So life has been great.  I have been missing a lot of sleep.  That is the theam of the following post.

To start with I have had the most best Christmas break ever, the only thing that could have made it better were if I were with my Family.

Bry, Christine and Genevieve were doing great.  It was so awesome to be around people I like so much, and can be so free with.  It is nice to be around people who look at me and say to there freinds and family "Yea he is kinda out there in left feild but I like him anyway."

I had to take my car into the shop to get the window looked at, they gave me a rental car.  It was a Kia Amanti I belive.  Very much illeagle(so it may not have all been illeagle, but a good deal of it was definutly not advisable) fun was had.

(last night of regular sleep.)

Got my car back the next afternoon and hung out with Christine for the rest of the day.  Goofing around, a movie, and dinner at some random restaurant becasue it was at the top of the hill and had nice curtines.

(up at eight to cook breakfast for the girls)

Then NYC with Bry and Vieve.  It is a good thing that all three of us were "Oh that won't work, ok, lets have fun with what will." people.  We did some fun stuff and got lots of tear down pictures of the event.  Never did see the ball lowering(drop) in real life, only on the screen.  But we had fun, couldn't get out of the city till 5:30 because we all were to cheap.  Then home to Bry's.  Sleep, supper by his Mom.

(Bed at 13:30, supper at 19:30)

I can not stess how great Bry and Christine's familyies are.

Then to trip to NC.  Next stop church with Diana Smith.  I took off after nine or so, and drove to Haymarket, Va. where I was supposed to meet up with an old freind, his phone was off the hook all night and I never could get ahold of him, so down Hwy 29 for nearly the whole lenghth of VA at 55 to 60mph.  Hit the border of NC at 8:55, made it to Grace Hope Baptist Church just in time for sunday school, (for me being just in time, means I was late by a few minutes).  Diana's class was great.  She opened her heart with recent discoveries of God, was real vulnerable and made an impression on the class.  No problem staying awake there, then into the main service.  Stange looks at my pants, can't wait to hear about the questions from people after I am gone.  I had to take notes to stay awake.  I suppose that don't make no sense to you guys, but with me if I take notes I miss everything, I can't listen and write at the same time, so if I take notes I miss the sermon, but I had to take notes to stay awake, which means that I missed most of the serman.

But I took notes and they said something about personal responabilities.  Very cool.

I had a great time a Di's, there was more Church then I have had in the past month.  Very refreshing.

I slept a little the one night and then the next day we chilled lookin at pics of the team and stuff I had shot, then tore down the Christmas tree, ate a wonderfully cooked supper by her father.  Fried Chicken, Taters, Gravy and wondeful biscutts.  Movie, and a walk and talk in the park.

Then I left, on the way out of town I stopped in the TA and ended up talking to a man about Christ.  Led him down a new path, gave great advise and took off for Campus.

Ended up stopping to sleep like four times, so tired, a sixteen hour drive took me a real long time.

The gift from Christmas that most currently sticks in my craw is from Dakota, the little baby boy at Di's house, it appears to be a cold.  I am exhausted and sleepy, and a headace.  Phone call, drugs and sleep is the order of the day.

BlackWolf

Hey there folks, I want to clearly follow the will of the Lord.  That is the most important thing in my life, is that I do what He wants me to do, I don't want me, I want Him.  Pray for my brain.

So its been awile sense I last posted.  Well sense then I went to MI with Jason Womack and got to hang out with his great family.  While there I visited an old buddy Joe Day, he is commin back to TM in a couple weeks to drive truck.  I also got to visit the great Mike Barker, an awsome man of God.  Stayed with him and his family for a few days, it  was great.  Then back to TX with Jason.

We had a great blizzard for most of IL, and MO, and icy roads for all of AR, and clear and dry for TX.  We drove all the way out to Abilene to pick up a bus, hit a huge pot hole and ruined a tire and rim.  Back to Campus, next day replaced bad tire, and replaced the worst of the other three so that the alinment worked out well.  Kept the bad rim, will get to that when I got time.

Christmas with Jason, Steak and Potatoes out on the grill.  Much fun.

Then off to PA to see Bryan and Christine.  Stopped in Bristol, TN to see Daniel Geaslen, a great guy.  Lost the function of my driverside window and had to crank the heat the rest of the way.  Left Bristol, arrived in Tunkhannock, PA at approximatly 01:15, in bed by 01:30.  Saw Christine, she was up for me.

