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April 30 More Adventures in Fast FoodFollowing up on the Iced Cap story of a few nights ago, I've had more adventures in fastfood since. As many of you know, I have suffered from Acid Reflux for the last 4 years and take a pill every morning to keep things under control. Unfortunately, my prescription ran out about a week ago and I didn't get it refilled until today. Also unfortunately, it takes about a day or so before it kicks in again. But taking my guts in my own hands, I decided that since I was in the big city today I would take advantage of the food court and have Chinese for lunch . . . . . . dumb. Then for supper Jenn wanted pizza so I obliged her . . . . . . really dumb. As a result of my cavalier ignorance I am now suffering my worst heartburn in years tonight.
Here's some advice for you: Even if you don't suffer from regular acid reflux, mixing food court chinese food and pizza in the same day is likely a recipe for disaster for your guts. You could likely drink battery acid and it wouldn't be this uncomfortable. Taken heed of my warning and save yourself some pain. There's not enough antacid in the world to put out that volcano.
Have a good night, I know I certainly won't. April 28 Happy Draft Day!Happy NFL draft day 2007 everyone! This is the day where every living male in the USA, plus Ben, sets down in front of the TV to watch spoiled 20 year olds be given contracts for tens of millions of dollars. Everyone acts like a GM for the day hoping and praying their team takes the guy they want, and waits to see how the Detroit Lions and Minnesota Vikings will find a way to screw up this rather simple process once again. As for me, I will be spending the day at a friend's house watching the events unfold while Jenn visits with my friends' wife and tries to pretend she's moderately interested to humor me.
 It amazes me more and more each year how many sports reporters are now making their living purely off of being a draft expert (Mike Mayock, and Mel Kiper Jr. to name two), and knowing every single detail and the fifth round offensive linemen taken out of Timbucktwo State University.
I don't know what the day will hold for beloved Bears, but I certainly look forward to finding out. Will they finally trade the disgruntled LB Lance Briggs and trade up in the first round of the draft for a star player, or will they trade down again and accumulate more midround value picks? If I have to guess I will say that they trade down again, that Lance Briggs doesn't get traded, and their first draft pick will be a defensive tackle. That's right, I've made my call. Am I ever glad that I have the option to come back and edit this later so it can appear as though I knew what was really going to happen.
Anywho, whether you watch the draft or not tomorrow, have a happy draft day because I certainly know I will. April 26 Beware the Butter Carmel IcedCap!I enjoy good coffee. I really enjoy a good iced double latte with a hint of raspberry. I've had a Tim Horton's IcedCap before once or twice, and thought I enjoyed those. On Wednesday night I had one of the new Butter Carmel IcedCaps from Tim Ho's and I did not enjoy that.
If you thought a regular IcedCap is sweet, this bends it over and kicks it in the face repeatedly. If the IcedCap isn't sweet enough, this has syrup and whipped cream added to it. I had a medium and wound up with gut rot and sugar shakes for the rest of the evening . . . and I olnly finished two thirds of it. I think even a small should carry a label, "Warning: May cause type II diabetes."
The scarriest part of it was that once of the youth group kids I went with finished his extra large one in about 5 minutes and then offered to finish mine. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I can't see that being healthy for anybody.
Anyways, since I sent out the teaser for my sunday sermon, I better follow through and elaborate a bit. Cliff and I are going to be preaching through the Lord's prayer over the next few weeks, and this week it's my turn to preach on "Give us today our daily bread." The past few passages I was asked to speak on were a little long for my taste (like 18 verses), and now this one is a little short for my taste, but I guess I'll do my best. I don't think this message will be anything ground breaking for anyone in particular, but I guess it is a good reminder. It's essentially the message that we can come confidently to God asking him to provide for our needs because he loves us, but we need to do so humbly enough to remember that we are totally dependant on him for our needs from moment to moment, and not just for bread, but for all of our material and spiritual needs. Hopefully all goes well and people can learn something from it. Either way, I'll do my best to present the message. I'm glad spring is finally hereThose of you who know me much at all know that I have traditionally been known as a cave dweller. I like closed windows, dark rooms, and rainy skies, but for the first time I can ever really remember, I'm really thankful that spring is here and so is the sunshine. My new lawn is turning dark green (which unfortunately means I need to buy a lawnmower), the trees are blooming (which brings wasps), and the sun is coming up sooner (which makes the birds start squawking earlier and costs me sleep), but yes I'm glad spring is here. For the first time I can remember, I'm actually opening up blinds in the house instead of just closing them. I'm not sure whether this is a good or bad thing yet, but it is what it is.
Jenn and I have been going for daily walks, just enjoying nature. Which for those of you who know me, is also a major lifestyle change. I'd much rather read a book or watch TV listening to music on my couch than go outside previous to this, but I'm enjoying my daily walk too. I'm not saying that I'm becoming a tree hugger here by any stretch of the imagination, but I am developing an appreciation for creation.
I still have to say that watching sports in my basement is my favorite pass time, but hey at least this is a start.
Other than that, I finally finished my sermon for sunday. I wouldn't call it one that I'm extremely passionate about, but it fits in with what we're trying to preach through right now at the church so I'll do my best with it. Maybe I'll give a little appetizer on that tomorrow night.
P.S. - Now that we got our laptop, I think this blogging thing will become a little easier for me. April 20 Happy Monthiversary to me (or you as it may be)!Happy Monthiversary! That's right, it's been one month since I last made on entry here. I'm not saying it's good or bad, just that it is. Life is busy here. Between preparing things for the youth trip to YC next month, and doing all of the accompanying fundraising for that trip (we are doing a dessert/movie date night tomorrow), pretty much all my spare online time has been spent managing my fantasy baseball team - Benyamen's BoSox. A team aptly named in honor of my favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox.
Right now, my time put in a shrewd managerial skills have Benyamen's BoSox in first place in the league of ten teams. I play in a standard 5x5 roto league . . . for those of you who have lives, that means its a fantasy baseball league that uses 5 hitting stats and 5 pitching stats to accumulate your teams score - batting average, runs, HR, RBI, and stolen bases for batters and ERA, WHIP, Wins, Saves, and strikeouts for pitchers. I can explain more to you personally if you really want to know. To put it mildly right now my team is dominant. While 9 of the 10 teams are between about 40 and 60 of a possible 100pt perfect score, I am sitting at a comfortable 82.5 score with a 21 pt lead as of this moment. I know everything could fall apart in a week, but for now it feels good to be winning.
If you hadn't guess yet, it's true, I have become a baseball fan over the past couple years. After playing my first season of fantasy baseball last year, I developed a new love and respect for the game of baseball and I think I've probably watched or listened to (either online or on XM radio) probably around 30+ games this year. I've found it's a great sport to listen to while you read a book, or do dishes, or drive b/c there isn't a lot of intense action you have to pay close attention to, and you can really visualize what's happening in baseball moreso than any other sport because it's all fairly slow moving and easy to understand.
Anyways, just a note to say that life is good, and that hopefully in the next few weeks here I should have my next introspective treatise ready to publish here. I am working through a theology of Christian suffering and am seriously considering starting writing a book on the subject. It may never be published, but I'd like to do it even just for my own good. I think suffering is an idea that makes Christians really uncomfortable, and in general we have kind of a weak theological grounding in the concept and experience.
Until then, have a good one. Now it's time for me to get back to my baseball. |
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