Jacob's Play-Dough Art

Here is a shark swimming in the ocean underneath a moon & star-filled sky.

A flat sculpture of Ethan

 

In light of all of my recent grumbling I have decided to post a list of things I am thankful for.

So here it is. I am thankful for...

1. A God that loves me enough to die for me.
2. My amazing wife Jenny and my 2 wonderful little boys.
3. My Parents and family that are too many to mention but you know who you are.
4. My friends that I have had since High School and Junior High who haven't gotten tired of me yet.
5. My job. Despite the new arrangement I do love my job and I am thankful for it everyday and I recognize that it is a gift from above.
6. Living in a country where I have the freedom to worship without fear.
7. The Church we have been attending, Wheatland Mission.
8. Our home.
9. The big sky and the open plains.
   
10. Coca~Cola, Mmmmmmm...

"Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." - 1 Thes 5:18

What are you thankful for?

Blog Outing

I have another blog that I have been working on for a few months that is more of a spiritual/faith discussion, but up until now I have just been talking to myself. Nattyman Blog includes those elements sometimes but as more of a personal nature. The newer blog is a place for me to say what I have been thinking about spiritually. It isn't separate to compartmentalize my faith but rather to focus it. You may have already noticed it in my profile but now I am officially "outing" it. Feel free to tell me how wrong I am ;-)

myUndoing

Reasons I Hate My New Office Setup.

1. Very low cubicle walls, no privacy... makes me feel naked
2. It is stinking hot in here all of the time. we used a thermometer to check and it was 79 degrees at my desk... it is even hotter now. *(see below)
   
3. Hardly any view to the outside world... the stupid smokers courtyard doesn't count.
4. I am surrounded by a bunch of boring white people. Before I was surrounded by a rich diverse group of Indians, Asians, Latinos, Blacks and Whites.
5. I am crowded. I went from one desk in my cubicle to 3, which you would think would be nice but I can't move them and so I am stuck this way and my monitor is right in my face!
6. I took the stairs to the fourth floor as my only means of exercise so now I have none and I will probably get overweight and out of shape now and die young... all because of this move to the second floor.

I think that is it with the complaining for now.

Proof of the temperature:

Change is bad!!

Our department is growing and today we had to move from the 4th floor to the second.  I don't like it.  It probably doesn't help that I am sick and it is about 80 degrees in here. 

There is way less sunlight and it is much more closed in.  Plus the cubicles have this low wall thing going on and there is no privacy... I feel naked.

Exercising my civic duty

I voted today at lunch.  I think it is the first time I have voted anywhere other than the Library in Garden City.  When I lived in Manhattan I drove to GC and back the day of the 96 election.  It was also my first time to use the digital voting machine rather than the archaic 2nd Millennium pencil and paper method.  I can imagine that it saves a lot of time and man power in counting votes.  The Church I was at was pretty busy but I am fairly sure I was the youngest person in the room by a good 20 years.  Kind of sad, but I am one of the few people that see low voter turnout as a good thing.  It just means that my vote counts more, plus who wants a bunch of people voting that don't know what or who they are voting for.  Everything went fine, the strange thing though was when I was at the review screen somehow I had voted for Pat Buchanan for Kansas Governor!

Phone Pictures

This was taken a few nights ago when I left work. Wished I had had my real camera with me.
These next 2 are Ethan and Jacob at Chucky Cheeses, I think 2 weekends ago. I meant to bring the real camera but I was glad to at least have my phone. It was the first real cold Saturday of the season and they were PACKED! We spent most of the time playing a race car game, but neither of them can reach the peddles so they had to take turns sitting on my lap so I could press the gas for them.
 

Time To Pull Out Of California

The American Enterprise: Eye of the Beholder

As a fifth-generation Californian, I deeply love this state, but still imagine what the reaction would be if the world awoke each morning to be told that once again there were six more murders, 27 rapes, 38 arsons, 180 robberies, and 360 instances of assault in California—yesterday, today, tomorrow, and every day. I wonder if the headlines would scream about “Nearly 200 poor Califor­nians butchered again this month!”

How about a monthly media dose of “600 women raped in February alone!” Or try, “Over 600 violent robberies and assaults in March, with no end in sight!” Those do not even make up all of the state’s yearly 200,000 violent acts that law enforcement knows about.

more...