Weekly Mold Update

Birthday/Christmas List

2007-01-01T05:25:00.000-08:00

As you all know there is a great and glorious holiday that is nearly upon us, that's right my birthday. And to help you with your James' birthday shopping I have consolidated a list of things that you can get me in order to pay homage to the awesomeness that is me:

Shirts:
Shrodingers Cat
Pi
There's No Place Like 127.0.0.1
/(bb|[^b]{2})/
Glow in the Dark Power Symbol
Not Even Norton Can Protect You
Resistance is Futile (if <1 ohm)
Looking for a Japanese Girlfriend
Save the Clock Tower
Not a Fan of the Ladies Are You Trebek?
I am the Walrus
ISOHUNT
Every Time You Download Music...
Carpe Noctem
L33t N3kkid Skillz
Baka^ni
Jesus Saves...
WOT: End of the World Tour
African or European?
Awkward Turtle
Idiot Savant

Posters:
-8-bit Theater Cast Poster
-Applegeeks Cast Poster
You can get me pretty much any poster you think I would like. Most of you guys (and by most of you I mean all) have pretty good taste so in this area just do as you feel. If you go the anime poster route which would be super awesome I would like some posters from the series' Full Metal Alchemist, Ah! My Goddess, and Last Exile .

Bumper Stickers:
-Hacking Permit
-0v3rclocked
-TPCD

Books:
The Zombie Survival Guide
The Problem of Pain
God, Evolution, and Evil (can't remember author, still looking)
Thunderbird Milestones

Music:
fanclub - Asian Kung-Fu Generation (There's an import version of it somewhere that's only 15 bucks, probably in Wal-Mart)
Nano Mugen Compilation - Various
Feedback File - Asian Kung-Fu Generation (wait for the import version, should come out soon.)
In Your Honor - Foo Fighters
There is Nothing Left to Lose - Foo Fighters
Any Wierd Al CD except "Straight Outta Lynwood" and "Running With Scissors."
I'll add more to this later.

Manga:
Neon Genesis Evanglion Vol. 9

Other Stuff:
-Radians Clock
-LOTR Poster Calender (it's in Borders right now.)
- Almost anything from megagear.com
- Spider-Man Stuff (This tie is a wicked sweet idea.)
- LOTR Stuff - I have always wanted one of the swords, specifically Anduril. But even more then that (sorta) and more affordable I have always wanted the Ring of Barahir (I am a size 14 by Noble Collection standards.).
-A subscription to 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. The most awesomest publication there is...Preferrably the life time subscription (read the description of it before you ignor me, it is the sweetest deal ever.
- I need a digital camera
- All things Japanese

Movies:
Lady in the Water
Stargate SG1 Seasons 2-8
Quantum Leap Season 2
Lord of the Rings Extended Editions (I still havn't seen the extended Return of the King or Two Towers)
Anything else you think I might be interested in.

Anime:
12 Kingdoms Volume One (This is a historically based anime about the 12 Kingdoms of Japan during it's feudal age.)
Final Fantasy Unlimited
Samurai Champloo
FLCL
Genshiken
Otogi Zoshi
Ah! My Goddess Vol. 6 to where ever they're at now
I'll add more to this later

Games:
-I really want a Playstation 2, yes 2 not 3, because all the games I've wanted to play for the last 4 years or more are on the PS2.
-Nintendo Wii - Wii are the Revolution
Dungeon Siege
Dungeon Siege Two
Dungeon Lords
Morrowwind
Myst URU: The Complete Chronicles
Pretty much any RPG or RTS

Practical Stuffs:
-Engineering Pad (You can find these at pretty much any stationary store.)
-Computer Stuff:
    -A new power supply (ATX v2.0 500W at least, preferrably Antec brand (they have good customer service), the more Watts the better.)
    -Corsair XMS2 2Gb DDR2 Dual-channel memory
    -Windows XP Pro x64 Edition
-AutoCAD (I eventually need to get a copy of this....pray that I come up with the money from somewhere.)
-Computer Desk (specifically the metal one at Wal-Mart, it's about seventy bucks, and tall, I'll have to take a picture of it for this post...)
-mechanical pencils, varying widths. (Got some .7 from Yammy!!!)

For Peter Boyle

2007-01-01T05:23:00.000-08:00

In honor of Peter Boyle, the best Frankenstien and the only funny thing on Everybody Loves Raymond. The world just got a whole lot less funny.

"Putin' on the ritz!"

Forever Red

2007-01-01T05:19:00.000-08:00

I don't know why, but I was thinking about my childhood TV shows the other day and what stood out the most was the Power Rangers. So I heard of this cool thing where they got together all of the red rangers from every PR series to stop "the remnants of the machine empire". So, enjoy:

FYI: Tommy, orignal Green Ranger, became a red ranger in another series and was in several other PR series as the leader. None of the other original power rangers have made cameos or been in other PR series.

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Oh my gosh guys!

