Melissa and I are going to St. Louis tonight so I probably won’t be able to watch The Office tonight when it comes back on after WAY too long (I think Melissa and I have made it through every episode twice since it went off the air). I really am looking forward to it though, whenever I get to see it. For those of you also grearing up for another Office fix, this is a fun interview from USA Today with some info on upcoming episodes and some comments from Jenna Fisher.
Holy cow! We’ve had some fast school bus drivers before but nothing like this. We’ve got to look into getting this guy for our next big trip.
I recently tackled the task of scanning all 2000+ pictures that my wife and I have from high school and college. As I was going through them all, I ran across a couple from my early college years that I thought would be fun to share with you.
It was April of 2002 and CCF, the campus ministry that I was invovled in, was having an open mic night. Basically, it was a talent (or more realistically non-talent) show kind of thing. For the final act of the night a friend of mine, Chip Ewald, walked to the front of the room with a bucket and a glass of water with goldfish in it. He had a challenge. He was planning to see if he could swallow a goldfish and bring it back up again while it was still alive. Not only that, he wanted to know if anyone else wanted to join him. Everyone else in the room backed away from him so natually I hopped up and offered to do it with him. I’d swallowed goldfish before so getting him down was no trouble at all but the trick was bringing them back up again. Unfortunately Chip had chicken salad for dinner so the room cleared out pretty quickly when the chunks started to fly. I’m proud to say that we both managed to get one back up (mine was first of course). We named them Chuck and Ralph.
I’m pretty sure Paul never mentioned vomiting goldfish in his lists of spiritual gifts but I think there is a chance a revised list might include that. As a student minister, I consider that a very valuable gift. It is right up there with the gift of Mt. Dew chugging and the ability to grow a great gotee (a gift that I’ve yet to exercise – hit the link for another great article from Stuff Christians Like).
PS – I thought that story was enough in and of itself but now I’ve got video to go with it. Apparently this guy is making a living doing what we did for fun. Obviously his skills are a little more refined but if I start practicing now I’m sure I can make it to the big time one day. (If you don’t want to see his whole act, just skip ahead to minute four for the grand finale.)
This video has been making the email circuit lately so you’ve probably already seen it. In case you haven’t, it is pretty cute.
For another SUPER cute, and perhaps even more talented, small asian girl singing a song, check out this amazing rendition of Hey Jude. I coudn’t do any better myself.
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