An Update On My Mom

Today, Mom had yet another appointment at her dr's in Hagerstown, MD., about her hand. She has to have more surgery on it. This time, the Doc wants to fuse some bones in her wrist. She doesn't know if she's going to go through it yet, since she's had enough operations on that hand the past 5 years to last a lifetime. I'll fill you all in when anything happens!

Why would God choose to make someone single?

I hear a lotta people say "well, it's part of God's plan for my life that I be single." Why would God Curse someone to a life of lonliness and misery? Don't get me wrong, I don't argue with God, but I think that If God had something for you to do, I think him making your happy would get the job done faster.

I Have Gmail Invites

I have 50 Gmail invites. If you want one, just leave a comment with your email address.

My Church

I have been attending Old Fields Baptist Church for almost 8 years. It's a nice little church a few miles from where I live. A friend of my Mom's and I asked us to go one Sunday in 1997. I was hesitant about going at first, since, well, After every thing I had been through, God and Me weren't on speaking terms. So the first time I went, I was quite nervous, not being comfortable around people. Anyway, After a few times, I got comfortable there, and have been going there ever since. The people who go there are some of the nicest people I've ever met, and they've really helped me in my walk with God.

A Pleasnt Surprise

Today, I had a nice treat! My friend Kat called me on the phone. She's probably my best friend in the whole world. I've known her almost a year now. She's one of the nicest people I've ever had the privilage of meeting! She's funny, witty, smart, and just downright nice. I love talking to her and her Husband Keith on the phone, we have some really fun conversations, you never know what's gonna come up. Thank you Lord for putting her in my life!

The Math teacher

In 10th and 12th Grade, at Falls Church High School, I had an Algebra teacher by the name of Bruce Campbell. He was a good teacher (even though Algebra still is Greek to me:P), but he was sorely lacking in the people skills. He treated most of us like dogs, even Yours Truly, if you didn't learn something right the first time. Mr. Campbell was an older guy, he told us how he guarded the subways of New York during WW2, so maybe I guess he was just being a grouchy old man. Anyway, he did have his moments. He gave me a Math book as a prize for having perfect attendance in 10th Grade, and the day I had my Finals before Graduation, he told me how good of a student I was.

A Beautiful Day!

Today was a really pretty day! It got up into the 50's, and all the snow is about gone. Spring is right around the corner, and I'll be soooo glad when it gets here!

Thank God for the Iggy Button!

Lord, thank you for the Iggy Button, that wonderful device that keeps my screen clear of those "poor" Africans, Indian/Pakistani preachers, and all the other undesirables that would harm my chat experience!

Here's my "Room Mate" Molly the Cat! 

Clarification about the 1933 $20 Gold Piece

To the person who left a comment:

The 1933 $20 Gold Piece is illegal to own because in 1933, the US went off the gold standard, the production of gold coins were discontinued, and any coins not delivered to the Treasury by a certain date were illegal to own, and the $20's had not been delivered by that date.

ACCEPTANCE

Why is it that a lot of people can't accept fat people like myself? I don't care what they think of me, I'm just wondering? I guess you can blame the fashion magazines. Seems like people think that if you're not so thin that you can read a newspaper through them, you're nothing but a piece of shit. It's a shame..I've known a lotta fat people who are a lot nicer then some skinny people I've met!

WHAT'S THE COIN YOU'D MOST WANT IN YOUR COLLECTION IF YOU WERE A COLLECTOR

What's the coin you'd most want in your collection if you were a collector? For me, it would be a tossup between the 1804 Silver Dollar and the 1933 $20 Gold Piece. I'd take the Dollar because only 15 were minted (long story) and a couple years ago, one was sold for over a million bucks. I'd take the $20 Dollar Gold, because It is the rarest example of the most beautiful coin on the face of the Earth, and since that particular date is illegal to own, that just adds to the mystique!

WHAT AM I?

I know I've written about my life, but now I think it's time to give you a run down on the real me:

I AM:

A Son
A Brother
A Nephew
An Uncle
A Christian
A Friend
A Coin Collector
A History Buff
A Computer Geek
An Avid Reader


In Other words, I'm Me!

THE FRIST PART OF MY STORY

Here's the first part of my story I was writing that I mentioned in a previous post!


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Starbuck thought that he would either die from sheer boredom, or go insane from lonliness. It had been over 6 months since he crash landed on that godforsaken planet. He and Boomer had been on a routine patrol when they were ambushed by a Cylon patrol. They managed to shoot down the 2 Cylon raiders, but not before one of them scored a hit on one of Starbuck's engines. “Boomer, I'm not gonna be able to make it back to the Galactica, so you go on and warn the fleet, I'll set down on that nearby planet, “ he calmly announced over the comm system. “Ok Buddy, I'm on my way, but don't make yourself too comfortable on that rock, because when we beat off that Cylon attack, they'll be a shuttle with your name on it headed your way,” Boomer said, trying to hide his fear. After saying his farewells, Starbuck headed towards the planet, knowing that he could very well never see his friends or crewmates ever again. If it tunred out to be a full scale Cylon attack, Commander Adama would never risk the lives of the remnants of the Human Race to rescue a single pilot, even if it was the best damn pilot in the whole Colonial Fleet.


As the days went by, Starbuck continuely thought of the events that had transpired since the landing. Cy, the Cylon warrior who had also “survived “ the crash of his Raider during the battle, who Starbuck had repaired and created a friendship, and had given his life by fighting off the Cylon crew who had homed in on the distress beacon from Cy's ship. He gave his life that Starbuck could lauch the ship that he had made for Angela, the women who seemed to have also been a castaway, and her newborn baby son. After about 3 months, Starbuck had given up hope that perhaps the Galactica had found the ship, and perhaps had traced its route, leading back to him.





In his thoughts, Starbuck also thought about his friends and crewmates that he had left behind. Apollo, Boomer, Jolly, Adama, Athena, Colonel Tigh, and especially Cassiopia. Gods, how he loved that woman! From the second he first layed eyes on her, aboard that freighter after the destruction of the Colonies, he knew that she was the woman for him. He resolved that the first thing he would do if he was ever returned to the Galactica would be to ask Cassiopia to marry him.



Perhaps, feeling guilt for the first time since he was a kid, Starbuck thought that maybe his stranding was the God's punishment for his faking being sick on the day of the Cylon attack, just so he could get in on a stupid card game and not go on patrol. If he had been with Apollo on that patrol, they probably would have made it back to the fleet in time to warn them, and instead of being on this rock, he might have been back home on Caprica, or more important, Zac, Apollo's younger brother who had volunteered to go on patrol in Starbuck's stead, might still be alive. “Shoul've, would've, . could've, no use thinking about it now, what's done is done,” Starbuck would mutter to himself..


Trying to stave off boredom, Starbuck did everything and anything to keep himself occupied, exploring the planet, finding a large cave and moving his camp into it, and gathering food and water. Coming across a pask of rodent like creatures, he took his laser and finally found something a lot better tasting then the horrid plants he'd been living off of.


