How sharing M&M's and learning about "J" can make you laugh

So, I'm sitting in the library reading for my classes (which by the way is way the heck too much reading) and all of the sudden UP POPS SHANA! Okay, up because I'm on the 3rd floor and she had to climb all the steps to get here, but I digress, the important stuff is yet to come.

So I'm reading about the "J" source for the stories in Genesis (remember that a story is Hebrew stuff is more than a story like once upon a time there was a guy, etc. etc.) and I say to Shana, "sheesh, it was a lot easier to be ignorant about this stuff instead of having my brain boil over with junk that makes me wonder if I really knew anything about this book we call the BIBLE anywho." And we talked about it for a moment, and Shana tried to remember all the sources like J, P, and D (and if you don't know them, be happy and keep reading). Then I busted out the Almond M&M's and shared them with her. I love, no, make that LOVE Almond M&M's -note I even capitalize Almond - and we enjoyed them even though you aren't really supposed to have food in the library.

Shana started trying to remember a joke, that is now posted in her blog, and I was tellilng her stupid punny jokes that my lovely wife Lorice had sent me in an e-mail. Then we talked about changing light bulbs, so I busted out iTunes and played some of Garrison Keillor's Pretty Good Joke Show light bulb jokes. We laughed out loud. Which reminds me, not only are you not supposed to eat candy in the library, but you're supposed to maintain some kind of respectful silence or something, d'oh on both counts.

So, Shana updated her blog, I read it and was the FIRST to comment on it (man is it funny, she totally needs to publish them in book form and sell books around the world). Thus, I have updated my very own blog. I'm captain consistency you know, I update my blog once a year whether it needs it or not. Go out there and make it an Almond M&M day, y'all!

Hebrew? Ethics? Yowza!

So this was the first full week of regular classes at school. Things seem a lot more laid back this year compared to last year, but DANG, the profs like you to read! I have 7.2 gazillion pages to read over the weekend, a few projects to work on, and this little thing called Hebrew. Hebrew is kinda cool, it's like solving one of those secret code thingys in Cracker Jacks (that dates me a bit as I think now they only give you stupid lick and stick tatoos of goofy cartoonish characters) and my friend Tim said,
"yeah, totally, sheesh!" That's a fun word, sheesh, that is. Anywho, so in Hebrew you read from right to left and they only used consanants back in the day. 500 years later some guy (or gal) said, "can a brother/sister get a vowel around here?" And someone else, actually three different groups of "scholars" came up with a way to add vowels without messin' with the text, cause they thought it was beautiful the way it was written. So now they have dots. Made me think about that commercial with the dots, you know the one, the guys says "what's with the dots?" and the guys say they let us track stuff and the first guy says, "can you talk to the dots?" and they talk to the dots.......................finally, "who's messin' with my dots?" The dots are fun, goofy, and yet, they speak to me as a Hebrew student. Yup, the first week is pretty much done now, but hey, Saturday night is a campfire on the ranch here, I hope my friend Shana will come!



p.s.
Yeah, I'm in a class on ethics in a lutheran perspective, shockingly ethics cross most religious boundaries.

The more things change....

So after a long summer of no posts, and a long summer of missing most of my friends (except my buddy Shana who was here to make me smile more than once) it's now time for a new school year to begin. No, I didn't do the independant study I planned to over the summer. No, I didn't memorize the Hebrew alphabet. In fact, I'm not sure what happened really. I went to Texas, I went to Florida, I worked in maintenance for a cool boss.

I'm happy my friends are coming back, and it's been interesting to hear their stories from CPE. I'm ready for classes to start, but not for the grind. Should be interesting though.

Okay, as this has not been funny to this point, I shall include a stupid joke, ready? Here it is............what's brown and sticky?









a stick, silly!

Back from San Antonio.....

