i learned this from grant. apparently my alma mater decided that a woman could not teach hebrew to men. at one time i was proud to have gone to southwestern (yes it was a long time ago when i was actually proud but still i actually proud at one time). now i’m usually embarrassed to admit that i graduated from a school that now has paige patterson as it’s president. i can’t honestly recommend for others to go there.
i accept the challenge (said in a kung fu accent)
after the view tonight luke t. challenged me to a run because he is convinced that he can run a marathon now – who knows he might could. anyhow the end of our conversation was that we are now racing each other around the baton rouge lakes twice. this should be taking place saturday morning if you want to come and watch.
wrestling video
this is the wrestling video from tonight at the view.
socks
if you’ve lost a sock you should look here
we’ve gone too far forward
technology has advanced too far and it is now causing me problems. the past few days i have been working on one of our computers. after trying desperately to discover why that fine piece of quality workmanship known as micro$oft xp was continually crashing on my system i was finally able to discover that xp doesn’t like the version of awardbios that i have on this particular desktop computer. the answer for fixing the poor relationship between micro$ft and awardbios was to get an upgrade for my bios. when i downloaded the bios upgrade and read the directions i discovered that i needed to create a bootdisk from a 3.5″ floopy disk. the problem is that i didn’t know where any floopy disks where. i searched all over the house to find an old, stray one.
zip. nada. nothing.
i would have considered burning a bootable cd with the necessary files on it but i didn’t have any cd’s around either.
have we progressed too far? i think we may have.
my run for the day
distance – 6.0 miles
time – 58:10
pace – 9:41/mile
missing in action?
hello there guys and girls. i notice today that a few of the books that i really like are m.i.a. apparently i’ve loaned them out and didn’t record who i loaned them to. so here’s my plea. if you have any of my books (particularly “20 hot potatoes CHRISTians are afraid to touch” by tony campolo, “is JESUS a republican or a democrat” by tony campolo, “a history of western philosophy: the classical mind, volume 1” by w.t. jones, and others) could you let me know you have them or simply send them back anonymously? thanks.
my run for the day
distance – 5.4 miles
time – 49:29
pace – 9:09/mile
ARE YOU OSAMA BiN LADEN?
this is funny – i don’t care who you are.
keeping my mom posted
since my mother reads all the blogs that i link to (in posts and on my sidebar) i figured i would thrill her by adding two more:
- jim’s blog – my brother-n-law, half marathon partner & future marathon partner
- jill’s blog – my sister-n-law & half marathon partner
that should keep mom happy for awhile.
i once had a dog that could escape my house at any given moment. he was a great dog but he would get out every now and then. i always had to run after him because i was scared of what could happen – after all he was a dog and dogs can do odd things. so i understand what it’s like to have a dog that escapes. still, as a runner it gripes my butt beyond believe when people know their dogs are out of their yard and they don’t seem to care.
while i was running tonight i ran into the snarls of two bulldogs who live a block away from my house. their owner was leaning out her front door trying not to get wet and screaming for her dogs to come back in. instead of coming in her dogs decided it would be more fun to come after me. i turned towards them, screamed for them to leave me alone, and backed away. since they continued to come after me and the owner didn’t seem to care about getting out and grabbing them i shouted over to her that if her dogs came after me looking like they were going to bite me then i would respond by kicking them as hard as i possibly could. she said that i should stop and walk her dogs over to her. while she may have thought this was a great idea i thought it sounded lousy. i responded with my own idea which was that she should get outside and grab her dogs and i would just remain ready to pound her dogs if they attempted to come after me. either fear of me or disgust at the laziness of their owner confused the two bulldogs and they turned their backs on me. i took this as my chance and quickly moved down the street from them. last i saw the bull dogs were still moving away from the owner and she was finally having to get out in the rain and get her two dogs. i hope they kept her running after them for at least an hour.
btw, i sure wished the saints had won but now i’ll be satisfied if the colts win.
my run for the day
distance – 5.5. miles
time – 54:05
pace – 9:50/mile
speaching
i’m presently reading doug pagitt’s “preaching re-imagined and i’m really enjoying it thus far. because of it i decided to focus on a more interactive approach to the preaching i was scheduled to do at zoar baptist church’s college retreat. i use such an approach all the time with my students but i’ve never tried it with strangers. i think it went okay but i really won’t know until i think about it for a few days and maybe hear from a few people i know who were at the retreat.
the thing that i have enjoyed the most from pagitt’s book has been his focus on an interactive approach to preparing the message. i’ve tried this a few times and i always enjoy it. the biggest problem for me has been trying to find the time since our church has been without a senior pastor.
my finish time
this is the finish photo from my run at the first light half marathon in mobile, alabama.