While napping one rainy afternoon, Starbuck heard a noise that indicated to him that he had been rescued, or had finally lost his mind: The sound of a Viper's engines! Running out of the cave, he saw the fighter flying near his position, and he started waiving like a madman. “The Galactica came back for me, thank God,” He spoke under his breath and he ran toward the clearing where the Viper landed. He was about ready to run up to the pilot and shake his hand when he noticed the insignia on the pilot's Jacket. It wasn't the Glactica's crest, a group of twelve stars symbolizing the Colonies, but a winged sword, crest of a ship and crew he'd thought dead. Only when his brain had digested all that he has seen would Starbuck allow himself to pass out.

A NOTE TO MY DETRACTORS

To all you idiots who have picked on me all my life:

Did you ever stop to think that I'm fat not because I eat all the time, but because I have only 1 kidney and other assorted health problems? That's right, you have been making fools of your selves for no reason the past 30 years! If you don't beleive me, I challenge any 0f you to follow me for a day and watch what I eat! I dont give a f**k what ya think of me anymore, you have no power over me anymore! I've been in a shell the past 25 years, and dammit, I'm coming out and in force! If ya can't accept the way I look, then shut the hell up!

YOU'D THINK THEY'D HAVE SOMETHING MORE SOPHISICATED ON A FUTURISTIC SPACESHIP!

Friday night, I was watching the new Battlestar Galactica, and there was a scene that took place in a bathroom on borard the ship! It looked like a bathroom stall from a restaurant, even with rolls of toilet paper. You'd think that the producers of the show would have a bit more imaginiation, and come up with something different! The show still rocks though!

MY FIRST COMPUTER

My first computer was a Commodore 128 that my parents got me for Christmas in 1985. Back then it was state of the art, but these days the disk drive would make a good doorstop. I did have a lotta cool games for it, mostly war and sports games. Oh that lightning fast 24 baud modem:P and the neat monochrome monitor! I'd probably still be using it today if my Niece hadn't thought it was a piano and banged the keyboard to death:P

ANOTHER REASON TO WEAR YOUR SEATBELT!!

Yesterday, while going on a job, my Dad skidded on a patch of ice, went down the side of a hill, and totaled his truck. He managed to escapw with nothing more then a sore neck and bumps and bruises, but if he didnt have his seatbelt on, it could have been worse!

ANGER AND REVENGE-IT IT WORTH IT?

I'm starting to think that maybe all my anger and wanting revenge for my Mom's injury is not worth it. I don't think it's accomplished anything except bring me close to a nervous breakdown and cost me a few friends. Being mad only brings temporary satisfaction, and won't change what happened. Maybe now I can put the whole damn thing in the past where it belongs and get on with life. I've been so immersed in it, I havn't had a life the past 5 years.

2 NEW PROJECTS

I've decided to take on a a couple of fun and possibly productive productive projects! First, after watching the episode of Galactica 1980 on the Sci Fi channel where Starbuck dissapeared, I'm trying to write a small story based on it. And also, a friend of mine sent me a link to a free site that has web design lessons, and I'm gonna give that a whirl! Maybe something will come out of these!

CHILLING OUT

The past few days, I've found something to ease my stress! I just whip out the Walkman, put in one of my 20 year old tapes I havn't listened to since they were new, and sit back, relax, and think of all the good times I had during the years they were made. Dang, I sure had a varied taste in music back then! I've found everything from Madonna to AC-DC!

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WRITE!

While I was watching the ABC News this evening, I watched a segment where they talked about people who had been fired from their jobs for criticizing the company or bosses in their blog writings. I think that is totally dumb! As you as you don't slander someone or reveal trade secrets, you should be able to write whatever you want.

A BEAUTIFUL DAY!!

Today was a wonderful day here today! It was nice and warm, getting close to 60. I spent most of the day outside, walking and exploring. I love days like this in the middle of winter, and it's supposed to be like this the next couple of days!!

TELEPHONE ETIQUETTE

Here's something I found while surfing through blogs!

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Telephone Etiquette

Our telephone rang a few minutes ago. I answered…

“Hello?”

Child’s voice on other end: “May I please speak with my daddy?”

“Who’s your daddy? Um… I think you have the wrong number.”

I cannot believe I actually said “Who’s your daddy?”

I’ll not be living this one down for a long, long time.

ARMED AND DANGEROUS!

While looking through a drawer a couple days ago looking for something, I can across my Dad's old .22 pistol. When I was about 4 or 5, the family was out camping and I guess I crawled in the car or something. Well....I picked up the gun, pulled the trigger, and blew out the windshield! Poor Car!:P

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A THANKS TO A COMMENTOR!

To the anonymous (I have a couple ideas who it might be) person who replied to the previous post, thank you for caring! I'm trying to get over everything! It's not easy, but not impossible!

MY PARENTS GREATEST FIGHTS

Over the years, my Parents have had some major fights! The bad thing is that they're about stupid shit! Here's some of the ones I remember:


1994-Dad takes too long finding a new Job-they tear up everything in the house, throw dishes around and break everything. Even I got in on that one, I kicked a hole in my wall out of frustration.


1996-Dad forgets to put his paycheck in the bank-Mom kicks him out for 2 days.

1997-Dad makes a stupid joke-They dont talk for a month.

1998-They get in a fight over pizza-Dad takes his clothes, throws them in the yard, and burns them.

2000-My Mom goes into her room to read, hears me yelling at the dogs to get off me, thinks Dad is molesting me, kicks him out for a week.

2001-I go into my room early to put clothes away, Mom thinks once again that Dad did something to me, they carry on for a couple days.

My sisters always said when they were kids that when Mom didn't get her way, she always yelled molestation.

2002-Dad lights a cig in car, runs into a ditch, she packs up and leaves for a day.

1998-We buy TILE to put on the kitchen floor, they get into a fight over weather it's tile or carpet.


Well that's enough, I think ya get the point.

HISTORICAL WHAT IFS'

As some of you know, I'm a really history buff. Also I'm a big Star Trek fan. What does that have to do with this post? Well....In Star Trek, whenever they traveled back in time, they were always careful not to do anything to mess up the time line. That shows you that just one little misstep can change everything. I was thinking about how things would be if certain events in world and US history had been different, here's some things and a few questions:

WHAT IF:


George Washington had declined command of the Continental Army? Would there even be a US today?

Lincoln had not been murdered-Would Reconstruction have ended quicker?

One exta Senator had voted "guilty" In Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, thus removing him from office-would the Radical Republicans' treatment of the South been so harsh, that reconstruction would have taken decades?

There would have been no internal division in the Republican Party in 1912, thus enabling President Taft or Theodore Roosevelt to defeat Woodrow Wilson- Would the US have entered WWI earlier?

TheStock Market would have not crashed in 1929-Would Hoover have been reelected in 1932, and New Deal would have not been started?

FDR decided not to run for a 3rd term in 1940-Would the US have entered WW2 Earlier?

Had FDR not died in April 1945, would he have authorized use of the Atomic Bomb, or would he have gone along with the plan to invade Japan, thus extending the war, and causing millions of more casulties?

