today is thursday 30 october 2003.

really wild--we get one day of 80 degree weather, and fires break out. today temperatures drop 40 degrees with freezing rain.

freezing rain is all good for the fires--but add freezing rain to one of the condition where driving ain't hip.

mama chula's new mexican food is a dive indeed. a block away from school--and $3.50 got me a pretty heavy burrito. also pretty hot--had to get two cans of teazer ice tea and a little time walking in the freezing rain to cool off.

so the people at starbucks learned my name--i don't know if like this--but being called my name is much better than being referred to as grande americano or venti coffee.

haven't heard of the big cat on maui for a while. a second expert brought in to take a look. after seeing the claw marks on a guava tree, the second expert believed the same as the first--a big cat is out there.

tickets to the homeland averaging $800. better than last year, but i really don't know if i want to climb into an america west and then a hawaiian airlines jet--but i may not have another choice.

today is saturday 25 october 2003.

fish win world series. with josh beckett applying the tag to jorge posada--a sigh of sadness for now begins nearly 4 months of depression . . . i'll try to survive until the spring training. 8-0

reading andy stanley's visioneering. good stuff.

aside from that, not much going on. did much today. read much. cleaned much. drank coffee much.

today is thursday 23 october 2003.

not doing so hot on the blogging. world events--yanks and fish tied 2-2 in series. castillo sent a beautiful fly just past the wall with the 330 sign in left to win. i switch channels to see what was going on in denver--next thing i know, fox is showing a bunch of fish jumping up and down. go whoever wins!

president bush in hawaii today--maybe he'll have real hawaiian grill instead of the junk i got down on wadsworth the other day.

two item plate at panda express now runs $5.30, up a whole 11 cents. yep, i've got stuff pretty much calculated--even got it figured out depending which part of town i'm hanging out at. venti coffees at starbucks runs from a low of $1.73 in littleton to a high of $1.78 on colorado boulevard. taxes in this town run like california--just keep conan and the rest of the barbarians out out of our political system. or perhaps they're already there?

today is sunday 19 october 2003.

pettite is amazing. series tied 1-1.

don't waste your time at tomkats hawaiian grill on wadsworth. putting a pineapple on a burger, playing hawaiian music, and wearing flower shirts doesn't make a place hawaiian. i should sue the place for slander.

reading visioneering by andy stanley. good stuff.

flights to honolulu are $$$. but determined to make it to at least have real hawaiian grill. the first seminar at densem will have to wait.

today is saturday 18 october 2003.

big event--WORLD SERIES. melvinistic position--go yankees! yes, mercenary baseball against a bunch of no-names. i go with the hired guns to maul the upstarts.

melvinistic terms:

ya hala--new ethnic meditteranean place that took over the chinese place on the corner of evans and colorado. ironic that hala ya is a hawaiian term.

hawaiian grill--new fad here on the "mainland." i don't know the real difference between hawaiian grill, mexican grill, or for that matter "american" grill--but hawaiian grill is a mix of korean and chinese stuff--first hawaiian grill opens up on wadsworth soon.

jeff weaver--good pitcher who sits in the bullpen of an outstanding pitching staff. yeah, he won't work in the series--but he'll still get a ring when the yanks win the series. so i don't know if necessarily feel bad for the guy or not--he wins either way as i see it.

today is 15 october 2003.

so the cubbies have mark prior on the mound, playing in the friendly confines of wrigley field, one win away from winning the world series. so they lose. the curse is real folks, so i'm spending my afternoon looking for a few live goats (probably in vain).

today is saturday 11 october 2003.

how 'about them cubbies. it's their year.

the yanks and the red sox marred by a bunch of trash by pedro martinez. he's starting to get on my poop list--guy throws great, but he's a real jerk at times. a head hunter has no place in baseball--and his marks on race are just idiotic (case in point, trying to defend sosa with the corked bat--saying that people were trying to get on the dominicans is a bunch of trash . . . and pedro knows it's trash).

commend clemens for keeping his cool. manny ramirez just wanted to pick a fight--that pitch was up from clemens, but not in--that's the way clemens throws.

today is friday 10 october 2003.

no need to fear--lack of blogging doesn't mean i'm dead. mon, nothing really going on--working on densem paper. tue at densem. wed is youth group stuff. thurs and friday was teacher's conference. pretty good this year--kinda like hob-knobbing with the college president. yep, hanging out with the high ed administrators is my type of thing to do. 8-0

cubbies and sox both tied at one. get your goat!

