iPod/Mac Math

So last night my iPod worked just fine. Lindsey and I watched "The Saint" (one of my favorites) on it. Then this morning I was trying to turn it on and... Nothing, absolutly nothing. It clicked a couple of times and the screen stayed black. I never got anything out of it. I thought maybe the battery was dead so I charged it in class today but still nothing. So I headed over to The Apple store and waited about an hour. In that time I decided that I want a 15.4" Macbook Pro but I am too cheap and too broke to buy it.
Anyways, I handed the "genious" the iPod and he tried to make it work but to no avail. I asked him why he thought it wasn't working and he told me that there was a dent in the back! I told him I have never dropped it hard enough to make a dent. He shrugged and told me he would just get me a new one. So all in all I am on my third iPod in 6 months and not happy. So this is what I call iPod/Mac math
3 iPods
-$29.95 For two Protective screens becuase it won't come off the old one
+Frusrtations and headaches & Gas money
+1 year service warranty :)
=
Crappy product but good service

I wish Sprint would take some lessons in customer service from Apple

My new pack

I did it! I finally did it! after three years of saying that I want to buy a nice backpacking pack, I finally just broke down and purchased one. I searched around awhile not really looking for anything specific, though I had some ideas of the features I wanted. Plus, price was the most important thing to me, because you could easily spend anywhere from $90-$500. So after searching I finally found one that I liked. It has 5,000 Cu. in of space which will allow me to pack for the whole week and is bigger and cheaper than the last pack I looked at. I got it for $89, which makes me feel as though I stole it. :) I found it at REI-outlet. I have purchased from them before and love their stores (wish we had one in Cincy) Every other site had the bag for $201+ So I think I did well. The coolest part is the exterior sleeping bag compartment, which allows me to not have to unload my bag everytime I make camp. So now that it is on the way, I will have to make some packing trips soon. YEAH! I love this time of year.
Check it out here.
http://www.rei.com/outlet/product/47994636.htm?vcat=OUTLET_SSHP_CAMPING_HIKING_SA

Two Forces

(Picture taken by Cindy T.)

Feeling lost
Searching every road no matter what the cost
Hoping that these feelings won't disapate
Knowing that somehow I'll navigate

I'll count to 10
Then some how I'll force myself to say amen
Knowing that I must fight
No matter what feels wrong and what feels right

All that I have known feels out of place
Hearts heave, plead their final case
If I step left, will you go right?
Will this flame fail to ignite

We wonder how two people can change or so they claim
We cry at how we beautifully remain the same
But as the rain falls
It hides our tears so that no one can climb our walls
To see just how surprising life is

Global Night Commute

As I awoke on saturday morning, little did I know that I was in for an adventure. Cindy and I left her house around 11:20am to head up to the Underground. We were going to meet up with the band Dizmas and go to a baseball game. Later in the evening we planned to sleep downtown on the street for Invicible Children.Dizmas rolled up in there SUV pulling a rather large trailer (minus Jon who was with his girl friend, we were all sorry he couldnt make it but I bet he wasn't). They hope out greeting us with smiles. Isaac and M joined us a little while latter and we were off to the game. When we arrived Rudy and Sadie joined us too. We parked at Longworth Hall which is some distance from the stadium, but we enjoyed the walked.
Before we headed out Josh realized that he did not have his wallet on him. He searched everywhere for it but to no avail. He called the hotel they stayed in and learned that his wallet had dropped out of the SUV and some man had picked it up. He proceded to take the wallet to the front desk, then tell the clerk that he would contact Josh. (weird!?) So upon deciding that there was nothing more that could be done, we started walking to the game. As we all walked Josh cancelled all of his credit cards and called it a loss. (Poor Josh what didn't the stupid guy just leave the wallet at the front desk?)

Cindy, Isaac, M and I all bought tickets for everyone. We sat in the nose bleed section but it was cool. I think the guys enjoyed the game (Atleast that is what they said.) The Reds won the game against Houston.Clay and I had some good conversation between pitches. As we walked out Zach and I began talking and we had a great talk about God and how he uses the worthless to do His thing. I soon began to see that the guys of Dizmas are true Men of God. They seemed to always be patient with everyone that came up to them. Most of the questions seemed to be, "Are you in a band?" But their patience was genuine. They all had there own personality and did not have to sacrifice it in order to be a part of a band. We wanted them to just be themselves, we hope we accomplished this.After the game we made the long walk back to the cars and headed for newport on the levee. We decided to eat at Dewey's Pizza but the wait was 40-50 min and we were already running low on time. So instead we decided to eat the Claddagh Irish Pub which turned out to have great food and a great atmosphere.

After dinner we went back to Longworth hall to park. We loaded up our gear and headed towards the Freedom Center for the Global Night Commute. This weekedn was to raise awareness for the Children in Uganda who are being forced to walk to a safe location inorder to be safe. They LRA (Lord's Resistence Army) is Kidnapping them in the middle of the night and making them into soldiers or sex slaves. www.invisiblechildren.com It rained the whole night and we tried to stay covered but a one tarp can only cover so many people. LOL I hope that this weekend meant somthing to people and makes a difference so that we arent just a bunch of crazy people who slept on the street one night.

(sorry for how short this is and all the typos there was plenty that happened that I could write about but after losing my blog twice, I give up!!!! Sorry If I left anyone out too)

My Plastic Spinners don't spin anymore

As things start to wined down for the semester, it seems that I lack a certain motivation to keep going. With three finals all next week, I need to find the time to study. Plus my parents are returning from Florida and I need to have to house cleaned for my Mom's High school friend who is coming to visit. I guess that somewhere inside of me is the nerd who loves to study, but right now all I can see is the outdoors nerd who loves to be, well... outdoors.
With an amazing weekend behind me, I can now focus my energy to my one chance to finish this semster well. But how the heck do I do that? Usually I can see my week ahead of me and plan accordingly but these next to weeks haven't even happened yet and they are a blur. So in reference to my title "My plastic spinners don't spin anymore." I saw an SUV yesterday who had those cheap Wal-mart plastic spinners. While understand the concept of "fake it till you make it" I don't think that this applies for here. But I digress...
The SUV was rolling down the road and while the front spinner was working fine doing its job of providing cheap "bling" the back spinner was just stagnat. This made me think about my life. I feel that as this semester rolls along I am not providing my "bling" I am merely being rolled not spun from place to place. Instead of looking cool I just look stupid.
I do not want to be the cheap plastic spinner, I want to roll with the other tires in my preverbial life. I know stupid analogy but whatever it made me think.