Hey everybody,
Well, the ski trip has come and gone and, aparently, skiing just isn't my thing. I got sick after the first day and didn't ski. Thus, I've been sick all week and still am not 100%. Note to self and all in reading range: NEVER MAKE FRIDAY THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK YOU WORK!! It sucks. I'm pretty excited for the weekend. I've been watching Lost since the beginning and Lindsey and I are going to have a Lost weekend with Red Lobster, island drinks and the complete first season of Lost on DVD, stretched over two days of course. And, this Sunday i'm preaching and playing drums and Mom, Amanda and maybe Nanny will be here to hear me.
In other news, I bought an X-box, Halo and Halo 2 off a kid on the ski trip for $100. No, mom, i'm not neglecting my studies. No, Adams, i'm still not as good as you too.
Speaking of the two Adam's, funny story: So, there's this old person adventure day at our church on Fridays. In the hall is a table of old magazines, old people like they're magazines. And who do I see staring up at me from within the table, Carter Snow. Coming into work in the morning, and there's the Snowman, Mr. Missouri Conservationist, checking the clipboard in the forest. Pretty funny. I gave him a call and left a message.
I don't think there's much more going on. I apologize for the lengthy and rather ranting post last week. This country's in bad shape. And, as Dad said, it's not just that. Our world is in pretty sad shape right now. My friend Tom is recording a few songs for a demo. He calls his project "Compassion in Exile". Pretty fitting in think.
If anyone wants to help me save our environment and lessen our dependence on foreign oil by buying me a new Trailblazer or Tahoe that runs on that corn gas, let me know.
Brad
Friday, February 24, 2006
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Playing Catch Up
Hello one and all,
I've been busy finding a balance with school back in the picture, so my posts have been a little slow lately. So, this is my chance at catching up. It might get long, so hold on to your seats!!
Heavy stuff first, has anybody noticed and does anybody care that our administration is probably one of the worst in history. Our White House BROKE THE LAW!!!! And, instead of owning up to WARRENTLESS wiretapping, in other words spying on the American people, there's talk now of just creating a new law that allows for it. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! Let's see, the last time one of our presidents broke the law.......what happened.....I'm trying to remember.....oh yeah, NIXON HAPPENED. We're fighting a war we never should've started, and believe me, we did start it, and it's not going to end anytime soon. Taking the troops out now would be disasterous for Iraq. So, let's see, the last time our president went to war without support and it turned into a debacle....ummm...oh yeah, NIXON AGAIN!!! Anybody remember Vietnam. So there's that war, that's unending and all about oil not the freedom of Iraq. And then there's this other war, remember the whole Osama Bin Ladin thing. Somehow, this guy can get his video feeds to the local news, but the richest and most sophisticated military in the history of the world can't find him. Once again, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? Then there's the whole Supreme Court thing. Let me just appoint my little puppet king who will vote how I tell them to vote. Yeah, that's fair. And THEN, there's the illegal, ILLEGAL PEOPLE, wiretapping that our White House sanctioned and put into action. Not only should they be kicked out of office, they should be arrested!! Oh yeah, and let's not forget the way the White House handled Katrina and now have regressed to just ignoring it!! It's much more important to find out who to blame for this shit than to actually help this people get their homes and lives back. Oh, AND THEN, there's the angry troll who will be our president if Dubya has another nasty bike wreck. This is our second in line to the most powerful man in the world. A senile, angry totalitarian who thinks there's nothing wrong with a little torture if it's done in the name of, brace yourselves, THE WAR ON TERROR. A man who can't tell a 78 yr old man from a deer and waits almost a week to say ANYTHING ABOUT IT!!!! Oh, and I almost forgot, the website link on my brothers site, www.entertherainbow.blopspot.com, pointed out to me that we have 150,000 Hiroshima size atomic weapons that cost us billions of dollars a year just to maintain. Oh no, Iran, we can't let you have any nuclear weapons, after all, your Muslim and everybody knows Muslims can't be trusted. We could cut more than half of our military budget and still be the richest army in the world. Our country is going to hell and nobody seems to care. It's time to do something about it. Write congresspersons, join this www.truemajority.org to get information about when to write. And most of all, VOTE.
But, here's the bad part, the Democrats don't have anything better to offer. I know that the Republican's won't have the next president, but whoever we do get won't be much better. Hilary Clinton? A black man will be president before a woman, I garauntee it. John Kerry? John McCain? Seen those guys, they lost to Dubya. They lost to a man who tripled our national deficit in less than four years!!!
