Question of the night

Is four hours of sleep still considered a nap?

Hmm...

Global Warming?

Ah, winters in Northern Indiana

This morning as I was digging a path to Heidi, I saw something that made me smile. I saw an Amish gentleman standing on a sled with a little one sitting on a straw bale, being pulled by a horse down the road. Tied to his sled, was a another child on a sled, which had another child on a sled tied to it, which had another child on a sled tied to it.

If only I had my camera.

Death of a falcon

This evening, Mr. Gill received a call from the one and only Jason Mishler. Apparently for some reason, a falcon ended up crashing through his kitchen window. Here are a couple of pics:

Overnighter

I got this off of Simply Josh's blog. It made me laugh, besides being something I can relate to.

Trailer Time!!!

I went and saw Jumper Tuesday at Showplace. Went with no expectations... and was entertained. Before the movie I got really excited, because they show a trailer for the new Shyamalan movie. You may now get excited...

Kenya Night

Well, here are my pics from Kenya Night. I know, I know... There are a lot of the same type of pics, but that's just how I roll.

I also snapped few pics of the lunar eclipse.




To view them outside the slide show go here.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens...

There are two things tat I enjoy that I was reminded of tonight. One of them is doing the little things for people. My sister claims that one of my love languages is gifts, and maybe she is right. But every once in a while, when I'm on my best behavior I like to do the little things for people. I can't explain it, because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn right now, so I'll stop.

Second, I enjoy spending time in conversation with people. I was blessed to hang out at the arches with several ministry workers, who I talk to daily, but don't really get to talk to. It wasn't anything earth-shattering, but I guess it was the quality time that I enjoyed.

Polar Bear in the desert....

Hmm... I love this show.

Two legged dog

Check this dog out

A different perspective

I said this before but I love podcasts. As I was working late Saturday night, I was spending a little quality time with Francis Chan & Co. One particular message stood out. It is from a couple of years ago, and its the events that lead up to and followed Christ's death on the cross.
One of the first things that jumped out at me was I was reminded that the God of the Universe, who created us, loves us, and sacrificed his own son so that we could have fellowship with him. He did all of that, and sometimes all we do is walk into church and lack any joy on our faces.
Another thing was the reaction of the Roman Centurion. Take a look at it in Luke 23: 44 -47.

44It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour, 45for the sun stopped shining. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. 46Jesus called out with a loud voice, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." When he had said this, he breathed his last.

47The centurion, seeing what had happened, praised God and said, "Surely this was a righteous man."

Who was this centurion? Was he one of the soldiers just a few verses earlier gambling over his clothes and mocking him? It doesn't matter. What matters was his response when he realized that God's son had just died on the cross and he was a part of it. He praised God.

He praised God?

How could he, of all people, do that?

I really don't know. It really only matters that somewhere, somehow, he got it.

Sunday morning, I had a rough time even wanting to go to church. I forced myself to go to Connection. I was sitting there was the first song was playing, my mind revisited parts of the message I listened to as I worked.

Wow.

Who am I to call myself a Christian and not want to go to church?(Granted, a vacation sounds good right now) Why do I so flippantly take for granted Christ's sacrifice?

I don't know, but I'm glad I went to church. I needed to hear that message from Cornerstone, and I needed to hear the message from Dave, Christy, and Derry.

Pop quiz hotshot...

What is the next best thing to Peyton Manning beating the Patriots? How about little Bro...Sweet Victory

Aaargh!!

There are few things that make me want to throw something at the t.v. "Response" to the State of the Union falls in that category.

Cloverbucks

Went and watched Cloverfield after church. It was different. It made people in the theatre angry. I thought it was genius.

Stopped by Starbucks to get a drink. I handed the girl my card and said I thought it had 80 cents left on it. She told me there was 81, and left one cent on there. I stood there dumbfounded for a while. Now I'm going to look like a jerk for trying to redeem my card with a balance of one cent.

Fire

So, I decided to head downtown to take some pics of the fire. Its funny what happens to you when you hold a big camera. As I was talking to the one of Nappanee's finest, a guy gave the officer and myself a coffee. One of the firefighters asked me if I was with a paper and asked about the pics I was taking. Other people asked me s well if I worked for a paper. I must have been professional-looking today.

Welcome to the Blogging world

I would like to take the time to get the word out on a new arrival to the blogging world. This gentleman is a Senior @ The Crossing, and works for me as a part of the NMC facilities team. May I present to you, Dustin Eby.You can find him here.

A Tuesday of Firsts

So, this past Tuesday was an interesting day. As you probably know, it is my day off of work. There were three things that transpired on this day that were firsts for me. In chronologically reverse order, they are:

1. McDonald's Sweet Tea
Everybody is raving about it, as well as this guy. Yes, I'm even slower to realize it that he was, but I finally tried it. It is definitely sweet. The last time I had some good sweet tea was down in Florida at this place. Even though it was only several times, I miss going there.

2. Purchasing my first pair of snow pants
Yes, I have had snow pants before, but I'm pretty sure my parents bought them for me back when I was younger, and when winter-time consisted of digging caves in snow drifts, being towed with my cousins on a sled behind my uncle's truck through the fields, and walking down to the nearby gravel pit to go sledding there. Hopefully I will get to try them out on the slopes somewhere up North this winter.

3. I fought the Law... and the Law won.
Well, I gone and done it. After driving for more than 11 years, I finally gone and done it. After driving the same stretch of road, one learns the places to pass slow vehicles, semis, etc. What happens when Jeff tries to pass a not-so-slow semi and don't return to a reasonable speed? My first ever speeding ticket. Well, here's to another 11 years of good driving.

One positive note about the Writer's Strike

We don't have to put up with any new crappy episodes of SNL.

The downside is that they continually play the episodes with Jake Gyllenhaal and Peyton Manning over and over and over and over and over again.

What I'm Reading/Watching/Listening to

Derry Prenkert has this segment on his blog every now and then, and its always pretty interesting on the selections. Well, here it goes.

What I'm Reading:
An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems by Glenn Beck
I must be getting older because I'm listening to more talk radio. And i like it. Glenn Beck has a radio show and also has a t.v. show on CNN Headline News. Sure he talks about politics, but he also talks but everything else. And he's funny.
Anyways he wrote this book explaining how we solve everything from "Global Warming" to Online Dating. And there's more... I just haven't got to it yet.





What I'm Watching:
Let the humiliation begin...
Sweet Home Alabama
That's right, I own this movie.
And I like it.













What I'm listening to:
Everlasting God by Brenton Brown

Sometimes scrubbing the Aux Gym floor makes me fall asleep. Honestly, I think I've sleepwalked several times. To stay awake(and reduce the chances of someone scaring me) its always good to play some music. It's been awhile since I've listened to this, and its still good stuff.