Next morning saw Genevieve, and around 14:00 hours saw the great Bryan Boecker.

Family of everyone has been great.

Pictures are taken, but limited.

More later, sorry to be in a rush.

Love you guys.

BlackWolf

So folks I was driving down the Highway on my way back to campus after the Phoenix ATF, and after visiting the beautiful Bethany Banks, when I look out my window and suddenly think I am in Iraq.  Not the sight you want to see out the side window of your simi.  At least the guns were facing strait ahead, and not at me.

Bryan Boecker the Great says I should be reading the Bible more, and I sware I didn't stage this just as evidence.  I really was studing the Bible at the time.

And seeing as I am reading the Bible in that shot it made me think of someone who is very cool, one of the few men that I can actually say that I love.  And this is how I picture him in my mind when I think of all the great work he is doing in Turkey.  Laughing and enjoying himself every step of the way.  The one, the only, Kris Trine

And the great thing about this picture it also has the man, Big Johnny G.  Anouther man I can say I love, both promoting ATF and laughter, how much better can life get.

I would like to address the issue of prejudice in our country, I am walking around campus and what do I see?  A poster on the wall that is very demeaning to the person I am.  It puts me down right to my last name.  And when I confronted the poster of the poster, all I got was laughed in the face at, and she read this scipture "Song of Solomon 2:15 - Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes." She stopped short in her mocking by not spitting directly into my face. All the time implying that foxes are sly, sneaky, mischivous, and not at all to be trusted.  Now does that describe me . . . Oh nevermind, don't answer that.  There are a lot of cool people in ATF ops nowadays, not that there wern't in the past, today Jenna gets her picture up, the rest of you . . . your time will come.

Now I am not sure exactly what a woollybugger is, but I was called one tonight, and that brings up the issue of should the facial hair go or stay?  Here in the next couple days you guys will make up my mind.  Choose wisley or suffer the rath of your choice.

The Old .................................................Or the New

There were some complaints that last time I did not post about the new team.  Especally not any pictures of you seeing as I took so many at Phoenix.  We here you go.

Now I can't post that pic without a pic of the team before, casue it just don't feel right.  The fact that its bigger may or may not be an accident.

Now last, but far from the least, on the recomendation of one of the people from my "Top five coolest people of all time." List I ate at the Dinner Bell in Van Texas today and this is what I had.  It was great, the pie was a little sweet, ok a lot sweet, but good none the less.

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So I promised pictures of Beautiful Women.  Well I got them.  But first lift my Dad up in prayer, not sure what is exactly wrong, but he may need some surgery or something.  I will let you know as I know more.

To start with, when I got my camera, as any young man would want to do, I wanted my first picture to be of the most beautiful woman in the world.  I was just lucky enough to be around her.  My Mama.

While I was in Colorado I got to see a lot of my family.  And seeing as this post is about beautiful girls I have for the most part left out the men.  And for some reason I don't see a post about men comming up on my site.  But if some lucky girl out there would like to see the hot men in my family, give me a call.

My sister Sam, after a snow drift attacked her, I sware I had nothing to do with it. Next is my niece Destiny doing a little James Bond, and my other niece telling me its time to stop with the classic "kid eating spegetti, having a flash go off in the face way to much" look.

Next is my Brothers Family, simply becasue I want you to see my newfew Colby, and if I include his Mom in the picture then I have the excuse of a beautiful woman just happened to be in the picture and I was to lazy to crop it. We got Kala being uninthused with the whole family picture deal, my siter-in-law with a look she will kill me for posting, my cute newphew Colby, his Dad, my Brother Mickey in the back, and my firstest neice Destiny.

Next is the neighbor kids, you can't get much cuter neighbor girls then this(Kendra and McKala), and my Aunt Chayrol, her grandkids(my 2nd cousins) Dylan having his ball stolen from his little sister Miria.

Then I headed off to Phoenix, AZ, where there were way to many TM girls to even begean to post about.  But I did see one particular girl, who loves to have her pic taken, she loves the camera, it shows with each smile.  The one, the only, the greatest, Jessica.

And who else did I see on my way back to campus for two whole days almost.  Bethany Banks, when I called her on my way to AZ she was putting up and decorating the Christmas tree.  I knew right then I wanted a pic of her with the tree.  And a few hours before I was to leave, she was putting on her make-up and I wanted to watch, so she let me.  This is her all finished, casue she didn't like the shots of it half done, with her mouth open and a pencil stuck in her eye.