Had JFK not been assasinated-Would the Vietman War been avoided?

If Pres. Carter had attacked Iran during the hostage crisis-Would he have been reelected in 1980, thus sparing us 8 years of Reaganism?

Had the Supreme Court ordered the Florida Recount to continue-Would Al Gore have won the election?

Had 9/11 not occured? Would Bush still invade Afghanistan and Iraq?


And many other possibilities---

IT'S ALMOST OFFICIAL!!!!!!!!!!!11

The Player's union has approved a trade that would send Sammy Sosa from the Cubs to my Baltimore Orioles. I am sooooo excited!! Now we have 5 people (Sosa, Miguel Tejada, Raphael Palmeiro, Javy Lopez, and Jay Gibbons) With the potential to hit over 30 homers and drive in 100 plus RBI's. I guess that the Cubs were desperate to get rid of Sosa, because all the O's gave up was Jerry Hairston and a couple of minor leaguers. If the O's can get 1 more starting pitcher, this team could be as good as the 1996 and 97 teams that made it to the American League Championship Series both years. I dont think they are ready to challenge the Yankees and Red Sox for the AL East title, but they could possibly challenge for the Wild Card. Can't Wait till Opening Day!!!

I FEEL KINDA WEIRD

I really feel kinda weird! We havn't able to go to Church the past 2 weeks because of the ice here. I miss it! Hopefully next week, the weather will be more cooperative. God, I'm glad ya understand!

THE LOSS OF A FRIEND

Today, I lost a friend. Not by death, but by I don't know what. I had been friends with Cathy, who I have mentioned a couple times on here, for almost 4 years, but today, I got a pm from her boyfriend telling me to back of from her. I guess I can live with one less friend in my life.

A PLEASANT MEMORY OF SCHOOL FOR ONCE

The first girl I ever had a crush on was Alice Visconti in fourth through sixth grade. I dunno why I liked her, I just did. She and her sister Jenny would come around my place all the time and we would hang out and go to the stores. We had a pretty good time. However, when we got to junior high school, she was one of the people who turned against me, and I havn't seen her since then...ahh the memories!

AN OBSERVATION

I know this might get me in trouble but...

Why is it that so called "Christians" (I call them So called because the way some of the more extreme ones treat certain types of people) can get away with bashing gays, the media, hollywood and the like, but when you try to point out their faults, they get all upset and call anyone who disagress with them ungodly. Believe me, I'm a Christian, and I would never do anything like that. I respect all kinds of people.

EXERCISE

As a lot of you know, I'm fat. Last week, we bought a treadmill. I have been using it ever day since, except for today, since my back and knees hurt too much. I can already feel a difference. My legs feel a lot stronger, it doesn't hurt me to walk a long way, and I'm not always out of breath. I run it 3 times a day for 1o minutes. Now ifI could get a good diet going.....

JEALOUSY

I will admit it, I am jealous becuase it seems all of my friends are getting married and I'm not. Through out my 33 years on this Earth, you'd think some person of the female persuasion would find me interesting, even though I'm fat and ordinary looking. Everyone says it'll happen when the time comes, but I dunno. I try to be nice to everyone, but it doesn't seem to help any. I am seriously beginning to think that that phrase God has someone for everyone may not be so true.

Sweet Relief!

I never really knew just how theraputic blogging can be! After my post of a few days ago about how mad I was at the bitch who got my mom hurt, I feel a helluva lot better! It feels so good to be able to blow steam and put pen to paper (or in this case fingers to keyboard) and write down how you really feel!

THOUGHT OF THE DAY

Happiness is easy to achieve but hard to maintain.

SNOW

Today we had our first measurable amount of snow. I think we probably had about 2 inches or so, plus ice. Snow I can handle, but ice....expecially when you live on a hill like I do!

THINGS I REGRET NOT DOING

I've missed out on a lotta things in my life that now I wish I woulda done.

Didn't go to my High School Prom: Didn't figure they wanted me there since I was the most hated
person in School.

Didn't tell Stephanie Weber I had a HUGE crush on her in High school. See above for the reason.

Shoulda done a better job sticking up for myself in school, wouldn't have all the probs I do now.


Shoulda watched what I ate.

Shoulda tried not to be so shy.

And millions of other things...

MY IDEA FOR A WEDDING

Lately, a few of my friends have or are gonna be getting married. In case I ever get married, here's my idea of a good wedding. Go to a judge, get the deed done, then lunch at Mcdonald's. Romantic, huh? I hate dressing up!

A NOTE TO THE BITCH THAT RUINED MY FAMILY

Dear (Hah!) Hellen Thompson:


Do you know what you have done to my family? Your greed has ruined not only my Mom, but our entire family! You were thinking about nothing but making money for the company when you told Mom that it was ok to work on that machine while it was running. Because of that, Mom's hand will never work again, and because of the trauma she went through, she now has to take seizure medicines. And also, you worthless piece of shit, for the first year after the accident, she did nothing but sit on the edge of her bed and cry. And it has also affected the relationship between her and me. Before June 28, 2000, We did all sorts of things together, we took of every couple of weekneds and went down to VA, and all sorts of other things, but now we cant do that much, since she can't drive long distance anymore. I don't know how it's affected my Dad, because he keeps it to himself, but I sure the fuck can tell you how it's hurt me. First off, I have been depressed for almost 5 years because of this, and all I do at night is cry. Second, I have slowly been losing faith in God, because he did nothing to prevent this. I was always a cheerful person, but not anymore. So do not come to me asking for forgiveness, because while my Mom has come to terms with this, you wont get any mercy from me. I hope you have some sort of painful accident or disease, then you would know what you've done to us.


See you in Hell Bitch

ANOTHER FUNNY STORY FROM MY CHILDHOOD

When I first started collecting coins, My Dad and I found this neat coin shop in Annandale, VA. Every Thursday night, they had an auction there, and it was nothing for us to blow a bunch of money each week. The funny thing was, the people that ran the place thought that Dad was the collector. Actually, back then he couldnt tell one coin from another. Most of the people that participated in the auctions were older, more experienced collectors. So imagine their surprise when you got a 9 or 10 year old kid gathering in their huddles and getting in on the converstaions, and talking about coin stuff that a kid my age had no business even knowing about! You shoulda seen the looks on those guys' faces. HEHE

THE GOAT HORNS GO TO...

Today's goat of the day is NY Jets kicker Doug Brien. He missed 2 field goal attempts in the last 2 minutes of the Jets' 20-17 overtime playoff loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers. His first miss, from 47 yards, doinked of the crossbar, and the 2nd from 43, he flat out missed. One week ago you won a game against San Diego with an OT field goal, so wear the horns with shame, Doug!

MY FAVORITE COIN DESIGNS

As a coin collector, I've seen a lot of different coin designs. Here's some of my favorites:



1: $20 St. Gaudens Gold Piece: Universally called the most beautiful design, but there are a
lotta people who will say that The Walking Liberty Half is.

2: Walking Liberty Half: See above. Love that obverse!


