Random thoughts...

"Lost" begins its new season on October 4, and "Battlestar Galactica" begins on October 6th. I cannot WAIT for those dates to come!

"The Wire" begins this coming Sunday. It's unfortunate that I can't get my parents to get HBO for 12 weeks, but if I have to spend weekends at my uncle's house so I can watch it...well, I will.

I have to be willing to walk away...and I'm developing that willingness slowly but surely.

I also need a chill pill :) what's the balance between taking yourself too seriously, and taking everything as a joke? And which is worse? (i think taking everything as a joke is worse).

Is there anything new worth watching on TV this season? It's not a lament, it's a genuine question. For some reason, I haven't been really watching any TV since August.

It's easier to curse the opposite sex than it is to wait for the few members of the opposite sex who aren't completely clueless. And that goes for both men AND women.

Those who say you can't be platonic friends with someone you once had feelings for...they're lying. I will admit that the situation and people involved have to be pretty special though...but it happened to me, so anything's possible. Of course, there are situations where it HASN'T happened for me too, hahahahaha.


For Adventists, dating a non-SDA is almost always never worth it in the end. The exceptions only prove the rule. If God wants you to do missionary dating, He will show it to you clearly. Trust me, there are fish in the sea up in this church. Tons of 'em. Just because the ones you know are dysfuctional doesn't mean there aren't other schools of fish out there. Forget them crazy sprats and God will help find your king (or queen) tuna.

ok, that analogy was a bit corny, but so what?

He who swats a mosquito has done a good thing.

If I could pick only10 albums to listen to on a desert island, I would include "Persuaded" by Richard Smallwood, "Jars of Clay" by Jars of Clay, "Superunknown" by Soundgarden, "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy" by Sarah McLaughlan, "Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis, a burned CD of my favourite Phillip Aaberg tunes (or if they hold me to the album rule, i'd pick his "Out of the Frame" album), "One More Remains" by Alter Bridge, "Joe Satriani" by Joe Satriani, something good by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and "Best of Bach".

Then I'd go crazy because I forgot something I'd have wanted even more.

Wikipedia is the greatest thing to hit the internet since Google.

There are some things you can't find on the intenet. Believe me, I've tried.

Steve Irwin was a great man, and the world has lost much for his death. He was no Tim Treadwell (from Grizzly Man)...I'd have to think some more to back up that statement, but I do believe that these guys were different. Steve was exhuberant, Tim was crazy. Steve knew what the animals could do to him, and was a conservationalist. Tim thought he was immortal, and that he was ONE of the animals...he was just nuts. I'd have to ponder it some more.

If your child says they don't want to take piano lessons, find some way for them to keep it up, or make it fun for them. I have yet to meet someone who was sorry they took piano lessons; I have met many who are sorry that they didn't continue.

Country music has no redeemable qualities except to illustrate the lives of people who are more miserable than you.

Praise and Worship music is almost as bad as country, for the most part (but not for the same reason).

The man isn't alive who won't look at some great cleavage when it appears.

In Jamaica, Adventist musicians are taken for granted and under-appreciated. It's not easy to play the piano/organ every weekend, and calling it "The Lord's Work" applies only when you're at your home church. If you ask someone to come from their church to play for your choir or your church, you better be ready to offer some form of assistance. He/she is doing you a favour if it's free, and the worker is worthy of his hire. In the same vein, don't ask someone to play for a wedding and expect it to be free. You're paying everyone else; why should the music be gratis?

Funerals are a different story; but you should still offer or something.

Facebook messed up in their new re-design. There is going to be fallout from that, wait and see.

Adventists, seriously, don't decide to go the non-SDA route. You're depriving some deserving SDA person of a wonderful spouse, and trying to convert a non-SDA for the wrong reason. Now you've gone and made 3 people miserable. Or two, if God decides to carry your intended spouse to another option while you do your own thing...

I nearly went the non-SDA route. Twice seriously, and once semi-seriously.

No, i won't tell what happened, at least not on this site :)

The day Jamaica's leaders put country over party, and the day Jamaicans start taking themselves and each other seriously and start to suck up some deprivations in order for a long-term benefit is the day this country lifts off like a Saturn V rocket.

I am going to KILL this freakin' mosquito in my office!

Rain on a zinc roof is the best sleeping aid ever. And the best aphrodisiac too. No, I don't know the second one from personal experience, but my time is gonna come...

The only reason I would buy an xBox 360 is to play Halo 3, and the only reason I'd get the new PS3 is for the next Grand Theft Auto.

just wanted to reiterate my last blog to credit card people; y'all SUCK.

American food is fattening and gets its flavour from the oil. They need more spices in the mix.

I hate the "game." Why do I have to be fake or do what I don't want to do in order to get what I desire? Why can't I be myself and have someone be attracted to me; why must I "generate" it?

If you're bored, it's your own fault. Find something to do, whether it's productive or not.

"Boomtown" isn't coming back and I have to forgive NBC at some point in time.

Nah, they're still idiots. I may watch that one show though, just because of Aaron Sorkin.

I got the little cabron, hahahahaha!!!

I hope I can make it to GYC this year.

Finally for now, I think that taking piano lessons again is going to be a very good thing in more ways than one. I'm not sure what the other benefits besides the obvious will be, but i feel that they are there. We will see what transpires.