Stupid for Dummies

Fleeting blogs

2007-09-15T13:44:00.001-07:00

I have a new blog. While stupid for dummies will always exist my new content will be posted elsewhere.

http://www.ericlrobinson.com

Thanks,
Eric-

2006-08-29T20:24:00.000-07:00

Oh yea

2006-08-15T22:29:00.000-07:00

Me after a couple of months of working out. (check out my abs)

Question for you

2006-07-24T13:34:00.000-07:00

To a Christian what is temptation?
For some reason I have it in my head that temptation is the addiction of our flesh to sin nature? Is that it, or is it something else completely?
Please comment with any thoughts and feelings.

Dreams

2006-06-30T15:03:00.000-07:00

This is my dream:

I am this house

2 sides.

1 evil and secret.

the other normal and clean looking

Things from the evil side are hidden but from time to time start leaking over into the good side. People start seeing pictures and fragments from the other side. I deny these things and say that it must be from the other owners.

My analysis:

Since I am a Christian, the house belongs to Christ.

But for some reason the house is for sale.

Does it mean that Christ isn't the owner of my house? Is it up to the highest bidder (Satan, sin, idols..).

As a true Christian this should no longer be an issue. I need to decide who is going to be the owner of my life and stick with it.

I cannot live 5 days of the week letting sin abide in me and inviting Christ in the other 2 days. The mere thought of this is ridiculous. I can only have one master. I can be a slave to one and only one thing/person.

This is living luke warm at it's finest. When things suck I run to Christ, but every other time in my life I live to feed my lust and please my flesh.

There is something horribly wrong here.

2006-06-29T20:07:00.000-07:00

Exactly

2006-05-16T12:37:00.000-07:00

What the heck?

Finally something postworthy

2006-05-05T08:07:00.000-07:00

Yes for the past month and a day absolutely nothing has happened in my life. It is just like I have been suspended in a large jiggling bowl of jello. Probably strawberry flavored. If you can imagine nothing happens inside jello. All of the jello innards are content happy and jiggling a bit. Nothing ever happens to them.

Until someone eats that jello.

Well my jello got eaten, and I was spit out and cast aside. (kind of like when you are eating some lasagna that your mom made and you take a big juicy bite. Then as you are pulling your hand away from your mouth somehow you are still attached to the fork. You wonder why that piece of cheese is so strong and tough. But then you look down and realize; this is not a wonderful string of cheddar cheese, but it is a hair. A big thick black hair that you have no choice but to spit it out.)I am alright, no one was hurt in the incident. I just no longer have a job. The owner of my company decided to shut my store down.

So now I am on a jorb hunt. I have until the end of the month to work here, then after that I am on my own.

So I am praying and asking around if anyone knows of anything. An old friend of mine says that he is working with inner city kids for the summer, and that they may need help. I am keeping my fingers crossed. Working with people/kids in some way is what I think have been called to do. I want to be able to glorify God no matter what job I have. Sometimes it gets a bit difficult to do that while you are staring at a computer screen all day. I love people and want to be able to make a difference in someone's life.

We will see.

Any suggestions/questions?

adios,
slobber covered eric

Men in hats

2006-04-04T09:26:00.000-07:00

I have recently come across an extremely funny web comic called Men in hats. It is pretty funny. What do you think?

Funny Conversation

2006-03-29T16:51:00.000-08:00

(spazdor) how do you get a Cisco Certified Network Administrator off your porch?
(cnug) ...?
(spazdor) pay for your pizza

2006-03-28T20:15:00.000-08:00

Umm Yea.

Smooth and tasty

2006-03-28T12:03:00.000-08:00

My buddy David came into my store today and told me about some sweet looking Linux stuff. Here is a Link to the screenshots page. I am impressed with the clean and smooth feel of it. I just downloaded Elive and am getting ready to install! I will update later on how the install went.

w00t

Carizzle

2006-03-21T09:51:00.000-08:00

Is it socially acceptable to add "izzle" at the end of the last word of all sentences? Well lets try.

I finally got my car in the mail todayizzle. (Sorry to disappoint all of the ladies out there that thought I was now a millionaire) I had the opportunity of driving it around a parking lot or twoizzle. It was stinking sweetizzle. I am pleased with my purchaseizzle.

Yesterday Kurt and I had the opportunity of hanging out with our friend Amy S.izzle. (lol that one works out nicely, her last name starts out with an s.. well you get the point) We ate at Chillies and the went back to her folks place and talked for almost 4 hoursizzle. (Ding.. another sizzle) Over all the night was great and encouragingizzle. I realized that it had been a while since I have invested any quality time in my selfizzle. I'm not trying to sound selfish, but as Amy pointed out if all you ever do is pour yourself into other people than there isn't going to be anything left in the cupizzle. I really have been feeling dry and in some ways numbizzle. It is time to spend some quality time with Godizzle.

Well I should get back to workizzle.

2006-03-12T22:17:00.000-08:00

Well I just got a new car!!

uCode

2006-03-10T09:31:00.000-08:00

What the heck does intel CPU uCode loading error mean? It is driving me crazy. Now I am getting it on two different boards with two different processors. I pretty much have to have this done within the hour or so and I am at a loss for words.

Oh yea and to make things better I cut my finger on the computer case. So bad that it cut through my finger nail. So I'm bleeding and confused.

Just had to get that out there.

