300?

Heres your laugh for the day.

The line

Alright I will try to post Time part two tomorrow. but for now here's something.

My guess on sports. Here's my guess right now for the super bowl.


NFC

N.Y. Giants 27
Tampa Bay 21
__________Dallas 23
__________N.Y. Giants 24
_____________________N.Y. Giants 10
_____________________Seattle 13
___________Green Bay 17
___________Seattle 20
Seattle 28
Washington 17


AFC

San Diego 31
Titans 10
__________San Diego 14
__________New England 24
______________________New England 7
______________________Jacksonville 17
__________Indy 21
__________Jacksonville 24
Pittsburgh 7
Jacksonville 13


SUPER BOWL
Seattle Seahawks 17
Jacksonville Jaguars 21

So the teams that are like this, think this game cant be called but the winner will beat the pats.

And yes I think the Seahawks will lose in the superbowl again.

So yes right now this is my guess all you other sport fans comment with your guesses or blog on it. Lets see whos closest. (Do soon so its harder!)

Part 1: It is time.

So this post is old. Old in the sense that I have been working on it for about a month now. by the way I have chosen not to write on Hawaii, because it is old news, BUT i will put a poll up and if the majority says they want me to write one then I will, but here it goes.

I really don't want to write this post because I believe that it might upset people and well I don't like doing that, but here it goes for real.

I love the world. I love the people, I love the cities, I love the nature. I love living here. But since I am a visionary, I look to improve whats already here. So I look around at this wonderful earth and what do I see? I see people starving, war, death, destroying of the planet, lack of control. And well I really am starting to get pissed. The most powerful nation in the world (USA) isn't doing ANYthing to really help the planet. The united Nations isn't doing anything to help starvation and poverty. States are not helping the homeless. City's turn their back on scandals. People are looking out from number uno.
When I look at the world I see a world where the death of one is mourned by billions but 24000 die each day starvation and no one seems to cares.

I see a world that is obsessed with violence but doesn't care that 15,500 people die of violence each day.

I see a world where the "bigger is better" philosophy is encouraged but 760,000 are homeless in the united states at any given time.

I have heard a new saying that I love. "You are stealing from someone if you have more then you need."
You have two homes? Then you are stealing from someone who doesn't have a home.
Think about it. What if we ALL accepted this saying and made it our own?

On that note I believe in communism. Not the communism that Russia called itself but true communism.
A communism which is defined as: A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single party holds power making progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.

I love the idea of communism but I also realise that it doesn't work. People have egos and are greedy.

but I hate capitalism. I hate how capitalism runs. (by the way America IS a Capitalist Democracy (more later on that) I read a report one time that said, that out of the top 100 businesses in the united states only 10 people owned them. hello capitalism, welcome to America. 10 people own the top 100 businesses in America? Another fact. In world war I a french businesses operating out of Switzerland supplied the Entente Powers and the Central Powers during the war. Nothing like making money off of the deaths of about 8,500,000 soldiers who were killed in World War 1, and the total with civilians which is over 20,000,000.

So really here comes what this post is down to, What can I do? How can I make the world a better place, How can I fight poverty, starvation, war, unjust governments? I want to do something but I can't. I feel like the "man" is holding me down. I will continue this with a part II later.

Sorry boys (and girls) but it doesn't look like I have time today to write a full post, so heres a goodie to keep you happy till tomorrow.

I'm back

We are back! Its really cold. I will try to get a better post tonight or tomorrow. Thanks

Wazz up?

So I am just going to put a few pictures up. I don't even want to know if you all want to seem them but here they are.

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p.s. I know I know I know the pics aren't great but hey give me a break

done!

Well we have made it to Hawaii. More tomorrow.

Suckas

See ya later suckas I'm off to Hawaii. If you really miss me you can text me. I will try to keep updates but who knows?

AJ

Saay What?

So last Wednesday I talked/preached and well, I thought I didn't do so hot. I missed my first point, and went too fast so at the end I was starting to kill time. But that's not why I'm writing this post. My talk was really about two things 1. tough love and accepting it, 2 willingness to communicate that tough love to people by stepping up and talking face to face. I talked about how I found it hard to talk tough love face to face. Well, the other day someone *cough Nate cough* talked about how its time I needed to step up and talk a bite out of my own words. (i really don't like fighting with people, and or have conflict. my answer to conflict has always been, 1. ignore it, 2, if that doesn't work avoid contact with that person for as long as possible till # 1 works.) but i was called out, and well it was hard, but I believe I ready for the next step and talk face to face with this person and see whats up. (by the way I'm talking about two different people)

part 3 of ?

The biggest disapointments of my life rigth now...

At work... its the water cooler. I thought that it would be this cool place where the guys meet and talk about sports. Not true. Only I go to the water cooler and thats to get water.

at school...
Rotc hasn't been fun

At home...
That I don't have my own call.

With my life...
That I didn't have Higher sat scores.

Part 2 of ?

Part two of things that people don't know about me.

I am afraid of monkeys. (not really afraid just really don't like them)

I don't like beans, nuts, mushrooms, tomatoes, potatoes, and most veggies.

I am kinda afraid of heights.

I don't like people staring at me.

I fear judgement.

And that's it for now

listening to: Miss Murder by AFI

I can stand my own ground

So this song is done by Rise against and is one of my top 10 songs easy. but I'm posting this because I really feel like like this song. Heres the link.

