Multiple topics to hit:

Hopefully, I'm done spending money on longboarding for a while. My quiver now:

Mctwist Hawaii 38"/topmount/kicktail (Walmart Board)
*Rayne Vendetta dropthrough/40"

*Paris 180mm, 50 dgs
*Caliber 184mm, 44dgs
Stock Walmart Trucks

*S9 Raceforms, 72mm, 82a
Abec11 Grippins, 70mm, 88a
Stock Walmart Wheels, 65mm, 70a
S9 Nine Balls, 70mm, 78a

*Protec Helmet
slide gloves

(* ordered, not here yet)

Half of this stuff is still on the way..haha. This week should be a pretty good week to wait by the door for shipments. It's nice because I'm actually fairly confident that this will be money well invested, rather than something I try a little while and will never try again (see e. guitar, pb gun). Longboarding is definitely become a hobby of mine, and I think it's natural for people to invest in their hobby. This past year and a half, I've spent around $120 on this sport, ($70 board, $20 gloves, $30 wheels), and it has provided me plenty of enjoyment and joy. Of course, this past week, I just dropped another $2** on a new complete, helmet, and DH trucks. It is a lot of money, but this entire past year I've been measuring things in my mind by how many boards I could've bought with said amount of money. Like most hobbies, a little investment is needed. I daresay, it's rather inexpensive compared to some hobbies.

Anyway, enough about longboarding...

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It's so evident this summer. I guess it was unrealistic for me to return to Delaware and hope that nothing changed. Much has changed, some for the better and some for the worse. People have changed, formed complete new groups in college that make them feel more at home than WCEC. At first I was bitter, but I shouldn't be. Just like I make a conscious decision to talk to my DE friends more than my NU friends, they make a conscious decision to talk to more of their college friends.

I remember reading an article in a Toronto Starbucks about how many friends can someone truly have? I forget the exact numbers, but I want to say the article said a person could recognize 5,000 faces (shown by Facebook limiting you to 5,000 friends), memorize 2,000 names, know 150 people, 15 close friends, and 5 best friends. I'm not sure how these numbers were conjured up, but I moderately agree to those general numbers. My point...that there's only so many friends someone can naturally balance.

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A talk some fellow men(? boys?) the other day about the ladies made me realize that we're truly growing up. The dating mindset suddenly doesn't seem as free-spirited and go-with-the-flow. Initial attraction must be paired with well thought compatibility and input. It would be a secret dream of my (and ours) to have many "internal" weddings (and I won't expand on that), but for said reasons above, and looking at past generations...it typically doesn't happen. Which is fine, you can't force people to pair, that only means these...guys I've come so close with will soon depart. Nevertheless, I don't know what the future holds, only God does, and He who gave His son for us, how will He not also give us all things....so trust, yes trust in Him with my future.

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Mr. Lin. The first time I met Mr. Lin was at '07 Winter Retreat. I wanted to go to LT's session, but a bunch of the guys wanted to stay together, so they erased my name and put me in Mr. Lin's session, because it was the only one with enough space. I was bored asleep almost every session, and upset that the guys switched me. Bad first impression of Mr. Lin. The funny thing is that the session was teaching us how to read the Bible, maybe a theme for the rest of what he taught me at WCEC. As I learned more from Mr. Lin and respected him more and more, I came to realize how obedient he was as a man of God. Always having a smile on his face, and always having faith in the leaders when many times we had no idea what we were doing. Why I didn't trust his last decision in my time at WCEC yg, perplexes me. Proved wrong again. Mr. Lin...made me truely believe that WCEC was more than a place we hung out and made friends, but he truly showed me what the Christian lifestyle was like, through his actions, through his teachings, and just being so approachable for any questions I had. I've certainly changed my opinion on Mr. Lin since my first encounter, and he's become a true role model. A Christian engineer =P

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Screw physics. Despite how the experiments can be cool. That is all.

Eddy currents -_-