Quick word of advise

Never Ever take Federal Income Taxation.

Greatest Quote Ever

The Sporting News
"Caught On the Fly"

During renovations to Oklahoma State's Boone Pickens Stadium, same-colored bricks were aligned in a wall to spell out OU.

The search to find bricklayers with allegiance to the Sooners ultimately identified a sub-contractor as the culprit, but only after the investigation first cleared Kelvin Sampson's 2003-2004 basketball team.

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I am forced to wonder if they have cleared Stacy King's name yet.

I am scared just to have it in the same room as my computer

Last night I started working on my sister’s computer. She said enough for me to know it was a software problem, but not so much what the problem was. So I started by installing avg antivirus (a wonderful free anti-virus program) which proceeded to find 90 viruses. Let me say that again, 90 viruses. So I spent two hours cleaning and checking her drive, and when I finally got it cleaned out, I still could not run windows update. So while the saga is not yet over, I wanted to give you guys an update so that you didn’t think my lack of posting was due to grandma getting run over by a reindeer.

Its an annual tradition

Well, football season is upon us, which means its time for certain traditions. There is of course the time where we overhype our team going into the first game (us cowboys fans are catching up with the sooners here), later on comes Thanksgiving and all the football goodness, bedlam (enough said), and new years day bowls (and for you youngins, trust me this used to be great). Finally there is the pick em competiton between Martin and myself. This year, since I am tired of have only Martin to kick around, we decided to open it up to you, the fans of me.

To join, go to http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/college
then click sign up (you will have to have a yahoo id for this.)
after signing in, join an exsiting group
now join a private group (yes, that does seem to be redudently repeating itself)
our group id number is 7443
the password is youth

and ummm GO POKES

Hey look, its me again

Hey yeah, back in the day I used to post here. Ok, so maybe my last post was only 4 days ago, but it has been a long week for me. I say for me because it has been a great week for the youth in my group. You see, I currently rank as the BEST preacher they have heard in the last 3 days.

Yes, I did preach this Wednesday, and a fine message it was. Based off the life of Daniel. Now, normally I would give you my three points, but I feel that job is better left to Asa. So I’m sure that later today he will be happy to fill in the details for you all.

Also, our youth have a cookout/Frontier City trip coming up this weekend. I will not be able to attend the Frontier City portion (which is sad, Treasure Mountain is calling my name) however I will be there for the cookout. I even hear the cook might be almost as good as I am, a rare treat indeed. (You see, I like to cook things rare, and you don’t often find cooks as good as I am, so its rare…. It’s a pun…..ok, Shut up.)

Walmart.com - Madden NFL 2005 PC

Walmart.com - Madden NFL 2005 PC: "Crowds are now customizable with Create-a-Fan"


I will have this game.

The night of destiny

Hey, do you know what last night was? No, no besides that. That’s right, last night our youth "took over". By which I mean Pastor allowed us to lead the service for one night.

It went great. I am really proud of our praise and worship team, they have been sounding great for awhile now, but last night with the better sound equipment they were awesome. My mother complained that it was too "rock n roll" which means they did a GREAT job. And yes, I am glad that mom doesn’t read this. Pastor Adam's message was good, and his PowerPoint looked great. We had two wonderful dramas, great job drama team, and four of our students gave testimonies from our mission trip. The testimonies were rather impressive, looking back I don't know if I could have spoken as well in front of the main church when I was their age. (Yes, I have an ego, deal with it)

But of course, the best, most fluid, most awesome part of the night was warfare prayer. I leave it up to the reader to discern why warfare prayer was so perfect, leaving only the reminder that I am in charge of our male prayer team.

Hey, I also ran the camera last night. Now for those of you who don't attend our church, this is not some small handheld camcorder. Our camera is a larger TV camera, by far the most advanced powerful camera I have ever operated. I thought about zooming in on Asa till we could see his nose hairs, but then I remember I didn't even know how to turn the thing off, let alone zoom.

Onto other business, I would give a shout out to Rachael, but it is my understanding she only reads this when she can laugh at me (like my vacation recap) so I guess its best just to ignore her.

For Asa and all the other kiddies starting school soon, I would just like to point out that I don't start until the 24th. Shut up Martin.

And finally, the Newsboys "Love, Liberty, Disco" CD is quite possibly the best CD ever made.

a wing-flapping, screeching frenzy

Yahoo News: Cops Free Chicken From Windshield Wiper "After a brief failed attempt to catch the chicken, none of the officers wanted to be seen involved in a prolonged 'chicken-chasing venture' in front of the police department.

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Ok, this article is great. It's one of those that you almost over look until you get the image in your head of Chief Wiggum chasing a chicken.

Amen Brotha

I love Todd and Penguin


O, and you can click on it to make it bigger.

I love a market economy

ebay item #3924884114

Yes, the link above gives you the change to buy a napkin containing Alan Keyes sweat. Now I love Alan Keyes as much as the next man, if the next man happens to be a close relative of Alan Keyes, but this is a little out there. So I will not be bidding on this napkin, however that is good news if you wish to. It will be that much cheaper =).

And for those of you who don't follow links, the current price for this sweat stained napkin is $24.25.

Bingo, the bad date is history

Help on the way for bad dates
"they're fake "rescue" calls — now being offered by two cell phone providers,
Cingular Wireless and Virgin Mobile USA"

"And bingo, the bad date is history.”

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This explains a
lot. For awhile now I have been trying to figure out why Martin uses cingular
instead of T-mobile (which all the cool kids use). So the question is, who
should tell his wife?

