today is monday 30 june 2003.

first real day at denver seminary went fine. got a headache half-way through class, and i'm thinking "welcome back to grad school!" dr. wenig is a fine teacher--one of the finest i'll sit under. i watched the hebrew students as they were facing impending doom (final exam wed).

horrible thought runs through my head concerning grad school--what the mess do i have to prove these days?

hot weather out. no big cat report. funniest thing is to see hottest website out there is www.donotcall.gov.

and really no dodger report: cold dodgers is nothing to be talking about.

today is sunday 29 june 2003.

church, then panda express, then sleep, then church, then some chinese place near cherry creek (which by the way, was really, really good--i had chicken/pork chow fun--i know where i'm going next week!), then some computer work, and a little bit of reading.

melvinistic terms:

batter's box--you can try all the practice swings, but when you're in the batter's box in the cage or the real game, you panic and forget everything. has a definite plus side--when you're in the batter's box, there is a sense of focus--you forget everything else in the world except that little ball coming at you.

corolla--melvinistic dream car. o.k. maybe not the flashiest car out there, not even real stylish--but highly efficient, and no one doubts that!

no big cats in maui report. i think this is big.

well, friends, tomorrow is the day i begin (again). tomorrow i start expository preaching of ot texts at denver seminary with dr. scott wenig. a 4.5 hour class, 5 days (including 04 july), for 2 weeks. i'm not very fond of these blocks classes. as i told the secretary at the records office--no audit this time (like hebrew)--this one is for real. urban/cross-cultural ministry will be tuesday nights in the fall, and hermeneutics will be across 4 weekends in the spring. first d.min. seminar is scheduled for january.

and again i say i really don't want to do this--but i cannot deny the Lord has given the opportunity--an opportunity of a lifetime. it's not that i'm afraid of failing--the only failure will be in not trying. it's passing that scares me--and the opportunities and responsibilities that come along with the learning and training.

dodger report: o.k. folks--i admit the dodgers this week is cold. only game they win is wed in san fran.

today is saturday 28 june 2003.

melvinistic gripes: 1) dodgers losing 2) dodgers losing the same day giants win 3) giants winning from behind 4) people telling me that the dodgers lost

tired today. i think i pushed myself the last two days. got up late--went to school to see if i could help with the computers. wasn't doing much so went back home. too tired to even watch the giants/athletics came--didn't care anyway because of gripe #3 above--the giants were down 5-0, and they won in the 10th!!! i hate that!!! went to starbucks and saw a friend of a friend. studied until i got tired. homiletics starts monday.

outsidethebubble.blogspot.com has some interesting notes: the part about i--25, santa fe, and university all having construction is pretty funny (by the way, colorado has some construction also but not until i-25--but broadway is pretty clear until i-25)

dodger report: the angels got to brown . . . again. don't grieve me folks with gripe #4 above.

today is friday 27 june 2003.

no more hebrew. today was the last day. no reports of big cat running up country maui. no more melvinistic terminology today--i'm at a blank. so today's blog is pretty boring.

no dodger report: game is tonight across disneyland. go brown.

today is still thursday 26 june 2003--but i thought i'd give a special double dose!

big news story from the honolulu advertiser is the "big cat" on the prowl in up-country maui. it could be a couger--stay tuned folks--this could be better than the shark attacks!!!

more melvinistic terminology:

mr. c--the melvinistic name of the silver state baptist school teacher. students will address their favourite math/Bible teacher simply as mr. c because "cacayorin" is far too hard to spell and pronounce. not to be confused with other teachers whose surname end with "c".

lenny--the melvinistic name given to the sub-culture leader by newly acquainted colorado friends. only colorado friends should use this name. funny story--on the the second day after the first great day of melvinism (when i actually got here to colorado), i walked into church and all the college people greeted me as "lenny." i figured it was their custom to assign names to friends, so i responded appropriately afterwards. a few weeks later on a trip up to the wilds, i asked the college folks why they called me "lenny." they responded by saying "lenny" was my name. i said, "um, my name is melvin cacayorin--i will be teaching math at silver state. but if you folks want to call me lenny, or keep calling me lenny, that's fine." the college folks didn't know what possessed them to call me "lenny" in the first place, but lenny stuck nonetheless. by the way, lenny was a real person that the college people did know--the real lenny was a student at pcc.

bleeding seal--mr. c's students. mr. c is the shark. when tests are assigned, the students are known to be the "bleeding seals in shark infested waters." they're as good as dead if they study not.

