Tuesdays with Muerte

Chen admittedly does only 6 things in life: Eat Sleep Engineering Talks with his wife Ping Pong Occasionally, badminton You'd think that would make it easy to buy him a birthday present, but it's not. Fortunately, Stef and I were at the mall the other day and we came across a backyard badminton set for only $26. All the roommates chipped in and bought it for him and we are going to set it up for him around the apartment complex here and then make him a traditional Chinese dinner. P.S. Chen and I finally played ping pong yesterday after more than a week of him "needing to concentrate on his engineering equations." (I didn't take him seriously for the first little while, but then I saw that he truly didn't take ANY breaks; not even for a 1/2 hour game of ping pong. We were both a little rusty yesterday, but after a little warmup we looked a lot like the players below. (I'm the German in the back, Chen is the one with the crazy saves in...

I thought I'd put a little twist on this update by sharing with you a selection of dreams from two of my roommates, Dan and Chen: Dan's Dream: So, here is a summary of my dream from last night, courtesy of the Dark Knight. I was the Dark Knight, or at least looking back that's what it amounts to. The Joker was after my family, I had to stop him, and it was intense. I barely got my sister out of her elementary school before he blew it up. The Joker then stabbed my bro bad, but somehow my bro was able to escape barely alive. I went on the hunt, desperate to find him. In a large, deserted warehouse I ran into the Joker's henchmen and gunned them down in a firefight (using the skills I acquired last week while picking off water bottles with my roommate's Airsoft gun). Then I found him. He had my brother in a choke hold, holding a knife to his neck. In a surge of anger I flung myself at the Joker, knocking him away from my brother, landing on top of him, and pumm...

ותאמר רות אל תפגעי בי לעזבך לשוב מאחריך כי אל אשר תלכי אלך ובאשר תליני אלין עמך עמי ואלהיך אלהי׃ Y Rut respondió: No me ruegues que te deje, y que me aparte de ti: porque donde quiera que tú fueres, iré yo; y donde quiera que vivieres, viviré. Tu pueblo será mi pueblo, y tu Dios mi Dios. And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee for whither thou goest, I will go and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. DREAM Last night I dreamt that my roommates Dan and Chen had become "Siamese Twins". They had taken same oath that Ruth made with Naomi in the OT. However, Chen must have misinterpreted the verse because he took it quite literally: Anywhere Dan went, he went. Where Dan sat down, Chen sat on his lap. After observing this for some time myself, I became jealous of their relationship. Since Nolan left for California for his comic book festival, "Comicon", my options wer...

Finally, after MONTHS of waiting, I received my $651 tax rebate in the mail today! Hurray for groceries! Oh, the world will sing of an English king a thousand years from now And not because he passed some laws or had that lofty brow While bonny good King Richard leads the great crusade he's on We'll all have to slave away for that good-for-nothin' John Incredible as he is inept Whenever the history books are kept They'll call him the phony king of England A pox on that phony king of England [ Friar Tuck Laughing ] [ All Laughing ] He sits alone on the giant throne pretendin' he's the king A little tyke who's rather like a puppet on a string And he throws an angry tantrum if he cannot have his way And then he calls for Mom while he's suckin' his thumb. You see, he doesn't wanna play. Too late to be known as John the First He's sure to be known as John the Worst Apox on that phony king of England Lay that country on m...

After all is said and done, I'm glad that I took the EMT course. It was a dream of mine to become an EMT and now I am! The practical test was last Saturday morning. It was very easy: Part 1 Check in and wait for 2 hours in a central room Part 2 Demonstrate the skill of administering nitroglycerin in under 4 minutes. Part 3 Assess and treat a trauma victim in under 9 minutes. That's all there is to it! I now know what to do in all of the situations below. Please let me know what your TOP 3 WORST INJURY/ILLNES PICTURES are! (EDITED FOR GORE) As for becoming a firefighter--I've decided that being a fireman is not my style. I respect the profession very much and I think that I would do it very well, however, I'm not like the rest of the firefighters I've met. I'm searching for a career where I feel like my co-workers and I are "the same kind of people". ---------------- Listening to: Oceanlab - 12 - Above and Beyond - On The Beach