I have a small dream list of vehicles I’d like to drive/operate. I’ve driven the following: both random and amazing…

• several tractors
• big bucket loader
• a lot of buses
• … in mexico. (You have not really driven a bus if it did not include dodging potholes and breaking down a few times and parking in crazy spots and brake checks and such in a Mexico)
• two different types of double decker buses
• a harley or two
• a BMW 735i for a week and then to my senior prom. I felt like a king.
• Some kind of really fast jaguar. I had a friend who was lent it and he let me drive it. It was fast. It was a jag.
• a 1965 Shelby GT 500 ford mustang (its loud, fast, and nostalgic)
• A 2005 Dodge Viper (very fast. stops even faster.)

On my dream list:

• a ferrari or a lotus… but in needs to have doors that open up, not out.
• a nascar race car at one of those training camp things. I have a friend who just did this with Mario Andretti’s school. That sounds like a rush.
• a crane- maybe one where you get to drop a car at the end onto a big pile of other cars.
• a semi-truck and trailer
• anything in a country where I drive on the left side of the road
• and the Ford GT40 that I snapped a pick of as it drove past my kids baseball practice. You can go here to find all it’s stats. I’ve seen one 3x in here in San Diego. No idea if it’s the same one, just always passes me up going the opposite direction so I never get more than 3 seconds to drool. I think if I was single. I might sell my house and live in this car.

Anyway, I recently submitted an article for their website on the subject of Delight. You can read it here if ya like.

Bounce around the site and read other articles or check out the free resources there. Can save you some time and money cuz it’s all free and no sense in reinventing the wheel if you don’t have to. I recently stole a welcome visitors slide off of it to use in our weekend. Took like 30 seconds. Sweet.

My 35 year old fears are coming true. My body is rebelling for all the crap I put it through.

I finally bought my family dental insurance and today I went in to be screened. She said my “enamel is amazing”, but

YOU’RE NOT FLOSSING.

duh. who flosses? Flossing is like driving the speed limit. Everyone knows you’re supposed to do it, but very few do. Well, the cops caught up with me and the dentist slapped me with a bill. I evidently now have a cavity on the side of my tooth- because I don’t floss. How do I get cavities in the side of my teeth? I thought they came in on top. I’ve never had a cavity… and now I do because I didn’t listen to my dentist staring over funky glasses and saying.. “you know, you really should floss.” Yeah, ok… great.

OH, AND SUPPOSEDLY I GRIND MY TEETH.

So, now, not only am I going to floss every day (cuz she says I have 2 other potential cavities that she’s waiting on and that I can rebuild if I floss and rinse with fluoride) or she says I’m gonna loose my really nice teeth…. but now I’m supposed to sleep with a mouth guard just in case an NFL linebacker decides he might want to tackle me in bed. Or maybe in case my wife gets ticked and decides to punch me. It will probably make me drool all night too or something and now I can wake up in a pool of spit. Oh joy.

OH… YEAH… AND SHE WANTS SOME ORAL SURGEON TO REMOVE MY WISDOM TEETH.

Does that seem very smart when I’m already too dumb to floss?

Pretty soon I’ll be wearing depends to bed.

Twice in the past week, I have have been quoted by former youth group attenders (like 5 years former). Once in an e-mail. Once on a blog. Both quoted the same phrase I use when talking to high school students about life decisions. I realize, sadly, that most… like 99% of what I say does not stick in the brains in my students for very long. Evidently however, this quote has:

“There are only two ways to learn things in life: the hard way or from someone who learned it the hard way.”

I wonder if it stays with them consciously when they hear it or is more like seed that only starts to push through in your 20’s when the trials of life start to water it again? Either way, it’s an honor to be planting seeds- hopefully of wisdom- in the next generation.

Yesterday was the National Day of Prayer. I’m not sure who says so or if it’s really sponsored by our nation in any official form, but it seemed ironic yesterday to me on many levels:

• I have never heard of any faith group, other than Christians, who do anything on this day. Like do Jews or Buddhists or Muslims see this as a day to fast and pray for this land and our leaders and it’s future more than any other day?

• A few days ago, I turned on my TV before bed and found myself watching like 20 minutes of the Bachelor before I scratched my head and clicked it off. It leaves you with a profound sense of “what the….. ?” ” And are you…. ?” You can’t quite complete the question because you know you’re too confused and narrow down the question to just one. It’s supposed to be a “reality show”, but the premise and the ideas and the values and the pretty much everything about it… are absolutely unreal and say the opposite of a nation that would also sponsor a prayer day. I know who ever produces the show probably does not see themselves as a prayer day participant. Which is why a “national day of prayer” as a bit of a misnomer for me. Maybe we should call it the “christian pray for politics day”.

• I think 9/11 was a better example of a national day of prayer than yesterday.

• 27 people showed up in our church to pray in our sanctuary. 13 of them were paid employees. Hmmm.

• I think the pagan king of Assyria did a better job of identifying what a “national day of prayer” looks like than we do: