Archive for September, 2006

It’s Tuesday

Monday, September 25th, 2006

Hello there everyone. I am seriously going to try to update this more. I know this last time was like two weeks… oops. Well Church on the Rock wasn’t as awesome as I thought. Their worship wasn’t really my style… it was an alright volume (could have been a bit louder) but a lot of repeating the same lines over and over. And it as a lot of songs I have never heard before. It almost reminded me of something you would see on TBN. I think I am going to stick with LifePoint for the next few weeks and check out Church on the Rock again in a month or so just to be sure it wasn’t just a one time thing. Also, the Pastor didn’t seem to be using the Bible which was a bit disturbing. He read out of it for the offering, and had it open during the message but never used it. I saw two verses on the screen… one for the series title slide and one at the end of the sermon that he never read off. So we shall have to see what the future holds.

Today was a pretty good day. Accounting was canceled again. Also, Biblical Literature was canceled due to the prof not being available. So I only had Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science today. I didn’t really have to go to Computer Science but I went for like 10 minutes. It was just a lab day to work on a project that was due. I got mine done a few hours ago. Nothing too fancy… just a magazine subscription calculator.

Well I think I am going to go to bed… I can get like 7 hours tonight! Woot!

Peace y’all.

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Mornin Y’all

Sunday, September 24th, 2006

Well last week I went to breakfast at 9:10 AM to find out that the cafeteria had closed at 9. So this week I was planning on going at 8:50 or so, right before they close the doors. Well somehow last night I got the idea that it was actually 8 AM when they locked the doors. So I got up at 7:30 AM to make it to the cafeteria at 7:50 or so… well on the way there I realized that I was an hour early… DANGIT… I could have slept another hour… ohh well.

Well lots has been going on the past few weeks… nothing too exciting though. I went to Church on the Rock last Saturday for a Sean Feucht concert and it was incredible. The most amazing time of worship I have ever had. They played for about 2 hours and only did about 6 or 7 songs. The songs were at least 10 minutes long. Being down in the south can make the churches a bit more shall we say ‘alive’. During the concert the band would play the main part of the song then just keep the music going along… and people would be praying, singing, listening, dancing, etc. It was so amazing. I don’t even think I can put to words what happened there. There was this Black lady across the isle from me and she had the most incredible voice I have ever heard. For the last two songs, everyone grouped up at the front of the stage. There were even people moshing. I wanted to talk to that black lady after the concert but she was gone. So all in all… if there is ever a Sean Feucht concert in town… GO!

Also, part of what made the concert so good was the amazing sound system that Church on the rock had. There were at least 6 or 7 powered Mackie speakers up in the ceiling. Their lights were amazing as well. They had 4 small color projectors mounted on the walls of the stage. Also, there were 4 larger projectors aimed at screens behind the stage. Then they had at least 4 color projector lights with movable mirrors on them for the rotating image effects. One of the coolest ones they had made it look like the back screens were water. Real cool.

Well I really like Church on the Rock. Going again today to check them out again. I am really interested to see what their real worship band sounds like. Last week they had Sean Feucht and band playing for their Sunday services… so I got to hear him twice. Church on the Rock seems like a more mature church as they have been around a lot longer. Their Pastor is outstanding, right now he is talking about different generations of people… like baby boomers, millennials, etc. If the worship is awesome then this could very well be my new church home. While LifePoint has been awesome, I really like the idea of coming to an older church.

Had three exams this week… Discrete Mathematics, Principles of Management and Computer Science. I got a 40% in Math (average was 70%) and a 65% in Management (average was 64.48%). Still no grade posting for CS. I have two exams this week… Accounting Principles I and Biblical Literature. Accounting should be super easy… as for Bib Lit… probably not going to be so hot. I hate reading the bible in the context we do… like 10-20 pages at a time. I can’t understand that much let alone remember it. The in class quizzes we have had so far are on things like ‘What was the city Ruth came from’ or ‘What were the three cities Joshua’s armies burnt down [can't remember if he was the right person for this question]‘. That is just crazy… I can’t remember stuff like that.

FYI to all of you that get tons of credit card offers: look for a phone number on the back on the offer for an opt-out request. I called it and got a form in the mail to PERMANENTLY remove my name from the list the reporting agencies give out. Definitely worth the time [probably spent 10 minutes on the phone with their stupid computer]!

I got a copy of the new version of Windows Vista. It is still in the testing stage… at Release Candidate 1 right now. Dr. Varnell, my computer science professor and advisor downloaded it for me. The school has stupid bandwidth restrictions. We get 3 GB of upload / download a month. That is so stupid… I could use that much in a day. I am joining up with some other guys that are trying to get it either removed or increased. The school said they did a lot of research on it and that all schools are doing it… such a lie. One of the other guys in my dorm got info from around 100 other universities and they either had no limit or had it set to like 3 GB a WEEK not month. One school had a 40 GB a day limit. So ridiculous.

Well I think that is enough for now. I can’t decide if I want to get some more sleep or find some work to do…

Peace Y’all.

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Discrete mathematics will be my death….

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

Well two weeks in now. I need to start posting more but I just keep waiting until too late… my keyboard is a bit noisy and I don’t want to wake up the roomie.

