The Random Thoughts Review

eBay Motors: 1991 PICKUP SLIDE IN CAMPER SMALL TRUCK N/R (item 4619090992 end time Mar-12-06 08:34:18 PST)

Another truck camper for sale..

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* 1991 Shadow Cruiser – Sky Cruiser Model
* 7 foot bed length – 12 foot total length
* Jacks and Pickup Brackets Included
* Electric Hookup
* Propane Gas Heat/Cooktop
* Porta Toilet
* Sink
* Refridgerator – Gas or Electric
* Skylight
* Roll-out Windows
* Storm Door
* Truck Camper Mirrors

This camper is a small truck camper that was used on 1991 Chevy S-10 long wheel base truck. The mattress will need to be replaced as well as one small sliding glass window.
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It’s currently going for $886. Who knows how high it will go. I sent the seller some questions:

How much does the camper weigh?
I’ve never had one of these before.. How does the sink work? Is there a fresh water tank and then a grey water tank to hold the drain water? How is the sink powered?
Are there any leaks (now or water damage from past leaks)?
What all is aftermarket?
What weather have you used the camper in? summer/winter, etc.. How did you keep cool in the summer?
I have a toyota pickup. Would this include all that I needed to get it home?
Which window is broke? Has water leaked in as a result?
How does the porta potty work? (do you take the whole thing out and dump it, or what?)
Is that an air vent in the roof?
Is the fridge gas/110ac and 12dc, or just one of the last two?
Are the interior lights 12 volt?
Are the truck camper mirrors bolt on to the old pickup mirrors, or do they replace them?

The seller just responded:

Weight will probably be around 1000lbs,
the water is supplied from hose connection from outside. That also looks like how the water for sink is emptied.
The window that is broke is one of the windows that is in front that would be in connection with sliding back glass of truck.
The electric vent that is on top has leaked alittle that is what caused the mattress to be stained. I temporarely fixed it with duct tape, it will need a new sheild should’nt be that much. That is the only water leak.
I have not used the camper I got it in a estate sale.
Fridge I believe is both.Mirrow are the clip on type I believe.
The hookups are in the camper
they somehow hook to the frame of truck I don’t see any cables that go with them.
Porta potty looks like you take part of it apart I really dont know have not used it. I can get a picture if you like maybe you can figure it out.

So, it sounds like the guy probably wouldn’t be much help when it comes to actually getting the thing in the back of my truck. That’s a definitely negative.

So, I decided to take off work yesterday and go skiing. Winter is quickly disappearing. We’ve had an extremely mild winter here in the midwest, so I’m guessing that the midwest resorts have had a tough time of it this year.

Anyway, I wanted to go skiing. Living in Champaign is a rough thing if you like skiing. The nearest slopes are about 3 hours away, and they are actually south of here. I’ve been to the one in St Louis (Hidden Valley) and Paoli Peaks in Indiana. They are both OK for the midwest. Perfect North is another one in Indiana that I have been wanting to try out, but haven’t had a chance. For yesterday, though, these three were all out of the picture. It is just too warm this far south. It was supposed to be 60 here yesterday, and I think they were predicting 70 degrees for St Louis. Not good skiing weather. So, I started to look north. weather.com has a handy ski resort finder where you can give it your zip code, and it gives a list of the closest resorts. Chestnut Mountain in Galena, Illinois seems to be a favorite that is about 5 hours drive time from Champaign. I also investigated a resort in lower Michigan called Bittersweet (about 4.5 hours drive time). The factors that I was looking at included drive time and vertical elevation drop. Other things, such as price and reviews were secondary. Chestnut Mountain has about 400 foot vertical. Bittersweet was 380 or so. Then I discovered Alpine Valley in Wisconsin. Supposedly only 3.5 to 4 hours drive time, with 488 foot vertical. The reviews seemed to indicate that it was acceptable. And, Wednesday happened to be Men’s day, with $22 lift tickets for guys. (more on that later)

So, with the decision made for Alpine Valley, additional work took place. Tuesday night I got everything packed, planned a bit on the food situation, and tried to go to bed early. I had the alarm set for 5:00am. The resort opened at 10am, so I figured I had my 4 hours to get there if I got out of the house by 6. I ended up rolling out of bed at 5:15, and was out the door at about 5:48. The trip up was pretty uneventful. Sunrise wasn’t even all that impressive. I didn’t run into any precipitation. The weather forecast the night before had predicted some freezing drizzle in the ski resort area from 8-10am, but when I checked the forecast before leaving the house they had removed that. They were predicting rain in the afternoon, though.