The part I really can relate to is:

Before we packed our bags
And left all this behind us in the dust,
We had a place that we could call home,
And a life no one could touch.

Don’t hold me up now,
I can stand my own ground,
I don’t need your help now,
You will let me down, down, down!

Don’t hold me up now,
I can stand my own ground,
I don’t need your help now,
You will let me down, down, down!

Ever feel like this?

Do you believe?

So starting "right the hell now" I going to try my hand at a mini-post series. We will see how it works.
This one will be about things people don't know about me.

My dream job would have to be a photographer.

One of my favorite things to do is to read.

I can play the piano.

I hate Rotc.

I am afraid of small time change.

I like to be organized.

I don't like standing out.

I hate being alone.

I hate driving.

I like history.

Well that's all I feel like writing writing now.

Part 1 of ?


(starting this up again)
Listening to Data by Rise Against off their albums Revolutions Per Minute

Sports

So i will be a finally report on........violence in sports and how that affects American Life. (this is a working process) If you have any ideas or suggestions let me know. (Ryan as a fellow sports fanatic I expect to hear from you. **Its a call out!**

Apple

The following is my report for English on a series of ads by apple.

Freedom
Apple has made the iPod a household name because of its ad campaign. The ads were something that the public had never seen before or witnessed before. You now see everybody with an iPod. Teenagers, junior high students, teachers, and even grandparents have became victim of Apples successful ad campaign. An average worker being released from his job, a girl who is empowered and ready to fight, and a women who is telling the world that it can wait, these images stir up emotions that tell us want iPod users feel; I want to be free from my job. I want to take on the world. I want to be able to the tell the world to stick it. According to Apple, if we want to be able to feel these emotions then we have to have an iPod. That is the promise that these ads tell us; the iPod will allow you to change your life to whatever you want or need your life to be. The iPod promises to give you freedom which is where the ad becomes problematic to the viewers. The consumers go into the mindset that the iPod can change your life for you, where in fact only you can change your life for you.
Freedom is something that everyone wants. Freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom to chose what to eat and drink, but we all want the freedom that we can’t have, the freedom of having to not work. We try to grasp onto that freedom by going on vacation or even using sick days just to relax. Unfortunately no one can be on vacation the whole time and that is where Apple steps in. Apple tries to show that work can be escaped from with the help of Apple’s iPod. The ad symbolizes freedom from work with the working man falling down, like he has been shot, showing that the mindless worker is dead or that his spirit has left the body. In the first frame, you see someone who is free, his jacket is unbuttoned, his collar loosened, and his hair released. The man in the image is at his freest. He has been released from the plain world of working (symbolized by the white background) and put into a world that promotes individuality (shown by the color background). The man, in the new world, is being empowered and is welcoming the change. With this ad in mind Apple is trying to show that individuality is expressed through your iPod.
Apple’s next ad doesn't show a transaction instead, it shows what the iPod can and will do. With the second ad a girl is standing with her first clinched in a threatening tone. Her head is in motion, which is shown by the hair in movement, displaying that she is looking at what her anger is focused at. The women is also holding her iPod at arms length away from the danger, symbolizing her wiliness to protect and even fight for the idea of what an iPod brings. The girl is also becoming empowered by the iPod, with her will to fight for her ideas. Her clothes help provide the idea of her being a young college age student, who is willing to fight for her beliefs. The clothes, which could be considered cool, help provide the idea that no outfit is complete with out the addition of an iPod. When the idea of change is introduced or something new, (iPod) people must be willing to defend that idea to the last.
Everyone has a bad day. There are days were we just want to be left alone. We just want to be able to escape to our own personal world and give the world the finger. This is exactly what girl is telling us what she is doing. Unlike the last ad, this women is looking away from her source of distraction. With there being no movement, the ad is suggesting that the women is taking it slow, nothing is going to rush her experience with her music. With her iPod close to her body telling the viewer the iPod is valued and not being threaten. The women’s hand is extended in a way to show that she is not to be disturbed. She has entered in a world which only the iPod can bring you to. A world of which is what ever you make of it. Nothing will distract her from her listening pleasure in her own little world. She knows and likes that she’s dead to the world.
The Apple iPod campaign is one of the most recognized ad’s on the planet. Every thing from its silhouetted people, to the small things that people don’t notice but take in. The iPod campaign is dangerous because it draws you promising emotions and feelings that iPod can‘t give by itself. The iPod itself cannot change your life for the better only you change your life. Only you can give yourself the freedom that iPod users seek.

Disclaimer: I have an I-Pod and am 95% satisfied so this wasn't writen anti-apple.

"here is the following pictures that i used.

So long

This is how I want to go!

I would be totally down with this!

I wish it was real, really do. Make it so much more exiting.

Where have you gone?

When I first started blogging/reading blogs it seememed like everyday someone posted something new, now it seems like no one is posting anything anymore. Where'd you all go?

300

I saw this and well, thought that the world should see it.

The boycott is on

So this thanksgiving I had a lot of fun but where there are two things that stick out.

1. I did not have turkey this thanksgiving, instead I had ham. Why? don't really know, maybe because we should worship the turkey. or have on day just for the turkey? what about pig day, cow day or chicken day? I actually enjoyed boycotting turkey.

