I am proud to be your friend

I had this revelation in the car last night after debate. In my mind, I always see Rainmakers as the number 1 on the "moral" scale of all the clubs in region II. Then there is Clarion, then EPIC then Salt and Light and finally Bremerton. This is really a wrong assumption, but it is what I have in my head. You know what this has done? This has increased my pride level. I am proud to be a Rainmaker. Now there are two kinds of Pride. There is one that is a sin, and one that is not. I have turned my proudness of Rainmakers into a sin. My thinking is that we are so much better, and so far above the other clubs. When really it isn't really true. When I think we are so much better, I am sinning. How does that make me better? I am even worse then the other clubs are. I have let myself look down on others. I am a pharisee. I challenge you to not think of Rainmakers as more "morally sound" because it really isn't true. we  are all servants of the one true and living God, and are doing what he commands of us. Food for thought!

What Kind of car do you want? part II

Another song with a Red Car in it is well "Little Red Rodeo"

The note said, you've had time to think about it
Looks like to me you're feelin' kinda crowded
You're not lookin' for anything permanent here
So my Rodeo's packed and in goodbye gear

So I shot down to the Longhorn Diner
Her sister works there and she'd know where to find her
She said, you didn't hear it from me
All I'll say is mama's got that place out in Monterrey

Oh, how fast can I go, gotta catch that little red Rodeo
She drove off with my heart, I've gotta let her know
I need the girl in that little red Rodeo
Texas plates, candy apple red Rodeo

Two towns back I showed your photograph
And the gas station man just started to laugh
She said I might see you in this bucket of rust
And said good luck boy, just follow that cloud of dust

Oh, how fast can I go, gotta catch that little red Rodeo
She drove off with my heart, I've gotta let her know
I need the girl in that little red Rodeo
Texas plates, candy apple red Rodeo

Maybe I was straddling the fence just like she said
It took her leaving to get it through my head

She's the one and only, it's over, that's it
I'm committed, I'm in love and I'm desperate
She's a good ways gone but I'm closin' the gap
If I have to I'll chase her clear across the map

Oh, how fast can I go, gotta catch that little red Rodeo
She drove off with my heart, I've gotta let her know
I need the girl in that little red Rodeo
Texas plates, candy apple red Rodeo

What Kind of car do you want?

I have noticed that in country songs, Red is a really common car color. Due to songs such as "Red Camaro"
Oh Oh Oh Oh oohhh
I saw a red camaro today
It turned my head around it made me think
About back when my life was a game
And we played it all night long just like
Our favorite song. Summers just around the bend
Summers just around the bend.

Turn up the music loud
Take the T top down
And let the chrome shine
Cruise along the river side
Feel the wind blow
Through your hair through your toes
Got your bare feet hanging out the window
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

I saw a red camaro today
And I did a double take
I thought I saw her face
We were so reckless and young
And it all comes back to me
In storm wash memories
Summers just around the bend
Summers just around the bend

Turn up the music loud
Take the T top down
And let the chrome shine
Cruise along the river side
Feel the wind blow
Through your hair through your toes
Got your bare feet hanging out the window
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

Looking back looking back
Sweet wine and sunshine
Looking back looking back
Man those were some good timmmmes
Oh oh oh oh
Everybody sing
Oh oh oh
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Turn up the music loud
Take the T top down
And let the chrome shine
Cruise along the river side
Feel the wind blow
Through your hair through your toes
Got your bare feet hanging out theWindow

Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Turn up the music louuuuuuuuud Turn up the music loudddddddddd

Judgement is coming!

Ok so as most of you know I am doing debate. Now one term that we use often times in debate is that the judge is always right. Now tonight I figured out what that meant. What it means is that whether or not the judge was wrong based on the facts, you as the speaker did not clearly convey that. So if you lose a round because a judge was "wrong", the judge really wasn't wrong. You just weren't an effective communicator.

algebra II

Did you know that in my spare time I will post random stuff like this post just for the fact of seeing if I can make the longest sentence without ever stopping to see if there is Pizza and fries with bacon and that gooey cheese sauce called American cheese that comes from real cheese mixed with milk that comes from goats who are feeding their young kids who are exactly like me, just little kids with a lot of kicking feet that are always up and down like the bouncy ball in my office that never stops but just keeps going like that weird flubber stuffs on flubber, that awesome movie with Robin Williams in it, who plays a really funny character as he always does on his movies such as night at the museum when he plays the amazing wax figure of Teddy Roosevelt , twenty-sixth president of the United States....

Shall I continue?

Perception

This last weekend was what we NCFCA'ers call a qualifying tournament. What that is is unimportant. Anyways I was at a tournament competing in speech and debate. Now there is a lot God can do. In this tournament He messed with me so much it got kind of annoying. Now in a tournament, if we have an odd number of teams competing, they will give what is called a "Bye" which is an automatic win, to the lowest team in the tournament.

God really messed me up when me and my debate partner, Jarod, got a bye round 4. We were the absolute worst team up to that point. We were the losers. Now my first thought was that I was better than that. I was better than that. Notice how I italicized the I. I thought that I was good enough. The truth of the matter is that God was good enough to allow me to lose.

In my life, there are few things that I actually lose. I don't lose. Never. Yet God is one of those kinds of people that like to mess with the perceptions, and the goals of us here on earth. When I got that bye, I was so distraught. This will probably be my least favorite tournament due to that fact that my spirit was broken for the majority of the tournament. I was broken. This was a learning experience. You know how you pick up personality problems as you go through life? Well, I have always had a problem with pride, ALWAYS!

Now last year I didn't have as much of a problem when I lost. It was my first year I wasn't expected to do well. Now I am varsity. Now I know what I am doing. This leads to me thinking I should win every round. Last year if I lost, I would just shrug and look at the rounds I won. Now I am so focused on the rounds I lost. WHY ME!

Why did God alow me to lose. It was to show me that my pride was in the way. He changed my perception of myself. He changed my perception of this year. Don't expect to win, but rejoice when you do!

CHEERS!

OTQ

I love being the only rainmaker who isn't nervous.

AND A hAPPY NEW YEaR

I miss 2011. It went by way to fast.