3: Peace Dollar: Love that Eagle on the Mountain reverse!


4: Standing Liberty Quarter: I've given this coin a nickname: "The Janet Jackson Coin"
because of a "wardrobe malfunction" (for those non collectors readign this, on the 1916 issue
of this coin, one of Ms. Liberty's boobs are sticking out. Later issues had it covered with
armor.

5: Frankin Half Dollar: Just a great overall design.


My Favorite Paper Money design is the 1918 $2 Federal Reserve Bank Note. That Battleship
on the back gets me both as a collector and a navy buff.


I have a couple foreign coin designs too that I really like:


Reverse of the British Gold Soverign: Pistrucci's rendering of St. George Vs. the Dragon still
looks good after 200 years.

Voyageur reverse of the old Canadian silver dollars. The 2 guys rowing a canoe by and island with the Northern Lights in the background really sharp.


Any comments from you collectors out there?

MY MOM IS INSANE!

Yes, I think my Mom is nuts! I know shes in discomfort because of her hand, but still, she still should have som common sense left. We nearly got into a fight today. She was going to g ovisit a friend, but my Dad, like he always does when he doesn't want to do something, went to take a nap. I was going to watch the dogs while she was gone, but I had to go to the bathroom first. She thought I was going back into my room and let the dogs run all over the house, so she started throwing one of her fits. If you woulda given me 2 minutes, I woulda been outta the bathroom! Geez!!

A DAY I'D RATHER FORGET!

Wednesday has to have been one of the worst days I've been through. First off, My Mom wasn't doing too good. Ever since she got hurt, she has been having seizures every once in a while, and on this day, she started showing symptoms of starting to have one. I got no sleep, because I was afraid that she would have one and we'd have to call 911. Luckily, she's doing OK now. And also, my friend Kat was going through some stuff that I really don't think she'd like discussed. THANK GOD TODAY IS FRIDAY!!

FORGIVENESS

Forgiveness is such a hard thing to do! I know that it is a necessary thing to do in order to find peace in life and to put the past behind, byt nonetheless it's difficult. Being a Christian, it's a must in my case. There are 2 major things/people I need to forgive. The first is all those people who picked on me in school and made my life a shamables. That one, I'm working on. The one I'm having a REAL hard time doing is forgiving Hellen Thompson for getting my Mom hurt. If it had been a plain old accident, I'd be fine. But since it was due to greed, therein lies my problem. I guess it's becuase I'm one of those people who just can't tolerate stupidity. I was making a comment about it in the chatroom last night and my friend Cathy said " Billy, you just gotta give it to God, or it will eat you alive." I'm trying, I really am....

A DOSE OF REALITY

Sometimes, things happen that let you know that sometimes, the things that worry you or you complain about just arent worth it. Today, that hit me full force. In Church today, a lady that goes there was talkign about her battle with Cancer that began a year ago. She seems to have beaten it, but some tests she had last week showed some things, so we're still praying for her. My point is, My problems with my weight, friends , and all the other stuff I worry about aren't nothing compared to what she's goin through.

NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS!

I usually don't make New Year's resolutions, but since I'm starting a new page in my life, I thought it would be nice to challenge myself. So here they are:



1: Lose Weight

2: Find a Girlfriend

3: Make more friends

4: Don't get down on myself so much

5: Have a better relatioship with God



Well, I'll let ya know at the end of next year if I kept any of em!

WHAT AN IDIOT!

While I was in the Chatroom today, some stupid hardline "Christian" Said that the Tusnamis that his SE Asia were God's way of killing Moslems. What a ****ing idiot! Somehow, I really don't think that God would kill 117,000 people because of their religious views. If I start thinking like that dumbass, you all have permission to shoot me!

WHAT A COMEBACK!

A couple of days ago, my friend Jewels came up with the best comeback/putdown I've ever heard! Some idiot in the chatroom was giving her a hard time, so she said, "Dude, go suck on one of my used tampons!" I laughed my fat ass off for hours! You go girl, you tell em!

A GREAT HONOR!

A couple days ago, my friends Kat and Keith asked me if I'd like to be a Godparent for the baby they're having. Of course, I said yes! I consider it to be a great honor. Since I can't have kids of my own, it would be cool helping guide a little one through life. Check back in 18 years and ask if I had any success:P

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a nice Christmas! things were pretty good in my home. Here's what I got:

Battlestar Galactica DVD Box Set
A new airbrush and compressor
2 pairs of jeans
2 shirts
A new pair of tennis shoes
3 books
lottery tickets
free movie pass
minutes for my phone
socks
rechargable batteries


We went over to my sister's for breakfast, and had a nice turkey dinner at home.

SURPRISE!!!

Today, We pulled a pleasnt trick on my Niece Leah. My Sister and bro in law bought her a new Jeep Liberty for Christmas. On the pretense of going to the dealership to schedule a oil change, they went ot the dealership, My parents and I went in later, and was she Tickled!!

YOU KNOW YOU'RE ADDICTED TO THE INTERNET WHEN...

These are all pretty true!!!



You kiss you girlfriend's home page.

Your bookmarks list takes 15 minutes to scroll from top to bottom.

Your eyeglasses have a web site burned into them.

You find yourself brainstorming for new subjects to Google.

You refuse to go to a vacation spot with no electricity and no phone lines.

You finally do take that vacation, but only after buying a cellular modem and a laptop.

You spend half of the plane trip with your laptop on your lap.... and your kid in the overhead compartment.

Your dreams are in HTML.

You find yourself typing "com" after every period when using a word processor.

You turn your computer off and get this awful epmty feeling, like you just pulled the plug of your loved one.

You refer to going to the bathroom as downloading.

You start introducing yourself as "Jim at I-I-Net dot net dot au"

Your heart races faster and beats irredgularly each time you see a new WWW site address printed on the TV, even though you've never had heart problems before.

You step out of the room and realize that your roomates have moved and you don't have any idea when it happened.

You turn up the volume read loud when leaving the room so you can hear if anyone IM's you.

You wife drapes a blond wig over the monitor to remind you of what she looks like.

All of your friends have an @ in their names.

Looking at a pageful of someone else's links, you notice that you've been to all of them.

Your dog has its own webpage.

You believe nothing looks sexier than a man in boxer shorts illuminated by a 17" LCD Flat-Panel Monitor.

You check your mail. It says "no new messages." So you check it again.

You code your homework in HTML and give your intsructor the URL.

You don't know what sex your three of your closeset friends are, because they have nuetral screennames and you never bothered to ask.

You name your children Google, Friendster and Blogger

You miss more than five meals a week downloading the latest MP3's off Kazaa Lite.

You start looking for hot HTML addresses in public restrooms.

You wake up at 3 a.m. to go to the bathroom and stop and check your e-mail on the way back.

Your virtual girlfriend finds a new sweetheart with a larger bandwidth.

You buy a Captain Kirk Chair with a built in keyboard and mouse.

Your wife makes a new rule: "The computer can not come to bed"

The last hottie you picked up was only a jpeg.

