Author: Robert

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random thoughts while waiting for the rush of students

parkview school is about to dismiss for the day and thus a swarm of students are about to run into my study. i’m not complaining about this. afterall, these kids are some of the ones that are the purpose of my job. i just realize that i can’t do anything that requires concentration during this time. so now i’m wasting 10 minutes until they get out and the chaos ensues.

so here are a few random thoughts

  • thanks to my plea and a similar plea by my wife i now have two portrait shoots to practice on. cool. i get to try new things. i like that.
  • thanks to laura p. i’ve been asked to speak at a college retreat for zoar baptist. you guys probably don’t know this but speaking a another church is “gravy” for a minister. all the real ministry takes place with you guys. you know if what i say and do are real. everything that i will talk about with zoar will have gone through the filter of your ears. i’ll know if it connected or not based on how you responded. glen, the college minister at zoar, has to do all the hard work. i just walk in there and talk for a little while. like i said it’s gravy.
  • running in cold weather is one of the greatest things ever. i ran 10.4 miles sunday night and barely broke a sweat.
  • i miss snow. a friend has been blogging about snow and it’s made me miss it.
  • if some of you want to help sunday night at the fall festival we could use it. the youth are doing a dunking booth and serving food to raise money for nicaragua.
  • i love ron tyndal, the counselor at our church. he is ine of the greatest people ever.

okay, the rush is about to happen so i’ll end my random thoughts.

my run for the day
distance – 3.0 miles
total time – 28:45
pace – 9:32/mile

[Listening to: Clocks – Coldplay – A Rush Of Blood To The Head (5:09)]
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the chikcen biscuit

i found out this week that pam and the boys had never actually tasted a chick-fil-a chicken biscuit. i felt as thogh i had failed as a husband and a father. so this morning i corrected this problem. early in the morning while taking adam to school (noah was off school today because of a parent/teacher conference) we went to chick-fil-a and grab a chicken biscuit for pam, noah, and i. the sad thing is that try as i might i could not convince adam to try that small piece of deep fried joy called a chicken biscuit – he settled for hash browns. in the end i was only able to truly convert one of my family members. noah now swears that a chicken biscuit is a piece of heaven that has fried and wrapped in tin foil. pam on the other hand was quite as moved by the awe of the chicken biscuit. she thought it was good but that was about it.

she’s still a wonderful person even though i now know that her taste buds seem to be inaccurate.

my run for the day
distance – 4.8 miles
total time – 46:19
pace – 9:38/mile

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gentlemen, you can’t fight in here this is the war room!

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i’m not sure that this will relate to those who are too young to remember living during the cold war but i watched “dr. strangelove or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb for the first time tonight. i laughed my butt off.

my run for the day
distance – 3.6 miles
total time – 34:15
pace – 9:45/mile

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google reader

i do not swap products easily. i need to be very brand loyal. if i find a new program that does something well i will stick with it and try to avoid swapping to something else (i.e my hatred over the downfall of wordperfect within the business world – but hopefully that will change in the future). with all of the above said i am going to take a test run with google reader. i am a bloglines user but i have lately read so much about google reader that i figure i will give it a try. i’ll let you know how things go.

my run for the day
distance – 4.9 miles
total time – 50:52
pace – 10:22/mile

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help me help you

i’m going to use the blog to beg a little. i really want to get better at portrait photography and the only way i know to do that is to practice and have other people critique what i do. this iis where the begging comes into play. i need to take photos … lots of them. in order to do this i need willing models. some of you need senior protraits and other such photos. if you are up for helping a brother out let me take your photos for free. if you like the images then you’ve got images that you can have printed and you come out great. if you don’t like them images then i get to learn why and you can use whoever you were going to use anyway. at worst you lose an hour or two. it’s a win/win situation.

SIDE NOTE – sorry austins i can’t afford to travel down to take your photos. sorry, i would love to because we miss you guys (and all of us are very proud of you).

SIDE SIDE NOTE – weekend at bernie’s has to be among the 50 worst movies ever made. i feel dumber for having spent an hour and a half watching it.

SIDE SIDE SIDE NOTE – basset hounds were not created for running. montana did not respond real well to running with me and adam today. it’s not real easy to run while you are dragging 60 pounds of basset hound behind you.

my run for the day
distance – 3.0 miles
total time – 26:46
pace – 8:55/mile

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nes

i know this is useless but i found i on lifehacker while i was working on some stuff for the JESUS project. vnes hosts all sorts of old nes games. it’s the old original code so the game is the exact same as the original thing because, well, it’s the original thing. while i was on the phone i was able to play 1942. that makes a boring conversation better.

[Listening to: Pass Me Not – Robbie Seay Band – Ten Thousand Charms (3:53)]
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some like it hot

the first salsa experiment
last night at the view, our youth worship service, i was speaking about goodness as a fruit of the spirit. as a part of the message i decided to steal a play from rob bell’s gamebook and make salsa during my message. i didn’t steal bell’s message (that would be wrong and bad .. badong) but i definitely took the salsa idea. i figured it was okay because pam and i have been perfecting the world’s most perfect salsa recipe over the past two months. i did the message, i made the salsa and then i simply hoped that the illustration helped the kids understand. by the end of the evening i knew that the kids like the salsa. that was pretty easy to find out since many of the told me that it was the greatest salsa they had ever eaten (and it wasn’t even my best batch). still i wasn’t really making the salsa for the kids to like it … it was a sermon illustration.

this afternoon i got the feedback i was hoping for. a couple of my teens dropped by and told me how great the salsa was. when i asked if they remembered what the message was about they told me what the main idea of the message was and what the points were. then we were able to discuss what they thought about the ideas. BINGO!