When you really think about it, the level of corruption and ineptitude of this administration should frighten, anger, worry, and intice you to action.
All right, deep breath, in, two three four, out, two three four. We're in trouble, is all I'm saying.
Here's the good stuff. Lynz and i babysat my niece and nephew last Saturaday. No, i didn't mean last Sat. Night. I meant last Saturday day, all day. And, I've done some pretty crazy things in my life but that...was...awesome!!! Those kids are one of the best things that's ever happened to me. For example, we were playing dinosaurs in Wes' room and Wes and I were bad guys and Lynz and Cori were good guys. Then, Cori says, get this, "Let's just all be good guys, why does there have to be bad guys in the game?" She's almost eight and has a better foriegn policy than our pres. Sorry, i'm done talking about that. And then Wes, who just turned five and has his broken arm slung up in his blanket with gause around his whole body (by the way a five year old swaddled up like that is just about the cutest thing in the world), Wes turns to Lindsey and says "Ya know, Lindsey, I didn't like Chicken Little.....I loved it!!!" And as we played Cranium, the family fun game edition, he kept saying things like "For example" and "The thing is". Cori has a such an ear for music she gets upset when she can't hum a song correctly, but she knows it's wrong and knows why it's wrong. Amazing, amazing, amazing kids. Mom and Dad, ask Andy to bring along the Cranium game. We played for 7 of the total 8 hours we were there.
Second thing of note, I saw Robert Randolph and the Family Band again. From the front row again. And it was awesome, again. If you've never been to a rock show, or have forgotten what it's like, go see RRFB as soon as you can and no matter how close or far away they come to you. It was unbelieveable. Other than Metallica from five feet away, probably the greatest entertainment thing i've ever seen. (Mustoe, Bela Fleck March 31st, we're going.)
Thirdly, Lindsey got me a mandolin for V Day. In the words of Mr. Mustoe, "You better lock this one up, this one's a keeper." Um, the girl, not the mandolin. But i've had it for exactly one day and have learn one song already, Golden Slippers. It's a pain to keep in tune, but it's awesome nonetheless. My goal, of course, is "Battle for Evermore" from Led Zeppelin Four. But, i'll have to settle for Golden Slippers for now. So, the tally is now: PRETTY DANG GOOD AT: drums, TOTALLY MEDIORCRE AT: guitar, piano, and mandolin. Here I come accordian.
Lastly, Tomorrow night I leave for God's home away from home, Colorado. I'll be skiing for three days straight, no classes missed! I'm really really excited but just hoping that I won't get hurt this time. I've been twice, been hurt twice. So we'll see, I'm more mature and stronger now. But, after all, I'm not 18 anymore.
Wow, I'm sorry if you were just getting on real quick to see if Brad had written anything. If i'm gonna post once a week, It's probably gonna be long. Thanks for coming by.
What's so funny about peace, love and understanding,
brad
I've been busy finding a balance with school back in the picture, so my posts have been a little slow lately. So, this is my chance at catching up. It might get long, so hold on to your seats!!
Heavy stuff first, has anybody noticed and does anybody care that our administration is probably one of the worst in history. Our White House BROKE THE LAW!!!! And, instead of owning up to WARRENTLESS wiretapping, in other words spying on the American people, there's talk now of just creating a new law that allows for it. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! Let's see, the last time one of our presidents broke the law.......what happened.....I'm trying to remember.....oh yeah, NIXON HAPPENED. We're fighting a war we never should've started, and believe me, we did start it, and it's not going to end anytime soon. Taking the troops out now would be disasterous for Iraq. So, let's see, the last time our president went to war without support and it turned into a debacle....ummm...oh yeah, NIXON AGAIN!!! Anybody remember Vietnam. So there's that war, that's unending and all about oil not the freedom of Iraq. And then there's this other war, remember the whole Osama Bin Ladin thing. Somehow, this guy can get his video feeds to the local news, but the richest and most sophisticated military in the history of the world can't find him. Once again, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? Then there's the whole Supreme Court thing. Let me just appoint my little puppet king who will vote how I tell them to vote. Yeah, that's fair. And THEN, there's the illegal, ILLEGAL PEOPLE, wiretapping that our White House sanctioned and put into action. Not only should they be kicked out of office, they should be arrested!! Oh yeah, and let's not forget the way the White House handled Katrina and now have regressed to just ignoring it!! It's much more important to find out who to blame for this shit than to actually help this people get their homes and lives back. Oh, AND THEN, there's the angry troll who will be our president if Dubya has another nasty bike wreck. This is our second in line to the most powerful man in the world. A senile, angry totalitarian who thinks there's nothing wrong with a little torture if it's done in the name of, brace yourselves, THE WAR ON TERROR. A man who can't tell a 78 yr old man from a deer and waits almost a week to say ANYTHING ABOUT IT!!!! Oh, and I almost forgot, the website link on my brothers site, www.entertherainbow.blopspot.com, pointed out to me that we have 150,000 Hiroshima size atomic weapons that cost us billions of dollars a year just to maintain. Oh no, Iran, we can't let you have any nuclear weapons, after all, your Muslim and everybody knows Muslims can't be trusted. We could cut more than half of our military budget and still be the richest army in the world. Our country is going to hell and nobody seems to care. It's time to do something about it. Write congresspersons, join this www.truemajority.org to get information about when to write. And most of all, VOTE.
