Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.

Sorry for not posting in awhile. I've been at Lake Oroville since Thursday with the Cary's and a couple other families. It was super fun, we had a floating campsite and a houseboat.
Favorite memory: we were triple tubing and we decided that we would try to stack up all 3 tubes on top of each other. We had them almost stacked for a bit, with 3 of us hanging off of random sides and 1 on top. We managed to hold that for a bit until we tried to straighten the tubes out, and we hit a wave, and someone pulled the top tube back, and 2 of us just fell off. It was reaaaaaly fun. =D

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery a time when you were happy. -Dante

I was talking with a friend about gaming on a team versus playing 1v1 games yesterday. Maybe it's because I'm an only child and because he has like three brothers, but I said I preferred 1v1 games, and he said he prefers team based games.

I like 1v1 games that pit you against another person because I love the idea that you can just rely on yourself, that you don't have to depend on anyone or anything else but your own skill. It forces you to be self-sustaining, self-sufficient. Take cross-country, or any track race that isn't a relay for example.

Running is very much a solo sport. Although points are given according to your place in comparison with your teammates and members of the opposing team, in the end, your teammates can do nothing for you when you're on that last straightaway struggling to keep up with the guy just out of reach in front of you. At the same time, when you blow by that guy in the last couple meters and just barely beat him, your teammates didn't do that. You did that, and you did it on your own power. Sometimes you can't rely on other people. Sometimes they end up holding you back more than they boost you up. Too often they let you down. So take pride in your individual talents; you have them for a reason. :D

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into an exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more. -Steve "Pre" Prefontaine


I did a long run today. It reminded me of how slow I was this track season. I know that the 3200/1600 weren't really my races, and that track isn't even really my sport (none of the races have any hills for Pete's sake. I thrive on the hills), but I still wanted to do well. This past season ended up being one of my slowest seasons, and somewhat of a disappointment. I was losing races that I should have been winning, losing to certain people that posed no problem to me before. My times were slower than they were last year, which is ridiculous because last year I was out half the season on an IT band injury. So, I'm gonna make up for it this cross country season. I'm ready to start beating those people who were beating me before. And I'm not just going to beat them. I'm going to destroy them. They won't know what hit them.

Woke up late. Ate a breakfast burrito. Watched Star Wars. Went online and checked stuff.
elSasquatch did a lyric analysis of a song at my request, go check it out in the Music section; link is with the song. Song kinda reflected my mood at the time (which was super early in the morning). This dude's song analyses are super good, and this one was no exception. I feel like he hit all the points right, and conveyed them really good. Go check him out, heck, hit him up with a song request.

Funny how God works... I was reading Genesis just now and stumbled upon a verse that applied directly to a situation I'm in. God works in weird ways. :)

Wow I haven't touched this website in ages. I'm going to overhaul everything to make it relevent now that it's summer and I have more time to fine tune everything.