Hello from Santiago

Hello everbody, Yes I'm in Santiago. Long story short Joshua's passport was about to expire so we needed to go to the embassy here in Santiago. So it was made a family outing and we traveled by bus late last night and arived early this morning. We are staying at Pastor Luis's house and leaving Late tommorrow night.

Pictures
Sorry for not getting the pics up earlier. I would have posted them earier but its a bit of a pain with the slow connection here to post each pic individually. I posted the photos here at http://picasaweb.google.com/NathanGabe19/ChileTripPhotosForSlidshow# . I used Picasa because it was the simpliest. Sorry facebook people it just takes to long to post them on facebook. Check back on that site soon I should have more photos up soon.

The Goatee
I need your help readers im putting up a poll of whether or not to keep the facial hair. I've had it for about 3 months now but its starting to annoy but im not sure i want to shave it off or not LOL. Heres a pic of me with the goatee

Im counting on our vote lol.
Thats all from me for now

My New schedule

Well I've been here in Chile for a week and a half and lifes been busy. This past week it been 7 church servises, a old fashioned barbecue and swimming and a 11 hour youth activity. lol it been a little nuts but its been fun(excepted for being sunburned and looking like a fried tomatoe). I already have 3 english/spanish speaking buddys who are alot of fun to hang around with.

So far it looks like my schedule is like this.
Sunday Wake up at 8 am and leave at 9:30 for sunday school in Loncoche then stay for morning service. We come back the the castners house, eat lunch and leave to go to Las Areas for service then travel the hour and a half to Pucon for Evening service and get back to the house at 10 pm to eat dinner. This is the longest day of the week.
Moday Well this is the random day. We dont have any paticular to do on this day. Pretty much a lazy day. good day to catch up.
Tuesday Usually do some work during the day. We have service in Las Areas at 7:30 but we leave earlier for a Bible Study with some people there. Usually get back around 11 pm.
Wednesday Do some odd jobs around the house and do some bible institute work. We have evening service in locoche at 7pm usually get back around 9. We eat and watch somthing an go to bed.
Thursday Thursday is about the same as wednesday abd we have service in Pucon.
Friday This is bro castners study day so its kinda like a free day for me. Friday is my reading and will probably do institute work. We also have Bible institute starting this week at 7 and 4 classes so this will be the night we get home around 12.
Saturday Saturday is much like monday pretty random. I never know what im going to get.

Well there you go thats is my schedule as I see it lol. But its not all services and work. Me and andrew are having a good time talking and watching movies.

Sorry for not posting much but ill have so pics up soon.
Write you all later

6 days yes 6 days!!! Update, 24 and music playlist

Well its become apparent I stink at this whole blog thing. I think the problem is the fact that it become a bur don to have to come up with something every week at keep the whole thing going. And when it comes to things i have to do i try to avoid it lol.

Life is moving right along and my Chile trip is approaching fast. Let me explain whats going on for about 2 years me and Andrew castner have been working out a trip down to Chile.WE worked it all out and I'm spending ten weeks down there in Chile with the castners and the heinzs. And now the day for my departure is 6 days away. I know some of you are thinking why hasn't he said anything about before. well I'm not sure it just never really seemed to come up lol.Well now you know lol. Now I'm preparing to go i have 2 suitcases for clothes and stuff for the castners and heinzs and im starting to pack today. Right now I'm trying to get used to the idea that ill be gone for that long but whatever. I cant wait to go!! This trip should be amazing.

Well with this trip coming and me being in Chile I don't think ill be posting much but you never know so I'm telling you know don't expect to here from me much. SO now I'm going to try to get some random posting out of the way. so here we go

24

So far the season has been amazing Jack is back is even cooler than he was before. The episodes have been interesting with a lady president and the new FBI headquarters. The introduction of new characters has been good and I'm already rooting for some of them and hating others. If you haven't seen any of the new season i encourage you to start. Hulu has most of the eps and its not to hard to jump right in. If you don't much TV this is the show to get into over anything else out there.
watch it!!

Music playlist
Ever since December I haven't had one but i i have gotten some new music that most of you haven't heard so i thought id share
First up is something i fell upon recently its the fringe theme (which i absolutely love) redone by some guy and a synthesised piano. It its a pretty cool
Second up is from doctor who series 4 soundtrack. Out the whole soundtrack which has a lot of fun music these 2 tracks r amazing they combine a quirkiness and somewhat creepiness that i absolutely love.Also I put in Panda po from Kung Fu Panda by HAns zimmer and John Powell. And one of my favorite medal of honor theme by Micheal Giacchino.
And last of all a fun track from Bedtime stories by Rupert-gregson Williams.
Enjoy

Amazing video of the week

U.S. Soldier Shot by Iraqi Sniper - watch more videos

Sorry for not posting in awhile but once i saw this video i had so share it. Absolutely awesome.

