My parents came into town this weekend. They had a good time. We took them out to eat and to the Outlets in San Marcos. I had not yet been to the Outlets since I moved here, so I ended up making some purchases of my own. I got some slick looking brown dress shoes. Now I can actually wear that brown belt sitting my closet. It was very hot that day or maybe I don't go outdoors enough. On their trip, my dad helped us fix up the lawn, which was great because we were getting letters telling us we would be fined if we didn't start taking care of that. Overall it was a good trip. It makes me think, I haven't been down to the Valley in quite some time, but I see it being much longer until I get to go down.
I found this article today about a local mugging: Man left for dead in Downtown Austin It happened on 7th street. I guess that just isn't the place of town to be alone at night. This guy was beat pretty bad it seems, but I'm glad to hear he made it. There is a world out there that isn't as safe as one would want, but you can't be too careful either.
Lots of Olympic games watching for me. Hope you are watching them too. I feel like I never know what is going to be on, so I just watch whatever is on when I'm in front of the TV. My tivo records stuff for me, but I don't like going through 4 hours of coverage to find something I think is cool. I wonder if a goal medal in archery is worth as much as one in track and field? I hope Mexico get a gold in something this time. I was going back over the history of medal counts in prior Olympics. It makes for an interesting story line. (seriously, the website is awesome, check it out.)
I like my quote today, so I'll talk about it. I definitely do stuff in surges. Excess and then quit, instead of moderation. Somethings stick, somethings don't. I get excited about something and that is all I think about, all I work towards. Then after a while, I feel burned out cause damn this is taking up a lot of my resources. Well dude, may be if you approached it in a moderate way, you would stay with it longer and get more out it. On the other hand, maybe you wouldn't enjoy it as much. It seems like I either do something full boar or don't do it at all. I'm still trying to figure out a way around this. I don't mind jumping into things, but it's the not doing nothing at all if I can't do it right approach that I need to get rid of. I'm getting a lot better though and a lot my To-dos over the past few years are getting done.
This comic gives me so much insight into why my cats act the way they do.
http://www.gocomics.com/features/124/feature_items/376482
Dobson’s Focus on the Family humiliated by ‘Pray for Rain’ video: Last week, however, Focus unveiled a new video, asking politically-conservative Christians to pray for rain on Aug. 28, in order to disrupt Barack Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention.
Politically-conservative Christians should apologize to real Christians for the harm they have done to Christians and America over the past 30 years. Asking the Lord to smite people with rain is exactly what Jesus would want. Oh, by the way, Poll: Obama Leads Among Christians.
For whatever reason, it reminds me of a time when I little and my mom, who drives much slower than the average person, happened to be speeding on this rare occasion when the limit quickly dropped to 30. There was a cop car in waiting. She said a quick pray out loud, something about Lord please blind him with your glory or something in the vein. I was sitting there thinking, did my mom just ask the Lord to blind the cop so she won't get a speeding ticket? It was funny, but no ticket. Then again one of my cousins has a special speeding prayer that has gotten him out of countless tickets. Maybe a prayer to obey the law would be good too. There might be a better use of God's resources, maybe...there is an invasion of Georgia going on. Or maybe I'm jealous. I'll still probably pray about that next raise instead.
the 12th
the 12th
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