I spent the better part of last week in San Antonio, TX working for the seminary at the National Youth Gathering. What a blast! Except for the part about standing on a hard concrete floor in the convention center for hours each day, I really enjoyed it. This was the first time I have been at a Gathering without a group of kids! This marks my FOURTH Gathering, if you're keeping score at home (or for that matter, if you are at work and keeping score, or for that matter, if you are out at a neighborhood coffee house keeping score). We had a cool booth, one of the best in the covention center, say behind the ropes stuff, bouncy court basketball, and the nifty Thrivent semi. We had these cutout standee things where you could stand behind them and look like the pastor or a youth worker (who I must say was very stereotyped with jeans, baseball shirt and a guitar - not that I'm keeping score at home, work, or a coffee shop).



Now I'm back at home to do some laundry before heading off again with the family for a much needed trip to Florida. Funny thing (btw- I am the laundry engineer in our home for what will seem obvious reasons after the rest of this sentence) as I went to start the wash, I found chunks of bubble gum, a couple bucks in change, and a variety of batteries buried in a twisted, knotted mess of a backpack and towels which my lovely wife had "washed" the day before. Hmmmmm.....since the washing machine doesn't take coins (it's a domestic version) and as I recall it uses electricity, I thought to myself, "why are these things in the washing machine?" For that matter, when did my washing machine start chewing bubble gum? Great news, I cleaned it up and the laundry is under way.

More later, that's enough for now. Peace out to my home slices at the "burg" and y'all others.

Oh DEER and other stuff

Life at Seminary

So, there's been a lot of talk about DEER(s) -with a shout out to Lorice- and the use of baseball bats, pepper spray, etc. Some would argue that the best use for pepper spray with DEER(s) is when griling deer(s) meat. Personally, having only tried deer meet ONCE and then only because I was TRICKED by "friends" I have to say YUCKY!

So, why the DEER(s) with a shout out to Lorice? Because she thought that the plural of DEER was DEERS and that is kinda funny. I wonder if Mark knows that I remembered my blog log in? I wonder if Shana will read this and ponder the relationship she has with the neighborhood deer(s) on campus. I remember hearing a story once of a deer(s) smashing its way through the window of a lower level apartment in the Blair House area. Yeah, seems that the occupant had been baking pies. The deer(s) was drawn to the window by lovely flowers which had been covertly planted (just outside the window as if planted from inside the apartment while reaching through an open window). Next, the smell of blueberries (intoxicating to DEER(S)) caused a psychotic episode and the DEER(s) lunged with all due force through the window and attacked (if not cornered) the occupant. True story, really.

Well, that's all for now. Lorice has discovered the miracle that is Mr. Clean erasers, Lord help us!

Life at Seminary

Life at Seminary

Shana! I remembered my log in, woo-hoo! Okay, my parents just left and it was great to see them (as one might imagine). Now they are off to Ohio before heading back to Georgia. Now I'm sitting here watching Judge Dredd and wondering why the heck I ate so much Papa Murphy's Pizza.

Tomorrow is going to be a busy day and I need to get busy with my endorsement essay. Why can't I seem to get started? I know, I'M LAZY!!!!!!

Lorice has to go to work tomorrow, and that's a drag 'cause I enjoy hanging out with her (even though I annoy her after a while, hehe).

Bye for now y'all!

Welcome to my blog

Well, my wife and a bunch of friends have taken up blogging here lately, so I've decided to create my own blog in hopes of keeping the story straight. And by straight I mean my perspective of course. I don't expect this to be funny (though it wouldn't stink if it was anywhere close to being as funny as my friend Shana's blog).

Right now one of the cats in the family is pouncing on me. Forest can't really see, so he pounces a lot. Why is this happening right now? Because I am awake way too early, that's why! Why does the sun come up at 4:00 a.m. in Iowa? Sure, the farmers love it I guess, and I don't have anything against farmers, but even with room darkening blinds the bedroom is plenty bright. All I have to do is open my eyes ONE TIME and BLAMMO! I'm awake. So, here I am, typing away.

Anywho, hope you have a great day today. And, welcome to my new blog.