I got to the resort about 9:25. I got my lift ticket and walked around a little bit. The resort area consists of 4 or 5 buildings that look somewhat european. They have hotel rooms off to one side that might be interesting if you wanted to stay there for extended lengths of time. There is also a Pro shop (which was closed at the time) and a cafe.

I then took a few pictures and walked around some. By that time it was about 9:45, so I got changed into my ski clothes and prepared to hit the slopes!

Three lifts were running: Valley Flyer, E-Z Rider (both high speed quads) and Mohawk chair (slower chair). Valley Flyer goes to the top of the “mountain”, and the other two go to points on either side of the top. Valley Flyer seemed to service Blacks, so I took that. First run of the day at a new resort.. Ya, I went with a Black. First run down was Lodge Express, followed by Big Thunder. I’d say that Big Thunder is the hardest run there. It’s steeper than the rest at the top. It was followed later by the rest of the runs there: E-Z Does It off of the E-Z Rider lift, Timber Gulch, Timber Trail, Valley View (a lot of poling! No lifts running near the bottom of it), E-Z Pass, First Chance, First Adventure, Broadway, Half Way, East Pass, Cut Throat, Sheltered Valley, Northwest Pass, and the Mohawk Terrain Park… The number of runs sounds more impressive than it actually is. For instance.. To get from the top of the hill to bottom, you could say that you completely ran East Pass, the top half of Mohawk Terrain Park, complete Northwest Pass, complete Cut Throat, complete Half Way, and the bottom half of Lodge Express. So, in normal terms, I’d say that there are about 8 ways down the hill. The rest are just little bits and pieces that jut off here and there.

Crowds were non existent. Lines were non existent. The resorts breaks the skiing up into two time slots. The first goes from 10am – 5:30pm, and the second from 3pm – 10pm. For the first part of the day I would literally say there were probably 30 people on the entire mountain. About 28 of them were men. Maybe 29. Thursdays are apparently Women’s day. It would be interesting to go there on a Thursday and see what the “crowds” look like. Later in the afternoon a few extra people showed up. Around 5:00 I started seeing a few school-aged kids. It was very dead. In most of my pictures you don’t see a single person on the runs. Very uncrowded. Probably 4 or 5 lift rides were with other people. The rest were all by myself.

And I took a lot of lift rides. I would estimate the loop time (lift plus ski run) was about 4-5 minutes. I took a couple of breaks during the course of the day. About 10:30 am I went back to the truck to get my better gloves. About 11:15 or so I went back to the truck and picked up my camera, and dropped it off back at the truck at 11:45. At that time I ate lunch (peanut butter and jelly sandwich, pringles, and some fruit). Going to the truck was a minor affair. I could literally go from slope to truck and back to slope in about 5 minutes. That’s the beauty of a midwest resort. You can park right next to the snow, which means you are parking mere feet from the ski lift.

The snow was good yesterday. I felt, once again, that I was able to work on my technique. The runs weren’t hard, but they were steep enough that I could work on my skills, which is great. The main complaint I guess I had was about the wind. The wind was blowing pretty good yesterday, particular at the top of the hill. I can’t really blame the resort for that, though.

While the sunrise was very uneventful, the sunset from the hill was really nice. It was cloudy most of the day, but the line of clouds stopped an inch or two over the horizon, so the sun had a chance to peek through around 5pm. The snow took on a beautiful golden glow and it was really nice to see. On my last run, the I started getting a few drops of rain on me. It was 5:30 at the time, so I decided it was time to go. I headed back to the truck and got changed out of my ski clothes and was leaving at about 5:45. I had to stop for gas about 30 minutes later, at which point I got a double cheeseburger extra value meal at McDonalds (I didn’t need it, but it tasted good). Then, I just drove back home. While the lift ticket cost me $22, I probably spent over twice that on the gasoline required to get there and back (and $2 toll for the section of I-39 around Rockford, Illinois.) So, that’s the way it goes, I suppose.

All things considered, a successful day. Alpine Valley would be a great resort for beginners. You could go there for a couple of days and be in good shape to tackle the greens in Colorado!

I’ve been to a couple of other Wisconsin resorts since then, including Cascade Mountain and Devil’s Head.

