Laura is allergic to you

Laura went to the allergist yesterday. They did the scratch test on her again. She is still violently allergic to peanuts. She was upgraded to a regular epipen. They decided she was also allergic to ragweed, grass, cats, and anything else. The good news is she is allergic to cats! Woohoooo! Another reason to avoid pets.

Ahhh Crudola

Word on the street is that the FBI is about to arrest a NBA referee for fixing games. Apparently the ref had a gambling problem and ended up owing some mobsters more money than he could pay and this was his way out. 10 bucks says he ends up swimming with the fishes. The problem will be figuring if it was Stern's guys that did it or the mobsters. People are ruining the game that I loved. Sheesh I feel like a hockey fan.

A double full rainbow

Oh and Burrill, I'm not cool enough to use photoshop. These are all natural! Well, if digital can be called natural.

"I do have a day job"

I'm not a huge baseball fan. But I'm a huge sports fan. So sometimes it's spills over into baseball. I've not been a fan of Bud Selig, MLB commissioner, for a while. I think he's made some bonehead decisions. This quote is one of his more boneheaded quotes. He was asked if he would be there to see Barry Bonds break the record for home runs hit in a career and he said, "All of this will have to be played by ear. I do have a day job". What? This is the guy that's supposed to be talking me into watching baseball and he's too busy to do it? You know what Bud? I have a day job too. Thanks for reminding me that watching baseball isn't that important and that I need to have my priorities straight. I'll skip the game too.

Thank you may I have another?

Oh man. I hurt still today. Last night one of my youth group kids called me up and talked me into trying to make the wall at Pixie. Pixie is a little restaurant in Mt. Pleasant that serves burgers, coney dogs, fries, shakes, that sort of thing. They put your name on the wall if you eat 10 burgers or 6 coneys. The burgers are smaller than your normal burger. But 10 is a lot. And the problem is that I'm already on the wall. I did it a few years ago with other youth group kids. I went. I ate. I ate. I felt sick. I gave up after 7. In my defense I ate a couple of pieces of pizza right before the kid called. And there's not as much motivation if you're already on the wall. So yes, I wimped out.

nangi namaj perez

Oh man I finally found a cd that I've been looking for forever. The 77s cds are pretty rare for some reason. I found this one used for about $20 with shipping on Amazon. That's the best price I've seen it for on there before. The only one that Amazon has that's new costs $50. One of the 77s cds listed on Amazon is listed at $219.99. It's outrageous. I wish they'd either reprint these cds or sell through itunes. But I'm loving it as I listen to it. The cd is commonly known as Pray Naked. But when the album came out in 1992 they wouldn't let them name the album that. In fact that song's title is blanked out on the back of the cd! Good stuff though. I'll be spin doctoring it in the near future.

A rolling stone gathers no moss

Sorry it's been a while since I posted but it's been busy. This last weekend I was sick. A nice fever. I missed a wedding and an open house. But I've made up for it. I don't work an hourly thing but I've put in 25 hours in the last two days. Yesterday supper was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in the church van. So I may be right back in the sick house. I get a couple of days off in a row though because of the holiday. I did get to stop and watch a bald eagle chase a hawk for about 5 minutes. The hawk had a fish or small animal in it's talons. The eagle wanted whatever the hawk had. For as long as I was able to watch the hawk evaded the eagle. I love creation.

Big Ticket Festival

Free tickets are always good. I hadn't planned on attending this festival but free is good. So I grabbed a youth group kid and drove 2 hours north. We saw Superchic[k], Kutless, Chris Tomlin, and the Newsboys. I'm not too proud to admit that at times I'd wished I'd had ear plugs. It was way loud. Here's some pictures.

The Newsboys were really good. I really appreciated their testimony and talks between songs.

The picture below is Kutless. It was great to watch the old people throw their fist up.

Chris Tomlin did a good job at leading some worship during his concert. I wasn't into it at first but I warmed up to it as he got to some songs that I knew.

A few pictures

I just happened onto these pictures. I thought they were good enough to share. Plus I know what you really want to see and it isn't pictures of fish.

