Rocks Pounding Against the Waves

Today was another day and a hard one at that. I am worn out right now and in the process I actually did my p.e. homework. I worked non-stop from about 7:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Then I took a break from celing tile replacing and hopped on my puter. It that was nice. I got to listen to some BNL, and then Dover, Ben Folds, and then some Smashing Pumkins and then searched for some techno. About 5:30 p.m. I went out and did reverse trick-or-treat in which I took candy from a baby. What we were doing was handing out candy for trick or treat instead of taking it tomarrow and handing out a flier. We stopped at one house where a baby went to take the candy from me as I held it out for him and his mother had told him to say please for it. Well he went to take it and the bag slightly backed up. I wasn't sure how mom was gonna react to him not saying please and the child looked, to me anyway, to be about 2 or 3. Turns out she said that was his way of saying please and then the child said it and I handed him the bag. I felt bad afterward about it. There really isn't anything I could do now but just move on and chawk it up as another mistake to learn from. I did have some good conversations with people in the houses we stopped by. One guy, John, was sitting outside smoking and we told him what we were doing and handed him a flier. He called his grandson of about 4 or 5 and we gave him candy. It was cool because after that he just started chatting with us about casual stuff for about 10 minutes. He was very receptive and a funny guy at that. I hope to see him there tomarrow because that dude was awesome. He talked to us about snake handlers and how crazy the penacostal churches were. Obviously he had some bad experiances there from the way he talked about them. He refered to the snake handling churches as "Penacostal Snake Churches". About that time his either girlfriend or daughter walked into their apartment and passed us. "Don't tell them stories." She remarked kindly yet playfully to him. "Oh don't believe that." She must have heard what we were talking about or a portion of it. "I saw it on the Discovery Channel." He replied smartly to her. "Hey man, it's on Fridays at 11." He turned and said to me and Loc as she walked in. He was a very interesting character and a polite guy who seems to know a lot about the world he lives in but I cannot make too much of a judgement since I only spent about 10 or 15 minutes with the guy. He said he was looking for a church. It would be nice to see him tomorrow. It was funny because at one apartment complex there was an asian lady stitting outside the whole time hawking us to see what we were doing. She didn't take her eyes off of us for a second. She watched strictly as we went around to every apartment. We tried to give her and and granddaughter candy but she kept saying no. That was untill her granddaughter's eyes lit up and explained what we were doing to her in what ever language she speaks. Then she took some and said thank you. Man, I walked a lot today. We must have walked for 2 hours or maybe even more just in the tiny area around my church. We covered about 3 or 4 apartment complexes and with all the combined work it was exaughsting but it was way worth it but it was fun. I will talk to y'all later because fun comes with a consequence. In this case it is exaughstion.
Adam 10/30/04 9:45 p.m. - 10:15 p.m.