Doogie Howser Did It, So Why Not Me?

fore score and 102 strokes later

So today I awoke very early to meet Jamie Lofgren on the greens. A beautiful day on the links, no no I’m not talking about Link from The Legend of Zelda but the golf course of course, a horse is a horse, the famous Mr. Ed.

Let me tell you about the clubs that I use, the drivers I use I think they are circa 1942, passed down to me by my grandfather, and the other 3 (yes my whole golf bag consists of only 6 count them 6 clubs) were bought at a church garage sale. A 4 iron, a pitching wedge and a putter.

Jamie and I got paired up with these older gentlemen in their mid to late 60′s or early 70′s. At one point they looked at me and asked me what I was hitting (golf lingo for ‘what kind of clubs are those’) and I told them and they looked at them and said “Oh, you’re hitting Mc Gregor’s” as if it was some throwback to their youth. But my clubs are made entirely of wood instead of the current titanium or aluminum. My sweet spot is denoted by 4 screws in the head of the driver.

But the best part of the day is when the older gentlemen complimented me on my swing and told me if I could hit the ball as well as I had with my piece of poo clubs then I’d surely improve if I got some proper clubs. All in all a great way to start my day, which lasted through work that got done at 11 pm. Off to bed now since I have to be at work at 7am.

PS I got sunburned some (oddly the kind that is red but doesn’t hurt) from being in the sun for 4+ hours. And I got coon eyes from the sunglasses I was wearing too.

Enjoy your day.

12 hours of doom

As usual work sucked, most importantly because I had hoped to not be at work at 11 am so I could hear Nellie McKay on KCRW, but I ended up working from 7am to 6:30pm.

But thanks to the power of technology you can watch Nellie’s performance by clicking here.

If you only want to hear the audio click here.

Stylin with the helps of L.A. Looks

So as you can see I made some minor changes to the blog, including color and most importantly the sidebar now floats properly so that the rest of the text wraps around it. “Mommy wow I’m a big kid now.” I did all of this myself. I didn’t have to ask Kathryn for help, like I did for the prayer request section. But Kathryn did help Amy redesign her site, and I must say it looks great.

I am reading a book about CSS (cascade style sheets) and it helps me understand the programming language that helps design the aesthetics of web page layout.

On a personal note I’m getting really excited about my next week, April 2-10. On the 2nd and 3rd I will be at one of my great friend’s wedding. Jero Howe is getting married, finally!!! So I’ll be in Mexico for that. But on sat night after the wedding I’ll drive back up to Orange County and stay the night there and then on Sunday morning I will catch our Church bus for the ride BACK down to Mexico for our High School Mission trip to build houses with Amor Ministries. We are scheduled to build 3 houses so it will be a quite a week of fun and hard work, but a great break from the doldrums of the Jamba life.

I’m covering some of Amy’s shift tomorrow morning at Jamba Juice since she’s not sure if she’s sick or has allergies. So I do need to sleep sometime soon, since it is now past 12:30 am.

But I think I’ll head down to Room 5 to see Tyrone, Mike and Jay play some great music. Their special guest is this guy Todd Leiberman

Speaking of great music, there’s this really cool 19 year old named Nellie McKay. She’s a cross between Frank Sinatra, Eminem, Ella and who knows what else, but she sounds so much more mature than 19, she’ll be the Norah Jones, breakthrough artist of the year. KCRW plays her a lot especially on Morning Becomes Ecletic with Nic Harcourt, his show is on every day from 9-noon. And I just realized that Nellie is scheduled to be on the show from 11 to 12 this MONDAY MARCH 29th. So take a listen, if you miss her it should be archived on the KCRW site in a week or so, they do a great job of posting all the in-studio sessions.

TTFN

(trite truffles flung to neverland)

Agggggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhh

At the tone the time will be Sunday March 28th at 12:06 am

BEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeah so…I JUST got home from work

no no, I didn’t start work at 9 pm, no not 7pm, you want me to go lower??? Ok ok, for only 4 easy payments of 19.99, I got to work at 12pm…noon that is.

Shoot me now please…

Seriously, I just wasted 1/2, not a mere 1/4 or even a 1/3 of my day, but ONE Half of my day, being at work. No, no work wasn’t slow, it wasn’t busy then slow, it wasn’t really all that much fun, it wasn’t “hey Andrew you’re doing a good job”, it wasn’t “you are not the only person running the store, I’m here too”, it wasn’t any of those things. It was busy THE ENTIRE TIME!!!

Let me just fill you in on how Jamba Juice staffing works.

Per how much $ you make in a given hour then you are allotted a certain number of teammemebers

so if you make $0 – $72 you can have 2 people and not be wasting labor. Or if you make $73 – $130 you can have 3 people and so on increasing the number of people by how much you make. So the day gets estimated, we know when our busy times are going to be and when the slower times are so we plan accordingly. We knew today was going to be busy being a Saturday and all so at one point we had 11 people in the store. For the majority of my shift we had 4 or 5 people in the store. But we were doing sales that allowed for upto 2 extra people in the store. And on top of being understaffed for the amount of business we were doing, I had to give people their breaks. Oh a measly 10 min break is ok, but no these were not only 10 min breaks they were full blown 1/2 hour breaks, and pretty much back to back so I could fit them all in.

So do the math. Down 2 people due to volume of sales minus one person for a break leaves 3 people in the store doing the work that 6 people are supposed to be doing. We closed at 10 pm, I didn’t leave until 12 am. We usually get out in one hour after the store closes. But we had to clean the store before we left…here’s the catch…usually we are slow enough were at least one person can be doing some of the cleaning prior to us closing so that when we finally lock the doors there isn’t as much to do. NOT TONIGHT. So in conclusion…WORK SUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On a brighter side I did get 4 hours of over time, but I don’t think that properly compensates me for my sanity.