2. My uncle brought his Wii. It was awesome. some neat facts.
I am the baseball king
I suck at bowling
I suck at mini games
But i rule at real games.

I really like the wii, and found myself liking it more then my x-box. shooting games are awesome. I play red steel (good game) and medal of honor, while medal of honor was harder then any shooter game I play, I played my best ever.

50

49

T-men!

Have a good day of which we worship the turkey.

I would also like to note that this is my 50th post!

Polytics

I have been kept on getting asked who I will vote for, so with out further wait.......

Christmas?

So, there is something that really annoys me, probably more then any thing in the world, and that is Christmas. Not the holiday itself, but everything about the holiday. I hate the decorations that are before thanksgiving. I hate the Christmas lights that are up all year. And I really hate Christmas music. I can stand it about Dec. 10-25. But after Christmas the music most go off, and having music play before Thanksgiving, just makes me the quiet mad. Don't get me wrong i think that christmas is fun, but I just don't like it when people over do it.

recap

So this Saturday the mud bowl happened. I had a great time playing and really enjoyed playing the game. Playing at the mud bowl made me really miss playing in high school. We lost but I still had a lot of fun.
But while I was playing, I had a chip on my shoulder. Not that anyone put it there, it was from me. See I have applied for the united states naval academy and recently received a letter from the medical people that they had recommended me to not be accepted the naval academy. As most of you know I broke my arm pretty bad one time and well, they (the military) really doesn't like it. When I read that letter my heart kinda fell, in fact life was really crapping since then. I kinda felt like I failed. You know the feeling when you bomb a test? that's what I had, but it was for 5 days. and I never get those feelings. The only people that knew was my mom and pop. And well I feel better saying this. Still sucks but better.

Thanks for everyone who play this Saturday. I had a blast.

A knock out

So here is why my day was bad.
I woke up ready for the day. So far so good.
I get to drill at 6:20. Good
I then find out that my co is asking everyone if I talk smack about her. Bad
Then get accused of lying by my snsi. Bad
Snsi is backed by co. bad
Find out my co is talking smack about me. bad
Get to school late and teacher glares at me. Bad
That is the first part of my day, and it kinda went down hill from there. But lets fast forward to youth church. All this felt like sucker punches too.

Yesterday, Nate and I decided that Ben was going to run sound. After helping Ben get all ready for the night, I sat in the front. I don’t remember the last time that had gotten to sit in youth church with out having to worry about sound. And it was awesome. I had experienced worship at c3 in a way that I just about forgot about. Then we the worship came Gods voice. (Punch number dos, it was right to the face (like a haymaker)) I ask for forgiveness and I get back into the grove of worship again. Justin’s band was playing and I really enjoy them. Next came the talk by Pastor Gary. I really like his talk, in fact I would say it was the best talk in youth church this year, (comes a close second after the permission talk). His talk was on intimidation. I really liked on how we broke up in a small groups to talk to over. I jumped in to the group discussion and for the first time in my life I couldn’t communicate my thoughts. Everything I said came out wrong. Then it hit me.(here came the knock out punch) God was telling to shut up and listen. While partaking in the discussion I was missing out what I needed to hear. At the end, the light clicked on and I realized I was intimidated. I am intimidated to the point where it rules my life. I let others make my decisions by not wanting to be who I want to be. I was being intimidated by people who don’t even know me. I will try to write more about this later.

Today

Today is one of those days.


You know the day that you spill coffee on your self.


That you fail a test.


You lose your job.


You get a speeding ticket.


A day that never seems to end.

But the good news is you could save a bunch of money on car insurance by switching to Geico.






But I really did/am having a bad day.

My I-pod

This just explains it all.

Where has the time gone?

Where has the time gone? I remember being little and not having to worry about time. Now I worry about all the time. I feel so overwelmed that on days I just want to quit life. I have a friend who was getting burned out, left and right I see kids who are burning out. I found out that i get about 5 hours of sleep during the weekday. So this is my question, do we (teenagers) have to much to do? Are we killing ourselves because we overload our lives. Are we screwing ourselves over because what we are doing. And if so, are you adults the reason why we are doing it?

Mtv

The images that are below, are fake. So i hate to say that i will not write about them for the reasons above.

mtv redone

This pics I found a long time ago, but i think I going to write my paper on them and just wanted to show them to the world. I would like your guys input on these. What do you feel, what do you notice. Feel free to comment even if you don't know me, So please comment, tell me anything you notice. (PS this is a safe anonymous comment blog)

These pictures were part of a "power point slide" for MTV, it was air just on MTV and the was once. so it was just for t.v. It was air on September 12th 2002.

banned ads part 3

heres one

banned ads part 2

heres one

banned ads part 1

heres another one

A notice

I have always noticed this but i don't understand why this is. here is what i noticed.

At my local high school, (Shelton High) couples are all over each other during travel time between class, but at the collage their is really no on all over each other. (i know that people mature but in a year would people really change that much?)
This is kinda random but its what i noticed.

I support you!

I have ran for mayor, or tryed too. Nate the Great sums it up great here. I support you! I would vote for you all the way.

wtf

read this story. right now I'm so pissed, that I would write something that i probably shouldn't write. I will write about this later.

ps I'm angry about the church and what they are doing.

Quit Stalking ME!!!!

