They caught the guy who was dumping the pipe bombs everywhere. The news media has seemed to make a big deal that his favorite band is Nirvana. I’m not sure why that is significant. It’s just confounding the stereotype that Mr. and Mrs. American have that anyone who listens to Nirvana is obviously a deviant. I listen to Nirvana and I’m not a menace to society.

Why is it so cold? Must be 50 degrees outside. Let’s get these weather terms straight:

• Blackberry Winter – cool weather right around the end of May
• Dogwood Winter – cool weather in April when the dogwoods are blooming
• Indian Summer – warm weather in the middle of October
• Dog Days – hot weather during the summer
• Idiot Summer – cool song by the Gin Blossoms
• Blackberry Summer – a term I just made up just to confuse you.

Finally got my jeffwhittle.com t-shirt from copyleft.net. Took them over a month to get it to me. And their tracking program still says it’s processing. Anywho I’ll plan on wearing it this summer to the various summer camps to promote this website.
I don’t know what it is, but I can’t get to this webpage. Blogger and other traceroutes get to it just fine. Friends are able to view it too. But Comcast is being a pain about it. Their technical support offered only minimal help. They blamed it on the webpage provider.
My dad’s computer as a big nasty virus on it. Something about the icons moving around all the time when you try to click on them. Leave it to my dad to gleefully install a virus by clicking on any and all attachments he receives via email. Makes me wonder who or what writes these virus programs. Is it one of those introverted computer nerds that gets some type of joy when he discovers the virus has spread all around the earth? Or is it Norton themselves? My coworker had a theory that Norton and McAfee has a bunch of virus coders locked away in a back room writing viruses (viri?) to insure the company’s existance.
Oh and don’t worry about the Rooter Radio Station’s webpage vanishing forever. I’ve archived it on my hard drive for future reference. I figure sooner or later they’re going to take it down.

So like I said, I’m going on a church retreat this weekend. I know several of the adults are going and just a few of the kids. At times I feel like a stranger within my own church…where I’ve been going for 25 years. We get new people all the time and many of the older ones move on or die. Most people know me as the audio visual guy at church. Part of the problem is my own fault for not getting to know more people. Other times its just the complexities of belonging to a large church where not everybody knows everyone else. I do like going on these retreats which helps people to break down barriers and get to know people on a more personal basis. The main problem at church is cliques. Yes, even adults have cliques. If you don’t have a part in someone’s clique, then you don’t have a reason to know them.

$1.37 for a gallon of gas? It’s times like these when I ask myself which Middle Eastern country do we need to invade in order to lower gas prices. I know I’m an ugly American, but I like cheap gas! I can’t wait until we can get an alternative fuel supply so we can turn the Arabs over. They will be sitting on all that useless oil.
This weekend I’ll be going on a church retreat to Short Mountain, TN, near Woodbury. Here’s some pictures of the place we’ll be staying at. I went ahead and got a video camera with night vision to test out. Night vision seemed like a cool option to have. I’ve seen it demostrated before on a friend’s camera.

City officials are not the only ones worried about the new Walmart in Hermitage. I’m worried too. I’m worried that I’ll have to go through a mass of cars in order to get home. I do know some of the backroads, so I can always use those if the situation warrants.
Oh no. Not again. Church uses the Beverly Hillbillies to teach lessons on morality. It’s another case of using [insert 70s type sitcom for morality lessons] for Bible classes. We’ve seen this before with Andy Griffith. As if the Bible wasn’t good enough for morality lessons. Now they have to draw people in with TVLand.
I have come to the conclusion that there’s a race within the tech industry. It’s a race as to see who can use the biggest words on some obscure technology in order to fool people into thinking that they intelligently know what’s going on.

Yesterday’s post was made at exactly 12 noon. I don’t think I could have planned it if I tried.
Dental appointment today. Surprisingly the hygienist didn’t get on to me for not flossing. They’ve got me on a 3 month plan for visits. Something about my tartar buildup being so much, they have to keep it under control with frequent visits. I think the hygienist just likes to scrape my teeth. Ugh.
Remember all those Palestinians hiding out in the Church of the Nativity? Arafat has called the siege of the church by the Israeli army “shameful.” Let me be first to point out that if Christians were hiding out in a Mosque, the Arabs would be calling for expulsion of the infidels. But Christians are accommodating within their holy sites. They let military personnel hide out in their churches.
Teens unimpressed with Cops’ PT Cruiser…neither am I. PT Cruisers are a lame attempt at recapturing retro excitment of pre-1940 care models. PT Cruisers are ugly, too small, and hyped up way too much.

Why should post offices stay open til midnight so that last minute tax filers can buy a stamp? If you wait til the last minute to file your taxes, then it is your fault if you mail it too late. Don�t use my tax dollars to pay postal workers� overtime.
In other news�.
Friendship Christian Might Have Lay Offs�.seems the slow economy has hit everyone.
Now we know what Andy LaValley is doing these days – http://www.greenhillchurch.com/andy.html
Yesterday was Free Cookie Day at Subway. Sorry you missed it. This is reminiscent of Free Fries Day at Burger King a while back on New Years Day.
I see that only my sister and Mark are commenting on my posts. Where is everyone else? I know there are plenty of nameless people out there who occassionally read these babblings.

“Blowing yourself up does not help the Palestinian cause.” – George W. Bush 4/4/02 – Classic! To the point.
Man has eaten at 11,000 McDonald’s…strange indeed. He says “I was in heaven. 54 days of McDonald’s food.”
Other fast food news: Man confesses after eating a Papa John’s pizza. You know, those Papa John’s pizzas are REALLY good.

Well I can’t seem to get to this page, among several other pages. Other users can get to it, so I guess it must be Comcast’s problem. It’s been unaccessible for several hours. Ironically I can update it through Blogger.
I really wish I had this weblog during college. It’s been interesting going back and reading old entries. I’m not sure how long Blogger can continue to provide this free service. Seems like a lot of free FTP bandwidth.
I’ve been thinking about this whole Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Here’s what needs to happen.

• Palestinians should stop sending the suicide bombers. These bombers only reduce legitimacy of their statehood cause in the eyes of western democracies. Civilized people don’t use suicide bombers. I still haven’t come to grips with the mentality of the suicide bombers.
• Israel needs to pull their tanks back to their own territory. They are only causing more anger in the eyes of the Palestinians.
• Palestine should have its own state. These people have shown that they cannot live in peace with Israel. So let them have their state on their own.
• Jerusalem should be governed by UN representatives. Since it is considered holy by 3 religions, no specific country should have control over it.
• The US should stop sending money to Israel. It has caused us greater harm than good by doing this. I see no need to continue to support Israel. We only do it because the Jewish lobby is so powerful. Also US tourists like to visit holy sites within a friendly country.

Alot of things need to come together in order to achieve peace in the Middle East. For the most part, Americans do not understand why countries are fighting over desert territory the size of New Jersey. But to each his own.

Well today is April Fool’s Day. Lots of websites including Ebay and MIT put up fake websites as a joke. Maybe I should have done the same thing here. I thought about writing some really strange blogger entry, but that might cause rumors to get started. Some people can’t take a joke.
The Vultures are circling. Remember that dead cat I found on the side of my road? Well it has attracted some large birds. I wouldn’t exactly deem them vultures, but they are a close relative….perhaps buzzard is a more appropriate term.
Boy gets caught stealing AOL users’ credit cards; says AOL users are dumb……well of course AOLers are dumb. This kid is even dumber.
Woman drives her car into Target Store; stops at Lawn & Garden….it is surprising that Target’s ailses are large enough to drive a car through. Usually I can’t even get around that slow poke person at Walmart.