I'm a boring and slightly bottled man

Right now I am reading the autobiography of Eric Clapton. It's not exactly heavy reading, but I do enjoy a good biography from time to time. What strikes me the most about him (and other artists) is the way music became a soothing medication for the sicknesses in his life. When he was brokenhearted by tragedy, he churned out "Tears in Heaven." When he was hopelessly in love with the wife of one of his best friends (George Harrison of the Beatles), he created many tracks, including "Layla."

I want that. Well, not that exactly. I want to have some sort of outlet where I can take what is swimming around on the inside and make it something constructive on the outside. When I get upset, I'm just upset until it passes. I think I need a hobby.

Im outta here

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I'll be back in my home state for about a week- so expect to hear from me later!



While I'm out- spend your hours looking at icanhascheezburger.com. If you can't enjoy yourself here, then you're just not alive.

It's On Like Donkey Kong...

I'm not entirely sure that I'm finished with my Christmas lights yet, but here's how it started...

Here is a slanty shot of the front of the house...
Here's a another shot of the front...

And here's a shot of the side of the house where our garage is...

It's beginning to look a lot like....

Here's something almost everyone knows about me. I REALLY get into the Christmas spirit. I love the trees, the lights, the drunken uncles- all of it. Especially the lit up houses though. Nothing jingles my bells like seeing a house covered in tiny lights.

Here's my problem- until this year I have lived in apartments, so I haven't had the chance to decorate anything. This year- we are in a house, and I have been stockpiling Christmas lights for 3 years. By the time I'm done, I expect airplanes to try to land on my roof. It's gonna get crazy.

I was going to wait until after Thanksgiving to put my lights up- but I don't think that's gonna happen. My brother in law is coming to town this weekend and I think he's going to help me rig up everything.

I know what you're thinking- "Hold your horses! It's too early to decorate for Christmas." Well, too bad. I'm going for it. People who hold their horses look like this guy:

Simply put

This is a very good thing.

I have a feeling that this still won't deter this absolutely hateful anti-Christian church from making other people's lives miserable.

Here's my question- How far does free speech go? Is it ok that we punished this group because their speech was full of hate and the most tasteless of timing? Where do we draw the line?

It's Taco Time!

Listen, I know what all of you are dying to know- "Did you go get your free taco at your local participating Taco Bell between 2 and 5 PM today?"

The answer is no. I seriously thought about it, but then I remember just how disgusting Taco Bell really is.

Having said that, I really think that this is one of the most brilliant marketing moves I have ever seen. In case you haven't heard, Taco Bell is giving every American a free taco because someone stole a base in the World Series.

My first reaction was "Wow- that's a LOT of tacos! How can they afford it?!" Well, the tacos were only available on a Tuesday afternoon between 2 and 5 PM. I would say that knocks out at least half of America right there. I'd also assume that at least half of those that don't have jobs that keep them from visiting seedy restaurants in the late afternoon have no clue about this promotion. We're down to 1/4 of the country now. Realistically, I would say that only 1 out of 10 non=working Americans that had heard about the promotion really plan on going. Just like that we are down to 1/40th of the country. I seriously doubt even that many people show up.

They are still spending a lot of money on free tacos, but this is a brilliant move for Taco Bell. No one goes to Taco Bell for just a taco, right? You gotta have a coke or pepsi, or whatever your beverage of choice is. The drinks actually cost more than a regular beef taco does. So, assuming that there is substantially increased traffic in Taco Bell's today- they will easily make more money than they do on any other non-free taco day. Kudos to the great minds south of the border.


The only way Taco Bell would lose money is if everyone took Redsox player Royce Clayton's advice and "go into every Taco Bell in the world and say 'I aint got my taco.'" Enjoy the video goodness

I'm back and well rested!

I am going through the book of Genesis in my own personal study these days....and there are some questions about Creation that I would like to throw out to some of you

Genesis 1 tells us that God created light before he created the sun, moon, and stars. Did He create the potential of light? Was light emanating from God Himself?

Also, if the sun was created later in the week, how were the first 3 days of Creation split into days? Since the Hebrew word for day (yom) can also mean "an age," (think of an old person saying, '...back in my day...') could it be that there were ages of the Creation process and not a calendar week? Do you think this could reconcile scientific dating of the earth (which dates the earth as much older) with the Biblical timeline (which says that the earth is roughly 6000 years old)?

And what about the gap theory? This theory posits that there is a large amount of time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.

And lastly, would any of these possibilities affect your faith at all?


I'd love to have a good conversation about this one...