I admit it: I'm addicted.

In case any of you were wondering what I have been up to the past couple of days and not posting, it's simple: I'm watching 24. This is one of the most addicting TV series I have ever watched. Yes, I love my comedies but I don't watch them like I watch this series. 24 is like a roller coaster: you want to ride it over and over and over again.

I need to get season 2.

More on Ukraine

If you want to know about the Ukraine elections, this is where you need to go.

Good News For the Terrible Swede!

I love irony.

speaking of irony, I woke up before the crack of dawn yesterday (long before it). At 2 AM, my father and I were up and went to Best Buy to buy a new computer and monitor for under $400. If you could live with a CRT, it was under $200. I am now typing this on his new flat screen. What this means is the old computer is now gone, along with all the improvements I was going to make with this blog. My html edits are sitting in a word file somewhere. Thus, the major shakeup is postponed until I can get the old computer back up and running. I didn't save the file to anything and that wasn't smart on my part. Not smart at all.

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving as we now prepare for Christmas as Advent begins.

You Are the Stuffing

You're complicated and complex, yet all your pieces fit together. People miss you if you're gone - but they're not sure why.

What Part of Thanksgiving Are You?

Take the quiz, if you're not busy hanging out with your family.

There is a word to describe this: wrong. All wrong.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone, and eat real turkey. Please.

Why do I love Thanksgiving? Football. There is pro football on Thursday, followed by college football on Thursday night. There is college football on all day Friday. There is college football all day Saturday. There is more pro football on Sunday and, to top it off, there is still Monday Night Football.

Happy Thanksgiving all, and watch some football.

Just for the sake of everyone, I want you to know that there is going to be a major shakeup on this blog this next weekend. What will happen? That is for me to know and for you to be surprised at. What I can tell you, however, is that the links section will get shuffled. Many who have lived on my good will might be unplesantly surprised. I'm breaking up the WORLDMAG blogs up. I'm going to name or leave a new or old Blog of the week. I'm going to rename all the links packages and cram some links back together than I never should have split up. Basically, sometime this weekend, the blog you have come to know and love will morph into something different. I've wanted to do this for a while and, because of the Thanksgiving holiday, I'll have the time.

BTW, you can ask questions in the comments. Just don't be surprised if I don't give you straight answer.

If you ever get the chance to party with a bunch of Hispanics, do. Last Thursday I had the chance to do just that, taking the night off from ESL to eat and dance to our hearts content. Now that Tuesday night has come, I didn’t realize how much I really miss my students. Jesus and his s-bombs, Alicia and her English which is better than she thinks it is, Saul and his English that’s better than he thinks it is. I really enjoyed volunteering my time to do this and I’ve met many good people who I probably wouldn’t have given a second thought to if I just passed by them. I told all of my students to keep using their English regularly, no matter what state it is in. I’ll keep on using my broken español because it is broken very badly. I shall see them all in January when we shall plumb the depths of Dr. Seuss and see what we need to work on.

The party was also a baby shower for one of the former students. She now has enough diapers to last her at least a month. What can I say? That’s all I could think of to buy.

I had written one of my better posts last night, I thought, and the [expletive removed] computer, software, internet, etc, wouldn't let me post it. I should know better to write my stuff out in Word before posting it, but I didn't. Poo on me.

I have a couple of posts in mind for this next week, in a vain attempt to make up for all the stuff I didn't post.

I've gone to quite a few retail stores in my area and I have found the the whole "Christmas after Halloween" phenomenon has disapated somewhat. In some stores, it is tough to find any Christmas decorations at all.

I write this enormous rant against Premillennialism and the internet went kaplut right before I tried to post it.

The basic gist: premillennialism isn't Christologically sound and it isn't even consistent. How the hell does someone who believes in the right of a believer to choose Christ come to the conclusion that all Israel will be saved without embracing predestination? How come you never hear a premillennialist discuss realized eschatology? How come premillennialism, with its simplistic hemanutic, ends up with one of the most complicated eschatologies out there?

The computer now has Winblows XP rather than Winblows 98. To all of those who gave me advice as to a new OS to install, I say, "When did I ask for that?" Really, I could have cared less. All you did was annoy me. How come my readers refuse to give me advice when I actually ask for it and decide to give me advice when I don't ask for it? Why?

My sister is doing reletavely well. She cannot put any weight on her knee fir six weeks (aka next year) and she cannot out her full weight on it until the middle of Feburary. In essence, they didn't know what was wrong with my sister's knee and it turned out to be the worst-case scenario. With pain pills and rest, however, she should have a full recovery.

Sorry about the lack of posting the past two days. No computer plus no time equals little to no blogging. Anyway, I ask you all say a prayer for my sister who is having knee surgery today.

In case you are wondering, "When will Daniel take off that stupid college football poll?" it shall come down once 50 people vote in it. My next poll question shall involve I don't know what.

I need to get back to work. Later dudes.

I went to a well yesterday. We were perforating the casing on an oil well. Good well. I now have a hazardous substabce in a little sample container. This oil is green, light, gassy oil. I can't tell you exactly where this was because the well is confidential. I can't even tell my family where the well is because I have to keep some things secret.

For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them Ablaze (TM), says the LORD of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.--Malachi 6:1 (ESV, slightly revised)

I found this reading this past Sunday to be quite ironic considering the state of this buerocracy we mistake for a synod. However, this leads me right into another point: interpreting scripture in light of recent events, which is exactly what I did above. Premillennial Dispensationalism often uses this ridiculous hermenutic to interpret scripture as unfolding before our eyes rather than looking at scripture Christologically.

Rob and Devona won.

Posting will be light until I can get my brother to help me reformat the hard drive and reload winblows.

The new (and promised) quiz is up.

My computer went kaput today. It doesn't recognize the internet, if you can get it to boot up.

The vote was close, but Love and Blunder has pulled into a comfortable lead.

I've lost 10.5 pounds of fat this past month. I've only lost 8 pounds, however, which means I'm starting to bulk up. Hell Yeah!

I'm sore, but life is good.

Will I cheat and vote for myself every day? I won't, but is that really cheating?


No, it's not cheating because I allow everyone to vote once every day.

Do the voters have to be human?

If they can use a mouse well enough to vote, who says they have to be human. I might let my cat vote.

And how long are the polls open?

The poll shall be open until this Sunday evening (when I get to change the question to "who do you think will play in the Orange Bowl?")

And one more thing...how am I supposed to compete with a baby as cute as Olivia ?

Being that it is 20-18-2, I think you are competing.

Update: The current voting is 17-11-0 with Love and Blunder ahead of Intolerant Elle who is ahead of St. Stephen who will probably get promoted once he posts a picture of his new child which isn't here yet. Yassar Arafat is dead and it is Veteran's day. Read this.

Remember, you can vote once every day. Hell, I know the weaknesses of these polls and, if I really wanted to (I don't), I could swing this election really easily.

Will Love and Blunder win out? Will the WELS crowd come out in force or will the LCMS' numbers just be too much? Will the whole state of Alaska vote? Will a Patriarch find his way to this site and give Karl's blog one lousy vote?