You’re On Notice!

 

You're on notice!

In the spirit of Stephen Colbert, I have decided to put some things on notice to start the year off right. Here are the things to start the year off on notice!

Al Capone: I once documented our strange likeness.  Al Capone, sir, how dare you tarnish my looks with your being an infamous crime boss.  You are now on notice!

Potholes on I-5: Admittedly these potholes had been sneaking by until recently, when they tried to assault my car and blow out a tire.  I was just minding my own business and then the potholes attacked.  Beware the Potholes on I-5 in Portland.

Brightly Colored Galoshes: You have fooled girls into thinking you are cool, but in all reality you are just silly.

Favorite Church Sign: The ridiculousness of my favorite church sign has been documented here and here.  It struck again lately.  I drove by it today and it had something along the lines of “Want to talk to God? Don’t worry, He’s got call waiting.”  Church sign, you are hereby put on notice by the power vested in me by theycallmepastorbryan.wordpress.com(myself!)

Canadian Ferrys: Your days of extortion are over.  After my attempt to explain your injustices, and Amanda’s attempt to make my post cooler(which worked btw) your injustices are now known.  You will no longer be able to extort money from poor unsuspecting tourist who don’t have the ability to say “eh” or “aboot” or eat gravy on their fries, or buy milk in a bag.

Columbus: You did not discover America.  That feat was definitely accomplished by this man[a].

Rock Bearing Thieves: You broke into my car and stole my favorite messenger bag.  I could almost forgive it because you stole all the homework I was supposed to grade for ITT Tech, but it was really cold in my car.

Vegetarian Bets: 2008 marks the first and last time I will allow a pretty vegetarian girl to trick me into a stint of vegetarianism by telling me she thinks that I couldn’t do it.  I won that bet, btw.

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[a] Not surprising considering he invented the internet.  I’m pretty sure Chris Lozier has a huge man crush on him as well.

Emergent Hitler?

For those of you who follow the whole emergent thing at all, Tony Jones posted this funny video today on his blog.

My favorite moment is at 2:59 when the one girl is consoling the other.

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I’m heading up to Lynden for Thanksgiving tonight, should be nice to have some time in the car to process life.  Blessings to you and yours all!

Starbucks/Movember

I found this video via Wezlo, a pastor from the other side of the states that I’ve never met.  It is an entertaining video asking the question “what if Starbucks marketed like the church?”

Also, my cousins Dan and Tom are doing this event called Movember, where they grow mustaches to raise money for Prostate Cancer research, specifically stopping cancer, and not proliferating it.  I donated some money to their cause and got this sweet picture in return!

If you are interested in giving to this cause, you may do so by following this link. https://www.movember.com/us/donate/donate-details.php?action=sponsorlink&rego=1334856&country=us

Fruits(or Vegetables) of Labor

Last night, I went over to the Banker’s house to carve some pumpkins.  Here’s a picture of our results.

On another note, I have been thinking about my blogging future, and have decided that perhaps I will be combining my writing efforts on here with what I have been doing on the Anchor site.  That is, I may start putting some theological reflections here that used to go on the Anchor blog.  We’ll see how this works out for the time being, and maybe I will revisit it later.

random thought

if blog is short for web log, can I be a blumberjack?

amazing lyric

Count it a blessing
that you’re such a failure
your second chance might never have come
-Pedro the Lion

VB = teh sux… Green hair = teh Awesome

I am editing a custom control that was build using VB 6.  I wish I could describe the pain of this, but it is pretty hard, so I will put it this way.  I would rather be stabbed with a fork!  Seriously…

But enough complaining about c0ding.  In other news, k8 dyed her hair green, and I am seriously impressed.  I wish I had enough hair to dye it a color, but it keeps trying to do a magic disappearing act.  Oh well…

I guess all I’ll add is a verse that’s been good for me today.
May God be merciful to us and bless us, show us the light of His countenance and come to us. Psalm 67:1

The wild kodiak compared to other bears

I went to the zoo and saw this sweet sign to compare how you stack up to the bears. I thought it would make a fun picture to add the wild kodiak to the picture.

good German blood

On the subject of awesomeness, I was talking to my friend Jonba about Colville and my cousins up here.  I told him that we were all of good German blood and good workers and fairly athletic(I am by far the least athletic).

On this Jonba told me he had a ridiculous image in his head, which I think is entertaining enough to share.  He said he pictured 6 people who look exactly like me, wearing leiderhosen, and hanging out in a gym.  We were all either bench pressing kegs, or running in our leiderhosen on treadmills.

Pretty accurate description eh?

The Acorn

Chalk another experience down for my time in Colville!  Today I visited the Acorn Saloon for lunch.  The first thing you notice when you walk into the Acorn is the huge painting of a naked redheaded woman, with another painting of a naked woman on the wall next to my booth.  It was a little confusing, I thought I was in Europe for a second.

It had pretty typical small town saloon type food, nothing to write home about.  But the decorations made it worth a visit.  Aside from the people and the neon signs on the walls, the building could easily be from the 1920′s, and has an authentic feel to it.

Only a couple more days here in Colville before I get to head home!  I can’t wait.