i'm on vacation

hello all from the west coast. i'm visiting family in Victoria British Columbia and this is the first time i've been this far west. flying over the mountains was very cool by the way i just wish ... we weren't so far above the mountains as we went over them. wouldn't it be cool to see the peaks up close as you flew over them? sorta like you were in the movies and trying to get through the pass unnoticed. not too close but ... close.


i've been a bit stressed so i'm hoping that this time off gives me an opportunity to recharge. it'll be good to chill for awhile.

it's seriously weird ... i think about you. i know that you're reading this and most of you have never met me but i've thought a lot recently about the people that are picking up the stuff i'm putting down. i've been thinking that it'd be nice to know more about the folks that are reading this. i can only glean so much by reading what you write on your own blogs, if even you do that and allow me to check out your own blog. at any rate, tell me more about you. comment.

discuss amongst yourselves. here, i'll get you started, "the Industrial Revolution was neither Industrial nor a Revolution". now i'm feeling all verklempt. (you get that reference right? that's Mike Myers on SNL)

i do think about the people that visit this little corner of the interweb. i do want to hear from others who come from a visit. i'd like to know more about people who show up. i'd like to visit your little blog too and get a little look into your soul (if you'll let me).

build one another up. be blessed my friends.

Wendy's Words of wisdom

"A little cleavage can be a sexy thing ... but BUTT cleavage is never a sexy thing."

are you as tired of seeing the cracks of people who are trying to wear hip hugging jeans? that's a cheque your ass can't cash. literally. how many times have you seen someone stand up on the bus and their first move is to pull up their pants? if you've seen it once you've seen it too many times.

say no to crack.

seriously, pull up your pants. and while you're at it turn your hat back around.

i am a Christian. i'm sorry.

this gave me chills. there are a couple F bombs thrown in here, so be aware.

h/t to Jesus needs new PR

we rented 2012

interesting flick actually. i think Wendy hated it.

Woody Harrelson in the crazy guy cameo role. sweet.
i love most John Cusack movies.
Danny Glover as the President. he doesn't go on the "ark", no politicians make it on to the ark and some a$$ of a bureaucrat speaks for the US? it'd never happen. never happen. there's no way that they'd completely suspend their constitution so that some a$$hat would lead their nation like that. what President wouldn't continue to lead his nation?
they crammed so much science into it in an attempt to create a story line but they just plain lost me. i had to watch it a 2nd time just to catch the nuances and it's not like this is such a classic that it demands to be seen more than once.
Tibetan welder figures out a way to sneak people on the ark and that ends up saving everyone since the right people are in the right place to clear the hydraulic problem that inevitably comes about.
the new North Pole after the earth shifts on its axis is somewhere in Wisconsin. some might argue that Wisconsin is already a veritable wasteland, why do you think they are known for beer in Milwaukee? there's nothing else to do there but drink beer.
they build the arks at the roof of the world (near Everest) so that they can ride the killer wave that's demolishing the rest of the world.
Russian dude behaves like a tool for 2 hours, deserts his girlfriend rather than take her with him and then redeems himself by getting his two sons on the ark with a selfless act. unfortunately the 2 sons are also tools but the selfless act turns them into nice kids in their grief. whatever.
the plane scenes as they fly out whatever city their trying to get out of were WAY cool. i'd hate to think that something didn't blow up right and then they have to go and do another take (that was a joke people).
"like this cup you are full of your own wisdom and speculations, to see the light of true wisdom you must first empty your cup." the master Tibetan monk sure looked like the Dalai Lama. it wasn't but that's exactly what they were going for.
the new homeland is Southern Africa. interesting in light of how the world has neglected Africa for so long and then it's the cradle of the new civilization.
it's not like the movie is supposed to be that believable anyway. disaster movies are supposed to be fun. i'm not sure i want to go into the actual 2012 though.

Handsome Men's Club

yeah, i'm not getting in this club anytime soon either. i can think of a couple names that should've been in there though.



h/t to tyler stanton

bridge burners

a young lady sat next to a young gentleman on the bus this morning. i remembered thinking that they made for a cute couple as they chatted together. they knew each other previously, that was obvious. they chatted and i went back to focusing on the tunes coming out of my mp3. eventually she got to her stop and i heard her say as she left the bus "oh, we don't speak anymore ... at all". how sad is that?

i've had previous conversations with people where i heard "i just can't get along with him at all. he just behaved like a bastard and we just don't get along". she was talking about her brother. i stop. i pause. how can this be?

i once had my softball team completely implode because someone didn't call someone else and they sat at the ballpark waiting for the start of a cancelled game. it became a bunch of pointing fingers and the end of what i think is still a fractured relationship.

what do you mean, you don't speak? what do you mean you just can't get along? are you kidding me that you think so and so is a such and such over a message that you say you never got?
are your relationships so unimportant to you?

when i've been invested in these relationships myself i remember encouraging those involved to reconcile. i did my peacemaker role as best i could. i do this because i must. i do this because we as followers of Christ are to be in the business of reconciliation.

but he was a bastard Ian! so are you sometimes.
but they forgot me Ian! forgive them.
but i just don't like her ... at all. well, that doesn't make you look very appealing either my friend.

it's amazingly common that we are a people of bridge burners nowadays but let me point out that there will come a time where your need will make it so that you'll need to cross that bridge but you won't be able to. put your torch away and repair your broken relationships.

we're to be in the business of forgiveness
even if we don't feel like it
even if they don't deserve it

you don't deserve it either but you're still forgiven.

if i poked at a nerve then forgive me but don't come anywhere near my bridge with that torch. you'll need to deal with me because i'm not going to write you off. even if you're being annoying.

God give me strength.

daylight savings time

i'm always tired for a couple days after daylight savings time. i didn't notice it on Sunday morning but ... i slept in. i did notice on Monday but i still managed to get through my day. today i'm just beat. coffee isn't helping.

i suppose the good news is that i'll be on vacation in just under a couple weeks from now but still, i'm finding it tough slugging today.

my wife pointed out that i have to renew my driver's license too so that'll mean that i can't go volunteer at the men's drop-in today. bit of a bummer.

pray for me. i'm tired and i'm finding that some of my responsibilities are just grating on my nerves.

i started to learn a new tune on my guitar yesterday, i'm excited about that. i can't find an embed to throw on here so you'll have to make do with a URL of David Francey.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeT7yqKotKw