Hello, hello, hello! I am writing this from my brand spanking new computer! Yes! It arrived today and I took it over to Josh's house and we got everything running. It's a 2 Ghz with 1 gig of RAM and a 120 gig hard drive running Windows XP. I have a 17" CRT monitor. I'm so excited! Some time soon I plan on buying a DVD burner for it. I can't connect the camcorder to it yet though, because I need to get a firewire cable.

Goodness, have I really not updated since the first of this month? I can't beleive it! I guess I'll start with my trip to TN.

It was awesome! Except for the 23 hour bus trip there and back. I did about ten minute at chapel each night and taught some juggling during the free time. Other than that I was basically one of the counslers. I spent most of my time with the group of boys under Joel (his sister is Rachel C. who I met in Memphis and who pestered the camp director until he called me). The only real differance between me and the other counslers was that they knew where things were and how things were normally done and I didn't. And they were well, while I, on the other hand, was sick.

Ick! That was the one part of the trip that really bothered me. I had a really bad sinus infection, which put pressure on my upper right teeth, which HURT! I had to take medicine one every six hours or I simply could not function. The roof of my mouth was so swollen that it was covering the backs of my upper right teeth! Not fun!

We had about 40 campers (20 guys/20 girls). I spent most of my time with the boys from "Uncle Paul's" cabin. Out of ten boys we had three Nathan's and two Ethans! It did tend to get rather confusing! I also spent a fair amount of time with the girls from "Sharyon" cabin. Whenever my guys would go do something I wasn't really feeling up to (which was fairly often towards the middle of the week!) I would hang out with them. Some of them were really crazy, but we had a good time together.

After I got home things settled down to normal (normal being defined as "not normal"). I had the week off work because we take the July 4th week off. On the 3rd we went to a party at BonnieJean's Sunday school teachers house and had a blast. Everybody but the pastor and his wife were thrown in the pool (and they very narrowly escaped!) I put a pretty good fight when they came after me, but was thrown in none the less.

On the 4th we went out to a friends house for their annual 4th of July party. There were a ton of people there, mostly home schooled families from the area. We had a blast (literally!) The fireworks that Mr. J (Tamera's uncle, btw) had bought were very good and he seems to have spent about three million nine hundred forty-two thousand, eight hundred sixty-five dollars and seventy-four cents on them. It made a very good display. The food was great (and there was lots of it) and the people were all a blast. I had Rickly Lee (a very tall guy) get on his knees and I did a round-house to his head. I am now bragging whenever I see anybody from karate that I got a round-house all the way to Ricky Lee's head!

And speaking of karate, I'm having a blast (I seem to be using that word a lot). I'm hoping to test for orange belt in a few weeks, but still don't know if I will be able to. We got to sparr some a couple weeks ago. I did pretty well. We did "King of the Hill" stlye. I defeated three guys and was finally de-throwned by one of the "older yellow belts" (meaning he has been a yellow belt longer). He beat me 4 to 5, so I think I did pretty well. Then, after class, I got to sparr against one of the black belts. Of course, she wiped the ground with me, but I did manage to score on her several times (and no, she didn't let me hit her). Next week I'm going to be trying to get together with a couple blue belts (both very good at sparring) and fight them a little bit. Yes, I know it's more fun to win when you sparr, but you learn alot more when you fight someone better than you.

Cool! I was just looking at some of the new visulazations on Windows Media Player. Some of them are very sweet!

Work is going well. Next week will be the last week of summer camps. In Aug. they don't have any classes and only have team practice on Monday nights. Since I have karate on Monday nights I won't be able to work then, so I'll have Aug. off. That doesn't bother me much: I have other stuff I need to get done before Sep. (like finishing school!) so Aug. it going to be pretty busy for me. The group of kids I had this week was rather challenging. The more the week progressed, the tireder they got and the crankyer they got. When they went to beam (the one rotation I didn't have them) they gave their teacher a really hard time, so on the next rotation I sat everybody down and read them the riot act. They behaved fairly well after that.

I get to meet Martha next week! Yes! She and some of her siblings are coming over to visit their grandparents and are stopping by our place on Tuesday. Cool, huh?

Well, I need to close this now. Talk to y'all guys later! BTW, David, if you're reading this, post a reply and let me know! God bless y'all!