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From a few weeks ago… the boys got to meet the Wheater girls, visiting from Alaska.

(This is mainly a test of flickr.)

Slim crowd for our class this morning. The topic was Glorification… the redemption of man’s body from it’s sinful state to the original intent of perfection as God originally created it. It’s the final step in God’s redemption of man, and will occur at Christ’s return.

Of course, with all the talk about ‘perfect’ body, I was wondering how many minutes it would take before a certain friend made a wisecrack about hair.

I ordered my PC on Tuesday. It was supposed to be built this week, and shipped out next Wednesday. It would then take 3-5 days to get here.

I checked UPS’ website today. To my great surprise, it will be here tomorrow.

Could this be a change in the Brian / Dell relationship??? TIme will tell.

I bought a new PC for home today.

It’s a Dell.

I am a glutton for punishment. I wonder what will be wrong with it.

I just sent a friend an email. Normally I’d instant-message him, but he wasn’t on. So now I have to wait for *minutes* for a response.

With IM so prevalent now, does that make e-mail the new snail-mail? And if so, what in the world does that make mail that goes through the postal service? Dino-mail?

Hmm.

Back to the Doctor again… I still have ear infections, and a new round of antibiotics. That’s the bad news.

The good news, in a strange kind of way, is that because I had to get worked into the Doctor’s office, I was home this afternoon when a heavy storm came in. And I got to make my first ever severe weather report over the radio. In fact, I think that KI4EYN may have had a hand in getting Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued for Shelby County this afternoon.

(Okay… Probably not, but the alert came out right after I made a heavy rain report to W4CUE, and he reported it to K4NWS - The National Weather Service).

As detailed in this post from April, “Dollar Beverage” night at the Birmingham Barons was not exactly a kid-friendly evening.

Tonight, however, I went with some co-workers. Let me tell you… Watching 2 guys who were 3-sheets-to-the-wind hit the field and attempt the dizzy-bat-race? Absolutely hilarious. I’d never before seen that race have 2 false starts, and people falling down before they even got to the baseball bats. Hilarious.

I would, however, recommend staying away from the Hoover Met’s $.15 cent wings. I think there was more real chicken in Mike’s M&M Candy than there was in the chicken wings we bought.

(This is a very late post, and I’ll blame it on having to be in California when the actual event took place. Regardless…)

Congratulations to my cousin, Jarred & his new bride, Morgan.

“The Lord bless you and keep you; The Lord make His face shine upon you; and bring you peace.”

Today’s Topic - Death and the Intermediate State (i.e., Purgatory).

Usually when you hear somenone talk about death in Christian circles, it’s referred to as ‘just the beginning’. And while it is, in one sense (the beginning of eternity), I heard a different take on it today - it is actually the *end* of the Salvation ‘process’ that Grudem has outlined. It’s the death of the physical, sinful body - the last thing to be destroyed before Believers are completely regenerated.

Living without hope is a horrible thing. But leaving those you love with the knowledge that you died without hope? Beyond description.
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How to have a good time at the Birmingham Barons:

1) Show up, and notice that a person you know is working the ticket booth. When you try to pay him, it turns out that he comp’d the tickets for you.

2) It’s $.25 hot-dog night. The entire family eats and eats for less than $20.

3) You get asked to participate in a stadium promo. After being told that Chipper Jones just became the 4th player in a Braves uniform to hit 300 home runs, you’re asked to name 2 others… And despite not being a huge baseball fan, you come up with Hank Aaron and Dale Murphy. That wins you 4 free tickets for another night.

4) You catch a free softee baseball and give it to your kids.

5) You take the kids to the Family Fun Park, and they have a blast.

What a fun night.