3esteeve

wow i forgot i even had this thing

2006-11-12T11:47:00.000-08:00

oh well, guess it is one of those "issues" to continue working on this blog.
i will when i get to it.

drop me a line if you've seen this cool update.

peace out
philipians 1:27
3e

Riding his bike.

2006-04-21T17:09:00.000-07:00

After two summers of near fighting with my son, he is off to the races!!
We have been wanting to see Bryan ride his bike without the trainig wheels for two summers now. Well yesterday he said, "dad I'm gonna ride my bike." I thought nothing of it until I walked out front and saw him finally doing it without assistance, without training wheels and going like a bat out of h@##.

WOW, to my amazement today he was non-stop. Fifty times around the block!

Guess I'll get some quiet time tonight as for sure he will take his shower and pass-out on in his bean-bag!!

The needing (wanting) for your kids to grow up is strong, but the next thing is , dad I need the car. Take your time buddy, I don't quite want you having this much freedom yet. Mom and dad just brought you home from the hospital as a babe.

College, wedding, and grandparent-hood, watch out here I come.

Beautiful Day

2006-04-19T10:38:00.000-07:00

Here in lovely Livonia, right now its 67degrees, sunny, no wind. A perfect day! Bryan is home for spring break and Jill is not working. Family time is worth more than anything else in the world. Now if I could just have it this way everyday........

Setting Captives Free

2006-04-17T14:13:00.000-07:00

I have just completed my last day of independant study. I guess I should say Dependant study! God has really blessed me with the completion of my 60 (plus) days in the purity course. Yes I said Purity Course! Yours truly had some issues that only God could fix. You see,I was addicted to porn and some lifestyle things associated with that. By the grace of God and His never ending love for me (you and I) He has delivered me from the bondage of that sinful nature and has taught me quite a bit along the way. I now have passion to be more Christ like, knowing I will never live up to that, but the challenge is worthwhile. He has saved my marriage and is starting to develope the husband Jill has wanted from the first day we met.

I want to thak GOD for His faithfulness and glory and His Being.

May God bless you and show you His never ending love.

Talk to you soon.
p.s. if you have porn and addictin problems call on the Lord and He shall set you free

check out
www.settingcaptivesfree.com

Where in thr world is 3E

2006-02-26T13:00:00.000-08:00

By the Grace of God and Him only, I have been involved in a course that has changed my life. For the better of course. If anyone is suffering from any type of addiction be it drug, alcohol, food, abuse, porn whatever and you need help, change your life forever and go to;

www.settingcaptivesfree.com

right now.

This will change your life and possible save it.

I challenge you to do it now! If you are suffering from escapism and paranoia because you are not MAN or WOMAN enough to admit to your sinful nature and give it up to God now is the time.

Do it on-line nobody will know unless you want them to....

You can change and fix it..

Love ya

Real Friends

2006-01-25T15:46:00.000-08:00

Real friends don't get you in trouble, they help you out of trouble.
Real friends don't let you drive drunk, you get drunk with the quality of life they gift you with.
Real friends don't lie, cheat or steal. In that case they also don' make you do these things either.
Real friends keep in contact and share with you even if you've not seen them for 15 years, you pick up right where you left off.
Real friends share their life with you and want to keep you informed.
Real friends are GODS gift to you, and should be treated as such. Even when they tell you your being a jerk.
Real friends look out for your best interests.
Real friends don't betray you,
Real friends don't belittle you
Real friends tell you that you have a booger in your nose before you walk into a meeting or something where you could have embarrased yourself.
Real friends don't keep track of the five bucks here and there, because it goes both ways.
Real friends don't let you put skim milk in your coffee as "creamer." Only real Half-n-Half will do, thank you very much!
Real friends forgive you even if you have totally sh@# on them, just as GOD has told them to do.
And finally real friends have a way of showing you GOD through their actions.
Thanks Jill.
I love you you are a GREAT Wife and even better mommy.

Need to write something

2006-01-16T11:52:00.001-08:00

Today I lost my son in Gander Mountain. I thought he was one place but went walking around. I my self went just around the corner. I went back and he was not there. What a scarry thing to have happen to a parent this day and age. I could hear him crying amd yelling for me as he was making his way to the service counter (which we have taight him to do, way to go Bryan). In less that 5 seconds a page was broadcast over the store P.A. , I heard my name, and I knew he was okay up front. I walked up to the store front end and there he was all red-cheeked, runny nosed and crying. I won't forget the look of complete relief on his face when he saw me.

