The Network is for real

Behind

I really haven't sat at the computer very much this week, outside of work that is.

It's no more evident that in my blog reading...

As you can see I use the Google Reader, and have about 100 subscriptions, of which I read about 25 religously word for word. The others, mainly just as the peak my interest.
I try to keep my unread items at around 50. Some of those I'll have read, but wanted to reread, or they sparked a blog post idea, or it's really long and I need to really carve out time to read and intake.
Today I just looked at it and it reads 313! I may need to spend some quality blogging time tomorrow.

The Reveal

So last Sunday after the evening service Tommy, April, Erin, the Deuce and I enjoyed some time hanging out over Chipotle yumminess. Somehow as we were sharing the idea of having Tommy, the local artist (amazing painter whose work I should post sometime), paint something with the Deuce and I.

We laughed for quite sometime before April, Tommy's wife, suggested cherubs. It was like a ray of light from heaven. The Deuce and I agreed that this would be perfect, as long as we were painted wearing hats because you will generally find us wearing ball caps.

Tommy was all in, and planned to paint Tuesday and Wednesday, in total he spent about 10 hours on the project.

Back to Sunday - the Deuce and I returned home, stood in Chris' doorway and giggled and planned what else we could do for this prank. Then we did the same Monday night.

On Tuesday night we stood in awe of the half finished work and both made a pack never to do something this amazing to the other.

On Wednesday we marveled at the finished work and again repeated our vow that we would not ever recreate this awesomeness on each other.

On Thursday, Rachel, Tupas (Amanda), the Duece and I purchased Chris a new bed set and sheets. The sheets were 100% polyester, black and in gold the word Playboy with the Playboy bunny.

On Saturday, Rachel and I hung the stuff around the ceiling, which I know what it's called but have no clue as how to spell it. Rachel also wrapped Chris' lap shade with a boa, to spice it up.

Then we waited in holy anticipation for Chris' return.

Chris returned Sunday, at around 2:15 in the morning. I think he was too tired to give the proper response. I was really hoping for some swearing that punches thrown, instead he just remained speechless for a short period of time before saying, "uh...".

Hopefully I'll post the video of the Reveal tomorrow or later this week, but for now here is a photo. Visit my facebook page for additional photos.

(fyi - that me on the left and the Deuce on the right)

Albert Monroe

This is strange.

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Oh That's How You Do It

This is the method I would use...you know...if I was two again.

I like the kid cleaning the windows.

Big Stuff A-Comin'

Can't say quite yet...but big stuff will be here soon...be sure to keep reading...

Man Cred?

Does watching and enjoying the TBS show My Boys hurt my man cred?

And I'll be a little more honest with you. I don't just enjoy it, I really enjoy it. It cracks me up. Sure the show has these chick-moments where the main character dishes about relationships and life as a woman (I wish I could give more specifics, but I tend to tune those parts of the show out. Just joking, even those moments are well written and humorous), but definitely not enough to hurt my man cred...is it?

I'm going to just have to be secure enough in the fact that I have more than enough man creditials that this show doesn't put my man cred in jeoperdy.

Plus the show being about a cute gal who's a sports reporter (covering the Cubbies) doesn't hurt it at all.

Seriously....mega-cute.

Dr. Horribly Awesome!

Have you seen this.
NPH is awesome!
These are brilliant!

For those of you out there who would care, this is a Joss Whedon film.

"No-o-o-o-o-!"

So apparently this weekend Batman topped Spider-Man.
The Dark Knight is reporting $155.34 million for it's opening. This tops Spider-Man 3's record of $151.1 million
You win this time Bats..., but the Spider will return (minus Raimi and his cheesy Spidey 3 script) and will climb to the peak one more time.

Down with DC!

Under Construction

I am currently working on reconfiguring the template of the blog...
As you can see (unless you're reading from some kinda blog reader) I've add a second page element column.
I now need to figure out how to widen all the columns. I have a friend working on the solution for me, since I'm html illiterate.
Maybe sometime this week all the kinks will be worked out.

Thanks for your patience.

