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Friday, April 30, 2004
stuff
The second Wild at Heart class is over. I learned some new stuff this time around and solidified things I had previously learned.
Why is it that when I tell someone, "You really should read this book! It's great!" No one ever does? Should this be taken as a personal offense? Why do so few people believe it when I recommend something to them? I'm guessing that if it were something that required nothing out of the recommendee, then they'd be more likely to take me up on the offer. For example - "Man, that movie Hizzomflozzom was awesome, you should see it!", is typically more effective. But does anyone actually see it on my advice? Or is it a movie they planned on seeing anyway?
Anyway, if the three people who haven't read "Wild at Heart" read this blog: You really should read "Wild at Heart." It's a great book. Can I get an amen?
4/30/2004 03:31:00 PM by Todd Bacon
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Friday, April 23, 2004
Sent to me by Gino Gott....
THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Amzanig huh?
4/23/2004 07:46:00 AM by Todd Bacon
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Thursday, April 22, 2004
A blogmeister I'm not.
Can't seem to think of anything interesting to post.
I do check everyone else's blog on a daily basis, and for what it's worth, I love seeing that at least one person other than Jason has updated his or her blog. I'm not saying I don't like to see that Jason has updated his - that's just a given since he is......
BIG TICKET.
4/22/2004 04:11:00 PM by Todd Bacon
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Great song
I'm looking up
Holding out
Pressing forward
Without a doubt
Longing for the things unseen
Longing for the things I believe
My true country
We hope and wait
For the glorious day
All tears will vanish
Wiped away
On the saints this day already shines
On the saints this day already shines
It already shines
We'll be singing hallelujah
We'll be singing hallelujah
At the top of our lungs, halle-le-lujah
(With all our breath, halle-le-lujah)
To Your glory, hallelujah
Hallelujah, hallelujah
And I know that it's coming
But I can't see it now
And I've touched it in moments
But I can't hold it yet
And it glows in the darkness
And it calls us away
To our true destination
To that glorious day
Newsboys
4/21/2004 10:47:00 AM by Todd Bacon
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004
PS2 game I raved about
I had been spending a lot of time in thought about The Two Towers PS2 game after I started playing it. Playing was very enjoyable and the way it morphed from the game into clips from the actual movie and vice versa was very neat. I found myself desiring to play the game, and thinking much more about it than about writing in my Signature bible, or reading God's word, or reading up on my Wild at Heart study and field journal, or spending time with my wife. So as Jenny and I were praying one evening, I hesitatingly (at first), went out on a limb and asked God to diminish or even take away my desire to spend time playing this game. God came through and I haven't played since Saturday, the 3rd. There have been occasions where it has crossed my mind, but I've opted for more spiritually benefical endeavors - this may not sound like much, but it's huge for me and my personality. In the past, if Jenny were to give me the green light, so to speak, to play PS2 without guilt or conviction, I could easily end up playing until 3:00 am on a weeknight! Anyway, my point is that it's neat how I was convicted? I guess, to pray about this, even though at the point of praying it, it really wasn't the desire of my heart - to stop playing, but I prayed evidently in accordance with His will, for the time being, and BOOM! He answers. I ain't saying I'll never play again, I'm just saying it's awesome how great it feels to be obedient to His leading.
4/13/2004 04:50:00 PM by Todd Bacon
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Those five questions Jason posted...
1. What do you do for a living?
Medical claims processing/submitting
2. What do you like most about your job?
Routine (soothes my obsessive-compulsive bents)
3. What do you like least about your job?
Being interrupted by phone calls/being forced to switch gears when something isn't completed
4. When you have a bad day at work it's usually because _____...
I feel overwhelmed and am not able to get everything completed
5. What other career(s) are you interested in?
Theme park mascot, catcher of NFL punters practice punts only on game day
4/13/2004 04:37:00 PM by Todd Bacon
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See! No money.
At my mom's for Easter there are only 5 kids young enough to hunt for colored eggs. My mom, being the obsessive compulive perfectionist that she is, has exactly 11 plastic eggs, color-coded for each specific child. They get one plastic egg at the start to show them which color they are to seek. Emily is always pink of course, Isaac was purple I think, and Jacob was probably blue. The actual important part of my synopsis is that these plastic eggs all contain money. I like this much better than the candy-filled idea.
Now jump forward in the day to Memaw and Papa's house where Jenny and Laura hide some plastic eggs AND some traditional, painted, hard-boiled eggs.
Isaac is hunting for eggs and finds a couple plastic eggs, places them in his basket; then he runs across a hard-boiled egg, picks it up, looks at it funny, shakes it and sets it back down.
Papa tells him, "Isaac, pick it up, that's one - put it in your basket."
Isaac doesn't want to pick it up and wants to move on.
Papa insists, "Isaac, pick it back up and put it in your basket."
Isaac picks it up, puts both hands on the egg, struggles, sticks his fingers into the middle of the egg, tearing it in two pieces and holds them up instructionally and somewhat irritated at Papa's ignorance states, "SEE! No money!" and throws the two halves on the ground.
4/13/2004 08:02:00 AM by Todd Bacon
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Thursday, April 08, 2004
Condolezza Rice
'This Country Simply Was not on War Footing'
Rice went through a list of events where the United States or Americans were targeted: the 1983 attacks on the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the attack on the USS Cole in 2000.
"The terrorist threat to our nation did not emerge on Sept. 11, 2001. Long before that day, radical, freedom-hating terrorists declared war on America and on the civilized world," Rice said.
"The terrorists were at war with us, but we were not yet at war with them. For more than 20 years, the terrorist threat gathered and Americans' response across several administrations of both parties was insufficient."
But that period of inaction has halted, Rice said.
Prior to Sept. 11, "this country simply was not on war footing," she said. "Since then, America has been at war. And under President Bush's leadership, we will remain at war until the terrorist threat to our nation has ended."
4/08/2004 09:00:00 AM by Todd Bacon
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