Well I did it

2006-02-28T21:19:00.000-08:00

I now feel dirty and like I am no longer special and unique. What am I talking about you may ask yourself? I signed up for a myspace account. It still isn't quite set up yet, but I'll give you the link. http://www.myspace.com/ericbag

enjoy.

2006-02-22T14:12:00.000-08:00

Here is Comic #3. Hopefully Chislo will come up with some more sweet stuff soon!

2006-02-07T22:42:00.000-08:00

It stopped being my birthday like 41 minutes ago. This is a picture of a pet that my parents are keeping in their pool! I'm going to name him stevie after my good friend stephen from church.

2006-02-07T08:25:00.000-08:00

It is my birthday today! And here is another comic done by chislo.

(Dogan) GUYS, STORY TIME

2006-01-31T08:46:00.000-08:00

(This is a random conversation that I stumbled across)

(Dogan) So my teacher's friend's friend or something
(Dogan) She was dogsitting one day
(Dogan) Shows up the first time, finds the dog dead on the floor, right?
(Nightryde) how embarrassing
(Dogan) SO she's gotta pack the dog corpse up and take it to the vet so they can dispose of it or whatever
(Dogan) She can't find anything to fit it in, so she stuffs it in a SUITCASE
(Dogan) She didn't have a car so she has to take the train through Chicago
(Zeelot) oh mannnn
(Dogan) This guy helps her carry the case on and is like
(Dogan) "this is pretty heavy, what's in it?"
(Dogan) lady replies "just some computer things"
(Dogan) the guy SOCKS HER IN THE FACE AND RUNS OFF WITH THE CASE
(Nightryde) AHAHAHA HOW would you pawn that sort of thing???

2006-01-26T18:10:00.000-08:00

Chisilo is a buddy of mine that started making cartoons about me. This is #1 in the series. I will post the rest later on, so keep checking for new comics!

2006-01-18T21:19:00.000-08:00

Could I get in trouble for this?

WOW

2006-01-02T11:07:00.000-08:00

Christmas break has been great. I didn't get any extra days off (besides the weekends). That kinda stinks. It is not cool when both of your roommates have a week and a half off from work, and you don't get any days off. Since they are off I end up staying up late, watching movies and hanging out. Then am really tired the next morning for work. Not a good way to start the day.

WOW is a good game. For those of you who don't know I play World of Warcraft. The single most time consuming and addicting game ever created. I think that it could be proven that WOW is more addictive than Crack. I found out that it is the single most played game of its type. Hundreds of thousands of people across the world are playing it as we speak.

"How did Helen Keller's parents punish her?" "They moved around the living room furniture without telling her"

A friend gave me a book for Christmas that is full of tasteless jokes like that one. There are three or four chapters just on Helen Keller. Heres another one.

"How does Helen Keller drive?" "With one hand on the wheel and one hand on the road"

Because these jokes are so incredibly insensitive I am not going to reveal this friends true identity. Because you may all want to kill him, because of his insensitivity.

Have a good week.

2005-12-28T19:08:00.000-08:00

Yea it's a muffin.

Tears

2005-12-07T10:10:00.000-08:00

This may not mean anything to you, but it does to me. My grandfather died sunday. A man which I spent the majority of my life angry at. I didn't even have any legitamate or real reasons to be mad at him. And yet I carried a grudge for years. Reading the following newspaper article about him made me cry.

Eugene 'Ed' Cox , 65, a lifetime resident of OKC, went home to the loving arms of his Lord & Savior Dec. 4, 2005. Born Sept. 14, 1940 to E.C. & Elizabeth Cox in OKC. After graduating from Crooked Oak School, he served 4 years in the US Navy, having studied at the Univ. of Southern Calif. the first 1½ years to get his electrical engineering degree. He served as an electronics expert aboard several US Naval ships all over the Western Pacific and 2 TDY tours with the US Navy Seals team, which was a lifelong dream. After the Navy, Ed returned to south OKC and opened an appliance and TV business, which he ran very successfully for 30 years, coming to be known as 'Super Value Man' in many TV commercials. During those 30 years, Ed also continued his education in several business courses, as well as becoming a real estate appraiser & licensed private air pilot. Ed loved to travel, spending time with family, and running for pleasure in several 5K & 10K races in OKC. A life member of Capitol Hill Sertoma Club, Ed served as an officer for most of the years since joining the club in 1960. A faithful member of Heartland Community Church since 1991, Ed served in many positions within the church including lead usher and the Pastor's Advisory Board, for the last 10 years. Ed is survived by his wife, Helen of the home; mother-in-law, Clara Garner; 2 daughters, Rita Robinson & husband, Mark & Tammy Westridge & husband, Frank, all of Norman; 6 grandchildren all of Norman; brother, John I. Cox of Washington D.C.; stepdaughter, Barbie Grider & husband, Wilson; stepsons: Scot McNeill & wife, Janet, John McNeill & wife, Tina and Charley McNeill; 10 step-grandchildren and 3 step-great grandchildren, all of OKC. Ed loved meeting people and never met a stranger. He will be greatly missed by everyone he came in contact with. In lieu of flowers, Ed requested donations be made to Heartland Community Church Building Fund, 8309 S. Santa Fe Ave, OKC, OK 73189. Memorial Services will be held 10:00 AM Friday, Dec. 9, 2005 at Heartland Community Church. It was Ed's last wish that he be an organ donor and then his body will be given to medical science in hopes that his body might in some way find a cure for the disease that cut his life short.
Published in The Oklahoman on 12/7/2005.

Chronicle of Chicago #2

2005-11-26T12:18:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving came and left.

