Dude, we had an ice storm here that would’ve shut SC down for a week. Of course, here they get the roads cleared quickly although I was out yesterday when it hit and things got bad before I made it home. I almost hit the church mailbox and then a car on the way home(you know most accidents happen within 2 miles of home and our new place is .2 miles from the church). Anyway, here we go..
1. Because of various situations, some real and some pranked, I freak out when I see a police car. Now, last Friday, I picked up Mike and Bob at the church at 4 am to take them to the airport for the Haiti mission trip. We took a short cut behind Wal-Mart when Mike noted that I was getting pulled over. I saw one set of lights, then two, then three. So, I know my tag is not visible(looong story), but I didn’t even know there were 3 cops on duty in Upper Chichester at 4 am. Anyway, the church’s neighbors had called because the night before someone was snooping behind their house. So, we identified ourselves and all was well. My heart pounded for a good 4 hours. Then, on Monday night our burglar alarm started beeping. I tried to shut it off, but instead(unknowingly) armed it. So, a minute later, it really starts going off and LOUD. I went over and told the landlord and he came over and fixed it and showed me what I had done wrong. 10 minutes later, yep you guessed it, 3 cops arrived at the house. Fortunately, I didn’t know until they were gone. Thanks Greg and Wes, you have scarred me for life.
2. Another cop story…we got caught in traffic one day on the way to Philly. I thought there was a bad wreck ahead because of the number of police cars I saw with lights flashing. As we got closer, I noticed there were about 10 patrol cars, but I couldn’t spot the cars from the accident. People were rubber necking which was causing the traffic delay. What were they looking at? Not a wreck, but the 10 officers were detaining…1 person. There car was pulled over, but there was only one perp. Don’t know what he did, but apparently it took 10 cops to take care of it…3 to watch him, while the other 7 were spread out having various conversations.
3. Think Indiana would like to have Bobby Knight back now?
4. I know I’m a geek but…Jeff Hardy deserves a world title run.
5. Still can’t access Facebook and Myspace.
6. Does anyone else think that Hillary Clinton’s head is going to explode sometime soon? I also think it’s only a matter of time before Chris Matthews asks Barack Obama out on a date.
7. Rudy Guiliani’s next book…”How to blow your shot at being president”
8. I’m glad our politicians have time to investigate steroids in baseball. Good to know they have that national debt thing solved, we’re energy independent, Al-Queda is defunct, the fair tax is enacted, and our border is secure.
9. If you’re in ministry buy the simply strategic series. These books are rocking my world and changing the way I think about how we do church.
10. I’m going 0ut to face the ice…hopefully, it’s not vanilla.