Soul On Fire

Coors Field & Steroids

Okay, so the Rockies are on an incredible winning streak and I'm starting think about one of the reasons why this mostly young team is putting it together. HMMM.... (long pause...) okay here's one of the answers: Steroid use in baseball is obviously way down with the new rules, most of the players are normal size men like the league hasn't seen since the early 80's and BODDA BOOM! just like that, Coors Field is a perfect sized park for baseball at 5280. That outfield is a pretty vast expanse of green where these new young hitters just keep getting guys on base, toss in a couple power pitchers and a deep pen and you're looking at the best place for October baseball. WHO THE F WOULD'VE EVER IMAGINED THAT!?

peace,
+Chris.

motocross "training" video


Indescribable hilarity... I want to stop watchjing but yet i can't seem to turn it off...

1-800-762-1502

WTF???

So check this out- This story is about the kind of people whose societal worth is equivalent to Fabio's autograph.

So I've been getting these irritating calls on my cell phone from this toll-free number, 1-800-762-1502. If answered, the other line is silent for a moment and then the call is dropped. A message is never left and if I call the # it is answered by an automated phone but no human is ever reachable.

I have a bad feeling about these calls being some sort of phishing for a scam or an identity theft operation. The calls are persistent, it's been several days and the number calls two or three times an evening. If anyone else endures this harassment I recommend not answering the calls at all. F THEM!!!!!!!!

Well, just an fyi and I needed to vent...'cause this shit is annoying!!!!!!!

indignant,
----Chris

I have a question...

Ladies I am curious about something, something quite random. When you are spending the night how do you decide which t-shirt to sleep in? Is the criteria specific? Length, softness, clean perhaps? Just a general wonderment...

And why do some of you steal the t-shirt?

Hmmm,
--C.score!

Quote Of The Year

"Difficulty does not matter at all. As long as I am making progress." --Avo Loek (paraplegic since 2004)

Inspired,
--Chris

Religious type folks...

...can be extremely hypocritical. Judging 'the rest of us' from some holier-than-thou hovercraft.

It occurs to me that Jesus cared much more for the thoughts and feelings of his fellow man than many of his supposed followers.

I read the Bible too. Don't judge, just love.

remember that shit,

--Christopher I am, Saintly I ain't

It's 3am, I must be lonely...

Well here I am, insomnia and all... my head is filled with so many thoughts that I cannot sleep. Is this a good thing? I wish I was sleeping now, dreaming my worries away. Just the same it seems slightly, strangely positive that I am awake. It's 3a.m. yet I feel alive and I've got so much clarity that I'm probably going to stop myself from writing too much. Afraid of saying the wrong things. Just like life, you know? Afraid of the wrong things, but not necessarily knowing what the right things are.

The truth is that I've never really been afraid of anything and I don't know why. I've made mistakes and have said hurtful things. Not because I don't stop myself, but because I cannot. I'm just that ignorant in a brutal honesty sort of way. Kapeesh? As a woman once told me, I'm "not so good with the words". But hey- atleast I try and I pretty much refuse to say anything that's not sincerity.

Perhaps this is all a dream...no it's definetly not, if I was dreaming I know whom I'd be dreaming about :O)

I guess it's more like a messy 3a.m. conjective theorem. Hmmm...

fading fast,
--C.

The Ex...

She is impossibly beautiful. Can you even imagine another earth walking woman looking more artistically pulchritudinous than this? Brad, what were you thinking? I've heard he isn't the sharpest cushion on the sofa anyway... {thanks dude!}

I CAN'T IMAGINE,

--Chris

My Old Address...

Once upon a time I was in the Navy. This is my ship, it is the USS George Washington (CVN-73). I was stationed aboard the mighty G-Dub from 1991-1994, that's right I'm a PLANKOWNER baby! My job was Aviation Ordnance but I worked in G-2 division so I consider myself a Gunners Mate [Guns].

These aren't the greatest pics in the world but I chose them because I was on board at the time the photos were taken, which would have been during sea trials in 1992 or 1993. I had a hard time in the Navy because my Mom was sick throughout my enlistment. But I did have fun, BELIEVE ME I DID.