Friday was nice. We ended up sleeping in until about 3 or so. By the time we were ready to go for the day it was already dark outside. (no we don't take forever to get ready, it gets dark here by about 4) We ventured out to buy a dvd player and get some Chipotle. So we did. And it was good. While we were there we played some more gripe rummy, and my beginners luck was sill with me. I smoked him. We headed back to the dorm and ended up watching futurama and finishing up arrested development. I ended up playing my guitar and singing in the bathroom for about 30 minutes at about 4 A.M.

It's funny how you forget entire days when you just lay around and do nothing.

We have actually spent the majority of our time watching the show "arrested development", futurama, eating, sleeping and playing cards. What more could you ask for in a vacation.

Chronicle of Chicago #1

2005-11-24T13:26:00.000-08:00

I made it to Chicago without any problems. I flew from OKC to Salt lake city to Chicago. Seeing the sun rise over the Rocky Mountains from the plane was awesome.

Kurt met me at the airport and then we had a train ride to North Western that took about an hour. We had dinner at Chipotle with Amanda and played some cards. Then we went back to Amandas place and I pwned them in a game of gripe rummy. The score was me:10 to Amanda:160 to kurts whopping 320. You may think "Oh well Kurt had a great score". But you see gripe rummy is scored like golf is, the lower your score the better. So yea like I said before Kurt got pwned.

Thanksgiving morning we woke up at about one in the afternoon. Then proceeded to eat lucky charms, hot pockets and some krispy kream we found in the trash can! It was a wonderful breakfast. Now we are headed to watch some football and play some splinter cell 3.

Tune in tomorrow for more of the Chronicle of Chicago.

2005-11-22T23:35:00.000-08:00

It is a thing of beauty. Much thanks to my sisters for doing the lovely job on cutting the hair. (dont worry, It will only be like this for thanksgiving break)

2005-11-22T23:34:00.000-08:00

Before.

Chicago

2005-11-22T09:06:00.000-08:00

Well I'm off. For the first time ever I am going to be away from my family on a holiday. I am going to Chicago to stay with my friend Kurt for thanksgiving break. I leave wednessday morning, and come home sunday night. So farewell all and have a good break.

Two things: Cops and spandex

2005-11-11T08:21:00.000-08:00

Last night at wildwood we had a dodgeball tournament! It was pretty fun. My team ended up tying for 3rd place. Not too shabby eh.

So after the tourney a few of us went over to IHOP for some dinner. During dinner Jessica and I decided that since she got her learners permit that I should teach her how to drive a standard. So in some random neighborhood we swapped seats. She did really well for someone who barely knows how to drive. Actually she did well for a while, then somehow she managed to kill the truck when we were making a turn. So for about the next five minutes she worked on getting the truck started and moving again.

Three things I failed to realize:
1. When the truck died, the headlights were pointing straight at someone's house.
2. It was well after midnight when all this happened.
3. People call the cops when loud trucks sit in front of their house for several minutes after midnight.

Finally she got the truck started and moving again and we made it to the end of the street. We sat at the stop sign, I looked over and saw headlights coming our way. Jokingly I said "Oh no It's the cops!" Jessica didn't think this was funny. The police car pulled up and for what seemed like an eternity sat next to us. Finally he pulled away. We then pulled the truck around the corner, quickly switched places and got out of that neighborhood.

So I learned a couple of things last night:
1. If you are going to teach someone how to drive a standard, don't do it after midnight.
2. Don't sit there with your headlights pointed at someone's house after midnight, they might call the cops.
3. Wearing spandex shorts while playing in a big dodgeball tournament is fun.

Lora

2005-11-10T09:40:00.000-08:00

I'm not sure if you know my baby sister Lora, but you should. She is actually a weird kid. Weird in a good way. Check out her Regular Blog and her Poetry Blog.

The purpose of this post isn't to say that I like my sister, but to say how incredibly talented she is. It is amazing to hear the music she writes and to see the art that she draws. I can't share that part of her talent with you over the internet, but you can see her poetry. I will be amazed if you read one of her poems and can keep from being moved spiritually.

So check out her poetry page and see for yourself.

2005-11-07T15:56:00.000-08:00

If you remember a few posts back I showed pumpkins that Allie, seth and I made. Well a couple of weeks later this is what they look like. I personally think they look like senior citizens that don't have their teeth in.

2005-11-06T08:15:00.000-08:00

Man I'm cute this morning.

Don't you just love it?

2005-11-03T16:15:00.000-08:00

Today at work I built 3 computer systems, and 3 times windows XP would not install. Here's how the day went.

Since during install several files on the windows disk could not be read, it appeared that the CD-ROMs were messed up. After going through 3 drives I decided that this probably wasn't the bad part.

Next I decided to flash the BIOS with an updated version, because the board we were using (Asus K8V-MX) had known BIOS problems when used with the processor (Sempron 64 2600+). So I flashed the BIOS with the latest updated version. By the grace of God this fixed one of them.

But I still had 2 down, and had the customers breathing down my neck. I had to get those last two working.

After several attempted installs with different configurations I decided to change the memory I was using to a different brand. IT WORKED!! Finally after 5 hours of pulling out my hair (maybe that's why I'm going bald?) we figured out the problem. We had a batch of new memory that was made by a company called AVA. Their memory only works with our Asus board about half of the time. Luckily we had some of our old memory made by Micron in the bottom of our bin. I was able to pull the last 2 sticks we had and make everything work.