2006-11-02T16:56:00.000-08:00

STAY ALIVE is on DVD now!!! Remember how much fun that movie was!??

Uggggg, I have to say of the few horror movies I have seen, that was the worst.

And I don't mean worst by gorey or gross I mean worst by just plain poorly done.

I've always tried to not go to see horror movies because I thought I would be scared and nightmares and crap. But as anyone who has watched one with me knows, all that I start doing is laughing. And it's strange because I'm completely not the kind of person who laughs at stuff like that, but when it's in a horror movie...

I've been told that it completely ruins the mood too and people in the theater get mad too. Especially when I say things, in the middle of the movie, like,"That nerd had it comming," "Is there really that much blood in the human body?" "Could they have worse graphics?" "That so does not work, in the real world he'd just bleed to death from the gapping hole in the back of his neck, there's no way it'd decapitate him."

My personal favorite is in the Stay Alive movie when the guy stopped the ghost coach with a rose and I said, "Flower Power!" but I don't know if anyone heard me.

One last complaint about modern horror movies: What is with the my-mouth-can-expland-to-twenty-times-it's-original-diameter thing? It seems like it's the 'in' thing that when the evil bad guy thing in the movie either a) get's defeated or b) reaveals itself to the helpless main character it has to do the expaning mouth thing. What is that supposed to mean? Does he need a dentist? Is he saying,"I'm a gonna eat you!!!"?

Which he never does and it would be helpful too because most horror movies, if you eliminate the main character who's always a wuss and is always crawling on their bloody knees through some darkened corridor or small place to escape whilst wearing almost nothing (if they're female, which they almost always are) and manages to get saved just at the last minute due to no work of their own then most horror movies might actually be pretty good.

Vampire movies are worse. Especially the ones that don't involve vampire hunters.

"Oh no what do we do! It's a vampire! I guess I'll just sit here and snivel and cry until he's done swooping down to eat me."

JUMP TO THE SIDE PICK UP A STICK AND STAB HIM THROUGH THE HEART!!!

In reality vampires have got to be the easiest 'terrifying' creature to eliminate. They have so many weaknesses and they are all so commonly known that anyone could kill a vampire if they really had too. They just arn't scary anymore.

Zombies are fun though. Those, although a bugger to kill and keep dead, are fun. All you need is a shotgun, a few grenades, and a life's supply of shells. Oh and a helmet would be nice too, to protect yourself in case of a sneak attack. Zombies go right for the brains. Actually considering how dexterious a zombie is, and how many fingers many of them are missing if they capture you or something odds are if you're wearing a helmet with a complicated enough strap, they ain't gonna be able to get ya.

Ghosts, now ghosts are actual good stuff to make horror movies with. You can't see them, most the time, they can move objects without touching them, they can possess people, they are just all around scary. The best part is, the majority of main characters in horror films are decidedly not Christian and therefore have no protection from the supernatural. At least that is if their behaviour in these horror movies is any evidence. So because of that ghosts and other supernatural monsters make perfect scary movies.

So I know my last complaint about modern horror movies didn't work out to be my last complaint, but I needed to get that out of my system. I think the problem is that we don't have any writers with any imagination for horror these days. Neither do we have any good actors! Any of the ones that people will go see movies of all suck! Halley Berry is a bimbo, Keanu Reeves is an idiot who can't act, Ben Afleck isn't even good enough to be an extra, Jack Black just plays himself in every role, Will Ferrel isn't funny no matter what anyone says, and the same goes for practically all well known actors and actresses these days. All the really good actors are now old or are primarily viewed as attractions for humans of the female persuasion to attend movies! We don't need to write roles for them anymore they can just stand there, wear black, and run around and talk. We throw in some special effects and there you go.

(Dang this is getting long...)

I very much prefer older movies now. I didn't used to be this way, society forced me to become like this. It could not supply me with intelligence and so I had to seek it elsewhere. And so for old horror movie actors:

Bela Lugosi, aka Dracula, aka the creepiest face that ever lived.

Boris Karloff, aka Frankenstein, aka The Mummy
Ugly as all get out but man could he play a good humanoid monster.

Peter Lorre
He starred in many Horror/Terror/Suspence TV shows back in the 50's and 60's invluding 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' and the 'Climax! Mystery' show. He played countless roles in horror, suspence, and thriller movies from the thirties to the sixties. His most notable quality that contributed to his fame was his very unique voice. He also starred with Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca and other famous films as well has a live-action rendition of Edgar Alan Poe's 'The Raven.'

That's just a few of them.

I think I've burned off enough steam, it's back to work now....

Addendum: Since writing this I saw a banner ad for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. i swear if people actually saw a real horror movie, there would be a massacre, in the middle of the theater, cuz people were so scared they thought it was real. Why do people run from the bad guy? Beat the crap out of him!!!!

Maybe I should write a horror movie.....