250 Weezers ?

For their live set on Yahoo, Weezer invited the audience of 250 to join them in singing and playing their preferred instrument (Mine would have to be something simple like that egg shaker thing).
If you didn't see it GO HERE, plus I'm posting the rendition of Pork and Beans below just for you. Yep that's right you reading this...I'ma talkin' to ya.

Piper gone Gangster

I find this hilarious. Josh Harris posted this photo on his blog.

Apparently at the New Attitude conference this young lady taught John Piper the "westside" gang sign. He was under the impression it stood for Word of God.

Awesome!

Moto-Texting

Apparently in India, car lanes are optional. And texting while reclining out your motorcycle is a great idea. A Youtube moment for sure.

Book Review: Love as a Way of Life

Got another book in the mail with the stipulation that I review for all you readers on this here blog. To which I say gladly. I love free books.

Upon receiving it I quickly gave the free second copy to Laura Sanders, a friend of the Deuce's who was in town for a conference. She's cool and quickly read several pages while sitting on our couch, so I asked her to guest blog her review of the book. (Also because I'm a slow reader and wasn't sure I'd finish on time...I did). She agreed. Here is her review:

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Love as a Way of Life by Gary Chapman

It's amazing how the simplest concepts can revolutionize the way you look at life. As an avid fan of Gary Chapman's The Five Love Languages I couldn't help but chomp at the bit to read his new book. The principles he unfolds have the potential be life-changing in understanding oneself. I am a firm believer in the idea that the better we know and truly understand ourselves, the more we are able to care for, care about, work with, be in relationship with, and love others. Just when I think I reached a new plateau in relating to others, I'm reintroduce to Chapman's eloquent, yet elementary, ideas that remind me of my narcissism in life choices.

Because he's a great story-teller who weaves the concepts he is trying to convey through stories, it's very easy to find myself going from chapter to chapter without stopping. Once I got into the meat of the book, I found that I could have spent a week in each chapter looking for ways to unpack that trait and still had more work to do. There was so much there to digest! These "simple" concepts of kindness, patience, forgiveness, courtesy, humility, generosity, and honesty hit home for me in evaluating my own life and putting me in check on judging others. As much as I can easily point out the failings of these traits in others, I realize how truly lacking they are in their turest form in the heart of my own life.

Yet again, Gary Chapman has given new insights to understand and accept and therefore love one another to the core of who we are—relational people. One of the greatest challenges in loving people is to understand them and accept them as who you understand them to be and to love them more the better you understand them. Chapman introduces the reality of tools that should be basic principles in our character arsenal. To love well is a life-long endeavor that goes hand in hand with being loved. This will become a new favorite gift book from me to folks who desire to love and be loved.

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I'm going to agree with Laura. This is a great book. Well structured. Easy to read. Memorable stories and quotes. One of the best parts of the book is the way he fleshes out the ideas into actually go-and-do practical application throughout each chapter. It's definitely a book you interact with, not just give a simple read through. In fact I'm throwing it back up on my To Read shelf, in an effort to carve out more time with it.

Honestly, this is well worth the read. Go buy a copy. I'd give you a free one, but I already distributed it.

Annoyingly Cute

Sure she's on one of those annoying TV gossip news shows (which are such a complete waste of one's day even though they suck you in and you can't help but watch...like a car wreck or a petite middle school girl eating a whole Chipotle burrito).
On a typical day the a mention of her and I begin to prepare for that annoying sound of fingernails on a chalk board (there might be some exaggeration here...)

But put her in a baseball uniform and...

C-UTE!

I could do to see Maria without the Red Sox hat, but I suppose since she's from Massachusetts (I wikipedia'd her) I can forgive her...at least during All-Star week.

Didn't really know this about myself, but apparently I'm a sucker for the ladies who love baseball and sport baseball uniforms. (Softball gals don't always count...I think it's the visor over the actual hat).

I knew Alyssa Milano was a big Dodger fan, but come on, every guy who grew up watching Who's the Boss? has a thing for Alyssa.

This IS Middle School

If you have ever worked with, parented or passed a middle school aged person, you'll recognize that one in this young man...

Something I'll Never Do...

No matter how much my momma believes in me, I will never be able to do this...

Definitely watch it all the way through. The last stunt is incredible.

Twitter the Heck out of Today

Do you Twitter?

