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Was reading through some blogs last night and came across Perry’s latest post. You know football season is near when the smack talkin’ begins (see the end of his post). I love this time of the year. You see the high school teams starting up two-a-day practices and colleges starting the same. Were inching closer to just a month away from the start of football season!!! Woo HOO

So, being that I’m a die hard Georgia fan, I wanted to address the smack! Now, I’ll admit it….Clemson has a fairly easy path to not only a possible ACC championship, but also a shot at the National Championship. Their schedule sets up nicely for them and they return some serious talent, especially in the backfield. But do you really want to talk smack about UGA? I mean aren’t you suppose to win a conference championship before you can even “dream” about a National Championship (Clemson hasn’t won their conference since FSU joined in like 1990, UGA has played for 3 conference championships in the past six years and won 2 of them). Aren’t you suppose to be used to 10-win seasons before you look beyond to the post season at a National Championship (Clemson’s last ten win season….1990, UGA has had 5 10-win seasons out of the last six years)? Why no love for the UGA? Maybe he’s old enough (like me) to remember the good ole fashioned hate that existed between the two schools in the early eighties when UGA would play Clemson with the national title shot on the line. Maybe it’s because the last six meetings between UGA and Clemson have resulted in a UGA win, including a shut out of 30-0 win in Death Valley in 2003 (that was a fun day…was there…was incredibly hot but very fun).

I’m just sayin….

Let the smack begin!!!

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….thinset concrete 1, AJ 0

So, our kitchen floor is ceramic tile in thinset on a concrete slab. Now, the correct process would have been to have attached the ceramic tile to a cement backer board or some sort of membrane instead of directly onto the concrete slab. Why that didn’t happen when the house was built is another post for another day

The result of the former are two distinct cracks in the ceramic tile where the foundation settled. So, this weekend, I began the process of pulling up some tile with a heavy duty hammer and chisel. I was able to rip up about 9 tiles with relative ease. The thinset under it?…..wasn’t budging. Looks like I’m headed for renting a powered chipping hammer to get it all up. I’ll have some photos of the process so you can see the start and finish. Planning on putting down some sort of floating floor….maybe a Pergo-type.

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Kim and I went to see the Dark Knight Friday night and wow….what a flick! Heath Ledger nailed the joker. Having to follow Jack Nicholson would be the last job I would want but with Ledger, he brought the kind of insanity that was more real vs. caricature. Definitely a must see for super hero fans.

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Wow, read this on Shawn Lovejoy’s blog this morning and had to pass it along. He gives some great guidelines on having effective meetings. Had to pass them along:

Meetings

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Okay, so if you’ve been at CCC the past two weeks, you’ve been a part of a cool experiment: Video Teaching. This is an idea we’ve been wanting to use for a while now, even before we were planning on going multi-site. As I mentioned in this post, I would love to hear your comments and feedback on some of your thoughts on it when you get a chance. While not the whole message was video, key points and parts were.

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been out of town on some much needed vacation time. Went over to Myrtle Beach for the past week. Trying to get my head on straight tonight, but I can definitely see some coffee in my near future this evening. Got to pay some bills this evening…something just not right about that. Get back from vacation and paying bills immediately..ah well. I’ll post some new photos to the flickr account later on this week.

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Definitely feelin this….sweet

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Wanted to give a quick shout out to the man that discipled me….back when I was a punk…okay, back when I was younger punk From the time that I was in 7th grade through college, through all the junk that I went through, Tom was a constant Godly influence in my life. He discipled me. For that….I am more than eternally grateful. What an incredible gift I was given. Well, he’s finally blogging so I thought I’d give a little “whoop, whoop” to my man tom…check him out.

Tom’s Blog

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Dave Busby was what I would consider a modern day prophet. Even though he went to be with Jesus in 1997, his messages still rock my world whenever I listen to them. I had the privilege of taking my students to student life camp back around 2000 on a week when he was the speaker. Actually, that was why I chose that week. This was a man that struggle his whole life with cystic fibrosis, polio…you name it he had it. He was totally in love with Jesus, totally intense and to me he understood and communicated the grace of God like no other that I’ve known. You can check out DaveBusby.com and get a quick glimpse of him speaking…was probably around 1995. You can also grab some of his cd’s/dvd’s from the store tab. Would definitely recommend them.

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This Sunday we’re going to be breaking some new ground at CCC….I don’t want to say what it is and ruin the surprise, but all I’ll say is the next three weeks will give people a taste of things to come. Should be an interesting experiment. I’m going to be speaking to our students so I won’t get to witness it live, but I’m VERY interested in the feedback. Stoked about speaking to our students. Going to be talking about Superhero and Matthew 14. Pray for me and for the students that God would really rock some.

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