I didn’t get home until after 10PM, but it was a day full of business, adventure, family, and fun!

I pulled into Marion after 1PM and saw the WORLD’S LARGEST GRILL!

Of course seeing such a marvel of technology, I had to eat one of the brats cooked on that grill! So I did.

Apparently I wasn’t the only one who noticed this mammoth addition to the Marion skyline – my buddy Glen Robinson ALSO saw the World’s Largest Grill and beat me to the blog and posted about his interaction with the beast before me! (my pictures are WAY better than his!)

After lunch I headed to IWU to drop some things off with a professor who tomorrow heads to Bosnia – where my sister has been for nearly 6-months! He’ll deliver some goods to her THIS WEEK! How cool is that? She’ll be thrilled to receive what we put together (I hope!)

After dropping the items off, I set off to meet up with my Mother-in-law in the Records office where she now works. I simply asked for LeeAnn Garrett and she came to meet me in the lobby! That was easy! We visited for a bit, she introduced me to a lot of ladies who probably know just how many A’s, B’s, C’s, and D’s I got in my college years! She was also able to get my diploma out from “historical” storage (that’s where I’d like to think it was) and send it via the United States Postal Service to me! Woo Hoo! She also turned Jess into a Sheets on the Indiana Wesleyan computer system (they wanted a copy of our marriage certificate last time I talked with them…)

After that it was off to visit with my buddy Josh Koontz – we headed to Jim Taylor’s office in admissions to spend some quality time with Jim. Quality time turned into me and Josh begging for free IWU stuff and ending up with a couple new t-shirts. One of which I didn’t iron before putting on this morning and wearing to the office! (see webcam)

Our cabinet meeting went well and we made some important decisions and we did our jobs of voicing opinion and guidance. We finished the evening with dinner at a Pizza Hut Italian Bistro (a WAY NICER than usual Pizza Hut). Supper was nice and the drive home was LONG.

It’s Tuesday. It’s a little after 12 and I’m about to shut off the computer, close it up and head to Marion.

I’ve got a Youth Cabinet meeting there this afternoon and some IWU-errands to run before then.

I even hope to see my mother-in-law who now works in the Records department! How cool is that? (Maybe I’ll find out today why I was never sent a diploma!)

Last night’s accountability group went well – we had the usual chips ‘n dip, question asking, conversation, etc. and then as we usually do, we spend about 30-minutes throwing the light-up frisbee to each other in the parking lot!

Good times with my brothers.

This morning I showed up to give blood promptly at 8AM. I was 5th in line (the earliest we can give is 8), and yet I was the first one done and out the door @ 8:35AM! How’s that for FAST BLEEDING?! One problem during the donation – the nurse missed my vein at first and had to “hunt” for it (this has happened only a handful of times in my blood-donating lifetime), so she called for the other nurse to come help. I can already tell that the bruise will be a significant addition to my usual pale-white arm color!

Off to Marion.

Did a lot today…

For a Monday, it felt like a Monday.

Does that make sense?

Accountability Group tonight – looking forward to that. “Good Fun” sums up a couple hours of Hacienda chip-eating and peer-to-peer question asking… That’s probably NOT true for a lot of people, though.

My web-buddy Ken told me today about a link: www.dropload.com – he wanted the hi-res images from my asbestos factory photo shoot, but the directory was like 50-megs (impossible to e-mail). This website allows you to upload upto 100-meg files to their server and they’ll keep it for 7-days – plenty long for your web-buddy in South Carolina to download it! Cool, huh?

Had lunch with my Youth Pastor buddy John Bryan @ China Palace. Good eating, though I kept it to one plate of Chinese goodness. (Jess is making steak tonight!)

I also found time to look at my newest eBay-purchased item: a 1963 Benjamin Franklin half dollar coin.

“Why?”, you may ask, would I bid and pay just under $2 for a 1963 half dollar coin?

“Because”, I say, I’m going to make a ring out of it. That’s right, a “ring”. A SILVER ring (1963 was a year they were STILL making coins out of “real” metals that had worth)

Will it work?

I have no idea, but you can expect the photo diary along the way for sure..

Look what I found – here.

This is going to be amazing.

This morning I headed out to the abandoned asbestos factory in Winona Lake with my new digital camera for some photo-shooting goodness..

Click on the collage for the entire photo gallery.

While at the old factory, the Parkview Helicopter flew overhead and I got a good chance to use my 10x optical zoom! Check it out: