I help out with the jr. high youth group at church. My youth pastor, Jeremy, happens to be a pretty big football fan. Whenever we have a retreat or something, there's almost certainly going to be a football game at some point ( Read more... )

Last weekend, several dozen young adults from GNet, Grace's young adult ministry, went on a retreat to Ocean Isle beach at the southern point of NC. Some highlights and photos:
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Last weekend, the junior high youth group went on a year-end retreat to Washington DC. Here are some highlights, in order:

• eating at Sonic on the way up there
• riding up with Kyle (a 14-year-old) in the passenger's seat, chillin, talkin, and listening to Pink Floyd and Coldplay
• the Holocaust Museum (heavy, but amazing)
• barely beating Kyle at a Rubik' ( Read more... )

The weekend before last, I was busy working on the INFOCOM paper. Thus, by the end of the day last Thursday, I had already accumulated over 40 hours, not including vacation time from the Independence Day holiday. Thus, I opted to take Friday (the 6th) off ( Read more... )

Last weekend I flew to Chapel Hill for Claire (ktria) and Ed's wedding. Claire matriculated at UNC with me but left with her master's ( Read more... )

Last Friday, Matt (a friend from college) and I had the 2nd weekend of "40's after 5", a little tradition one of our friends started. He has an old Nintendo--like, the original NES--and many games. I had a great time remembering Double Dragon 2 and Super Mario Brothers 3. Eric joined us, and later we went to a party that their friend Priya was ( Read more... )

Last Saturday, I got restless sitting around the house, so I decided to walk to the beach. I hadn't been there yet, so I downloaded Google Earth and plotted a route. On the way there, I found a rope swing--whee! :-D It was maybe a 45 minute walk to get to La Jolla Beach near Scripps pier. Then I walked down the beach, wending my way through all ( Read more... )

My church occasionally does this thing called [random] acts of kindness, or AoK. Tonight, under that aegis, 5 of us went out with 1200 candy bars (Twix, Snickers, Reeses, Kit-Kat, and Butterfinger) to "Krzyzewski-ville" on the Duke campus to hand them out to people (for free). What a deal, huh ( Read more... )