You put a pillow case over your laptop so your lover doesn't see it while youre pretending to catch your breath.

You ask a plumber how much it would cost you to replace the chair in front of your computer with a toilet.

You forget what year it is.

You start tilting your head sideways to smile.

You ask a doctor to implant a terrabyte in your brain.

Your sweetie says communication is important in a marriage...so you buy another computer and network them together so that you can IM each other anytime.

As your car crashes through the guardrail on a mountain road, your first instinct is to search for the "back" button.

All of your friends have an @ in their names.

You start using smileys in your snail mail

You bring a bag lunch to the computer.

You have withdrawals if you are away from the computer for more than a few hours.

You take a speed reading course to keep up with the scrolling.

You type faster than you think.

You double click your TV remote.

You can now type over 70 WPM.

You check your e-mail and forget you have real mail.

You go into withdrawals during dinner.

You rank your friends by the amount of bandwith they have.

You have "Googled" all your friends to try to find out anything interesteing that they are not telling you and you can use against them later.

You message someone via IM when they are less than 20 feet away.

The sound of the keys clicking turns you on.

You have more browsers than friends in the real world.

You actually say I-M-O and A-T-M to real friends rather than 'in my opinion' and 'at the moment'. And they give you strange looks.

You run four chat programs all at once... Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, AIM and MSN

You sign off and your screen says you were on for 3 days and 45 minutes.

You purchase a vanity car license plate with your screen name on it.

You say "he he he he" or "heh heh heh" instead of laughing.

You talk on the phone with the same person you are sending an instant message to.

You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.

Your teacher or boss recommends a drug test for the blood shot eyes.

The letters have come off your keyboard from excessive use.

You order pizza online - because you can't be bothered to call.

You say "SCROLL UP" when someone asks what it was you said.

You look at an annoying person off line and wish that you had your ignore button handy.

You enter a room and get greeted by 25 people with {{{hugs}}} and ** kisses**.

You're on the phone and say BRB.

The last movie you've seen was on your Quicktime player.

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends who are addicted to the internet.

I'M BAAAACCCKKKKKK!!

Hey Readers! Hope you all missed me!:P Sorry I havn't written anything in the past few days, but my phone lines were dead. Since I don't have DSL, naturally I wasn't able to be online. Man, talk about internet withdrawl!! I didn't think I'd make it past Saturday night, but I found stuff to keep me occupied. I read just about every book I own, and worked on a model. Well, now I know I can survived being stranded on a deserted island!! :P

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have quite a pleasant (?) predicament. One of my lady friends online has a crush on me. Her name is April and she lives in West VA too. I have so find some way to let her down easy, because the feeling isn't mutual. Don't get me wrong, she's a really nice person, but I have a few misgivings about her feelings. First off, she just got divorced from a guy that beat her, and second, she was pregnant with twins, but had a miscarriage. I dunno if she really likes me or is just on the rebound. Anyway, we shall see....

THE ONLY TIME IVE REALLY REALLY WANTED TO KILL SOMEONE.....

Was back in 7th Grade. I had this teacher, Mrs. Bailey, who was a total BITCH! Anyway, I was out of school for a couple days because I was sick. We were going on a field trip the day I got back, and I was in no mood for being messed with, having had a bad kidney infection. So here I am dressed in jeans and a sweat shirt, and everyone else is dressed up. So..she rips into me, insulting my clothes. So I ripped into her. I said " This is the only type of stuff I can afford, we aren't rich ya know." She was highly unimpressed, and I ended up getting in trouble. I felt so embarrassed, being insulted in front of the whole school.

CONGRATULATIONS TO 2 OF MY FRIENDS!!

Tomorrow, Kat, my best friend in the whole world, and her BF Keith, also a friend of mine, will be taking the plunge into that institution known as Marriage. I am sooo happy for them! If not for a lack of money, right now instead of writing this, I'd be on my way to Iowa to attend the wedding. A toast to you 2 on a happy life together!

FINALLY, AN ENDING

Today, a jury in California sentenced Scott Peterson to death for the murder of his wife Laci and their unborn son. As a respector of all women, I can't for the life of me understand why a man could do something like that to a woman. He could have divorced her, but I guess that was too easy for him. Even though he wa sentanced to death, he'll probably never see the death chamber, since there are over 600 people on Death Row in California. Hopefully, he'll be haunted by this crime the rest of his life.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHY WOMEN LIKE TO SHOP!!

Yesterday I went with my Mom and Sister Julie to go Christmas shopping. I'm not much of a shopper, so I don't understand the thrill some women get from shopping. The only thrill I get from it is going out to eat:P Anyway...got my Christmas shopping done!!

I MISS HOCKEY!

I'm a big hockey fan, and this lockout is really getting on my nerves! I know the Caps have been a really bad team the past few years, but I still miss em! I hope that the owners and players can reach a new labor agreement really quick!

A QUICK SITE REVIEW

While surfing last night, I came across a very interesting and funny site. I Hate Pat Robertson Is a much needed site slamming Pat Roberstson, Jerry Fallwell, and the rest of the Religious Right. While I am a Christian, I do not agree with the way these people have infiltrated their way into the workings of our Government.

A REDEDICATION

Lord, I know I've strayed from you the past 4 years, ever since Mom got hurt. Please forgive me. Lord, please help me forgive all those people that have wronged me, because I think that's what is keeping me from experiencing all that you have for me. Please show me what you want me to do in and with my Life. Please give me the patience to wait on the woman you've made for me, and give me the strenght to overcome my lonliness. Please help me be a better son, brother, uncle and friend. I know that the key to happiness is letting you control all facets of my life.

IN MEMORIAUM

Here's to all the Sailors, Soldiers, and Marines who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor 63 years ago. Expecially the over 1600 men who died abord the battleships USS Arizona and USS Oklahoma. Also, thank you to all our service people involved in the Iraq War.

MY CHRISTMAS WISH LIST

This being the Christmas Season, here are some of the things I'd like:


The Battlestar Galactica DVD Box Set

Any kind of ship or airplane model

Books, history or other wise

Clothes

A better digital camera


and that old standby...Money

HISTORY

For those of you who know me, this doesn't come as a surprise, but I love history. It has been a hobby of mine since I was a kid, maybe 9 0r 10. that, combined with my love of reading, had made me a veritible fountain of information. Ask me any thing about US history, wars, or ships, and I can probably give you an answer. I guess I like history because it's interesting to learn and know about the people and events that happened in the early part of your life and before you were born.

SMOKING CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH IN MORE WAYS THEN ONE!

Today, My Mom almost wrecked her car because of smoking. While we were going to the store, she dropped her cigarrette, went to look for it, and ran the car into a fence. Luckily the only thing hurt was the passenger side mirror, but it could have been worse.....

WHAT A WASTE OF TALENT!

I believe Ricky Williams must be a total nutcase! How could someone just give up a career as one of the NFL's best running backs to leave for a life of pot smoking, learning how to be a holistic healer, and just go around the world? Sheesh......

AN EMBARRASSING EPISODE FROM MY CHILDHOOD!

