Author: Robert

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Eric = Killer?

I thought I would warn all my fellow duck hunters that if Eric G. invites you to duck hunt in a very secluded place there is a slight possibility that he might be trying to secretly kill you. I say this because I am almost convinced that Eric was trying to kill me yesterday. I went hunting with Eric at a spot that involved us walking about 3 miles into the spot hunting for an hour and then hiking back out 3 miles. That wasn’t the part where Eric tried to kill me. Eric threw the decoys out into the drainage ditch we were hunting over but neither of us went into the water so I had no way of knowing what was below the water till I shot a duck. I went out to pick up the duck and went up to my chest in the muck that composed the bottom of the ditch. A few times I was convinced that I was stuck beyond removing myself from the mud. This happened again when we began to prepare to leave and I started to pick up the decoys. I think Eric may have brought me out there to leave me stuck in the muck.

I think Eric is an evil genius that way.

I will add that if he was going to leave me in a place to die Eric did at least take me to a gorgeous place to do so. That was kind of nice of him.

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The Most Important Component

 

Ansel Adams once said the following:

"The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it."

The above video from wistia (a service I don’t use) is a wonderful example of what is really important – the equipment or the knowledge of the one using the equipment.

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Help a Brother Out?

I’m need a few test subjects concerning the survey that I will be using for my D.Min project. I’m trying to decide if I am going to use Google Docs to do the survey or if I will go with good ‘ole fashion pen and paper. Want to help me? Go here and complete the questionnaire. I don’t care how you answer it. All I need is to find out if it works.

Sermon Response Questionnaire

Thanks.

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Place of Peace Meal

The jambalaya pot feed around 80 people today.

Tapestry has been providing the meal once a quarter and eating with those who attend Place of Peace for a while now. It is always an enjoyable experience (even this past July when we served in a room without A/C during the hottest day of the year). Today was our turn to serve the meal again. As usual I made jambalaya for the meal which they keep saying they want us to continue bringing. The fun part was that today was also the annual “the Terrells Feed the Graduate Communicative Disorders Graduate Students” night. Each year Pam invites all the new grad students over for a jambalaya meal. So I cooked A LOT of jambalaya and then took half of it to the place of Peace and after eating with the folks there came back to eat with the grad students at our home.

It was a pretty good day.

The above video is a little from Place of Peace.

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Testing the MP3 Player’s Camera

The mp3 player that I use to listen to my podcasts (a Samsung Galaxy Player) has a video camera on it. After coming home from Emy J’s for lunch I thought I would test it while walking the basset hounds. The above video is the result. Now all I need is to find an Android app to edit clips together.

Well that isn’t completely true. I also need to eat lunch which is the egg rolls Pam made for supper last night. Mhmm. Homemade egg rolls.

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Community Bible Experience & Zombies

Last night was the first of the two Community Bible Experience (CBE) groups that Tapestry is doing this fall. I love my experience with CBE. Last night was no different. An added benefit was that Jacob came a little early and somehow we began debating whether or not humanity would survive a zombie apocalypse. Based on his reading of “World War Z” (which I have not read) Jacob was convinced that humanity would survive. I, on the other hand, argued based on pretty much every zombie move ever made that humanity would ultimately be overrun by the zombies unless we developed a vaccine. In my opinion without a vaccine we would all eventually die or become the enemy. As you can tell it was a great discussion with which to start reading the New Testament. 🙂

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mailed

2012-10-01 14.20.10

162 pages stuck in the mail today. The Final Project Proposal is officially over. Implementation begins now. 🙂

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Basset’s Have Heavy Tails

If you have every been around my basset hounds (Montana and Roux) then you have probably experienced the sturdiness of their tails. If Montana is around a hard surface when she starts wagging her tail you will be able to hear it all through the house. The surface doesn’t even have to be very hard. If she is laying on the living room floor and I start walking into the room you can hear Montana’s tail before I enter the room. It always makes me laugh. So today I decided to video it.

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Teardown

Since I posted a video of setting up for the typical Sunday night Tapestry worship gathering two weeks ago tonight I thought I would make a video of the tear down.  This is 40 minutes shrunk down into 1.

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Uhmmm. No!

Saw this tweet from Oprah because of Pam.

I should probably explain the Pam/Oprah relationship before I do anything else. Basically, Pam is driven crazy by Oprah. She really can’t stand most of what she experiences from the Oprahverse. This tweet that Pam just sent out kind of sums up Pam’s feelings concerning the world of Oprah.

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So someone that Pam follows on twitter retweeted an Oprah post. I could tell something was up because Pam screamed “ARGH!” I’m pretty sure Pam just unfollowed the person who retweeted this just because the person retweeted an Oprah post. Like I said Pam is driven crazy by the Oprahverse.

So here’s the tweet.

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I guess Jesus would fail this Oprah test because He pretty much did exactly what she just condemned. Jesus could have protected Himself from those who wished to hurt Him but instead He went like a lamb to slaughter to sacrifice Himself for the world. I like His plan better than Oprah’s.