James' Rant - Christianity and MySpace

2006-11-02T16:55:00.000-08:00

Ok peoples', it's that time again. Time for me to give the world a piece of my mind. Yes, a James' rant, the first for a long time. This one is about some typical "Christian" myspace things:

Item the first:
Please stop it with the "If you don't repost this you're going to hell" bulletins. These are crap and are idiotic and not much else needs to be said about them. I very much doubt that Jesus will judge you by weither or not you didn't repost a myspace bulletin telling people they are "with Satan" rather then by what He said he'd judge you by: weither or not you accept his free gift of salvation. These bulletin posts are not only demeaning and insulting to other people, but also hurt Christianity as a whole. It only expounds the stereotype that all Christians judge others harshly and are "in your face". Also, why waste your time being so adamant about God on myspace when where you should be showing your Christianity is in real life where it can actually affect people such as at school or work? I think many of these people are too scared to express their faith in real life and so they overcompensate for it online where not only do they not get attacked for it but also where no one takes them seriously. Honestly if you are going to be posting any Christian bulletins it should be about "My youth group is having this thing..." or "This is a neat thing God is doing in my life today..." which are not only more positive, but are also more likely to get people interested in Christianity rather then "YOU SHALL BURN IN HELL IF YOU DON'T REPOST!!!"

Item the Second:
If you are going to be a Christian on myspace, BE ONE. I am tired to death of how many profiles there are that list themselves as Christian or in thier "About me..." say things like "Jesus is my life and my homeboy" or "I live for God!" and then their default image is them flipping off the camera or their background is a blonde bimbo wearing almost nothing or every other word in their blogs or bulletins is "f-ck". Can we all stop pretending now? If you are going to say you are a Christian, and you truely mean it, then act like one. I'm not saying that you have to give up the world but you can at least be decent. I would choose an honest athiest over a fake Christian any day.

STAR TREK!!!

2006-11-02T16:53:00.000-08:00

Lol! I havn't watched Star Trek in years! Tonight I watched Ster Trek Voyager: The Year of Hell. I think it was the best episode of that series. While I was watching I remembered how much fun Star Trek was and all of that nostalgic whatnot and also I realized how much soap opera style acting was used in it. I mean look:

Days of Our Lives:

Random Slut Daughter: Daddy! You didn't need to shoot Tom!
Mafia Boss Father: Yes I did! He was making life difficult for me...
Random Slut Daughter: How?! He had nothing to do with your business! There was something else wasn't there?
Mafia Boss Father: YES! Alright! He used to be...your mother.

Star Trek Voyager:

Chakotay: Annorex! You didn't need to destroy that planet!
Annorex: Yes I did! Their presence represented an obstical to my mission...
Chakotay: How?! They were an isolated component in time-space, they possed no threat to the Krenim Emperium! There is something else that eludes you!
Annorex: YES! Alright! No matter what I change in history my wife's life is never restored to the space-time continuim!

It's pretty much the same thing, just more techno-mumbo-jumbo and some random guys with pointy ears running around saying "Live long and prosper." Ahhhh....I used to love this show, still do actually, but for less nerdy reasons I think....

James' Girlfriend Application

2006-11-02T16:51:00.000-08:00

INSTRUCTIONS:
Fill this out and send it to the poster in a message. The application has three stages: the human info (what you are), the person info (who you are), and a few scenario questions (how you react). Answer the questions with the complete and honest truth. Let us begin.

HUMAN INFO:
Name:
Aliases:
Birthdate:
Expected Day of Death:
Age:
Height:
Build: (eg. Thin, skinny, hourglass, balloon-shaped, etc.)
Gender:
Hair color/style:
Eye color:
Skin color:
If any of the last four have changed since birth please indicate what and specify how:

Where were you born?

Any strange genetic diseases?

Mothers heritage:

Fathers heritage:

Do you look like your mom or your dad?

Where do you live?

Do you like it there?

Are you sensitive to extreme climates? Specify.

What is your ideal environment?

Are you still a complete unit? (No parts missing, all ten toes, etc.)

Do you use, or have you ever used, any controlled substances? (e.g. beer, cigs, crack, ect.)

Are you still a virgin?

Why?

PERSONAL INFO:
What are your religious beliefs? Be as specific as possible.

What are your thoughts on feminism?

In a political race for Governor of California who would you vote for? McClintock, Swartzkov (Arnold), or Phil Angelides? Why?

What is your favorite and least favorite fast food chain?

Favorite movie?

Favorite funny movie?

Are racial jokes considered okay?

List your top ten favorite books and a short reason why you liked them:

Do you read webcomics?

Do you believe in love at first sight?

Chevy or Ford?

Mac or PC?

Pirate?

Are you going to college?

Where?

For which major?

Why?

On your average day, how much jewelry do you wear?

How much makeup do you wear if any?

Do you use eye shadow?

Do you work? If so, where?

What kind of music do you listen to?

SCENARIOS:
You are on a date at a very nice restaurant and the boyfriend does not pull the chair out for you to sit. How do you react?
a) A slap to the face promptly followed by the breakup and called daddy for a ride home.
b) You go ahead and sit down and go through with the date but talk it over with him and explain chivalry.
c) Immediate confrontation.
d) Lower your standards and sit down.