Now, I feel bad for the kid, but in a large way I feel great! Jill and I have told him many times befor if that were to happen, to find someone that works there (what ever store) and have them call for us. He did and what a great story to tell that it worked. As a parent I feel great as a dad I feel like a schmuck.
I'm sorry buddy, I love you, I'll make sure it doesn't happen again. At least until you're a teenager and want to be dropped at the mall. Then watch out..............................

Need to write something

2006-01-16T11:52:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year

2005-12-31T20:16:00.000-08:00

Now let us see how this one goes??

This next year I'll turn 40!!

2005-12-30T12:18:00.000-08:00

Yea it's true!

So what should I do.

Throw a party and try to get a "band" to play,
Go on a cross country hike all by my lonesome,
Turn 40 gracefully and and start wearing Depends,
Get a mamogram?? (eh what) or whatever guys get at 40 and every year there after?
Start getting crabby over everything meaningless under the sun ( thank you Soloman)

Your input is much appreciated in this matter!
3e

Fat Ass

2005-12-28T12:51:00.000-08:00

I am gaining weight again. I lost over 70 pounds in the past few years only to put about half of it back on.
1) I'M HOPELESSLY NEEDING A WORKOUT BUDDY
2) I'M WANTING TO WORK-OUT DAILY AROUND 6 ISH PM
3) I WANT TO GET BACK DOWN TO 225 OR LESS (250 I THINK RIGHT NOW)
4) I NEED MY WIFE TO STOP SABOTAGING ME BY BUYING CRAP AND HAVING IT IN THE HOUSE KNOWING I HAVE NO WILL-POWER (AT THIS TIME) UNTIL I GET INTO A HEALTY HABIT OF NOT WANTING SAID CRAP.
5) I'LL BE 40 YEARS OLD THIS MAY AND I WANT TO SAY THAT I'M HEALTHY, NOT THAT I'M A FAT OVER-EATING MIDDLE AGED DORK.
6) I WANT TO BE A HEALTHY DORK!

Anybody looking to work-out etc get ahold of me please.
3e

Christmas as I now see it

2005-12-27T12:26:00.000-08:00

Christmas has become somewhat of a bittersweet thing for me. I know it to be the birth of my LORD and SAVIOR and a day of rememberance and celebration of such an event. As I grow older each year I am reminded of years past, family members now gone, and new things to deal with as an adult. My son, GOD bless him, is a great reminder of how we should still be like children on Christmas and appreciate those who gave their lives for us and the gift that Jesus was and is for us. My wife keeps me centered in a lifestyle that is a reminder that I need to put them first (after God of course). My father reminds me of how not to be as a gift giver and that you really should put a little thought and some heart into giving. Don't give "just to give," not that you don't appreciate what people do give, but there needs to be some iota thought in it.
My aunt died this year. She was the last little bit of my mom that I had left physically here on earth. Both do live on in spirit and heart of course, but we would go to her house and exchange gifts and make Christmas dinner as a family. I have enjoyed this for 39 years, and I will now miss it for more than that if God is willing to let me live that long.
Short lived depression can make for a very moody 3Esteeve. I was very rude to my family and I know I was taking this bit of sorrow out on them and it was not fair. God has blessed me with a wife that stays with me, even through all the crap I have put her through (their is plenty of crap too). I am amazed at how she loves me unconditionally, just as Jesus loves us unconditionally. I think I'm starting to understand it all. What a great teacher He is, what a great wife she is. I'll get better as a father and husband as long as I keep God First, and my family second.
God Bless you all, may the power of His Holy Spirit come and change your life, as he continues to change my daily.

3e
Steeve Hives

Check This Out, Thanks James!!

2005-12-15T13:28:00.000-08:00

Check this out, James had this posted as a link on his site, I've borrowed it and edited it to add some festive HOLY-DAY colors and a new holiday. See if you can find it!