I am pretty proud of being a veteran, I'll never do anything as hard as the Navy again in my lifetime. If you've never been haze-gray & underway you probably don't know what working hard and long is.

--C.Vet

Stick A Fork In It...

Complete. It's done. Finito. The Arizona experiment is OVER. Let me just say right now, this place is dirty, overflowing with crackheads & rude people. Civic leaders, don't you care about your citizens? Sorry folks, that is not an opinion, it's a fact...just take a look around. Did I mention that it is bone-scaldingly HOT here too? Mt. Lemmon, I love you. You are my escape and a beautiful enigma amidst a dry, soul-less and baren desert. U of A & ASU, I love you too.

Baby, I'm leavin'. Soon. FC, I have a renewed fondness for you.

Part Deux-

Lessons Learned-

1. Agents lie.
2. 41 degrees celcius in September sucks.
3. Inspiration comes at the oddest moments.
4. Forrest, Jenny, Bubba & Kolleen, I shall miss you tremendously.
5. Dumpy needs professional help.
6. Life lessons are awesome.
7. Agents lie.

Gone like summer on the first day of school,

--Voracious C.

Take Me As I Am-

When all is said and done for me, whenever, wherever- I hope, I hunger to be remembered as a dreamer. I think, when I stop dreaming that I will truly stop living. I'm just not ever satisfied and that tends to lead to new adventures. No morbidity intended, just had one of those epiphany's about myself today. My inner self is constantly dreaming and seeking inspiration.

peace and light,

--C.

Nesta

I would humbly like to make a stern suggestion here...

Please, please, please educate yourself about Bob Marley, his words & his vision. Then watch and listen to his performances...please! You will come to understand his absolute, magnificent, daunted, true greatness. And PEOPLE, dear God will you look beyond 'Legend' and start digging into his real work.

When the day arrives in which this world must unite together to defend Earth, I promise you that the voice & symbol for freedom will be the poor boy from Nine Miles, Jamaica. And that is Bob Marley. Believe me when I tell you that!

I'm speechless,

-Chris

Down 2 Get Down

Well, I came pretty close on the Super Bowl score, and I was correct in my "Branch for MVP" prediction. YAY ME!!

Did Pedro win?,
C.diddy

Naked Women AND Beer

Okay, now that I have your attention GUYS, here is my pick for the Super Bowl: Pats- 33 Philly- 24, and the MVP will be Deion Branch.

you heard it hear first,
-C.wideout

I Got Nothin'

I am totally lacking inspiration today and have no idea what I'm going to write about...we'll see where this one goes...

Broncos lost again, when they should have won. Champ Bailey whom exactly are you 'shutting down'?

I'm not going to put up anymore pictures for awhile. Words are much better means of expression.

Did we really need Giambi & Bonds to admit they used steroids for us to know that they use them? Come on folks don't be so naive. And don't think for a second that 'roids aren't also extremely prevalent in Basketball, Hockey & Football etc. either. BECAUSE THEY ARE

Here I am, come and take me...

Back, Back, Back, Baby! Long time no post...
Alright, well I haven't had the most exciting life of late but I have been BUSY! Last week my nephew was in town from Florida and I got to spend a lot of time with him, which was COOL. He's 10 and a very humble, very good kid.

This week has been insane at school, worse than any finals week I've ever endured. It's all just coincidence (I think?), or are my professors conspiring against me??? Anyway, I've had three tests and 2 ten-page papers due this week! Ugghhh...oh yeah and I was graveyard sick the other day too.

Enough whining, I can't wait for turkey day! I could use a good thanksgiving-like meal once a month, not once a year.

Here is what I'm thankful for this year:
1. my nieces and nephews are all healthy and happy
2. that Apache came home safe all by herself the day she went exploring in August
3. i'm thankful for the true friends that I have (& the old friend whom we'll call Pretty, because she is) that came back into my life last week) [HI THERE]
4. i am thankful for my modestly average good looks and my metabolism!

