Random Ramblings

I have vinyl Star Trek stickers on the rear window of my truck.  So, today a car passed me on the freeway (we still call it the Interstate here, but I will use the other word so ya'll don't get lost in southern vernacular) and Vulcan saluted me when they eased back into the lane in front of me.  I saluted back, and they waved as they continued on their way.

That made this Star Trek geek very happy!

Nerds of the world unite!

Staybrite wrote:

Nerds of the world unite!

 

We can't!  We're all have social anxiety!!! 

alldatndensum wrote:

Staybrite wrote:

Nerds of the world unite!

 

We can't!  We're all have social anxiety!!! 

That's why we are all on the internet instead of a comic book convention.

Today is a sad day.  We've had another mass shooting.  This time it was in rural Mississippi.  The gunman killed 8 people--7 of who were relatives and one police officer.

Life is overwhelming me.

I think life is overwhelming more and more of us these days...

"Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking toward those things which are coming on the earth"

But we always know in our hearts that we have a hope:

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me"

And should always pray when overwhelmed, noting the example of Jesus:

"He took with Him Peter, James, and John, and began to be deeply troubled and distressed. And He told them, “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch.” 
Going a little farther, He fell to the ground and prayed..."

I talked to two of my mentor friends about different things in my life that I'm struggling with. It did me some good.

Yesterday was our second grandson born.
Today we've seen him. A cute little man he is.

Congrats!

I went to the 13th Annual Cigar Box Guitar Festival in Huntsville, AL this weekend.  It was good to meet some other builders I have met through Facebook.  The event itself sucked, though.  There was ONE vendor there selling guitars.  ONE!  While I can appreciate them letting the guy on stage, they let an unscheduled special needs man bang on a guitar (he couldn't play) for nearly an hour.  They lost a lot of their crowd during that.  Then, where they had skipped on artist, they were going to have to rush everyone to either stay on schedule or everyone stay late.  I finally got fed up with it and came home early.

The main organizer is going to have to do better next year or they won't be having a festival in Huntsville.  That would be sad as this is the first and longest running cigar box guitar festival in the world.

I remember you raving about it last year.  Bummer to hear it didn't go as well this time around.

Took my son out yesterday to get him some football cleats, and while we were at it I bought him a new football.  We were going to meet my wife for lunch (she was at work) and we had a few minutes to kill so we went to the local park and tossed his football back and forth for about 15-20 minutes.  I woke up this morning with the shoulder on my right arm more than a little sore....man getting old stinks.

My roommate and I were looking to get rid of a couch we inherited from the previous renter. It's a recliner, but one of the footrests is crooked and the other has fallen off. We were debating throwing it off the balcony and leaving it for big garbage pickup, or getting a friend with a van to bring it to the recycling centre in town. The landlord ended up dropping by yesterday to fix the gutters above our balcony (and removed the pigeon nest that was there in the process), so I asked him what I could do with a couch. He told me to bring it down to beside the dumpster and he'd take care of it. My roommate and I have been fixing to get rid of it, so we were going to get rid of it that day, but we were too busy cleaning up the rest of the room to take care of it.

Come evening, we were talking with some friends from church who live down the hall from us. (There is a surprisingly large amount of Christians in our apartment block.) They'd moved there from Tennessee, and were fixing to buy a couch, but ran out of money due to unexpected expenditures, so they were couchless. CLICK! All of a sudden I was thankful that we hadn't thrown it away that day. It is now in their apartment, and out of ours. I am very happy.

Thank you for reading the saga of our couch.

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Come evening, we were talking with some friends from church who live down the hall from us. (There is a surprisingly large amount of Christians in our apartment block.) They'd moved there from Tennessee,

If the Lord or if your job took you there, I could see that.  But, except for the people on the eastern side of the state that sees a lot of wintery weather, I can't see moving anywhere with more snowfall than what I am used to.  If we get 8 inches of snow for the entire winter, that's a blizzard to us and we're okay with that!

I thank the Lord for my Canadian friends, but you can have the colder months up there.  I'd love to visit during the late spring and summer months, though.  I just can't envision moving from Tennessee to Canada.

Of course, I really can't envision moving anywhere other than Tennessee.  Well, maybe Florida near the beach.  Anyplace that there aren't alligators in Florida would be good.  Oh, there aren't any places without alligators, you say?  Then I will stay in Tennessee.

Did a 5K yesterday.  Ran it in 35:59.7   I guess I really wanted to get out of the rain

Through The Dark Radio wrote:

Did a 5K yesterday.  Ran it in 35:59.7   I guess I really wanted to get out of the rain

That's pretty darned impressive...especially given that you had heart surgery last year.  You are an inspiration brother!

alldatndensum wrote:

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Come evening, we were talking with some friends from church who live down the hall from us. (There is a surprisingly large amount of Christians in our apartment block.) They'd moved there from Tennessee,

If the Lord or if your job took you there, I could see that.  But, except for the people on the eastern side of the state that sees a lot of wintery weather, I can't see moving anywhere with more snowfall than what I am used to.  If we get 8 inches of snow for the entire winter, that's a blizzard to us and we're okay with that!

I thank the Lord for my Canadian friends, but you can have the colder months up there.  I'd love to visit during the late spring and summer months, though.  I just can't envision moving from Tennessee to Canada.

Of course, I really can't envision moving anywhere other than Tennessee.  Well, maybe Florida near the beach.  Anyplace that there aren't alligators in Florida would be good.  Oh, there aren't any places without alligators, you say?  Then I will stay in Tennessee.

They moved to Tennessee to serve at my church. We've been in a reimplantation, or transplantation, phase, where we moved from a location outside of downtown, to a neighbourhood with no evangelical church.

Staybrite wrote:

Through The Dark Radio wrote:

Did a 5K yesterday.  Ran it in 35:59.7   I guess I really wanted to get out of the rain

That's pretty darned impressive...especially given that you had heart surgery last year.  You are an inspiration brother!

Yeah, I was rather surprised when I saw the time posted on the race website   I thought I was closer to 40 minutes since I wasn't really sure since my app freaked out and paused for some reason

Through The Dark Radio wrote:

Staybrite wrote:

Through The Dark Radio wrote:

Did a 5K yesterday.  Ran it in 35:59.7   I guess I really wanted to get out of the rain

That's pretty darned impressive...especially given that you had heart surgery last year.  You are an inspiration brother!

Yeah, I was rather surprised when I saw the time posted on the race website   I thought I was closer to 40 minutes since I wasn't really sure since my app freaked out and paused for some reason

Frustrating.  I've had my app just stop when I've been out walking before.  I've gotten to the point where I've memorized a few different walking paths around town (for distance), and only use the app if I'm going a different route (or just can't remember the distance for one of the paths I haven't used in a while).  Of course I'm walking just a little over 2.5 miles in about an hour (or a little less) so I'm nowhere near your level of locomotion.

Two little men are keeping me busy this week.

rockerVu2 wrote:

Two little men are keeping me busy this week.

You must be tired, but happy. 

It's the UK general election today, and I've already had enough of it!

"You must vote 'this' way or the world will end"

AHHHH!

Fundy wrote:

It's the UK general election today, and I've already had enough of it!

"You must vote 'this' way or the world will end"

AHHHH!

Sound just like here in the states!

Fundy wrote:

It's the UK general election today, and I've already had enough of it!

"You must vote 'this' way or the world will end"

AHHHH!

Kinda makes you want to vote a certain way just to see if the world really does end, doesn't it?