Video of the week - Defiance

This movie looks amazing can't wait till it comes out on DVD. Great true story.
oh well just for fun i added the new short of scrat for Ice Age 3. hey who doesnt like scrat??
Enjoy

Finally tagged Twice!!!

Well the day has come I have been Tagged twice for the same thing. So Sam and Amanda here it goes.

1. Choose the 4th folder where you store pictures on your computer.
2. Select the 4th picture in the folder.
3. Explain the picture.
4. Tag four people to do the same.
5. No cheating (cropping, editing, etc.)

So I'm going to post two photos one from my main desktop and the laptop.
First the desktop From the fourth folder which the 2008 Illinois trip.

WEll first of all this picture was taken at the gym where we were having an academic bowl and me and my best friend Luke who is on right were waiting for the next round so i shot a pic. The Really tall guy in the middle is Bro wright Youth pastor for Park meadows baptist Church. Also the guy on the left is a smaller at that time Matthew Brooks. LOL those were such great times.
Now for the second photo from the laptop

This one is from my High School Graduation with my Grandparents outside in front of the School.

Well Ive served both my taggisms and there is no one who i know who hasn't been tagged yet.

Tell me what you think of the new blog look comment!!!

Work in progress

Well im trying to get this to work but i have to work today so it is not finished yet.
Hopefully i will have this finished by tommorow and i will work on putting up a new music playlist. But for now Ill give the video of the week.

I'm back

Well Im returning to the blogging world. Sorry about not posting for 20 days but thing have been a bit busy. Christmas has quickly come upon me and im so happy. I think this Christmas season has be one of my favorites. From the shopping to the decorating and the many events of this Christmas season its all be great times.
I cant wait to give the rest of my gifts to my family this year. Its been so fun thinking about what to get for people and getting great deals (I love you Amazon.com).
Plus I love the gifts i already recieved. I hope to be posting a little more soon so check back plus i have some new things i want to do for the New Year including a new look. Merry Christmas All!!!

New Hess Truck

Well I thought I'd take the opportunity to post on a childhood favorite toy of mine The Hess truck. For those of you who don't know about this ill explain. The Hess gas stations Have released a toy truck for Christmas every year since 1964. The first couple ones were basic Gas tanker trucks and from there they have done everything from fire trucks to a tanker ship lol. I'm posting this because as a tradition my parents have got me one for as long as i can remember until last year. The reason why I didn't get one last year was because I thought I'd grown out of them and the fact of last years travesty of a truck. As things have transpired over the last year my nephew has played with my old trucks and he really seemed to like them so i had the idea to give him the new one for Christmas this year. So today I went out with my dad dropped off my sister and mom. Me and my dad did some arrends and one of them was pick up the truck for my nephew.
When i opened the box to put the batteries in the truck I was pleased to see once again a well built and classy toy. As usual the truck is solid and made well and the front end loader was surprisingly cool. The loader has a mot er and you can control whether it drives forward or backward. The truck has some cool looks and functions as a dump truck and the carrier for the front end loader. All in all they really made up for last years really bad truck and makes me want one for myself lol.In a time when toys tend to be cheaply built and retarded looking this truck is a gem of a toy. To any one who wants a cool toy and is not ashamed of buying a toy truck I recommend buying it for yourself or a younger sibling. Its alot of fun to play with. If don't have a clue what i just posted about or are interested check out this site http://www.hesstoytruck.com/

Video of the week

Looks like another good pixar movie enjoy>

Lethargic

Well its been a week and three days since my last post and I'm sorry. Its been hard to find cool stuff to post about. I haven't come across any cool videos to post. The new star trek movie trailer was a bit of a let down so there went that post and I have been busy working this week to come up with good reviews for Atlantis. So I'm posting on my mood ( lame right )and at the moment I'm feeling a little lethargic. I Hope to have my reviews up by Friday. But till then Happy Thanksgiving.

Music Playlist

Well i updated the playlist. I posted some of my favorites Stargate SG-1 movie soundtracks.

Starting with the theme that starts Continuum and continued by the theme when SG-1 is in Dakara. Following that is the Beautiful song playing when Carter and Mitchell are walking in the Arctic. Also i added Tomin the battle song when SG-1 are at Dakara (a very fun song). And to end the playlist the emotional track when SG-1 have to change their lives in Continuum. Enjoy

Long awaited reviews

Well as many of you now know I'm not very good at writing consistently. Sometimes i just have to buckle down and write and here we go.

The Lost Tribe




Well I don't know were to start. First of all you had to know there was no way to follow up on such a great episode as "First Contact". And The Lost Tribe was definitely not as good as its predecessor but it still was a good episode. The big problem with the ep is the same problem that plagued the fourth season of Atlantis and that is trying to do too much in a short amount of time. I think the ep. would have been better if they would have made it a three parter but i digress. All in all it is a good ep in reveiling the Bad Asgard and of course having Daniel in Atlantis. I give a rating of 3.75


Outsiders

I liked this ep. The episode had what some of the episodes haven't had and that is a classic go thru the gate dilemma. The plot played out pretty well if not a little slow but i have to disagree with Toby it was not boring. All in all it was a good story and was a good watch i give it a 3.75


Inquisition

I love clip shows. That pretty much sums it up for me. But that wouldn't be much of a review. First I liked the idea of the team on trial by the occupants of the Pegasus galaxy it makes for a compelling episode. The episode made a good overview of what had transpired in the 4 years of Atlantis the good and bad. Also this episode reveiled some more things we didn't know about Woolsey and showed off his talents as a lawer. As i said i love Clip shows so that makes me a little biased in my rating of 4.0.

