While other Internet search engines have come courting for my primary usage, I awoke this morning to understand why google is still my homeboy. Continue reading ‘Prayer in the name of google’
Monthly Archive for June, 2008
Wow…5days gone and we head home in the AM. Cheryl slapped me in the back of the head that I haven’t updated in all week, but I need a corner to type and I couldn’t find a single one with wireless (it doesn’t help I’m working on an 2001 ThinkPad).
Here’s a few highlights. The Holocaust Museum…an abomination against humanity, a great tour of the capital from my new friend Jim Swift, I became a registered researcher at the Library of Congress, and wrapped it up with and an amazing mocha freezer from Ebeneezers Coffee Shop which included striking a pose on Mark Battersons church stage in the basement.
Anywho, our experience in DC was awesome and it will take me a couple of days to backspin everything I’ve seen and heard. I took over 400 pictures and made tons of personal notes that no doubt will skew some of my future thoughts.
Back to the Denali for a deluxe ride home to see the Daisy Mae Doodle.
Ok, here’s the catch-up. We toured Gettysburg Friday and Saturday and saw the battlefield and the museums in the area. I don’t think I have ever seen so many monuments, headstones, and rocks. You could almost feel the pain of the 1863 battle as you crawled over the then blood covered rocks and fields. It was an amazing experience.
We did get the opportunity to hang out at the Battlefield Harley Davidson for a bit also. Some hardcore Harley riders are sometimes a bit on the intimidating side, but turn out to be the most hospitable bunch going. I can’t wait to formally join the ranks.
Today we are in Washington DC and went through the International Spy Museum and the National Museum of Art. I’m tuckered out and ready for bed…later.
We are on VACATION! We drove from GR to Gettysburg last night. We drove my mom’s new Denali, and while the 17mpg was tough at the pump, the 6.2 corvette motor was fun in the mountains. I figured out that the onboard nav system knows more than Mapquest. We were within 60 miles of our hotel and the car said go one way and the paper another. We believed the paper and soon found ourselves winding up and down a 2 lane road through the mountians with, what i believed to be, the faint sound of banjo music in the background. Very scary.
We will be hitting the battlefields today…
When I was younger, I worked on a dairy farm. (OK, get all the farm boy laughs out now) Periodically we would walk the edge of the pastures to inevitably find a spot where beast or natural deterioration had broken down a portion of the fence. At that point the community it was supposed to hold together, was now going free range and disconnected. Continue reading ‘Mending Fences’
What a great day to be the King of the Road on a Harley Davidson Road King! Okay, I highly doubt a Harley was on Roger Miller’s mind in 1965 when he wrote that country anthem, but it came to mind. Continue reading ‘King of the Road’
A few years ago I past a milestone that was so cool! I woke up one day to realize that I had been with the bride of my youth longer than I had been without her. Today I get to celebrate 18 years of marriage and over 22 years of knowing I will spend the rest of my life with the most awesome, beautiful, and anointed woman God ever created.
Cheryl, thanks for saving my life. Thanks for putting up with the Mr Hyde that was in me for so many years and enduring the transformation that God is doing in me daily. I promise to love you more every day as it placed in my heart by the Holy Spirit and will cherish being satisfied with a long, long, long life with you as the Lord tarries. You are the bomb!
PS: I will get you to Italy yet!
I love it! Joshua 12:19 “There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. All the others they took in battle.” Continue reading ‘Peace and Battle’