Love me like the stars above,
----C.

Q-tee-pah-to-tee

Well...I haven't been posting. I've had school, work & I was out of town, I've been busy. I'm watching the first debate and Kerry sounds like a used car salesman, meanwhile GWB is looking frazzled everytime "his opponent" speaks. {Knock him out John (gwb)}
Worth mentioning~ Senator Kerry is weak candidate for the democratic party, in my opinion.

I'm moving this weekend so that will be fun! A new home is always nice for me b/c I love change and I love a new start. Coming soon- Hawai'i! It's starting to get cold in Colorado and it will be awesome to be on "some beach, some where". Love that song...

Wild Thang- I think I boat you,

----Chris

Me and Bobby McGee...

Here's what I'm thinking about today... Okay, today is about the most beautiful day EVER. Sun is shining, a few clouds in the sky, slight breeze, about 80 degrees. BOOYAH, this is what I mean when I talk about how profoundly impressive it is to just wake up free and breathing. What more do I need on a day like today? I've got my health, my hair and my modestly average good looks. Let's face it, my problems (if any) are small and inconsequential. I love this life and anything wrong with it only raises my appreciation for the GOOD THINGS.

I'm looking forward to October 13th because I'm going out to Hawai'i with my buddy Steve or 'Tha Dumpsta' as he prefers to be called... Anyhow he has apparently barely been outside the Tucson city limits and I'm looking forward to expanding his universe and having LOTS of fun out there. Some of us feel and understand the "spirit of aloha" and some of us don't. I belong to the former by the way, and I love that paradise of a land. How sweet it is that we can all share in the things in life that are so benevolent, they're not meant to be kept a secret.

feeling good was good enough for me,
----Chris

Searchers...

What can happen to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

can you hear me now?,
----C.

Twins...

Shrek Diesel... oh wait, the ogre on the left can act, the ogre on the right can't. And I thought it was the same guy, silly me!

blame it on the boogers,
----C.donkey

Boo Radley...

Betcha didn't know that?

A national treasure and our greatest living actor.
In my limited acting experience I have always tried to channel Mr. Duvall when creating the personality and motivation of my own characters. Call me unoriginal if you want, but the man sets a fine example! I hope to meet him someday.

ain't nothin' stock about a stock car,
----C.

tara knows...

Etre. To be.

She is gone... I cannot get past this sentence... turned to stone, much like the days right after she left...

She IS. She exists. Her form may have changed, but her spirit and her energy IS. Physics tells me so.

Then Avoir. To have. I have her. She is mine. That cannot be changed either.

The third fundamental verb, Aller. To go. In some ways, she is gone. Gone, from the physical realm. Gone, from the detection of my five meager senses. Gone from this humble dimension.

She has expanded I think. I will continue to find new ways to talk to her, see her, feel her, hear her, and touch her... I have some of her things and I can still smell her... but her memory is a flood and I am drowning, yet I know that she is no longer afraid, no longer searching, no longer sad.

I am the lucky one. I had my whole life with her. I ache for my father who has had to find a replacement for a love that cannot be replaced.

At times, I have been immeasureably sad. Wandering around like a ghost... as though my compass has been broken. The magnetics of my own existence have been thrown... have been shifted...

Her benevolent, caring, almost gypsy spirit must have been craving the ultimate adventure. That damned disease shred her, it shred us all. She fought more than 4 years, and then she was gone in an instant, although her heart, her beautiful beating heart stayed a few moments more as I held her hand and screamed at her to fight.

My mother has been gone almost nine years, gone. She is gone. That is my sentence. That is all I know...

that is all I can say...

~ July 31, 1947 - September 21, 1995 ~

Karen Sue Lowderman-Stringer

Happy Birthday

I miss you... and I WILL tell your story...

Love you, Chris

I got jokes, and an 8 track...