You got married.
a) WHAT THE CRAP HAVE I DONE?!?!?!
b) You become superwife and do the cooking, cleaning, etc. but also have a home business, or some other job on the side.
c) You become superwife.
d) You sit the comfy chair eating brownies whilst watching Oprah and various Judge shows all day.

You have kids.
a) WHAT THE CRAP HAVE I DONE?!?!?!?!?!
b) You manage to keep you job going by putting the kids in daycare.
c) You become superwife and supermom.
d) You sit in the comfy chair eating brownies whilst watching Oprah and various Judge shows all day.

You come home from shopping to discover that your husband and your only son went shopping as well, for cans of whipped cream (it wasnt Halloween so there was no silly string), and are running around the house spraying and attacking each other with it, making a massive mess.
a) WHAT THE CRAP ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!?
b) You grab the can you bought out of the grocery bag and join in.
c) You join in and force the men to clean up afterwards.
d) You join in and clean it up yourself afterwards.

Your husband comes home from a bad day at work and is very tired.
a) You shout at him for reasons no one understands, making his life worse.
b) You tell him theres no dinner tonight just like there hasnt been the last month.
c) You make him some green tea and rub his feet.
d) You advise him to go to bed.

Your son got in a fight at school while defending himself. You are called to get him at the principles office. What is your reaction to the story at the principals office?
a) "Did you win?"
b) You should run away.
c) Youre going to pursue litigation against the other parents.
d) Why werent the teachers around to stop it?

BONUS: There is a special question available only to those who respond to this!

FRUMPAS!!!

2006-11-02T16:48:00.000-08:00

Essie is doing so Sheehy Adventures art for me! (Finally...) and here are the Frumpa concepts!!!

Dude! Is it not super cool?!?!

Pilgrim's...Quest?

2006-11-02T16:47:00.000-08:00

This is a paper I wrote for my Comparative Literature class at UCD this quarter. It's just me giving the UCD liberal arts department a good old fashioned dose of Jesus. They hate it when I do that. They also hate it when the essay is so good they have to give me an A! Actually my TA liked it and that's why I got an A.

Pilgrim's Quest?

The book Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is a Christian allegory about a man's life from learning about Christ to obtaining forgiveness. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is much like a medieval attempt at such an allegory. One of the many possible symbolisms for the Green Knight in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is that the Green Knight is a Christ figure. However, looking deeper into the story it can be seen that not only is the Green Knight a parallel to Jesus Christ but that the entire story is a parallel to the Christian journey.

At the beginning of the book we find Sir Gawain in King Arthur's court. This court is perfect. "The most famous warriors of Christ our King, / And the loveliest ladies in the world, and Arthur / The noblest of rulers, reigning in his court." (Raffel 50, 51-53) There are no evil people, everyone is wholly good and everyone adheres to a set moral code, the code of Chivalry, and deviation from that code is sin. One's rank in King Arthur's court depends entirely upon how well someone can adhere to that code. "Then they washed and sat at that stately table, / The noblest nearest their lord, and his queen" (Raffel 50, 72-73) This setting is much like the setting of the Old Testament in the Bible. In the Old Testament everyone and everything belonged to the Kingdom of God and your rank and importance, or your ability to go to heaven, depended entirely on how well you could adhere to God's strict moral code. Our hero, Sir Gawain, lives in a fantasy world where everyone is able to adhere to that code. All the people in Arthur's court are good and beautiful. "While ladies laughed when kisses were lost / (And whoever won them found it hard to weep)" (Raffel 50, 69-70) The only women shown are pretty and happy, a very unrealistic world.

Then the book continues into the New Testament. One day the Green Knight enters the scene and challenges this reality. When Christ entered the world, He challenged the idea that a person could be perfect and abide by this strict moral code, that a person could 'make it to heaven on their own merits.' "I came to see / If these tales were true. You can surely tell / By this branch here in my hand that I've come / In peace, not seeking, not giving offense" (Raffel 56, 263-266) In the same way that Christ challenged the world of the Pharisees, the Green Knight challenges the reality of King Arthur's court. Another parallel between the Green Knight and Christ is that the Green Knight arrives in King Arthur's court on the same day that, traditionally, Christ came into the world: Christmas. Christ came in peace just as the Green Knight, but then, like Christ, the Green Knight is killed and comes back to life on his own. The Green Knight willingly gives his life and in a way is martyred or crucified.