Linode.com

This is a shoutout to linode.com. Since I started my first website back in the 90s, I’ve tried out various web hosting companies. Most have been reasonable quality, but I’ve switched among several as the features and prices changed.

Last year, I purchased a small plan at linode.com. Linode is not your typical webhosting company. Typically, you get a web interface to control your site, and ftp to upload. With linode, you get a full linux “machine”. You choose the distro, you set it up however you want, and you choose everything to put on it. You buy a portion of a machine based on how much RAM, disk space, and monthly transfer that you want. It isn’t for the faint of heart. If you don’t have experience admin’ing a linux box I would recommend that you think twice about this service. But, if you know what you are doing, it provides the ultimate in flexibility.

I have now been with them for a year. I wanted to try out a small plan and see how the year went. I can safely say that it has gone really well. Reboots have been very infrequent (My uptime was over 150 days until a day or two back) and the service is top notch via a ticketing system and an IRC chat channel. Having been pleased with the system, I actually just purchased a larger plan. If you are thinking about this type of setup, definitely consider linode.

So, the parents came to visit a couple of days ago.

A few weeks ago, Mom had mentioned that she had some vacation time coming up in late February and that they might try to come up and visit. For Christmas, I had asked for (and received) a GPS to hook up to my laptop. When Mom saw the thing in action, she decided that she wanted one as well. She figured that this would make it easier to navigate the unfamiliar areas. So, I got her “hooked up” a couple of weeks ago and she had some time to play with the GPS and get it figured out.

Dad is a dairy farmer, and has been for pretty well all of my life. The main relevance of that to the current topic is that owning a dairy farm means that the cows have to be tended to morning and evening, 365 days a year. Period. No exceptions. This has had a definite impact on the vacations that the family has been able to take. You basically have to find someone to do the milking for you, and it has to be someone that you trust with your entire livelyhood. If the milking isn’t done correctly, the cows can be irreparably damaged, thus destroying your source of income. Not a good situation. So, it’s difficult to find someone that knows what they are doing, that is trustworthy, and that is able to do the milking twice a day while you are gone. So, Dad had pretty well decided that he wouldn’t be able to leave the farm.

Last Thursday night I had called to find out what was going on with them coming up. I needed to ask off work if they were going to be around, and I needed at least a little bit of warning to be able to get away with that. They didn’t know. Friday, Saturday and Sunday came and went. Still no decisions. Monday morning rolled around and I was talking to my brother, and he mentioned that I could do something “when Mom and Dad got up here”. So, come to find out, my brother ended up being available and graciously offered to take on the milking duties while Dad got away. So, Mom and Dad were planning to be here about the time I got off work on Tuesday. I got home from work and did some house cleaning. The house was in pretty good shape, except for the bedroom where they were to sleep. I had to clean it up some. (which was fine.. needed done anyway)

Tuesday morning, this revised itself to them being in town around noon. Which ended up being fine. I was able to get off work, and had been waiting at the house for a few minutes when they arrived. I showed the outside of the house, the inside of the house, the cats (Scratch hammed it up; Stu disappeared), and got their stuff moved in. I even turned on the projector and let them see the glorious image.

Then we went to eat. The lunchtime meal was planned for Dos Reales, which has been voted the best mexican place in town several times. I think Mom and Dad were surprised at the size of the portions. Don’t think they were expecting quite that much. A good time was had by all. Mom was a bit worried that the food might be too hot, but it wasn’t, and I think they enjoyed it. Mom got the lunch chimichanga, and Dad and myself both got the Numero Dos, which is a burrito, beans, and rice.

After lunch, we went farther north on Prospect to the shopping area in town. We went by the various places that I shop from time to time, and we ended up at the Verizon store to try and find a replacement antenna for the cell phone that they had brought with them from home. The Verizon store didn’t have the antenna we were needing. Then we visited a used Game place next door and Mom browsed the used N64 games, but didn’t find anything she wanted to get. From the Verizon store, we grabbed some gas at Meier’s before it went up (it had already went up about 20 cents at several other stores around town). Then, a trip in front of Menards and down Neil street in front of mall got us into downtown Champaign. From there I showed them the library, and drove along the route that I walk when going from home to the library.