Here is the funny part. About 3 hours after I had figured out the answer to our problem someone from our main store in Texas calls me up and says "Hay I just wanted to warn you that you might run into some compatibility issues with the AVA ram and our Asus Motherboards".

That was nice of him to let me know.

Today was fun. I'm just glad it's almost over.

Strange

2005-10-30T00:03:00.000-07:00

Well I did it. I just watched the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's". Please don't think I have just gone completely crazy when you read the following sentence. I just watched "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and I enjoyed it. I really enjoyed it. So there I said it. Have a good day.

2005-10-29T17:04:00.000-07:00

And here are our pumpkins together. If you can't tell mine is an exact replica of Strong Mad from Homestarrunner!

2005-10-29T17:03:00.001-07:00

Here is a picture of Seth's pumpkin, it's eye was falling out.

2005-10-29T17:03:00.000-07:00

I told you they looked alike. Now im not saying that Allie looks like a pumpkin, but that it is just a really pretty pumpkin.

2005-10-28T15:56:00.000-07:00

Yea. This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

I don't care who you are, this is pretty funny.

2005-10-27T15:00:00.000-07:00

Below is a quote of something I just randomly ran across on the internet. Don't get me wrong I think Bush is a good president, and he does a good job. But I can see this really happening. Read and enjoy.

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed in an accident", "OH DEAR GOD NO!!!" George W. Bush exclaims. "That's terrible!!" His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the
president sits, head in hands. Finally, the President, devastated, looks up and asks.......... "How many is a Brazillion??!"

Exactly.

So I carved a pumpkin last night with my good friends Seth and Allie. It was actually pretty fun. My pumpkin turned out to look just like Strong Mad, Allie's looked like a self portrait (I'm not saying that she looks like a pumpkin, but that pumpkin highly resembled her) and Seth's looked like a pug who's eye had just fallen out.

I will try and round up some pictures of this fiasco for your viewing pleasure.

Wallace and Grommit

2005-09-20T11:38:00.000-07:00

It has been a while since I have posted. I had to wait until "The Hotness" won on the voting polls. Yes finally "The Hotness" was at the top. So officially the polls are closed (although you can still vote).

I am hereby naming my bike "The Hotness... Maggie for short" Thanks for all your participation.

Actually the true reason I haven't posted in a while is I have been busy. I'm working 25-30 hours at CPU now. I am teaching a Highschool PE class. I'm the 9th grade guys Shepard at Wildwood. Going to school full time. Oh and I just moved into Norman. I decided it was time to move out of the parents house. My new house is a nice 3 bedroom house. I have two roommates, both of them are buddies from college class at church. Kevin and Eric. No I don't count as two people, Eric is the name of my other roommate. Yea it does get confusing some times. But the new house is great.

So life is kinda crazy.

Adios

P.S. My good friend Kellie informed me that there is a new Wallace and Grommit movie coming out. I can't wait to see it.

It's Voting Time

2005-08-22T09:17:00.000-07:00

It's finally time to vote. The vote for this week is what to name my motorcycle. There is a picture of her in a previous post. So check it out and let me know what you think. (sorry about the big gap below, I'm not sure why it's there)

2005-08-19T19:20:00.000-07:00

I made this today. It was with a wonderful program called Terragen.

P.S. I will have a poll to vote on my bikes name up in a few days.

Off Topic

2005-08-12T16:30:00.000-07:00

Well, it has come to my attention that all of the cool people in the blogging world are all doing the same thing. Maybe not all, but a few that I have read recently noticed. That thing is Quotes. The entire post is just a quote. My little sisters blog for example, she quoted an entire song by skillet. So to be cool I've decided to quote someone. In order to be really really cool I've decided to quote a quote.

""Umm what do you mean?" I replied?"

So there it is. I quoted myself quoting myself. Man this whole quote thing is about as hard to grasp as time travel. Im not going to go any farther with this or my head may explode.
adios,
eric

p.s. The quote quoting myself is from my very first post. Feel free to look back and be amazed.

What should I name her?

2005-08-09T11:04:00.000-07:00

Well there comes a point in every man's life where he needs to find a name for his motorcycle. I need your help deciding. There is a picture in my previous post. Look the picture over and let me know what you think. I will take any suggestions into consideration, then I will create a poll and let you decide what her name should be. Anyone and everyone is encouraged to pitch in. So leave me a comment with your suggestion.

Thanks

P.S. I'm thinking "Maggie"

2005-08-08T22:29:00.000-07:00

This is my new baby. It is an 82 kawasaki. She used to be a police bike. If you cant tell its not running at the moment. It is going to be my project over the next couple of years.

2005-08-06T13:16:00.001-07:00

Zach and the water. Tons of water.

2005-08-06T13:16:00.000-07:00

I have no idea what the white thing is, but i thought the picture looked kinda nice.

2005-08-06T13:15:00.000-07:00

The boys getting ready to go armadillo hunting with slingshots.

2005-08-06T13:13:00.000-07:00

An optical illusion gone bad. Fire is fun.

The longest day ever

2005-08-05T14:49:00.000-07:00

Today has been the longest day ever. You may wonder why this is the longest day ever. Well today I'm at work. I have been staring at the clock since about 10 this morning. Watching the hours slowly pass. As soon as the clock hits 7, I'm going to close down the store and go camping! I am excited.