 I had such a great time hearing her heart come out of her mouth.

I almost forgot, and I post this because Jeff doesn't like pictures that much, and I suspect that if it wern't for his wife he would never have posed for this one.  Lucky me for his wife Julie.  A great set of loving parents.

And to fiish it off, I saved one of the best for last.  My truck Leroy with the new trailer looks so sexy, expecially right beside my car Smokey.

I really wish you guys could see the sexy new trailer hooked to my truck, but I promissed someone I wouldn't post it.  This person would probably cry at how beutiful the truck and trailer are togeather, I almost cry everytime I see it myself.

So that is it folks, out of close to 1200 pics you get to see 13.  Leaving out some great shots of Colorado, the Guadalupe Mountains, and the new Team, and some current Interns I work with.  Oh well thats the way the boat flotes.

Oh and me, I am doing increadable well, I am finding all kinds of new stuff to live out in my walk with Jesus, and I may be going to see the ball lowering in NYC at the end of the month.  Life is currently grand, it could be better, but I am happy with what I got.

Oh one last thing, I only need one thing for Christmas, a laptop, so if you wish to send cash just let me know and I will get you an address.

BlackWolf

Hey folks, I am sorry that I can't comment on everyones site, but I am on the slowest of slow dial up connections and will be lucky if I can even get this thing to post.

I am having a blast being home, it is below freezing most of the time and we are cleaning house and remodeling the former bathroom into a utility room.  So far I have been able to get out of the majority of the work because I was otherwise ocupied with getting some forgoten stuff finished and sent back to TM.

But tomorow I get to crawl into that spider infested dungen they call a crawl space.  Seeing as it is freezing outside, all the neighborhood spiders will be having their annual "winter retreat" in the crawl space and I will be able to witness first hand the capture and torcher and eating alive of a human.  Namly myself, it should be . . .

BlackWolf

This is for all the beutiful girls I know.  And I do mean all of you, from the ones less then a year old, to the ones aproaching ninty.  I will have delivered to my house by monday, one of these, and one of these, .

Of course you can click on the camera or memory card to see where and for how much I paid.  But let me brag a little before you do.  Thinking to my self I said, "Self are you or are you not goin to China this summer?"  and myself said back to myself "Self, you are, and wouldn't you love to be able to take some great pictures of whatever it is that you see there?" and myself says to myself "Self, Yes I would, and don't you think that it would be great if they were the best pic's possible?"  and of course I agreed with myself and proceeded to find the best camera for the situation of my lack of knowledge of camaras, and my desire to be a pro at what I am not a pro at.  So I humbled myself and asked questions, and then proceeded to go about acquiring what I needed.

The Camera is a Kodak, camara, with a 10Xoptical zoom, which is top rate, it also includes a 3X digital zoom.  Of course I know that when you are zoomed in that far that movement is a big deal, so it also comes with a 1/4" tripod hole, of which I can acquire a cheap small tripod just for those occations.  It comes with a 32mb flash card sd memory, not nearly adequit for anything, so I upgraded to the 512mb card.  Should be able to hold well over 300 pics on that card.  Ye-Haw.  If comes with a dock, and chager.  No double AA batteries here, all lithium ion, recargable and greatness.

So I looked at best buy and piced it out at just above $600.00 at best buy for both units.  Checked in on e-bay and came in around $525.00.  Checked in at some other websites via an electronics comparison site (thanks to gwyn) and got both for around $470.00 including shipping.  I, thanks to some outside help, am the master.

And speaking of masters, the newest star wars file Star Wars III is coming out next may.

I can't wait to take pics of all those beutiful girls.  I am so happy.

BlackWolf

PS Bry this post has some dedication to your influence on taking pictures of beutiful girls, you inspire me.

In honor of someone real cool.

Hope your vacation is the best ever.

BlackWolf

just so you know I was in the truck too.  Driving when this pic was taken, not my truck at the time but a truck none the less.

Guess what I just got?

Guessed what yet?

Come on think harder!!!!

I just got my passport!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

China finaly looks a whole lot closer.

Ye-Haw for the BlackWolf

Who wants to go with?

