Day-off rundown:

9:30AM – Wake Up (felt GREAT to sleep in!)
10:00AM – checking e-mail, trying to overcome the “want” to go back to bed.
10:30AM – begin hanging pictures (these pictures have been needing to be hung for more-than-a-year!)
11:00AM – re-organize my tools. Throw away old toolbox, introduce myself to new toolbox that was a Christmas present from Dad and Mom, also re-organize the living room closet (where my tools “hide”)
12:00PM – start taking stuff apart after organizing tools
12:05PM – take apart pillar-fan, vacuum thoroughly
12:10PM – take apart vent-fan in bathroom, vacuum and wash thoroughly
12:15PM – put things back together
12:30PM – vacuum and clean our EcoQuest Air Sanitizer
12:35PM – get a “buzz” off of amonia cleaning solution and nearly black-out (kidding)
12:45PM – head to the kitchen
12:50PM – begin throwing away “month-after-wedding” stuff (bulletins, papers, receipts, etc.) that somehow continued living on our kitchen floor in a giftbag (I hope I was allowed to throw this stuff away!)
1:00PM – begin the daunting task of dish-washing
1:35PM – 35-minutes of dishwashing is enough to make any man crazy
1:40PM – watch the bonus-features of the “For All You’ve Done” Hillsong DVD that has been playing all morning, wondering just how long the “menu” has been repeating while I’ve been doing dishes…
1:50PM – vacuum entire apartment
2:00PM – take a break here in the computer room and check e-mail again

Next up – the bathroom. The rugs have already been shaken, the sink is clean, next up is THE SHOWER. I wonder what kind of headache I’ll get from cleaning solutions today?!

Per a phone call just minutes ago, I will be speaking in BOTH morning worship services on both September 18th and September 25th.

Have I got my sermon-prep work cut out for me!

Bring on the Ibuprofen!

The day never seemed to end today.

Seriously, everytime I looked at a clock to see what time it was, I was atleast an hour-or-so ahead in my brain.

Today we introduced Thomas Hall, our new interim music-guy, to “staff meeting”. He’s a Junior at IWU and has been helping us tremendously with music since we’re without leadership in that area. The board has decided to hire him part time to continue helping us. It’s good to have another guy in the office!

I had lunch this afternoon with Pastor Jonathan Light – from Silver Lake. He’s the solo minister at Silver Lake Wesleyan and has become a good ministry-friend of mine in the past 3-years of working only 15-minutes away. He has provided an ear for me to vent oftentimes and today a chance to get out of the office and chat with him about life and ministry was a good thing.

This afternoon I completely wiped out two of our old office computers and reinstalled Windows XP to get these two computers up in the youth room in the next few weeks. We’ll have internet access to the computers and have them available to students on Wednesday afternoons before theBOX starts each week. This is one-step closer to opening theBOX up on Wednesday afternoons for a place for teens to hang out before our worship time.

Tonight was my first Tuesday night without a softball game in forever! I left work and headed to Great Clips.

NOTE TO SELF: Tuesday afternoon is a GREAT time to get a haircut! Just a 2-minute wait and I was up in the chair being clipped! Does anyone else HAVE to go straight home and shower after getting a haircut? I just cannot stand the itchy hair that is on my neck and face after a haircut!

Also, on a sad-note, I begged the lady cutting my hair to tell me that she had placed the GRAY hair in the small pile of clippings resting on my hair-cutting smock this afternoon. She admitted that, “Yes, actually it’s from MY head!”, though with her age and her use of coloring, I can guarantee that this was infact just a comment to “help the poor guy out”.

Dad, thanks for the gray-before-normal genes…

I’m gonna go pout.

The last words of my “made-in-china” instruction manual for my R/C helicopter says, “WE WISH YOU HAVE NICE FLIGHT” and then it says, “ESKY – ready for your fly“, on the back.

How funny translations are these days, huh?!

Okay, a quick rundown.

The boys showed up just before 7, we ran to Subway where I hurriedly ate a 6” sub and then we were back to the church for “the flight”.

I’m sure we got about 30-minutes or so of “off-and-on” ground-flights in before the helicopter made a not-so-soft landing and broke one of the “pitch controllers”. The part has been ordered and will be here this week, hopefully!

Of course I had the guys document the first flights for our viewing enjoyment!

Just click here for all the videos! Or choose from any of the 6 “first” flights!

01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06

Left the house this morning before 8AM. I arrived in Marion just after 9 and spent the first moments of my visit to check in with my mother-in-law up in the records department. I also visited a bit with Dr. Steve Lennox.

Our meeting was an “all youth pastors” meeting to talk about our district camps and how they function and how they could and should function better. It was a good chance to get some opinions out in the open and chat openly about how camp has been in the past. I think only good can come of what was discussed today.

After the meeting, I stopped in to visit Aunt Pam for a bit before heading over to Phil Stuller’s new apartment and visited a bit with him.

I am finally back in the office and it’s nearly 5! What a day!

Tonight at 7, the accountability group is meeting here, heading to Subway for some grub and then we will attempt the maiden voyage of the HoneyBee Radio Controlled Helicopter. If all goes well, a possible video clip could be uploaded tonight of her maiden flight!