You know it's the right thing!

You know you are doing the right thing when you want to tell the world about it. When you have nothing but positive reactions when you do tell people about it. I have recently made a comitment to start a Church with a good friend of mine Josh. Ever since I told Josh I was with him on this, and told God I would follow him and his will in my life, I have been so excited. I have told as many people as I can. I wrote an email to my Dad telling him what God has been doing in my life and he read it to my Mom and she cried (happy tears). I have had nothing but positive reaction to all of this. I cant wait to see the idea become a reality and see Gods word spread like a wildfire! AH ha yeah baby wooo!

CMYK and me

WARNING: Lot's of graphic art geek talk ahead

For those of you that don't know CMYK are the four colors commonly used in printing, professionally printing. C-cyan (a blueish color), M-magenta (a purplish color), Y-yellow (a bannanaish color) and K-Black (like your soul!!! j/k). Ok with that technicality out of the way, I had an experience the other day where I needed to send some artwork to a printer. This printer, upon review of my first submission, told me it would be better to use a 2 color process for this particular job (thus eliminating one of the 4 colors commonly used, in this case M&Y). He then requested that I send him a file in EPS or PDF format that had only Cyan and Black or Black and a spot color (a color from the Pantone Matching System). So I did my darnedest to figure out how to get my cool brushed steel effect and logo overlay done in this cool gunmetal blue. Well to cut the story short I was accused of sending him a file that had locked channels and needed to send him a file with unlocked channels. I searched the Internet looking for how to unlock channels. Couldn't find anything. Anyway I ended up removing all traces of M and Y from my artwork, and low and behold M and Y were hiding out in my black mixture. AH HA I said to my self. So after I eradicated yellow and magenta from every inch of my 24x36 monstrosity, I sent him the file in EPS format with the Yellow and Magenta channels deleted from the Channels palette, just to make sure. I haven't heard anything from this guy in 2 days. I guess no news is good news.

I have no reason or purpose to tell that story. Only to document a great victory, I will look back upon this post and say again "AH HA" and laugh... because I'll probably get a call a half an hour before I have to go home from this guy telling me to fix it and resend it!

PS. I hate doing pre-press setup crap!

It's been a while

Check out my wifes Blog, she's cool, I love her and stuff... click on the image below for the Blog of Sarah Marie Popovich!

Hello Blog world. I have been gone a while, from blogging anyway. So too much has happened for me to try and write about it all. I guess I'll do a bullet point thing that seems to be so popular.

• I am so excited about some decisions I have to make. The only thing is, I am really excited about one of the things, and feel very so so about the other. My big decision is whether or not I can do both. So well see what the Lord does.


• I had a big movie day on Saturday, Sarah and I walked to Harkins and watched Mad Money at 12:45 and Rambo at 4:40. We had some sushi at Koi Sushi for lunch it was great. They have this roll (I can't remember the name of it) but it's like a roll that's deep fried and cut in half and it has this sweet sauce that just makes it scrumptious. The movies were pretty good. Mad Money was what I expected it to be... a chick movie that was kinda predictable and I probably could have waited for it come out on TBS. Rambo was very graphic and very fast paced. The story was very to the point and the depiction of the genocide and atrocity's of a 60+ year civil war in Burma was very hard to watch. All in all it was great movie day.


• We are finishing up our book "Plastic Jesus" and it has really opened up my eyes to my relationship with God. I am seeing how, in my life, I have done things because I'm suppose to and not because I want too. That is something, among many others, that I need to straighten out in my life.


• We are house sitting for my parents this coming weekend. My Mom flew out to Maryland on Wednesday to be with my Sister and Adam and their new born baby girl, Abagail Christine Moreland. My Dad flies out this Friday and so we (Sarah and I) are taking care of things for them until my Dad comes back on Monday. Please pray for a safe trip.


• Back to this decision I have to make... I feel this pull, this unexplained call to minister to people, to share Gods love and free gift of salvation. I want to focus my time and energy on doing that. I have lived my Christian life not ever having led someone to Christ on a personal level. I want to change that, I want to share with more people, I want to see Gods kingdom grow. Yeah so no pressure right. Ha ha I want to do the best I can with the talents I have for the Glory of God.

Well then that's all I can think of to write about for now. Oh yeah I saw a movie called Idiocracy today, it was interesting and pretty funny. Thanks Andrew for that recommendation. Oh yeah I am totally looking forward to UFC this Saturday, Brock Lesner is fighting Frank Mir and I could go on about what I think of that fight. I guess I'll have to blog about that later. So yeah I love you all and uh Peace out!

what's hapenin'

Nothing much going on here. with the exception of a phone call at 5:55am from my Dad telling me that my sister (who is due to shoot out a kid) was in the hospital but they might send her home because her contractions weren't close enough together or something. So I guess they did send her home and I can imagine she's at home probably freaking out thinking "this is it, there's no turning back" :) ha ha

On another note I found out my brothers info... like who he's working for. He is in the 3rd Battalion, First Marines, Lima Company, 1st Platoon. Whew, what a mouth full. Please Keep him in your prayers.