When I was a kid, I was really afraid of the dark. One day, when I was in first grade, I had to go to the bathroom. While I was in there, the Electricity went out, and so did the lights! Sooooo, I freaked out, Started screaming, and got the hell outta that dark bathroom. Only problem was, my pants were still down. How embarrassing! Some of my classmates who were there were still ribbing me about it in high school. Oh well....

MY STRUGGLES WITH FAITH

Over the past 4 years, I have been engaged in a struggle with my faith. I know God has his reasons for everything, but I still don't have any idea why he would allow my Mom to get hurt. Mom did nothing to deserve what happened to her. She's handling it well, but as for me....I'm not handling it so well. I can't go to sleep without crying, and it just kills me seeing her struggle having to do things with just one hand. Lord, I'm not asking for sympathy, I just want to know why!

HELLO TO EVERYONE READING THIS ON BLOGEXPLOSION

Hi to everyone who has read this on Blogexplosion! For those of you who don't know what that is, Blogexplosion is a service that lets you surf other people's blogs. I've read quite a few interesting ones!

HOLIDAY TIME

I love this time of the year! Holidays get me in a good mood, and I love being able to see my family. The only things that botehr me are the shopping, eating too much, and the fact the the fun goes by way too fast because Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years' are too close together.

A TALE OF 2 FRIENDS, OR "SUCH IS LIFE"

The past week has been a mixed bag or emotions for 2 of my friends, who will remain unnamed to protect their privacy. One found out a couple days ago that she's pregnant, the other was 5 months pregnant and expecting twins and had a miscarriage. Joy and Sadness, just goes to prove the point that there are equal and opposite forces at play in life.

A NEW FRIEND

I have met a new friend in my chat experience. Her name is Kat Williams. She is a truly nice person, and I'm glad that she's my friend. We talk all the time, and even as we speak, I'm getting ready to get offline, because she's supposed to call me in a few minutes. She has told me that apart from her boyfriend, that I am her best friend! Thank you Lord for putting such a wonderful person in my life!!:)

AND EVERYONE WONDERS WHY I'M SHY

As many of you know, I'm very shy. Most of it is because of having to put up with people making fun of me because of my weight. The worst putdown I ever had to endure happened when I was 10 or 12. A friend of my Mom's had came to visit us, and brought her Daughter In Law with her. I had never met this girl before, the Daughter In Law. Instead of saying "Hi". "Hello", or "Fuck You", she said "Damn you're fat and ugly like my husband was when he was your age." My God, you just don't go around saying stuff like that to kids. From then on, I have tried to keep away from people as much as possible. I try, but I still get flashbacks to that moment.

THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving at my house went pretty good!! Ate too much as usual though. It's nice being able to have some of the family around. In addition to Mom, Dad, and Myself, Julie, Leah, and Crystal were here too. Well, excuse me while I get dessert!

MY FAVORITE SONG

My favorite song of all time is The Chain by Fleetwood Mac. I like it because the music is so powerful. Expecially the Bass part in the middle and Lindsay Buckingham's killer guitar solo towards the end. When I saw them in concert in 1987, my ears were nearly blown off by that song!

THE BEST ADVICE GIVEN BY A TV CHARACTER

"We might as well live for today, there might not be many more"


Lt. Starbuck, Battlestar Galactica

A BLAST FROM THE PAST!!

Here's the only pic of me and my sisters altogether that I've ever seen. Julie's on the right, Lori's on the left, and I wonder who that is is the middle?

SOME THINGS I'M THANKFUL FOR!!

As we get ready for the Thanksgiving season, I sat down to think about what I'm thankful for. Here's some of the things I've come up with:


1: My Family, even though we don't get along all the time and sometimes fight like idiots.

2: My Friends. Although I don't have that many of them, I love em all. Each of them brings
something wonderful and different into my life.

3: My Health. Thank you Lord, I've come a long way from that sick little baby I was.

4: My Church.

5: The chance to live in a free Country.

6: A nice home.

And a lot more things...

Here's My Mom and Dad 

SPORTS HAS BEEN SET BACK INTO THE STONE AGE!

After watching scenes from last night's Detriot Pistons-Indiana Pacers NBA game, I think Sports has reached its low point. If you havn't heard about it, the game was called with 45 seconds to go because after a scuffle between 2 players, the crowd started throwing things, and you had players jumping into the stands going after fans, and fans jumping on the court going after players. As a big sports fan myself, I find it totally disgusting. Just because you have a ticket to a game doesn't mean you have the right to act like a total asshole. As for the players, I don't blame them for what they did. If someone was throwing Beer and food on me, I'd be seeing red myself.

EXILED!!

Well, today my fellow CC1ers and I have been exiled from our beloved room! Some stupid idiot has flooded the room with bots (automated chatters) and is packing the room, so no one can get in. We are taking refuge in CC5, but it feels so....strange and unclean being in a different room.

WHAT I WANT IN A WOMAN

Here are some of the things I'm looking for in my search for a significant other:


1: Looks don't matter.

2: Someone who can accept me despite my weight and looks.

3: Someone who can stand my little quirks.

4: Religion is not a requirement, but a Christian would be nice.

5: Likes getting out and hanging with other friends

6: Also, likes having quiet time together.

7: Will stick with me through thick and thin.

If you are interested, please submit your application :P

SO WHAT HAVE I LEARNED THIS WEEK?

Here are a few things I've learned this week:


1: When in doubt, go to God and ask.

2: When in doubt about telling someone that you've been in love with them for 4 years, and
they've just broken up with their BF, Either wait a few weeks or don't.

3: When someone pms you and says theyre someone, verify it.

4: Thank God that you have such great friends, and let em know it.

ANOTHER MEMORY FROM MY CHILDHOOD

During my years in elementary school, I had the privilage(?) to be a classmate of a guy named Tony Mills. The kid was a complete nutcase. He would be right at home with the terrorists these days. He had no respect for anything or anyone. One day, he attacked a teacher with a pair of scissors, and one he sent me to the dr. by spraying something in my eyes. Needless to say, since he was a nutcase and I was the school outacast, we kinda became pretty good friends. I havn't seen him since 6th grade. Last I heard, 20 some years ago, he was shipped to a military school. Lord help them!

ANOTHER FUNNY SAYING

Here's another funny saying I came across in CC1 Land today:


Have you ever felt like a fire hydrant and your friends were dogs with no where to go?

HOUSE CLEANING

Am I the only guy that likes to do housework? I used to really hate doing it, but after my Mom got hurt, and I had a lotta more resposibilities thrust upon me, I don't really mind. Mom is a neat freak, I must've inherited it from her:P

A REVALATION OR '" GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER

Last night as I was praying and asking God "Lord, what can I do to get my life back on track and get it to be the way YOU want it to be?" And then it all came to me. Call me a nutcase, but here's what he said In my words: First off, trust me, I know what's best for you, don't worry. Second, like yourself. I love ya more then anything. If you love yourself, then people will sense that and love you too. Don't worry about your weight or looks, if people judge you by that, then you don't need them in your life. Don't try to be something you aren't. Be yourself, and everything will fall in place. And don't let that stuff that happened to your Mom or what happened to you in school get you down. You may not know it or think it, but all this stuff has made you stronger. As for women, he said don't worry about that either. I've got someone for ya, and I am going to reveal her to you very soon. Believe me I am not crazy! I'm so glad that God has been listening to my prayers.