The parallel between the Green Knight's death and Christ's death can go even deeper when you take notice that the Green Knight was killed by one of his own, another knight, and that it was common belief at the time Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was written that the Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus. Even though we know now that it was the Romans who killed Jesus, the parallel still works taking into context the time at which the book was written. Another parallel comes when the Green Knight tells Sir Gawain that in order to find him all he has to do is look. "Gawain, be ready to ride as you promised; / Hunt me well until you find me" (Raffel 61, 448-449) Jesus says the same thing in the Bible in Mathew 7:7.
Sir Gawain then, some time later, ventures out of the safety of King Arthur's court into the wilderness. Looks for the Green Knight and what he finds is Bertilak's court. This court seems to be more real, or at least more real then King Arthur's court. The people in this court recognize that they are human and that it is impossible to attain such a high standard as the moral code of Chivalry. Their attending of Mass every day suggests this. "They ate their food and heard their mass" (Raffel 92, 1414) They attend Mass more often than Arthur's court because they recognize that they are sinful and need forgiveness. Also, unlike King Arthur's court, Bertilak's court is not afraid to hide imperfection.

"All awful to see, bleared and sour -
But a lady honored here on earth,
By God!
Stumpy and short,
Her buttocks broad:
There was better sport
In the lady she towed."
(Raffel 77, 963-969)

The old woman is an expression of this. It shows that all things, no matter how good or perfect they are, will eventually wither and fade way.

Another possible interpretation of the old ugly woman and the young beautiful woman being together that can relate to Christianity is a Christian theological term "pharisaical externalism." Pharisaical externalism refers to a person outwardly being beautiful, kind, and loving, but inwardly being evil. Essentially, a person puts up a faade that they are righteous when in actuality they are sinful in private. Jesus explained it as that you clean the outside of cup so it shines and is beautiful but you use it to store refuse. This can apply to the Lady Bertilak, who outwardly seems like the perfect woman "Lovelier than Guinevere, in Gawain's eyes." (Raffel 77, 945) but she attempts to tempt Gawain sexually! It is during these tests that Gawain ultimately does sin, but not a sin of lust; rather he commits the sins of greed and cowardice. "Gawain hesitated, his heart / Reached for protection, like a thief for a gem: / He could come to that chapel, and take that stroke, / and with this glorious device walk off / Unharmed." (Raffel 104, 1855-1859) He accepts the gift of the green belt from the Lady Bertilak and does not give it to Bertilak as was the rules in their game. That is how he commits a sin of greed; he also commits a sin of cowardice because he kept the belt to save his life from the axe of the Green Knight.

The green belt is representative of Sir Gawain's sin. It also represents the ultimate sin, the one that gets so many people in trouble in the Bible, relying on something other then God to save you. When the opportunity to use the belt, something that is visible, to save his life rather then God, someone that is invisible, Sir Gawain seems to suddenly forget about his trust in God and his faith. He accepts the green belt in believing in it to save his life rather then God. One could even go so far to say that there was a third sin that Sir Gawain committed, the sin of idolatry. "He also wore the lady's gift, / Well aware of his own best interest." (Raffel 111, 2030-2031) The idea that his faith in the belt replaced his faith in God is shown here when he sets out from Bertilak's castle to finish his quest with the Green Knight. When he left Arthur's castle there was a long explanation of the shield that Sir Gawain carries and it's symbolism of Sir Gawain's devout faith. This shield is not even mentioned and in its place is the belt. He has abandoned his shield, his faith in God, for the belt, a faith in worldly things. There is more Christian symbolism in his original armor when viewed in the light of Ephesians 6:10-17 where the Bible talks about the armor of God and the shield of faith.

Sir Gawain goes out and meets the Green Knight. After the Green Knight spares Sir Gawain's life he reveals that he is Bertilak and that he knows all of what Sir Gawain did. The Green Knight then, like Jesus, frees Sir Gawain of his sins. This story, like the Christian journey in Pilgrim's Progress is a story about growth. Sir Gawain grew from his fantasy world of perfection in Arthur's court, to a realization of the truth, that "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23) In a way this is what the Green Knight tells Sir Gawain. To paraphrase, the Green Knight tells Sir Gawain, "Yes you did sin, but so does everyone else and I forgive you." (Raffel 121, 2366-2395)

This growth process is the major evidence that the Green Knight represents Christ. In Christian tradition there are several colors that are attributed to Christ and each of those colors represents one of His attributes. The color green as it is attributed to Christ represents His ability to cause one to grow, either into a relationship with Him or to grow in ones faith in Him through trials. This is exactly what the Green Knight did for Sir Gawain. The Green Knight caused Sir Gawain to leave his world of judgment in Arthur's court where people are judged according to their good deeds and grow into a world of forgiveness where it is realized that it would be insane to judge people by their deeds because everyone does evil sometime.

With all of this Christian symbolism in the book it would seem easy to suggest that this book, like Pilgrim's Progress, was intended to be an allegory of the Christian journey however there are a few contradictions with this idea in the story. The primary contradiction comes when the wife of the Green Knight is revealed to be Morgana Le Fey. She sends the Green Knight to Arthur's court and she is commonly a villain in the Arthurian legends. Also she tries to tempt Gawain sexually. She is hardly the kind of person who would be expected to be sending Jesus anywhere.

