Heidi and I

Here is a picture of Heidi and I at the Presidential Inaguration this last week.

Qualifying Exam

So i found out yesturday that i passed my LeTourneau Qualifying Content Exam! which means i can now take the state content test (which has a lower passing score and is said to be easier!) woo hoo!

The Return of the Blogger

So after killing some time this morning i've decided that i miss blogging. Now, i hate writing, but for some reason i enjoy blogging and sharing what's going on with my life. So i'm going to try to make more of a concious effort to blog more often when things happen.
Right now life is pretty busy and fall break couldn't come at a better time. It's mid-term week, so i have a lot of tests to do, but most have passed which is good. Now i just need to make it to Christmas break and get home and enjoy some rest and relaxation. Well, hopefully i keep this up, it should be fun!

Wedding Webpage

For those of you who still look at my blog Heidi and I have a webpage where you can find all of our wedding information. I update it whenever we figure something out for the wedding. The web address is:
http://www.theknot.com/ourwedding/AdamPautsch&HeidiSchondelmeyer

we hope you find it informative!

From the Inside Out

So i heard this song at chapel today and really liked it, so i looked around and found it, here are the lyrics.

From The Inside Out
by Hillsong United

A thousand times I've failed
Still Your mercy remains And should I stumble again
I'm caught in Your grace
Everlasting
Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending
Your glory goes beyond all fame

Your will above all else
My purpose remains
The art of losing myself
In bringing You praise
Everlasting
Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending
Your glory goes beyond all fame

In my heart and my soul
Lord I give You control
Consume me from the inside out
Lord let justice and praise
Become my embrace
To love you from the inside out

Everlasting
Your light will shine when all else fades
Never ending
Your glory goes beyond all fame
And the cry of my heart
Is to bring You praise
From the inside out
Lord my soul cries out

Gas

Got this email from someone...thought it was pretty good.

1. Fill up your car or truck in the morning when the temperature is still cool. Remember that all service stations have their storage tanks buried below ground; and the colder the ground, the denser the gasoline. When it gets warmer, gasoline expands, so if you're filling up in the afternoon or in the evening, what should be a gallon is not exactly a gallon. In the petroleum business, the specific gravity and temperature of the fuel (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, ethanol and other petroleum products) are significant. Every truckload that we load is temperature-compensated so that the indicated gallonage is actually the amount pumped. A one-degree rise in temperature is a big deal for businesses, but service stations don't have temperature compensation at their pumps.

2. If you look at the trigger you'll see that it has three delivery settings: slow, medium and high. When you're filling up do not squeeze the trigger of the nozzle to the high setting. You should be pumping at the slow setting, thereby minimizing vapors created while you are pumping. Hoses at the pump are corrugated; the corrugations act as a return path for vapor recovery from gas that already has been metered. If you are pumping at the high setting, the agitated gasoline contains more vapor, which is being sucked back into the underground tank so you're getting less gas for your money.

3. Fill up when your gas tank is half-full (or half-empty), because the more gas you have in your tank the less air there is and gasoline evaporates rapidly, especially when it's warm. (Gasoline storage tanks have an internal floating 'roof' membrane to act as a barrier between the gas and the atmosphere, thereby minimizing evaporation.)

4. If a tanker truck is filling the station's tank at the time you want to buy gas, do not fill up; most likely dirt and sludge in the tank is being stirred up when gas is being delivered, and you might be transferring that dirt from the bottom of their tank into your car's tank.

Hope this will help ease your 'pain at the pump'

haha!

A man and his ever-nagging wife went on vacation to Jerusalem. While they were there, the wife passed away. The undertaker told the husband, "You can have her shipped home for $5,000, or you can bury her here, in the Holy Land, for $150." The man thought about it and told him he would just have her shipped home.

The undertaker asked, "Why would you spend $5,000 to ship your wife home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here and you would spend only $150?"

The man replied, "Long ago a man died here, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead. I just can't take that chance."