***The following is not meant to offend any real Pimp's, Mack's, Playahs, Loc-d out O.G.'s or Hustlerz, it's all in good fun. If you really care to delve more into this matter, I strongly recommend you go to www.playerappreciate.com and retrieve your own pimphandle; if you haven't done so already, sucka. LMWAO

Be a Love Distributor

[sic] 'One of the things most hype about being an elevated player is having a name that yer homiez respect. It's that one thing that punks who don't have your money always remember to yell while you're beating them down. "No Dolowhite, please don't beat me down Dolowhite! I left my money in my other pants Dolowhite"!'

It's macktastic,
----Big Delicious C. Silk

Direct Communication...

I hear they're worth a thousand words? Probably a photo-shop creation, but it's classic.

If my mind is the weapon then my heart is the extra clip,
----C.

Fortitude defined...

This is a black cowboy named Mike Moore that I used to know a little bit when he worked out at a gym my aunt owned in Wellington, CO. He is one tough SUMMUMMABITCH! In this pic he is riding with his biceps muscle torn from the bone (on his riding arm!) and a jacked up knee! (He competed 7 or 8 days in a row like this at NFR '03 to finish fourth in the world.)
Git 'er done,
----C.

M.I.A....

Sorry folks! I haven't posted in a few days 'cause I've been bizzee. You've heard that excuse b4? This past weekend I had to help my dad move his lady-friend down to Buena Vista, CO where they've rented a house. Not a bad move for my newly retired dad, as the view from their front porch truly is a "Buena Vista". The move itself makes for quite a story, I had to drive the BIG ASS U-haul truck and it was the biggest jalopy I've ever seen (and I do have some experience with trucks mind you!). I swear I was going up the mountain passes at 25 m.p.h.! Then it rained and hailed so hard that it looked like snow, they even had the snow plow out in the South Park area! The positives were definitely the beauty of the great state of Colorado as well as spending time with my dad which is a bit of a rarity these days. The drive home in his truck felt just like when he and I used to drive hours and hours to my motocross races back in the day...

Today Apache got loose and proceeded to swim (or did she dog paddle?) across the ditch at my dads place (I mean his old place in the F.C.). I had to drive a country mile to go pick her up and then she ran from me. Thanks to the sweet little girl that took a HUGE digger trying to catch her for me! I was feeling guilty for having her cooped up lately so we went to the dog park for a couple hours, where she ran, smelled things, played, ran, smelled things...you get the idea. She is now RACKED OUT. Took my spot on the bed too! Who owns whom here???

I'm thinking about going to check out Telluride after summer school gets out next week. I've got a three week break before fall semester starts on my b-day and I'd like to do some fun/cool stuff with the time off and Telluride has always been on my 'to do' list. Of course $ will be the deciding factor about going there! Being a student at my age = PRICELESS, having the $ that students have at my age = THE WORST THING EVER.

I killed Kenny,
----Chris

Just one wish?

If you could get her # for me, I'll try and do the rest... =8O)

how do I deal?, --
--C.L.H.

Believe the hype?

Yes boys and girls, he did it again, FIRST! This is the fourth stage win this Tour, and he'll proably win saturday's time trial too...to win today he outsprinted four other riders to the finish. Pedal Lance pedal!

the rastaman vibration...is positive,

----Chris

You got served...

If you have to ask, or if you're in doubt about something, you're about to mess up. Do you argue with youself? So that you can convince yourself of something? Well then, you're about to mess up. What is right and wrong? Do you feel uneasy about whatever it is you're doing, when you do it? Well then if you do, you better watch out, 'cause you're about to mess up!

just like Jesse James,

----Chris

Streets of Gold

Look at this cool picture, things like this remind me of how the world is really this huge place full of some amazing places & people! When I get lost in the monotony of life and thinking about how life has changed me, all I have to do is visit somewhere new and it just refreshes me completely.
LIFE....aaahhhhhh!

All I do is keep the beat,

----Chris

Wednesday the 21st

Today is great, I went to the coffeehouse with some old friends that I haven't seen in a while. Also, I spent atleeeeast an hour and a half at the dog park with 'Pache, so she's happily sleeping...

