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Here are the rules of this tag:
1. Choose the 4th folder where you store your pictures on your computer.
2. Select the 4th picture in the folder.
3. Explain the picture.
4. Tag four people to do the same.
5. No Cheating (cropping, editing, etc.)

This is, according to the folder name, the 2005 Fall Choir Tour. However, according to the file names, it’s the 2004 Fall Choir Tour. Looking at the other photos, I’m pretty sure this is from the 2005 Fall Choir tour, which would make it my third of six “tours of duty,” as I call them. In the front is Bro. and Mrs. Van Manen, with Katie Tuttle in the back and probably Kristen Burke next to her. Considering that it’s the fall tour, we were probably in Texas or Arkansas. I ended up going on six choir tours. There’s really not much more to say. It’s a fairly unexciting photo.

I’ll go ahead and skip step four since I’m pretty sure that I don’t have four people that actually read my blog. However, if you feel inclined to follow the rules and post a photo, feel free to leave a comment letting me know.

I remember when I was working at O’Reilly a few years ago… with this certain guy… his initials are LD. Well, for some reason, we were taking a break, and we all had a seat on various skids that were around… expect LD chose to sit on a shipment of Sylvania light bulbs. The trainer more or less asked him what in the world he thought he was doing and told him to find a different skid to sit on. I doubt any product was damaged, but its still pretty funny to me. Every time I sit on a skid, I’m reminded of this little incident and have a laugh at LD’s expense.

I found this a long time ago. I have no idea why I didn’t post it:

A test of a Christian’s character is what he does after he comes to the blockade in the road and what his attitude is after everything has left him except Jesus. You will never know down here that Christ is all you need until Christ is all you have left. You will never be able to tell the world for sure that He will do in a crisis unless you learn how to live in a crisis. In this message we are going to walk with men in the crises of life. God is going to prove to us that He is sufficient to see every child He has through. When it gets so hard that you and I cannot live for Christ down here, by His grace, He will grab us up and take us Home. ‘He is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us’ (Ephesians 3:20), and that’s the Holy Spirit.

The question is, as a Christian, how far are you willing to go after you cannot go any further? What are you willing to do after you reach the place where you can do exactly nothing?

I present to you the 2008 Ambassadors and the 2008 Melodies.

Sites not nearly final. The whole look might change, as a matter of fact. Just a start.

I’m sick and tired of people making fun of the OBC tour groups. Especially OBC people and especially people who can’t sing their way out of a wet paper bag.

I don’t like all the songs they sing; I don’t like all the people who are on the group; I’ve travelled, and I know a group doesn’t always perform the best that they can… but

Unless you’ve tried memorizing 10-12 songs and singing them in front of hundreds of people night after night, no matter how you feel, or how your voice feels, then just shut up! Or join the group and do better.

And I listened to and enjoyed every Ambassador and Melody CD since at least 2004 (and a few before that), and I’ve liked them all. Not every song, but the CD as a whole.

Thank you.

Spring Break is almost over. I’ve gotten up before noon every day! Whoo!

At work, the inventory control (IC) team all got “demoted” to stocking. We were, well, Bethany was only counting 5% of the warehouse a week, which wasn’t fast enough for them. Oh, well. Stocking ain’t too bad… except there’s no stocking to do.

I’ve gotten a lot of work done on the OBC site, mainly the photo and missions section. For the photo session, I borrowed a script I wrote for the Melody site to import image into into a database. Unfortunately, when I started looking for the script (which probably took me around 4-5 hours to write and fine-tune over time), I couldn’t find it! Bad news! I eventually was able to find a copy online, but it was an older copy, lacking some features. So I spent another hour fine-tuning and improving that script. It’s not perfect, but it’s actually already better than the one I had last summer. So, I guess I’m slowly but surely getting better at this.

Something happened at work a few weeks ago that reminded me of something similar that my Sunday school teacher had talked about a few years ago. First, the work incident.

Yes, I’ll use names. Drew used to work on aisle 37-38. Richard worked next to him, on aisle 39-40. Drew would play his rock music on his cell phone, and Richard would play his CCM/Rock on his cell phone. One day, I was on Drew’s aisle, and I heard music coming from Richard’s aisle. It sounded like Drew had gone over to Richard’s aisle and was playing… something, but it wasn’t Drew, it was Richard’s “CCM.”

Hm.

Anyway, it reminded me of the time my Sunday school teacher told us that he stopped listening to CCM. He got in his van one time, and when he turned it on, he thought, “Who in the world changed my radio to a rock station?” Well, no one had changed it – it was still on the CCM station (99.5 FM). He said that was it for him.

Hm.