jklasji12!!!!!

jklasji12!!!!!

if you haven't been to my summer blog yet... shame on you.

but no, really, it's okay... it's on the sidebar to the <--LEFT

i'm having a good summer. this blog won't be updated much, as that one is the primary blog for this summer. we're having our sabbath now... which i was originally going to use for posting on the summer blog, but you know... i'd rather not do camp stuff right now. so i don't think i'm going to.

this was me

this was me

aaaand, this is what i looked like a year ago... after almost a full summer of camp. i love this picture cuz i was laughing too hard to be taken seriously. check it. fo' real.

i don't think many people have seen this picture... i know adrienne probably hasn't.

let me clear my throat

let me clear my throat

sometimes my mouse is jumpy. it'll hop from one side of the screen to the other, and suddenly all my windows with expose, or shrink to the edges of the screen. sometimes, since i'm using two monitors, it will jump to the other monitor, and i'll have no idea where the mouse went. yes, i know. it's crazy.

i have the other monitor. but i hardly ever use it.

i wonder if it's okay to drink the water in the bathroom. it tastes kinda funny. or maybe it's just me. the bathroom in my house has this great big bowl to drink out of. if you pull the handle, you get fresh new water. sometimes i put shampoo in it and wash my hair. i always pull the handle twice before drinking it after that though. who knows what kind of gross things are in shampoo?

three mac programs jeff and lisa need

three mac programs jeff and lisa need

today was great. i woke up. ate breakfast. took a three hour nap. then started my day when my mom called.

after we went to lunch and got the gps, i went to visit adrienne for a bit, before heading up to jeff and lisa's to meet papa bannon and becca. we all went up to the after school arts gallery/showing... it was pretty awesome. there were performances from all of the arts taught at the afterschool program. i was very impressed by their progress. man, it was awesome, and lots of fun too. afterwards, we went to jeff and lisa's for some key lime pie, u2 concert watching, and track mixing for our demo.

but when i used their macbook to research some potential affordable solar power options... i realized the absence of a few key mac programs.

quicksilver
it's a do-it-all application launcher. actually, it's so much more than that, but it does that, and even more. you push a keyboard combination (very simple, mine is apple+spacebar) and as a window pops up, you start to type an application name, website, whatever, and when you hit enter, it launches said application/website/whatever. you can even use it to resize a whole load of images if you're especially saavy. a mac user must have.

sidenote
it's exactly what it says... a window that is docked on the side of your screen that enables you to take quick notes, and then hide it away. i've got mine set up with universal hotkeys for quick showing and hiding in any situation. you can even drag images or links from websites into it to save them for later. it's quite handy. i use it when preparing for bible studies, or typing up quick prayer requests.

tube tv
open it up and type in a webpage with a video on it that you'd like to have in your itunes, and it automatically converts them for it. it's easy. you barely have to do anything. you can download youtube videos, as well as videos from practically anywhere else as well.

anywho, there are a lot more sweet mac apps out there. but try those three out. they're awesome.

hartford

hartford

i'm leaving for hartford in less than a week to go work in the city with youth. i will be living in a house with some other people, doing ministry with them. as far as specific details go, i'm not really sure what exactly i'm doing there. but i'm excited for it nonetheless.

but to be honest, although misleading, this post really isn't about hartford. it's about something new that i just found out about.

today, my mom took me to lunch, and then to bestbuy to get a gps. i could have used one for quite some time now, as i do have the tendency to get lost... but have been putting it off. but since i didn't have to pay for it... why not? it's a useful device.

i was reading online today about this new thing... kind of a sport/hobby/activity, called geocaching. it's actually pretty awesome. i think i'm going to try it out before leaving for hartford. it could prove to be an interesting thing to do on the uri campus. i wonder if there are any geocachers at uri. anywho... if you ever want to go on an adventure like this when i get back from hartford... let me know. it could be a lot of fun. or none. but adventure nonetheless.