So i have a bone to pick you some of you. If you are one of these people you should really stop. So here it goes.
At SPSCC parking is limited, so if you have a good spot, your stalked. Literally you are hunted down by drivers in their rice burners. You ever get that feeling liked you being watched? Well if your walking to your car you get that all the time, you know this car is following you, but when you look behind, they act like they are not following. Then you keep walking and they keep following. So in other words, if you hunt people for good parking spots here, or at wal-mart, or church, or wherever. Stop!

Bring it on!

This is to all who dare mock the ablity of our youth. In other words brad this is what your going to need to win this football game. (really, I just thought it was cool)

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?&brand=null&videoId=3083220&n8pe6c=2

The good, the bad, and the ugly

So I like football. I mean I really like football. I love to watch and really regret not playing it in high school. But I'm really looking forward to Nov.4. All you football ball fans will know that this is the day that the colts meet the patriots, in whats being called the best football game of the regular season ever. And I think one of the reasons that this game is so big is that its pretty much good vs. evil.
The Colts are the good and here's why.
team:defending champs but are really humble.
Star: Peyton Manning is in like a thousand commercials but still pokes fun at himself and is a family guy, who hasn't missed a thanksgiving game with his family ever.
Coach: Never gets mad, has never cussed at his players, is honest, and is graceful in defeat.

Now the bad. (patriots)
Team: The team is all about themselves, they complain that they don't get enough praise.
Star: Tom Brady all about himself, never does any charity work and goes form one supermodel to another like this (snap) Other words prideful.
Coach. Freaks out at every loss, and the worst thing, running up the score.


and the ugly. Can you believe how bad the Rams are doing this year, my prediction: one win for rams, two wins for Miami. and norv Turner gets fired.
So Nov. 4 I'm going for the good guys and hoping for the colts.

Also this is opinion boy for today. (that is also starting up)

A Smile

So today, I was driving into school with Nate and we took the on ramp where there was this truck parked there. No hazards or anything like that, + he's blocking like half the onramp so I passed him. When we looked back this is what he looked like. It was really creepy. Here is this guy just sitting there, blocking traffic and smiling. Hello crazyville.

The Judge

So today I went to the mall with some friends and I noticed something about myself, I judge people. Now yes I know I judge people, but most time I do it on purpose. But today I noticed that every one we passed was judged. I ranked them in importance, coolyness (yes that is collyness) and really everything that you would judge someone on. So I declare that form now on I going to try my best to stop judging people. Help me out people.

I'mmmm back!!!

so this weekend we had our ROTC freshman orientation. Since i was the xo, i was responsible for about fifty cadets. Long story short it was fun but i had to have a watch (200-400) also was the watch officer for Saturday night (which means i got 2 hours of sleep). For Thursday-Sunday i got a total of 10 hours of sleep, but then i went home and logged 15 1/2 hours of sleep. so really this is just say that I'm back, and a better blog about this last weekend will be coming.
aj

The Humbling Part dos

So back to my story (props to brad for offering to help) I now get on the highway back to shelton, but i have to go 40mph. Now Im not a speed racer but I do go about 65ish. So going 40mph started to drive me crazy, all these people were passing me and well, my pride was slowly getting shattered. But when i got to mud bay road my view points changed, maybe because i changed music or maybe something else, but i put on some hillsong and spent the better part of a hour, praying and thinking hard. I actually really enjoyed my long drive, I got to notice stuff that i had never noticed and it taught me the lesson and sometimes I need to slow down and enjoy life.

Something to think about

read, then think. Really i think that doing something like this would make you learn a lot.

Humbling Part 1.

So yesterday, I blew a tire. I pulled over and yep my tire was gone. So i got already to change when this guy came up, the following is the talk I had with him. and it was really hard to understand him.
him. Hi
me. Hello
him. What the problem?
me. I blew a tire.
him. You did?
me. Yeah.
him. you want help. I'm on my lunch.
me. no man, go eat your lunch.
him. you need jack?
me. no
him. You need to call?
me. Nope I'm good.
him. You sure?
me. Yeah, thanks a lot for asking.
him. You sure?
me. Yup thanks.


This guy really restored my faith in humans. I really realized that the average Joe is just a good guy.

Opinion #4

My opinion for the day is that...
Eating Fastfood is over rated.

Opinion Boy #3

I believe that running start is a good thing and doesn't take away from your local enivorment.


By the way, I just got my new ipod classic today.

Opinion Boy #2

the last one was kinda weak but heres one i bet most people don't know.

I believe that when you use the word "dang or Dat or son of a gun or witch or 'faster' or suck" you are in fact still cussing. (maybe a blog on this later)

Opinion Boy #1

Opinion Boy. Kinda rolls off your tongue doesn't? But I got called this today and I guess it really is true. I have a opinion about most things and generally don't worry about voicing them. So i think that from now on once a day, I'm going to state my opinion on something. So for future problems, if you have a problem with my opinion let me know! I like to argue my point and see how much i believe in something, but i much rather do it in person. So after all this here is my first opinion of the day.

I believe that Christian/home school are more harmful in the the kids future then it helps them right now.

Music

I have something that needs to be said, some will be sad and some may be happy, but according to i-tunes, I now listen to more alternative music then i do rock/metal. Just thought you might want to know. Now rock will always have a special place in my heart but for right it's alternatives job to brainwash me with their lyrics.

