Monday, March 28, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
The KU Basketball Fan Prayer
Our Father, who art in Lawrence, Hallowed be thy Game.Thy Tourney come, thy Championship will be done, in Houston as it is in Allen Field House. Give us this day, our deserved victory And forgive us our turnovers, as we forgave Roy, who double-crossed against us. Lead us Not into Defeat,but Deliver us from the East Coast Bias. For Kansas is the Basketball Kingdom,& the Tradition,& the Glory, forever & ever. Amen.
Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk
KU!
A Conglomeration Of Happenings
It has been a while since I have blogged about life. And I guess I have been not really wanting to write anything because it seemed like there was nothing exciting going on. But my reason for having this blog isn't to just write about exciting things in life. So here goes with a smattering of things from the past week or so.
I'll start with today since it is the most fresh in my mind. I did something that was a first for me today. I attended a webinar. You know, a seminar that is held on the web, a webinar. When I first told Audrey about it she laughed and said, "They really call them that?" I said, "Yes, they sound very sophisticated, and only sophisticated people are asked to join them." Anyway the really cool webinar was hosted by the Rocky Mountain District (RMD) of the Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) and I participated on my Acer Laptop (ALP) while I was in my Church Office (CO). Catching a drift of acronyms? (CADOA?) The topic was reaching out and meeting needs in your community. There is a program called Blessings in a Backpack, and the idea behind it is to provide food for the weekends for kids who aren't able to get it at home. On Friday afternoons all the kids who are in the program receive a backpack full of enough food for the weekend. Pretty cool idea if you ask me. And only $80 bucks per kid for a school year's worth of food. This definitely is a possibility for our Church.
I am ready to race this weekend. It has been kind of a weird week for running. I haven't ran near as much as I would have liked to, but I guess that happens sometimes. One of the great things is that Audrey and I run basically all of our races together and we train together as well. And then on the other hand if something happens to one of us, such as an injury, then we join them in their healing process. That being said, Audrey has sustained some foot pain for the past week, so it has hindered our training. We even swam on Tuesday, and if you don't know how much I am NOT a swimmer you can read about it here. I also took today off from any sort of exercise, I felt sluggish and worn out. But that doesn't make sense to me now because it's 2 a.m. and I have a serious case of insomnia. Which NEVER HAPPENS TO ME! So I'm pretty baffled by that.
I am also looking forward to wearing my new trail shoes (Brooks Cascadia 6) farther than 4 miles. Since it is still half snow/half slush, all wet and muddy here in Wyoming I haven't had the chance to take them out very much. My only worry is that I don't get blisters. Antelope Island has quite a bit of sand in some parts of the trail, and if you get a bunch down in your shoes you either stop and dump it all out or you have about 15 different hot spots from all the tiny pebbles.
In Church we are going through a sermon series on Habakkuk. If you haven't read it, you should, and if you have you should read it again. It's a pretty good one. On one hand you can totally relate, because Habakkuk is questioning God with circumstances in his life that don't make sense. But then you get to chapter 3, which we will be studying this Sunday, and doing what Habakkuk does makes it really hard. He says that he is going to rejoice even when he doesn't have anything to rejoice about. He is going to rejoice even when things in his life are going horribly. This is not an easy task. Because when things are bad we want to be down, depressed, angry, and hurt. We don't want to have understanding, or to be rejoicing, looking at the bigger picture of life.
So there you have it. The uneventful things of this week. Oh, I finished our taxes today. Cleaned out our dog kennel, which hadn't been cleaned all winter - let me tell you, two dogs go to the bathroom a lot during the winter. I'm currently reading Dave Ramsey's book Financial Peace Revisited. That's it.
I'll start with today since it is the most fresh in my mind. I did something that was a first for me today. I attended a webinar. You know, a seminar that is held on the web, a webinar. When I first told Audrey about it she laughed and said, "They really call them that?" I said, "Yes, they sound very sophisticated, and only sophisticated people are asked to join them." Anyway the really cool webinar was hosted by the Rocky Mountain District (RMD) of the Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) and I participated on my Acer Laptop (ALP) while I was in my Church Office (CO). Catching a drift of acronyms? (CADOA?) The topic was reaching out and meeting needs in your community. There is a program called Blessings in a Backpack, and the idea behind it is to provide food for the weekends for kids who aren't able to get it at home. On Friday afternoons all the kids who are in the program receive a backpack full of enough food for the weekend. Pretty cool idea if you ask me. And only $80 bucks per kid for a school year's worth of food. This definitely is a possibility for our Church.
I am ready to race this weekend. It has been kind of a weird week for running. I haven't ran near as much as I would have liked to, but I guess that happens sometimes. One of the great things is that Audrey and I run basically all of our races together and we train together as well. And then on the other hand if something happens to one of us, such as an injury, then we join them in their healing process. That being said, Audrey has sustained some foot pain for the past week, so it has hindered our training. We even swam on Tuesday, and if you don't know how much I am NOT a swimmer you can read about it here. I also took today off from any sort of exercise, I felt sluggish and worn out. But that doesn't make sense to me now because it's 2 a.m. and I have a serious case of insomnia. Which NEVER HAPPENS TO ME! So I'm pretty baffled by that.