You Know You're Addicted To CSI When:

You know the biographies of ALL the personnel from the CSI website.

You never work (or go out) Thursday nites because you'll miss CSI (although you tape it anyway).

You can't sleep knowing that something exciting is going to happen on the next episode

Your friend asks you about the episode with "the sparkling room thingie," and you don't even have to think about it before informing them they're thinking of Scooba Doobie-Do.

Your puppy is called VEGAS as a compromise, because none of your kids could stop arguing over whether it was gonna be called Grissom, Warrick, Greggo or Nicky......

You start knocking on walls in hope of finding a dead body between them

You walk around with a Mag-lite

You change your lighting to UV lighting, just to see those stains in your carpet

You dust for prints in your knife drawer

You wrap your house with yellow crime-scene tape

You wear latex gloves while at home

You suddenly study chemistry to understand more about those chemical reactions.

You learn Photoshop you can make wallpapers out of the pics you have

You've changed your quote from "Smile at the world, and the world will smile back" to "Concentrate on what cannot lie... The evidence"

When you were a kid, you wanted to be an astronaut. Now you want to be a CSI

When you are the leader of a group, you think, "What kind of a leader should I be? Gris Style or Horatio?"

You stare at Grissom's eyeglasses and Horatio's shades, then search for the exact pair (or at least close to it!)

You plan on living in Las Vegas or Miami

Your choice of car? The one like Horatio has.

You have a jacket, with the word "Forencics" written on the back

You'd even settle for a shirt with the same word

You read HAMLET, cause it was mentioned that HORATIO came from the name of Hamlet's best bud, Horatio

You got arrested when found crossing the yellow tape.

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends who are addicted to CSI.

YOU KNOW YOU'RE ADDICTED TO STAR WARS WHEN

You can recite *all* the dialogue from the trilogy.

You watch the entire trilogy at least once a month.

You wonder why the SW theme never makes it into those "clasical collections."

Any time you pick up a walkie-talkie or two-way radio, the first thing you say is "TK-421, why aren't you at your post?"

Whenever you went anywhere outside with your friends, you always walked single file, to hide your numbers.

You've written several letters to the President recommending that he dissolve the council, put power in the hands of the regional governors, and let fear keep the local systems in line.

In college, after several hours of poker, you got thrown our of the game for suggesting, "How about some sabacc?"

When trying unsuccessfully to snare that last Cheerio floating in your cereal bowl, you remarked, "the Force is strong with this one."

On Halloween, you would never dress as: Luke, Han Solo, Leia, Vader, Chewie, Threepio, Artoo

However, you would dress as: Wedge, Porkins, Crix Madine, that spider droid from Jabba's palace that fat dancer from Jabba's palace, Sy Snootles, the Cantina bartender. The monster in the trash compactor, Boba Fett, An Imperial probe droid

You've been pulled over by a policeman, and when asked to see your driver's license you replied, "You don't need to see my identification."

And when he asks about your two friends in the back "They're for sale, if you want them."

You have physically threatened anyone who referred to "Hans Solo" or "Dark Vader", confused Star Wars with Star Trek, or spellied Wookiee with only one "e."

You have held up an onion ring and said, "Look sir...droids!"

You've referred to Wedge Antilles or Boba Fett as "The Man."

You've bought a white Isuzu Trooper, strictly because of the name.

While sitting on the couch with your girlfriend, she comments about being cold. So, naturally, you slice open the side of the cushion and stuff her in.

You insist on spelling Pizza Hut "Pizza Hutt."

You dropped your religion and now live the way Yoda taught you.

You recorded all the new Star Wars comercials.

You frequently experience insomnia and, to counter this, begin counting nerfs.

You answer the phone "Die wanna wanga?"

Whenever you buy a new appliance, you make sure to get one that speaks Bacchi.

You call your aunt and uncle Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen.

Whenever you catch sight of cars behind yours, you say "Fighters, coming in, point three five."

Someone else in your car says "What about that tower?"

You respond, "You worry about those fighters, I'll worry about the tower", and moments later your car slams into the water tower the passenger was referring to.

When a cop catches you speeding, you floor it, saying "I've outrun Imperial starships, and not the local bulk cruisers..."

When someone apologizes to you, you choke him and tell him that you accept his apology.

You ride your motorbike through the forest at top speed, and survive after throwing yourself off just before it hits a tree.

You've 'wielded' a flashlight and made humming sounds.

You wave your hand purposefully and 'use the force' to open and close automatic doors or elevator doors.

You go over to a friends, go to his refrigerator, and crawl in throwing food and stuff over your shoulder and grunting.

You walk into an optometrist's office and shout: You will PAY for your lack of vision!

You have a Yoda figurine replacing the brand symbol on the hood of your car.

When accelerating your car to enter the freeway, you tell your passengers to strap in and prepare for light speed.

Your significant other dumps you because everytime she/he says, "I love you" you always respond, "I know."

You quote Yoda to defend your political beliefs.

You have so many SW Trilogy GIF's, JPG's, MIDI's, AVI's, WAV's, MPG's, icons and text files that you're rapidly running out of disk space and have to buy a bigger hard drive just to hold them all.

You have so many SW posters that you can't see your ceiling or floor, either.

You have so many SW toys that you can't see your SW posters anyway.

When leaving a restaurant, you can't resist signing Boba Fett or Darth Vader in the guestbook.

You went through a state of depression when Chewie died.

You look at "big hairy carpets" with more respect than before.

You speak Rodian.

You punch out trekkies who say "Death star my ass, I'd like to see those losers take out DS9."

With a blue-tinted plastic tube, a flashlight, two hours of a Saturday night, and 4 rolls of blue electrical tape, you finally complete your own working "Light-saber"

You listen for Obi-Wan while attempting to parallel park

1Your father asks you how fast your car is, and you reply, "Fast enough for you, old man!"

You could have sworn you saw bantha tracks during your trip to the grand canyon.

Every time somebody sneezes, you say, "May the force be with you."

The cinnamon buns in your hair start to grow mold.

You call your friend who is a midget Wicket.

You refer to money as credits without trying to.

You respond to any mention of the legality of something with "I will make it legal."

You start reliving the speeder bike chase on your motorbike.

Someone tells you your car is old and beat-up, you reply "She'll do .5 past light speed..."

You refer to getting off the freeway as coming out of hyperspace.

You are POSITIVE you are force-sensitive and only lack the proper training.

Someone says they will try to do something you automatically respond "Do or do not. There is no try."

By intense study you have actually figured out the location of every gun implacement on a star destroyer.

Your house robe is brown and extra large.

You type in the terms for a search engine as if entering coordinates, then shout "Punch it, Chewie!" as you click on search.

You argue about whether Star Wars is space fantasy or space opera.