Well as the title says… I hate discrete mathematics. Whoever mixed up numbers and letters was just plain stupid. Whoever mixed up numbers, letters and backwards/upside-down letters was beyond drunk. It is very confusing… especially doing proofs. The past few days in proofs we have been doing stuff like proving if a number is even or odd… there is no proof!!! it just is!!!!! Well we had an advising chapel today so afterwards I went up to my advisor, Dr Varnell and told him of my woes. He is going to hook me up with a tutor to try and help me through this. I think that if I had a different teacher it would be different but the only one is Dr. Fast. He is totally a math geek, which isn’t necessarily bad but he isn’t too good at communicating.

Well nothing really exciting has been going on. I went to LifePoint on Saturday and that was a cool experience. I ended up sleeping in on Sunday though instead of going to another church. This Sunday I will go to Church on the Rock which is about 10 minutes away. I have heard lots of good things about their church so we shall see how it goes.

Had an Accounting quiz today and it went really well. Our professor, Dr. Rowe is awesome, the day before the quiz she told us exactly what to study. So last night I just went through and typed up some notes and I think I only missed one question. It was on which financial statement and where would ‘Payments Received in Advance’ go. I put Current Assets because I was thinking it was an asset… in respect that it was essentially cash. However, it is a Current Liability because the payment has been received so we owe services to someone. It makes sense now that I have heard it that way. I must have just missed that in class.

I am still trying to find time to get pictures posted. I have been too busy procrastinating on homework to get it done. Hopefully soon… sorry.

One thing we do on our floor is share out our iTunes collections so that others can listen. It is a cool way to do things… I have found a few good artists by browsing around. One really cool one is Jim Brickman. A majority of his stuff is piano instrumentals. Good study music for sure… nice and mellow.

Well I think that is all that is important. I need to do some reading, eat lunch then take a power nap so I can stay awake in Biblical Literature.

Peace.
-Frost

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A Week In

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

Well it has been a week since school started… and a week since I last posted. Things are going well. I dropped the Cornerstones class because it wasn’t what I thought it would be… and since I am a transfer student… I didn’t have to take it in the first place. So Tuesdays and Thursdays are wonderful days because I only have a class from 9:30-10:50. The other classes are going good… the only class I see as a problem is going to be Biblical Literature. That class is just painful… reading the Bible isn’t bad but having to read two different books by Zondervan is.

Went to LifePoint again on Sunday. That church is just awesome. To top it all off… their band did the song ‘When I Think About the Lord’ by Shane & Shane (well James Huey wrote it) which just happens to be one of my absolute favorite worship songs. Here are the lyrics…

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when i think about the Lord
how He saved, how He raised me
how He filled me with the Holy Ghost
how He healed me to the uttermost
when i think about the Lord
how he picked me up
turned me around
how He set my feet
on solid ground

it makes me want to shout
hallelujah! thank you, Jesus!
Lord, you’re worthy
of all the glory, and all the honor
and all the praise!
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I am going to start going there at 7PM on Saturdays and then checking out a few others on Sunday mornings. I don’t know if anything can top how LifePoint has been though. They do an awesome job of keeping everything relevant and it is definitely sweet meeting in a warehouse. I talked to Pastor Brian afterwards and told him I was looking at coming there and if I do I want to get plugged in. He said that they had some openings on the tech team and that they would love the help. Another cool thing is my admissions counselor for LU, Carl Arnold, has been going there for quite a while now and is on the tech team. So we shall see what God’s leading on this is.

Nothing else really exciting has been happening. I have just been pretty busy. Today will be lots of homework since I don’t have any more classes today.

Sunday afternoon as I was taking a nap and some of the upperclassmen came in and handed me the first part of our EO [Extended Orientation] / Initiation. We have this green flag that we have to get 19 signatures of our sister floor [ELH3] and 10 random signatures of ladies on campus. Well that night about 10 of us went up to ELH3 and I was able to take care of 18. I also got 9 of the random ones. Now the funny thing about this task is we can be asked to do anything in order to get their signatures. Well for 2 of the ladies up on ELH3, the had us wash their dishes. For another one I went to the Hive [a campus food shop that is open late] and got her a cheeseburger and fries [she paid for it though]. For the last one that night, Jason, Craig and myself waited outside of Dorm 4 for her to come out [she was visiting friends up there]. Well when she came out we walked up to her and asked her for her autograph. She was going to be nice and just sign it but her brother and friends were up on the third floor yelling out the window that she should make us do something. Well she picked me to have to go up into Dorm 4, find her brother and tell him that I was in love with her. It was pretty funny… his response was just ‘great’. That was actually pretty fun.

Then Monday night I still needed one signature from our sister floor, Alisha, the RA. I also needed one more random one. Well I tried calling Alisha but she wasn’t in. So after a few hours of waiting around I just went over to the plaza around midnight, outside the building just hoping she would be out there. Unfortunately she wasn’t, but there was about 10 people just hanging out… and I was able to get my last random signature. She was going to sign it but the guys out there talked her into making me sing twinkle twinkle little star, dancing and shaking my butt. It had to be pretty funny. Good times though.

As I was walking back to our dorm, Alisha just happened to be walking up. We talked for a bit and I told her of what Jenna did the night before. So she said that I should call her dad. So I gave him a ring and this is how it went. “Hello Mr. Jackson. I just met your daughter Alisha 10 minutes ago. My name is Eric Trudeau and I am a freshman at LeTourneau University. I am calling to ask your permission to take your daughter out on a date.” His response was awesome… he said he would even pay for it. That was one cool guy. So I got Alisha’s signature and brought it back to our RA… I was the second one to complete it.

Well I think that I am going to play a game for a bit, eat lunch then hit the books. Peace y’all.

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