People Switch

You've got to check out this video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBPG_OBgTWg

Derren Brown really messes with your mind.

Jesus Is My Friend - Crowder style

Copying this from Adam Mclane

Last week just about every youth ministry blog on the planet featured a video of an 80s band singing “Jesus is a friend of mine.” And it is very funny. Over the weekend our friend David Crowder was inspired when they showed the video during the announcements at their church. During the sermon he and his band disappered to an office and worked out this memorable remix. This is why we love Mr. Crowder.

Worship?

Our new worship team? No, but it sure is funny.

Christian Cheese

Is it for fun? Are they serious? You be the judge...

Fantasy Football Thoughts

I'm in a fantasy football league. We are using cbs sportsline - the free league. I won my game the first week and I had the highest score for the week. So far this week I'm winning my game. I have two players to watch on Monday night (S. Moss and Cooley - both from Washington). My opponent has the kicker from the Chargers (playing now as I type) and a receiver from Washington. Hopefully I can pull out another win.

Here are my thought. Fantasy Football makes you pull for or against teams/players that you would not usually pull for... or against. For example, T.O. is on my best receiver. Now I don't usually pull for him and NEVER for Dallas. BUT, there I was pulling for T.O. and Dallas. Crazy, huh?

Well, I'm hooked. I love Fantasy Football. My problem is that when I'm looking at trading players or picking them up from waivers, I'm too afraid of picking the wrong guy. I've only made two roster changes. I also switched one of my starting running backs with a reserve, then switched him back. It cost me 6 points. Ooops.

If your in a league - have fun!

The Weekend

Took a break Saturday. The family and I went to the NC Farmer's Market. That was fun. We bought some fresh veggies, fresh baked bread and ate at the NC Seafood Restaurant - ummmm, good stuff. I went up to church when we got home - stayed for quite a while. We've made some major changes to Sunday School and children's ministry - had to get that taken care of.

Sunday was good. I stayed in Kids Zone for the morning then to the Glover's home for lunch. We stayed there most of the day then they came over to watch "The Pursuit of Happiness." Very good movie. Don't tell Rhonda I said that - I gave her a hard time about having to watch it. Before it came on I watched the USA basketball team with the FIBA gold medal. Love watching the USA team.

Monday was pretty good - off for labor day. We spent the whole day in the yard... doing yard work. Started about 9 AM and laid down for a rest after a shower about 3:30 PM. Good stuff. I'm still a bit sore.

Sports - Braves are... drifting to the bottom of the pile. Tarheels won their first game. Other teams I watched - Clemson beat FSU (called that one). Georgia Bulldogs won theirs (lived in GA 4 years - college - so I pull for the Dawgs, and my college roomie lives their and pulls for them). NCSU & Duke lost! Other than the Braves, my teams did pretty well.

Time for bed!

Simpsons on American Idol

This is funny and I'm not really and "American Idol" fan.

Free Fonts and a SUPER Date Idea

I came across this free font site and downloaded a bunch - probably too many. I'll never use all those fonts. But they are very cool. The site is called Fonts500. Check it out. Take a peak. I'm sure you'll find a bunch you like. It puts 100 fonts on a page and there are 5 pages - thus 500 free fonts. There is also a page to help you install your new fonts. Easy as pie... ummmmm pie. We bought a GREAT blueberry pie in Lancaster, PA over Spring Break - man was it good!!! But, "GREAT blueberry pie" is not the topic this morning.

Another Font idea/tip. Search the Internet, but there is a macro or command that you can run in MS Word to print out all your fonts. I do that sometimes and then delete the ones I'll never. I also use it to see what I have. So many fonts. I seem to use the ones in the upper area of the alphabet because I get to them first.

Date Idea: Every month my wife puts two dates on my calendar, two "date nights." It is great. Often she plans and and then I plan the other. (I've got a "surprise" date planned for one of our May dates. Shhhh, it's a secrete.) Sometimes we plan them together and other times we do the normal, "what do you want to do?" "I don't know, what do you want to do?" Then we go out to dinner. BUT, last night we did a really fun, creative date. (She planned it of course). Here is the scoop.

She picked up a movie. Then she fixed dinner for the family. After dinner, Deb kept the kids and we took our movie, some popcorn (popped on the stove - not in the microwave - good stuff, closest to movie popcorn I've had), sodas, candy, a blowup mattress, some pillows and headed up to the youth room. She blew up the mattress, I got ice and turned on the digital projector. Then we got cozy and watched the flick on big screen. Very nice, very nice indeed.


The movie: The Guardian - with Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher. Now, I don't think I would have picked this one out, BUT, it turned out to be a great movie. A couple of places they could have cut down on the language and Ashton's character's romance was not exactly "pure." But the underlying message: "saving lives and giving your life for someone else" was very well done. This is definitely a movie to rent. Costner and Kutcher do a great job selling the hardships and rewards of being in the United States Coast Guard.

My Name

Here is a quickie - I'll post more later... on a bunch of stuff I'm dealing with, thinking about, and all...


How many people have my name, check it out for yourself.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 8,932 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?