golden child--miracle worker. the term that was coined when i first took over the bju website. it was kinda wild--a g.a. position was created mid-year so that i could take the work load of the website from the computer science faculty--i was their "golden child" 8-0

baby giraffe--term used by hadji. kicking a person when their down for their good. when baby giraffes are born, their mothers kick thems down. when the baby giraffe gets up, the mom then kicks the baby giraffe down again. this is to help the baby giraffe get up quickly to escape predators like lions.

portuguese--the people group that is the object of ridicule in melvinistic circles. i'm not racist--i'm from hawaii, and everyone in hawaii makes fun of the portuguese. instead of talking about "redneck" or "iowan" jokes--we substitute "portuguese".

inner circle--the diverse yet close friends. coined during his undergraduate senior year, there were two inner circle groups--the m/w/f circle and the t/th circle. the circles usually included 1) a math major buddy 2) a society buddy 3) a hawaii buddy 4) a guy down the hall buddy 5) some guy that just tagged along after class buddy 6) assorted buddies of buddies #1-5. the inner cirlce knew me--that's what counted--because they never would interact with one-another otherwise. today the inner circle is the close yet diverse circle of friends who span the country but is never father than a e-mail or wireless-phone call away.

smith or davis--one day i go golfing with bobby kochakkan. we share a go-cart. the guy behind the counter asked what our names were. "i'm smith, he's davis." the guy behind the counter responded "you guys don't look like a smith or davis." i responded "yes sir, you're correct--my name is melvin cacayorin, and his name is bobby kochakkan." the guy behind the counter says "smith and davis it is." by the way, golf ain't my thing. bk calls me to go golfing because i'm probably one of the few crazy people willing/able/available to do so before sunrise on saturdays--but on memorial day this year i hit par twice on two different holes on the par-3 course. but i did also hit wadsworth boulevard. 8-0

today is thursday 26 june 2003.

on to news from the honolulu--shark attack this week on the west side of oahu, man's foot is bit by ferocious sea creature. hint from the honolulu advertiser: get out of water if dolphins are jumpy. duh.

no blog yesterday--busy, plus i wanted to wait until the dodgers finally won one in san fran. 8-0 much studying. beside that, nothing real exciting. found another place in denver that has spicy sesame shrimp--that's enough excitement for a day. 8-0

dodger report: od perez got ejected for the third time this season. but before the ejection he matched up with jason schmidt pretty well. nomo-san on his game last night--now the angels have to deal with brown. i tell you, the all star game needs three if not four dodger pitchers--brown and gagne should be in. nomo-san and shuey deserve a good look.

today is tuesday 24 june 2003.

taught trig--actually helped the kiddies get ready for a test. a test is good sometime soon. worked on type-setting placement tests for the school--even so kind to give them answer keys on the math part. 8-0

outrage!!! how the mess does piazza and rodriquez get more votes than lo duca for the nl all-star catcher!!! fuming rage this causes me!!! brown had better start--and gagne better not be far behind!

dodger report: o.k. i recant that the dodgers were going to clean out the giants--but it did take the giants 11 innings. and they had to get gagne in his most human week of the year--but alas, this won't happen too often (oh, we forgot what happened last week when the giants were in los angeles?). yes, i'm aware the giants are sending jason schmidt out there--but od perez is due for a win. a big win.

today is monday 23 june 2003.

hebrew went o.k. didn't exactly know what was going on in class--but the homework went fine and was done in about 2 hours (even did the translations)!!! paid off my next class to start in a week--scary how all these will piece together somehow.

o.k. i am an andrew murray fan--his book on prayer is the greatest. but i'll admit e. m. bounds on prayer deserves a look.

dodger report: it's a little early, so i don't know by how the dodgers whipped up on the giants. if i get this wrong, i recant tomorrow. so far it's the second inning and scoreless, and crime dog mcgriff lands on the dl for the first time in his life. las vegas sent larry barnes to be with the blue men--keep an eye out on him.

today is sunday 22 june 2003.

normal sunday. church, panda express, sleep, eat, study hebrew. tried translating--it's like greek--fumble around and hope your vocabulary miraculously improves.

daily readings in the book of esther this week. study Bible comments that "we can trust God to weave the events of life for our best, even if we may not be able to see the overall pattern."

