Guatemala Airport

We're headed home from our 2 week trip in Guatemala. Mario calls this the soon to be "most technologically advanced airport in the world" and I don't believe it. Because I'm sitting here watching little boys run around and shine shoes for a penny while people wrap their luggage in saran wrap. We'll be back in Columbus today and I've never been happier to get home in my life.

We ran this team as hard as we could and they surprised all of us. The photo is of Caleb, who played Jesus in our drama, in front of 1,200 teenagers in San Andres, Peten. It took all of 9 people to lift Caleb up off the ground in the drama and they almost dropped him every time. Those Pagleys aren't light.

Let's Start Building Some Hurtin' Bombs

Many of you may have seen the new Rocky Balboa trailer that came out this weekend. For those of you who haven't...consider yourselves lucky. Here's my take:

1. Rocky Balboa? - Not Rocky 6, because that would remind us of the pain of Rocky 5.
2. Adrian? - Apparently, Talia Shire...who plays Adrian...had more lucrative offers from other movie studios.
3. One Liners - I counted 5.
a. I think there's still some stuff in the basement. (like the reviews)
b. Fighters fight. (and gardeners garden...but you don't see them using this line)
c. Let's start building some hurtin' bombs. (I'm in shock & awe)
d. The greatest underdog story of our time. (Oooooh, when rudy hears this he's gonna be mad)
e. It ain't over til it's over. (this line is only used in breakdance and cheerleading competitions)

All in all, I believe that this christmas, we'll all rush to see Rocky Balboa. Because Santa Clause 3 is coming out and Tim Allen doesn't beat anyone up in his movies.

photos

Here's a few photos of the family.

multi-tasking

While waiting for micro center (which is the worst layout for a store I've ever seen) to open up this morning... I went downtown to take a look at OSU. Driving down High Street, I noticed a place where you can wash your clothes and get a quick tan.












I'm no expert, but tanning isn't something you should mess around with, especially if it's coin operated. Plus, that's obviously a terrorist van parked outside. Any van without windows...I stay away from.

the gap

The tooth fairy visited our house last night for the first of many late night withdrawals and deposits. Roman wanted to know if he would get more money by polishing up the tooth before he put it under his pillow. We told him, no... you only do that with shrunken heads and witch doctors.









We've started Roman on a cocktail of steroids and creatine. He'll be benching 200 next week.

Next 10 Songs

Here's what's playing in my iTunes right now:

1. "Seeking God" - Bishop T.D. Jakes
2. "DC 3000" - Thievery Corporation - The Wired CD
3. "This is Your Life" - Switchfoot - The Beautiful Letdown
4. "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" - ISRAEL Kamakawiwo'ole - Facing Future
5. "Hymn 3" - Craig Armstrong - Piano Works
6. "It's Good to Be In Love" - Frou Frou - Details
7. "Slidub" - Dzihan & Kamien - Live in Vienna
8. "I Am No Good" - Poor Old Lu - Sin
9. "In The Air Tonight" - Phil Collins - Face Value
10. "Five Feet High And Rising" - Johnny Cash - The Legendary

global impact 06

We're in the middle of missions training for our guatemala trip this Sunday. We'll be on the south coast of guatemala where hurricanes demolished villages and also in the Peten jungle. This year, we will also be traveling with Jez Babarczy to help produce two concerts in the jungle. Jez is the praise & worship leader for Joel Osteen's youth group in Houston, TX.

You can also check out some more of Jez's music here at myspace.

Montel Williams

Santone and I had the privilege of meeting Montel last night at 4:00AM. He was working down at speedway on South Old State Road. Well...it was Montel Williams from 40 feet away. At 30 feet away you had to squint to still believe he was Montel. At 5 feet away he was a man from India with a thick accent and a very needy personality. And his nametag said "Tohe".

Now I'm not a very smart guy...but even in India, that's got to be a fake name or something. Is the "h" silent and it's pronounced "toe"? Because if that's correct and I have the opportunity to walk into Speedway every day and yell out, "Hey, Toe... How's it going?"... That would be just short of heaven.

I just wasted a minute of your time.

Flat Rabbits - why...?

We left the house on Friday for the entire day and left our dog mya in the garage when we left. We gave her a small gap with the garage door so she could have some airflow and wouldn't dehydrate. Hours earlier, while mowing my yard, I noticed a small rabbit run out from under our deck and I almost ran over it. After making a mental note to check before mowing under there in the future...I put the mower away and then packed up the family and left.

When we returned to our house that night, we opened the garage door and our dog greeted us happily as usual. I got out of the van and as I opened it up and picked up my sleeping daughter...my gaze slipped down to a large smear across the garage floor. I nearly barfed, but regained my composure long enough to put my daughter in bed and walk back down to the garage.

There on the floor was a massive rabbit that I'd run over with the van on the way into the garage. His eyes were bulging out of his head and intestines lined our garage floor under the van. I carefully pulled the van out to clean up the massive bloody pulp from my garage when I noticed a much more sinister plot unravel.

The entire floor of my garage was covered with bloody rabbit tracks and fur. The unsuspecting rabbit had crawled under the gap in the garage door and my dog had tortured it for hours. For all I know, it had been trying to escape when the garage door opened and I ran it over with the van. So not only was it tortured and mutilated by my dog, but I desecrated the body by smearing it over a 4 foot area. I couldn't help but think that it would've been better if I'd chewed it up in the lawnmower earlier that day. At least it would've been over quickly.

This is why the title to the return of my blog is "Flat Rabbit." I just kept telling myself that whatever happened to me recently was going to be the name of the new blog. I'm just glad that I didn't decide to bring the blog back last week when the only exciting thing to happen was a massive dump I took on Wednesday.