Although it is obvious that the story in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is symbolic of the Christian life and journey it is not a full allegory. It is possible that the author wished this because he didn't want to make a complete allegory and risk upsetting the church in some way, but he wanted to use famous and well known legends to tell a story similar to that which is found in the Bible. It is possible that this book was the first instance of Christian fiction used to help the people understand the Bible better. This story probably was a very useful tool to priests who in order to explain a Biblical story could say, "Well, it's like when Gawain met the Green Knight"

If Ye Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?

2006-11-02T16:33:00.000-08:00

"Here's your receipt and have a nice day," says James emphatically, just as he has done for every costumer who he has had go through his register.

It has been a crazy day today just as it always is. Customers everywhere in his department, all of them demanding attention immediately.

"HEY! I asked for your help ten minutes ago," shouts a burly man in car shop overalls next to the cell phone accessories.

"Sir, Im sorry but I have to help five more people who were here before you, if you just wait a little, I can be right with you," says James calmly, trying to calm the man down before an altercation occurs, which does happen sometimes.

The man mutters many curses in James direction but James ignores and helps the next person. Today, just as on every other day, he is the only one on the back wall in Wal-Mart, meaning he is the only one in Sporting Goods, Electronics, Shoes, Furniture, Toys, and Fabrics. He has two people waiting in Sporting Goods, a lady in toys who wants a price check, about four people in his home department of Electronics, and another angry man shouting at him to come over to furniture.

"Sir, Ill be with you as soon as I can," he replies to the man in furniture.

Worse yet, he has to get to all of them within 30 minutes, because at the end of that thirty minutes he is supposed to take a lunch and Wal-Mart is very strict about people taking their lunches on time. People need to realize that those who help them in stores are just as human as they are and might not be able to help them straight away.

James runs over to the televisions where he has had an elderly lady waiting for fifteen minutes, to help her.

"Good evening maam, what do you need," asked James cheerfully.

"Well, I dont need help with questions or anything like that, I just need someone to carry this television out to my car for me."

"Very good maam, I'll get someone up here right away."

"You can't take it out yourself? You did that for me the last time I was here getting a table."

"Unfortunately, they wont let me do that anymore, I am locked to the back wall, but I will call a stockman up to take the television out for you."

"Alright, thank you," said the elderly lady, ending James' need for further conversation. He ran over to his phone and called for a stockman to come to electronics.

As soon as he put down the phone he looked up to see two people in line at his register wanting to be checked out. James felt like ignoring them and moving on to the other customers who have been waiting for a while, but Wal-Mart policy is that you can not deny any customer service under penalty of being fired and James really didnt want to lose his job. Fortunately all they had were a few CDs and a movie. In his rush James forgot to give the receipt to the first customer, who took off in a huff that she had to wait there for so long, and then the second one came up.

"Is this all that you need?" asked James politely.

"Actually I was wondering if I could get some of the stuff in the cases," said the lady. She was oversized and rolly, not the sort of person to be wearing the low cut hip huggers and pink tube top she had on. James almost cringed at the sight of her. This was what he hated the most, having to help people who just do not care about hygiene in any sort of way, and no, the overpowering perfume did not help the smell.

"Sure," he choked out between gasps for air, "what can I get for you?"

"I want an XBOX, Halo 2, a second controller and one of those portable DVD players over there."

"Ok," said James happy to move away from her. He got all the stuff and ran back, knowing the entire time he had more customers waiting who were getting angrier by the minute. He rang everything up and the lady got out her checkbook and wrote a check. James checked the check, looked at her ID and just when he was about to run it through he saw the number on the bottom that was scratched off.

"Crap," thought James, "this is gonna be a while."

"Ma'am, I just remembered that for a check this large I have to get approval. If you'll just wait a moment I'll get someone up here to approve it."

"Fine, whatever," said the ugly woman impatiently. James called the front and the phone rang, and rang, and rang, and well, you get the picture.

Finally Sergio picked up the phone, "Podium, this is Sergio."

"Hi Serg, I need you up here in electronics. "

"I'll get there as soon as I can, but its crazy up here you may have to wait."

"No Sergio, you dont understand, I 'need' you up here, now. I have a customer who is 'waiting'," said James trying to alert to Sergio that there was something evil at his register.

"I understand, Ill be right there."

"Thank you LORD," thought James.

"It'll just be a few minutes ma'am."

"Whaaat the hell," muttered the ugly lady.

James felt a hard tap against his right arm, his bad arm which compounded with stress seriously ticked him off, he turned to face an even angrier burly man.

"HEY," shouted the very angry burly man, "What gives?"

James almost said, "I dont know, what?" when he realized that these sort of things are not good to say to angry customers who are much larger than you.

"What is it that you need, sir?" said James as he sensed the anger level of his other customers go up a notch.

"Listen, Ive been waiting for one of you jack***es to help me with my phone for twenty minutes now and I'm gonna get some service. Now! I bought this Boost Mobile phone here, but now I come back to buy more minutes and you morons dont have any f***ing cards. Why the f*** do you sell the phones but not the f***ing cards?!"

