You are Storm! You are very strong and very protective of those you love. You are in tune with nature and are very concerned with justice and humanity. Unfortunately, certain apprehensions and fears are very hard for you to overcome, and can often inhibit you when most need to be strong.

which x-men are you most like?

now if i could control the weather at cornerstone next week :)

so how many guys does it take to call a hockey game?

abc / espn only needs two during the regular season, but for some reason come stanley cups finals it takes eleven:

studio set:
John Saunders
Barry Melrose
Chris Berman (yeah, I don't get that either)

play by play team:
John Davidson
Bill Clement (Clement and Thorne are ESPN's top two-man team)
Gary Thorne

locker rooms / bench / crowd reporters:
Steve Levy
Al Morganti
Sam Ryan
Brian Englboom
Darren Pang

last summer i broke my wrist. roller blading. yep.

anyway, i had this big green cast, and you wouldn't believe the signatures i got on it, at various places.

MxPx, the punk band currently starring in a Pepsi ad
Jason Dill, the pro skateboarder better known for freeloading at the home of TV's the Osbournes
Jay Bakker, son of TV Evangelist Jim Bakker

Plus others, including my sister Becky, my friends Sheree and Jessie, and a whole bunch more.

Kinda random, I realize, but interesting, none the less.

four days ago, the thermometers almost hit 90. now, we're expecting snow.

the suckiest part though, is while it's gotten colder here, a couple of my friends have gone to cancun, and will probably miss the snow, unless there's a freak storm in mexico.

The advent of daylight savings time had me thinking about something that's always puzzled me.

Why is it when you set your clock back in the fall, you go from 3 to 2. But when you move a meeting back you go from 2 to 3?

And when you move your clock up, you go from 2 to 3, but when you push an appointment up, you move it from 3 to 2?

When you say "back" you generally think later, but sometimes you mean "earlier".

The same kind of thing can apply when you cross a time zone. I've had arguments with people who ask "which way do I set my watch" and I say, "we just went back an hour" but they say "no, I need to move it up an hour", but we're really thinking the same thing. We both moved our watch from 2pm to 1pm because we travelled west over a time line.

Or am I completely insane? (ok, don't answer that)

favorite u2 songs of all time (at least as of april 4th, 2003 11:50 pm)

Beautiful Day
Mysterious Ways
North and South of the River
Desire
Please
Walk On
Where the Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Stay
Until the End of the World

Here's one of my favorite all time .sigs on the net, stolen from Ed Rock:

"When someone asks me if I surf the net, I reply,
'Hell, I'm one of the waves.'"--net.goddess Amanda Wolf a.k.a Batwoman

please tell me i'm not the only one who enjoyed watching michael moore get booed at the oscars. i'll admit... part of me actually liked "roger & me" but i don't think i could stomach "bowling for columbine". and i'm glad i'm not the only one who thinks he's an ignorant blowhard.

he's no peter o'toole.

and here's my list of people i never want to see in a cutaway shot at the oscars ever again:
- cameron diaz makes the list for playing with her hair
- ed harris, who looks like he's aged 10 years in 12 months
- nicholas cage, because, well, he's nicholas cage
- i'm gonna put jack nicholson on the list. i get sick of seeing the smirking jack with his sunglasses on
- i'm tempted to say no more cutaways of sean astin. please, could someone else from lord of the rings come to these award shows? somebody? anybody?

all in all, the awards went about as i thought. i figured chicago would take most of the big awards, and art awards, and lord of the rings would get the technical stuff. i guess i've come to the realization lotr will never win for best picture. i hope return of the king does. that would be fitting. it's an epic the likes of which i don't think we've ever seen.

oh yeah, forgot to mention... after two months of snowless winter, now we're transitioning into the rainless spring that is nebraska, circa 2003.

dang, we could use some moisture. apparently this drought is as bad, or worse than the drought of the '30s, but technology, better farming, and the general lack of connection to agrarian society has kinda kept it out of mind.

i know... i've been abset from here in a while. sorry. i promise i'll post more, although no one really reads. but that's ok. because 1) i probably just lied when i said i'd post more and 2) i don't care if anybody reads.

there's some strange stuff going down in this crazy world of ours. war, sure, but even close to home. the other day i covered a story on the news that was pretty strange. this average white couple, with a young child and another on the way woke up in the middle of the night, their house in flames. they looked outside, and someone spray painted swastikas and profanities on their house. and apparently they don't have any enemies, that they will admit to. that can't be the whole story, but that's the story the cops are going with too. strange, huh? who would torch some normal couple's home, and spray obscenities on it?

i've been reading stanley j grenz's _primer on postmodernism_

listening to:
evanescence _fallen_
celldweller
u2 _best of 1990-2000_
some various remixes i burned from bt, moby, dj tiesto, delerium, etc