Weighing Anchors

Move over, Stan! I'm taking all of my photo touch-up jobs to CBS! Besides, I might bump into my sweet Katie while I'm there.

Speaking of which, my sweet Katie debuts as anchor of the CBS Evening News on September 5 at 5:30 pm. That's next week, people! NEXT WEEK! Set your TiVos.

If you're concerned about me, don't worry. My cultivation group meets at my house on Tuesday nights. They'll help me snap out of it ... until the next week.

Park & Ride & Worship

Here's our off-site parking solution: MetroRail. Check out the line along Post Oak.

Just think ... park at the Galleria and ride the rail to church. Or, if you're on a budget, park at NorthWest Mall and ride the rail. Your choice.

Restroom Reading

Went to dinner with some folks the other night so we could catch up with Dovie. She's in H-Town for the week. Good to see her, and her hair looked GREAT -- despite some recent drama at the salon. You'll have to ask her about "the fan."

Anywho ... Dave went to the restroom. When he came back, he asked me how long HFBC has been advertising in the men's room.

"Finally!" I thought. I get to see one of our ads. The director of Adult Ministries paid for CSI: Houston to be featured in restroom "billboards" located above the urinals in men's rooms (and I assume inside the stall doors in the women's rooms). This was the first time for me to see one.

So, I went to the men's room and awkwardly took a couple of pictures with my camera phone when nobody else was around. I came back to the group and showed some peeps the pictures. When I closed my phone, I noticed that the time was ...

9:11 pm.

I cannot make this stuff up even if I tried.

Anticipation

I once read where the Bushes planned to announce their decision in late Spring or early Summer. So, I've been checking the Baylor website everyday, and I set up a Google alert to notify me of anything that may come across on the internet.

Now, I have to keep this up for 4 or 5 more months! Maybe I should send him the results of my scientific poll (on your right) to help speed things along.

It's that time ... again!

While at Minute Maid Park last night, I glanced up at the clock to see what time it was.

9:11, of course.

That was the first time I had looked at the clock (or my watch) all night long, so it wasn't as if my mind subconsciously knew that 9:11 was coming soon. I had no feel for what time it was!

Happy Anniv ... no, birthd ... no ... what is it?

Wow ... I missed my own birthday.

August 12, 2006, marked the first anniversary of my first post on my blog.

So ... is it an anniversary? If so, what's the traditional gift?

Is it a birthday? If so, where's my cake?

Is it an irrelevant, meaningless event? If so, why am I posting about it?

Introducing FaithHouston.com

CityFest Houston is less than two months away (October 7 and 8). A new website is being developed as we speak to serve as a tool to help continue the good work God has in store for us that weekend -- FaithHouston.com.

I have had no involvement with this website yet, but have been invited to help test the site in the coming weeks. From what I understand, they need individuals to help test it, too. If you're interested, feel free to sign up on the website.

In God's amazing way, I've had the opportunity to meet some of the folks behind this project -- even before I landed my current gig on staff at HFBC. They're great people with kingdom-focused desires to reach H-Town with the truth of God's Word.

Pray for God's fingerprints to be all over this project -- and for Satan's guaranteed attacks to fall flat. The last thing the enemy would want would be for the believers in H-Town to unite in His name!

Another 'Sign' of the Time

It happened again.

I was talking to a friend on the phone on Friday. She said she had to go because she was running late for a 9:00 am meeting. Instinctively, I glanced at my computer screen to see what time it was.

Yep. 9:11 am.

Sign of the Time

I have been putting off posting this for a few weeks now. I'm not really sure what to make of this, and am fearful that people will slap the "crazy" label on me once you read it. But it's just too darn intriguing not to share.

For the past two months or so, I have seen the numbers 911 more often than normal.

There was one week when on at least four or five occasions -- when I looked to see the time either on my cell phone, my oven, or my computer -- the time was 9:11.

Yesterday, I checked my Blogger profile for the first time in months. And there it was -- my profile had been viewed 911 times.

This morning, I received a phone call, looked down at the caller ID, and noticed that the time was 9:11.

I just don't know where to "land" on this one.

• Is it a "sign" of some kind? (Oh, how I hate the sound of that question!)
• Is it simply a coincidence? (But is there really such a thing?)
• Have I seen other numbers just as often but simply not noticed them because they lack any significance?
• Am I subconsciously looking at the clock around 9:11 two times a day, kinda like a self-fulfilling prophecy of some kind?

The fact that this year is the five year anniversary of 9/11 is certainly not lost on me. Perhaps I just take this and pray for the victims' families and for our nation's continued protection from future attacks. Or, maybe I avoid clocks two times a day.

Santa Claus ain't nothin'!

Here are some things that I believed at some point in my youth. Since I'm in my mid-thirties, let me clarify that by "youth" I mean 10 years old and younger.

Feel free to share some of your childhood beliefs (or misunderstandings), as well!

1. When born, babies came out of their mother's belly button.
2. Stoplights were placed there to give drivers a break every once in a while. That's why I thought the people who built highways were so inconsiderate.
3. Just as children attended the school closest to them, people were supposed to attend the church closest to them.
4. When I read on the cover of a magazine that Lynda Carter was "the most beautiful woman in the world," I thought to myself, "Well, I guess they finally found her." Then I felt sorry for my mom, my teachers, and the women at my church because it had been made official and they had no reason to try to be pretty.

OK. Your turn.

And the winner is ...

Unknown.

According to my account on Tracksy.com, the 10,000th viewer of my blog is Unknown. All I know is that around 2:00 pm today, this reader viewed 51 pages using Internet Explorer on a computer running on Windows XP.

It also indicates that the reader is from Stepford -- oops, I mean Plano -- but I'm pretty sure that has more to do with where his or her ISP is based and not necessarily where he or she lives. (Right?)

My friend Lane Roebuck missed the 10,000th honor by just one. She was next on the list. Thanks, though, Lane for your continued support! (And if it wasn't you, then there is somebody else at tuts.com checking me out!)