EVENT: Berny Rubio's Senior Recital

Berny's a friend of mine from the Newman 7pm choir and he, simply put, has an amazing voice. The recital is free and starts at 7:30 in the Brechemin Auditorium in the UW School of Music building. If you have the free time and enjoy great singing, by all means, come see Berny perform!

REVIEW: Yakima Valley Wine Tasting

A great day of wine tasting with the parents today along with a really awesome group of thunderstorms that rolled through the Yakima Valley. We sampled wine at six different wineries; Claar Cellars, Silver Lake Winery, Horizon's Edge Winery, Eaton Hill Winery, Tucker Cellars, and Hyatt Vineyards Winery. I ended up picking up two bottles of Sauvignon Blanc and one bottle of Sangiovese from Claar Cellars, a bottle of Gewürztraminer from Eaton Hill Winery, and a bottle of Syrah from Hyatt Vineyards. Now I should have plenty of wine to hold me for a while!

EVENT: Yakima Valley Wine Tasting

The 'rents and I are going wine tasting in Yakima Valley again this year, after we had a lot of fun doing this two years ago. Poor Miss T has to miss out again, but next year she'll be able to join in the festivities since she'll be 21 then. We'll be driving over early on Saturday, enjoy a day of tasting, spend the evening at the Yakima Ramada, and then head back midday on Sunday.

California... here I come!

Well it's official. I'm moving to California to work on the AUS-CE (Advanced Unmanned Systems - Concept Exploration) team. They are located in Irvine, which is a little south of Anaheim, a little east of Huntington Beach. It's a really cool area (I get to check it out when I went down for my interview), and I have a number of old friends in the area. To all you Seattle folks, I'll definitely miss all of you, but you always will have an open invitation to my place when you come down to the area.

I'll be moving down July 8th, so it's time to start looking for a place to live!

U.S. Catholics likely to follow 'conscience'... What a bunch of crap!

So this just ticks me off... according to a poll on CNN, 74% of people said they were more likely to follow their own conscience on tough moral questions, while 20% said they were more likely to follow the teaching of the new pope.

Excuse me! This just means that you'll do whatever you dang well like instead of following the teachings of the church. Once again proof that we are a society of convenience. What those 74% of people mean when they say that they are Catholic is:

"Yes I'm Catholic", in nice and loud voice, followed by, "when it doesn't conflict with what I want" in a tiny whisper. It just makes me sick.

Congrats to Benedict XVI

This will be an interesting period in my faith life, as for the first time I have a new pope. Like all other Catholics my age and younger (and even some older than me), Pope John Paul II was "The Pope", as we have never known any other pope our entire lives. While we continue to pray for the repose of his soul, we also now have a new pope in our lives, Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger of Germany. My prayers go out to our new pope, that he may continue to guide Catholics throughout the world, and be a pillar of strength to all of us as John Paul was.

Why?

Why am I starting a blog of my own? Two reasons really, with the first being that it'll give me a central, web-accessible place to list major events that I have coming up, thus hopefully helping me schedule better. Secondly, it'll give me a good place to capture some of the crazy thoughts that go through my head. I tend to have too many rushing through at any one time, so hopefully this'll help calm my brain down a bit. In any case, feel free to read or comment; I'll be posting events and thoughts, as well as reviews of music, games, concerts, restaurants, and other toys.

David Kasprzyk (Joragan)