I took a trip tonight. It was to a magical land where prices are low and possibilities are abundant. A place where you can get what you want, get it for cheap, and get more for your hard earned money in these difficult and trying economic times. At least, that is the smoke which is blown up our butts.....
I had a list of things that were needed by me and my wife Sarah, and they were as follows:

windshield wiper blades, one 17 inch and one 22 inch
three bottles/tubes of lock de-icer
(possibly wiper fluid)
a bra for the misses
socks

From that list we came home with the following:
a bra (but not the one sought after)
socks

I think the Rolling Stones have it backwards in this case.
Wal-Mart is said to be this great place as i described above, but it is basically a glorified convenience store. You get what you want, but nothing you need. Our car takes 2 different sizes of wiper blades and in every brand Wal-Mart, all of the 22 inch blades were gone. The bras were the wrong style and size. (side note: we found a size 42G. FORTYTWO G!) There was NO lock de-icer, and the guy in automotive said they only got in 2 units. The worst part is that because of the length of the list, we justified the trip to Warsaw, and have very little to show for it.
Was there a lesson learned? No, not really. It will happen again. I have faith in the system. I'll sadly keep going back, clinging to the hope of a slim chance of getting what I need. Next thought: why do I keep trying Starbucks coffee products when every time it cramps up my intestines? Same reason, i suspect. What do i really need?

So, i have my license back.  Spect-freakin-tacular.  Long story short, i have been to the BMV 5 times being jerked around this way and that, concerning the requirements of what you need to renew your license.  Today, i walked in to the BMV in Warsaw.  I walked out in ten minutes with a brand spanking new Operator's License.  No jerking around, no immature and ignorant ladies running the branch.  They knew their stuff in Warsaw.  I recommend them. 
Scene Two.  I have not driven legally in over 4 years.  Sarah and i leave the License Branch at about 11am.  I am driving.  I literally pull out of the parking lot and drive two blocks and try to pull out on SR15 and the car dies.  4 years and two blocks later and i kill the car.  So it seemed to be a spark plug/wire problem because it wouldn't stay running, it sounded like that was wrong, and when you have a problem you start with the most likely cause first (see Occam's Razor; a philosophic law).  I pull the plug wires and guess what.  I damage 3 out of 4 wires.  (see Murphy's Law). So, now the spark plug wires HAVE to be changed, but may not be the ultimate cause of the initial problem.  So, we walk down to Monteith Tire and tell them what has happened and they get our car towed down to the shop and we wait two hours and they fix it.  It was a broken spring in the intake.  By the way, i really recommend Monteith Tire in Wakarusa and Warsaw if you need mechanic work done on your car.  They do excellent work and they all seem to be nice Christian men. 
In closing, i would like to point out a few details that say to me that God was completely in control.  First, if this were to have happened at any other day, things would not have been good.  Sarah and I were both off of work today, so it was no big deal to spend the time stranded in Warsaw.  Since the car had stalled in the middle of a lunch rush SR15, Sarah would have been a nervous wreck if she was the one driving.  It could have happened tomorrow when we were on our way to Ft. Wayne, and would have been stranded farther away from home, and consequently would have been more expensive to fix. 

All in all, i feel pretty comfortable in God's ability to provide and protect me and my family through otherwise extremely difficult and at best, stressful and irritating times.  Also in these times, i am the most thankful for all of the hardships i have endured throughout my life, because i can handle these bad times with a better attitude, and not take out my frustrations on my beautiful bride to be.  Thank you God.  Your timing is so much better than i could have ever dreamed up on my own.

I am as bored as I could possibly be. I am in Bremen, IN this morning sitting in the basement of a bank. I came into work with my girlfriend because I am buying a TV from one of her coworkers. I tried getting a document written for work. I don’t like work, so why would I do more of it on a Saturday? Saturday morning cartoons are on, but they are all horrible. Is this a perpetual problem where you can look back and nothing is as good as when you were a kid, or does the programming and content suck this badly?
I read the first couple of chapters of the book Roaring Lambs by Bob Briner a week or two ago and I was convicted of two things. One, I am not being salt in my workplace. And two, you can complain all you want, but things will only change if you offer alternatives to the status-qrap around you. Thank you Mahatma for sticking your quote in my head, “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” It’s amazing how many of the worlds religions have it dead-on, but are dead-set in going to hell despite the amazing philosophies and concepts they live out in their lives. They are all missing the most important piece.
Sometimes I hate being called a Christian. Sometimes I hate the idea of “missions” because of the number of people every Sunday who sit unaffected in the pews. Most Sundays, I sit unaffected in the pew. I hear of revivals and reformations of the past and my heart wants that in my own life, but more than that in the way we understand what church is. We need to know what it means to seek righteousness. True righteousness and not self-righteousness.

Pretty much true. Long story short, i was electrocuted today by a ground wire. If you know anything about electric wiring, it really shouldn't have happened. I really have to be thankful to God, because if it was a total power failure and i was shocked by the full force of the electricity, i wouldn't have survived. The machine runs on 440 volts. Its enough, that if the ground wire came even close to touching the fuses on the inside that it would arc, and blow and burn up all the fuses. It has done that before. I hate to think what it could have done to me. My chest still hurts from what little juice i got. Thank God i'm ok.

It was hard. It was excruciatingly hard. Editing CSS and arranging things around. Props go to the author of this cool layout [whose links are at the bottom...] So, check it out, have fun, and hopefully this will get me motivated to coming back to publishing things.
Jason

In the next week(or i don't know how long...), i am going to publish my story here on Blogger. My story being, how i came to Christ. If you are a follower of Christ, i would ask you to do the same. The more i go on with my life and the more i read stories and the bible, the more i believe that telling your story is so very important. In the book A Pilgrim's Progress, it is the constant telling of the character Christian's story and hearing those of others that keeps Christian continuing on the path. As Americans, we have been steered away from remembering our story, let alone telling it. So, i encourage you to remember, and tell your story with pride. Christ deserves it so, and so do you.
Jason

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So, i am sitting here in McD's. Lappy took a major dump on me, so i type to you on my Nintendo DS. I will try to get Lappy fixed soon, but i just wanted to try out my bloggy capabilities on DS. So, DS is the man for now. Until next time, DELETED!!!!! Ah ha ha, man thats good.
Jason the Burninator