Edinboro Time

Tomorrow I make my annual voyage to Edinboro Camp. This year it is the 12 and 13 year olds. Yes, I still look forward to it. Yes, I still enjoy it. I have to admit I enjoy the fact that all meals are cooked for me, and that I don't have to clean it up. I do like that. But I am mainly hoping for changed lives. I see it every year, yet I am still amazed at how God moves. But then again I don't ever want that to get old. It will be, well, legendary.

Me and my friend the IRS

Tonight I decided to forgo the normal activity of talking to my beautiful wife. Instead I decided to spend a lovely 1 hour 26 minutes and 9 seconds with the IRS. It seems that we had a misunderstanding of my return. After reviewing it, and then being put on hold, and reviewing it some more, and being put on hold (repeat about another 10 times), I believe I fought the law and I won! It appears that my figures were correct. So they are sending me a letter with a bunch of forms to fill out (don't you just love IRS forms?) to prove to them that I am right and they are wrong. In a sick sort of way, I kind of enjoy this.

Staring at the computer screen

I had some very intelligent thoughts I wanted to blog about tonight. Honestly, I have a couple of really inspiring blog ideas in my head. However, today I was staring at the computer screen all day. Just one of those days were I was working on a couple of different things and did not blink. My eyes have that "I just want to shut" feeling. Am I the only person that does this, or is everyone else as dumb as I am?

I'm Back...Darn

I had a wonderful time on vacation. I loved hanging out with my family. I loved having no TV. I loved not checking my email, facebook, blogs, or anything else that I do on the Internet. I loved having very limited cell phone reception. Boy was it nice. Now the one thing that I need to teach my kids is how to sleep in on vacation. It is vacation people you are supposed to sleep in on vacation. Not get up at 6:45 in the morning! All in all I had a blast. Got to read a couple of good books, that will probably end up leading to a bunch of blogs in the coming weeks. Thanks for all of you who were praying for us!

Blog out

Blog out! We are leaving Monday morning and will be gone all week! I will be hanging with the family all week long. I am so excited. See you all in a week!

What a City!

Steelers...by far the greatest football team ever! They go out and win the Super Bowl. That was great to see. Loved it!

Then tonight, you have the Pittsburgh Penguins winning the Stanly Cup! Wow! What a great game 7 tonight!

Can you believe it? 2 world champions in the city of Pittsburgh! Of course though, what else would you expect from the city of champions!

So tonight, I will go to bed proud of my city! Good job Pens!

Ties

No I am not talking about ties in sporting events (however coming to think about it maybe I am). But I was actually thinking like ties that you wear around your neck. Who came up with this idea? If you ask me I think it is silly. But with that being said you can get far with a good neck tie. Honestly I am not a tie guy. I don't know what it is. It feels like is going to choke me. Maybe that is just me. Now even with my dislike of ties, there has to be a point in life where it is worth wearing it. Actually come to think about, my first job, bag boy at a grocery store, I had to wear a tie. So I survived then. In college to eat lunch in the dining hall on Sundays (which was the best meal of the week) we had to wear a tie. Needless to say I would, hey for good food why not right? So what is the point where wearing a tie is worth it? And can anyone really tell me what the point of a tie is? And who came up with the whole tie tying process, and what was he thinking?

Question for all of you out there

There is something that I have been thinking about lately. The question is "What is needed for you to experience a personal revival." We all need them. We all need those times of refueling, refreshing, or re-energizing times. My question is what is your best suggestion today on how to make that happen. I say today because I think it can change. So just would like your input. Don't worry nothing will be held against you or anything like that. Just wondering.

The best $3.99 I have ever spent

Today at the store with the bulls eye for a logo, Heather picked up 3 squirt guns for $1.00 and a bubble blowing machine for $2.99. After supper tonight, it was time to play with our new toys. So the four of us went outside and had fun. Isaiah and I were involved in a squirt gun war. The hardest part was filling the guns up, took a while. Heather and Sam were blowing bubbles with the bubble blowing machine. Which must be one of the greatest inventions in the history of all mankind. You can sit there press the button and blow tons of bubbles! No physical excursion whatsoever is needed. The cool things about this is we only used about 1/2 gallon of water. All and all just a fun night. I love the opportunities when we get to all hang out as a family!

Snarf

it is a new word that I heard tonight. I am not quite sure what it means. I guess I could take a couple guesses at it

1. Snarf -- A smurf who was vomiting?
2. Snarf -- A snapping turtle barking?
3. Snarf -- A new type of surfing?
4. Snarf -- The search engine that will take over google?
5. Snarf -- The act of being annoying?

All right let me google it, be right back. Ok, I looked, and it actually has a wikipedia entry:

Snarf or SNARF can refer to:

• A character in the cartoon ThunderCats who constantly says the word "Snarf" at the end of a phrase.
• Snarf, a character from the animated television series Trollz.
• The main character from SnarfQuest, a comic that ran in Dragon magazine.
• An underground comic published in the early 1970s by Denis Kitchen.
• SNARF-1 - a fluorescent dye that changes colour with pH
• Social Network and Relationship Finder developed by Microsoft Research, published December 16, 2005
• snarfing, a strategy for maintaining cache coherency in a computer system.

Wow. Pretty neat. Now I have to figure out how to use it in a sentence.

• snarf is listed in the Jargon File with meanings mostly similar to "grab"

Getting ready for vaction

In a couple of weeks we will be going on vacation! I love vacation. I realize that is probably the most obvious statement ever made in the history of this world. But anyhow, tonight is a very important vacation preparation night. It is the all famous "what books do I want to buy before vacation night." So I will be spending some quality time on amazon.com. Fun night for me! OK, so I guess I just admitted that I am a big nerd. Oh well. Enough blogging, book finding time!

Try try try again

I have learned something about myself. May not be a bad thing. But I am a learner by failure. Meaning the only way for me to learn something is to try. Then try again. Then try one more time. I wish I could learn by listening to instructions. That would make my life a lot easier. Just doesn't work that way.
The good news, is failure isn't scary anymore. Failure is just one more try closer to success. So in that regards it is a good thing.

My friends the IRS

I received my refund the other day from the IRS. Well let's just say it was not the figure that I calculated. It was considerably less. Today in the mail I received the explanation of why it was less. I read it, looked at their figures, and do not agree with them. So now it is time to start the appeal process. I do believe in paying what I should pay. The Bible tells us give to Caesar what is Caesar's. I plan to do that. But not more! Let the games begin!