Voted Most Secure.

At my place of work our department is transferring in a new person from a different department. As a result all but two *cube dwellers* get to relocate to *better* cubes. I however, get to stay where I am at. The 26 months I have been employed at Asbury College, I and one other have never been *relocated.* Aince I have been working at Asbury longer than the other one, I was *voted* most *secure* cube dweller. At least I wont have to relocated my geocache which is outside my window.

Book Review: Libertarianism for and against

One of my New Year's resolutions was to read more. I have been some what successful this year. As I read books I hope to post a short review on the book.

Book: Libertarianism for and against
Authors: Creg Duncan & Tibor R Machan
ISBN: 0-7425-4259-9

This book is by no means exceptional. It does provide arguments from two view points from two authors from each view point. Which is somewhat refreshing compared to most political/economic books. However, I felt that too much of the point was tied up with arguing each other with both sides making faulty arguments. Neither side spent enough time proving their side. The book lacked real examples and often jump to conclusions especially from the "against side". Unless you are very interested in political philosophy you are better off to read a different book. Hopefully in some of my next post I'll talk about my personal views on Libertarianism.

Awana Week 2

We just wrapped up week number 2 for Awana at Cornerstone Baptist Church. The commander was out sick, so I got to be the acting commander. The night went fairly well, we had 23 sparkies and 21 T&T'rs. We were blessed that two college students from the church helped us out as leaders tonight and for the rest of the year. They did an excellent job tonight with the kids even without much training. Hopefully we will be able to arrange training for them soon. Next week is Labor Day weekend so there will be no Awana next week. Awana will pick up "Next Next Week" as phased by one of our Korean Sparkies.

Delta Plan Crash in Lexington, Ky

I received word this morning at church that a Delta/ComAir flight out of Bluegrass Airport heading for Atlanta Ga, crashed shortly after takeoff. According to news reports 1 of 50 survived the cash. The early reasoning behind the crash was the plane took off from the short runway and not the long runway.

Last November I flew from Lexington to Atlanta on Delta. This event for me hits closer to the heart than most tragic news events.

Gas Prices

I saw gas for as low as $2.479 today in Lexington. I find this very interesting since the Alaskan Pipe Line is (broken or something to that effect) and the predictions were that prices would rise from $2.999 (or so) a nickle or so more. I guess they where wrong. Perhaps less fighting in the Middle East or the *powers that be* just like to mess with our minds. Or maybe just maybe people are driving less...

Assistant Awana Commander

I have been an Awana leader 10 years now all of which have been in Sparks. If you count the 3 years when I was a Sparkie as a kid I have been *in* Sparks for more than half my life. This year I get to be the Assistant Commander at Cornerstone Baptist Church. I am charged with planning Awana Quizzing, AwanaGames and other activities. I am also planning of being in section time for both Sparks and T&T. We are off to a good start, last Sunday we started the year with about 13 Sparkies and *21* T&T'rs. Putting that into perspetive, T&T's largest attendance last year was 16! We have a great group of Leaders and kids. I pray that God will be able to use us to "Reach boys and girls with the Gospel of Christ and train them to serve Him"

Church Doors

Today Danielle and I went hunting for garage sales treasures. We ended up buying 5 doors from Providence Christian Church. The Church is going to level their 1915 building and build a new church building. As a result the church was selling most anything they people would buy. The church ending up with $37 from us and we acquired 5 doors, a set of large "cubbie holes" *thing* and a 4ft by 4ft by 3/4in piece of plywood. I am sure that Danielle will be creative once again and transform the doors into something amazing for our house!

Geocaching Coins

Yesterday I attended a geocaching event. I have always found it fascinating that cachers have such an interest in the coins. The coins are very *shiny* and unique. I have thought that they were also very silly. Why would anyone want to pay between 5-30 bucks for coin that sits and collects dusk, isn't there hungry kids that need food more that I need a shiny coin?? So a surrendered $8.00 and I am now the proud owner of a Kentucky 2006 geocoin. Maybe it will end of some place cool like Poland or maybe just Cleveland. The good news it has a tracking number so I can watch as cachers move it from cache to cache. I also get an extra icon on my profile for cachers to oo and aa about about. The proceeds help keep geocky.com up and running, which is a good thing since I enjoy using the site.

Hello World

As a computer programmer I have written many "Hello World" programs as I follow instructions to learn new computer programming languages. So I thought it would be fitting to start my blog off with hello world. My goal here is simple, to let any one who cares to read my blog what I am thinking about. I hope to keep friends and family informed on my happenings.