Month: June 2003 (Page 2 of 3)

I know, you’re supposed to do the Friday Five on FRIDAY! But I’d just gotten in from a trip and spend family time instead of blog time. You forgive me, right?

1. What’s one thing you’ve always wanted to do, but never have?
Visit the Northwest. For about 10 or so years or so I’ve been wanting to visit Seattle and Oregon. More Oregon than anything. I’d liked to visit Seattle since I’d seen the Movie Singles. Then I saw Fear and Mad Love. Not that they were great movies, but all set in Seattle and really made me want to experience it. When I was grocery shopping in college I bought a National Geographic Traveller Magazine that covered Oregon….and I’ve been in love with the idea of visiting (living?) in Oregon. I missed a golden opportunity to visit when Miss State played Oregon last fall…sheesh! Wanted to visit the UK and maybe AU/NZ too. So much travel, so little money….

2. When someone asks your opinion about a new haircut/outfit/etc, are you always honest?
Pretty much. But the better I know them the more brutally honest I can be. But I’m not going to blow smoke up someone’s rear just because I don’t want to hurt their feelings.

3. Have you ever found out something about a friend and then wished you hadn’t? What happened?
Maybe. It was something I suspected all along, but didn’t know for sure and didn’t want it to be true. But it was/is.

4. If you could live in any fictional world (from a book/movie/game/etc.) which would it be and why?
I used to absolutely love the Dragon Lance series when I was a teen. I always wondered what it would have been like to live in a time/place such as that. Good vs. Evil. Lots of creatures and a little (lot?) of magic. What started as a small trillogy has expanded to vast collection. Not read half of them now.

5. What’s one talent/skill you don’t have but always wanted?
You mean a real skill? Or my dream of wishing I could actually fly?

A friend showed me this site called Brick Testament earlier today. I started clicking through it and thought it looked pretty cool. What it is is a lot of Bible stories, told straight from scripture, but using legos to depict the scenes. Some are quite cool and neato. You’ve got the story of the Creation, Noah’s Ark, the deception of Isaac, the burning bush, all of the Plagues, and many stories from The Ministry of Jesus, Paul’s Epistles, and Acts.

Again, some are quite good…some are a little risque. I read somewhere that the guy who does all these is actually an atheist. But he sure does read his Bible and know a lot of passages either way.

We got back on Friday but I’ve been pretty steady at doing something since I’ve gotten back. Sometimes “doing something” means just hanging out with my wife and daughter, but I’ve not put an entry in the ole blog in quite a while. I really do want to write more than I already have. I don’t want to just put stuff up here so I can say I typed something, but just some more thoughts throughout the day.

Hopefully I’ll put up some of what we did on my mission trip last week, too. It was a great time (except from being away from wife/kid). But right now it’s nearly 2 in the morning after a long night at the church. I’m not sleepy right now, but pretty tired (does that make sense?) I didn’t get much sleep last week either and was up til 2 last night (this morning.) So I better at least go lay down and try to fall asleep.

Gotta take a little time off of from blogging….going to be away from the computer for a few days.

The Political Compass is a site I happen to come across. I’ll post where it told me I fit in politically, but I have to first say that there were many questions I didn’t have an opinion on, and a few that I wasn’t quite sure what it was asking me…but I answered anyway.

It told me I was Economic Left/Right: -1.62, and Authoritarian/Libertarian: -1.63. What exactly does that mean? Go here for a bit of an explaination. But take the test first if you’re going to look at that page. I’m not sure I fully agree. I remember taking a test at GoVote.com back in 2000 about which prez candidate you matched up with most. It was longer, more comprehensive, and had more areas of controlling what your ideals were. I’ll look and see if there is anything like that still on there since an election is coming up soon.

If you take the test…post your results in the comments.

1. How many times have you truly been in love?
Truly? Only once….

2. What was/is so great about the person you love(d) the most?
That even in her love for me, she’s not afraid to challenge me and point out where I could improve, but still loving me no matter what.

3. What qualities should a significant other have?
Like dogs. I once dated someone that didn’t like dogs. I wondered if that would ever be a problem. It never got far enough to be an issue. But I tell my wife that I’d not have married her if she didn’t like dogs…she tells me I’m wrong…but she’ll never know.

4. Have you ever broken someone’s heart?
Maybe…didn’t keep up with the issue long enough to find out after it was over.

5. If there was one thing you could teach people about love, what would it be?
Don’t think the world revolves around you.

I have on a pair of shorts right now that has a tieable drawstring inside the waist band. but it also has the normal zipper/button combo. Tell me why in the world it has the strings?

Here’s the situation: You pull them up, zip them, buttong them. Then you tie them together too. Do they need to be tied? No, they’re already zipped/buttoned. But they’re there so you tie them. Now, hours later you need to unbutton them, take them off, whatever. So you do the normal unbutton/unzip like you’ve done since you can remember…but wait, now there’s some stupid strings tied up in you pants too! So you gotta untie those things that really have no use except to be yet another marketing ploy by either Abecrombie or American Eagle (that’s the budget shoppers AF) to make us think, “Hey, look what these shorts have! I gotta get me some of those so all those fine looking AF or AE models will like me!”

Bah humbug! I leave them untied…

And with my job that keeps everyone pretty busy. With all the kids out of school it seems we ramp up the energy level a little on the events we participate in. But I’m sometimes almost afraid that we allow our actual spiritual instruction time suffer just a bit too. Having fun is…well…fun. But I need to make it a point to be more than just a fun trip/event but still be a time where eternal truths can be taught.

We had a big fat skating party the other night. Not a SK8 patry, but the kind where you go to the skating rink and do the limbo and races and Wipeout and all that good stuff. I busted up my knee a little, but it was all in good fun. And tonight we’re going to play PuttPutt golf. And then eat at the best pizza place on the planet… CiCi’s. Best buffet around.

We do have a pretty full summer with two mission trips and a trip down to Panama City Beach for the Big Stuf camp, with lots of little things thrown in around the calendar as well.

Pray for us…

Did it work? This is a pic of my daughter from about 20 months ago.

This picture about sums it up. We went into the weeking confident at taking the regional and playing for a Super Regional. Then after winning the first game we hear that Georgia Tech lost the first game to Stetson! Can you believe it? We were to play N. Carolina Saturday morning after they had an 11 inning game while using 4 pitchers the night before.

After knocking their starting pitcher out in the 2nd, I think our guys got overconfident…cocky even, maybe? And it went downhill from there. We got beat 10-5. So we had to play Missouri the next game and were able to hold them off to set up a supposed double hearder with Carolina again on Sunday.

It was nip and tuck…but going into the 8th with a 6-2 lead, the fans were already planning the pitching rotation for the next game. But Carolina thought they were ready to go home and scored 4 runs in the next two innings, sent it into extra innings, and then thought they’d end another game in the 11th inning. We were winning 6-4 in the 9th with 2 outs on them….and they hit a two run shot that cleared the fence just inside the foul pole…gotta hate it.

If there’s a bright spot, it’s that we only lose one position player off the team and that we started 5 freshmen in the field (three of them true freshmen). Now, on to football speculation.