I am going to get back in to the daily fodder routine. It is pretty easy now to record myself as I drive home and then upload it to YouTube. Really with a couple of clicks I can have a daily vlog. Here is the first entry. Not true fodder content yet just an introduction.

So finally after all this time I am going to bring my college videos to those of you who want to see them. Some of you may wonder why of has taken so long and to be honest mostly it was die to not having an 8mm camera with FireWire output. But really a lot if it was lack of motivation.
Now that we have a baby on the way it has become time to clean stuff put and that for me means at least consolidating three shoe boxes of 8mm and mini dv tapes into hopefully a half a stack of DVDs.
What does this mean you can look forward to? Well without looking at the label the first tape involves milk, food coloring and puking. I will leave it up to you to get excited about that or not, but you should.

So this past weekend was really full. And I had an exhausting week of work before that. I am tired. But, I will say that I am really excited about what is happening at our church high school ministry.

As part of a brainstorming session on how we could involve students more effectively, I put forth the idea of a student council type of group where there would be one representative from each small group that would meet with us adult leaders and talk about direction, we could get feedback, make sure they are getting plugged in and overall get a better more accurate feel of what the students are thinking about different aspects of the ministry. Now I will say that the boys I disciple were none to keen on being part of something called Student Council because it is so stereotypical and sound snooty. So I pulled ‘Quorum’ out of my but and it seems like that is what we are going with. Yes, I know that the overachievers out there learned that it means the number needed to complete a transaction, but if you read the second definition then it says “a particularly chosen group” which I think is appropriate and besides, Q is such a versitile letter when it comes to designing things.

Anyway, yesterday we had our first combined meeting. It went so well. It is so refreshing to work with a group where everyone has a desire to be involved at that next level and just want to know where to pitch in. We had them take a home made survey about our high school service, and it was very informative. Robert was able to take some time to pitch to them the entire process of going through high school ministry from a more macro level and it was really cool to see them get excited about how what they were doing was going go be an integral part of the future of the ministry.

Now I am back to regular life. I would show you what I am working on but it is all social security numbers, account numbers and account balances, kind of the stuff that your company gets shut down for showing.

So where have I been and why haven’t I been writing stuff down? I don’t know honestly. I have been working alot. I have been doing all kinds of stuff with the high school boys. I have not had much down time since we got back from Jamaica and I feel like now that the school year is starting for Erin again we might stand a chance at getting back into a regular routine.

All that being said, one of the highlights of the last couple weeks was getting to see one of my oldest and dearest friends, Patrick Rice who was out here in Phoenix with his wife Amy. Erin and I had a great time hanging out with them and honestly a request of his is one of the reasons that I have not posted. 

When the Rices were here we did not have time to have them over to our house and so a request was put forth for a video tour of our house. Any of you who may be like us, working from 7-5 and then going out with either a church function or friends from 7-11pm know that it can be difficult to keep a house clean and functional, so that is a reason for the delay. I simply cannot bear the thought of how mad Erin would be if I put a video up on the internet of a messy house. Also, there has been a significant change to our house that I would like to have in the video and the dust from that even is finally settling down so you may be closer to getting that tour than you think Patrick.

In closing I would like to remind you that if you are interested in what I am looking at or doing on the internet you should check out my activity feeds in either of these places:

FriendFeed

Swurl – Timeline

Also of note, I got a haircut. There are pictures on Flickr or on Swurl.

So Erin is on a diet exercise regimen and is counting calories and exercising and all of that good stuff. So of course I am feeling what I call the halo effect of that. Basically I also am eating healthier and exercising muscles other than my two thumbs and pointer fingers.
So last night was the first night that we went running and I have to say that although I did not run for very long there was a little stretch where I kind of flipped the switch to see if I could still move quickly and it actually felt pretty good.
On that note I have this pair of Puma Alsten shoes. I use them as my every day shoe but like a lot of Pumas they are really sprinting shoes that look good. Well let me tell you that they are actually more comfortable when you are going really fast then when you are strolling around. I was really impressed and it removed the doubts that I had that I could actually do running in those shoes.
Kind of a long post to talk about running, but it was kind of exhilarating and fun at the same time. Maybe I will do it some more.