Thanks to Jason Gant for showing me the greatness that is this music video by Benjamin Wallis called Youth Ministarz!

Was doing mission work last week when I had this exchange with a 7 year old boy in a small Texas town:

Me (perhaps slightly insensitively): What’s that on your hand?

Boy (enthusiastically): It’s a wart!

Me: How’d you get a wart?

Boy (even more enthusiastically): I touched a frog!

Why is it whenever you enter a house and they have nice wooden floors that everyone describes them as “hardwood floors”?

Is someone making softwood floors for homes, like out of a balsa wood and crouton composite or somesuch?

Was travelling this past week and when I got home I discovered my DVR isn’t working. It apparently recorded the shows, since it says it is 33% full, but there are no shows listed for me to watch, so I can’t seem to access the recorded shows. So I decided to call the cable company today.

Me: My DVR isn’t working, the shows seem to be saved, but I can’t access them to watch them.

Cable company lady (asks me some questions): Okay, let’s get a technician appointment set up.

(Several minutes go by as we get an appointment set up…)

Cable company lady: The technician may take your cable box, so make sure to watch anything you have saved on the DVR ahead of time.

Me: Uh, I can’t access the shows, that is why the technician is coming out.

Cable lady: What?

Me: Nevermind.

Cable lady: Would you be open to receiving a customer survey call to ask about our conversation today?

Me: No I can’t talk, I’m going to be watching my DVR.

And then I hung up.

After three years of using the same scented spray in my bathroom at home, I have finally finished the can.

Goodbye Mango Splash Potpourri Spray, you served me well.

When watching ice hockey on tv, pretty much every time a goalie allows a goal to score, the first thing he immediately does is get a drink from his water bottle.

I can only conclude that the primary cause of goals allowed is rampant thirst.

Last night I got the hiccups, and they lasted almost 30 minutes. I literally couldn’t remember the last time I had the hiccups, seems like it must have been over a year ago. Is this normal?

Hiccup: a quick, involuntary inhalation that follows a spasm of the diaphragm and is suddenly checked by closure of the glottis, producing a short, relatively sharp sound.

I simply have to exert my authority over my glottis. I feel so out of control.

It seems like anytime I go to a Mexican restaurant when the server brings the food out to you they are carrying your plate with some sort of astronaut gloves and say “Be careful, the plate is really hot.”  Then I always feel the need to see how hot the plate is and scorch the tip of my finger and have to use a napkin to awkwardly scoot my plate in front of me.

Do Mexican restaurants not have pots and pans to cook food in and have to use the plates? Would the food somehow be ruined if it was served on a room temperature plate?

Quit putting me in danger Mexican restaurants, give me a plate that wasn’t just flown in from the surface of the sun!

Was poking around on Itunes looking at the current top 100 downloaded songs and saw that the song Just a Friend by Biz Markie was #70. I can only guess that this is because the song is featured in a current television ad featuring a bunch of people in a cab singing this quite-catchy song. What is amazing is the song came out in like 1988, yet 20 years later it’s a top 100 purchased song. If you wanna watch the ad click this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jqZTJk30qg

Was doing a little research on Biz Markie on wikipedia wondering whatever happened to him when I came across this gem:

He released his debut album, Goin’ Off, which attracted a fair amount of attention, largely due to the lead single, Make the Music With Your Mouth, Biz. The album also featured the underground hit singles Nobody Beats The Biz, The Vapors and Pickin’ Boogers.

A year later, Biz broke into the mainstream when Just a Friend, a single featuring rapped verses and out-of-tune, sung choruses, reached the pop top ten.

Pickin’ Boogers! – How could such a gem stay in the underground? oh I miss the 80’s…

Today I was driving around running errands and I decided to have lunch somewhere I’d never been before, 5 Guys Burgers and Fries. Had a fantastic hamburger for a good price, definitely recommend it if you’ve never been there before. I wish someone had strongly recommended it to me sooner.

That got me thinking about where else I really like to get hamburgers from, and I couldn’t come up with a favorite place. But I did recall that the consistently worst hamburgers I’ve ever eaten have all been at amusement parks.

This guy is not me, but I bet he’s pretty happy…