The “winter program” at Ridgeway Elementary School In Dodgeville, Wisconsin, changed the lyrics of the Christmas carol “Silent Night” to the more inclusive “Cold in the Night.” (“Cold in the night, no one in sight, winter winds whirl and bite.” ) After this success, the program’s next step will obviously be:
a) Changing “O Holy Night” to “Uh-oh! Wholly night!” a song about a lunar eclipse b) Singing “O Little Town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.” c) A song celebrating the comeback of the American auto industry, “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Ford.”d) A ditty about hoping for snow at the Panama Canal, “I’m dreaming of a white isthmus.”
The modern name for Christmas trees is now:
a) Giving trees b) Trees of color c) Seasonal conifers d) Inclusion bushes e) Tall lit-up flora f) Those pointy green things with needles and lights

Some schools have ruled that red and green cookies cannot be brought into class in December because the color combination strongly suggests the divisive sectarian feast day of Christmas. Therefore"
a) Red cookies may be brought to school. Green ones too. But, please, not on the same day b) A fruit bowl containing just pears and cherries is a serious constitutional matter and should be reported immediately to the ACLU, care of the Christmas erasure desk. c) In December, the San Francisco 49er may not be shown playing the New York Jets, except on black-and-white TV sets. d) All traffic lights must be turned off until January 1.
The three wise men in the Nativity scene are objectionable because
a) They fail the multicultural test--though one is black, neither of the other two is a disabled lesbian, wiccan or vegan.
b) “Wise Men” should be “Persons of Wisdom” c) Describing the first people to come to see Jesus as “wise” implies that idiots can’t become Christians, which experience tells us is just not so.
"X-tians" believe Jesus came down to earth and made himself human in order to encourage
a) Consumer confidence b) Season’s greetings c) A festive period between bowl games d) His birth scene to be surrounded by plastic reindeer, elves and court-pleasing woodland creatures e) Frenzied end-of-year gift giving f) Religious songs that are easily converted into weather songs in Wisconsin g) The ACLU Christmas-erasure desk
It’s beginning to look a lot like: a) Christmas b) Hanukah c) Kwanzaa d) Indianapolis is a lock to win the Superbowl E) Rama-hana-kwanz-mas.
Before backing down and permitting a full Nativity scene, a public library in Memphis agreed to allow the scene, but only if the baby Jesus, Joseph, Mary and the wise men were removed This left a shepherd boy and some farm animals. Next year the library will accept a Nativity scene only if it consists of:
a) A shepherd boy and some chickens b) A shepherd boy and some ferrets c) A shepherd boy explaining that the head librarian in Memphis thinks with a brain that may or may not be the result of Intelligent Design.
John Leo is a columnist and editor for U.S. News & World Report and a contributing columnist on Townhall.com.
Copright © 2005 Universal Press Syndicate

Wow its been a fun few days

2005-12-05T03:39:00.000-08:00

I have recently gone fill time as a baker for Panera Bread. Wow it has been a delightful first week. It is an extremely busy eight hours. Much more than I thought it would be. No down time at all. But I like that, it makes it all go by faster.

I have learned how to burn myself on more things that I ever thought I could burn myself on. I've not yet ruined any product, but came mighty close tonight, thank GOD Larry saw the Coffee Cakes and removed them from the rack oven or I would have cost me some time.

Anyway, I never thought this would be a rewarding as it has been so far. I really should have listened to that little voice in my head telling me to look into this baking thing many years ago. I actually dig it a lot. To watch the people enter the store, order their favorite bagel and a coffee and enjoy it right in front of you is awesome. It is amazing what joy bread and coffee give some people but I find more people that come to Panera are almost fanatical about the products.

I guess that's why I work for them now!

No longer angry

2005-11-28T10:33:00.000-08:00

I will no longer bite on TSA, I am bigger than that. I hope they solve their issues and it becomes a great place to work and all screeners enjoy what they do.

God bless my friends that continue to work for us!

It was just time for me to move on, I can respect the institution, but I can disagree with how it operates, and that is all I am willing to say.

The End!
3e

Thank God Almighty free at last.

2005-11-26T07:34:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was my last day at TSA, federal service or whatever you call it. Today I will be calling in sick (well actually).
I would like to thank the academy, all my fans, mom, dad, Jill, Bryan and God and also all of those who helped make this film a real winner, and for this award.....
eh what??
sorry wrong life

Anyway, for those who deserve it thank you for your service to the American people, for those of you that don't well, it was a real pain in my ass "working" with (for) you and if it were not for government service I guess welfare is what you would be on. At least you guys have just enough in your heads to pretend to not milk the American public, even though I know and have seen otherwise. You are thieves and you should be dealt with accordingly.

As for the DTW managers, JK excluded, I have never met a group of misplaced over self-made-importance, misled group of individuals in my life. If looking for the small stuff is important then watch out America. Your petty individualism will be your demise. I think it was easier to get through grade school than it was to watch and work through you demoralize your employees.