This whole camping thing brings back memories. A long time ago, the 90's, my family took a trip to Washington DC. It was an exciting time for us all. Early in the morning my siblings and I waited in our regulation Home Schooler van (In the 90's you could not Home School your children if you dind't have a 16 passenger van). Our parents were inside the office paying for our campsite. As we sat there barley awake, four oriental business men walked up to the side door of our van. They then proceeded to open the door and get in. I almost cried. They quickly realized what they were doing and said, "oh, this isn't the tour bus. Sorry". Then they closed the door and walked off.

Have any of you ever had wired or funny camping moments. Post a comment and tell us about them.

P.S. I will hopefully post some of pictures of the trip in a couple of days.

2005-08-04T15:59:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of a hippie Jesus movie that I was watching. The guy on the right with the beard looks just like my friend Gary. Well that is if Gary had a beard.

Just checking

2005-08-01T20:41:00.000-07:00

Just in case you didn't know yet, Mexico is a big part of my life. For about half of my life now I have spent time every summer there. Don't know why but I've always loved the place. There is just something about it that just keeps me going back. There is a video posted of my trip Here. Click on Wildwood. Check it out and let me know what you think.

adios,
Eric

2005-07-31T13:06:00.000-07:00

This is me in real life

2005-07-31T12:58:00.000-07:00

Me And Kevin

CIY

2005-07-29T16:55:00.000-07:00

I talked about CIY in the last post. Im lazy, but my sister (sara) posted some of the pictures from the trip on her blog. Check it out eh. http://frisbeeluver.blogspot.com/

Love,
Eric

God

2005-07-28T08:55:00.000-07:00

I want you all to know that CIY is awesome. I don't know if it was the cafeteria food that made McDonalds taste like heaven, getting hit in the hind quarters by a rubber band ball that is going 90mph, having light saber fights during dinner, doing the worm in the middle isle after communion or just spending tons of quality time with my youth group. But CIY rocks.

What is CIY? CIY stands for Christ In Youth. It is a week long conference where you just get pumped full of Jesus basically. There are all kinds of classes to take, and tons of worship. By tons of worship I mean we sang a lot.

It is awesome to see what God does to you. Its great when it isn't just one of those camp "high's". Actually God did the majority of work in me the day after we got back. For the first time in my life, that night God brought me to a realization that I cannot do it alone. God broke me spiritually. He reminded me that He is there and he is real no matter how far away I might drag myself from Him. God is Real.

And now for something completely different.

A duck walks into a bar and says "hay bartender do you have any grapes?"
The bartender replied "No. Now get out of here you stupid duck!"
The duck left the bar
.. the next day...
The duck walks back into the bar and says "hay bartender do you have any grapes?"
The bartender said "I told you yesterday, No I don't have any grapes. If you ask me again im going to nail your webbed feet to the floor!"
The duck left again
...the next day...
The duck came back to the bar again and said "hay bartender do you have any nails?"
The bartender said "No"
The duck replied with "well do you have any grapes?"

Back

2005-06-24T16:50:00.000-07:00

Im back. First off, the trip was great. Some really awsome stuff is going on in Mexico. Our tipical trip usually consists of us going out into the jungle. While there we show a Jesus movie, give kids toy bags, hand out popcorn and give out bibles. We try and do this in as many villages and towns as we can during our short stay. It was decided that this trip would be different. Yes we still did our usual shabang, but we tought a team from one of the mexican churches to do exactly what we do. We gave them all of the equipment they would need to show movies and do dramas, then trained them how to set up and operate this equipment. We then tought them how to do all of the dramas and puppet shows.

Baisically our work is still going on now, and hopefully will for years to come. From now on we plan on telling people about Jesus, but at the same time equip the people of the church to continue doing the same.

It is pretty neat.

My friend Jessica that I wrote about earlier is doing good. I am truly proud of her.

Untill next time
eric

P.S. Oh yea. Something funny. Two nights I did this skit with my friend Andrea. In this skit I take her heart and break it baisically. Well the first night as we were doing the skit she refused to give me her heart, naturally I started crying. This little kid ran up and started screaming something at me and punching me in the head. The next night about the same part in the skit, a kid started screaming to Andrea saying "He is drunk, he is drunk dont listen to him!!" (that was in spanish of course)

Promise

2005-06-07T21:10:00.000-07:00

Well I promised my friend that I would update before I left on my trip. This is going to be a pretty serious post.

First off in the morning my little sister (sara) and I are going to leave for Mexico. We are gonna be there from wednessday to the following wednessday. It was pretty awsome how all the money for my trip just kinda fell into place. I think a lot of it actually came from sara. We are taking a 7 or 8 hour drive to the south east (or west) of cancun. So we will be pretty deep into the jungle. Im already working on a sunburn from mowing the negibors lawn today. It will be interesting to see how that turns out.

Now for the not so happy. I have tried to write out what happened, but I cant seem to write it out. But I cant. If you would like read this blog. It will explain things. http://allthozeyesterdaze.blogspot.com/ Jessica is one of my youth group kids, and I was hanging out with her and some others last night when she got the call saying that her dad passed away. God had me there for a reason. It is so incredibly hard to imagine what someone who is only 15 years old hearing that their dad just died. She is truly a brave person, I admire her.

Know that even in darkness and sadness the hope of Christ still abides.