I am also looking forward to wearing my new trail shoes (Brooks Cascadia 6) farther than 4 miles. Since it is still half snow/half slush, all wet and muddy here in Wyoming I haven't had the chance to take them out very much. My only worry is that I don't get blisters. Antelope Island has quite a bit of sand in some parts of the trail, and if you get a bunch down in your shoes you either stop and dump it all out or you have about 15 different hot spots from all the tiny pebbles.
In Church we are going through a sermon series on Habakkuk. If you haven't read it, you should, and if you have you should read it again. It's a pretty good one. On one hand you can totally relate, because Habakkuk is questioning God with circumstances in his life that don't make sense. But then you get to chapter 3, which we will be studying this Sunday, and doing what Habakkuk does makes it really hard. He says that he is going to rejoice even when he doesn't have anything to rejoice about. He is going to rejoice even when things in his life are going horribly. This is not an easy task. Because when things are bad we want to be down, depressed, angry, and hurt. We don't want to have understanding, or to be rejoicing, looking at the bigger picture of life.
So there you have it. The uneventful things of this week. Oh, I finished our taxes today. Cleaned out our dog kennel, which hadn't been cleaned all winter - let me tell you, two dogs go to the bathroom a lot during the winter. I'm currently reading Dave Ramsey's book Financial Peace Revisited. That's it.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Win A Sony Walkman @ 26.2 Quest
Enter to win a sony walkman from 26.2 Quest. He's giving away 2 of them!
Go and check it out. 26.2 Quest
Go and check it out. 26.2 Quest
Saturday, March 19, 2011
"The Sentry" by Robert Crais
Monday, March 14, 2011
"The Fall" By Guillermo Del Toro And Chuck Hogan
On to the book!
This is the 2nd installment in a trilogy by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan. I stumbled across the first book last year in the library and decided to give it a try. It was good enough for me to want to read the 2nd one, which I stumbled across again at the library. These kinds of books are purely for entertaining reading only. I really don't know if you can pull anything worthwhile out of them, but sometimes its good to have a book that you can just get lost in and not have to think too much about.
"The Fall" continues on with the story of how the entire world is getting "infected" by a strain of vampires (completely science fictionish) and the few people who are trying to save the world from this mass destruction. The common theme of a catastrophe and the survivors trying to figure out a way to stay alive. It is well written with good characters and plot theme. And made a nice addition to the first book. I'm not sure when the third one is supposed to come out, but chances are if my luck remains that I will stumble across it at the library as well.
11.5 Mile Saturday Run
I had a pretty productive Saturday. In the morning myself and a few others ran a booth for the "Burn Your Lungs Run" that I am directing again for July 30, 2011. We had laptops set up for people to register on the spot, and if they registered that day they received a free training plan courtesy of "The Audrey Ross Way". It was a great time to interact with everyone and let them know about our upcoming race!
Then in the afternoon I set out for my long run of the week. I have been trying to increase my weekly mileage over the past month or so, and so far it has been happening. Not necessarily the easiest thing to accomplish in February and March with winter still trying to keep it's hold on Wyoming. But Saturday was one of the warmest days that we have had yet, and I was priviledged enough to only wear a beanie, gloves, shorts, and a long sleeve. Not quite summer yet, but way better than the 3-4 layers that I have been wearing to run outside.
I decided to run out HWY 233 - Which is our tentative course for the BYLR (Burn Your Lungs Run). Did I mention we are having a 5k, 10k, and half marathon? And that you can walk or run any distance? Really, everyone should come and do our race! Anyway, back to my run. It went great, got in 11.5 miles and was wonderful to run outside. I even saw a mama moose and her baby crossing over the frozen Hams Fork River. Luckily I was far enough way that she decided I wasn't a threat, I probably didn't look to menacing either with my white legs flashing. I need the sun!
So here's my stats from my Garmin 305, which I love, and love being able to wear it outside!
Then in the afternoon I set out for my long run of the week. I have been trying to increase my weekly mileage over the past month or so, and so far it has been happening. Not necessarily the easiest thing to accomplish in February and March with winter still trying to keep it's hold on Wyoming. But Saturday was one of the warmest days that we have had yet, and I was priviledged enough to only wear a beanie, gloves, shorts, and a long sleeve. Not quite summer yet, but way better than the 3-4 layers that I have been wearing to run outside.
I decided to run out HWY 233 - Which is our tentative course for the BYLR (Burn Your Lungs Run). Did I mention we are having a 5k, 10k, and half marathon? And that you can walk or run any distance? Really, everyone should come and do our race! Anyway, back to my run. It went great, got in 11.5 miles and was wonderful to run outside. I even saw a mama moose and her baby crossing over the frozen Hams Fork River. Luckily I was far enough way that she decided I wasn't a threat, I probably didn't look to menacing either with my white legs flashing. I need the sun!
So here's my stats from my Garmin 305, which I love, and love being able to wear it outside!
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