In about 15 minutes (if I drive fast enough to meet up with Jess & Craig at their school), we’ll be leaving for Ft. Wayne.

I am excited.

I’m excited about riding in the Pathfinder with Passion ’05 being played TOO loud, especially. Riding with people who can sing better than you is a lot of fun – until you try and sing louder than them.

Then you get punched.

Had a gret meeting with the Warsaw-area youth pastors this morning. We did our usual updates, sharing, and prayer time and then a long-lunch at a new restaurant in town: El Jalapeno. Not going back there. Wasn’t impressed.

I did get a great Youth Ministry link from Josh – a youth pastor in Milford: www.pdymcommunity.com – looks like it’s just started, but will provide some great resources..

Last night and today has been full of DVD-R watching. Some programs that we didn’t have a chance to watch LIVE, I recorded and watched today and last night!

Last night was the latest Navy NCIS and Amazing Race episodes and today was “Super Volcano” – a 3-hour “what if” movie about the possiblity of an erruption of Yellowstone National Park’s “sleeping caldera”. VERY INTERESTING.

Tomorrow evening will be fun – Jess and I are joining Craig Helfrich for an evening in Ft. Wayne. Dinner and a movie and much laughter will take place for sure!

I was a closet Steve Taylor fan back in the 90’s as a kid trying to find the “best” Christian music. His was a bit edgy, satire-filled, and Mom and Dad weren’t fans. Those facts made me like it.

Steve Taylor finished his solo career early in the 90s and began Squint Records – where Sixpence None The Richer and others were produced and released. Squint died sometime later and I pretty much “lost track” of Steve Taylor until today.

Through my Youth Specialties e-mail update, I found an article entitled, “Whatever Happened to Steve Taylor“. Good stuff.

Through reading the article, I found out that Steve is directing a movie with Michael W. Smith as the lead!

The movie “The Second Chance” has a website here.

CONFESSION #1:
Today after I made our week’s bank-deposit, I headed to the Warsaw Post Office and bought 8 books of stamps (160) and stuck them on the last of our “Thank You” notes and sent them on their merry ways!

Hurray for us! 10 months and 7 days and we’ve FINALLY finished our “Thank You” notes!

To the 1 or 2 of you who didn’t sign the card or put a card with the gift, THANK YOU. (we had, I think, one or two gifts that had no known “giver”.)

CONFESSION #2:
Tomorrow our 2004 taxes will be “sent”. Nothing like waiting until the last minute to cause heartburn.

So my battery is at 33% as I try and keep my eyes open this evening.

That’s probably something like 30-minutes left before my computer decides to turn itself off for the evening. Good thing I’m a quick-typer.

Marion was good this afternoon and evening. Got some good things talked out with “the guys”. I’m really excited about “The Advance” – a Youth Pastor and Sponsor training event that will be happening this Fall.

On the way to Marion, I of course stopped at the two Wallgreen’s stores to see if they had any toothbrushes.

Apparently you who read this site have found the deal yourselves.

There were none for the taking.

Sad.

The new Passion ’05 album is incredible – await a “full report” sometime tomorrow if time allows.

Time will allow.

I’m asleep now.

(not really because I wouldn’t still be typing..)

I’m pretty messed up right now – I’m trying to “calm” the thinking-part of my brain and yet I continue to type.

Some ideas that are “floating” right now (and will probably make their way into full-posts in the next couple of days):

-the pope is gone, and now the “process” by which they “pick” a NEW pope is weirding me out.
-the fact that I didn’t even HINT at being disturbed by the Shiavo case is plagueing my thoughts.
-ministry is tough
-i REALLY like Mt. Dew and wish I could get a free Mt. Dew machine for my office. (and/or a small fridge stocked full of the stuff)
-we gave our waiter a VERY nice tip tonight @ Applebee’s and I could write an entire book on how amazing it felt for us to do that and could write another book (post) on how awesome it must have made HIM feel tonight.
-my wife is the greatest
-and she snores makes funny “sleep” noises.