Ninja

2005-04-29T12:56:00.000-07:00

Normally I like to write about stupid people on this blog. Today is going to be a little different. I found one of the best web sites that was ever created. http://www.realultimatepower.net It is a page all about ninja's. I encourage you to read it and enjoy. "Warning" This site is not for the little ones.
love,
Eric

Computer illiterate people

2005-04-22T08:46:00.000-07:00

There is one thing in life that always has amazed me. People who have absolutely no idea what they are talking about, but still continue to talk on the subject as if they were experts. Let me give you a couple of examples:

A customer and I were discussing a free word processing program called Open Office. (A great program by the way www.openoffice.org) I told her that she could just use that program instead of paying hundreds of dollars for Microsoft's version. She then said
"I've got windows ME. I know its not as good as office 2003, but it is still good." "Umm wait a minute. Did I miss something?" I thought to myself. No I didn't. It's pretty sad when you cant tell the difference between an operating system and a word processing program.

Here is example #2:
My UPS guy gave me this flyer that he found. It was an add that a student had made in an effort to sell his laptop. It read something like this.

Laptop for Sale!
Dell dimension 2000
20 Gigs of memory
Only $200

Wow. I don't know about you guys, but I have never seen anything with 20 Gigs of memory. If the add was true then he had a monster laptop. To tell you the truth I think he was a little mixed up and meant 20 Gigs of hard drive space. I think that is a little bit more reasonable.

I have some confessions to make. I think that I often make this mistake myself. You know pretending that I'm cool, but then finding out that I am just kind of not very bright. Here's a good example. One time I was in Mexico and I decided to be cool. I was going to say in Spanish to the pretty Mexican girl that I liked her sandals. I proceeded to say "Me gusta sus cucharras". For those of you who don't speak Spanish that means "I like your spoons". Phrew. Talk about a sticky situation. I was extremely lucky that she knew I was a moron. She just laughed. A lot.

Finally he says something

2005-04-17T21:59:00.000-07:00

I Finally got a haircut. Err.. I mean I didn't get my hair cut, I cut my own hair. And when I say that I cut it, I mean that I used a pocket knife, in the middle of the wilderness. (Please excuse my Xanga like grammar)

To tell you the truth I went camping this weekend. It was the first night we were there at about four in the morning. Sitting in front of the fire, almost like a reflex I whipped out my knife, grabbed a hand full of hair and started sawing away. Don't worry, I'm not bald or anything. I just gave myself a nice trim. To tell you the truth my self cut hair doesn't look all that bad. (And by it doest look bad, I mean it looks like I had a fight with a weed eater, and lost)

This camping trip was a great experience. Just a bunch of guys smack dab in the middle of the woods, with guns, knives and slingshots. It was a beautiful sight. We were living the high life right there. But I learned some things:

1. Do not try and eat cactus unless you know the proper way. (I am still suffering from needles all over my body)

2. Cactus tastes like slimy green beans.

3. Just don't mess with cactus at all.

4. Don't try and cut your own hair without a mirror and scissors.

So the moral of the story kids is: If you want to eat cactus just buy a can of green beans and put some slime on it, and spend the $10 to have your hair cut professionally. If you don't do these things, you will end up looking funny and hurting.

Lots of stuff

2005-03-23T00:21:00.000-08:00

I was in walmart tonight with my friend kurt looking through the super mega movie deal bin. After almost 30 minutes of continuous digging (At one point I almost fell in) one of the 40+ year old lady walmart workers comes up to me and says "are you having fun". I let her know that I was having a time of my life scouring through bad movie after bad movie. She than told me "I have a cashier that is in love with you". In that awkward where the heck did this lady come from moment I kinda mumbled a couple of nonsense words. She then began to inform me that I should go talk to the girl and get her number. Then the walmart worker lady told me that was over in the self checkout lanes.

Needless to say kurt and I quickly made our way to the opposite side of walmart to escape the eyes of the old lady and girl. We couldn't help but notice that as soon as we left we were being followed around by various workers. They seemed to periodically radio in to notify the girl of where we were. I'm not quite sure if it was my long shaggy falling out hair, my big belly or my sagging pants (the sagging pants are due to the big belly, every time I pull the pants up my stomach just yanks them right back down).

I had a feeling that all of my blogpeeps might enjoy that story.

On a more serious note I just figured that I would let you all know that God is awesome. No matter how Unfaithful I have been, He is there. My reason for revelation is from tonight when I was on my way home after the whole "women of walmart" thing. I was on my way home listening to some nice Zao, and for some reason it felt like everything was kinda caving in. All of the pressure from spiritual battles that I had been losing were just overwhelming me. I felt like I could not go on another step, that I wasn't worthy to go on another step. I just screamed out for Christ to save me from this turmoil, give me piece for just a moment from everything. And He did. He is there and willing to listen. God wants a Relationship with us. And sometimes it takes something breaking us to snap us out of the routine, so that we can look up and say "Help me daddy, I can't do it alone".
God bless,
Monk aka "The one the walmart ladies love"
P.S. Just so you all know the walmart ladies actually scare me.

And now for something completely different.

2005-03-18T15:50:00.000-08:00

I was sitting here at work thinking. Why do I seem to just "exist" while in the workplace? I dread the days I have to be at work all day. I constantly watch the clock longing for the seconds to go by faster. I think how great it will be to get off work (especially on fridays).

You are probably thinking "that's how everyone is". Well maybe so, but I do not want this for myself. Living with this mindset is a tremendous waste of time. How many full days in someone's life will they spend working? The majority of your life will be spent on the clock. If I end up going through the rest of my life just watching the seconds go by on the clock, I might as well have not lived at all. Nothing can be accomplished mentally, physically or spiritually sitting there watching the seconds go by.