the d.min. stuff is overwhelming--to think two months ago i wasn't even thinking about going for another degree--and in about two weeks i get my first reading list! for the record--this is not something i want to do--but felt i needed at least to attempt because of how God just dropped this in my lap. a step of faith . . . you people will need to remind me as i go through this program--God put me here so He will get me out (one way or another). don't let me get myself out of what ever blessing God has in store because i myself decided to get myself out of the program.

dodger report: brownie had a brown-out today. angels won, but that's o.k. because so did san francisco. got t-mobile to fly the scores to my phone. close race--and it's not even july! think of it this way--the dodgers and giants should easily double their win totals by the end of september--so we could be looking at two teams in the nl west hitting the mid-ninety win mark. things will get interesting as the blue men play in san fran tomorrow.

today is saturday 21 june 2003.

studying hebrew is becoming a little more difficult when you fall behind in vocabulary. a little distracted because i have to start reading for homiletics class which starts in over a week.

dodger report: ashby, w. alvarez, and gagne held the angels. tomorrow i don't know if angels have a prayer--brownie on the mound for the blue men!

today is friday 20 june 2003.

went to hebrew. didn't have a clue what was going on. mental acuity is not there right now. got some stuff at the library and registrar's office set for my next class. things move so fast with this d.min. program.

dodger report: jason schmidt of the giants shut down the dodgers. winning streak for the dodgers and hitting streak for lo duca stop. to the angels next where the city of angels baseball never seemed so compelling . . . until now.

today is thursday 19 june 2003.

more on melvinistic terminology:

stress puppy--almost self explanatory. can't beat the stress.

safe--really means stupid. ussage: "that's safe." actual meaning--that's stupid.

hadji--former melvinistic assistant. given special status with arabic-like nickname. unlike true buds, there is only one hadji.

hassan--term given to someone who tries to overthrow a leader. i think it was in jordan when king hussein was having cancer treatments--the king flew to minneapolis. the heir to the thrown was his first son prince hassan. hassan's wife re-decorated the palace before the king returned (prince hassan wasn't in charge yet--the king was still alive!). nonetheless, king hussein wasn't at all happy and showed hassan and his wife who was still in charge. when the king died, the throne was handed over to the second son and his wife. by the way, this term was used on hadji above. 8-0

hala--hawaiian term of exclamation. ussage: "hala, the dog got out!" synonymous sometimes with doom and uh-oh.

today taught trig, worked on school calendars, talked with people from northland, and study hebrew.

dodger report: hot and cold dodgers are indeed still hot and now in first place. od perez tonight. reading the la times--looks like the dodgers are liking the attention. angels look like they're back to old days.

today is wednesday 18 june 2003.

no blogging yesterday. busy. i guess i'm still in awe that i'm actually starting the d.min. all green lights right now--now i have to start the small stuff, like fill out the applications and figure how all this stuff is going to get paid for (God will take care of this).

andrew murray writes in "with Christ in the school of prayer": receive what you do not comprehend, submit to what you cannot understand, accept and expect what to reason appears to be a mystery, believe what looks impossible, walk in a way that you know not--such are the first lessons in the school of God.

dodger report: brownie i tell you will need to start the all star game. san fran was at his mercy last night. tonight ishii. forget the dodgers being last in nearly every conceivable offensive category--as long as your average runs per games (dodgers is 3.2) is a little more than allowed earned runs average per game (dodgers is 2.9) you'll compete. that's what the rest of baseball is finding out.

today is monday 16 june 2003.

early blog. just got back from hebrew. plan of the day--study.

intro to melvinistic terminology:

lost puppy--person who plays left field, in a different ballpark. a person not-at-all there.

emu--person who just doesn't get it, no matter how many times you go over the material with that person. proper name for an emu is maxwell (maxwell is an actual emu who lives in escondido, california at the wild animal park--for 20 years maxwell is able to do one trick and that is walking back and forth on the stage--every day is a new day for this poor emu, and maxwell learns and re-learns this trick everyday).

tomko--saturday's game with cards and yanks had cards pitcher matt morris going only 2/3 of an inning because of the rain. brett tomko comes in and pitches 5 and 1/3--it wasn't pretty--about a hundred pitches yielded 9 runs for the yanks. yes, it was batting practice, yet cards manager tony la russa couldn't pull tomko, else he'd burn his bullpen. so a tomko will refer to a person getting shelled for the sake of the team.

true bud--highest status in the subculture. a melvinist who helps a melvin in need.