But, here's the bad part, the Democrats don't have anything better to offer. I know that the Republican's won't have the next president, but whoever we do get won't be much better. Hilary Clinton? A black man will be president before a woman, I garauntee it. John Kerry? John McCain? Seen those guys, they lost to Dubya. They lost to a man who tripled our national deficit in less than four years!!!
When you really think about it, the level of corruption and ineptitude of this administration should frighten, anger, worry, and intice you to action.
All right, deep breath, in, two three four, out, two three four. We're in trouble, is all I'm saying.
Here's the good stuff. Lynz and i babysat my niece and nephew last Saturaday. No, i didn't mean last Sat. Night. I meant last Saturday day, all day. And, I've done some pretty crazy things in my life but that...was...awesome!!! Those kids are one of the best things that's ever happened to me. For example, we were playing dinosaurs in Wes' room and Wes and I were bad guys and Lynz and Cori were good guys. Then, Cori says, get this, "Let's just all be good guys, why does there have to be bad guys in the game?" She's almost eight and has a better foriegn policy than our pres. Sorry, i'm done talking about that. And then Wes, who just turned five and has his broken arm slung up in his blanket with gause around his whole body (by the way a five year old swaddled up like that is just about the cutest thing in the world), Wes turns to Lindsey and says "Ya know, Lindsey, I didn't like Chicken Little.....I loved it!!!" And as we played Cranium, the family fun game edition, he kept saying things like "For example" and "The thing is". Cori has a such an ear for music she gets upset when she can't hum a song correctly, but she knows it's wrong and knows why it's wrong. Amazing, amazing, amazing kids. Mom and Dad, ask Andy to bring along the Cranium game. We played for 7 of the total 8 hours we were there.
Second thing of note, I saw Robert Randolph and the Family Band again. From the front row again. And it was awesome, again. If you've never been to a rock show, or have forgotten what it's like, go see RRFB as soon as you can and no matter how close or far away they come to you. It was unbelieveable. Other than Metallica from five feet away, probably the greatest entertainment thing i've ever seen. (Mustoe, Bela Fleck March 31st, we're going.)
Thirdly, Lindsey got me a mandolin for V Day. In the words of Mr. Mustoe, "You better lock this one up, this one's a keeper." Um, the girl, not the mandolin. But i've had it for exactly one day and have learn one song already, Golden Slippers. It's a pain to keep in tune, but it's awesome nonetheless. My goal, of course, is "Battle for Evermore" from Led Zeppelin Four. But, i'll have to settle for Golden Slippers for now. So, the tally is now: PRETTY DANG GOOD AT: drums, TOTALLY MEDIORCRE AT: guitar, piano, and mandolin. Here I come accordian.
Lastly, Tomorrow night I leave for God's home away from home, Colorado. I'll be skiing for three days straight, no classes missed! I'm really really excited but just hoping that I won't get hurt this time. I've been twice, been hurt twice. So we'll see, I'm more mature and stronger now. But, after all, I'm not 18 anymore.
Wow, I'm sorry if you were just getting on real quick to see if Brad had written anything. If i'm gonna post once a week, It's probably gonna be long. Thanks for coming by.
What's so funny about peace, love and understanding,
brad
Monday, February 06, 2006
I've been tagged.