You know what I would like to do... This is crazy and I wouldn't even know where to begin to try and achieve such a thing but, if my brother went to Afghanistan, I would love to follow him with a camera and do a documentary type thing you know. Go for a month and do a movie about the life of US Marines in Afghanistan. I know it's been done, but I've never done it. Maybe I should focus on finishing up some other projects that need to get done first.

Back to California

My baby brother Justin Dakota Popovich, I'm sorry PFC Popovich, Justin D. took the long journey back to Camp Pendleton, his permanent duty station for the next 5-6 months. Please pray for him as we don't know exactly where he'll go after that. We have been told either Afganastan or Japan. We're hoping its Japan... I have to be honest for a moment. As much as I would hate for my brother to be in danger for his life... I think it would suck for him to not see any action, he has been under the most intense training of his life, they have been teaching him how to fire his weapon and how to kill in close quarters combat. I think if it were me and I have been training for months in combat and that training is all I have ever known and then I don't get to see any action for the duration of my stay in United States Marine Corps (the best branch of military by the way) I think I would come home and probably kill someone! So I think it would be cool for him to go to the "sand box" fire a couple rounds into a terrorist stronghold, overtake the enemy and come home safe with a few medals on his chest. Above all I pray for his safety.

Sarah proof read my post for me and I asked her what she thought and she said:

"your not hoping he gets into danger, he's a bad ass and he needs to know it by blowing a couple bad guys away"

Eating sushi as an act of worship?!?

Here me out... I had an amazing Saturday. First off I went and shot my new gun at Ben Avery Shooting Facility. It was nice I was there for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours and put about 200 rounds through my Stoeger. Then I came home cleaned my gun relaxed a little bit. Then Sarah and I went to Deer Valley 30 and saw Atonement... It was good it wasn't great but it was good. I'm not gonna review or recommend it, it was a sad chick movie, that's pretty much it. Anyway here's the best part. Sarah and I then went to RA sushi. We ordered 3 rolls, a fried calamari roll, shrimp tempura roll and a crazy monkey roll. It took forever for our rolls to come out so the waitress offered us a dessert or appetizer and we opted for the pork gyoza (pot sticker). So now I'll skip to the crazy monkey roll. It has smoked salmon, cream cheese, and mango all rolled up with avocado, cashews, and tempura flakes on top with some sweet sauce drizzled on top of that. The texture is a bit crazy but the flavor explosion is out of this world.

As I devoured my half of the roll piece by piece I was filled with joy and appreciation and all I think to do was praise God for giving me taste buds, praise God for giving the chef the talent to create such a tasty dish. The point is all I could think of while I ate the BEST crazy monkey roll I have ever had, was praising the all powerful, wonderful, loving God who pours out his abundant gifts to us. I would like to think that appreciating the sushi on Saturday was an act of worship in giving glory to God and his prodigal nature for the infinite flavor combinations he gave us in this wonderful world.

New Gun & Camera

So I made a couple new purchases... I/we bought a new camera it's an Olympus FE-300 it's a 12 mega pixel camera I bought on sale at Fry's Electronics, it was a one time deal I couldn't pass it up.

I have also purchased a new firearm... it is a Stoeger 9mm Cougar 8000 series. I love it, it came with 2 magazines that hold 15 rounds each, it's so sexy, it's double action and has a decocker mechanism. The slide is so smooth I can't wait to shoot it. I also bought 250 rounds of ammo, yeah they have a lot of good deals going on at Sportsmans Warehouse. WOOT WOOT baby!

Look at that huh! So I guess I have made it clear where I stand on home security.

Happy New Year and Stuff

Hello there. Boy it has been a busy weekend. Sarah and I have been hangin' out doin the married people thing. My brother asked his girlfriend to marry him, she's pretty cool and they are planning on having a long engagement. We had lunch at her parents house. Her father is the senior pastor at Palm Vista Baptist Church. Their whole family is pretty cool. It's funny because both of my Grandpa's were Pastors, my Dad was a youth pastor, and now my brothers father in law will be a pastor... wowa wee wa!!! My brothers kid will end up being the anti-Christ watch ha ha just kidding!

So yeah other than that I am so excited to start our bible study up again I have missed it so much. I am also excited to see where or what God wants me to do. I have a weird feeling it will be something to do with media arts for a new Church... I have been talking to two different people who want to start a church, one is further along than the other, but I have worked more with one of the two and I know it will be a blast to start something with them. I hate being ambiguous about all of this but I don't want to use names until I have figured it all out... ha ha well... once I figure it all out I wont need God anymore and we all no that day will NEVER come. (the day I don't need God)