I mispell things!
i read this on lifehacker yesterday and i thought it would pass it along as what i believe to be a good tip for living a simpler life and controlling impluse purchaes. it’s called the 30 day rule and here’s how it works:
1. whenever you feel the urge to splurge — whether it’s for new shoes, a new videogame, or a new car — force yourself to stop. if you’re already holding the item, put it back. leave the store.
2. when you get home, take a piece of paper and write down the name of the item, the store where you found it, and the price. also write down the date.
3. now post this note someplace obvious: a calendar, the fridge, a bulletin board.
4. for the next thirty days, think whether you really want the item, but do not buy it.
5. if, at the end of a month, the urge is still there, then consider purchasing it.
personally, i liked the sound of it and i will begin using it. i’ve been using a “wait” rule in a much less formal manner but having a set waiting period sounds interesting to me. i’ll report back on my experience later.
i’m not the world’s greatest on html and web design. i know enough to be dangerous but not enough to do what i actually want to do. this year for our fall retreat i wanted to have sometime of online registration (i’m not comfortable with allowing credit card payment yet because i can’t do that through the church and i don’t want the money coming through my hands). i tried a few different ways of creating forms (manners that work for the stupid people like me). none of them really worked for me until i accidentally ran into formsite. it’s pretty much dummy proof. if anyone knows of a better form building site i’m still open to changing things. i appreciate the collective wisdom of the two people who read this blog.
every now and then i get a strong craving for burger king cheeseburgers. in high school i worked at burger king for awhile and yet still i like their food (which is unusual because typically when some works at a resturant they usually hate the food after awhile). my problem is that while i enjoy the taste of burger king charboiled burgers i despise the service you find within burger king resturants in the baton rouge area. i’m not sure why it is that burger kings stink so bad at service around baton rouge. all the other places i have lived (alabama, michigan, texas, missouri) had burger kings with exceptional service. yet that’s not true in baton rouge.
this past thursday i finally reached my limit and i had to write them. i sincerely hope that someone will read the letter and change some attitudes around burger king because every now and then i really do like their cheeseburgers.
here’s the letter i sent
burger king corporation
5505 blue lagoon drive
miami, florida 33126to whom it may concern,
i have lived in several states within the southern and midwestern portions of the united states. in fact, i worked at a burger king in dothan, alabama when i was in high school and had a positive experience there also. i have enjoyed eating at burger king restaurants within each area that i have lived until i moved to baton rouge, louisiana six years ago. the franchises within baton rouge consistently offer miserable service. the food is usually fine but my experiences with the service personnel both within the restaurant and through the drive-through window is consistently awful.
while i have felt this way for some time i finally reached the point that i felt i had to say something based on my experience thursday, september 7, 2006. my family and i entered the burger king restaurant on o’neal lane (within baton rouge) and stood there standing for almost five minutes before seeing any cashier. there was no one visible behind the counter. we finally saw an employee walking from the rear of the building. i called out and asked if someone could take our order. the employee rolled her eyes without saying a word and walked away. at this point my wife and i both decided that we did not want to support such a business and we walked out of the restaurant. we went to another fast food restaurant further up the street and bought our meals there.
i still enjoy eating at burger king restaurants outside of the baton rouge area but the same cannot be said for those in baton rouge. i am not sure that i will ever enter another baton rouge burger king.
sincerely,
robert terrell
my run for the day
distance – 3.7 miles
total time – 37:43
pace – 10:12/mile
i’ve done the path of prayer labyrinth with amazing results within our youth ministry. awhile back grace (a worship community in england and the creators of the “path of prayer laburinth”) developed a new prayer experience on the CREATOR. i wrote jonny baker and asked him about the resources and he said they would be coming out soon. well they came out awhile back and we’re going to use it for our fall retreat. i haven’t used “worshipping the CREATOR” yet but i have a great deal of faith in what comes out of grace.
do any of y’all have any experience with “worshipping the CREATOR?”
i finished organic church by neil cole yesterday and i found it very challenging. i have to admit that the thought of a house church is very compelling. I don’t have any experience with churches that only operate out of homes. i do however have some experience with churches that operate often out of homes. they regularly incorporate homes into their times together. i would be interested to find out how well house churches age. it seems to me that they would work very well with younger ages but i don’t have any idea how they would do with older individuals. this is my lack of experience speaking here.
i’m now reading shane claiborne’s irresistible revolution. last year i went and spent a week with shane and his friends at the simple way. many of the stories within the book i heard then. i’ll write more concerning the book when i finish it. it’s enough to say at this point that it is very powerful … just like shane.
i’ve decided to test out sermon cloud as a means of syndicating the messages from the view, our weekly youth oriented worship service. i’ll write back later and discuss my feelings on sermon cloud after i use it for awhile.
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yesterday, after a month of globetrotting around the world my lost dufflebag that delta airlines lost at the end of our mission trip to nicargua came back home. last week i had actually turned in my “loss claim” and figured delta would just be reimbursing me for the loss. of course, i was pretty upset by this fact because there were certain things in my bag that couldn’t be replaced, such as;
the other things could be replaced but the list above would be hard to correct. thankfully my duffle bag of eight years is now back and i am presently wearing my flip flops. ahhhhhhh! life is good.
the crocodile hunter died today. it appears he was struck in the chest by the barb of a stingray that he was diving with. this sent him into cardiac arrest and killed him. strange, huh? i would have never thought that he would have died from something like a stingray. after all the stuff he did with much more dangerous animals it’s rather ironic that he would go in this manner. it should have been something more like him being attacked by a ravenous hoard of salt water crocodiles while he was fighting off twelve rabid cobras who were going after him because of the two great white sharks that he was wrestling with ten thousand very angry poison arrow frogs waiting to tag in for the two great whites.
it just seems kind of anticlimatic for him to be killed by a stingray.
ok go’s has produced a couple of incredible videos. this one may be the best.
my run for the day
distance – 6.3 miles
total time – 67:56
pace – 10:46/mile