…because someone needs to.
Where the Wild Things Are
Feb 22nd
I can’t tell you how excited I was when I heard that Where the Wild Things Are was being made into a movie. However, this wasn’t quite the same as the book I read so long ago. Looking back, I can see how I missed out on some of the themes such as a kid dealing with anger. But to me the movie put a lot more emphasis on dealing with emotions…well minus the dealing part.
I think you can take something from any movie, so here is the take home form Where the Wild Things Are: You can be a brat, act out, bite your mom and run away…and still get chocolate cake when you come home.
Enjoy
Don’t Buy Stuff You Can’t Afford
Feb 2nd
I’ve been doing some work on my wife’s website. Getting rid of the blog and trying to make it more static to focus on buying & selling real-estate and showcase her and her listings. That to the side, she used to let me post random things there and I hated to let this one be lost forever. enjoy:
This video really reminds me of Dave Ramsey. I really believe in the work Dave does so I’m not poking …well too much fun at him. But seriously, how bad is the financial state of America when SNL can make fun of good financial advice. This may not be totally related to real estate, but try buying a house with a really screwed up financial situation. …People that can’t get this baffle me.
Favorite Christmas Movies?
Dec 23rd
So I like collecting data. I analyze my google analytics stuff way more than I should and other things of that nature. This year we had an opportunity to ask a funny question along with some serious ones, to the Sunday attenders at Cross Point in Dickson,TN. The question was simple: what is your favorite Christmas movie? And whether you want them or not, for fun…here are the results and a pretty graph.
These are listed in order from most to least votes. So what do you think?
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2009 Cross Point Staff Christmas Party Highlights
Dec 20th
This was my first Christmas on staff at Cross Point. It very cool to work with such an amazing group of people. Most people will give you run downs of what happens on Sundays or trips. I’m here to give highlights of what happened at our Staff Christmas Party.
The Arrival
Wow… there are seriously a lot of us! even thought I knew pretty much everyone it was pretty intimidating to first walk into the room.
The Meal
Oh, dear god, thank you, you are such a good god to us. A kind and gentle and accommodating god, and we thank you oh sweet, sweet lord of hosts for the smorgasbord you have so aptly laid at our table this day, and each day, by day, day by day, by day oh dear lord three things we pray to love thee more dearly, to see thee more clearly, to follow thee more nearly, day, by day, by day. Amen.
What a great meal, I ate dessert first. I find that to be the most efficient way of enjoying any meal personally, plus who knows…if you start to choke on something a croak right there wouldn’t it be nice to be sure you at least enjoyed something at the meal? I digress. The meal was amazing though. Thanks to Cater To You Nashville, I would recommend you to anyone.
The Gift Exchange
This seriously is a kind group of people! It seems pretty slow on the stealing of gifts, unless you were a gift card. I mean I stole a lot…In fact, I stole from Jenni Catron at least 3 time, all of which I blame on my wife. The best steal of the night however, came from the Cook family, as they teamed up to steal a gift from a reluctant Bergstrom family, who really loved their crayons. Surprisingly enough, the gifts that sat without getting too much attention in the stealing were a very tasteful plunger and some duct tape (I mean seriously, it can fix anything) and a Your Best Life Now Board Game. A lot of other good gifts, ranging in populatiry from funny to “really?”.
I was a little intimidated after hearing about the legendary gifts that Jarrod Morris brings every year. And he didn’t fail to disappoint… what better gift for the holiday season than the 2009 Jarrod Morris swimsuit calendar. Pete ended up with it and though he tried to seem distraught about it, I have a feeling it’s up in his office already.
All in all the night was grea, My wife and I waled away with a fun gift, two books. One is Everything Men Know About Women by Alan Francis
Can’t wait until next year.
*the photo is from Blake Bergstrom’s twitter stream.
Short Addendium: For some more news from the staff party check out Brandi Wilson’s blog.
One Click Contact Duplicate Removal in Gmail
Dec 17th
I love gmail.
This week they released a very handy tool that I wish they would have had all along, removing duplicate contacts.
Just go to your contacts page in gmail: https://mail.google.com/mail/#contacts and you should see this:
Now click on “find duplicates” and let gmail do the rest. I cleaned up 40 duplicate contacts, which I blame my Blackberry and google sync for mostly.
Daily Distraction – the Muppets do Bhoemian Rhapsody
Nov 30th
Momma! Momma?
I really dig this remake of this sone…amazing… and over 7 MILLION hits! Wow.
btw…I agree about video meetings… or just meeting in general. Very unproductive.
Importing Old Posts (aka. History Part 1)
Nov 29th
When I first started blogging I used a free wordpress.com blog. I abandoned it some time ago, but decided to import most of the post off of there to here. It was tech related for the most part, but I never did much.
After I left wordpress.com, I opened up beawesomeinstead.com, or as many of you may know it the most Awesome and Legendary How I Met Your Mother site on the internet. I decided since I thought it was the last season of Scrubs to do some reviews of it…but now I’m in a quandry because it kind of came back. I also had quite a bit of personal (translation: mostly funny and sarcastic) content on there, that given the direction of that site no longer fits. I hate to delete it though. So what I think I am going to try to do it import it here as well. I’m sure there is a easier way to do this but I’m not really a SQL genius so I just downloaded the export file and am attempting* to edit out the HIMYM and Scrubs related content and I’ll import the rest here.
I tell you this…actually I don’t knwo why…I simply wanted you to know where 3 year old content on a 2 month old site. Anyways.
How Terminator Should Have Ended
Nov 22nd
How It Should Have Ended. This is possibly my favorite site on the interweb…or at least the funniest. And if Terminator would have been more like this (especially 3), I might have even ventured to the theater.
Terminator, How It Should End….enjoy.
Terminator, How It Should End….enjoy.
Website Updates
Nov 11th
Here is a web tip for you. Never start tweaking your website or blog when you REALLY need some sleep.
…it’s just a bad idea
Addiction
Oct 12th
My wife feels that I have an addiction. A web addiction….
And it’s not that I’m so addicted to anything on the web, or even being on the web, but I love buying domain names and thinking I’ll develop a site to do something with them. It’s the geek in me I suppose.
So what will happen here? I really don’t know.