Year: 2007

Hey

Tonight I had a blast from the past. Less than an hour ago..

I was at In-N-Out eating dinner with my family when Santa and his helpers came in to get some food. Santa was missing his top and just wearing a red scarf but still had on those santa pants, all the while surrounded by female helpers dressed as Christmas as you can imagine. We took note at how they were all dressed up and continued eating dinner.

Santa comes over to get some Ketchup and turns around “Jason?”

I look up to see that I know this guy. He was one of my favorite teachers in high school. Mr. Jones, who taught History to me and my brother both. “I had to be able to sleep at night, I had to know if it was you”

He continued to talk and I smiled and gave a nod when he looked at me, but I didn’t really catch much of what he said because, I was astonished. He turned and asked me where I work and what I do, but I honestly forgot in that moment of time. I had to ask my parents where I worked. He told me about how he had to retire from teaching in 2004 after a back surgery. He looked great, just as I remembered him.

Then he left us to eat dinner.

On my way out, I got a refill and walked over to him to tell him goodbye. I walked over and shook his hand- to which he had a firm grip. “It was great seeing you”

“It was even better seeing you, I was meant to be here and to see you there” He then starts to tell me how he almost didn’t come, but he did- and then out of all of the kids that he taught he recognized me. (I graduated with a class size of about 1000 and he was one of the most liked teachers on campus.)

Now rewind to Sunday. My pastor was talking about being the type of person that people look from afar and say “oh look at that guy, he’s nobody – just another person” (the point wasn’t to be fake for others, but to be true to yourself) and then to show people there is more than meets the eye. I looked past this man who once taught my class. He is the type of guy my pastor was referring to. He may not seem like much dressed up as a Santa, with no beard and glue still sticking to his eye brows from the costume, but he really is a great man.

So I think Mr. Jones was right, again. It was meant for us to meet up.

What a blast from the past.

Merry Christmas.

just Pray.

hey

So my Blazers are doing wonderfully.  I thought I would post a video of their streak thus far, but I can’t find out quite as good as the summary below.  Just click play and you’ll see what all my excitement is about.

http://www.nba.com/media/blazers/new_9inarow.swf

Work this week has been going by pretty quickly, only two days left in my work week.

I can’t get the song “Live and let die” out of my head haha.  Thank you Paul McCartney.

Christmas is only a few days away and it feels like it should be months away!

JJ went to Chicago to visit a friend and missed his flight on the way back – so now he is trying to figure out a way back.  I haven’t heard from him in a little bit, i’ll probably call him later today and find out how everything is coming.

Okay, thats all I got.

Endquote[So eight was great, but nine is divine. – Blazers blogger]

just Pray

Okay, this is odd.

I’m listening to rap music, and going “aww” over this video I’m about to show you.

It’s below.

http://lads.myspace.com/videos/vplayer.swf

I thought it was cute, all the while listening to some old school rap.  Yeah, I’m ghetto like that.  I listen to Eminem, Dre etc. except its all edited.  So, sometimes there is only a beat for like 15 seconds thanks to the edit hahahah

fun stuff.

I have nothing big or deep to blog about.  And work?  Tomorrow the training ends.  This job could turn out to be a really good thing, I’m hesitant on saying it already is because I don’t want to be disappointed..  I’m however actively trying to get my friends to come work at this company.  It only an upside to it all….  I took pictures from one of the floors of the building I work in, and I wanted to share on an earlier post but I forgot.  so here you go..

The other building we are next to, and the Tempe town lake.

The US Airways building nearby..

“I’m representin’ for the gangstas all across the world  …. 95 + 4 pennies…”  haha

Blazers have been winning.  Well, starting to.  We’re almost back at .500, our record is 10-12.  Not bad considering our number one pick is out for the season and over the offseason we traded away our best player.

I have the duty of naming a car, which I will probably go through a bunch of names before I pick one.  So.. I shall announce the name another day when I have more to say.

Endquote [“There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.” – Robertson Davies]

just Pray

Hey

I thought I had plans, like three different ways tonight but ended up with no plans at all.  That’s fine with me. 

So I’m watching Americas Most Smartest Model

Good show, the russian guy is kinda annoying, but he is funny.  And yeah.

haha I think he is mostly funny because of his accent.

After that.. I have an hour to spare before I watch I Love New York.

Yep, down to the final, 3.

I was watching tv and this commercial popped up.. I found it funny.  I checked it out, you should too.  www.whopperfreakout.com

And, that is pretty much it.

Endquote[“A word to the wise ain’t necessary — it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.” – Bill Cosby]

just Pray

Hey

Blazers game is on in an hour on TNT, I’ll be watching.

Work this week has been interesting.  Not so boring, but interesting.  We are going to go live tomorrow for the first time, but only for a few hours.

My title is Client Service Agent. So I help with setup and other inquires. It is much different than I thought. In the break room, they have couches, soft chairs, huge plasma tv’s, Wii for anyone to use, plus free arcade games. kinda crazy when you think about it.

Anyway.. I didn’t have much for this post. I wasn’t going to post tonight but I came across the video that I’ll end the post with.

So in light of it, no endquote. [click here for the video]

just Pray