Bored

Blah blah blah, I just edited this post because looking back on it almost 3 years later, I was just a big whiner back then!

e2 ministries

This is just an update, although most of you reading this know what's going on because you read undercoverpunk's site all the time. Anyways, we have business cards now, which is freaking awesome, and the response we're getting from the bands is great, God is blessing. Orfyn is in as of last night, we talked with them after their awesome show, it was a pleasure headbanging to their music. Also, forums are up on the site, check it out. We're working on a "what's new" feature for the home page, that will be coming soon.

Achieving Inner Nerdom

So I'm sitting around today trying to think of something to do so I can postpone my homework, and I remembered that I have a tv tuner PCI card for my pc that I never set up. So after finding a few drivers online and digging the 'ole rabbit ears from under the bed, I hooked it all up. Watching tv on my computer is great! I can now keep up with all the Espanol channels while waiting for crappy dialup to load pages. It's like I'm accomplishing so much more, umm, more nothing.... Let's face it, it's a great new way to accomplish a lot more of the nothing that I do on my computer.

Another Example of Government having too much POWER

Check this out, they want to try and nullify the previous agreement, FOUR years later!!! Plus, mayor Shaw is trying to turn it into a civil rights issue, I'm sorry Mayor, we have the right to operate exclusive social clubs, it may not be very nice, but to infringe on their rights is just as wrong as excluding people on the basis of race. The coverage below states that the lawsuit is not about race, but the illegal sale of land, but Shaw is never quoted as saying it's currently not about race.



This can be found here (this is just more coverage of the same story)
"In December, in a five-page opinion, the Illinois Appellate Court upheld aCook County Circuit Court judge's decision to dismiss a suit brought byDolton against Piscateers Inc.The Piscateers have operated the lake for the past 56 years, but do not haveany blacks among their 150 members, although officials have said the clubhas some Hispanics.The club was founded when Dolton was predominantly white. Membership in theclub is strictly regulated and usually passed down from family member tofamily member.The man-made lake, which was dug in the 1920s for clay to make bricks andlater filled with rainwater, was stocked with fish and maintained by theclub. The Piscateers leased the land in 15-year increments until it was soldto them by Dolton in 1994 for $160,000.Soon after he took office in 1997, Shaw vowed to get the lake back so itcould be used by all Dolton residents and the village filed suit in June1998.The lawsuit argued the sale of the lake to the club was invalid, becausethere were only four "yes" votes by the village board instead of therequired six.In December 1998, Cook County Circuit Court Judge Dorothy Kirie Kinnairddismissed the suit, stating the village took too long to nullify the sale.The appellate court agreed with Kinnaird and found in the four-year interimbetween the sale and Dolton's bid to regain the property that the Piscateershad spent "significant amounts of money" maintaining the property.The appellate court stated that the club paid $160,000 for the property,$25,000 in attorney's fees, another $26,000 in interest on its mortgage and$28,000 in taxes.The village offered no explanation, except for its change in leadership, tospell out why it took so long to act against the sale, according to theappellate court opinion.The court did not address any of the underlying racial issues surroundingthe case, but those matters were never raised in the original suit, which iswhy the case cannot go before the U.S. Supreme Court.Shaw, who is black, has said in the past that race was not behind thelawsuit, rather it was the illegal sale of land.He also has criticized the Piscateers for denying membership to blacks in avillage with a black majority population.--" (emphasis mine)

Jeremy Camp

Yeah that's right, you read it, I met Jeremy Camp. He and his goons walked into starbucks last week, and I said, "What's up JC?" then he came over, we did our secret cool people handshake and he ordered his grande breve toffee nut latte. Okay, so that's not exactly how it went down, but close. Jeremy Camp did visit my starbucks, but I didn't recognize him. It was pretty much a coincidence that I even found out who he was. I did tell him I really didn't like his music all that much, and he was really cool about it, he was a really nice guy. So nice in fact, that I'd probably start listening to his music and become an incredibly dedicated stalker-like fan, that is of course, if JC suddenly started wearing all black and started playing hardcore metal.

Caloric Overload the Anti-resolution

I'm back after my holiday sabbatical...

Since we're against everything and all about not doing things whenever we're forcibly encouraged to... Josh and I decided this year to make an anti-resolution. Last week we embarked on an epic journey to the depths of the Midwest and embraced the Monster Thickburger(1,420 calories, 107 grams of fat). The burger was good, we weren't disappointed by the taste, although we were let down by the size. We read weeks of hype and had developed high expectations over the time leading up to our monster experience. I was still hungry! After nearly 3/4 of my daily recommended caloric intake in one burger, I was ready to down another 700 calories at least! Maybe it's me and my gluttonous american metabolism, maybe my years of overindulgence were coming back to send me a solemn message of my poor eating habits, or maybe I should have got the fries....