About a half an hour ago, Diego started barking uncontrollably. Christy and I tried to get him to settle down. He's had fits where he'd start barking wildly at nothing for no good reason. I walked towards the door, turned on the porch light, and said, "Look, there's no one outside, dog!"

Of course, there was someone outside ( Read more... )

After returning home from Asheville, the family was exhausted and a little sore from walking around all day. Anyway, the kids went to bed fairly early and Christy took a bath to soothe her leg muscles. I began to post an entry about the day for all to see ( Read more... )

I have an interview in Muncie tomorrow morning.  If they like me (and we like them), we'll come up again in a few weeks for a full-blown 'trial sermon.'

They're putting us up in a motel tomorrow evening and the kids are looking forward to that.  On top of that, the pool's open, so we're all going swimming tomorrow night. Even if I completely bomb ( Read more... )

Amazing.  There's already a Wikipedia article about the Virginia Tech shootings.  My, how things have changed.

I can't imagine being a student there and trying to somehow go to sleep tonight. I had a hard enough time going to sleep after the 9/11 attacks because my mind wouldn't stop racing.  It would be even worse to try to sleep in a place that ( Read more... )

Thunderstorm came through last night. At sometime between 4:30 and 5, a loud batch of thunder shook the house. It was so startling that Bella started barking at it. A few minutes later, Alyson came upstairs crying. The thunder woke her up too ( Read more... )

I'm exhausted.

Can't get my eyes to stay shut. Can't get my brain to turn off, either.

I'm gonna go back to bed and toss & turn until I fall asleep. Hopefully I won't wake up my Bride. It would be a bummer for both of us to be extremely sleepy tomorrow.

Good night (I hope).

The fires are back at Philmont Scout Ranch this Summer. The South Country appears to be in danger. I read this post on a MySpace Philmont Group message board:

Bad in South Country,very close to Urraca as of last night, all trail camps in that area from Rayado River on are being evacuated to Staffed camps. Treks into south are all being diverted ( Read more... )

The last two weeks have been exhausting with tests, papers, and two birthday parties to put together. On top of that, I haven't gotten much sleep this week and I'm not sure why. I have to go to class and I can barely keep my eyes open. My eyelids haven't felt this heavy in such a long time ( Read more... )

A storm ripped through our area last night. It was a different front than the one that caused so much damage in other parts of the country. That being said, it was the loudest thunderstorm I've heard at night in a long time. There were several thunderclaps that shook the house for several seconds ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, I gave my little sermon about why IU students should not have rushed the court after beating Illinois. If you need to refresh your memory, click here.

Someone else must have been reading my Journal. Pat Forde says many of the same points. Notice he wrote his column on the 26th of January. I wrote mine on the 18th. I expect to ( Read more... )