Too Fast Too Furious...

"Our time presents a unique opportunity for learning by means of humor-a perceptive or incisive joke can be more meaningful than platitudes lying between two covers." -Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore

Unfortunately, I think I will soon no longer be able to update the blog from work anymore as they seem to be trying to crack down on company wide internet practices ;-( I've already been gearing up by reading a book. It doesn't pop up but it does have some pictures so it is alright to read. It's called "The Parables of Peanuts" by Robert Short. I've read the first chapter at work and it was interesting so I recommend you check it out...

Well, I don't know about the rest of you but last weekend was strangely busy for me. Many of those away at college came home last weekend and many our coming home this week; welcome back, come to young adults. It started off by a small gathering at Shawna and Jenna's on Friday where we proceeded to drink moderate amounts of beer and watch Big Daddy. We met one of the teachers, Cody or Corry or something along those lines. He followed Newman and Jenna home...

Saturday was a sleep in day and a do nothing day until I escorted Shawna to a Christmas party in the city.

Sunday Funday was also a long day away from home. I went to church as usual and the good news of Sequel being moved to 10:30 was announced. Yay! Shawna can make a service easily. Then it was off to brunch, followed by some beer shopping and finally good old young adults. I think I only spent less than 8 hours at my house that I was actually awake. All worth it...

So Karen cooked up some wonderful Fondu for us with little bits of bread and brocolli. We had a new visitor among us brought to us Emily, the letter Q and the number 3. He was really into drifting but he participated and thats what counts! We covered chapters 8 & 9 and deep sixed going to Decon Daves to look at lights...always next time. Chapter 8 was titled "The High Priest of a New Covenant," any guesses what it was about? It begins by essentially telling us why so much was said about this Melchizedek character. I took it as a way of explaining Jesus to the people in terms that they would have been familiar with. "Sometimes it's best to keep these things in the language of the layman!" -Peanuts It further went on to talk about the new covenant. "For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for after. But God found fault..."-Hebrews 8:7-8 Chapter 9 covered two topics; Worship in the earthly tabernacle and The Blood of Christ. Anybody have any thoughts or input on this, I'll be honest, I'm just guessing and makin' this stuff up as I go...

So as the Christmas holiday fast approaches many people will be taking trips out of here and/or be busy preparing for the holiday but we would like to remind you that there is still young adults to go to. We will be having it the 23rd at the Knapps still but the 30th is still somewhatin the air. The Knapps as well as Mark and Hanna will be out of town along with a maltitude of others. It was suggested that we parlay it for a week but there was concern about where I would go...

On another note, everyone got there gift summary from the church back. I was going to have a grand letter opening of mine as I put undecided for about 90% of the survey but alas, as I never made it back home during the day I wasn't able to get it and open it as young adults. So...my top 4 gifts, drum roll....Craftsmanship, Intercession, Discernment, and Healing. Amazingly Music was at the bottom of my list. Too bad they didn't have a gift of Smart A$$ as I think I would have nailed that one.

"Behave wisely towards those outside your own number; use the present opportunity to the full....Study how best to talk with each person you meet" (Col. 4:5-6). (No clue what's up with the quotes! I found them in the first chapter of the book I read at work...we'll see if I get anymore...)

Supernova & Sunday Funday...

So this last Sunday was a long day for several people and people were slow arriving so the majority of the people present were banking on the rule of seven; but alas, Dave and Jenna showed up killing that dream. We did it any ways...so in short, we are still on chapter 7 of Hebrews and instead had dinner and went through 7 questions that I believe the Dorns gave to Newman...Since nothing major happend I thought it would be an excellent time to post some pics from Supernova as well as Sunday Funday (Yea..I coined it...I think it sounds way better than SAB in the city ;) ) and Shawna finally emailed them to me...

Here is obviously some funny moment...

I think I've seen less gang signs from white people at an Eminem concert...seriously...straight out of Compton by way of Wisconsin...

Could Newman clutch that glass any tighter? She looks like a crack fiend the way she is clutching it...my Precious...
So...can anyone spot what is wrong with this picture...my glass is the fullest! This is the part of the night where I was feeling left out because Shawna and Newman were cheersing so I sat between them so I could be involved...pretencious wine...
This is from our Sunday hike along the Sunol ridge on the far side of Pleasanton. It stems for dea of doing fun things not directly related to Bible study to socialize and such...Artsy looking with the backdrop and tree...I'm the one on the right just in case you didn't know...There is another one where I put bunny ears on someone and if you flip between them quickly it looks like poor animation...
This is another of Shawna's artsy looking photos...this is just to the right 90 degrees from the previous pic. Turned out pretty sweet...

So...alas...I believe that going to the Nutcracker is off but we are working on other plans and will keep everyone posted on what we figure out to do...

So...I had a long day of doing nothing at work and am tired so I'll see many of you Sunday...Peace out...

I'll stick to the value menu...

For those of you who missed out we had yet another fun Young Adults. It actually was kicked off last Wednesday with bowling. Pretty much the usual suspects were there. Newman tried to be a responsible adult and say she wasn't going but that naturally didn't happen. We got 3 lanes since Mark and Hanna had the hook up with the bowling dude. I sucked it up the first game but managed a rally the second and swept the third. Don't let Shawna fool you, she doesn't suck that bad.

Friday night at Shawna and Jenna's was YPFF; which LeAnna guessed correctly to be Yahtzee Part For Fred. Originally this had been planned for like Saturday or something but was rescheduled as they picked about the only day that I had plans for the month. I guess without me there the acronym doesn't really work. We had frozen pizzas and beer...living the high life; just like be back at school. Again, I sucked and lost both games we played. It was a party for me and they didn't let me win once, does anyone else think that's wrong?

That brings us to Sunday as everyone did there own thing on Saturday. I think Newman and Shawna went to a movie but I'm pretty sure that they didn't invite anyone, so inconsiderette . We had another wonderful dinner at the Knapp's care of Karen. She is only 3 weeks away from completing the year without repeating a meal.

For those playing at home the question of the day was "What was the nicest thing that someone has done for you?" There was a whole variety of answers and anyone reading along can put theirs in the comments so then we can all share.

This week we forwent the usual Bible study and Hebrews 7 because we had some special guests. Don't worry though as we will continue where we left off next week so no reading ahead. We had Pastor Phil and Steve Christopher join us this week. They explained better their roles in the church and the organization of the church to some degree. In explaining Steve's presence at church functions instead of pastors, Hanna so nicely summed it up as "You're not a Happy Meal but I'll still take a small fry." Talked about Sequel some and where it is headed. Supposibly our church has somewhere just less than 1000 members where the average service is around 320 and the average member only attends twice a month. Remember, "Facts are meaningless, you can use facts to prove anything that's remotely true. - Homer Simpson" But statistics are easily manipulated and carry no actual intrinsic meaning. Thats about all I got before ADD started kicking in; but we did manage to be on our best behavior and keep our filters on.