Author: Robert

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indian wrestling

okay guys and girls next month (january) we are going to be discussing “wrestling with faith” at the view (wednesday @ 6:15 p.m.). in an attempt to do something a little different and have a slight discussion starter i have decided to do our own version of the reality t.v. show “the contender“. of course, we’re not actually going to box. instead we are going to do indian leg wrestling. i am going to do backgorund stories and everything on each of the people who are involved. i need eight people to be involved. last night i had four people volunteer. i now need 4 other people. if you are interested send me a note or something.

btw, here’s what leg wrestling looks liike.

p.s. austins you are more than welcome to participate in the leg wrestling. all you have to do is send in a video and i’ll work it in.

my run for the day
distance – 3.6 miles
total time – 34:10
pace – 9:29/mile

[Listening to: Wrestling Angels – Grover Levy – Wrestling Angels (3:05)]
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trying to catch up

i’m not blogging as much as i used to and i’m trying to correct it. some of it is that running and photography have been taking up a decent amount of time and therefore i just haven’t had as much wasted time (along with the fact that our church is down by 2 permenant staff members and 2 assistant members thus making the work load more) but allot of it is that i really haven’t had as much to blog about. i haven’t seen anything that i absolutely had to blog about. there have been things that i had thoughts about but not enough to actually write about. for example:

  • i saw a guy who was driving a truck and changing his pullover shirt all while holding a cigarette in his mouth – just picture this for a second and you will understand my amazement – i kept on expecting him to burst into flmes.
  • i continue to hate burger king which has still not responded to my letter.
  • i joined the blockbuster online program last week and i’m pretty psyched about it – we recieved our first movies today. i figure this will help me to reach one of my goals of seeing all the films on the afi’s 100 greatest films list.
  • i’m really proud of pam is going to be dr. pam pretty soon. she’s working her butt off and is about to finish her ph.d.
  • i love youth ministry but i hate the fact that allot of people automatically assume that the youth ministry knows all about recreation. it drives me crazy.
  • thanks to several of y’all responding to my request for help i’ve had several opportunities recently to take people’s portraits and it’s been allot of fun. thanks for helping.
  • i still haven’t finished the da vinci code movie because i was so bored by it that i quit a little over half way through it. i’m not sure i will finish it.
  • i finished lullaby by chuck plalhniuk the other day and it was a very interesting book.

i guess that’s it for now

my run for the day
distance – 8.1 miles
total time – 1:19:13
pace – 9:44/mile

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the good and the bad

tonight i’ve watched two movies (actually i’m watching one right now). the family and i watched “elf” and ate homemade pizza as part of the beginning of advent. this is such a great movie. it gets better and better with age.

i’m presently 45 minutes into “the da vinci code” and i’m bored to tears. i can’t believe such an awful movie could stir up such controversy. it’s junk.

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thanksgiving

is thanksgiving america’s modern holiday of pilgrimage? it seems that thanksgiving is the one of the least commercialized holidays within the united states yet possibly the most well traveled. holiday within the u.s. during the thanksgiving holiday you travel, eat, sleep, and watch football.

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deck the halls


every thanksgiving day the fam and i go to see a movie. it’s a fun thing to do on a lazy afternoon. this year we went to see “deck the halls“. the trailer looked funny and therefore we had decent hopes for an at least adequate movie. it looked funnier than “the santa clause 3” so we felt okay about choosing it. it was a pretty decent movie until the last 10 minutes. it was during the last ten minutes that the moview began to produce more cheese than the state of wisconsin. it was so bad that pam and i started singing “calling all angels” to each other in memory of the greatest of all cheesey movies “pay it forward“. if you really like cheedar in your movies then this is worth seeing at the theater, otherwise rent it on a very dull night.

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happy turkey day

happy thanksgiving to everyone. to those who called and left messages or text’s on my cell phone thanks. i would respond but i am at my parents’ house right now with no cell phone coverage for my phone or pam’s. i’ll call and wish you a happy holiday when we get back home.

JESUS project rules video

i figured i would post this for those who wanted to see it again from the JESUS project.

my run for the day
distance – 3.0 miles
total time – 28:30
pace – 9:30/mile
note – up and down a half mile hill – very different from running in flat baton rouge

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thank you, information, and a rant

three things i need to say:

  • thank you – to everyone who made our fall retreat (the JESUS project) a success. thank you for your time and willingness to be a part of the weekend.
  • see you tomorrow – i just wanted to remind anyone who is reading this thing that tomorrow we will not have a normal “view” at church. instead we are doing a potluck together. i’m deep frying chicken for everyone. else join us in the student center at 6:15 p.m. and bring something for everyone to eat.
  • my rant – i’m tired of people sending me protest emails that are unfounded. i’ve received three this week (and it’s only tuesday). all three of them have been based on unfounded or at least inaccurate information. i don’t expect businesses to act like they are believers because most of them are not. i do expect businesses to be run ethically and treat people fairly but i don’t expect them to spread a gospel they don’t have as their highest priority. i figure it’s believer’s jobs to spread the gospel – not unbelievers.

my run for the day
distance – 3.0 miles
total time – 24:35
pace – 8:12/mile

[Listening to: I Need You – Jars of Clay – The Eleventh Hour (3:40)]
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i need a water balloon sling shot

the JESUS project, our annual fall retreat, is coming up this weekend and i need a water balloon sling shot for part of it. does anybody have a water balloon sling shot that i could borrow for the weekend? or do you know a place that i could buy one?

[Listening to: Track 01 – – (3:46)]
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now, for the rest of the story

thursday i was listening to paul harvey and was stunned by what i heard him say. during his normal routine of slightly funny stories and personal experience based commercials harvey read a study on whether or not people actually listen to commercials on the radio. he said the study showed that most people actually did listen to the commercials and this prompted him to say over and over again “good for you.” he then began to expound why it was good for us to listen to the commercials by saying that often the commercials that we heard were more true than the stories of the programs/news we would be listening to. he stated that if it wasn’t for commercials we wouldn’t know that there really was a bed that could help us be healthier by improving our sleep or that there was a radio that could produce sound so true to the source that you couldn’t tell the difference between it and a live concert. i kept waiting for him to laugh or something. sadly he didn’t. it’s hard to believe that at one time paul harvey was pretty controversial. at an early age pam and i taught our kids to shout at the t.v. “that’s a lie” whenever they saw a commercial that was making false claims (which is quite often).

thursday i was shouting “that’s a lie” at paul harvey.

my run for the day
distance – 4.1 miles
total time – 35:54
pace – 8:45/mile