BlackWolf

So the last post was rushed and not at all entertaining.  So I thought I would enlighten you all as to why suddenly the Lexington ATF was so great.

A couple people decided to show up and that was all good and all.  Kurt, Di and her sister Alicia. 

Very much goodness there, but better then that while I was sitting watching the show on Friday evening the Worship leader Micheal Gunger(that may or may not be how you spell either of those names individually or together.) started pickin at his acoustic guitar.  Bluegrass style.  And see'in as we were in Kentucky these folks knew what he was doing.  Usually people just look at it and think, "Oh thats kinda cool, I didn't know that you could do that with a gitar."  But these kids in Lexington knew that Bluegrass is the sole reason for a gitar to even exist, and if you can't play at least a little Bluegrass you don't deserve the honor of holding a gitar, let alone playing one.  Hence me not playing gitar.  Anyway these kids start hollerin it up, and going crazy.  And one thought crosses my mind, "This gives me hope for humanity."  And immediatly I was sucked into worship, heart, soul, mind, and strength.

Now I need to state that for a couple of weeks I had been strugglin to get into worship, while the will and desire were there the feelings were not.  And see'in as I don't base my life off of feelings it was ok, but not great.  Well that week before I had been praying and tryin to find what was wrong, but couldn't.  I had some small insights, but nothing big.  Then all of a sudden kids cheerin to Bluegrass, and my heart just let loose.  Oh what a great feeling that was.

So then last week was Chicago.  I don't know about praising the Lord with the way you drive a vehicle, but I belive I had a very spiritual experience becoming one with the Chrysle mini-van I was driving last weekend.  For some reason or another we didn't have a host Church in Chicago, so we had to do all the running and VIP runs ourselfs.  A couple of rented vans is all we had.  Oh and Josh Oberhide and his car.  I was able to mold myself into the car and drive downtown Chicago traffic like I born to do.  So many times and places you have to use restraint for the saftey of others, but in Chicago, (notice the end of the city name is "go") you either go or you die.  I choose to live and drive the vehicle the way it was ment to be drivin, which is just short of NASCAR style.

So I had a lot of fun in Chicago, getting up at six am and going to bed at two am.  Oh it was a great weekend.

Oh not to forget the wonderful person, who did a supurb job of being a substitute host church, BeRekah Morris.  She is wonderful for so many more reasons then letting me drive the van, I just can't think of them right now, or I would tell you.

Oh and to add to that list of blessings, but not quite the end of it, I was told that if I would only cut my hair that a certian beautiful young lady would consider dating me. I had to decline.

Also an update on my excessivness, I havn't weighed myself in a couple weeks, but I got to lookin at my belt last week and I can pull through like six to eight more inches of it then I used to be able to in December.

And to top off the update with where I am now, I am in Asburn, IN.  Just north of Fort Wyane.  And what, you may ask, am I doing here.  Well I am trying to make about 35 other people jelouse by saying that I have slept over at Autumn Ashley Renolds house and will be here much more of the day doing laundry.

The Lord blesses me much more then I deserve.  He loves me much more then I know, and last buy by no means least the latest blessing he has bestowed upon me . . . He let me drink coffee from my most favorite Costa Rican, Ligia.

For starters, GO OUT AND VOTE if you haven't already.  If you don't vote I don't want to hear you complain no matter who gets in.

Second, I want to thank all of those who called my Mom and wished her a Happy Birthday, she was really thrilled about it.  And enjoyed everyone of the about 30 calls she recived and about 60 people who she talked to.

Just for your info, I was mistaken, and her Birthday was Today, not yesterday.  Opps, she still liked it and was really happy.  Which in turn made me really happy.

Thanks to you all.

My only advise for the election today is to boil down basic belifes of both the national parties.

Democrates, belive in a hand out.  Helping others without restrait. Always ready to jump in and help out and leave.

Repubicans, belive in a hand up.  Helping others help themselfs.  Always ready to jump in and while helping out teaching those involved how to help themselfs out.

Independents, to chicken to tell others what they think.

Other Third Parties, unually hard core fanatics who are unwilling to compromise to get at least most of what they want.

So pick your poisen and get off you butt.  I would love to see an 80% turn out for the vote.  The higher the turn out the more likly that the picks in the next race of 08 will be better suited to lead this country they the ones we got today.

PS Last week was my most favorite ATF ever.  Sorry Denver.

BlackWolf