I will continue
3e

Decisions, decisions

2005-11-22T05:25:00.000-08:00

Today is the day the powers that be at the airport decide whether or not I can stay part time or if I must resign. This is by choice, I am not being forced out. After two years of federeal service I have the need to move onto my other endeavor, but I want to remain there part time.
I have a few good friends who bust there butts down there and I hope I am not letting them down by leaving, but I must do what is right for me and my family, mostly for my spiritual health. (or whats left of it)
So I will wait for a few hours, call my "manager" and see my fate. I am no fortune teller or great seer but I know the outcome of this.
I feel I have created my own demise by being a bit too vocal, a bit too honest and hard working. I felt it was our duty to, as screeners, keep those make the rules accountable to the same rules, but I was wrong.
I must move on, time will again teach me more lessons.
For my friends at DTW, screen on, my brother, screen on.

What?

2005-11-16T08:32:00.000-08:00

In an attempt to go part time at work, I was told that the only thing available at this time was five days a week five hours per day. No this is okay if that is what works for you, but I want two days a week my normal hours.

Now the only issue with this is that the powers that be at scheduling have okayed two days for other people, yet when I go over there it's not available. I have been employed for two years have received numerous service awards and how a clean work record, but I cannot get any assistance with my situation.

On the other hand, if I were to be written up many times, slack off, yada yada yada, I could get whatever I want just as JJ,JM,JF,MS...need I go on.

So in order to keep the peace and continue on in my striving for equality at work I have come up with a plan to solve such situations. It is to form a group of screeners called A.S.S.

Yes the anti-slacker screener society and yes I am the big A.S.S.

We don't have a dumb-A.S.S. or a stupid-A.S.S. Our group is few and we are a close-nit fellowship so I guess we could be tight-A.S.S.es and one thing is for sure our spirits cannot be broken so we are not individually a poor-A.S.S.

One thing is for sure the way I work I am not a kiss-A.S.S.!

FEAR?

2005-11-07T11:43:00.000-08:00

I wouldn't normally censor anything I have to say, but I must tell you that my last two entries were made when I decided to leave my current employer to go full time for Panera Bread as a baker. I in no way disbelieve the things that I wrote, but until I am actually gone from TSA totally I cannot put my family life in jeopardy of being in the termoil that such comments could have created.

I hole heartedly appoligize to any of you that this may offend, and I have schedule sensitivity training for myself, along with more civil rights classes.
This way I can be free to NOT say what the Constitution has given me the right to say as a citizen of this great country.

Big Brother does watch over you as an employee. You have no Second Amendment rights as a government employee. I forgot that I signed away those rights when I hired on.....

If I have in any way insulted your Islamity I am sorry. I am Christian (can I say that?)!

More-on TSA

2005-11-01T09:37:00.000-08:00

Removed for fear of losing my job! In other words, I'm self censored by the government for writing things that are offensive to TSA management and staff. Don't worry when I'm finally gone I'll let loose!!

Hello from the new me

2005-10-29T07:06:00.000-07:00

The New Class Struggle for America

2005-10-11T18:06:00.000-07:00

It seems to me that there are only two classes of people in this country anymore;
1) the Urban
2) the Non-Urban

See if you can tell the difference
1) constantly using the "f" word
2) pants that drag down to their butts
3) a general lack of respect for anything or anybody
4) can't communicate with anything or anybody (unless it's a cell phone)
5) their image is more important than their morals
6) drugs, fancy wheels (wheelz), money, sex with anything or anybody
7) a language that nobody can understand (but themselves)
need I go on....

You know who and what I'm talking about. It's the sub-culture of America thats becoming the culture of America. Everywhere you go it is prevalent and beyond understanding. Where did we go wrong as a people? Was it M-TV in the eighties with popularizing "YO-MTV raps," or the Jerry Springer complex? I'm flummoxed! I can not seem to go anywhere with out being bombarded with this crap

Put me on an island with people that have morals, good taste (subjective I realize) and speak English as a FIRST language, wear proper clothing, respect me for me, not that I'm Welsh/American (whatever), African/American, Mexican/American bla bla bla.......

Don't axe me any questions, I'm fidden to go, yo!
3e

S.S. Bountyhunter

2005-10-03T17:03:00.000-07:00

I'm looking for some S.S. Bountyhunter music, anybody know where I can find some?