I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night

I read an article Monday that was pretty good. The author quoted C.S. Lewis. “Our Father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home”. Yesterday I enjoyed a pleasant inn. I wasn't in a great mood. I'm tired and things at church had me a little down. The neighbor brought over a slip and slide and the girls played on it. I even went down it a few times. We had a bunch of fun. Earlier Steph took Colleen to the store so it was just me and Laura. We were sitting outside in the shade talking. I've found that I have to ask a lot of questions to keep Laura talking. She may be a little too much like me. But anyways she asked me "Why are you asking so many questions?" I told her that I wanted to know more about her. She replied, "Cool". It was a good night that totally changed my mood. Thanks for the "pleasant inn" God.

Michael Jackson and Bill Gates

What do you get when you combine the two? This guy. Steph saw some Jim Carrey there too.

LBALACUSNAIBA

Take that Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles. A team from Long Beach has changed their name, this is no joke, to "Long Beach Armada of Los Angeles of California of the United States of North America Including Barrow, Alaska". I think that pretty much includes everyone. Count me in as an Armada fan. If you don't believe me here's the site.

Say ya to da UP eh

I'm back from a week of fishing in the Upper Peninsula. Our church does a mens fishing trip every year. I go most of the time. This year was a good year. I had a good time and only got burnt once. Unfortunately that time really toasted my lips. They are very sore. I caught four 20 inch walleye, a 19 inch, some walleye that were too small, a small mouth bass, a bunch of perch, a carp, and a sheeps head. I also went running, golfing, and made a trip to the lighthouse. Here's some pictures.

Some sports thoughts

I love sports traditions. I can really get sucked into them. So I get excited every come Memorial Day Weekend. I love the traditions of the Indy 500. The row of bricks, the drink of milk, the singing of Jim Nabors... Wait a minute! Jim is sick and won't make the trip this year. For the first time since 1986 or as long as I can remember the race, Jim Nabors will not be singing "Back Home Again in Indiana". That was my favorite part of the prerace activities. Instead they are going to encourage the crowd to sing it. All I can say is get well soon Mr. Nabors I look forward to when you are back home again. You can hear Jim sing here.

The Pacers don't have a draft pick this year. They traded them all away. They also don't have a coach. I think it's the lowest they've been since I've been a fan. I don't really see things changing anytime soon either.

Nick Saban is showing his true colors at Alabama already. Looks like he's committed a recruiting violation already. It sounds like he was trying to talk a kid out of an early commitment to another university as well. That bugs me when coaches do that. Here is the story.

Problem

Our school has a new problem that I've never dealt with before. Some of the kids are video taping themselves doing stupid things. They are selling the video tapes. One of the stores in a local town is even renting it out. The kids seem to be doing things that are very dangerous. And other kids from the area are doing copycat stunts. Some of the kids from our youth group have admitted to stapling themselves, lighting themselves on fire, and branding themselves. The kids on the video have gone as far as nailing their elbows to blocks of wood. Somebody is going to get seriously hurt.

Dairy Queen

Yesterday I took one of our Jr. High boys out of school for lunch. We ended up stopping at Dairy Queen on the way home. They now have a chocolate dipped strawberries Blizzard that was really good. But anyways as I'm at the counter to order I notice a syringe on the counter. Talk about making me uncomfortable. I do not like syringes. Much less someone else's syringe. I poked at it with my dollar. It said something about insulin. I pointed it out to the girl working behind the counter. She was as uncomfortable as I was. She went to make a phone call but didn't touch it. Can't say that I blame her. It did have the point covered but I still wasn't touching it.

It's here and it's not as expensive as you think.

The technology for cleaning up cars is right under our noses. It shouldn't be about the price of oil but we should be finding an alternative fuel now for our environment. Unfortunately, if we change it will cost too many influential people too much money. I'm not much of a conspiracy guy but this is something that boggles my mind. If the capabilities are there why not change? This link has the story.

It's fun to stay at the...

Far left Brady Quinn. Second to left A.J. Hawk. I'm guessing the guy up front is Ryan Hawk(EDIT: Apparently that's Bobby Carpenter of the Dallas Cowboys). And the bride is Laura Quinn. I don't know on the rest.

Makes me glad there aren't any incriminating pictures in my history.

Worms

I'm going on this men's fishing trip that our church does the end of the month. It's a week of fishing in the UP. We've been picking worms so that we don't have to buy them. I'd rather buy them. It hurts my back to pick worms. I was out there an hour and a half last night and picked just over 100. We're supposed to take up 10 dozen per person. That's a lot of worms.

Happy Mother's Day

Thanks for coming up and going golfing with me mom. It was good to spend some time with you.

By the way for the rest of you. I beat my dad for the first time when we golfed Saturday.