A hearty congratulations to THE Ohio State for their well-fought, clutch 31-24 victory over Miami.

Now Dawn, don't get too crazy now with the whole police car tipping and fire-starting business. Remember to riot responsibly.

:-)

Oh yeah, if you are a blogger that reads my blog and I don't have you linked on the sidebar, let me know in the comments so I can remedy that fer ya.

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Playing the Lord of The Rings version of Risk is 10x's better when you quote lines from the movie as you attack and defend the armies. My line was proclaiming loudly "YOU SHALL NO-O-O-O-O-O-OT PA-A-A-A-A-ASS" as I defeated an attacker. When I attacked a territory with one army left, it was Gollum's "We wants it" hissed to perfection. Good times...good times.
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One of the assignments for my Time Management class is to create a Personal Mission Statement. Y'know just like the ones that businesses have. I made one but I can't help thinking that it's an excercise in futility. Mine came out all spiritual sounding, which is OK, since your mission statement is supposed to reflect your core values. But I took one look at it and said "Oookaaay, can't live up to this!" I suppose that's the point though, even though you'll most likely fall on your face, it'll give you some kind of a goal to encourage you to get back up.

I dunno, whadd'ya think? Do you, O reader have one? Are they useful or are they just souped-up, white-collar hokey propagated on us by MBA's with too much time on their hands?

In other news...I just found a sixer of Bass Ale sitting by my refrigerator that someone brought to my party and forgot about on New Year's Eve

Yep, 2003 is lookin' good so far.

New Year's Wishes to all. May God continue to bless and keep us!

We had a great time last night, my friends Dawn and Aaron came over with a couple bottles of champagne. Dawn and Aaron were classmates of mine at Calvary Chapel Bible College, who are now reformed and just became members of Kim Riddlebarger's church in Orange. It's funny how the Lord works sometimes, all of my friends and I became saved at the same time in a liberal church, then moved on to the Calvary Chapel churches, then from there became reformed. We were all located in one church, then split up and now we are all back attending the same church. Providence man...providence!

My little sister came over last night as well as my bud Dave, who like the gracious gentleman that he is, brought cigars and a sixer of Gordon Biersch's Marzen brew for us to bring in the New Year right. For our part I made pasta with grilled sausage and peppers and Karlene made hors d'ouvres (sp?) and we glutted ourselves. Margaritas and Midori Sours (Karlene, ever industrious made her own sweet and sour mix) filled our cups and good vibes were in ample attendance.

The women played Phase 10 and Rummikub and the guys sat around the sound system and listened to the new Bob Dylan concert CD and played a couple of Led Zeppelin CD's with Aaron matching Jimmy Page riff-for-riff flawlessly on my son's mini-guitar (He's a classically trained guitarist). Aaron then launched into a full Pearl Jam repertoire with Dave and I employing our best (?) Eddie Vedder howls.

We concluded with the champagne and cheers of the midnight celebration (just how old is Dick Clark now?). We were the only fools in our apartment complex who went outside to hoot and holler, I'm gonna feel so self-conscious today. :-)

Well I gotta go and take down the dried-up, old fire hazard that's been sitting in out front room for the last few weeks, then sit down for a nice brunch and watch some football. Blessings upon you all.

"The Church’s eschatology of dominion radically shaped the history of Western civilization. For example, think about the great cathedrals of Europe, and compare them to the church buildings of today. Those old cathedrals, magnificent works of art constructed over decades and sometimes generations, were built to last for centuries—and they have. But modern evangelical churches are usually built to last a generation at most. We don’t expect to be around long enough to get much use out of them, and we certainly don’t expect our great-grandchildren to worship in them. We don’t even expect to have great- grandchildren. It is safe to say that the thought of descendants living five hundred years from now has never even entered the minds of most evangelical today. Yet, for many Christians of previous generations, the idea of future generations benefiting from their labors was not strange in the slightest degree. They built for the ages." - David Chilton, Paradise Restored