I seem to go through phases. There are times when I will post every day. Then there are times where it seems like I have no time to write even the smallest post. Oh well...

The parade was pretty cool yesterday. We took the kids down to watch it. Not like it is very far, just walk down the block. They loved it. We got under a pretty big tree, which was nice because of the rain.

I've realized that my kids say some of the funniest stuff. I was putting my daughter to bed the night before last. I was telling her about the parade and how there were going to be clowns and some other cool stuff. I was turning off her light and this is what she said to me..."Daddy...I'm allergic to clowns." Now that is something you don't hear everyday. I just had to say..."OK baby girl, just don't touch them." I mean, what exactly do you say to that? They didn't tell me how to respond to that in Dr. Spock's book.

I just had to laugh...

Our friend Micheal R. has come and gone. It was awesome being able to hang out with him for a few days. God has done so much in his life. I would love to see him come back to the states and stay but if not...that's cool too. He was a breath of frsh air, an old friendship that brought new light into my life...really cool! He is the type of person that when you are around him you can't help but be fired up because he is so contagious. ahhh...good times.

I am so stoked. After much waiting and anticipation, I now have high speed at my house. I can now do the things that I have only dreamed about, like play Medal of Honor and Halo 2. I am in heaven...I am getting all teary eyed as I sit here thinking about it. Well, I am off to kill some people in MOH...

Alright, I am going to go off on a random tangient for a moment. Why is it that people don't pay any attention to the Don't Walk signs on the street corners. I don't know why this is such a pet peeve for me, but I have recently noticed that it drives me crazy. I almost hit some guy the other day because I was making a turn and all of a sudden here is this yahoo in the middle of the cross walk. The Don't Walk sing was blinking away. Oh but it gets better. He yells at me and throws me the universal F U gesture. I then proceeded to think of many ways in my head that I could make him pay for his insolent behavior. I did however refrain myself from pulling off anything that I might later regret. I now find myself watching people as they consciously disobey the law and walk when they know they shouldn't. What ever happened to the police giving out tickets for jaywalking? I think that they should arm the cross walks with electric charges, and when you walk when you are not supposed to it zaps you. I don't know, maybe they just can't read symbols and need to be reformed. Or maybe they are just plain stupid and need to be run over by a very large truck or something...Or maybe I am just being way too critical...

Alright, here it is. I think I like this a little better. I still need to make a header for it and do a couple more things but at least it is functioning as of now. It's alot cleaner than my other dezign and yes I backed up my other one just in case I didn't like this one. I did use a template which I really didn't want to do but hey, I'm a youth pastor not a dezigner. At least I was able to input my links and things like that. Let me know what you think. Not that it would make me change it or anything like that but hey, I thought I would make you guys feel special...like I actually cared what you thought...for those of you online schizos...that was a joke...don't get paranoid again. Tank still loves ya.

Alright, I am in the process of redezigning my site. I have a couple Ideas but I am still in the early stages. I was going to pick a really cool skin from blogger called ice, but Neil already picked it. I have searched and searched and only found a couple that I liked. I might just pick one of those and go into my HTML edit program and mess around with it. I even thought about just changing the color of the one that Neil has and using it but I can't figure out how to change the background of that one because it is in flash. Hmmm...I will make an attempt an see where it gets me.

I had an awesome opportunity Saturday to go to London Prison with J.B. I wasn't really looking forward to a 15 hour day but I would have to say it was well worth it. We are starting a discipleship program in the prison system. We went out and did some training and then at the end of the day, we had a service in the chapel. It was definately an experience that God wanted me to have. I think we get into a comfortable place in our ministries and we need to be pushed out of it. It made me think about consequences, accountability, and the amazing grace and mercy that God shows on our lives.

One man summed it up to me in a conversation we were having. He said "We have commited our crimes and need to be held accounable for those crimes. We need to be kept in here until we lose our rebelliousness. I am surrounded by barbed wire and concrete walls but I am free in my heart because of the price that Jesus Christ paid for me. No walls can stand higher than the grace that God has shown me by letting me be a part of his kingdom."

I was floored by this guy's life. The things that he has done and seen. Now he is about a year away from finishing up a 15 year sentence. On the surface you would never guess that this guy was once a hardened criminal. He has Christ in his heart and he is thankful for that. I think I learned more about grace by spending 15 minutes with this guy than I could ever learn spending a whole semester in a theology class...that's just my perspective on it.

I posted a comment on one of my student's Xanga sites today. That is not all that odd. I post comments all the time. Not as much as some people do, but I do comment. You see, I have a xanga site that I had when I first started blogging. I haven't posted on that site since November 30, 2004. That was the day that I decided I wanted a manogamous relationship with my Blogger site. I felt dirty for cheating on her with Xanga. Though Xanga is a sexy name and she had many good qualities about her, I really liked the fact that Blogger was more into fulfilling my needs. I could say, make me a link "samich" and she would do it without getting an attitude. That says alot in my book.

Anyways, I posted on this site. All of a sudden I get 2 comments in my Xanga that said "UPDATE" and "You should update this, not all of us have Blogger" or something to that effect. I was like Whoah! These people are vicious. It got me thinking: I wonder if some people have online schizophrenia...I mean, I find it hard enough to keep one blog updated and say enough witty stuff to fill one post. Here are these people that have like 3 and 4 journals, and they post in each one on a daily basis. Is this a way that you can have 3 or 4 personalities and get away with it. This is a mild case of mental illness. This kind of freaked me out. I'm thinking...Dang! I'm surrounded by schizos. Am I going to catch this? Funny thing is, I go ahead and put a post in my Xanga just to appease the masses. I folded. I caved in. Am I on my way to becoming that which I have never understood...a weblog schizo.

For those of you out there that have 3 and 4 online journals: Don't add paranoia to your list of online mental illnesses. Just tell one of those people in your head that Tank still loves ya...hehe

I was sitting in my dining room having a cup of coffee when I looked out the window and what do I see...Snow!This mornig it was sunny out and fairly warm. Then clouds started coming out. All of a sudden it started snowing. That isn't the odd thing. It only snowed for like 1 minute. Really hard. How odd is that? Then it stopped. Now it is sunny out. This weather is strange. Give me some sun and warmth...