantly round and acne free for quite a while now, for which I am quite thankful.
And as long as we're talking about body parts I feel obliged to mention that while I may not be doing too much "Exercise" the amount of guitar hero that I've been playing has not only increased the coordination and strength of my left hand, but also the endurance and timing of my right, as well as overall rhythm and general coordination.
Yes, all in all you can see there are many healthful benefits to video games. But I'm sure you didn't come to this blog to read about that, you came here because you wanted to see something important, something you might have cared about, something worth reading. But instead all you are going to get is my rambling. Sorry to disappoint you. Although really, if any of you really care what's going on in my life, maybe drop me a line sometime huh? You know, pick up that phone and dial my number (which I'm not going to put on the internet) right now. Because honestly there is only one of you (and you know who you are) that ever calls me, for which I am quite thankful. But as for the rest of you...tsk tsk. FOR SHAME!

Anyway, that' about it for my rambling. Take care y'all.

Before and After

I still can't beat this song on Hard

Check this out, this kid is only 8 years old...or at least was only 8 when he made this video. I can't beat the song on hard, and he's doing it nearly perfect on expert.

The World as it could have been

Ever wonder what would have happened if Lucifer had been satisfied with his position in heaven? (those of you who do not believe in the biblical series of events leading up to the fall of man, including the fall of Satan himself, stop reading here.) (Those of you who do not believe in the fall of man also stop reading here)
Imagine if when we thought of archangels instead of thinking "Michael and Gabriel" we thought of Lucifer and Pooches. (Editors note: Pooches was the second highest archangel in heaven when Lucifer rebelled, and was one of the first to be swayed to the dark side. As punishment for his rebellion the Lord had his name stricken from all of history, just like Xerxes said he would do to Leonidas, but obviously failed.)

You see, the world would be a very different place without a Satan. Most believe that if it weren't for Satan we would still be in the garden of Eden. We would all be living in a paradise where nobody would grow old, there would be no diseases, no one would be overweight, everyone would be naked. The kind of place where your girlfriend's mom was as hot as she was.
I have my theories about this, would we really have been there still? After all, Adam and Eve blew it pretty quickly, how do we know in the thousands of years that have passed from then till now that a fruit would not fall from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, where the wind would carry it and make it roll next to an apple tree, and Eve would take it and eat thinking it to be an Orange. Sounds far fetched, but it could happen.

Imagine if that had been the case, and we were thrown out of Eden, but there was no Satan to tell us to build towers of Babel or watch American Idol. What would we do? Where would we be as a species? Would we have been conquered by aliens? Would there even be aliens since there would be no fallen angels and therefore no nephilim which EVERYONE knows are aliens?

These and many other questions you may spend time pondering, but allow me to save you the trouble of thinking, as I have already done it for you. Indeed, why should anyone think of something unless it is something that has not been thought of before. If a thought has been thought, and a problem solved, why should one solve it himself when he could google it and find the answer without ever having to work it out on his own?

The answer to the question posed is that we would be exactly as we are now, the only difference being there would be no towers (indeed no building more than two stories high), and obviously no one would watch American Idol.
There may be a few other minor changes of course. Rock and Roll would need a new icon, most likely they would take a goat.
Wicca would be a course in college, and it would be the art of making Wick for a candle.
Stonehenge would also likely look quite different, probably not the shape, or the design, or even the materials used (massive rocks) but it would probably be painted a cheerier color.

As for religion, I don't think it would change much. Man turned it's back on God without too much help from Satan. If we managed to do it (for a second time) with Satan's help a good 2000 years ago, I'm sure we would have done it by now without his help.

What this means is that the crusades could have continued as they always did. (Jesus vs. Mohammed, God vs. Allah. That's like Clark Kent Vs. Superman, they're the same thing, except one wears glasses.{If you were wondering who was who, God is Superman and Allah is Clark Kent because Allah wears glasses}) So really when you break down those wars Satan didn't have anything to do with it, that was all our fault.

In fact when you look at pretty much everything in the world today it's hard to see the work of Satan. I mean it's one thing when something is obviously due to Satan's intervention, like the creation of Ghost Rider, but very few things fall under that category.
Most things in this world are messed up because of ourselves, and our own stupid mistakes, and the sooner we stop blaming our problems on Satan (and George W. Bush........Mofo) the better off we'll all be.

Oh, and this whole "don't blame your problems on the Devil" thing, goes double for God. Seriously, leave the dude out of it, he's got his own problems to deal with, what with paying for Jesus' private therapy sessions after that whole crucifixion thing.

So if you've ever been curious at how the world would be without Satan. Now you know.

VOTE DEMOCRAT!!

Not an Update

Well nothing new is going on with me, so if you're looking for juicy details about my life you've come the wrong place.
But I will say that things are doing good, life is fine and dandy. I still don't have a job yet...a little bummed about that, but all good things come to those who wait, so I'm patiently waiting. I've come to the conclusion that there's not too much I can do about what happens in my life, as far as the bigger things anyway, so I've decided to just let the chips fall where they may and enjoy myself in the meantime, so if you've had any questions to ask me about myself, I hope that works as an answer for you.
If you didn't care about it, then why are you reading my blog? HAH! Yep, gotcha there.

In other news, my brother just got an XBOX 360 complete with Halo 3 and borrowed Guitar Hero 2 from a friend.

Beat Halo pretty quickly, it's pretty cool, multiplayer is great as always.

Guitar Hero is proving to be a new addiction, as well as being fun for the whole family. My finger's haven't had such a good workout since I started trying to learn to type at 120 WPM. It also makes me feel just a tiny bit sad that I never learned to play guitar for real, because if the real thing is as fun as this, then well I missed out.

Anyway that's about it for me, if you've got anything you'd like to say leave a comment, if not then this is the part where you stop reading.