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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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free film

if you act quickly kodak will send you four free rolls of film (120 or 35). click here to go to the link.

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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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watching a football game and a hockey game broke out

my run for the day
distance – 3.6 miles
total time – 37.26
pace – 10:23/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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montana … doing what she does best

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my run for the day
distance – 9.9 miles
total time – 1:44:10
pace – 10:31/mile

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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!

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photographic journey?

a few weeks ago I met the professor of photography at southeastern at the louisiana photographic society. he mentioned that he loved to take people out on tours to see cajun/swamp areas. i wrote him to see if i could go on one and he mentioned possibly bringing a group. i was if anybody was interested? he said he could probably take some people out in november.

secondly, is anybody interested in me setting up a little skeet shooting? i have two cases of clay pigeons sitting in a closet just waiting to fly. if anyone was interested in doing it i think i could arrange a place for us and the set up the skeet throwing machine. of course, there are some people that i would rather not be around when they have a shot gun in their hands but i’ll be nice and not name them presently. just realize that if i tell you that we will be at one place shooting skeet and you go there and don’t see anyone around then you are one of those people.

finally, is anyone interested in playing some more laser tag or setting up another xbox tournament. it’s about time for us to do something just for the fun of it. i have a tendency to be too serous.

my run for the day
distance – 3.0 miles
total time – 30:44
pace – 10:14/mile

[Listening to: Bad – U2 – The Best of 1980-1990 (5:51)]