I've been taking a real hack at it. For a while I was on a serious haiku kick when twittering, but lately, I've just been focusing on actual consistency. Today I twittered over 40 times. Not bad.

Give it a try and follow me and I'll follow you.

• tsharrison - MS quote of night: "i should win cause i made hitler, he was evil and no one liked him." about 4 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - "reading" the history of love while driving - was a little confused but things are starting to cleat up - "oh-h-h" - very nice about 5 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - lots of traffic on i-35, but not the worst, that's for sure about 5 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison actually out the door, in the truckini, and on the road heading towards home...yahoo! about 6 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - starting some end of the day paper - maybe i'll get out right on time today about 7 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - flying through this audit - may finish today - might have a few more in the morning about 8 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - running the time cards up to the front office about 9 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - trying to remember town outside of interlaken, switzerland where i went camping once about 9 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - some of my least words: "can you do me a favor" (just ask for help) about 9 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - subscribe to "trendcentrals" newsletter and you should to about 10 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - one more - check out "theselby.com" about 10 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - i'd check those out now, but the usaf doesn't give us access to these sites about 10 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - also need to check out "posterous" - a blog site similar to tumblr but accessible via e-mail. about 10 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - gonna have to check out "twiddeo" - the video version of twitter about 10 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - i had this lone long black hair on my left elbow - rather odd - plucked it about 10 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - haeseong (co-worker from korea) made springs rolls for us - holy crap those are awesome! - gonna have to make these myself (got the recipe) about 11 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - doing a self audit of all the folders - i know"......cra-zy! about 12 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - i seem to have a lot of awkward phone people in my life (that or i'm awkward on the phone - viable option) about 12 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - got note that small group is meeting at starbucks tomorrow...i hate coffee house...would prefer a diner or somewhere with slurpees about 12 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - sandy (co-worker) doesn't know how to make a rim shot (drum & symbol) sound...funny attampts though about 12 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - mental note: we need some plants in the apartmenrt, at least on the balcony about 12 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - not very productive this morning...need to pick things up a bit...actually check things off this morning about 12 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - simple joy - freshly sharpened pencil about 13 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - melon breeze orbit white gum - yum...+ is's proven to remove stains & whiten teeth about 13 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - first e-mail of the day...(drum roll)...is to accounting! about 14 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - finally getting around to eating my breakfast - this peach is amazing - & the pink lemonade is rockin' the house about 14 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - um... very strange... today powering up the computer & logging on took only seconds... something strange in this neighborhood about 14 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - logging onto computer - this takes forever about 14 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - listening to the dan patrick show on radio...except dan's on vacation, tony bruno is guest host about 14 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - taking deposit to bank for work... for some reason i have dreams of getting mugged on the way... that's just weird about 14 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - my boss is shocked that i'm five minutes early - but really i'm just five minutes earlier than normal - i got her trained about 14 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - arrived at work - this place has a lot of noice about 14 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - just passed a school - alice cooper in my head about 15 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - traffic not so bad this morning...yet about 15 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - "reading" the history of love by nicole krauss while driving to work about 15 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - mental note: sun does shine on my side of building...don't make morning decisions based on it in my window - still a little cloudy today about 15 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - breakfast : big-o-peach & pinl lemonade (mmm...i love pink lemonade) about 15 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - ...meaning no need for sunglasses about 15 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - going with specs...not much sun outside my bedroom window about 15 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - hmmm...first big choice of the day...contacts or specs? about 15 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - somehow in the last 10 years the mornin' shower and sink time has gone from one min to about 15 min. (on average) about 15 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - showerin' & primpim'...got to smell & look gooo-od (for the lad-ies...well + just good personal hygene (sp?)) about 15 hours ago from mobile web
• tsharrison - up and at 'em! hit the snooze a few times and now time to get going about 16 hours ago from mobile web

Terminator Salvation

There is a bunch of trailers for the new Terminator (Salvation) movie popping up on the internet. However this is the first with images of Christian Bale as John Conner.
It's really sketchy, intentionally so, but for just an earlier feeler to gain some excitment. It's working.
Should be an exciting triology.

Head Trip

This will mess with you...(click on pic)