I'm considering becoming a full time baker for Panera! Who knew dough could be so fulfilling. I'm so not kidding, this is a great place to work for!! check them out at www.panera.com

cya

Head Cold

2005-09-29T05:11:00.000-07:00

I hate head colds. I'm dizzy, sick to my stomach and achy all over. When is FEMA going to help me. I have had a hurricane in my body for two days now and I want what is due to me! George W. Bush needs to know that his response to my cold is taking way too long. I want my $2000.00 debit card and I want it NOW!

(Actually its good to know that in about 30 minutes I will be at Tim Hortons getting a coffee and I'll be all better.)

Identity?

2005-09-25T19:05:00.000-07:00

I have a delema.
On one hand I believe I have overheard a group of guys talking about me in a negative way that for the most part I could care less.
The situation is this; After having a great day on my last trip, while I was trying to get to sleep a few of the guys were discussing "me" and what they were saying was what I thought rather rude and well to be honest a bit two faced.
On the other hand, granted, I was falling asleep. Was I "hearing" this conversation, or was my mind playing tricks on me? I was very tired after a hard day. I have had this happen to me before in the interior of the Porcupine Mountains where I thought I was hearing a bear rattling our bear pole, but it was my mind toying with me. (Due to the fact that I was so tired and a bit stressed. Funny, what can happen to you without sleep!)
So, I've been learning to be a better Christian man, so I take it to heart and realize that if these guys were (talking), it does not define me as the person that I really am, it does not define me as a father, husband, and man of God.

I am a decent guy, a bit odd but who isn't. We all have our little quirks that puts us into some sort of geekdom right? Absolutely!
So here is what I say to those people that feel they need to have their little conversations, and their little clicks. Go right ahead a feel as if you are getting somewhere with your backstabbing, two faced, fake Christian-dom.
I will turn the other cheek, praise God for making me who I am, and for giving me the right to be a child of God that He loves, and I will forgive and forget what I believe that I heard and I will love you both as brothers and show you how a real Christian man treats others. With love, compassion, understanding, and joy.

This I know to be true!
3e

Walmart Wins at Livonia Planning Commission

2005-09-24T07:14:00.000-07:00

I cannot put myself in alignment with those in my community when they are not of clear mind and thought.

I cannot associate with people that still want to call people "niggers."

I cannot continue to live in an area that is starting to into Americas greatest "race" -testing grounds.

Mayor Kilpatrick do not forget to look into the mirror, I believe that Detroit is a racially motivated city, by your comments in the past about gongs on in the "suburbs."

Dude from New Orleans MYOB. Like you have room to talk, read my other posts.

By the way my house will be for sale ASAP, Chicago is looking mighty good, see you there in two years!

Remember that news is a product like everything else, believe what you want but as the old TV show said.....The truth is outhere....

Temp. out watch for details coming soon!

2005-09-22T07:09:00.000-07:00

Back when I have a minute to say something, which I understand is hard to believe I currently have nothing to say.

Pray for my family, we lost a family member to heart failure this past week. Now I have my wife, son, dad, and of course GOD but my aunt was the last member of my moms side of the family that I have really loved and cherished. Ill miss you, Thressa, I'm so very sorry we we not there for you. But I know you are with God, now you and mom behave up there, I remember how you two were when you got together! Keep 'em straight GOD, they will be a handful!

WOW, just got paid!

2005-09-12T19:14:00.000-07:00

Well DHS didn't totally blow it. I got about 80% of my paycheck today. When the other 20% shows up I'll buy myself a round tuit and remember the fact the the Gov-ment works on the rounf tuit system too. Wonder if I could pay my taxes on the round tuit system, or if they do the old Chinese system of One-Lump-Sum?

Actually I thought that was soup!

Anyway not too much to say on this wonderful Monday evening, all is well with my soul. (yea right, I'm working on that still)

Gotta loose some weight, don't I Mike, 50 lbs. to be exact. Write the check brother, write the check! Mommy needs a new pair of shoes.

Border Patrol, let me tell you about border patrol......

Thanks Mike for the article!

2005-09-10T08:28:00.000-07:00

An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State

An Objectivist Review

by Robert Tracinski | The Intellectual Activist

September 2, 2005

It has taken four long days for state and federal officials to figure out how to deal with the disaster in New Orleans. I can't blame them, because it has also taken me four long days to figure out what is going on there. The reason is that the events there make no sense if you think that we are confronting a natural disaster.