melvinistic holidays--two of them so far. 11 december for the sub-culture leader's birthday. 02 july--second significant day of the subculture because a) the day i left the university 2) the day i saw the dodgers beat the giants at dodger stadium (first game at dodger stadium)--different year than a) of course.

melvinistic foods--the breakfast food of pop-tarts has somewhat fallen out of favor. blueberry pop-tarts were the most melvinistic in its hey-day. anything chinese is usually good. coffee is always good--starbucks, kona blends, and sometimes peaberry--but the all time fave is carribou coffee which is by far the smoothest (so let me know if you're headed up to minnesota anytime so you can get me a couple pounds of carribou blend!). and meatloaf. school cafeteria meatloaf!--there's nothing else like it. 8-o

dodger report: blue men off monday. tuesday the giants visit chavez ravine. hopefully it will be miserable for them.

today is sunday 15 june 2003.

went to church, went to panda express, went to sleep, went to church, went to eat (at johnny carrino's), and then went to sleep. a normal sunday.

on to the dodgers: the hot and cold dodgers are indeed hot--they haven't lost this week. nomo gets the win. jim tracy is sticking with ashby as the 5 starter--alvarez will back ashby up. not a bad combination. san fran comes to chavez ravine this week--things could get interesting.

today is saturday 14 june 2003.

studied hebrew most of the day. saw parts of the cardinals/yankees game. rain delay didn't show much--except for matt morris and brett tomko of the cards throwing batting practice to the yanks--pretty ugly. during the rain in the bronx, fox was so kind to shift to the braves/mariners game in seattle which was actually sunny. next week game of the week could be glauss and anderson of the angels against jordan and green of the dodgers in chavez ravine!

i hate moths. i hate fast food places that take forever to take your order. i hate rain delays at baseball games and weather delays when you're flying.

dodger report: ashby and alvarez could be the rotating 5 start/long man for the rest of the season. but i liked what happened today--one gets the win, the other gets the long save. loduca and milton bradley were trash talking a little bit. nomo tomorrow. the hot and cold dodgers are hot this week--they haven't lost since sunday.

today is friday 13 june 2003.

hebrew went o.k. today. studied some hebrew, did some math, read some berkhof. nothing too exciting today.

dodger report: blue men beat the tribe. od perez got ejected, and loduca should be an all-star. ashby starts tomorrow and should be the fox game of the week.

today is thursday 12 june 2003.

most of the day spent at the pepsi center at a business seminar focusing on motivation. former ny major rudolf guilliani was the keynote speaker. zig ziglar and rick belluzzo (from microsoft) were good. most everyone else were salespeople trying to make an easy sale.

dodger report: dodger pitching a little on the wild side with brownie walking three yesterday and ishii giving free passes to six tonight. three runs tonight for the blue men and the deep pitching staff gives the tigers a taste of what the rest of the national league already knows.

today is wednesday 11 june 2003.

nothing much to blog about today. hebrew was a fog. nobody is getting the noun constructs. we started verbs today. we will be covering verbs from now to the end of the summer.

on to sosa: what did i tell you--suspension reduced to seven. maybe i should be an analyst on fox sports or something. maybe some team will hire me as their statistician. i could be shagging fly balls in the outfield with the pitchers and interpretors!

on to the dodgers: kevin brown i tell you should start in the all star game. win number 9 should be tonight in motown.

today is tuesday 10 june 2003.

not much to blog today. taught some advanced math, studied hebrew, played with exchange server, studied more hebrew, read systematic theology and more murray.

dodger report: dodgers win first game in motown in 12 innings. world series hero kirk gibson not too nostalgic about the past puts things in perspective--"it's just a game."

today is monday 09 june 2003.

hebrew was horrific. didn't do the homework because i misread the syllabus, stayed up until 1:00 this morning doing the wrong homework (now i know why it didn't make sense), and bombed the quiz (because i wasn't paying attention to the syllabus). homework wasn't turned it because prof wanted all the homework at the same time (the one i did and didn't do), and so i get off easy once again. did sing a few hebrew songs, and my reading of a passage was fairly smooth.

talked to the d.min. coordinator this morning. at times you kinda wish you had a "no" answer--and that is not what i got. i was thinking i would be deficient about 12 hours. seems that number is really 7. so if i'm really gung-ho and half psycho about this--all could be done around dec 2006.

on to the dodgers: to motown--looks like nomo, brown, and ishii on stage tues/wed/thurs.

today is sunday 08 june 2003.

