Category: personal

i’ve developed a new hobby … well i guess it is a hobby. actually i’m not sure if it is a hobby or not. i do know that it enabled me to make a few CHRISTmas gifts and that my dad wants a few more. i’ve learned how to cut and sand beer bottles into 10 oz tumblers.

the photo above is of 5 that i finished before supper tonight. two are for my dad, two are for my brother, and the 5th is for eric g. i need to make some more because my dad swears he has five friends and therefore needs six glasses. i’m not entirely sure about this because i find it hard to believe that my dad could have 5 friends. 😉

making the glasses is more difficult than you would originally think, or at least more difficult than i originally thought, for two reasons.

1. modern beer bottles are very thin and therefore glass cutting is not easy on them.
2. you have to find bottles with painted labels instead of paper, since the paper labels will wash off with use.

i guess there is a third difficulty and that is that i don’t drink alcohol and therefore don’t have any beer bottles lying around. so if you have any beer bottles with painted labels on them i would really appreciate you giving them to me rather than throwing them in your recycling bin.

one of the things i love about being a part of a nomadic church (i.e. a church that does not possess a building) is answering the question that invariably occurs whenever i am with a group of pastors and we have a “round robin” introduction. when i say i am a part of tapestry someone usually says “now where are you guys?” of course, i know that what they mean is “where is your church building,” but i still enjoy saying “well i guess right now we are here and 40-50 other spots across town.”

after they look at me confused i tell them that we gather at washington elementary school.

SIDE NOTE – as an alabama fan i probably should say something about the BCS national championship last night. i will say two things 1) ROLL TIDE! 2) while i am thrilled that BAMA won the national championship i am also very ready for the BCS to change. they are supposedly going to make some changes. we’ll see what happens.

i have been a part of touched twice united clinics and i’m on the executive board of TTU, so i obviously believe in its mission. i love what happens at TTU clinics. the above video isn’t a TTU clinic but it is something that we could fit into a clinic (and in fact some things similar have been fit into some clinic). i’ve wanted tapestry to do a clinic for awhile but it just hasn’t worked out yet – it is a lot to ask of a small VERY new community.

maybe this year?

i know we have enough photographers to do something like this and i’m sure we could get others. i used to do senior portraits for the multi-housing ministry when i was the youth minister at parkview baptist church in baton rouge. i loved doing it. i’ve emailed the high school counselors here in point asking about doing the same thing to no avail.

i need to talk to some more threads about us getting into gear on doing a clinic. the video was just the kick in the pants i needed.

i love my desk. it isn’t really anything special but i do love it. it is made from an interior door that i bought three years ago and painted black to use during tapestry’s advent conspiracy focus. i used two of these doors as walls in the rear of our typical worship gathering setup. i encouraged people to write on them things concerning how they were celebrating advent or what they were learning slash struggling with. they have been in my basement for three years now while i was considering what to do with them. when i recently moved my study back up into the “man cave” i took one of them and created a new desk.

i love the fact that every time i look at them i see what people wrote concerning what GOD was doing in their lives. i kind of wish that i could take it back to tapestry a few times a year and let people write more on it.

someone stole our driveway lamps last night sometime after 11:30 p.m. i know it was after 11:30 p.m. because the lights were still there when adam came home last night from hanging out with friends. of course, there is a possibility that it is a practical joke. in which case i would assume that my lamps will be back tonight. if it is a practical joke then i think it is pretty funny and extremely random.

but if someone actually stole my lamps i am confused.

really?!?!?! why would anyone steal my lamps? they couldn’t be worth much. there can’t be a high demand for post lamps on the black market. they are $37 brand new. you could sell stolen ones for what? maybe $5 this can’t be a very lucrative form of criminal activity.

in the spirit of advent conspiracy part of my gift from pam was a trip over to tanners bar and grill in kimberly, wisconsin to be a part of the audience for “in the huddle” with bill scott and b.j. raji. we were hoping to get an autograph from raji and whoever his special guest was going to be (it turned out that it was james jones) but unfortunately that was not to be. instead we were 10 feet away from james jones sharing photos of his new born baby with raji. they didn’t do any autographs tonight but watching that was really cool.