I'm reading a book!

Oh, it's true...I'm reading again. Went to the church library on Sunday and checked out "Love Beyond Reason" by John Ortberg. Now I have to tell you that I've grown quite fond of Mr. Ortbergs writing. We did three of his books in small group and I loved them all. He has a great way of conveying points through word pictures and life experiences.

So anyway, the title of the book describes God love for His children, and the content of the book is basically a primer for us to reflect that love in the same reckless manner to people in our lives. What's that you say? Jesus' love? Reckless? From Zaccheus up in the Sycamore tree, to the prostitute washing His feet with her hair, Jesus practiced reckless love. He didn't let society's rules limit his love. He talked with prostitutes, and He did miracles on the Sabbath. So I think that the point of this book is going to be, how can we love others recklessly?
I'll keep you posted as I read.

My nose is sore.

Top Thrill Dragster....not tops?

Apparently Six Flags New Jersey is preparing to one-up them. Read about it here.

Also, Hersheypark has announced that Turbulence will be a new ride in 2005.

Link of the day

Dave Barry's Blog.

Also, for the record...being sick is miserable. I'm on day three of whatever I have and it bites. Hurts to swallow, I'm coughing up mucus shaped like small animals and I can't sleep for beans. Grr. But it could be a lot worse, so in spite of my complaining, I know I'm blessed and fortunate.

Ciao!

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Spoilers Ahead
Is an awesome movie. I saw it Friday night and I loved it. It was set back around the 30's or 40's. I really liked the architecture and the wardrobe styles from that time period. In a nutshell, Jude Law plays a military pilot who is racing against the clock to save humanity (of course) from an evil mad-scientist. He has the obligatory female sidekick (ably played by Gwenyth Paltrow). It's fun journey with evil robots, "Land of the Lost-type" animals, and crazy crazy military vehicles. Now, if you need your movie to be in color, don't see this movie. Cause it's black and white...and you hardly even notice it. I couldn't really find any faults with this movie. It was great. However, it's not for everyone. You've got to have an imagination to see it. I'm giving it "10" out of 10 on the ratings scale.

Good morning.

Non-sausage links

Apparently, Orpah's free car giveaway, wasn't so free.

And Spiderman 2 is showing in IMAX at the Whitaker Center.

Freitag

Hello world. Sorry for my prolonged absence. Once a slacker, always a slacker I guess.

So is Britney married or not? Hmmm. This certainly creates some friction between the folks at People Magazine and the folks at US Weekly. I tend to lean towards the People peoples. Not that it makes any real difference, but I think they did get married.

BTW, happy belated autumn. If you missed it, it arrived Wednesday afternoon.

I ordered some new cd's from BMG. I'm getting cd's by Nicole Nordeman, Bethany Dillon, Something like Silas, and someone else, who's name currently escapes me...

Look for a review of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow this weekend. And don't forget to pray. For whatever.

Lafue, I'm afraid I've been thinking...

A dangerous past time, I know!

I took a little break from work this afternoon and walked outside. And the following thought permeated my grey matter: "God's not finished with me yet." I think that sometimes, especially when we're in a good spot, we think that God has given us the hook-up, and moved on. But that's not true. As good as we think we have it, God can still make it better. And what's awesome is that he wants to bless us, but it's all in his time.

Get to the Point

This weekend my peeps and I went out to scenic Sandusky, Ohio. Sandusky, if you don't know, is home to the Cedar Point amusement park. Cedar Point likes to bill itself as the world's best theme park. They could be close.

Cedar Point's big claim to fame is the fact that they have sixteen roller coasters. However, they count their childrens roller coasters, and psuedo-coasters (like the wild mouse type ride) in that number. Coasters are their bread and butter. Sure they have a ferris wheel, a log flume ride and the other standard theme park staples. But their claim to fame is roller coasters. In my day there, I got to ride four coasters, along with the Space Spiral and the Power Tower. I'll start with what I think is the best ride in the park. Millenium Force is the ride's name. It may very well be the best coaster in the United States. It's a steel coaster with a 310 foot lift hill and it gets up to speeds of about 90 mph. Very cool and very fast. I also rode Mean Streak, which as the name suggested, beat me up real good. That ride pretty much ruined my day. I expect woodys (wooden coasters) to be a little loose, but this ride was crazy rough. So I didn't much care for it. I also rode a stand-up coaster known as Mantis, and I managed to put myself on Raptor, which for you HersheyPark fans, is like a coked-up Great Bear. I hated the first, and the second was okay.

The park was nice. They do things a little different as far as ride operations go, but all the employees seemed pretty nice and the park was pretty cool. Of other note, I cooked breakfast on the trip and I had a nice burger at Perkins.

I'm starting a new feature. This will be my first rating for a trip. You're aware of my movie ratings, well, now we have trip ratings. I'm going to rate trips on a 20 point scale. I know that's a large scale, but there's a lot more factors involved. So, that being said, I'm rating this trip a 15. And if it were'nt for the people I went with, this trip would have been below a ten. Your company can make all the difference in the world when your trip goes crappy.

So there ya go. That's where I went this weekend. I'll go again, but not anytime soon.

