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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
…Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!
-Rudyard Kipling
(from The Way of the Wild Heart, Eldredge)
Well, I really can’t tell you how much this poem strikes at my heart. These past few months have included some major battles and I feel like I haven’t been able to hold too strong. It is my hope that one day I will be able to “get there.” And, I do believe that with God it IS possible.
So, today, I got back in the saddle again. Tomorrow, I’ll get back in the saddle, yet again, and see where the King leads me…
My buddy, Wes, got a new game for his PS2. It is called TimeSplitters and is about some dude who runs around the time continuum and kills bad dudes and such, trying to stop the evil genius who uses crystals to rule the world…or something like that.
N-E-Way, we had a couple of days of cold weather, here in AK, and thought that we could have a good time. Well, we really just wasted some time. (I actually named my character “Wasted” because that would reminded me what happened to the time.)
The best part about this game is the bonding that Wes and I were able to do as we teamed up, as a couple of monkeys (no really, those were our characters…Wes was a cyborg monkey and I, well see the title of this blog…) In our teaming up, we were able to run around and through explosives and shoot heat-seeking missles at “robots.” Truly an enjoyable time.
The problem is that we played too much on Thursday and Friday. So much so, that I had a dream last night and we were actually TimeSplitters…only we weren’t monkeys 
It is pretty sick to have a dream like that…so vivid and all, but the worst part is that Wes dogged me…I saved his hinder and he ran out the door and left me to defend myself and run around some crazy haunted-like mansion.
Well, I guess I better lay off the video games for a while…
The good news is that the rest of Team Yeti has arrived, after the break, and we will start working this Monday.
Hiiiiigh-Yahh!
In other mullet news…
iTunes music store has 118 references to mullets. Including, but not limited to: Santa’s got a mullet and Mullet Man (both songs); #3…With a Mullet (album); and Mullet Hunters (one of many bands with “mullet” in their name.)
Rock On Mullet Nation!
So, I had this idea that I just had to try out a mullet. About 4 weeks ago, my sister cut one for me and I rocked it out for a while. I guess I still had this part of my soul that was lost in the 80’s…the ducktales I grew then just didn’t seem to be enough.
Truth is, I can’t really rock the mullet. In fact, I thought it looked pretty dumb, but I just had to try. Well, there is another chapter of history, in my life, laid to rest.
Goodbye, sweet mullet, goodbye.
Well, it has been quite some time since I wrote, and now it seems too much to try to catch up. I guess I’ll give it a try.
The last 6 weeks have gone by very quickly. Yet, they seemed to have also trudged by. I think that I was used to going at a pretty intense pace and then had some time off, so it seemed slow. However, I was in a lot of places the last few weeks and never really felt like I was anywhere long enough (except North Dakota…that was plenty)
I was in Bismarck, N.D.; Columbus, MT; Glasgow, MT; back to Columbus; Portland, OR and then up to Seattle, WA. All of that in the course of 4 weeks.
Now, I am back in Wintery Alaska, where I am living in the most snow I have every lived in. It is a winter wonderland…everything is white. Even the trees are covered in a beautiful coat of glistening whiteness. (I am hoping to get out and do some snowshoeing, but it needs to warm up to above zero before I’ll be ready to spend some time out there.)
This week our team took another turn. We had another member decide that this wasn’t the best place for her to be. Understandably, when she is the only girl with 3 dudes in a new place. Honestly, it is hard to be the team leader and see your team dwindle, but I am hoping that we will be able to finish this year out strong.
Today is one of the teammates B-day, and I am at a loss for what to get him. I love buying gifts but I prefer to get gifts that have meaning or something a person wants…he just bought himself a jacket that I would have gotten, but he beat me to it. Oh well, we are going out to dinner tonight (I hear this place is one of the best in town) and then we’ll probably go see Eragon.
Well, that is about all I have for now. I would expect to have some more to write, soon.
Until then…