Ya know, tag is being banned all over KC because it's too violent. Can you imaging a playground without tag? How else will popular kids learn that they're better than everyone else? How else will fat kids learn that they're slower than everybody else? How else will the smelly kid learn that noone wants to touch him/her, even in tag? Anyway, here goes.
Four jobs that I've had:
(all in one year)
Central Methodist College Resident Assistant
Pizza Hut cook and delivery driver extrodinaire
Daytime cafe/personal trainer @ THE ZOOONNNNEEEE!!!!!
Pastor, St. Paul United Methodist Church
Four movies I could watch over and over:
Snatch
Anchorman
LOTR
Kill Bill vol. 1
Four TV shows I love to watch:
Family Guy
The Sheild
Lost
The 700 Club (for material only)
Four places I've lived:
Springfield, MO
Fayette, MO
Kansas City, MO
England, United Kingdom
Four places I've visited on vacation:
(much much more than four but these are my favorites)
Banff National Park, Canada
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Rafting down the Grand Canyon with Dad
Neurschwanstein Castle, Germany
Four Websites I visit daily:
homestarrunner.com
entertherainbow.blogspot.com
postsecret.com
and, um, hotmail, i guess
Four restaurants:
Hong Kong Inn, Springfield, MO
Mexican Villa, Springfield, MO
Shakespeare Pizza, Columbia, MO
Smokestack BBQ, Kansas City, MO
Four places I'd rather be (or things I'd rather be doing):
Our Lake house
Colorado
Behind a drumset
On the radio
Four things that make me mad (nice addition Mr. Mustoe):
When people ride in a bench seat and the girl is sitting right next to the guy.
Hands free cell phone people.
Pat Robertson.
People who don't update their blogs. (just kidding)
I too am adding one that I can't believe no one has added already
Four CD's that I will never tire of listening too:
Led Zeppelin 4
Pantera- Cowboys from Hell
Failure-Fantastic Planet
Pearl Jam- Ten
And, in an interest to stop the violence, I am not tagging anyone.
Brad
Four jobs that I've had:
(all in one year)
Central Methodist College Resident Assistant
Pizza Hut cook and delivery driver extrodinaire
Daytime cafe/personal trainer @ THE ZOOONNNNEEEE!!!!!
Pastor, St. Paul United Methodist Church
Four movies I could watch over and over:
Snatch
Anchorman
LOTR
Kill Bill vol. 1
Four TV shows I love to watch:
Family Guy
The Sheild
Lost
The 700 Club (for material only)
Four places I've lived:
Springfield, MO
Fayette, MO
Kansas City, MO
England, United Kingdom
Four places I've visited on vacation:
(much much more than four but these are my favorites)
Banff National Park, Canada
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Rafting down the Grand Canyon with Dad
Neurschwanstein Castle, Germany
Four Websites I visit daily:
homestarrunner.com
entertherainbow.blogspot.com
postsecret.com
and, um, hotmail, i guess
Four restaurants:
Hong Kong Inn, Springfield, MO
Mexican Villa, Springfield, MO
Shakespeare Pizza, Columbia, MO
Smokestack BBQ, Kansas City, MO
Four places I'd rather be (or things I'd rather be doing):
Our Lake house
Colorado
Behind a drumset
On the radio
Four things that make me mad (nice addition Mr. Mustoe):
When people ride in a bench seat and the girl is sitting right next to the guy.
Hands free cell phone people.
Pat Robertson.
People who don't update their blogs. (just kidding)
I too am adding one that I can't believe no one has added already
Four CD's that I will never tire of listening too:
Led Zeppelin 4
Pantera- Cowboys from Hell
Failure-Fantastic Planet
Pearl Jam- Ten
And, in an interest to stop the violence, I am not tagging anyone.
Brad
Friday, February 03, 2006
A Kiwi and a V that sounds like a U...
Well, school is back in full swing. I've got New Testament with a Kiwi (that's a person from New Zealand and not an ethnic slur, they use it on themselves) , Theology with Kris Kvam (pronouced Kuam), and Preaching with Graves. I don't know Graves and don't have the class until next Wednesday. I'm pretty excited about this semester, not only because I've got great teachers (Warren Carter literally wrote the book on the NT), but because we're getting into my areas of interest, theology and preaching. I'm looking forward to it.
That's pretty much all that's going on,
thanks for stopping by guys, thanks for reading my blog,
Brad
That's pretty much all that's going on,
thanks for stopping by guys, thanks for reading my blog,
Brad
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