There seems to be something fundamentally wrong with this attitude. As a believer in Christ I am to live like Christ. Now I'm not saying to quit your job and go spend the rest of your life like nomadic hippies. You must make use of your time no matter where you are or what you are doing. God puts us places for a reason. For the time being if where you are is hard and seems unfruitful, bear with it. Whether you are flipping burgers or signing a big contract for a big sardine company, do something with the time. If anything you can pray. The simplest, most powerful and most ignored thing that we could do.

I need constant reminder that I am where I am for a reason. I am being put through trials and temptations for a reason. If this is where I am for the rest of my life, great.

If it seems like I am preaching, It's because I am. I'm preaching to myself.

I guess the moral of the story is I have wasted a lot of time, and I need a change.

Not Very Bright

2005-03-11T12:07:00.000-08:00

Well I think I saw a whole new kind of stupid today. A tow truck was parked in our parking lot handling some business. Some college kid drives up and parks right next to the tow truck and walked across the street. First of all there are signs at the entrances of the parking lot that say:

Customer Parking only

All Violators will be towed

Well we give the tow truck driver a shout out and he walks out and starts prepping the car to be taken away. As he is doing this, a girl pulls up right next to the first car that is in the process of getting towed. She gets out of her car, I'm sure she was thinking "Glad I'm too cool to get towed." Then she calmly walks down the street.

Wow people. I mean Wow. How obvious do you want us to be. You would think signs all over would let people know "Don't Park here". You would really think that a CAR BEING TOWED would give just a little bit more of a hint. But no. People continue to be moronic.

As I was writing this both the girl and the guy came back. The girl got out lucky and was able to get away with not being towed because she got back so soon. But the guy came back to see his car being lifted up on the truck. It is a sad sad day for that guy.

Nothing

2005-02-24T11:26:00.000-08:00

I have always hated going to a blog and reading posts about absolutely nothing. Hearing things like "well nothing has changed since last time I posted" or "My life is boring and so I have nothing new to say", just bug the snot out of me. So I kind of have a silent pact with myself to never sink to that level. Telling people absolutely nothing just seems pointless.

Here is my attempt at just a little bit more than nothing.

I was thinking the other day about religion, Christianity in particular. Before you put on your Sunday school ears and tune me out or say "im not saved forget this hippie im getting some icecream", please listen and see if you agree at any level. It seems that the ultimate goal of a typical Oklahoma Christian is to get the unsaved to church. "Gotta get me some sinners to church". I've always kind of felt like I wasn't quite cutting it as a Christian because it was never one of my priorities to get people to come to church. And as I was thinking about it I realized that this was completely uncouth. (I learned the word uncouth from strongbad! www.homestarrunner.com) Being like Christ should be our ultimate goal right? I mean come on, the meaning of the word "Christian" is "Little Christ". So tell me did we ever see once in the Bible where Jesus said "Hay you, your not saved, why don't you come to church with me?". If im wrong let me know and I'll buy you a coke. From what I know about Jesus in the Bible all He did was walk around tellin people about God and Himself. Is there something I'm missing, or are we just supposed to show people the awesome love of Christ and share the word with them?

Maybe it is just me, but I felt that I had the mentality that if you didn't bring people to church you were a bad Christian, or you just didn't care about God.

The bottom line is people need to know the love of Christ, and of his saving grace. I need to hear it constantly, or I forget and fall back into the same ole fleshly rut. What can we do differently, what should we do differently.

Cripple Guy V.S. Overweight Drunk Hick

2005-02-18T11:13:00.000-08:00

Well it is a sad day when you hear screams coming from behind your store. Then the next thing you see a cripple guy run around the front of your store, followed by a well rounded hillbilly. Winded the hillbilly had to stop chasing turn around and get back in his truck.

It turns out that the hillbilly was drunk and started yelling insults to the cripple guy. The cripple guy waddled up and punched the hillbilly in the face. They proceeded to scream various insults at each other. Threatening to sick his dog on the cripple guy the hillbilly started to open his door to get out and give the cripple a good ole fashion country butt woopin. As the hillbilly was trying to open his door the cripple guy slammed it shut again. This happened several times until the cripple turned and ran in a way that only a cripple could run. That's when I saw the pair chasing each other around the front of my building. Seconds later the large drunken hick came waddling by on his way back to his truck.

For the next hour or two the hillbilly and his dog were patrolling the streets in search of the cripple man. The cripple guy being my friend I didn't want the hillbilly to find him. Thankfully he didn't.

If there is a moral to this story I do not know what it may be. Leave me a message if you have any clue/insight on what it is.

monk

THIS JUST IN!!
Come to find out a week later, the overweight drunk guy was an off duty Police Officer! Wow talk about some guts. That is a sticky situation. The new moral of the story is dont pop someone in the face unless you know if they are a police officer or not.

Funny

2005-02-17T08:28:00.000-08:00

Well some guy just pulled into my parking lot, I could tell he was coming into my store merely from the fact that he looked like he still lived in his mothers basement. I prepared myself for the impact of him walking through the front door. He got out of his car, looked at our store and walked a few steps. Then he stopped, and veered a little to the left. Then stopped again looking at the Greek place next door. Well needless to say he walked in about three circles, stopped, then walked back to his car and drove off. Why, I have no idea. I just don't understand random people.

That reminds me of friends. A good friend just put up a photo gallery that is awesome. Its fun to be able to look back at things and think "man I look funny". Well actually to remember the good ole times. It makes me sad when I realize how much I've let some of my old friends slip away. I think I'll start working on the whole keeping up with people thing.

