messin’ with Balaam

If you drop the “g”, everything sounds “hipper” somehow. I’m still listening to the Bible in the mail Jeep. I take back what I said earlier about the first 5 books being tough to wade through…there’s some amazing stuff in … Continue reading

Job in the Abstract

I’m still listening to the Bible in my car. I’m a captive audience out on the mail route. Some parts of the Bible are hard to wade through….I didn’t think I’d get through the first five books of the Old … Continue reading

you don’t want to know

Adam and Eve had a pretty good thing going. Think about it….they really did. It was Paradise.  With a capital P. And there was only one rule, really.  Just one.  That should be pretty easy to remember. “Don’t eat from … Continue reading

pre

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nDDByubKfE I plod. I don’t think I’m a runner yet. This guy was a runner. I was thinking about being single-minded and how focus and natural ability and mental toughness can lead you to greatness. Then I started thinking about … Continue reading

how far?

I was running this morning and thinking. I can’t disconnect the two activities completely.  If I’m breathing I’m thinking. That doesn’t mean that if I’m running and I’m breathing hard that I’m thinking more than usual. It doesn’t mean that … Continue reading

harmonic balance

I love learning about cars.  I like driving cars. I like going places. I love learning about cars when it’s on my terms. The other day my Jeep broke down and I got to learn what a harmonic balancer does. … Continue reading

action kills worry

I wake up early a lot these days. I don’t know if it’s genetics…or just getting a little older…or any of the reasons people can’t sleep in the morning…but I seem to wake up early. The other morning, I was … Continue reading

eyeballing

I’m working on a bathroom project these days. It should have been something simple. It’s not a full remodel…it’s just tearing out a short wall, rebuilding the wall, sheetrocking and taping and finishing the new wall, replacing the door with … Continue reading

missing

When someone goes missing in the woods, they send out a search party.  They don’t let another evening pass when they discover that a person isn’t where they need to be. But what if a person’s “never left the building” … Continue reading

it’s a small world after all

I don’t have many chances to quote American actor Matthew McConaughey…the opportunity just doesn’t present itself very often…but he has a saying that I’m going to repeat here…. I think it came from the first movie I saw him in…Dazed … Continue reading