look!

.... no wires!







I promised this picture so here it is. Welcome to our office.

michael scott's gift to us

i am a huge fan of the office. today at church we got in a big shipment of paper. i mean, dwight totally sold us on buying in bulk with some extra cardstock. then, a little surprise was in the box. wireless headphones! for some reason, it occured to me that this was totally a michael scott idea to send the customers this. i can imagine him parading around the office wearing a pair of his own. and the motto on the box is great, "personal and portable listening pleasure." thank you dunder mifflin for great customer support and free gifts.

pictures will be posted later.

P.S.

apple, forgot to tell you that i called you three different times. i didn't wait for more than five minutes and i was able to talk to someone in the united states that could speak english. thank you.

today is day one of not doing my work on a computer. this is brutal. why is it that we do EVERYTHING on a computer. i am currently using my iPhone for all computer needs.

thank you

this is an open letter to apple:

dearest apple,

thank you so much for what you have done for me in the past. i bought my macbook two years ago and i have been very pleased. when i purchased this fine machine, i also bought the applecare to go with it. ensuring that if anything goes wrong, you would be there for me. and you have. a year ago when my motherboard was freaking out on me and was making black dots appeared on my screen, you replaced the whole motherboard for free. second, when my plastic on my keyboard started to crack in one spot, you replaced my whole keyboard top to my lappy at no charge again. today, i am looking to you for a new sound card. i currently have no sound coming out of my computer and it doesn't even recognize that i have a sound card (due to the voltage in the church's sound system). i know you'll pull through for me. i am about to leave to visit the great city of duluth to drop off my computer at an apple authorized store.

Bryant

selah.......

neglect

sorry to all my fans, but i have neglected north of the ordinary for awhile. my theory is that if i don't have anything interesting to blog about, i simply won't blog.

i have decided recently that i will say NoTo for short. why? because it looks cool.

i finally did it. after over a month of a poor tv signal when most of the time i had no tv..... i got direct tv. i always vowed never to be that person to need tv and know a few people who can live without it but seriously, when i am bored at my house alone, a nice episode of wheel of fortune during supper is nice. or a twins baseball game on a sunday afternoon. oh, and i am SO behind on the office, it's pathetic.

yesterday i had my direct tv installed by a guy named steve. this guy was interesting. for some reason, twice, he asked me if he could use my cell phone because his was in his truck. i couldn't refuse and let him use it as he waited on hold for about ten minutes. so my question for you is, "should have i refused his request to use my cell phone? or is it no big deal?"

yes!

so i figured out to add my twitter updates as a widget on my page. you can follow me now. in other news, spring is coming. but secretly i like summer and fall better.

unexpected packages are the best!

after getting three different student loan statements in the mail on thursday, the mailbox has been the deliverer of bills. until now. on friday, i checked the mailbox and nothing was in there. however, when i walked up to my house on the porch a nice brown box was waiting for me next to the door. this may be one of the best feelings in the world. getting unexpected packages. i took it inside and immediately took out my knife and cut through the clear packaging tape. i found a nice big bag of camp shetek granola in there along a note and a picture that is now on my refrigerator. this was a gift from Grant and Summer. one thing that people don't know about me is that i don't like cereal nor cereal with milk in it. makes me want to gag really. but not camp shetek granola. this stuff is great and i eat it without milk. anybody that has had it knows exactly what i am talking about. so this is my public thank you to grant and summer for being great friends. and thanks for the great granola!

for those about to rock....

found this via summer and she found it via olivet and i had to post it....

all the elements of a true rock concert are found in this video.

lonely?

get the iPod shuffle! why? because it talks to you! today, apple announced the new iPod shuffle. this tiny thing kind of looks like a lighter. it comes in two colors, silver and black and a capacity of 4GB. i have never been a fan of the shuffle but some people are. there is no screen to select a song or playlist so they made it "talk" to you. computer voices always crack me up.

to purchase this non-working lighter that talks to you and plays lady gaga click here

it's coming.....

This guy makes it sound intense

i really don't want to blog about the weather because it could be boring after awhile but this is supposed to be big. here, we are supposed to get snowfall from 8 to 14 inches and then brutally cold temps and winds after that with wind chills from -15 to -25 degrees F. i have my own philosophy about these storms. when they are predicted to be really big, they usually aren't that bad. when they are going to be a mediocre storm, they sometimes misjudge them and they are the HUGE storms.

i will keep you updated to see how much snow we really get. any predictions? maybe i should give something away. post any ideas you have.

church music

david crowder* band is in the studio again. which only means one thing, the webcams are up. to some, this is weird. when they were recording the album, "remedy" they had their webcams up for everyone to see. i would quick pull up their page occasionally to see if i would see ted nugent laying down some killer guitar or david crowder on the couch with his bright orange macbook. my roommate would tell me to stop spying on them. well, they brought it upon themselves. and as i write this, i see david crowder setting up a mic stand.

i am very excited about this new album. it seems like they may have already titled the album, "church music." they even have some vintage pictures of churches on this webcam page. as for now, let's just watch and wait.

spy on the band here

first.blog.ever

this is my first blog ever. sure, i've written a few notes on facebook but i got into the blogging world recently. my friends blog and then ask when i am going to blog. for the longest time, i have viewed my twitter as my blog. but with only 140 characters, you can only say so much. oh and speaking of twitter, if anyone knows how to link my twitter to one of those "gadgets," your help would be appreciated.

back to MY blog. it took me over a month to come up with my title. a lot of thought was put into it but i chose, "north of the ordinary." why? it's a play on words of "out of the ordinary." you see, i view my life as anything but ordinary in the northland. here i've seen temps at -35 F and i hear of how beautiful the summers are at the lake. this is not ordinary to me being from southern iowa.

oh, and that thing at the bottom. apparently i could win vip tickets if i put that on here. i know it makes this page slow to load but vip tickets to dave matthews band would be worth it. i'll take it down after finding out that i didn't win their contest.