After James whipped the spit from his face from the mans last rant, then he remembered that the coworkers he doesn't like (who he affectionately refers to as The Others) are in Photo today, and so he tells the simple truth.

"I'm sorry sir but as of last week cell phones are Photo's department. I can't answer that question for you; you'll have to ask them."

For a fleeting moment James could tell the man wanted to fold him in half and stuff him under the counter, but then he decided against it and went over to photo screaming and yelling curses the entire time.

"Hey James," said a familiar voice behind him, it was Sergio, come to save the day, "Whats going on?"

"Well," started James, the sounds of battle coming from the Photo department, "I need you to approve a check."

James handed Sergio the check and ID. Sergio spotted the fake check straight away and said, "I'll handle this."

Sergio looked at his watch, James saw two managers and security personnel running over to Photo.

"Hey its almost been five hours, you better clock out for lunch or youre going to violate!"

Praise God someone noticed!!!

"Alright," said James, relief from your position comes faster from Sergio.

"Yeah, just give me your keys and I'll get someone up here."

"Alright!" said James.

"Yeah, just take care of those two guys in Sporting Goods and you're free to go."

James walked cheerfully towards Sporting Goods when he saw out of the corner of his eye the same elderly woman standing next to the television she wanted. No one has yet to help her out. James ran and grabbed a cart, ran back to the elderly woman said, "I'll take the television to the front for you, it'll be waiting and ready to go out to your car at Costumer Service," and ran the television to the front.

He told Costumer Service who wanted it and then ran back to the break room to clock out. Seconds before he violates, James swiped his card and felt freedom wash over him. "I think I'll have a Subway today," thought James. Meanwhile, poor cashier Cristie, another human who is confused for a magic service genie because she wears a blue vest, stood in the middle of electronics extremely overwhelmed with countless people shouting at her.

First Quarter at UCD

2006-11-02T16:30:00.000-08:00

Ok, in short James is about to sum up why he has not written a noew Sheehy Adventure in so long.

Ahem...

When I first started at UCD I thought that it was freaking easy and so I carried on two jobs, school and still tried to write at least one Sheehy Adventure a week. This backfired majorly. School very suddenly got very hard and James was left with his inner self's head bashed in from stress wondering what to do. James took action semi-quikly (not fast enough) and quit the job that took the most time (Wal-Mart). On top of all of that James did not realize fully the difficulty of his classes.

He was taking Calculus 1 from a evil man who wrote hard tests so he could come in on test day and watch the students students sqwerm (He really did too, and at the final as you turned in the tests, he and the TA's would read them (not out loud) in front of the auditorium and laugh and point at the test calling the student stupid and things like that). His name is Andrew Waldron and he is the spawn of Satan's crap.

James was also taking Engineering Graphics Design. This class was being taught by an idiot who obviously couldn't make it in the world of the working engineer and so decided to teach. He grades homework and tests incorrectly and his answers to sample problems on his website are incorrect. He is also incoherent and the text is dumb. His name is Kazuo Yamazaki and he doesn't know the materials for his class from his own face.

Another class of James' was Computer Programming Engineering Problem Solving. This class was being taught by another idiot, except this one had an accent so thick that he may as well be speaking chinese. If he did then at least the chinese kids in the class would have understood him and they could have translated for us. This class also required 20 hours of homework per week. Nuff said.

James' only good class, amazingly enough, was his writting class. Scott Herring is quite posibly the greatest writing professor (even though he does not hold the title of professor I think he should) that I have ever seen of heard of. During midterms week he had us watch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (a funny movie) instead of take a test because he felt that we had enough work with it being midterms already (and he was right) and freshmen have a tendancy to stress out easily.

So all things considered my first quarter at UCD sucked, and was stress beyond anything and on top of that it seemed impossible that I could pass my classes. I was fully prepared to change my major when I recieved my final grades for my classes and found that I had passed all of them. I had a C in math a C in programming a B in graphics and an A in writing and so James can now move on with his life and never have to deal with those teachers again and get back to the Sheehy Adventures and his book that he will attempt to finish and get published within the next 2 years.

James fell off the edge of the world...

2006-11-02T16:28:00.001-08:00

...And discovered that for all intents and purposes the world is indeed flat.

As I can see many of you have noticed, I have not talked to many people for a verylong time. Life is getting more and more stressful as for the first time in my life I am doing poorly in the majority of my classes. However, once this quarter is survived the next should be easy and hopefully people will be hearing from me a lot more often. Once a long time ago, I shut my self in from the outside world, after I recovered, I decided to never do that again.

By not making time for friends by having two jobs, and taking really hard classes I was close to going back to the way I was. I have quit working at walmart so that life will be less stressful and hopefully you all will be seeing a lot more of me and be reading more Sheehy Adventures. I will also publish a new shedule as I did with my old one so you can all see what I mean. And always remeber, now matter how hard life gets, there is no pit that is deeper then the love of Jesus.

