Sabbath

Yesterday was awesome.
Slept in. Alyssa made pancakes.
Walked to Jon and Kathy's to check out their garage sale.
Went to Farmers Market...roasted peanuts, white nectarines, and apples.
Picked up Taco Station and had lunch over at Steve and Karen's
Went home, put kids down, took the phattiest nap of all time!
Got up and read the Lorax to Zeke at least 3 times
At some point I blogged about being bald
Had dinner in the back yard with the fam
Went to see Fransisco the Man and the Trade play at Harvest.
Came home to my wife watching America's Next Top Model (the joy of my life!)
Bed.
Amazing!
How was your day of rest?

The theology of baldness

So I totally bombed my tryout for the Village People and in my frustration I shaved off the mustache. This post is for all of my bald brotha's out there in blog world. There is a nakedness to being completely bald that I have found. People with hair are constantly switching things up...long, short, bangs, messy, faux hawk, Bobby Browns Gumby fade in the "My Prerogative" video. This is the reason you will normally find me with some amount of facial hair. When you lose your hair you lose options! Right now all I've got is my eyebrows. I think everyone should be bald at one point in their life to experience the vulnerability of being facially naked. (It builds character.) My forehead started turning into a sixhead when I was 17 and the cul de sacs that some call widows peaks have almost turned into the full blown horseshoe race track look made famous by the friars. I wish it would all just fall out so I didn't have to keep building the stock of Mach III...but for now I wait with awkwardly deteriorating hairlines...the cross that I must bare. I have no idea what the heck I'm talking about right now. It's been a great Sabbath and I find myself so rested that I'm talking about the fact that I don't have hair. I will stop now. Let's hear from all my bald peeps in blogdom.

Eat your heart out Oprah

Our book club rules!
We talked about The Freedom of Simplicity by Richard Foster last night.
Here's a little excerpt from the book:
"A final personal disposition for embodying Christian simplicity is increasing our proclivity toward risk-taking, that God's reign might be known. Our culture is risk-averse. We are afraid of being embarrassed, and so we take medications that decrease anxiety. We are afraid of losing our possessions, so we lock our doors and purchase insurance. We are afraid of traffic accidents, so we buy the biggest automobiles possible. And while there may well be legitimate needs for medication, insurance, and big cars, we simply cannot insulate ourselves from the unexpected turns of human life...Jesus knows that if protecting ourselves is our primary strategy for getting what we want out of life, we will get what we want out of our life and not what God wants for all of our lives. But we have been given the divine invitation to bring God's life to the world, and this means risky behavior."
Thanks Damien, Chris, and Kevin...It was great to talk last night!

The best news I've heard in a long time...

My buddy Bill was released from prison today, praise Jesus. 160 days of non-sense. I would read his updates every week and feel like he was the apostle Paul writing Philippians from prison. He's on house arrest until January (has to be home Tuesday and Wednesday, but every other day he can be out and about till 8pm.) When I heard the news I can't tell you how excited I was. I love Bill...he is an amazing man, and I look up to him even more after this crazy experience!

Anyone want to start a Village People cover band?

Don't ever go on a roadtrip without your wife!!!

You make very rash decisions.

Parting words from my wife

As I prepare to get away for a couple days, my lovely wife, in classic form quotes Best in Show..."if you get tired, pull over. If you get hungry, eat somethin'!"
I'll miss you babe, I love you!

Tomorrow's Sabbath

9 hours in my car.
Great time to think, be quiet, listen, and enjoy the open road.
If I think of a way to change the world I'll blog about it later!

What shall we do????

Here's the scenario...
Dan's day off
Zeke just left for school
Sofia's asleep for 2 hours
Do the bills or back to sleep????
I'm turnin' the phone on vibrate!!!