How dominating is Lance? Four days in the mountains and he finishes with the lead time each day. It's amazing to follow too, I see something impressive one day and I think ''he's got to show some exhaustion soon'', then he goes out and does it practically everyday. Today he starts a TT two minutes after the Tour's second place rider Ivan Basso, then he catches him and passes him uphill!

School is good, although it seems never-ending! A friend wants me to work for the Union Pacific, first year people there make 50-60k!!! Makes quitting school for a while seem very tempting...

Random thought: Remember winter 93-94? Those were THE DAYS for me and my boys! We were doing our best Seattle imitations with life, music, and the grunge scene in Norfolk, VA and the U.S. Navy...
Remember this....."I'm going hungry".....STP @ Strawberry Banks, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Mother Love Bone, Alice in Chains and of course, the mighty Soundgarden. Life was good, we worked hard, we acted like young men act and we had a blast pretty much every single day! Thanks for the trip down Memory LN....

I'm bringing the love,
----Chris

My niece!

This is my niece Alexis, she just turned four last week! She is easily what I love most in this world. Somewhere along this life road, I lost my own innocence and the gift of innocence that she brings to my life is quite an extraordinary thing. I am a better person simply because she joined this world.

I got this,
----Chris

My favorite links...for one reason or another

http://www.racerxill.com - Motocross is in my blood, I visit this site often.
http://www.espn.com - Sports, Sports, Sports.
http://www.pbrnow.com - Another of my favorite sports, Professional Bullriding.
http://www.prorodeo.com - ESPN hosted site for the PRCA.
http://www.letour.com - It must be July!
http://www.ebay.com - If you're looking for something, it's here!
http://www.colostate.edu - Where my $ goes...
http://www.circuitcity.com - Where more of my $ goes.
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks2.htm#fix - Tweak your Windows XP.
http://www.ciee.org - Live and/or work abroad.
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed - Coolest site on the web!!!!!!
http://www.smarterliving.com - CHEAPEST flights anywhere!
http://www.komen.org - Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
http://www.mission19.com - Local band.
http://www.polkaudio.com - Poor man's high-end audio.

'round his back-through the hoop-touchdown,

----Chris

Mah Doggie

'Gunther' (L), who belongs to my old roommate, Rachel the fine, & my dog 'Apache Tears' (R). She is a ''Treeing Walker Hound'' which in the south means "coon dog". Mostly she goes/does what her hound-dog nose tells her to.....I love her.

let it flow,
----Chris

Welcome Letter to my blog journal

Hello everyone! Welcome to my new corner of the web. Here you can follow my oh so exciting life.

This page has 2 Functions-

1. It is my own little SOAPBOX - what do I like? what am I thinking, etc...

2. It is my online JOURNAL - the life happenings of me...

C. 1972-2005

Soul On Fire

10.08.2007

Coors Field & Steroids

9.16.2006

motocross "training" video

8.30.2006

1-800-762-1502

10.25.2005

I have a question...

10.23.2005

Quote Of The Year

10.15.2005

Religious type folks...

10.11.2005

It's 3am, I must be lonely...

9.16.2005

The Ex...

9.14.2005

My Old Address...

9.10.2005

Stick A Fork In It...

8.11.2005

Take Me As I Am-

8.07.2005

Nesta

2.18.2005

Down 2 Get Down

1.31.2005

Naked Women AND Beer

12.06.2004

I Got Nothin'

11.18.2004

Here I am, come and take me...

9.30.2004

Q-tee-pah-to-tee

8.29.2004

Me and Bobby McGee...

8.22.2004

Searchers...

8.04.2004

Twins...

8.01.2004

Boo Radley...

7.31.2004

tara knows...

I got jokes, and an 8 track...

7.28.2004

Direct Communication...

7.27.2004

Fortitude defined...

M.I.A....

7.22.2004

Just one wish?

Believe the hype?

You got served...

Streets of Gold

7.21.2004

Wednesday the 21st

7.18.2004

My niece!

My favorite links...for one reason or another

Mah Doggie

7.17.2004

Welcome Letter to my blog journal

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