*Babypoloza is just two days away...getting ready
*Congratulations to my nephew Carter and his finance Katie P (KP) on getting engaged. Wedding date set for December 2012.
*School started back for LA on Tuesday and kids started back at daycare...much better than expected for the kids. Wyatt loves his monkey book bag and lunch box and except for screaming and crying his head off for a little while after I leave, he is doing great. Aubrey was up and ready to go to school on Tuesday, she loves it and I will remind her of this in later years.
*Happy Birthday to Jenn H, the wife of the founder of I'm Just Sayin. You can read about her here.
*Did you know that 7 out of 8 cars on Hwy 165 on Sunday mornings go to Ashley Ridge Church (at least my informal survey had those results)
*Ashley Ridge Chruch went to Rwanda on a mission trip this summer and I went to ARC on Sunday to hear about it because I believe in what ARC is doing and Jenn is "Our Life's" favorite female pastor/church planter and I had been reading on "Courtyard" about the mission trip and her thoughts after returning (for some reason I can't link directly to her posts but click on the Courtyard link and go to Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 to begin reading)
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011 - Rwanda Countdown
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 - Rwanda, Part One
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 - Rwanda, Part Two
Then watch this video on some of the participants reflections
Now listen to her message from last Sunday on their mission trip to Rwanda.
I am trying to get perspective on the genocide that took place - The tri-county area (Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester) population according to the 2010 Census was 664,607...not a million - lets add Bamburg, Allendale, Hampton, Jasper, Beaufort and Colleton counties to get within 2,000 residents of 1,000,000. Can you grasp/imagine 22% of the population of SC eliminated in 90 days?...However, the genocide is not the news today but the reconciliation and the rebuilding is the news and ARC is apart of it. Keep up the good work here and all over the world.
*I had another post on the debt crisis but decided not to post but this video is a simple explanation of our crisis. People will argue about the effects of cutting spending but for the purpose of this blog - this is just educational for our readers not a discussion form for debt crisis. Hope it helps you understand what's going on...
*And now on to happier thoughts:
*You can't be a blogger in the South and not mention college football from August to January...might get you killed. So in an effort to preserve my health and my few remaining good years.
*Football Subplots as the season nears - 22 days
- Will the constant reminders by the SC Baseball ("We got two how about you?" "Did you get your ring? Oh, I forgot your on the football team.") team provide the motivation to the football team to capture THE National Championship and thus bring the Rapture that Captain Kook thought was going to happen in May.
- While on the National Champion talk this year is the 30th celebration of Clemson's National Championship - You can read all about it "Looking Back... A Walk Through Clemson's 1981 National Championship Season". I am forwarding it to Dabo and the entire Clemson football team for the point made in the article about Clemson's defense - "Clemson's kick-sand-in-your-face-and-take-your-lunch-money style of defense" and Vince Dooley's comments that "Clemson intimidated us." - which is a great lead into this joke - Where is the only place Georgia Bulldog Herschel Walker hasn't been? Clemson's End Zone - We need more of this attitude.
- Alabama's football team has been sponsored by T-Town Menswear...suits for everyone
- Hope Clemson's new Offensive Coordinator, Chad Morris's, maximize plays offense doesn't turn into a bunch of quick 3 and outs. Makes sense when executed properly but could be a Defensive Coordinator's worst nightmare - Clemson's DC if it doesn't work and the opposing team DC if it works.
- Clemson's schedule thoughts
- Defending National Champion - Auburn (Murder's Row, game 1)
- Preseason Atlantic Division Champion - Florida State (Murder's Row, game 2)
- Preseason and Defending ACC Champion - Virginia Tech (Murder's Row, game 3)
- Unknown Potential - North Carolina
- Pain In Your Backsides - Boston College, Maryland, Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, NC State
- Sister Mary's Children of the Blind - Troy, Wofford
- Rival - Revolutionary War Heroes
- I think Dabo is one year away, he is bringing in the talent but it has to mature (like a good wine)...only problem is after a losing record last year he might not get another year if this season heads south.
- We Are Clemson...where right now we lose a couple of games each year we shouldn't...in the last 6 years our record in games decided by one possession is 11-23 (source www.footballstudyhall.com). The good news is we don't get blown out very often but Dabo has to be able to win the close games something that has been very elusive for Tommy and Dabo - see above about intimidating opponents and taking their lunch money.
- Formula for potentially wrecking your football program and pi**ing off the large donors - fire the head coach after media days and before camp starts after publicly standing behind him for a year, tell donors he's our guy, give to the program...see UNC (check out their blogs for the details, it's going to get interesting in Chapel Hill...however, the football team has the talent to rise above)
*Someone told me the NFL was no longer striking...the big "Who Cares" event of the summer followed by the NBA's bigger "Who Cares" event. I actually do care because on Sunday's I get to watch football while I sleep on the sofa and it gives me something to channel surf with while watching NASCAR.
*How long before the NFL's 1/2 day of practice (no more two a days in preseason) filters down to college football...bunch of over paid lazy prima donnas...work at most 7 months, play a sport you love, and want to only work 1/2 days for 1 month during preseason practice...get a real job. Oh, by the way I will not be attending a game again this year (unless someone reading this blog, gives me free tickets).
*The first round draft picks were really happy about the CBA - for comparison:
Sam Bradford, 1st Pick 2010 Draft, St. Lewis Rams signed a six-year, $78 million deal, which has $50 million of guarantees and has a maximum value of $86 million making it the largest contract ever for an NFL rookie
Cam Newton, 1st Pick 2011 Draft, Carolina Panthers signed a four-year $22 million deal, which was all guaranteed. Cam lost $28 million guaranteed and potentially $64 million. However, in other news his father signed a deal also with the Panthers for $28 million.
Talk about bad timing...but to be honest I like the new rule about rookie contracts because Sam Bradford's contract is what I despise about professional sports - not $$$ incentive to perform. If your the best, you get paid like the best. If you are average, you get paid average and if you suck, you get cut (or if your a quarterback, you might get signed just to hold the clipboard and keep track of something).
*So a local preacher has been arrested for kidnapping and raping two girls both who are prostitutes. I don't understand. Why did he have to use a gun and why did he rape them? It is evident that these ladies regularly had "relations" with men for cash. Was it because it was against his morals to pay for "it"? I bet he is wishing he would have just paid for it now. A case where being cheap didn't work out to good. Oh, and by the way, his moral compass was way off kilter because he took them to a trailer at the church to rape them...what was this guy thinking. I don't understand. Story and video here.
*Since I mentioned NASCAR and a preacher, I feel obliged to share this prayer with you...
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