Rick Reilly wrote a piece for ESPN about the oddest game in football history. In this game, the fans cheered for the opposing team, at the coach’s request. They even made a spirit line for the opposing team to run through. And after the game, the visiting team doused the home team’s coach with Gatorade. What the heck?
Read the article. It’s certainly worth the five minute investment.
For some reason I find this fascinating. Not sure why.
A couple in Seattle have a lightweight digital camera that they hook to their cat’s collar once a week and let him out.
There is a blog and a Flickr photo page. The cat takes pretty good pictures.
Cooper is a 3 year old American Shorthair cat living in Seattle. Cooper has been taking his own pictures for over a year now! Once a week he wears this light weight digital camera fastened to his collar, which snaps a new photo every 2 minutes.
I have never been a fan of turkey. Not that it’s bad, but it doesn’t seem to have much flavor (except the skin). Even the turkeys injected with flavor doesn’t seem to have a whole lot of taste. I eat it, but I don’t look forward to it.
A few years ago, Oprah (ugh) featured a turkey company, Greenberg Smoked Turkey. Finally something I can agree with her on. My brother-in-law works for a law firm that gives these birds out at Christmas. This year, he passed it on to my wife and I.
It looks different from most turkeys when you take it out of the bag because the skin is VERY dark. This is from the smoking process. After adding the family spice recipe, they slow cook the turkey over a hickory fire. This in one good turkey. I suppose that’s why they sell over 200,000 each year.
Monday night it got cold here. Then there was the VERY light precipitation that occurred causing bridges and overpasses to freeze for the drive to work. It stayed cold all day Tuesday causing a few snow flurries around town, but certainly not enough to stick. That is unless you were around White Rock Lake.
The snow you see in the pictures below can only be found around the lake. Nowhere else was there any ground cover. Because our temperatures have been quite warm for the last few weeks, the lake temperature was fairly warm as well. When the cold air came in the winds picked up water vapor rising from the lake, carried it into the surrounding areas where it froze and fell to the ground. Snow, just around the lake areas.
If you don’t think God has a sense of humor, I invite you to watch this video. Two tiger cubs invade a monkey’s territory while playing together. The monkey decides to have his own fun in an attempt to chase off the intruders.
There is a new sight that launched very recently called I Am Second. It is an intriguing new approach to ministry that reaches out by showing how others have overcome their struggles. Some of the content is raw when people describe low points in their life. But the videos are honest.
You will recognize many of the faces, other you will not. From living the good life, to rock bottom, we have all been there. Many of us are at the bottom now and don’t see any way out. Each of these people were there, but found a faith that has helped change their lives. Josh Hamilton details his drug and alcohol abuse. How it got him banned from baseball, and how Christ helped him get back, better than ever. Brian Welch, formely of Korn tells of his drug addiction, the death of his daughter’s mother, and how he couldn’t function without drugs. He describes the night he (oddly) snorted meth and then asked God to help him find a way to overcome his addictions. He gave up drugs and quit heavy metal to be with his daughter and live the life he knew he should be living.
We have all had those points when we wanted to give up. I Am Second aims to show us that we are not alone in that and that there is one way out. Some of the videos are also great examples of how we might be the catalyst to help someone else find their way to Christ, even those we think would be the last people on Earth to do so. Take a few minutes and watch a couple of the videos. Read the questions. Pray for those that may be seeking meaning, forgiveness, or deliverance. And send this site to a friend.
I would also love to hear what you think of the site, so leave a comment below.
Well, I did it. I had a moustache for an entire month. It was really annoying and often embarrassing. I felt compelled to apologize to patients at work for looking so ridiculous (even more than normal). And it itched more often than not. But it was worth it because Tyler and I raised $255 for prostate cancer research.
This is a fairly new project in the United States, yet we raised over $800,000 in one month! Worldwide, 172,837 participants collected $13,576,730.92! We still have a long way to go, but this is exciting considering it started only a few years ago with a handful of friends in Australia.
Thank you to each one of you who donated money through me. It is greatly appreciated. And thank you to my wife for her minimal complaints about the ‘stache. I’m getting rid of it tonight!