Once at the house, Mom wanted to work on the curtains. I had been wanting some darker curtains to help with the projector viewing, and just hadn’t gotten around to measuring everything that she needed. So, she had brought some fabric with her and a sewing machine, and was anxious to get to work on making the curtains. I wasn’t going to protest. This process actually ended up taking several hours. But, I now have excellent curtains that block out pretty well all of the light when closed. I can now view the projector anytime I want, day or night. For the winter, this really hasn’t been that big of a deal. When I got in from work of a night it was already dark, so there weren’t any issues with this, except on the weekends. But, with summer on the way, I knew that we’d soon reach a time where it would light until 9pm, which would cause problems of an evening. This is no longer an issue. I now have some nifty green curtains that look pretty good in the room.

Once the curtain issue was sewn up, it was time for supper. For supper, we went to the Texas Roadhouse. I had tried to call ahead, but didn’t find their phone number in the restaurant section of the yellow pages, so didn’t bother. I just hoped to myself that they wouldn’t be terribly busy. This was about 6:45pm or so. We got there, parked directly in front of the building, and didn’t have to wait in line. Perfect. Once there, we enjoyed the peanuts and fresh rolls with the cinnamon butter (yum!). Talk quickly turned to the amount of food we were eating, and this remained a staple of conversation for the entire time that they were here. We ate well. I’ll leave it at that. Anyway, Dad and myself both had a 6 ounce sirloin. I had salad and a baked sweet potato with butter and brown sugar for my sides. Dad had salad and a baked sweet potato with caramel and marshmallows, and Mom just had a baked potato and salad. We ate well, and were quite stuffed when we got done there. As we were leaving, there was 40 seconds left in the Illini basketball game against Michigan. The Illini were down by 4. Come to find out, they lost by 8. Oh well.

From the Roadhouse we made our way back to the house, and watched a couple of Nature shows on TV. Everyone was getting tired at that point, and we retired. Mom and Dad slept in the bed that I normally sleep in, and I slept in the waterbed that I have in the spare bedroom. The waterbed is smaller, and not as well suited for multiple people, so it seems to work out well to give the guests the larger bed.

Yesterday morning arrived, and we got up a bit after 7 and got everything going. Mom wanted to work a little more on the curtains, so she reworked a couple of white curtains that I had and set it up so that I could push back the light-blocking curtains and use some the white curtains when I want to have light in the room. Good stuff.

After we had that ready to go, we went up on campus and I showed them the building where I work. Mom and Dad had the chance to meet the people who happened to be at work that early. This basically consisted of the secretaries, the secretary’s aide, a former office mate, and a couple of co workers. I then showed them my actual office, and went back to our 3d facility and showed them some of the software packages that our group works on. We then ran up to the 5th floor and looked around in the tower room and gave them a nice view of the campus and pointed out some of the buildings in town that you can see from there.

From there, I headed back towards the house. I took them down Green Street so that they could see some of the students. Mom mentioned that she wanted to go to a Barnes & Noble and look for a book. I glanced at the clock, and it was 11am. I asked them if they were hungry; they said no. I thought that we could run to Barnes and Noble and then go to the lunch restaurant (Hickory River Smokehouse (formerly Longhorn!)). So, we headed towards Barnes & Noble. We stopped in to Champaign Surplus on the way, because I wanted to show them a Merino wool sweater that I had seen there before Christmas. But, I couldn’t find it. I can only surmise that they had sold out of them. They had some merino wool, but it didn’t feel like the one that I had seen before Christmas. So, that was a bummer. From there we went to Barnes and Noble, and they didn’t have the book that Mom was wanting. I mention that we could be at Borders in about 3 minutes, and so we went there. Borders had the book that Mom was wanting, but only in Hardcover. However, they had several other books by the same author that Mom hadn’t read, so she picked them up. Dad checked on some westerns, but they didn’t have the westerns that he was wanting. From there, Dad said that he wanted to go by Sams. So, we went to Sams. At Sams, he picked up some cappuccino mix and we grabbed various fruits. The oranges that we got ended up being really bad. Quite a few of them were almost rotten. Very disappointing. Along with oranges, we got nectarines, apples, and bananas. Fruit == good.

After that, we were ready for lunch. A quick jaunt on the interstate took us over to Hickory River. We each got the sliced beef sandwich. I got cornbread and corn as my sides. Mom and Dad both got apple sauce and cottage cheese. Dad really seemed to like the meat. He said a couple of times that it beat any steak he had ever had. They do have good food there. We had to wait in line a while to order, but it wasn’t bad. It was clear that the restaurant wasn’t having any trouble keeping customers.

