• Reading - and lots of it... Finished A Clash of Kings, muah. :)  In the middle of about 500 thousand other books still.
  
• went with Jake for my first tandem skydive.
• After jumping out of an airplane, I figured roller coasters couldn't be too scary, and went with the college class from my church to enjoy my first (10 or so) roller coaster(s).
• One heck of an awesome internship at IBM.  Gained a lot of confidence in myself, grew a lot, was stretched a lot, and feel I have some guidance in where I might want to go with this career.
• a wonderful week with Megan.
• a discipleship with Miss Beth who taught me so much
  
• Grew a TON in my spiritual walk. Between my own growth, largely fostered by the discipleship and Jacob's growth as well, I couldn't help but just become obsessed... I'm nervous that the passion is starting to fade, and I need to work to keep it.
• Beach trip with Emma and Bobby.    We didn't call them as much as we had planned though :(
• Celebrated Jake and I's Two Year Anniversary!  yeah baby!

In rearranging loyalties we must have a command of their values. In the animal the first loyalty is to himself. This is destroyed by demonstrating errors to him, showing him that he does not remember, cannot act or does not trust himself. The second loyalty is to his family unit, his parents and brothers and sisters. This is destroyed by making a family unit economically non-dependent, by lessening the value of marriage, by making an easiness of divorce and by raising the children whenever possible by the State. The next loyalty is to his friends and local environment. This is destroyed by lowering his tru st and bringing about reportings upon him allegedly by his fellows or the town or village authorities. The next is to the State and this, for the purposes of Communism, is the only loyalty which should exist once the state is founded as a Communist State. To destroy loyalty to the State all manner of forbidding for youth must be put into effect so as to disenfranchise them as members of the Capitalist state and, by promises of a better lot under Communism, to gain their loyalty to a Communist movement.

Denying a Capitalist country easy access to courts, bringing about and supporting propaganda to destroy the home, creating and continuous juvenile delinquency, forcing upon the state all manner of practices to divorce the child from it will in the end create chaos necessary to Communism.

Under the saccharine guise of assistance to them, rigorous child labor laws are the best means to deny the child any right in society. By refusing to let him earn, by forcing him into unwanted dependence upon a grudging parent, by making certain in other channels that the parent is never in other than economic stress, the child can be driven in his teens into revolt. Delinquency will ensue.

Should it be possible to continue conscription beyond any reasonable time by promoting unpopular wars and other means, the draft can always stand as a further barrier to the progress of youth in life, destroying any immediate hope to participate in his nation's civil life.

By these means the patriotism of youth for their Capitalistic flag can be dulled to a point where they are no longer dangerous as soldiers. While this might require many decades to effect, Capitalisms short term view will never envision the lengths across which we can plan.