Kerrfunk

Might as well kick off the new year right, huh?

Apparently it was August, last time I checked this blog.

Apparently some folks occasionally do read this stuff! Hi! How exciting!


So lessee. You already know about my guitars and my bowling shirts. I got another bowling shirt for Christmas (thanks, Love!). It matches my motorcycle, my new toy that I got in October and have put 1,000 miles on already. Fun fun fun!



You can't tell from the picture, but since you stalk me you probably already know it's a maroonish 1982 Suzuki GS550L. Translation: a good starter bike, good for distance too.


What else? Sashi is in Kindergarten. She loves it. Just got her 1st Semester report card yesterday. Almost all "PR"s and "S"s. (PR = Proficient, shows mastery of skill, or exceeds expectations. S = Satisfactory. I don't know if the teacher could choose between PR and S for each category or not. It's Kindergarten, and she's doing very well)


Anyway, I'm putting the "PRO" in Procrastination, so I'ma gonna stop this awhile and go procrastinate elsewhere :)


Oh I almost forgot: I was witnessed to yesterday. Received a gospel tract and everything. I wish the guy had listened to me but he was in the zone. If you're witnessing to someone, and you ask 'em what they do, or whether they know God, Listen to 'em, for goodness sake.

Sola gratia

Thanks for reading!

Be blessed!

People are always saying "I know a good joke when I hear one."

Well...

I know a good joke when I tell one

:)

Long time no post. Blame it on myspace, facebook, etc. Or just my tendancy to drop things after a while. Like running, journaling, all that good stuff.

I've run about six times this year. Twice in the last four days. So it's been an off year for running, but I'm picking it up again this month. I was starting to get too competitive with myself about it.

I had a great morning today until I woke up. Spilled an entire cup of coffee on the family room carpet (sorry, Love) and that really took the wind outta my sails.

While taking my daughter to her daysitter, however, she brightened my day in her childlike way. We often pass the house of a local chocolatier, whose vehicle is chocolate colored and includes the name and phone number of her business. Whenever my daughter sees that car she excitedly screams for chocolate, and this morning she did not fail to provide.

I'm not a healthfood nut or anything, but I try to give my kid something resembling a balanced diet, and I probably harp on her far too much about treats, which she is incessantly asking for. So this morning when we passed the chocolate car, she said "When can I have some chocolate, Daddy?"

Hoping she would say something about nutritious food first, I asked "Why should I buy you chocolate?"

Her response: "Cuz I'm a kid!"


That response made my day. Thank you, darling daughter.

honk for mary! She's kissing an iPod hello!
Happy birthday mom from the family

I now have two guitars. Do I have a guitar collection?

My first guitar (that's kinda fun to say) was among the best of birthday presents I recall in my lifetime. When I was fifteen, I picked up an old guitar (it was four strings!) and a songbook, and taught myself chords. A group of my friends, bless their hearts, pooled together for my sixteenth birthday and gifted me with a roundback Applause Ovation acoustic guitar. For real, that was the thoughtfulest gift. I never got very far with it, but it has been my friend for almost twenty years now. The varnish is cracked in two spots, but I don't think the actual wood is cracked (just its owner!). A comfortable guitar.


Today I made my first personal guitar purchase. A Washburn D12-12N. Twelve string. Found it on Craigslist (and had a nice evening with a new friend (the former owner) and her husband... Happy Anniversary, A&A, and good luck on the move!) Oooh, it's fun. I'm excited.

So do I have a guitar collection? I wouldn't mind having a basic electric guitar, but I would know even less what to do with that. Right now I have two nice toys.


Oh and then there's my other new collection. I figure five definitely counts, right? I have five bowling shirts. I can't think of the last time I bowled, but I bought four bowling shirts in the last twelve months, and received another as a gag gift.

Here's my first one (although mine has "kerrfunk" embroidered on the front)
"Bowling for Jesus, because he died for our pins."


My second was a plain white and black shirt, no name. It was on sale.

My third was similar to the first, but no print on the back, and I got similar ones for my brothers (another sale).

My fourth was the gag gift from some folks at church.

My latest was another sale, this time a closeout from the manufacturer. Apparently "Raul" didn't want his shirt, so I got a good deal on it. It says "Raul" on the front, and has something like a C-123 transport on the back, with paratroopers jumping out of it.

So yeah. What a year, huh?

(not original)

I wonder what would happen if we treated our Bible like we treat our cell phones.
What if we carried it around in our purses or pockets?
What if we turned back to go get it if we forgot it?
What if we flipped through it several times a day?
What if we used it to receive messages from the text?
What if we treated it like we couldn't live without it?
What if we gave it to kids as gifts?
What if we used it as we traveled?
What if we used it in case of an emergency?

This is something to make you go ...hmm...where is my Bible?
Oh, and one more thing. Unlike our cell phone, we don't ever have to worry about our Bible being disconnected because the bill has already been paid! Pass this on to everyone you know that has a cell phone.
Makes you stop and think. . . "Where are my priorities?"
And remember: with HIM there are no dropped calls!

Good for my darling daughter.

She had a coloring page of Joseph in a well.

Sweet thing drew a ladder for Joseph to get out.