not much to blog about today. actually that's a lie. much to think about--but i will not blog much about my contemplations today. i guess sometimes you just wonder what God is trying to do in life--and it would be nice to know how things are supposed to end up. pastor hamilton asked us tonight in the evening service "can we trust God who claims to be trustworthy?" it would be absurd not to.

dodger report: od perez got shelled by the chi-sox. blue men head to motown tomorrow for games in the middle of the week. hadji--catch a game or two for me!

no more sosa--but i'm glad to hear the big choi is o.k. for the cubbies, though he did end up on the disabled list due to a concussion.

today is saturday 07 june 2003.

studying for part of the day. hebrew, then berkhof systematic, cairns church history, then murray, then more hebrew. sorta a relaxing day. 8-0

for those who missed the fox game of the week with the yankees visiting the cubbies--missed a dandy. i don't get why clemons got pulled so early. wood was electric. choi collision nothing but freaky. never liked juan acevedo--obviously every yank knows why--karros coming in and clubbing one out reminiscent of the days back in the city of angels.

dodger report: ishii stopped the sox last night. today ashby gets the call to start--looks like it'll be ashby for the rest of the season, and he deserves that.

the game in chicago featured a lot of former dodgers also: karros, grudzielanek, mondesi, and zeile.

on to sosa: tim mccarver on fox said it well--sosa should've known what kind of bat he's handling because the bats become the extension of his arms. i think sosa's suspension will be reduced but by only a day, but more importantly the delay is for a break in the schedule.

today is friday 06 june 2003.

hebrew went o.k. today. bombed the take-home quiz, but that is excpected when vocabulary is not too strong. at times i pick up the book or the cards and feel like an emu. i talk with the d.min. coordinator monday more about the program.

dodger report: brownie hold the royals last night, and he is making a strong bid to be on the all-star team. ishii tonight against the chi-town sox. fernando is back on friendly terms adding color commentary to the spanish side of the broadcast booth.

on to sammy sosa: mlb suspends him 8 games. sosa appeals. he'll probably get his suspension reduced by only a day--and he's probably going to wait until after the yankees and serve when there's less of a "show" (because we all know now that's what sammy is all about). he'll also wait until the schedule slows down--or if he slows down again.

today is thursday 05 june 2003.

it seems funny to me how people tell you to do things which in fact are things they like to do. especially in dealing with issues like finding God's will--when seeking advice from other people, people tell you what God's will is for them (not you)!

for example, a friend of mine tells me to get a different type of vehicle. my theory is his suggestion for me to get a flashier car is really him wanting a flashier car for himself. i know a toyota corolla is not the flashiest car out there, but my green corolla does a fine job for me. several weeks he has been telling me to get rid of the corolla to get a flashier car. this week i turn the tables and suggest that he get a corolla (because the corolla is what i want).

so this same buddy is at a rental car place, and ironically the rental car place assigns him a toyota corolla. and the agent nicely tells him, "you'll now know why people love these things!" i tell my buddy that this is perhaps God's will and by God's divine providence and subtle hints to get a corolla!

to the dodgers: tough loss for nomo . . . brown on deck tonight.

on to sammy sosa: yeah, his image is tarnished. but hitting homeruns requires pretty clean contact with the ball--it's hard to deny that it's a pretty difficult feat to make such pretty clean contact over 500 times in a career.

today is wednesday 04 june 2003. hebrew went o.k. as we learned about nouns. got the words for a few songs we're supposed to be singing before the end of the month. exhausted--i stayed up until midnight doing homework, but as long as i'm holding my own against everyone else staying up is o.k.

dodger report: dodgers narrowly defeated the royals. a bases loaded walk bottom of the ninth won't help royals reliever carrasco become a closer--but at least the dodgers win.

what is up with sosa and a corked bat?

twins can keep killing the giants.

this is the new age of melvinism. today is tuesday 03 june 2003, less than a month before the second day of melvinism, and the day blogging hit the subculture.

nothing new today. advanced math in the morning, i taught the law of sines and law of cosines, trigonometric identities, and heron's law of finding triangle areas. looked at some hebrew words, and i'm ready to start reading a little more of murray and berkhof before i work on more hebrew.

dodger report of the day: dodgers host the royals as the royals hit the city of the angels for the first time. i don't have a clue who plays for the royals, but i know the od perez is pitching for the blue men and the latimes is reporting that the fielding trio of beltre, izturis, and cora is pretty smooth.