You're out looking for a Wookie for your school's wrestling team.

You nickname your car the Millennium Falcon.

The last time a cute guy tried to hug you, your hands were dirty.

When your mom asks you to clean your room, you say "Leave that to me."

Your friends share recipes for cooking Ewok.

You have a long braid in you hair like Obi-Wan in E1.

You call your boss/teacher "Master"

You went to the nearest recruiting center and asked to be assigned to the 121st TIE squadren

When asked if you want to be buried or creamated you say "I'll just vanish like the rest of the Jedi"

You have a bad feeling about everything.

While partying with friends, you do your Darth Vader impression.

You try to get your car up to .5 beyond lightspeed, in a parking lot.

You call your girlfriend, "your Highness."

You keep calling your boyfriend, "Luke," "Han," or "Lando" by mistake.

You believe John Williams is the best composer ever (which, of course, he is!), and George Lucas is a god (which, too, is pretty much true!)

While listening to the soundtrack without knowing the name of the song you are listening to, you know exactly what's happening while it's playing.

In foreign language class, you tell the teacher, "Hey! If I'm fluent in over six million forms of communication, then how come I'm getting such a bad grade in this class?"

When your friends confide in you and tell you their deepest, darkest secrets, you say, "You are far too trusting."

When your dad says, "I am your father," you begin to scream uncontrollably and shout, "NOOOO! It's not true!" at the top of your lungs.

You have ever thought the world would be a better place if it were like the Rebel Alliance/New Republic.

You now want to become an astronaut to see if there really is a Lando system.

Obiwan Kenobi and Yoda come to you in your dreams and give you advice about tough situations you're dealing with.

Yoda's little sayings have had a profound impact on your life, and you abide by them religiously.

You've created lyrics to the songs in Star Wars.

Instead of saving for college, you save up for Star Wars stuff you plan to buy.

Anyone who doesn't like Star Wars you proclaim is an Imperial.

When you are ticked off at somebody, you send bounty hunters all over the place to find them and then you encase him in carbonite for a new wall decoration.

When your alarm clock goes off in the morning, your reply is, "Unexpected this is... and unfortunate!"

When riding your bike, you look behind you and accelerate wildly by pressing down on the petal with your right toe.

You've kept the "good" action figures stored separately from the "bad" ones.

As a child, whenever you had broken something, your response was always, "It must've had a self-destruct mechanism. I didn't hit it that hard."

You've refused to enter a cave/cavern/tunnel without a handgun and a large stick.

When you waited for a friend to catch up with you, you told him to hurry up or he'd be a permanent resident.

You've ever found yourself in a chat room, training Jedi.

You've ever told your younger brother at the dinner table, "Use the fork, Luke."

You've ever roped off your Star Wars Action Figure collection, claiming it to be an independent nation.

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends who are addicted to Star Wars.

You Know You're Addicted to Star Trek When

Your favorite drink: Tea, earl grey, hot

You can quote the name of every single episode just by watching the first 10 seconds of the introductory clip

You own 13 Star Trek Technical Manuals and Blue Print Schematics of all Starship but you no longer need them

When seeing a doctor, you're afraid of getting a shot and ask for a hypospray instead

Your electronic project: Positronic brain

You have 4 TVs at home and each of them are playing TOS, TNG, DS9 and VOY respectively 24 hours a day non-stop

You remembered the lock up code that Data uses on the Enterprise's Main Bridge before beaming down to meet Dr. Soong and Lore

You've learned playing the song "The Inner Light" with a penny whistle

After broken your neighbour's window, instead of just running away, you try to use the "Picard Maneuver" to escape

You're hosting a conference, your response to any suggestions: Make it so

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends who are addicted to Star Trek.

MY SENTIMENTS EXACTLY!

This evening my friend Cathy has an away message on her yahoo messenger that Is really true.


THANK GOD FOR UNANSWERED PRAYERS, WHEN WHAT YOU PRAYED FOR IS NOT WHAT HE WANTS FOR YOU.

MY CC1 FRIENDS

After 4 years of being online, and nearly that long being a denizen of Yahoo Christian Chat 1, I've met many people there, and a lot of them I consider close friends. Here are some of them, and my thoughts about them:


Fran-Wonderful lady, love ya!

Cathy-One of the best people, still (hopefully?) One of my closest friends, though I've caused
her way too much grief sometime.

Lil, Jewels, and Breezey-The classy ladies of the room.

Deb/DK-An online Aunt figure to me.

Jilly-The epitome of coolness, brings fun to the group

Night/Happy/Julie-Nice...but SCARY!!!

Cali-Another classy lady, and another good friend.

Damian-He's the Boss.

Melissia-My "adopted little sister" and probably my closests friend.

Kat Williams-A newcomer, but cool.


And there are many more---you all know who you are.

MY PLEA TO GOD

Dear Lord, please help me . Please help me get over all the stuff that I've been through in my life. My lonliness, Mom's injury, and my being tortured in school have really brought me down, and kept me from being the person I can be. Im not being ungreatful for the things you've done for me, but these things that I've mentioned are the most important things that I need your help with. The most important thing of those, Lord, is please guide me to that special woman you've made for me. My lonliness is totally intolerable. Also Lord, please send me more friends. Anyway, I leave all this in your hands.

SOME FUNNY QUOTES

By Dave Barry

1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.”
3. There is a very fine line between “hobby” and “mental illness.”
4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
5. And when God, who created the entire universe with all of its glories, decides to deliver a message to humanity, he WILL NOT use, as his messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.
6. You should not confuse your career with your life.
7. No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.
8. When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who perceives a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that individual is crazy.
9. Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
10. Never lick a steak knife.
11. Take out the fortune before you eat the cookie.
12. The most powerful force in the universe is gossip.
13. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.
14. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she’s pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.
15. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.
16. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.
17. The main accomplishment of almost all organized protests is to annoy people who are not in them.
18. A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
19. Your friends will love you anyway.
20. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

A FEW QUESTIONS I'D LIKE TO ASK GOD

God, I know we're not supposed to question your motives, but there are a few things I'd really like to ask you:


1: Why did you let me be born with all my birth defects? Because of them, I don't think I'll
ever be able to have kids or be intimate with a woman.


2: Why did you make me so fat and unattractive? Because of that, I have been picked on all my
life, and probably will never find a GF or Wife, because we all know that all women care
about are looks.

3: Why did you not help me when I was being tortured in school? Because of that, I am afraid
of being around people and have zero self esteem.


4: Why did you let Mom get hurt? It has served no purpose except nearly drive me to a
nervous breakdown, because I just can't handle it.



Again, I know that we aren't supposed to question your motives but I'd really like to know.

THE EVILS OR POLITICS.

I am soooo glad that this stupid election is over!!! I'm not much of a political fan, so I can live with Bush winning. I think George Washington was right when he told the country in his Farwell Address that Political Parties were not in the Country's best interest. The parties in Congress spend more time arguing with each other then actually doing "The People's Business" I know that everyone has their own ideas and opinions, but gimme a break!