No, not literally. I guess it could do that, if, like, you are so disorganized that you forget where you live and starve to death or something. But, I’ve come to realize recently that I am way too disorganized in my work habits, I waste too much time and I am not focused enough on [...]
I interrupt this string of serious blog posts for something even more serious. My beloved Cubs have given up seven homers to the lowly Reds today. Just when we think things are on the up, this kind of thing happens.
I pulled this image from the ESPN box score.
We’re only in the 7th inning and this [...]
For the first three years of our marriage my wife and I didn’t have any outstanding credit card debt. Then the crap hit the fan. Between some unnecessary purchases, not making enough money, hospital bills, and a string of car repairs, we amassed ourselves some significant credit card debt.
Over the last two [...]
I’ve been using Twitter for quite a while now. I, like most people, signed up and then didn’t use it for a few months but a while back I started using it more and more. For those of you who don’t know what Twitter is, its essentially a micro blog. Essentially write short 140 character [...]
I just got done pulling Strawberry Chex out of my son’s hair. It was awesome.
For the last two months Melanie (my wife) has been working on Thursdays so that means I have been home with the boys. It’s funny, a number of people have made the predictable “Mr. Mom” comment. I’ll be honest, I hate [...]
I wrote yesterday a bit about how I work bi-occupationally (I have two occupations and one vocation - my vocation is “christian” or “Christ follower” if you like that term better).
One of the challenges of working this way is knowing where to draw lines and boundaries. Both these jobs can be demanding [...]
Seriously, if you had to do spend 1 minute and 43 seconds doing something, you’d have a hard time finding a better way to do it…
Uh, yeah, right. No chance I am rethinking my allegiance to Apple despite the long, long list of recent problems my MacBookPro has had (read about them here). Not only did I have all those problems recently, but some of them were repeated. Just this week I was without my computer [...]
I have a confession to make: I was a bad suburbanite yesterday. Why? Well, there are a number of reasons…
I carpooled down to the city in the morning with someone who was already going down there instead of driving my own car.
I walked all over the city. Yes, on foot.
Since I [...]
I am taking the next two days and heading out to a cabin in the woods with one my closest friends. We’re headed up there do to a mix of solitude and community. We made the deal that there will be no talking from after from breakfast till dinner time. During the [...]
…The dude can’t sing. He recently sang for the 7th inning stretch at Wrigley Field and well, it was terrible. Not terrible-offensive. More like terrible-funny. At least he enjoyed himself…
Listen here.
I’ve been pushing myself to be more productive during my work hours, especially since I now have two days of the week where I watch my boys. Since I often work from home and am usually alone most of the day I have found services such as AIM & Twitter keep me from going [...]
My beautiful wife went away for a “girls weekend” recently and came back looking a tad different. I’ve gotta be honest… I love it! She has had longer hair for as long as I can remember and every time she thinks about cutting it shorter she has flashbacks of the ‘fro she had [...]
We were rocking out to old school DC Talk in our house tonight….
For the last two days I’ve been with out a computer. My MacBook Pro is on a little vacation for some R&R. Okay, it actually had a bunch of problems all at once and I finally broke down and sent it off to get fixed. I should have it back on Thursday. [...]
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }
.flickr-yourcomment { }
.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; clear:both; }
.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
I was inspired by Joe Thorn, another suburban pastor, to share with you all (whoever you are) how I use my Moleskines. If you have one, you know why these things have a [...]
We took some Christmas money and gift cards to IKEA this weekend and got two of these shelves (at half off!). Cole and I then spent the next 1 hour and a half putting one together. I put the second together in about 25 minutes. I had more fun with the first. [...]
The hair is gone. It had a good run, but I couldn’t last.
Fact is, I am pretty much going bald. There is no way to get around it. OK, I might not be going bald but I sure am thinning!
I am not sure if I’ll ever grow my hair out again. Maybe [...]
A little something I wrote as I was thinking about the significance of the incarnation.
Can you imagine…
Waiting for thousands of years
For the one who would deliver you and your people
from oppression, from sin, from injustice,
from the brokenness of this world.
And when he finally comes,
He is a baby.
Born in [...]
For the last three months a team of people have been driving down to Philadelphia every monday night to serve and get to know the homeless population down there. Just last week we even brought a few of friends we’ve gotten to know well back to our building and had dinner with them. [...]