Puritanism

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

An Impact?

This is my report for my English class, the goal was to analyze an ad talk about its deeper meaning. So when you read this think about you can see the ad here (this isn't the ad but its close enough)

Impact
Product Red has a successful ad campaign for Converse shoe company. Product Red is a company that was started by U2’s Bono to help raise awareness to the mass public. The whole idea is that every time that an item is bought of Product Red design 5%-40% will be donated to the Global Fund. Product Red has four ad campaigns going on right now, the most popular and recognized is Converse. Together their ad promises that you can buy something that you need and help people while sacrificing nothing. The ad assures that you do not have to leave your comfort zone to help people half a world away. Every day our minds are bombarded with the idea that all we have to do to help people is buy a certain product and then we are done with our part.
When the ad is first glanced at the first thing you notice is the white Converse shoe with the words Combat Boot written across it. If the ad is studied a little deeper, you notice that the shoe is on a star. The star is also the same one that is on the shoe and as a tattoo on the person’s hand. These three stars on the floor, shoe, and hand represent that the person (little star) wants to make an impact, who by buying the Product Red Converse (medium star) makes an impact. The shoe is located on a star pattern that symbolizes that since the person has bought, the shoe he makes an impact, on which he started a chain reaction of people buying Product Red Converse shoes to help people in Africa. Even in the background, you see quarter inch cables and a bass guitar. Product Red is trying to appeal to the music crowd, trying to show that even musicians are cool because they wear Product Red Converse. The whole point of this ad is about the shoe, showing that the shoe is what makes the impact, convincing people that all they have to do is buy the shoe to help.
Purchasing the Converse is a good way to start helping the epidemic in Africa, but the point needs to be raised, that it can not and should not be the only way. There are two problems with this ad; the first is that it helps enforce the idea that you do not have to give up something to help. The whole purpose for this ad is that you can get something you need without feeling guilty. The ad focuses on the point that we all feel the need to help, but we do not want to have any discomfort in our own lives to help people. The second problem is that the sole purpose of the ad is to get you to buy the Converse shoe. The idea behind Product Red is great because it’s a way of showing your support to help fight Aids in Africa. It is a great start, but that is all it can be. Your support for Africa shouldn’t be limited to shirts, shoes and I-Pods. This ad should help motivate you to do more than just by shoes. We should use the talents that are given to us and help those that are less fortunate then we are.
Buying Product Red Converse shoes is a great start to helping a horrible situation in Africa, but we need to realize that it should only be a start. If we have the mindset that to help people, all we have to do is buy something that we already need, then realistically we’ve already lost the battle. We all need to step up and realize, that only by buying something we are not really helping. We need to change our minds and hearts.

The Cotton Candy Man From Hell.

Its time for the story about the cotton candy man. First off the cotton candy man is from hell. No if and or buts. But its story time kids, cotton candy man story time.

Sooo I went a mariner game on Sep. 12 2007, the mariners where in a uncontrollable slide and it was my duty to pull them back into a winning streak. (I have been to 8 games of which 8 have been won) I went with my fam and Nate the great. Sooo we get to the game and find out our seats are awesome, first row right field bleachers, home run territory. So we settle in our seats and get ready to watch the M's kick some A butt. But now I'm hungry I didn't eat breakfast or lunch and just had a hot dog for dinner, so i was ready for some food, some real food, like cotton candy! Just so happens that safeco field has a cotton candy man. What luck was this I asked, Here I am wishing for cotton candy and theres a cotton candy man. So the first inning went by and cotton candy was making his rounds around the field, innings 2,3, and 4 went by and the cotton candy man just kept on coming closer and closer. I started dreaming about the cotton candy, I couldn't wait to taste the sugar coated air. After a important play I looked for the cotton candy man and he was in the next section, So i turn back to the game and after the half inning i looked for the cotton candy man and where was he? At the freaking other end of the freaking field giving other freaking people my freaking cotton candy!!!(how many times can I use the word freaking?) So i was like fine he will be back. BUT HE DIDN'T!!!And i felt like crying. My dream of eating sugar air was gone! It popped like my dream of this being the M's "year". So needless to say, I hate the cotton candy man and hope that he dies in a freak foul ball thing, Oh by the way I ended up getting cheesy garlic fries.

Nobel peace prize?

So I have a new theory for you all. This theory is so groundbreaking that only i can think of it. so here it is and Nobel peace prize here i come.

Dumb people are attracted to other dumb people. Also crazy people are attracted to other crazy people.


So right now i stuck on how to prove this theory. After that the world will know my name.

Leadership

This is a paper that i wrote long ago for my Annapolis stuff. I think that people might enjoy it.

Leadership

What is a leader? A leader is someone who people look to in an emergency. A leader is not always the most popular or the most well liked. Leaders are not always the cut from the same mold, the one thing that leaders always have in common is the trait that causes leadership. Some of the common traits in a leader are patience, open-mindedness, integrity and social intelligence. In my life I have encounter all of these in my personal life.

One of the biggest that is of valuable experience to a leader is patience. With my experience as a leader sometimes I must teach things more then once. If you can be patient with someone that is struggling with an issue, then the rest of group will recognize that and respect you more. One of the big examples of patience in my life is when I commanded the unarmed drill for my local NJROTC unit. While I was commanding I would have to come early and stay late with some of the cadets as they struggled with advanced commands, but my work paid off and I got to watch the cadets grow and master moves that seemed impossible.