Math Help

2006-11-02T16:28:00.000-08:00

Greetings and salutaions my good friends, as you all know the math department at WCHS is floundering without our illustrious master of science, but fear no longer. For behold! He has sent me math help that I am to share with you others. His alma mater, Virgina Tech has a website with tutorials and videos of professor's slides with them talking in the background. THE ENTIRE CALCULUS COURSE FROM VT IS ON THERE!!!! You can go to it by clicking here.

Also here is some Pre-Calculus help, sorta, it's college Pre-Calculus but it should help a little bit. And every bit counts.

Sincerely, your overwhelmed friend,

James

Freshman Year "Stresses"

2006-11-02T16:21:00.000-08:00

Ok, I know that I probably should have posted a Sheehy Adventures by now but the truth is that life is getting crazy for me again. I'll do what I can between School (Engineering 5, Mech Design 4, Calc 1, and Analytical Writing 1), working at the Physics lab at the UC, working at Wal-Mart, homework, and just trying to have a life in general. I do promise the introduction of a few new characters (three of them to be precise) to the Sheehy Adventures in the coming episodes when they come out.

Weekly Mold Update (7/11/2005)

2006-11-02T16:18:00.000-08:00

Weekly Mold Update (7/11/2005)

We approach the end of the ordeal.

At long last I have a room. It is finsihed, except for a door, vent, and bed. But I have a room. I must now go and move some more of my things in. Here are some pictures of my progress so far. When I am fully done, I must have a party so that you all can see my wicked awesome room in person.

My desk area. I have my Einstien "Imagination is mre important then knowledge" poster, my ten commandments poster, and my I Told You So printing. That's a painting done of Columbus's ships sailing over the edge of the world. Also if you look on the back wall you see two of my favorite posters, the NitWits and Taming of the Shrew production posters. And on the desk is my new lappy!!!

My "sleeping" area. This patch of carpet is where I spread out my cot and go to sleep. You can see there my cot and blankets all folded up. That single shelf holds some of the books I like read and on top of that shelf are the fall formal picture of Jamie and me, the fall formal picture of the Sinister Six (Will, Becky, Katie, Justin, Jamie, and Myself), and a picture from Mt. Hermon of the Fab Five (Will, Becky, Katie, Jamie, Myself). Above all that on the wall is the class of 2005 Mt. Hermon picture.

Ah, my precious books, how did I live without you for four months?

My closet space. I put a few posters in there that couldn't fit elsewhere. Also in the corner can be seen my wizards staff that I made and my huge umbrella.

My compy. Back where she should be Elbereth is back and running, although not as good as she could be, it still needs work after having replaced most everything inside it. On top of the moniter is an old robot toy that walks a few steps stops and these massive guns pop out the front and it starts blasting away at everything. I like to call it my ph34rbot (probably only Jason will get that).

These three posters dominate my walls the most and are just above my computer desk. The first is a Doc Ock poster from S2, the second is a poster from Animorphs (one of the greatest young adult series ever written, and I will someday write a TV show and movies for it.), and the last is a wicked cool LOTR poster of the books, not the movies, from the 60's.

Lastly, this is front view of my sleeping area where you can get a better look at my WCHS shrine. On the top of the shelf is the pic of Jamie and me, then there's my picture box (basically a pictoral representation of my life in a box), then is the picture of the Fab Five, then the Fall Formal pic of the Sinister Six (the Fab Five plus Justin), above all of that is the Mt. Hermon pic of the class of 2005 (we rock and you know it!!!), and lastly, but not leastly, above all that is my NHS membership certificate with Mr. Jordan's signature on it. I'll be framing my diploma sometime soon and that'll go above the NHS certificate.

Thank you for reading and looking, I'll be posting more as more comes in.

Weekly Mold Update (6/25/2005

2006-11-02T16:15:00.000-08:00

Weekly Mold Update and other things (No not shoes and ships and sealing wax, do I look like a cabbage or a king?)(6/25/2005)

Ok, I now have four walls and a ceiling. This is wicked awesome. What am I saying, IT's FREAKING AMAZING!!!!! I'm into what, my fourth month without a place to sleep or put my worldly possessions in? Now I am about a week away from roomdom I am stressing out even more. As the end approches my cynicism gets worse. Please pray for this. Tomorrow I have to skip hiking with Will, Becky, Jamie and Katie in order to paint the room. Major bummer. But I have to so that I can have my room back so I'm fine with that. Carpet and bathrooms do not arrive until later this week.

Now, in the realm of vehicular transportation. My Thunderbird, bless it's cam, has been hit in a parking lot twice this last week. I come back from the store or movie to find a dent and scrap going the length of the car from there. Worse yet a part for the alignment of the car is broken and needs to be replaced and it will not be drivable until at least Tuesday. There was an adventure about that which took all day to occur and would take a similar amount of time to explain so I will not go into detail unless someone calls and asks (I am not typing that much.). So please pray for my car and its functionality.