Weekend Plans

Thought I'd throw down what i want to do this weekend and then check back with myself on Monday and see how i did...

• Thursday night family hang, drinks with my wife
• Men with Goats meet up
• ride 2 hours- 2 times
• Friday movie (with A16?)
• Saturday morning breakfast with men from church
• select  and purchase carpet for the Launch Pad stage
• Red Rocks steps with L15
• Teaching/leading at church
• Annual Meeting at church
• get some stuff on eBaby - 2 new Leatherman Juice - a Bach 16M trombone? - guitar effects pedal
• make a plan for wiring lighting in the basement.

I'll let you know how i did.

Anyone have some great plans for the weekend?  Do tell.

My Tweetup Letdown

Sometimes i don't do strangers and crowds well.  Tonight was one of those nights.  When the crowd is a random mix and i don't know what the connecting points might be, i don't figure those out quickly and i feel awkward.  i don't feel sincere.  i'm better in groups of people that are like me.  it's easier, of course.  (see "things i wish i'd do better" on the left sidebar)

noisy places make it tougher for me to do crowds.  my hearing isn't so great in noisy places after 15 years of teaching large and loud band classes in small spaces.  my voice is low pitched so i feel like i have to shout to be heard; AND, when everyone is standing, i'm literally shoulders and a head above the rest of the crowd.  i have a hard time hearing the conversations.

i don't feel very interesting around interesting people.  i'm bummed cause i wanted to talk with the interesting people.  new people.  different people.  people that don't feel like they have to be nice but that are still kind.  (you all did look really cool and interesting, btw.)

i really like getting in fun conversations about little things or deep conversations about important things but mostly fun deep and important things.

 

well, that's my thing.  sometimes i deal with it. sometimes i don't. not so much tonight.

i think i might have a better chance if there's a future area tweetup that's outdoors or in a place i can hear better.  and everyone is like me.  and they'll all be quiet so i can talk. 

i did really enjoy going downtown/uptown/around town/through the city.  i like the atmosphere.  i want to get down there on my bike and ride all over the place.  be all urban and stuff and junk.

And to the lady that "lost $10 for her bus ticket back to Oklahoma" - good luck. i hope you make it wherever you're headed.  Sorry i didn't feel right helping you. i must say that  it was smart of to buy all those groceries you were carrying so you'd have stuff to eat on the bus.  ;-)

Monday 1.19.09

5:00 a.m.  Alarm goes off.  Hit snooze

5:09 a.m.  Alarm goes off.  hit snooze

5:18 a.m.  Alarm goes off.  hit snooze

5:24 a.m.  Alarm goes off.  wonder if i can sleep 15 more minutes and still make Panera in Superior by 7.

5:25 a.m.  Shower, etc.  morning routine.

6:50 leave for Panera to meet with Tim @7:00 - my friend and children's ministry colleague. 

7:10  Panera.  egg soufflé and bagel with hot tea.

7:40  Tim, delayed, arrives. i realize i could have slept those extra 15 minutes.

7:40  Catching up and thinking of the future.  He graduated from CU in December with a Mech. E.  BS.  Job market is tight right now.

8:50  Drive to work

9:15  Focus on God, his authority in my life and my position in relationship to that truth.  "This is a gracious thin, when, mindful of God, one endures sorrows while suffer unjustly....For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for yo, leaving you and example, so that you might follow in his steps."  I Peter 2:19-21

9:40  CM Ministry Team Monday morning check-in and prayer.

10:20 Update and print weekly to-do list.  Transfer items that didn't get done last week to this week's list

10:30  Talk with Pastor about tomorrow's brainstorming session for Relational Evangelism strategies.  Good chat.

11:20 Finish to-do list.

11:30 Review Elementary curriculum for February 8, 2009.  The Good Samaritan - Treat everyone fairly - even those who are different.

12:10 p.m.  Pull out Leader's Guide for 1.25 lesson and begin weekly preparations.  goal - get ALL the prep for this week done today.

12:20  Talk with ministry assistant about gathering a few people to reorganize a ministry storage closet.

12:30  back to preparing 1.25 lesson

1:00  quick meet to select activities for 2.8.09 1st-5th graders.

1:15  back to work on 1.25 material - outlining lesson

2:40  converting video file from QuickTime to AVI.  cracked the error code message i started receiving last week by selecting a different file destination.  (desktop rather than a my documents location)

3:25  outlining, song selection, powerpoint, video conversion, iPod loading done.  Starting weekly leader email draft to be sent on Wednesday.

3:30  Phone call from Phoenix Dave.  Got his advice on heart rate monitors.  Listen to new U2 single released: http://goyb.U2.com

4:00  Conversation about the future direction of the young adult ministry

4:35  Wrote draft email to send to leaders on Wednesday.

5:05   Finish this post.  Shut down.  Go home.  Successful day.  Tomorrow we become and Obamanation. 

Rider's Log 1.18.09

19 miles  1:40.  11.9 AVS

Big Dry Creek Trail-Cotton Creek Trail-128th Ave-BDCT-home.

60 degrees.

Rider' Log 1.17.09 - first ride of the year

It feels really good to post a January date for Rider's Log.

Rode my "time trial" loop.  Its a 20 mile lollipop that takes me from my house out the Big Dry Creek Trail to I-25, north on Huron to 144th, around McKay Lake, south past Legacy High School and back home on the BDCT.

Temp was 60 today.  I rode with long sleeve base layer and long sleeve jersey, full finger gloves and shorts.  i was comfortable.

Distance: 20 miles  Time: 1:33       (did this same ride 8.28.08 in 1:10)

Rider's Log 11.22.08 Coal Creek, Signal Ditch, Community Ditch

I'm restarting my Rider's Logs!  It's been 6 months since i've done them and i really like looking back to see the rides I've done.  I wish I had done them April-October to document the 200o i rode this season.

Today i rode with Michael from the FCC parking lot in west Lafayette.  Rode the Coal Creek urban trail to Marshall Mesa, across highway 93, Signal Ditch and back.  28 miles  2.5 hours.

This is a fast and fun ride.  Very non-technical.  A lot of people out on the trail.  I'd rate this one high for a fast, fun ride when you just want to ride and push yourself and chew up some miles on the mountain bike.

Big Wisdom in a Few Words from a Big Man

"The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority."

Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963.

 

"Cowardice asks the question: "Is it safe"? Expediency asks the question:"Is it politic"? Vanity asks the question: "Is it popular?" But conscience asks the question:"Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one what is right."

Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968)

 

These are good words with strong wisdom on which to reflect.