Open-mindedness is a trait that many people want other people to have but not themselves. A leader must have the trait of open-mindedness because people will respect someone who will listen to their ideas and actually think about them. One example is in NJROTC I redesigned our command structure to take advantages of our unit, when I presented it to my Naval Science Instructor, he noticed a flaw in my design that I had not noticed, and helped me fix to make my design better. If I have not been open-minded then I would have taken the advice of my NSI and would have allowed a flaw to hurt my unit because of closed-mindedness.

Integrity. Words that come to mind are honestly, trustworthy, authenticity, and genuine. Integrity is one of a leader’s biggest traits. Integrity allows people to trust you. If you do not have integrity with yourself then how can you have it with others? When people see that you have integrity they know that you are honest, trustworthy and genuine.

Social intelligence is a term that I hear being tossed around a lot but I believe that no really associate with leadership. Social intelligence is being aware of the motives and feelings of other people and knowing what to do to fit into different social situations and knowing what makes people tick and knowing why they do what they do. This is a two part trait, one half of it is something that you are born with and the second half is what you gain form personal experience. A leader must be able to play a crowd or be able to know why people do things and have a plan for dealing with circumstance. One example is that teachers will usually not start teaching their curriculum until they are able to read the class and recognize how the class needs to be taught to allow the students a greater chance of success.

:-(

So yesterday sucked. Do you know when your walking down the stairs and you think there is another stair but their isn’t? so you step down and it kinda hurts well that is what my day was like yesterday. I woke up at 5:30 all happy for school and started working on a little homework when I realized that it wasn’t as hard as I thought it was, so now I’m really stoked, I then get all ready for school and leave the house at 6:45. I then and go get gas, I accidently put the money on the wrong pump but the lady was really nice and fixed it for me, I then head over to sgt. maj. and we have a awesome talk and I learn a bunch. I then get in my car and head over to shs from objh. I won’t go into details but I got a ticket. I was really pissed, I now have a 210 dollar ticket on my record. I then go and pick up nate and jw and we head to school, I sorta kinda vent and we listen to Nirvana to cheer me up. I get to school and I am a much better mood, I get out of car grab my bag and take two steps forward and it breaks. At this point I really wanted to scream in anger. So I now have back to my car to get my books for the next class which sucks. So classes was sorta fine expect that I spilled my monster in chem, and I think it got on this pretty nice girl who sits next to me. :( So next I go to work and Joe (my boss) tries to cheer me up with some funny stories but all that I could think of is that Annapolis is pretty well shot with this ticket. Plus the money that I have to now pay for my ticket was going to my new i-pod classic. So yeah Yesterday I thought was going to be awesome but it really really sucked. But it just seemed like one thing after another. It was kinda like the cotton candy man (that spawn of the devil)

Death?

Soo, this should be a fun post, the whole purpose is to help my readers (yes all five of you) get to know me better. So your mission is to guess which story is a lie, two will be true and one will false. So see how well you know me and guess which one is the lie.
These three stories are stories about times I have almost died.
One. I was out hunting with my grandpa when he said that he was going to stay on this ridge and look around for deer, giving me permission to walk to the opposite side of the ridge and post my self there, keeping in contact with walkie-talkie. Well I set off walking, to my right was a huge cliff face going straight up and to my life was an another cliff that dropped like hundred feet down. In between there was a trail that was about 20 feet wide and was at a 35* angle to my left, I keep on walking around the ridge, and I was taking my time considering that there was an about 6 inches of snow lying around. I was walking on some crushed down snow to keep my volume down. Meanwhile after walking for about 15 minutes I stopped and looked around searching for animals. After about 5 minutes of standing there freezing to death I took off back on the trail, I happened to go about 4 steps when I stepped on a hidden rock under the snow, at that point I slipped and started sliding down the hillside. I remember yelling in my mind (because I didn’t want to scare the deer!) and thinking I was going to die, here I was sliding down this slope heading to a cliff with 100 foot drop. At about 10 feet from the edge I stopped, to this day have no idea why I stopped, I was on a steep slope, moving pretty good and I had nothing to grasp onto to slow me down. I got up and really freaked out when I realized that I was about only 10 feet from my death, I went back up the hill sat down and stared at my slide marks, until my grandpa came.
Two, when I was in middle school, I went swimming in the ocean in Oregon. I like the ocean, I love the sounds, and I like the difference of the ocean there is nothing like anywhere on the earth. I just love the ocean, but this time was different, I was out swimming, (call me a freak but I kinda don’t mind the cold) and I was out to my chest, when I got hit from behind by a powerful wave (I know, I know never turn your back on the ocean) and I got knocked into the water at that point I was totally lost in what way was up and what was down and I freaked out, I swam and swam but couldn’t find the surface just about when all hope was loss and my vision started to blur, I made to the surface.
Three. This one is pretty recent but I’m pretty sure I didn’t tell any of you this story, I was driving on my way to work (for MC) and the was heavy rainfall, in fact it had been raining hard all week, I was driving exactly 47 mph on Johns Prairie road, when I went around the bend before the baseball fields and saw the car in front of me had slammed on their brakes, well they slowed down because they needed to turn. I slammed on my brakes and worried about hitting them when I got down to about 15 mph I still realized that I was going to hit the person so I hit my e-brake and stopped in time. As I took a deep breath I look in my review mirror and see this Chevy Tahoe speeding right towards me. I going to guess he was going about 60 mph, as soon as he saw me he slammed on his brakes, I knew that he was going to hit and I started to brace myself for the impact, he then engaged his e-brake (I believe) and start to stop a whole lot faster. Then his Tahoe did a 180* turn around and stopped about 10 feet from my back bumper. (I know I probably wouldn’t have died, but I think that I would have gotten really hurt)
So I hope you had fun reading about the times I have almost killed my self. There’s a lot more but we won’t go there. (butane, Agent orange (maybe), more stupid stuff hunting, and lots more typical guy stuff) and I know that a lot of people think I probably crazy for saying this but out of everything I have ever done I regret 3 threes out of all the stuff I have done. Ever thing else I have done, I have learned something important from. So that is it. Hope you laughed/giggled/rolled your eyes/whatever.
Peace.
By the way the score is now,
AJ=4 Grim Reaper=0

