On Saturday, April 4th, my brother Evan had a bad bmx bicycle accident. He was at a college group retreat north of Bakersfield, and he was going off a wooden ramp, but something happened to the bike or ramp or both, we’re not sure. He faceplanted into the ramp, and was unconscious for several minutes. A helicopter flew him to the trauma center in Bakersfield, […]
Radio Revelations Part II – Three Measures, Culture, and “Travelin'”
More things I’ve observed and learned from listening to the radio: 4) Three measure max: I can usually tell what song is starting by hearing the first three measures. This is helpful when the song is one I don’t like – my fingers quickly flip to a different station. 5) On Culture: Listening to the radio gives me great insight into contemporary culture. Songs reveal what people […]
POP!!! … flap flap flapflapFlapFlapFLAPFLAPFLAP
This is what I heard at 9:44pm while driving on Highway 60 from Fontana to Moreno Valley last Thursday night. And so began the tire adventure… At first when I heard the loud pop, I figured it was my water cooler lid blowing off – sometimes the container has problems adjusting to altitude changes. But then my car tail started to wiggle, and I heard […]
Radio Revelations Part I – Genes, Santana, and the 5-Station Hypothesis
I’m in the car a lot. I think we’ve already established that fact longggg ago. I love music, and usually have music playing wherever I am. Thus, I listen to a lot of radio. Radio makes me think about a whole host of things, which I will share with you. Feel free to laugh at me. I won’t mind, I will never find out. 1) On […]
I Tube, do You Tube?
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what is a video worth? YouTube seems to be all the rage these days. It’s turned into a verb, like “google” has — “oh, YouTube it and you’ll see this hilarious video…” I was shopping for a video camera last night, and some models have a YouTube sticker on them, boasting ‘one-click uploads’ to the YouTube […]
By the Numbers
Short and simple: 8 months of itineration over 100 meetings with pastors 58 services so far and 15 scheduled for the month of March phone calls… I don’t even want to know 40,000 university students in Chiang Mai who have yet to say yes to Jesus and I have reached 52% of my monthly budget. Please pray with me that I will raise 100% of my […]
Blogginggggggg
I often feel like I am a poor blogger. Thousands (millions?) of people update their blogs daily–and here I am, doing well if I write every other week. Part of me says that I will write more when exciting things are going on in Thailand. I mean, I’ve written about driving a few times already, and how much do you really want to read about […]
31/13 Or, The Tricks of the Trade
These days, I live on the road. I am learning (and remembering) the radio stations I like in San Diego, LA, and Fresno. I have found that Special K cereal makes a good “stay awake” snack, as do apples and bananas, but Post Select Grains is too hard to eat while driving. I love cruise control. Unfortunately, my car does not have its own wireless network, and I […]
Only in California…
Itineration all over America is similar to some extent, in purpose and often in strategy. Still, there are some days on my journey that are uniquely “Southern California.” I had one of those days on Monday. Back in October I wrote about freeways (see this post), and some things never change. On Monday I woke up at 4:30 to be on the road by 5 […]
Waxing Sentimental
Three weeks went by way too fast. I am not ready to leave Thailand! Today I finished my last set of classes for my masters degree (woo hoo!) and have homework until May (hmm) and comprehensive exams in April (oh boy…). Tomorrow I leave Chiang Mai in the early evening and land on Sunday morning in Los Angeles. From there I am driving to San […]