Temple desecration

Here’s a little blurb from an article by Perry Noble concerning food abuse. If you’re overweight, or have ever been overweight, you seriously need to check this out:

I’ve been in churches that have no problem at all going off on…oh, I don’t know, pick a sin…let’s say the abuse of alcohol. You will hear pastors and church members SCREAM about “the devils brew” and make swiping statements about who all who choose to partake of “that stuff.” I have heard self-righteous Christians proclaim, “Alcohol has never touched my lips” when it is also obvious that a treadmill has never touched their legs.

I know, I know–people have yelled at me about this before, “But Perry, it’s different…people DIE from abusing alcohol…they have car wrecks and such.” AND I agree…I have seen firsthand what alcohol abuse can do to someone. Trust me–I do not need a lecture here.

BUT I would argue that being overweight and even obese is just as bad…people are oblivious to the fact that they are literally eating themselves to death.

Check out the entire article right here, and be sure to bookmark Perry’s site (or add it to your feed reader) to watch for his future updates. Looking forward to what he has to say.

This also begs the question; what kind of shape is your temple in? Are you desecrating it? I know I’m not treating mine right. Maybe we all need to band together, get accountable, and get these temples our Lord has given us cleaned up. What do you think? Can we do it?

perry noble, food abuse, obesity, shawnw

RSS can make your life easier, part 1: What is RSS?

Welcome to the first part in our RSS article series entitled RSS can make your life easier. The purpose of this article series is to get you comfortable with what RSS is and how to use it. Google calls their RSS reader “Your inbox for the web” and I feel this is the perfect way to describe RSS. But, let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

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jeff was sleepy

We had a little impromptu NYE bash at Scot’s last night where we jammed out to some Guitar Hero II and ate plenty of food that was flatout bad for us.

As 2006 waned, Jeff (who’d been up since the wee hours Sunday and had been at church since 6:30 a.m.) decided he’d had enough and fell asleep in the chair closest to the television (that’s right, Jeff was snoozing to the soothing sounds of such songs as Shout at the Devil and Mother!), which was a bad idea. He had a pillow thrown at him (which he put to good use, as you can see here) and a teddy bear stuffed under his arm (again, put to good use).

At this point, it was too good an opportunity to pass up NOT to take a quick pic. So’s… I did. And now, you get to share in the fun, too.

Just so it’s clear that I’m not singling anyone out, you can check out a pic of me kissing Santa at the eXchange Musician’s Christmas party by clicking the link below.

http://flickr.com/photos/82659554@N00/324795155/in/photostream/

My wife doesn’t snore

…or so she says. She’s always been adamant that she does not snore, and will argue if you try to imply otherwise.

Now, I snore (ask Scot about why he thinks I snore) and will occasionally wake my wife up, but for the most part, I don’t snore (too often). When my wife snores, it doesn’t really bother me. I can usually sleep through it (quite often I’ve fallen asleep to her little rumbles) as she’s not a chainsaw snorer. Her snores are usually more what you’d think a sleepy Pekinese would sound like.

Except for Tuesday night. Wendy was feeling pretty terrible Tuesday night, and after eating Christmas dinner leftovers at Mom and Dad’s I brought her home, and she immediately grabbed a blanket and fell asleep on the couch.

I was doing my thing around the house when I heard something louder than a Pekinese snoring coming from the couch. I went into the living room and found Wendy seriously sawing logs. Loud. I finally had the opportunity to prove to her that she did, in fact, snore.

So, I recorded it.

My cell phone has a voice recorder dealio built in, so I enabled it and held my phone right next to her face. The light from the inside screen was pretty bright, so I had to lean over the couch all contorted to be sure she didn’t wake from me recording her non-snoring.

Of course, I had to gloat after she woke up and let her listen to herself. While she didn’t outright deny it, I still think she’s skeptical. She did ask later in the evening, “was that really me?”

Yes, Wendy. That was really you.

I’ll try to get the audio moved to MP3 and posted here for your enjoyment this weekend. :)

wendy, snoring, humor, comedy, funny, shawnw

U2’s next masterpiece

Thanks to Los for the heads up here. Another fantastic video by U2. Song is called “Window in the Sky.”

update: well poo, looks like Youtube pulled the video.

u2, bono, youtube, ragamuffin soul, shawnw