Off to bed now

Talk to you guys later.

Google me silly

I officially submitted this page to Google so that when you search for “Andrew Seely” (with the quotes) I show up. Although it’s on the 2nd page, my blog is officially Googleable. *I think I just made up a word. Maybe I can submit that to them too.

Ok Ok Ok – I’m finally caught up

I finished posting about my trip to Spokane which happened almost a month ago. I’m sorry for the delay, but you can read the whole account by day here. It starts with Thursday and as you scroll up you wind your way to sunday and a post about The Passion. (afterthought: I just saw this article. Take a look.)

I still need to post about my thoughts about Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. That will happen soon.

Let me catch you up on a few things going on in my life. I’ve been working A LOT at Jamba Juice. Even though I’m no longer at WaMu, things have worked out to where I’ve picked up probably too many hours at Jamba Juice, but it’s paying the bills.

Along with working a lot, I’ve been working out a lot. I’ve started to train for a marathon. I’ve decided on the LA marathon next year, so I’ve got some time, but I still need to keep motivated to work hard. Coming up soon is my mission trip to Mexico with my church, it will be another much needed break from work. And a very much needed time of service and ministry as I work alongside the High Schoolers.

It’s now 4:15 in the morning and I really should get to bed, I have a 9 hour work day today and an 11 hour one on Sat so sleep would help in that. I’ll try and get to posting some stuff later this weekend but maybe not until Sunday night.

I’m also working on learning more about CSS (the computer language that helps in design of the site) so that I can do a few more things with this page to make it look better, one for instance is making the right hand column stop after the archives and having the text continue the whole width of the page.

Feel free to keep posting prayer requests under the Prayer You section on the right.

Go and see this movie

So I just saw Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Let me tell you…go now!!!

I’ll write more when I have some time to process it more fully, it’s late and I’m tired so I can’t do it now.

The title is taken from a poem by Alexander Pope called Eloisa to Abelard, it’s really long but worth reading.

Here’s a great review about the movie.

And I really do promise that I will get to backlogging the blog and catching you guys up on the recent happs of my life. I’ve slipped into that horrible place of “never updates their blog” (how we all hate those people)(and now I am one of those people).

I swear &$%^#%@#%#*

I’ve been so bad about posting lately. I know, I know, I know.

I still have to finish up some of the posts from my trip to Spokane, a few more fun stories.

I’m working a lot, at Jamba, which is good, so it’s been a bit hard to find time. I don’t have the time at work like I did at the bank to post things. But fear not my friends, the BLOGGER will return.

It is Finished

So today I got the word as I walked into WaMu that I was done. They had gotten to the point where they determined that they couldn’t find the missing 980 dollars.

I found myself at quite a peace about the situation. I had known it was more than likely going to turn out this way for a while. After the weekend trip I really was trying to be focused on what God wanted for me next, so I felt prepared for this moment. Obviously the bank isn’t where God needs me right now.

So all I can really ask for now is for God to continue to reveal to me his ultimate plan.

As you can see I am continually updating from the weekend. So I am back dating all of the blog entries as to seem if they were all done in one evening. So be sure to check back the rest of this week as I finish up the rest of the days from the trip. I hope you enjoy.

The Passion – afterthoughts

On my trip I saw The Passion.

Here are some thoughts that I’ve had in the month that has followed since viewing the movie.

definitely a powerful experience. I cried for about 60% of the movie. And after the movie I didn’t speak for almost 5-10 min. It seemed to affect me in such a way that nothing else has before.

First, we must remember that this movie is only one man’s interpretation of the final hours of Christ’s life. This in no way is to ever be the final or authoritative expression of God’s promise and love to us.

Second, there are a few scenes which really touched me during the movie. The scene where Jesus is a child and Mary watches him fall, during the flashback. Oh the waterworks turned on for that one. Also the scene in which the Roman guard stops to watch as Mary stands in the tunnel as Jesus passes by, the love of this one mother for her son turns into a testament to this one man, that his partner literally has to drag him away to continue the journey.

A few points of disdain towards Mel’s interpretation. I really disliked the portrayal of Satan. She in my mind was made to be very sinister and evoked more a sense of demonic tension and just plain scariness, than what I would see as the air of doubt that continued to plague Christ as he was enduring the final moments of his life. It was nice that he placed that character within the movie, but I’m not sure if most people will see it as more of the feelings of doubt and wantonness of not having to deal with what was before him.

I also did not really enjoy Pontious Pilate’s wife. I think she seemed to detract from who Pilate was. She kept that level of reality from showing through as much as it could have. But at the same time, the humanity of Pilate was shown in such a powerful way, the ability to be seen as a real person not just some person who was emotionally void and heartless.

I think the thing for us next is not how much money this movie is going to make, or whether it is too violent or gory. Or not even if it is anti-semetic or trying to “convert” people (yes, I heard someone on the radio say she was cautious about the movie because she thought it might convert her). I think what is going to be important about this movie is what people do with it. Do we just see it as a piece of art, or a great film. What is the message being taken away from the movie, by Christians and non-Christians alike. Are people being effected to a point where this is the realization of a God breathed scripture of just a historical piece of society that for some holds a higher meaning. It will be interesting to compare this movie to many of the other Jesus movies that have come out in the past. 10 years from now what will be remember, Mel or Christ. One can only hope it is the latter of the two. It is my hope that this movie touches people in a real and meaningful way that draws them not to conversion but at least to a point where they begin to understand the intimacy of Christ and his love for us. For non-Christians to see what sacrifice can mean. Have them begin to think about how maybe they are affected by this man as well as others have been. Time will only tell, I hope there continues to be an open conversation about this movie in the months to come. I hope that the hoopla will die down and the media attention will turn to the post controversy effects of this film.