it's been a long time since i've updated this...and i feel that even if it isn't an important, relevant update, i should at least put something recent up here.

i am now certified to carry a Taser M26 or X26...although having it used on me, i'm not sure i would want to just use it on any random person...it isn't the most pleasant of feelings. my leg still feels a little funny from it.

the other day, i was going on my break to eat. it was somewhere between 6-7 a.m. so i stopped  by mcdonalds. for some reason i was craving their pancakes. i had actually wasted part of my break going home and looking for something to eat there before giving in to my more expensive and unhealthy fast food desires. so i went through the drive-thru and i ordered the ultimate breakfast (because i was pretty hungry). the one that comes with the biscuit, pancakes,sausage, eggs, hashbrowns...the works, right? yeah, so i ordered that and pulled around to the mighty Second Window to pay and get my food. it came out promptly...not bad. the guy even said, "i put in some extra syrup for you." why? i don't know. i just figured he was being generous since he saw the big SBU Security logo on the side of the vehicle. it was a nice gesture, and i was grateful to him...at least for a while. then i made my first mistake (well..really it was basically the only mistake; but it was a big one and could've counted as two): i didn't check my order.

yeah, you know where this is going (if you haven't already lost interest).

so i get back to my apt., all ready to dive into those hotcakes that i had been craving. i pulled the styrofoam container out of the bag, opened it, and my heart (as well as my stomach) sank. there was the biscuit, there was the eggs, there was the sausage, there was the hashbrown, there was the two packets of butter, there was the syrup..the EXTRA syrup (thanks a lot generous man). there were NOT the pancakes. none. by this time, about half of my break was over. i was tired from being up all night, and although i probably would've had enough time to go back and correct the horrible mistake, i felt like doing nothing of the sort, even with as much as i wanted those pancakes. so i sat there and ate the very non-ultimate breakfast, disappointed. i was too lazy even to call and schedule an appointment to maybe right the wrong...or get some kind of free food in its place. it seemed to be too much of a hassle for me at the time. maybe that could be counted as a second mistake, but i don't know if it would have been worth it. it's hard to recover from that initial let-down.

so...there's a story that could've taken about five times less space than that, but it's not like i tell long stories very often, so it's okay this time.

i'm in kansas right now. it's good to be back here again. me and jason are supposed to be doing the music at chris' church for the revival that he's preaching at this weekend. prayer would be good. jason is sick. i am sick. my throat hurts and i am coughing a lot. that's not helpful for leading music. if you think about it, you could pray for us.

goodnight everybody.