One more week before I go back to Texas!!! I love hanging out with my parents and family but I miss all my friends from school.

It is still raining here. In December alone we recieved 22 inches of rain. That is a lot. I think we received most of that since I have been here.

Today, mom and I went up to Coos Bay to pick up my brother and to do some shopping. But there was a major problem. No electricity along the Oregon coast. Some main power line between the coast and the Willimnate Valley went down. Inland there is a very big snow storm. All the stores were closed. The gas stations had lines miles long. The earliest it might be turned back on is tomorrow evening. I am so glad that our power didnt go out considering we do get our power from Oregon.

I have been working on my law school essay. I think it is almost done. I hope to send it out sometime next week. I hope my recommendations were sent in. I need to get a copy of my transcript sent on when i get back to school. I hope to have this all taken care of by the second week of school.

Thats it for tonight. No rambling for me.

It is still very cold here and it is still raining. If the rain were snow, then we would have a couple of feet of snow by now. We were going to go to Medford to go shopping (things are much cheaper there than here) but that got canceled because of the rain. The snow level is down to 2000 feet or so. This low snow level would make driving to Medford difficult because the mountain road would take us above that snow level. We are going to try to go tomorrow (no rain tomorrow).

I have not done a whole lot of anything. What can one do in the rain? Not a whole lot. Even though I have played sports in worse weather, I just do not feel like going out. But that might change because of this thing called boredem. I still want to go hiking. That is still on the plate of activities I want to do while I am home.

Why can't people listen to me? What I mean is, why won't people listen to my words of wisdom. Well, they are not exactly words of wisdom. People that used to come up to me and tell me thanks for doing sound and things like that. They do not listen to what I have to tell them. Everything at church has gone down hill since I left for school. They know that I do the same stuff at school and much much more. I can tell them how to make everything sound and look better. It is embarrassing to have missionaries come to the church and see the type of video system at church. While the pastor is introducing the missionaries, you see the whole computer screen on the screen instead of a black screen and see everything he is doing with the computer. That is totally not right at all. Dad said they do not care about things like that. If they did they would listen and ask for help. I consider my self a professionalist because I now get paid for doing it, but I am not saying I know everything. But I sure do know a lot more than what those people do. I am also going to look for a new church when I return for the summer. It is not because of the audio and visual problems but also because of the pastor. He is not what I need right now. He reminds me so much of a professor giving a lecture. I need someone who does not sound like a professor. I need something more. It is hard to put into words, but I know what I need and I am not getting it at this church.

I am going to end my rambling here. I might get carried away with things if i dont. But I am sure you will all hear more of it later.

Night