Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Ch-ch-ch-changes!

I folded the Bellezandra blog.  I need control too much.

But I have started a new blog called Android Orange.  It'll be more what I wanted to do with Bellezandra. SciFi/Tech pulp.  Short stories, so I don't have to worry about publishing them before I know the end.  And hopefully some of you will contribute to it eventually.

That's all for now.


-J

Monday, June 28, 2010

Xbox 360 Elite Arcade. sort of.

I decided to revive my brother's Xbox 360 Elite (black one) from the infamous Red Rings of Death, a hardware failure generally due to overheating.  He took the hard drive out of it and put it in a new one so there's no way to save games, but I figured I'd give it a shot just to see if I could fix it.  So I brought it back to college station, opened it up and got to work.  I pulled the CPU and GPU (central processing unit and graphics processing unit) off the motherboard and replaced the thermal conducting paste.  This basically makes a better thermal conduit between the processors and the heatsinks so the they cool off faster or better.

Naturally the next step was to put it back together and see if I had fixed the problem.  Oh wait, that's right I left all the cables in Waco.


Fail....

I'll let you know if I get some cables to test it out and get it fixed.

Friday, June 25, 2010

Week In Review

Here's the sum up.

Last Friday night we went to see Toy Story 3 with Trent & Andrea. Definitely worth your money to see it in theaters.  I kinda want to go watch it again.  And I may have done that with only two movies in my life.

On Saturday we ate burgers and watermelon with the Loyds, Amys, and Bucks.

Sunday MW came to stay for the week. That was fun, but now she's gone again. 

Been watching/listening to World Cup 2010. Did you see the game against Algeria?  Was that a nail-biter or what? Landon Donovan scored in minute 91.  One goal made the difference between going home and coming out on top of the group. Crazy.  So we play Ghana on saturday and England plays Germany.  Missed out on how the Group Play ended? Here's the brackets for the start of knockout.  Two teams advanced out of each group and are placed on opposite sides of the bracket.  That way they can't face each other again unless it's at the final game (first/second or third/fourth).  Personally I see Brazil or Portugal/Spain winning it all.  I'd love us to win but I'm just excited we made it out of Group Play.  For us to win we'd have to beat Ghana, Uruguay/S.Korea, then probably Brazil to face whoever's the final team.  Yeah right.  But good luck to Donovan, Bradley, Dempsey, Howard and the rest. USA!

Also been praying for the Haiti team from LHBC.  One of the group was sending out tweets, but the last we got was yesterday morning.  Pray for their safety, their perseverance in the heat, and their attitudes to reflect Christ to those they minister to.

Alright gotta get back.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Long Overdue

Holy Swiss-cheese Batman! Long time no update.

I'm evaluating my priorities a lot lately.  Trying to figure out what's important, and what I should and shouldn't be spending my time on.
 
Gardening has been sort of a failure with the fluctuating weather and the destructive dog. 

I've been spending a lot of time watching/listening to the world cup.  The world cup is cool, and honestly this year it's anybody's guess who will win.  There's nothing wrong with having some pride in your country and enjoying competition.  But we can't let it be more important than God's work.  And we can't let it make us act more excited or crazy about a football (that's soccer) game than the fact that God sent his son Jesus Christ to die for for us and then empower us with the Holy Spirit to be free from sin.

Right now our church has a team in Haiti that's working with JoyHouse. If you want to be involved, pray for them and for their work and you can also follow on of the team members on Twitter @BrianPauler.

There's more going on with the med school process too but it's hard to explain and hard to talk about.  Suffice to say, waiting on the Lord is very difficult.


Maybe this week I'll get around to another Man Talk.  I want to talk about Finances.  Anyway, if I get around to it you can read it, if not I probably got busy with other stuff this week.  But I'll leave you with this thought that I get convicted over often:

If you're wondering whether or not God is your first priority, look at how you spend your time and money.  When commitments conflict, or when you have to choose between what you want to do and the morals you claim, what do you choose?