TV For The Rest of Us

If you’re a guy and don’t love Thom Beers you need to have your testosterone levels checked. The guy is pure genius. Don’t know who Thom is? Ever heard of The Deadliest Catch, Ice Road Truckers or Axe Men? I’m currently in talks with my congressman to pass a bill to make the Thom Beers Channel. All Thom Beers’: All the time. The man has done a phenomenal job of taking obscure manly jobs and presenting them in such a way that you can’t help but stop and watch. Deadliest Catch is by far my favorite. I love spending Tuesday nights with Sig, Phil, Jonathan and all the other boys. Trust me; I’m aware that I know WAY TOO much about the show. But I just can’t help myself. Then last night I’m flipping past TruTv, a channel I didn’t even know existed (I think it used to be Court TV) and stumble upon Black Gold. It’s a show about roughnecks on oil rigs. All I can say is WOW. There’s nothing like watching a bunch of high school drop outs work on an oil rig, go home and shower, head to a bar and stay until 4:30 AM only to roll back out to the rig at 5:00 AM. No teeth, no sense of morality and no clue as to the proper use of the English language (not that I’m much better). If that’s not good TV I don’t know what is. Basically Beers said to himself: “I’m gonna do shows that guys want to watch. If you’re a kid, teenager or women and don’t like it, I don’t care!” And it’s worked. Sure my eight year old loves Deadliest Catch. Yes my wife doesn’t mind watching it. But the show is done for me, your typical 30 something male. And I love it. He’s kind of like the Community Christian Church of TV land. TV For the Rest of Us. Guys hate Project Runway so Thom gave us Verminators. Guys hate singing I Surrender All * seventeen times so CCC gives them Jesus Bad Room Mate (oh just wait!). I think Thom Beers would like our church. Besides, with his last name he can’t be all that bad!

*Editor’s Note: I personally like the song I Surrender All (not the version I linked to). But I grew up singing it, so it stands to reason I would like it.

Board Monday Afternoon Thought

Why is it one thing can bring a person so down so much? Why is it when a person has so much going for them that one missing piece can make them feel empty and useless? Can a person be truly content? Is it even healthy to do so? I’m content with many things. Most people aren’t content with money and positions, for the most part I am. Do I enjoy money and the things you can get with it? Sure. But do I obsess over it? Not really. I’m pretty happy with my job and the stuff I’ve got. But there are other areas of my life that I’m not content with. But on some level I think that’s not a BAD thing. If I was content with where my spiritual life is I would have no motivation to improve it. If I were content with myself as a father I would have no motivation to improve it. If I were content with my health I would have no motivation to improve it. Get the picture? The problem I have is when I’m not content with a relationship I have with a person. Even if I have the motivation to make things right, but they don’t, can things improve? Or do I just have to be content with the fact that I can’t change the situation? The writer of Hebrews reminds us that God is always there. And if God is there I should be fearless and not worry about what other people can do to me. But what if that other person is someone you need to care? What then? Some people you can’t just write off. Prayer, prayer and more prayer. That’s the only answer I have. Oh well, I’m sure the six people that read my blog are scratching their heads because of the lack of obscure parallels to Kroger or Hardee’s. Sorry, I haven’t been inspired lately. Maybe soon.

Really Good Post

I thought this post was really powerful. It's a short read, which goes without saying if you know anything about me.

Anything for FREE food

Well, my three kids and I spend most of last Friday driving from one Chick-fil-A to another enjoying free food. We hit three in all. My conservative estimate is that we got somewhere in the ball park of $60 in free food Friday. Cow Appreciation Day is BY FAR my favorite holiday. Sure, Christmas celebrates the birth of our Lord and Savior, but you don’t get no free chicken on December 25th do you?

So the family and I are finally in our new house. It’s very exciting. Hopefully I’ll have some pictures soon. The last month has been one crazy ride; being out of town for two weeks straight, (selling our old house between the two trips), being “homeless”, not having any of our stuff. It was a real pain at times. However, as I look back over it there were some good things that happened. My wife and I actually sat on the sofa and just talked (because we had no TV, and the kids were in the only bedroom trying to go to sleep). That was nice. My kids had a blast playing with some friends they don’t normally get to hang out with much. We ate out A LOT. And if you know anything about me you know that is my all time favorite thing to do. Well, not my all time favorite thing, just my all time favorite thing that I can type on a blog for public view. But most of all it made me appreciate what good friends I have. A friend of mine once told me: “A friend will help you move, a good friend will help you move a dead body” (gotta love Dave Bialik). But I can tell you this: A friend will help you move, a good friend will store all your crap for you and let you live in their basement for three weeks. My wife and I have six such good friends. Friends who were willing to open up their garages, basements, backyards, homes and hearts to me and my family. They did so without hesitation. They did so because they had friends in need. So I want to say publically (or at least publically to the 6 people who read my blog) THANK YOU to the Duckwalls, Parkers and Coffmans. We could not have done the last month without you! Our crap should be out of your house sometime this week. In closing, I would like to dedicate the following to all of you. Enjoy. And try not to cry . . .



Oh, and we stored some stuff at my parents house, but they’re my parents, so they don’t really count. I mean, if you can’t store stuff at your parents house where can you? That’s what parents are for. Besides, they don’t even know what a blog is or how to access one, so they’ll never see this!

Speaka da English

I thought this was funny.

Spending Too Much Time on Youtube

Actually, I'm really not. But I do love coming across gems like this. Between this and Japanese game shows I may just have to move there. And I've really grown to like Sushi!

Prayer

In my HYPE small group Sunday night all my guys say they struggle with having regular conversation with God. I think that is something everyone stuggles with from time to time. My guess is, some of my faithfull readers (all 4 of them) might have the same issue. So in order to help everyone I found this motivational video. This is how I use it. If I forget to do my daily time with God, I have to watch it. If I remember, I am spared. It's worked pretty well so far. After one viewing you realize you would much rather be praying. Hope it help you too:

My Favorite Kind of Food

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