Also, I really love that second quote.

A Shocking Development

It has come to my attention that there are people who read this and don't contribute their comments and responses (which means I have more than two readers....yay!). This saddens me. The thought that you would come here and partake of my intellectual offerings (ok this is not the time to look over previous posts) and not feel the need to contribute back makes me question your character.

Now I know that it seems like my intellectual (ok, I really hope I'm spelling that right) abilities are enough, or even more than enough, but I like to keep "the lesser ones" involved (right Martin?) so please post something that allows me to make fun of you.

Oak 14 NY 4

ESPN.com - MLB - Game Track: "It was 4-all in the fourth inning when the Yankees put two runners on with two outs. Derek Jeter followed with drive toward the corner and Dye jumped at the wall to take away an extra-base hit, leaving his spike marks in the padded fence."

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Take that Yankee Stadium!

The Real Deal (but not with Bill McNeal)

So let me see how much of my trip I remember; at the same time recording it for future generations.

Thursday (July 22)

All day spent traveling. We ended up in Flagstaff AZ, the most expensive hotel city in American. Ok, probably not, but when did the truth matter here?

Friday

Hey look, another driving day, but this time with flair. After buying cheap gas in Kingman AZ, we headed north to see Hoover Dam. This was also our first time to drive through a security checkpoint. Apparently we didn't look like we intended to blow up the dam, and was allowed to drive across.
This was also the day to see Death Valley. All I can say is appropriate name.
Hey, did you know there are no roads going across central California? Not even minor ones like we guessed there had to be. So, we got to go north all the way past Yosemite and take a road that looks nice and straight on the map. On the map. Stupid map. So its 11 pm and we are winding through curves going up and down mountains amazed that we haven't passed a town with a gas station in a long time. a long time. And yes, for those of you who can guess where this is leading, I can now say that I have been stranded for 2+ hours in a national forest in California. Special thanks to Daniel Lions for helping us out there.

Saturday
Ok, so really that last think carried over into Saturday and we got to Oakland at 9 in the morning. The baseball game was an afternoon game so we took a short nap and then proceeded to Network Associates Coliseum. Yes, the stadium is as awful as you have heard. However it was nice to see other A's fans. Also it was a 6-2 Oakland win, with Kotsey hitting 2 home runs and Dotel pitching the ninth (three straight strike outs). More importantly, I am now a 1989 World Series Champion and I have the ring to prove it. Take that, San Fran Giants. Oh, also I burnt my head during this game. Not Fun.

Sunday
Church at Harvest something in Fremont CA. Good praise and worship. The pastor delivered a good message, but is younger and still needs some polish. All and All a great experience.
After church we headed over to Fishermen’s wharf. Pier 39 I believe. Let me tell you, I have never seen so many shops crammed into such a small space and the crab was amazing. Yes those of you that I talk to often will hear about the crab, then hear about the crab, and possibly hear about the crab some more. OH, I almost forgot. We took the Bay Bridge to get to San Fran (where the wharf is). Awesome experience, out of the three bay bridges we took, this was my favorite. Of course I am bias by memories of the quake hitting this bridge during the 1989 World Series (which I won).
After fishermen's wharf, we drove over the Golden Gate Bridge. This was nice, but the fog was heavy. This kinda made it cool, but also made it impossible to see the top of the cables supporting the bridge.
Heading north, we crossed back over the third northern bridge that I can't remember the name of. Awesome. This bridge was huge. Yeah, that’s all I'm going to say.

Monday
If I was as cool as Willie Nelson, I would sing about being on the road again. Instead I will just relate that we drove through Sequoia National Park, giant trees and nice mountains, on the way to Phoenix. Another late night as we arrived at the hotel at 3am, I believe.

Tuesday
Tuesday I slept. Oh yeah and ate TCBY yogurt, losing that was the worst thing that ever happened to Stillwater.

Wednesday
Umm yeah, more sleeping and TCBY that night.

Thursday
Ill let you use your imagination, and yes, more TCBY.

Friday
Mexico Day. Yes, a quick jaunt into Mexico. Also we saw the cacti at Saguaro National Park. And driving, ended the day in Las Cruces New Mexico.

Saturday
So driving through NM is boring.
The day ended in Amarillo Tx. Some good bar b q and TCBY led us into bed time. Oh yes, also I got to listen to the A's beating the rangers on rangers radio, that was fun.

Sunday
Trinity Fellowship Church in Amarillo. Rodger Hodges church, and if you don't know who Rodger Hodges, shame on you. BTW Martin, he is the worship leader there. So of course great praise and worship, Good message, then a 5 hour drive home.


So all in all it was a great trip. Phoenix was a disappointment, my only plans were to see Bill Heaton, a local youth minister I once worked for, but our schedules never worked out for that to happen. I must say it is great to be back home. Even though the month started with two youth camps, only one was with "MY" group =), so I'm starting to feel separated from them (not necessarily saying that is bad). Well, goodnight and remember, same bat time, same bat channel. (the really sad thing is that I continue that joke even though I doubt the target reads this.)

Quick recap

Ok, quick trip recap.

11 days
4 states
2 countries

And upon comming home

4 messages on the ansering machine
over 4000 emails

Yes, 4000 emails. Thats not a complete number, becuase I have had to send and recieve more than 2 times already to get them all (outlook crashes, believe it or not).

So if anyone needs me, Ill be checking email for the next three years.