Again, I'll give my advice. If you don't speak english, you shouldn't run the drive-thru or answer the phones. I simply would like to order lunch and pick it up, but if the person on the other end doesn't speak a lick of English, that will inevitably hurt your business. I'm really just trying to look out for them.

I almost feel bad for Belarus. I have the hockey game on and it's currently USA 9 - Bel 1. USA has scored 6 goals in the last 10 minutes. Sometimes, you're team can do so well that you start to feel bad for the other one, ya know? "Aww, good try!" you say. Try shmy...Belarus stinks!

Oh, and another Wisconsin speedskater (Chris Witty) won gold. Must be the cheese. Wonder if I went to school with her...? hehe

I just finished "On Writing..." by Stephen King. I've always loved to write and when I actually do I'm usually complimented on it. King really encouraged me to write and yet, I also understand (from him) that not everybody is a good writer. Consequently, I've created a secret blog to do my writing "behind closed doors." I love the idea. It will help me explore my talents and sharpen what I have while organizing my "toolbox" of writing tools. Vocabulary, grammar, etc. Maybe I'll be able to write stories that can impact people. Certainly hope so.

Hey, Al.

A big problem I have is with people who claim to "discuss" things and really have no intention of doing so. Sure, they seem to ask questions but really they're only interested in making you believe what they believe, end of story. They're right, you're wrong...why bother? I'd almost rather talk to a wall. It has just as much understanding. Any "conversation" where every comment you make is brushed off is frustrating. Oh, well...I choose to open my mouth, or type my thoughts, as it were.

Apparently I'm name dropping too much. Apparently I know everybody in the Olympics and went to school with all of them. So sorry.

How exciting!! Casey FitzRandolph just won the GOLD in the 500m speedskating event. I went to high school with him! Second Olympic gold medalist I went to school with (Neil Walker - Gold in swimming) which is pretty neat for a little school in Verona, WI. Rock on.

"Why do I bother?" There are a few situations in my life right now that garner this question. The answer in most of them is quite simply, "I shouldn't."

This is getting to be freaky. First, I cut myself on a sponge. Just moments ago, I cut myself...opening a bag of lettuce. Big ol' gash in my finger. I have a problem.

Another person in our church is dying today. Last week it was George and today it's Richard. Both very old. I didn't personally know either of them. It's strange. They're both "members of our church" and yet I've never seen them. Perhaps I'm just a naive youngster.

The low of losing something is only equaled by the high of finding that lost thing. If I feel this passionately about a USB adapter, how must God feel about me as His son? Whoa.

Every once in a while I'm reminded that I only have one arm. Nobody ever tells me with their mouth, but the gawkers make me immediately aware that I'm different. Usually it doesn't bother me. But, sometimes...sometimes it does. I don't get mad at them, just self-concious. I don't try to hide it, I just notice it again. It's the strangest thing to see myself on video. I have one arm. That's weird. Seeing myself clap and other things I do that I just do...it's eye opening. Just thoughts from a one armer.

Some people are annoyingly perfect for each other.

Prime example from this dumb book:

Page 10 claims: (Jabez) prayed, "Bless me, and enlarge my territory. Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so I will be free from pain." What should we assume about a man who uses the words "me" and "my" four times in two sentences? - He uses this as an example of a "selfish prayer" based on his use of those 2 words.

The very next page he uses Psalm 139:23-24 as an "unselfish prayer" example. "Search ME, O God, and know MY heart; test ME and know MY anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in ME, and lead ME in the way everlasting." - How about 6 times in 2 sentences? According to your last example, this is even MORE selfish.

Anybody who bases the selfishness/self-centerdness of a sentence on the use of the words me/my/I loses all credibility with me.

I'm very dissapointed. I got a book called "Praying Like Jesus" by James Mulholland and it's terrible. First of all, it's a direct attack on "Jabez..." which I think is a terrible premice to decide to write a book on. Secondly, it was endorsed by Brennan Manning and Eugene Peterson. Did they even read it?? The guy contradicts himself every other page. Seriously, every other page. I thought it would get better and more than half way through, it simply has not. His examples of "right and wrong prayers" are terrible and contradict THEMSELVES. I really had high hopes for this book. Poop. Oh, well...

So here's this new blog template. Decent. I am SO html illiterate. I wish I wasn't. I want to be able to do even basic things on a site. I suppose just taking the time to do it would be good. We'll see... CHECK OUT MY WIFE'S SITE. :-)