melvinistic terms:

manicotti--stuff that can be really good or bad . . . depending on presentation. dining common manicotti and olive garden manicotti is bascially the same thing--except one is better than the other. go figure out why.

missing link--the weirdo next to you on your next flight.

today is sunday 05 october 2003.

typical sunday, so i won't bore you with the details.

elam missed field goal. broncos lose one in kc . . . not that i care about football. this is up there just like jlo and ben.

now something i do care about--how about them cubbies!!! bring a goat to class tomorrow, my friends. this is the year one of the curses go away--i got a feeling the cubbies and red sox in the world series.

knock on wood. the cubbies stop the braves. oh, junk--you mean cox, sheffield, jones, jones, castilla, giles and the rest of the south will have to hang up their gloves for the winter--unless you're into the fish, oh yeah!

detroit did so bad this year, they were more than 20 games behind the tampa d-rays. wouldn't it be wonderful if the d-rays got a local boy in their outfield--yep, wild rumour has it sheffield may be thinking about the rays. that would just be great--a loser in a loser team.

fick of the braves is an idiot--what is up with that cheap shot at karros running up the first base line. if i were dusty--i'd tell wood to punch one into fick's head.

and i tell you what--i'm just glad dusty is out of the nl west. he's magic. i've said that forever.

so i really think the world series will have a red sox-cubbies matchup. mckeon of the marlins is not dusty baker--he lacks magic . . . and a pitching staff as deep as the cubbies . . .

yanks did away with the twins in the dome. torre keeps his job--until he squares off against the sox. i don't think the a's have a shot--but zito and martinez is up for the games of their lives.

today is saturday 04 october 2003.

new starbucks opened. another place to hang out and read theology--plus this one is a 10:00 one.

bill o'reilly's book is fairly interesting. i'm not the political junkie or one to read stuff concerning the media--but it's a nice break from the technical reading.

john rutter's music has got to be the most inspirational around. don't bother finding a cd of his and getting it for me for my birthday or Christmas--i probably already have it. his latest "mass for the children" was releasted about a week ago. fabulous!!! mass for the the children is a wonderful piece, and many conjecture that rutter wrote it for his recently deceased son.

hamburger stand is the place of choice to spend $3 for an evening snack. i still say white castles need need to move to colorado. and a pierogie place won't hurt.

the giants were knocked off in the nl divisional playoffs. my heart goes out to barry bonds who will not get a chance to play in the world series this year. and it's just too bad that felipe alou's first attempt at the post season didn't go well. and too bad for jason schmidt. and j.t. snow's baserunning error will probably haunt him for a while--i feel for him.

if you think i'm serious, then you're on crack or something.

cubbies didn't get a chance to finish off them braves. too bad that sheffield is hurt. (if you think i'm serious about sheffield, then you need to sober up big time.)

matsui of the yankees gave roger clemens another day in the dome.

and the men wearing red sox won. despite b.k. kim giving the birdie to the fenway faithful. you know, it's a shame that the red sox had to stoop so low to get kim--he was a chan ho park wanna-be. i guess he proved to me he's just a plain loser. i like the sox--but they've got to get rid of idiots like kim.

today is friday 03 october 2003.

nothing real exciting happening. did much reading yesterday. for some reason, i'm going through bill o'reilly's who's looking out for you. kinda interesting.

much attention on the playoffs.

giants are down and florida can win the series tomorrow. junk. 8-0

braves are down and cubs can win the series tomorrow. junk again. and hasn't the cubbies pitching staff pretty much shut down the high power atlanta offense. junk. junk. junk. 8-0

a's and sox are tied. but how can the sox lose with pedro martinez?

the twins and yanks are tied. roger clemens has the fun of pitching in the dome with the psycho minnesotans.

dodger schedules are available at www.dodgers.com.

hamburger stand is the new melvinistic dining place. white castles needs to establish a presence in denver. still need to find a pierogie place.

today is wednesday 01 october 2003.

cubbies, marlins split their second games and head home. the red sox and a's are still battling this late in the night.

though online orders take time to get to you--half the fun is tracking your order on ups.com or fedex.com.

hawaiian bbq is set to open on wadsworth. so i get this comment in class, "so what's the difference with mainland bbq?" nice choice of words.

silver state is a strange case of minority education. not that anyone cares, but every ethnic group can be mock and at least everyone laughs because no one takes the jokes seriously--that happens only in the real world.