The Pumpkins threw down

They were amazing! Tighter than I've ever heard them play live. It was awesome to see Jeff playing guitar. I grew up watching him play guitar with The Violet Burning and The Lassie Foundation. And Ginger from the Halo Friendlies is playing bass for them now. They opened up for us (Ember) in Redding years back and Matt from Havalina Rail Co. was tuning all their guitars because I'm not sure they knew how. She has come a long way!!! Her Fender P-bass is bigger than she is. Billy and Jimmy were fantastic but that goes without saying. I had a great time hanging out with my friend Josh. Good times had by all.

What are you putting under your pits????

So I've been trying to make conscious decisions about the products I'm using. Alyssa brought home some new deodorant for me yesterday. I moved away from the anti-depersperant a few years ago. So I decided to look at the ingredients and this is one of them: PPG-3 myristyl ether.
ETHER!!???!!! Isn't that the stuff that Hannibal from the A-Team would put on a handkerchief and put over peoples mouth's and they would wake up a day later tied to a chair with duct tape on their mouth!!! That can't be good right? Can anyone help me out here. If I wake up tied to a chair tomorrow I'm gonna be pissed.

3 day forcast...word!

	Tonight		Tomorrow		Tomorrow Night
	Partly Cloudy Low 55° F Precip: 10% Partly cloudy. Low near 55F. Winds WSW at 10 to 15 mph.		Partly Cloudy High 76° F Precip: 20% Partly cloudy skies. Slight chance of an afternoon shower. High 76F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.		Showers Low 50° F Precip: 30% Cloudy with a few showers. Low near 50F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.

The Osbornes have entered the game...

About time!!!!
Annette
Trav
Go give em' some love.

Guess where Dan's goin' tonight...

Sucka's....Don't be jealous.
Thanks to Hagquist for the hookup with tickets!

Classic

I just yelled at Scarlet (our dog) who was barking at someone outside and I hear my 4 year old (Zeke) from outside yell at me (with sarcastic tone)..."She's a dog daddy, she's supposed to bark!"
Hilarious. Seriously...what did I do for laughs before I got my son?

More on the economics of Jesus

Go here. I link to Jesus Manifesto every month or so because I really like some of the ideas he comes up with. What do you think?

Micah 6:8

He has shown all you people what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
I'm sitting with this for a while. What are you sitting with right now?

This week...

Prison Break begins.
I'm going to see the Pumpkins with my good friend Josh Hagquist.
I'm possibly going to the beach with family and friends.
I'm getting in my car and driving for a long time. Friends will be seen. Good times will be had. I'll leave sometime Friday and I hope to be back by Life Group on Tuesday.
Blogs might be sparse.
There will be plenty of gas tank fill ups, hot tamales, podcasts, silence, food, books, coffee, laughing, and great talks. This time could be shaping for what's ahead with the Lance's.
Good times!

I forgot about this

Brian just sent me this picture from my first trip to New Orleans. This was in January after Katrina. This was taken on our tour of the devastation. I was going to take this guitar home but it was infested with termites. Little things like this really reminded me that people lost everything. Every single thing that made up who they were. If I were to lose my Tophat amp or Reverend in a hurricane I would be beside myself. And when you think of everything else people lost this is something so small. Thanks Brian for sending this to me. I have great memories of that trip. I think we really became friends that week. It's funny what happens when you rip moldy drywall out of a house next to someone all day.

Help?

So I kinda got the bomb dropped on me two days ago about the funeral I was doing yesterday. FYI, it went well...thanks for the prayers. But I neglected the usual recruiting and getting ready for the concert tonight that we are throwing at Anthem. Anyone want to come out and help? We need some people to man the front door and help roll chords at the end of the night. Right now it looks like it's going to be me and Ian. Ian is the best sound man in the world. I think he's missed one show in the whole time we've done Anthem. He is the man...runs amazing sound...sets up and tears down...first in, last out...every time. If I don't tell you enough Ian...couldn't do this without you!
So for the sake of saving Ian and I a huge night of exhaustion, does anyone want to help? Give me a call...Thanks.