A Prayer

Change my heart O God
Make it ever true
Change my heart O God
May I be like you

You are the potter,
I am the clay,
Mold me and make me,
This is what I pray

Blub blub blub

Show of hands; how many people knew that entire city of New Orleans was actually below sea level? This article says that theoretically the Gulf of Mexico could flood the city something fierce.

Mark your calendar for November 24th. New U2 album will hit the stores on that special day. Of great interest to me is the fact that there's a song entitled "Yahweh." Hmmm.

Going to the York Fair tonight. While the York Fair is is the oldest fair in the country (it actually existed prior to the signing of the Declaration of Independence), it is not the oldest continuous fair. That honor goes to a fair up in New Hampshire, I believe. Their fair is a little over 100 years old, but it was not interrupted by the war, as the York Fair was.

And now you know..

And the links go on....

This is for you LOTR fans. It talks in specific detail about the extra 50 minutes in the ROTK extended edition.

And this one is just for fun. What a sweet ride..

Silly Hackers...

Somebody hacked the Third Day website. Maybe it was those moveon.org kids. :)

Just some thoughts

I found this article this morning. If you have any interest in the AIDS situation in other parts of the world, read this article. Even if you don't, read this article. It talks about the AIDS crisis in China, specifically the AIDS orphans. Crazy stuff. You may have to register on the site, but it's free and worth it.

Oprah Winfrey gave away new cars to her studio audience yesterday. True, they were Pontiacs, but the fact remains that they were new cars, and the audience had been screened so that all these people actually needed new cars. Good for you Orpah.

I wanna be a blog-star, but I ain't got what it takes..

The new-look Washington Redskins held off the Tampa Bay Buccaneers earlier today. Only 18 more wins till we're Super Bowl champs! Way go go Joe!

I'm currently watching a movie titled Meteor. For some context, this movie was made twenty-five years ago. It caught my eye because Sean Connery was in it.. AND it involved a meteor five miles wide hitting the earth. Kinda like that movie with Tea Leoni and Morgan Freeman. But this one was better. Cuz it had Karl Malden, and Martin Landeau in it. Yea it's got the cheezy special effects, but Connery is THE MAN.

I have gmail invites. Let me know if you're interested.

I wanna be a spy

Yes. It's true. I saw The Bourne Supremacy for the second time this evening. It made me want to get into the intelligence racket. Flying around the world, snoopin' in other people's business, gettin' cool gadgets... I'm all about that. Or I could be a desk guy. Like Danny Zorn. Except I won't let my boss kill me. That would suck.

Al Franken's radio show is on television now. It's on IFC at 11:30pm, Monday through Friday. Here's your link to Mr. I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and people like me's radio show.

Night.

Hey Conservative Lovers!

Go here.

Welcome back modesty.

We missed you! Click here. And if this upsets you because your clothes help you express yourself, then learn to write, paint, play music, or otherwise express yourself.

Four-day work weeks rule!

The only things that rule more are: three-day weeks, two-day weeks, one-day weeks, and vacation!

Beautiful day off yesterday. Went over to Messiah for a bit, washed my car, watched some telly, and went over to Hersheypark in the evening. And the weather was awesome.

It occurs to me that I haven't seen a movie in a long time, and thus haven't done any movie reviews in a while. This is a situation that needs addressing. Maybe I will go see Super-size Me on campus this weekend.

Thanks to all my peeps who came out for soccer this weekend. Good times, good times.

So far both the Messiah men's and woman's soccer teams are undefeated this year. They're both 2-0. The women play at home tonight against Dickinson. Come out and support women's soccer!! Men play tomorrow night.

TTFN

Where I pontificate on whatever...

Michael Moore called the entertainment at the Republican National Convention "sub par." Excuse me? Third Day is NOT "sub par." And neither is LeAnn Womack.

I'm off to the Maryland State Fair tonight. And I don't even live in Maryland! I'm going to pay six bucks to eat fair food, see people, and watch Switchfoot. Rock! and Roll!

Two more weeks till Cedar Point. WARNING: GOOD TIMES AHEAD!

At small group we discussed Sunday morning worship. And what makes it different from Monday through Saturday worship. Of course the answer to this question should only be that part of Sunday's worship takes place in a corporate setting. Cuz if you consider your Sunday worship to be like a refueling experience, your missing out. There's worship to be done all the time...cuz God deserves nothing less.

TTFN

The Yankees lost big

And I mean big. Like 22-0 big. To the Cleveland Indians. Ha! I'm hoping that the Yankees fall further and the Red Sox take the AL East. And if I can hope beyond hope, the Texas Rangers will get the wild card and the Yankees will not be in the playoffs.

Why is religion, in particular Christianity, such a target for mocking and spoofing? Is it because people just don't understand it? Or maybe they think people use it as a crutch, and that's funny for some reason? I dunno. But spoofing Jesus seems to be a money maker for some people(see Matt Stone and Trey Parker). And Kevin Smith wants to make Clerks II: The Passion of the Clerks?

Did anyone watch Jenna and Barbara Bush on TV last night? They let the UT grad do all the talkin' when it should have been the Yale girl doin' the talkin'. Oh well.

Two more days till Switchfoot.