Visiting man spots former Local on Vacation!

...So I'm sitting here in Seattle last night after watching a movie with sis, and I lazily made a comment, "that looked like Bernard Choi" as I saw a news teaser for the upcoming newscast. "what, did you see his name or something?" said my sister Carrie..........."No" "Cause that was Bernard Choi" "WHAT?" I yelled, I know that guy. He used to report in wichita!" Weird. "ya, " I continued. "One night I came home late from work, and Bernard Choi was sitting on my couch". Turns out my roomate helped him work out when he worked for the YMCA. He ended up watching Signs with us, and he admitted he was afraid of dogs.
Crazy, weird world.

Airlines and Sci-Fi.

...So a few months ago my older sister bought me a plane ticket to Seattle. I'm leaving in a few hours to go stay with her and my niece while Matt, my brother in law is on a missions trip to some remote village in Mexico. I just spilled pringle chips all over the kitchen floor. I picked up many of them, and let the dog lick up the rest. I hope there's no saying I don't know about like..."never let your dog eat too many chips". I don't make a habit of giving her people food, but who wants to waste chips!
I'm flying on Southwest, last time i looked on a map, Seattle was in the Northwest!
Star Wars Episode III comes out tonight, well tommorow at midnight. To say i've been let down by the last two is a gargantuan understatement, yet like a moth returning to the flame, I can't imagine myself being able to keep myself away from the theatre too long. Last time I was in Seattle (it's actually Everett about an hour north) Return of the King was out, so I went with the fam to see it there. Good flick, that would have been better had been watched at the Warren Theatre in Wichita with follow self admitted star wars dorks. If you get used to the Warren in Wichita, basically all other movie theatres are a let down. One of my favorite bands is RadioHead, and one of my favorite songs by them is "Let Down". Hmmmm............
Seriously, I'm not a star wars nerd anymore! I seem to be yelling to a brick wall.
Wow, this post is quite distracted. It's incredibly nice out today, I almost wish it was miserably hot, so leaving for a cooler Seattle would seem like a relief. Such is life, I excel at bad timing. Not that this one was within my realm of control. Okay, Happy Star Wars today if your're going. Happy flights to me, and the rest of you, well, go hug a stranger or something.

in view of the stage

starving souls,
wearily bobbing their heads to the music
(in case anyone's watching)
as if it were their duty
and in the collective state on these premise's
they subconciosly collaborate on the next meeting,
something just as meaninful,
something just a fleeting.

Paths of Glory

...I can't help but feel as if I've got a spell of reckless abandon coming on. By reckless abandon, i'm not sure what I mean. But I have this weird sinking feeling often as I pass by crowds of youths, slamming beers together at hip college bars, and co-ed hooking up for the evening, that I missed out on all those wild years, busy trying to attain an impossible, and undefined goal to myself, by "taking the higher road". The highter road is much different than the narrow path I, and others in my akward dispostion in life would argue, but we are probably wrong. I don't regret my college years. They were some good times. I just feel like being a "devoted" Christian since my earlier years, I've missed out on somethings I wished I didn't desire. It's easy to explain it off in a few sentences...."oh, this is just a weird stage of life". "But, you don't know what it's like to be a 26 year old, single white male, living in the basement of his parents house, dissilusioned by my own ideals, that now just seem futile"....I say only in my head in response to questions never asked by my loving, ultra-conservative (only in the world's eyes)family, who put up with my swells of apathy/passion, and migrating plagues of poverty i've put myself in, unwilling to take a job at any place like Walmart, for my aformentioned "ideals", unwritten, only eluded to in secret writings. One good thing about these blogs, is in reading others who are honest, as Itake a poke at every now and then, actually can be encouraging, rather than discouraging.
I was thinking as I had moderatly burnt Red Baron pizza that I'm glad the Bible, which I still cling to from time to time does not contain a phrase in fine print, so many other manuals/policys "Subject to change". I thought of the schedule hanging up at work. Friday has a "?" mark by my name. I'm 99.3% sure they want me to come in....but a "?" is conveniant for the scheduler's, and the payroll checkers. I'm thankful Jesus never said........"If I make some really weird statements later on, sorry, just blindly follow". Or, after say, Paul would ask a question about Jesus, Christ never said........."We'll see.....we may get around to that......"
These are good things. And for the record, I have not seen the war film "paths of Glory" yet. It just sounded like a good subject line. Happy living. I feel better already.....