From there we headed back to the house. Along the way we stopped at a different Verizon store and picked up the antenna that we had tried to get previously. All was good.

In the afternoon I showed them some more stuff on the big screen. Dad considered taking a nap a few times. They planned to leave early in the morning, so a late night wasn’t being planned.

We wanted to eat supper a bit early, so we headed for Biaggi’s (highly rated Italian food) before 6pm. In light of the recent spat of large meals, I had suggested that we might want to get a couple of entrees and just split them up. We got there and I told them that I liked the Chicken Parmesan. They could get whatever they wanted. Mom said that she would defer to Dad, and Dad said that he wanted the Chicken Parmesan. So, I ended up getting the Chilean Sea Bass. The meals came quickly. They brought extra plates for us, and a good meal was had by all. We all agreed that the Chicken Parmesan had a lot more flavor than the Sea Bass. But, having the multiple plates let us try out a little more than we would have otherwise done. Definitely a good idea. We then decided to get dessert. We ended up getting the Cannoli’s, and Bananas Foster. The Cannoli’s had ground pistachio’s on one end, and shaved chocolate on the other. They were good. The Bananas Foster was also good. Both plates looked nice and fancy. We left there satisfied, but not (in my opinion) overly stuffed.

We didn’t want to stay up too late, so I didn’t want to start a movie. We ended up just watching an episode of a TV show. Then it was time for bed. I finished up a book I was reading before turning in for the evening, but still probably laid down to sleep at 9:30 or so. Stu did a pretty good job of sleeping on the waterbed. Scratch was mostly a no-show. Kinda the opposite of the way it works on my normal bed.

Got up a bit before 5 this morning. They wanted to be gone around 5pm. Got everything loaded, and they actually left at 5:17. I ended up going a mile or so on the treadmill, got ready, and went into work at about 7.

The visit was a good one. This was the first time that they had seen my house, and it was nice for them to be able to see it. Hopefully the drive up won’t be as daunting next time, and hopefully they got to see enough of the town to realize that it isn’t a huge overwhelming town.

Went to Hidden Valley and did some skiing yesterday.

This was really a spur of the moment thing. I had sent some email earlier this past week to some friends saying “Hey, looks like Hidden Valley has advanced lessons on Sunday afternoon”, but no one bothered responding until Saturday. Bill was willing to drive up to St Louis, so we decided to meet and get in some skiing.

So, I tried to go to bed early on Saturday night (which, of course, is never successful without training). I knew that I was going to be getting up early on Sunday, so I tried anyway. Got up at 5:10 Sunday morning, was ready, had everything loaded, and was on the road right at 6am. My plan was to be at the resort approximately when they opened at 9am. When I’m spending $50-60 to drive somewhere, the longer I can be there, the better.

Most of the drive was uneventful, until I actually got to Eureka (which is the last few miles of the trip). It had snowed off and on for the entire trip down, but a few flurries wasn’t going to cause me all that much grief. At Eureka, though, the Interstate was a mess. In the last 2 or 3 miles before I got off the interstate I saw between 5 and 10 accidents. The flurries had built up to the point that the road was just slick. The trucks hadn’t been in yet to do the salting or calcium work, and it showed. Many fender benders (and worse). I managed to fish tail briefly a couple of times, but arrived at Hidden Valley unscathed around 9:35.

I went and purchased my lift ticket (no rental necessary!) and went back to the truck to get changed into my ski pants and boots, etc., when Bill walked by. He had arrived a bit earlier than he had planned. That worked out well, though. He got his ticket purchased, and we were ready to hit the slopes!

We started off by going to Skid Row to get to the bottom of the lift, and took it up to the top of the hill. From there, we quickly branched out and did all of the blues (Lauren’s Lane, Show Me, Eureka, Missi’s Wish, The Badlands, and Josh’s Jaunt). Then, we were onto the two blacks (Ice Man’s Ridge and The Outlaw). Hidden Valley has a “front side” and a “back side” The front side is easier, and the backside is more difficult. The front side has a couple of lifts, and the backside has a single lift. As the day wore on, the resort got busier. We basically shifted back and forth from the frontside to the backside so that we could escape most of the crowds. There was another, cheaper session that started at 3pm, and I think that a fair number of visitors came for that, which also made things busier.