The Prodigal

**spoiler warning** He is dead Micheal is finally dead. I'll Prefice my review with this I don't like Micheal episodes. I wanted him dead last season. With that said the Prodigal was a great episode. From Micheal's siege to his death it was all handled well. So far I haven't been amazed by any of the visual Fx this season but in this ep had some of the best visuals of the season. Plus with all that Teyla finally had a major part of the story. I enjoyed and give it a 4.5. It sits with a three way tie between The Queen and The Shrine.

U gotta love this

This video is great. Singing a capella to john williams songs. This gut is brilliant!!!

Day Late Video Night

In light of all the news on the new Star Trek movie I thought I'd post one of my favorite Star Trek music vids. It does a good job hightlighting all of the movies with a moving song. Oh here are some of the pics I've come accross from Star Trek XI


The Enterprise looks amazing.

The crew looks just right. The uniforms look really cool.

Please sombody please comment on the blog. My comment section is really low, I do really like to see some input whether or not you like the blog or hate it. Well thats all for me tonight. Enjoy

Guess Who came to Pottsville?

Thats right John Mcain
It was a great rally
It all started with waiting

and waiting. Just look at that line somwhere around 2,200 people came.

Hey Look Protesters lol. Bunch of idiots

Look at all the people.

And there they are

It was a great night. It accaully made me excited about the election next week. John's speach was great and he spoke with boldness and strength. Now its time for the Phils to win. Go Fighting Phils!!!!!!

Thursday movie night

This will be a new feature on my blog (I stole it from Toby). I will be posting trailers and or music videos from stargate and star trek. Enjoy
I cant wait to see this movie. Any way its a really good trailer.

Fun Video

Just a fun atlantis music vid. Sorry nothing substantial. I want to watch The lost tribe again before I give it a full review.
Just finished watching Indiana Jones and the crystal skull. I think ill give a review in a day or two.

Furious

Well no Stargate this week so I have nothing to post about. But I just wanted to let the two people who actually read this blog know that i am not dead. I just have nothing to post about.

Arg..... I really have lame excuses. So I'm going to write on something I am furious about right. OK here we go.

Well if you listen or watch any news tomorrow all you will see is that Governor Palin Made a speech in which she spoke on Mr. Obama's questionable links to William Ayers. First they will tell you how outrageous she was for bringing this out. They will say that she was being raciest and offensive. This all makes me furious because what she said was all true. Here have a watch what she said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi3oP74kMjA

And here is what an AP story says http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D93KD6Q00&show_article=1

What they wont say is that all of what she said is true and they have known about since the primaries were over. This just goes to show you how much the media is in Obamas pocket.

All of this drives me nuts and makes me want to yell
WHATS WRONG WITH PICTURE!!!!!!

Double Dose

Well For those who were waiting with baited breath here are my reviews of Atlantis' latest two episodes

Tracker

To honest with you I wasn't expecting much from this episode but was surprised of how it went down. My first expectation when i saw the episode description was "Not another Keller in distress episode" but as I said before I was pleasantly surprised. First I was surprised by the person who did the the kidnapping. It was very cool to see another runner, Ive always wandered if there were more runners other than Ronan. My second surprise was that the writers gave this guy a good back story and not another blah enemy. The third surprise had to be some really good lines between Rodney and Ronan as they were trying to track Jennifer and the runner down. All in all it was entertaining episode it wasn't a super great episode but it wasn't a stinker like "The Seed" so I give a 3.25 out of 5.

First Contact

First I gotta say ever since I saw that Dannie Boy was going to be in Atlantis months ago I've been anxiously awaiting the arrival of this episode and it didn't disappoint from beginning to end. From the beginning I loved Daniel's kid in a candy shop amazement of Atlantis and the banter between Him and Rodney. Secondly I love the new Alien (which really are not new if know what I mean) from their battle suits to their weapons they are just totally cool. You gotta love that really sweet shield that the warrior used. Sorry these kinda elements make my little kid side so happy : ) .

Third I was really happy with the development of Todd and the wraith in this episode from seeing Todd's depression of thinking about what the Wraith would do without having to feed on humans to the quick action of taking the Daedalus. All in all its a great start to a mid season two parter rivaling season 3's funness and season 4's action. I give it a 4.75 out of 5

I can't wait till the second part in two weeks

P.S. After watching "The Queen" for a second time I rate it a 4.5 second on the list of best eps this season.