Yea!

He's finally good for something. hit it!

Anonymous

This post is a long time coming and one of my reason why it is so late is that I think that it might not go over well with some. But here we go. If you read brad Hanson's blog then you have probably read the post on EC (if not read on here) The comments are really what i want to talk about. What makes me write this post is that I believe that the comments posted there by some people are unnecessary. And by that i mean the rentless pounding on anonymous by the main blog readers. I believe that all people that read blogs have the right to post anonymously. Why? Maybe this person knows that the views that the poster shared would have angered the blog author. I will admit that sometimes I leave anonymous notes, why might you ask? because I'm lazy and don't want to sign in. But back to the subject. Why is it so important for the crowd to know who this person is. if the person doesn't want you to know who they are, i believe that they should have the right (which is why there is the anonymous post button) to not tell their name. You should never press the point to where you ask a friend to hack, just so you can have the pleasure of knowing who it is. All the time I hear that we as Christians should play it "cool" not being the bible thumpers of the past, but isn't it the same where you relentless ask over and over what their name is, pressing the issue? So anonymous if you are reading this, i might not agree with you, but I think you are in your right to not give out name.

AJ

p.s. i know that everyone is going to post anonymously now, so whatever. also if you want to press this issue more with me let me know and i will gladly duke it out with you.

Are we?

Are americans this dumb (feel free to add any adjective to describe us after you read this)
http://www.ketv.com/news/14133442/detail.html\

Summer

Summer is done, and well I had a great summer so here are the high and low points of my summer.

high
1. Going to annapolis to basically die.
2. Going camping and fliming the dumbest movie ever.
3. Running for mayor of shelton.
4.Finding out the my realtionship with my c.o. was not what i thought it was.
5.acting in a play
6. mobbin'

low
1. Breathing in a mouth full of butane (see point below)
2. Figuring out that this is my last real summer.
3. Having to work.
4.Finding out my realtionship with my c.o. turned not for the better but worse.
5. Brad moving.
6. Finding out that i cant run for mayor of shelton.

Effects and health issues
Inhaling butane can cause drowsiness, narcosis, asphyxia; cardiac arrhythmia and frostbite, which can result in instant death from Asphyxiation, Acute toxicity and ventricular fibrillation. Butane is the most commonly misused volatile solvent in the UK, and was the cause of 52% of solvent related deaths in 2000. By spraying butane directly into the throat, the jet of fluid can cool rapidly to –20 °C by expansion, causing prolonged laryngospasm.[2] "Sudden sniffing death syndrome", first described by Bass in 1970, is the most common single cause of solvent related death, resulting in 55% of known fatal cases.

drivin

I was driving today up to Bremerton where I thought about maybe stopping at this thai place because I guess the have some amzing thia tea/coffee ( i think) and wanted to try, every one I have talked to said it was awesome, but as I driving up their I get all exticed about this then I see that its closed due to low buisness, and I don't know it just made me kinda sad, here was a great tea/coffee place and it closed because no one went. all right I'm done rambling.

a tat

So I pretty happy last night night I told my parnets that I want to get a tattoo for my birthday, and it looks like a go. I have a good idea about what i want to get, but i want it to be a surpise, but if you have an idea, then let me know, and I will think about it.


Listing to, Turning Japanese, by the Vapors.

Today

today totally sucked, i really dont want to blog about what happened but it sucked. Its probably the worst day of my summer so far and my summer has been awesome too. No ones home to top it off.