I had a mini pizza for lunch, and we took that opportunity to call some other friends in St Louis (Brian and Brad) and arrange to meet them for supper. Then, we skied over the course of the afternoon. The snow really felt good. We didn’t even end up taking any of the classes that we had planned to take. I know that I seemed to be paralleling pretty well, and just didn’t see the need. We should have taken classes on the second day when we were out in Breckenridge a couple of weeks ago. Oh well. Next time.

We had planned to meet up for supper a bit before 6pm, so we quit skiing about 5, and got changed, called the friends to confirm, and then headed to an Applebee’s that Brad had recommended. Made it to the Applebee’s at about 5:45 and had a rather good House Sirloin.

Brian, Bill, and myself and went to Breck together, but we hadn’t seen Brad for a while, so it was nice to chat with him and find out what was new. We ended up leaving Applebee’s about 7:30, and I started my trip back to Champaign. I ran through snow flurries, and once or twice the roadway was starting to turn white, but it never did get very bad. I made it back home a little after 10:30. I was tired, but I had had a good day. Definitely better skiing than last year at Hidden Valley. Last year it was just too late in the year and the snow was in pretty pitiful shape. Next, I want to get to some of the other resorts around here. (by around here, I mean within a 3-5 hour drive).

Since then, I’ve been to several resorts up in Wisconsin, including Alpine Valley, Cascade Mountain, and Devil’s Head.

Fuel leak forces Fossett to scrub take-off plan

Apparently Steve Fossett isn’t quite ready to take off on his flight around 7/6th of the world.

This past summer, in Oshkosh, Steve Fossett also arrived in the Global Flyer, which Virgin Atlantic paid for. When Global Flyer landed, Steve and Richard Branson both gave a speech.

Global Flyer is a pretty amazing technological advancement. it’s very thin.As you can see in this picture,

At the time, they had said that they were going to make another attempt to fly around the world, and that they were going to go farther. There was a record that they hadn’t broken, and they wanted to do so. Can’t say I blame them. If you’ve got what it takes, you might as well do it.

I ran across this photo today while looking at a technology site and thought it was a bit unique.

The link to the actual article is available, but I thought it might be amusing to see what captions people can come up with for this image. So, feel free to comment and give it your best shot.

There are two main views that permeate humankind as we know it. Either there is a God or there isn’t. I’m going to lump a bunch of the various religions into the group that believes that there is a God and call them Believers. Further, I’ll lump those that don’t believe in a higher power as being Nonbelievers. I’m not meaning either description to be disparaging. They just seem rather accurate in this context.

Now, let’s look at the way that life works.

Believers go through their time on earth being ridiculed and being generally made fun of for believing in anachronistic ideas that are totally without basis according to modern science. Nonbelievers go through their time on earth wondering just what Koolaid the Believers are drinking. After a random amount of time (generally something between 0 and 116 years in modern society) the person, Believer or Nonbeliever, dies, and their time on earth has reached completion. (Yes, I’m ignoring reincarnation. I’ll save that for another essay)

Now, let’s look at the topic at hand. First, let’s say that there is no God. In a worst case scenario here, the Believer ends their existence, having used their time on earth fighting for a cause that ultimately ends up being null and void. The Nonbeliever ends their existence still wondering what was up with the insane Believers. Either way, it’s over. Finished. Done.

Ho hum. Not very interesting.

Next, let’s say that there is a God and look at the worst case scenario here. The Believer ends their time on earth, having endured the ridicule. They then go on to spend all of Eternity in Heaven (feel free to substitute whatever word a particular religious sect uses to describe this situation. I think that pretty well all of them have some concept of eternal life). They get to rest easy knowing that their (max) 116 years of strife and tribulation on earth was worth it. The Nonbeliever ends their time on earth and immediately realizes that God was, in fact, real. They then proceed to an eternity of considerably less bliss than the Believers. Whether called Hell, Eternal Damnation, or something else, the Nonbeliever will have a long, long time to think about the (max) 116 years that they had to make their choice.

So, as we draw near the end of essay, there are still two ways to look at things.

If you are a Believer, your worst case case scenario has you ending your time on earth having fought for a cause that is null and void. If you are a Nonbeliever, your worst case scenario has you spending eternity in a place where you definitely won’t need a jacket to keep yourself warm.

So, my question to you becomes: What factors have I missed in this essay? What am I not considering that makes the above text invalid or incorrect? Help me out. I’m sure that there are people out there that will see flaws in the description above. What are they?