Tcom Fundamentals

2005-02-10T11:36:00.000-08:00

I have a friend that told me the following story would be very entertaining(he also said that proper punctuation and spelling would be great as well).
Last Wednesday I was looking up assignments for one of the classes that I was currently enrolled in. I decided to look over the big end of the semester project that had just been assigned to us. Reading through the assignment I noticed a couple of various company names and things to do that looked familiar. Wondering why I would have already known what the final project for a class was, I decided to check into things a little bit. Digging up my transcript I scoured through the list of classes that I had already taken. And there it was. Tcom Fundamentals, the very same class that I just got through doing homework for. Talk about frustrating. After three weeks of agonizing homework and things of that nature, I found out that I had already taken the class. That just really hurts. The deadline to drop a class with full refund is at the end of the second week. Im glad that I decided to wait until a couple of days after the deadline to figure it out.
I was very glad to find out that the lead instructor of the Networking department liked me, and put a request in to drop that class and pick up another one. That was an extremely close call.
So the moral of the story is to NEVER enroll in a class unless you have written proof in front of you that you haven't taken that course yet.

Monk

Monkey Ball and Beer

2005-02-09T13:36:00.000-08:00

Well I turned 21 on monday. I found it quite odd that the first thing that was said to me when people found out that I was turning 21 was "Are you going to go drinking tonight?" I guess that I just wasn't near as excited about it as the rest of the world. I found it kind of odd that alcohol was the first thing on everyone's mind. Well a couple of friends and I went out to dinner to "celebrate", and do you know what we ended up doing all night(until 3:00 AM to be exact)? Super Monkey Ball 2. Yes we played Super Monkey Ball 2 well into the night. Forget alcohol to help you have a good birthday, just put a bunch of little monkeys in plastic balls and you will have the best time ever. Now a few of you may be wondering exactly im talking about. Monkey ball is a game for the GameCube, you play various games such as Bowling, putt putt and my favorite the game where you ramp your monkey off of this huge ramp and try to glide to a perfect landing on a little pad far away. This one particular game was the main one we played. It is a strangely addicting game that seems like the most stupid game ever thought of. But it rocks. I definitely give Super Monkey Ball an 11 on a one to ten scale.
until next time. Beware of monkeys in balls.
monk

It runs in the family

2005-01-22T11:31:00.000-08:00

One day a father and son duo came into the store with a few needs and wants. Here are simply a few of the things that were said.

"Does this soundcard work as a modem?" The father confidently asked.

Kid asks “do you know how to zero a computer?”. “Umm what do you mean?” I replied?
It ended up that he just wanted to know how to reformat.

The dad said “Do you guys have memory sticks?” confident that he was talking about hard drives or memory i said “yea” He said “I only have about 4 gigs”. He than began to say that if he had a new memory stick, his computer would run about 400 times faster.”

Fat Man In A Little Truck

2005-01-01T01:18:00.000-08:00

One day as I sat at my register reading up on the latest games when I looked I was amazed at what pulled up in the parking lot. A man in a truck. This truck looked like nothing I had ever seen. This rust and dent covered truck was only about three and a half feet tall. Naturally I laughed, like any normal human being would. But little did I know what was about to happen. An old Fat angry man busted in the door making a B line straight for the back table, saying “ I want to talk to a tech”. He ran like an overstuffed penguin with a cane in one hand. I tried to stop him assuring him that I was a tech. He threw down a piece of paper with a few random words scrabbled on it and said “What does this mean”. Having absolutely no idea what he was talking about I began to ask him a few simple questions. He than began to rant and rave about how he had worked day and night trying to get this stuped hard drive working and how no one in the store was smart enough to help him. He then began to become so angered that he started to dance waving his arms in the air. (can you picture an over fattened angry penguin doing that? Well thats what it looked like)He than began to demand to talk to a nerd. Fearing for my life I yelled at Richard in the back to see if he could figure out what the man was talking about. Walking up Richard said “calm down” and than began to try and figure out what exactly the problem was. He was so excited about his problem and talking so fast and loud, that my manager could not even tell him how to fix it. Finally he told the frantic old man “Be quiet” and explained how to solve the problem.

Quickie

2005-01-01T00:39:00.000-08:00

A guy came in frantically like a rabid starving squirrel with ADD looked at one motherboard, I looked up at him and said ill be with you in a minute. The man looked at me, looked at the board, then turned around and walked out of the store. As he made his way through the parking lot he started running. And he ran. Until he was out of sight. Surprisingly he came back in about 45 minutes later full of questions.

PS2 + DB9 = PS9

2005-01-01T00:35:00.000-08:00

An old man that was about 60 or so wobbled up to me and asked if we had any cards with extra PS9 connectors. Baffled by his awesome wisdom, I asked myself “what is a PS9 connector and why haven't I heard of it?” “PS9 do you have any cards that have PS9 connectors on them..?” The man repetitively asked, They are for my mouse and keyboard. “Ohh” I thought to myself “he is talking about those really old mouse and keyboard ports”. So I told him “no, we don't have those” Convinced that we did he continued on. And finally he decided to say “am I calling them the right thing”. As it turned out, he just wanted a card with multiple USB ports on it. I came to the conclusion that he had merely confused the PS2 and the DB9 connector types and came up with PS9. I mean hay if you cant remember what something is called why not take two completely random things and mix their names together. Makes perfect sense I guess.

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