I’m sitting here in my room, avoiding my ROTC scholarship questions and thinking. And what I’m thinking about was all I could think about all yesterday and this is what happened,
I was in town and I was wearing my that’s shady t-shirt with my product (Red) converse shoes, when this old lady comes up to me and asks if she can ask a question, I said sure, and she said this,
“I couldn’t help but notice your shoes; do they mean you have AIDS?”
To which I said no, and kinda told the story about product red. But after words I got into my car and I couldn’t figure out whether to cry and laugh. Now you’re probably wondering why I wanted to cry (I was wondering to since I never do) and that’s because of the difference of agendas, both set of my grandparents are not motivated to help people outside our nation. Look at what happened with New Orleans; look at how much support we have given to that town. But I remember when that huge tsunami hit the Indonesia area, I remember that was news for 1 month, but last night there was still a special on what happen at New Orleans on CNN. Why are people like that? Why do my parents generations not care? I read BS blog a while back and it talked about a year of Jubilee for nations and their bills. Well I talk to some adults about that idea and you know what, they hated it, and this was the common response, “if we forgive their bills, then they haven’t learned their lesson about spending more then they have.” What the hell! We are talking about nations of PEOPLE not a kid who spends his allowance to fast, people are dying as I sit here, starving to death because our nations pride gets in the way. Why are we (every human on this planet) not doing all that we can to help the homeless, the starving, the sick? Back to the start of the start of the story, what would of happened if I would of told the lady that I did have AIDS, would she of avoided me like the plague? How can I help change that attitude? How can I make a difference? How can I help?
(Do you see why my title is called random thoughts? That is what these posts are, uncut and unedited thoughts of my life.)

Listing to: If Everyone Cared by nickelback

Manly men?

Manly Man? Part duex redone
5 teenagers
4 lovers of the arts
+ 1 lover of the sports
= a interesting summer and a confused individual (me)
I am a man. Well at lest the last time I checked I was a male and I pretty sure nothing has changed since then. But yesterday (and today) I acted (if you could call what I did that) in a play. Now some people have asked me “Why?” And well I don’t really know why I decided to show up on that day, probably because I thought that I would get sound/audio thrown on me no matter what, so might as well plan for it. But to my dismay/horror I became “Al” and on my way home I was totally freaking out, thinking to my self, me act? yeah right, I never have acted before. So day one of practice I was thrust into a world that I never had wanted to be a part of (guys wearing makeup, playing dress up (that’s how I viewed it) and God knew what else happens for plays) and felt totally out of my league (still do but that doesn’t matter). Here I was, a kid who only was thinking about how long till football starts (the count down has began!) (Big Wahoo from me) with almost people who spoke English but I had no idea what they (Sara, molly, Jw, Emily) were talking about. (Not that I claming I do now in fact I think I’m worse off) Well it took me a while to “fit” in this confusing group, then came the makeup, I was like no way, guys do not wear makeup, but I was outvoted and got some coverup (I think) eyeliner, which was ok I guess differently not the worst that good of happened, but next came the line that I thought I would never cross and that was lipstick. But again I was outvoted, and the whole time I hated it. Here I was dressed funny with eyeliner and lipstick, LIPSTICK!!! How do think I felt. But back to the point after the play was done I thought that I would feel gay (not the happy gay either), I was shocked, I had realized that I had fun, I had fun in what I thought was one of wimpiest things a man could do, so I naturally assumed (remember about assuming things) that I would hate acting, and I will say that I was wrong, I had fun and would like for a chance to do it again. (Maybe a plane to somewhere sequel?) And yet am I less of a man, I believe not, am I more of man, maybe, but I have learned what the other side is like. And while I realize that I really could fit in with that crowd, I have a lot more respect for the people in it.
Me
Just a thought: All the time I here about how the “world” has corrupted our view of women and how we try to make them into something that they aren’t, but why is it never brought up the same fact applies to guys as well?
Disclaimer: I hope that by reading this you have never got any false hopes, I still plan on watching the m’s win the world series, West Virginia battling USC in the BCS champion ship game, and watching the football season take off. So in other words, I am and always will be a sports fan and that aint going to change with just one play.
Listing to: Franz Ferdinand’s Take Me Out.

thoughts to think about

Soo,
First think of two people you are closest to in you life. pick one from your family and a non-family friend. Now I want you to image that these people came to you and (separate) said that they saw Bigfoot and was dead serious about it. Would you believe them? Could you believe them? For me it would be easier to trust my non-family friend (Nate) then my little bro, and i haven't really thought why.

listen to Boston by augustana.

AJ Foster

The hopeful mayor of Shelton.

Mobbing

The Mob…
Five Guys…
One Dream…
The Message: Psalm 71:17 you got me when I was an unformed youth, God, and taught me everything I know. Now I'm telling the world your wonders;


Alright, so right now you probably like what is the “The Mob” well the Mob is 5 guys who meet once a week and talk about God/Jesus/Holy Spirit. The reason that we meet is off my philosophic idea that the church is like a grandfather figure, that youth church is like a father figure and that small groups like the Mob are like friends. Reasons why I believe this is that I love the church like I do my grandpa but we totally disagree all the time on things, (just like the church and I) but when my grandpa tells me advice I take what he says and store it away like a nugget of truth. Now with my dad I am more willing to listen to him then my grandpa and learn form him. Just like I learn more from Youth Church then I do from Big Church . Then I listen more to my friends on most issues then I will my parents, so it is like for every teenager. So I will learn more and listen better when someone my own age is talking. So I learn more and grow more with the mob then I would with Youth Church . But back to the mob, the mob is five guys who take a question that is asked by one of us, home and think and pray about it. We then met once a week and talk about what we believe. Sometimes we agree and sometimes we agree to disagree. We have covered topics form is it ok to wear Christian clothes, is it ok to watch violence on TV, to last weeks topic which is Does God know the future and if so are we pre-destined .This weeks topic is What part of God’s love does he allow people to suffer?
Really I believe the Mob is about us taking control of our faith and making it our own by teaching ourselves.
Random thoughts by the future Mayor of Shelton AJ Foster