The Remote Control Helicopter

For my birthday, my grandparents took me shopping for a RC helicopter. In the end, we found one at Lloyd center in a store called Toys 'n More. It's mainly outdoor, but once I get good enough, I will be able to fly it indoors. It is currently orange and white, but I plan on painting it after I stop crashing regularly, since that scratches the paint. It takes 40 minutes to charge and the flies fro around 10-12 minutes. we did have to exchange it, since the the first one had a defective battery, but it was a fairly simple exchange. It is a Double Horse 9051, and about 10 inches long. I now have a new hobby.

The Human Brain

So I saw this episode of some show where they were talking about 7 wonders of the human world. One of them was a guy who could memorize thousands of numbers and repeat them flawlessly, and do math problems faster than a calculator. He was autistic, but one of the smartest people in the world. The scientific reason for this was that the different parts of his brain communicated everything with each other. So memories could be smells, numbers mental shapes, and etc. It seems to me that the human brain should always be that way. He used much more of his brain than the 10% most people are capable of using. One thing that he mentioned was that is was difficult the focus in cities due to the overload of detail that only his brain could pick up from the colors, movement, signs, and other things that modern humanity needs. I think that if thats the way our brains should work, then it would be better to simplify to a system without so much overload.

Does God Exist?

For the past month of so, I have been having conversations with atheists on Armor Games Forums. I found this cool article and website that pertained to proof of God, and felt that I should share it. Here it is.

http://www.everystudent.com/features/isthere.html

The Fair '10

These past 10 days, I have been employed by the Clark County Fair. Making minimum wage, I worked 8 hours a day, plus a 1 hour unpaid lunch. My job was as a worker in the General Worker Pool, or as a GWP. This required sitting endlessly at a picnic table waiting for jobs, doing paper pickups, cleaning the grandstands, sweeping, and doing ice delivery.
I befriended Corban, the Ice guy who actually graduated from my school. He's awesome. I made some friends, David, Dennis, and Bryce. I will never see them again, but it was nice to get to know them.

Doing grandstand cleaning was the job everybody feared. At around 8:30 every morning, all the GWP's without excuses went to clean it. We would spray the whole thing down with a fire hose, and the scrub it with sponge mops, and the rinse it again. The process takes between 1-3 hours, depending.
It was very hot this week, so the two preferred jobs were ice, and the Walk on Water shift. Walk on Water was an area in the Exhibition Hall were you could get in a giant hamster ball, play dry in the water, and splash. We, then pick up slashed water with a Zamboni. The main benefit, is being in the air conditioning.
After I got off work at 5, I was in the fair for free. I watched Tucker do 4H with Emma, were he won a major award in Showmanship, rode some rides, Got an amazing 1/2 price deal on great jerky (The Jerky Hut) and watched shows.
The Monster trucks and destruction derby (especially the truck round) were cool. When Californian Kid, a monster truck, tipped in freestyle, Rockstar then proceeded to drive up the flipped truck, and the two of them fit perfectly. I the Derby Truck Round, this old Ford destroyed the competition, and the truck was hardly damaged. It was definately built Ford Tough.

I also saw some interesting things. I saw a really small horse, a rip off, a giant pig, really cool, some good artwork, and crazy etch-a-sketches.

The fair was tiring and hot, but also really fun.

Restarting Blogging

I haven't blogged in around 2 years, but I re-did my blog and am going to pick it back up. I will start off with some cool photo's

Moving In

We have finally moved into our house! After over one and a half years, we are now out of the garage apartment and into our downstairs house. I have my own room, and although small, I love it. I am having a great time living in our new, full house. Our Christmas Tree looks great in our family room, even with half unpacked boxes surrounding it.

Summer

Over the summer, I did a lot more than I posted about. My uncle moved from Pennsylvania to here. With him, we hiked Multnomah Falls, went to the Zoo, touched the end of the ape caves, stayed at the beach several times and stayed at the Lewis River along with relaxing with him. After about two months, he left for a year long trip to Laos.

I attended boy scout camp in Idaho and pulled several "G's" at Silverwood. We went to the fair almost every day and rode lots of rides. Staying on Mt. hood was fun also. We have finished laying floor and our grass grows taller every day. School has started and our relaxing break is over, but we accomplished a lot and enjoyed summer.

Here is me, mom, Emma and Berk with tucker at Multnomah Falls.

Here we are at the Zoo.

Here we are in the ape caves.


The beach was a lot of fun.

I love the Lewis River.

While hiking to Timberline, there were some amazing views.

We got to ride our bikes a lot, which I enjoy to do.

Grit '08

On June 29th, I left for Grit at Island Lake Camp.

With Motto-X, a high ropes course and paintball, I had a blast.

During our seven hours of free time, we could swim, boat, skateboard,

roller blade, play carpet bowl and...... Blob!

Even with all those activities, I had time to sleep.

I was lucky enough to get put on Tom's team, yellow, and we completely

crushed the other three teams. My dad came to lead the 9th graders

and my uncle led my group until my regular leader arrived.

In comp, my dad's green team came in 4th place, but he still had fun.

He became friends with his group and led one to Christ.

Overall, 12 kids became Christians and 23 were baptized.

On Wednesday night, we all brought pillows to the church area

and had communion while worshipping for about 3 hours.

I got to grow in Christ while having lots of fun.

Go Grit!

Funny Prank

This is hilarious! But, it would suck if that happened to you.

What to do with your Spare Time

Whoever this is has way to much time on his hands! There was another video of this same thing by this same guy, and it was three times longer. Still, this is cool.

Parkour

This is from David Bell's movie. He is a parkour artist. All these stunts are genuine. It would be so cool to be able to do that.

Amazing Crash

This is truly amazing! The fact that the driver survived is a fantastic demonstration of God performing miracles in this day and age!

Remodel

My family and I are remodeling our house. It is a big project because we basically have to tear down and rebuild it. We have hit many bumps, like our spiral staircase being built wrong, but is fun.

Here are the stairs to the apartment.

The red sided part is the only remnant of the old house.

Here is the front(the land scaping hasn't been done in this picture).

We have spray foam for insulation

Yellow house. Hard to paint. We painted the whole house by hand.

Here is my grandpa and I putting up our fence.This is the framing of the downstairs house.

This is our spiral staircase.

This is our snow covered 4 car garage. It is quite an adventure remodeling a house.

Family Fun

My family and I traveled out to a nearby campus to play recently.

I achieved an amazing 21.5 m.p.h. on my bike. Downhill of course. Tucker had fun chasing his ball in a big field. He did a good job of not chasing other dog also.

This is me making an amazing frisbee catch.

This is a picture of the campus we went to.

Finally, here is my mom trying to load the dog into the car to go home. Because of him we had to make an extra trip since one of us forgot his leash. All in all though, it was a fun time.

MY Dog Tucker

This is my dog. He is about 5 months old and is a goldedoddle. His name is Tucker.

Go Seahawks!

My favorite football team is the Seahawks. Although they did not make it into the Superbowl, they did have one man play in the Probowl. Go Seahawks!

My First post

I finally convinced my parents to let me blog, so I'm excited. I got the inspiration for my title when I flew a Cessna last summer. I might become a commercial pilot.