If this is just a natural disaster, the response for public officials is obvious: you bring in food, water, and doctors; you send transportation to evacuate refugees to temporary shelters; you send engineers to stop the flooding and rebuild the city's infrastructure. For journalists, natural disasters also have a familiar pattern: the heroism of ordinary people pulling together to survive; the hard work and dedication of doctors, nurses, and rescue workers; the steps being taken to clean up and rebuild.

Public officials did not expect that the first thing they would have to do is to send thousands of armed troops in armored vehicle, as if they are suppressing an enemy insurgency. And journalists--myself included--did not expect that the story would not be about rain, wind, and flooding, but about rape, murder, and looting.

But this is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made disaster.

The man-made disaster is not an inadequate or incompetent response by federal relief agencies, and it was not directly caused by Hurricane Katrina. This is where just about every newspaper and television channel has gotten the story wrong.

The man-made disaster we are now witnessing in New Orleans did not happen over the past four days. It happened over the past four decades. Hurricane Katrina merely exposed it to public view.

The man-made disaster is the welfare state.

For the past few days, I have found the news from New Orleans to be confusing. People were not behaving as you would expect them to behave in an emergency--indeed, they were not behaving as they have behaved in other emergencies. That is what has shocked so many people: they have been saying that this is not what we expect from America. In fact, it is not even what we expect from a Third World country.

When confronted with a disaster, people usually rise to the occasion. They work together to rescue people in danger, and they spontaneously organize to keep order and solve problems. This is especially true in America. We are an enterprising people, used to relying on our own initiative rather than waiting around for the government to take care of us. I have seen this a hundred times, in small examples (a small town whose main traffic light had gone out, causing ordinary citizens to get out of their cars and serve as impromptu traffic cops, directing cars through the intersection) and large ones (the spontaneous response of New Yorkers to September 11).

So what explains the chaos in New Orleans?

To give you an idea of the magnitude of what is going on, here is a description from a Washington Times story:

"Storm victims are raped and beaten; fights erupt with flying fists, knives and guns; fires are breaking out; corpses litter the streets; and police and rescue helicopters are repeatedly fired on.

"The plea from Mayor C. Ray Nagin came even as National Guardsmen poured in to restore order and stop the looting, carjackings and gunfire....

"Last night, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said 300 Iraq-hardened Arkansas National Guard members were inside New Orleans with shoot-to-kill orders.

"'These troops are...under my orders to restore order in the streets,' she said. 'They have M-16s, and they are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill and they are more than willing to do so if necessary and I expect they will.' "

The reference to Iraq is eerie. The photo that accompanies this article shows National Guard troops, with rifles and armored vests, riding on an armored vehicle through trash-strewn streets lined by a rabble of squalid, listless people, one of whom appears to be yelling at them. It looks exactly like a scene from Sadr City in Baghdad.

What explains bands of thugs using a natural disaster as an excuse for an orgy of looting, armed robbery, and rape? What causes unruly mobs to storm the very buses that have arrived to evacuate them, causing the drivers to drive away, frightened for their lives? What causes people to attack the doctors trying to treat patients at the Super Dome?

Why are people responding to natural destruction by causing further destruction? Why are they attacking the people who are trying to help them?

My wife, Sherri, figured it out first, and she figured it out on a sense-of-life level. While watching the coverage last night on Fox News Channel, she told me that she was getting a familiar feeling. She studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Chicago, which is located in the South Side of Chicago just blocks away from the Robert Taylor Homes, one of the largest high-rise public housing projects in America. "The projects," as they were known, were infamous for uncontrollable crime and irremediable squalor. (They have since, mercifully, been demolished.)

What Sherri was getting from last night's television coverage was a whiff of the sense of life of "the projects." Then the "crawl"--the informational phrases flashed at the bottom of the screen on most news channels--gave some vital statistics to confirm this sense: 75% of the residents of New Orleans had already evacuated before the hurricane, and of the 300,000 or so who remained, a large number were from the city's public housing projects. Jack Wakeland then gave me an additional, crucial fact: early reports from CNN and Fox indicated that the city had no plan for evacuating all of the prisoners in the city's jails--so they just let many of them loose. There is no doubt a significant overlap between these two populations--that is, a large number of people in the jails used to live in the housing projects, and vice versa.

There were many decent, innocent people trapped in New Orleans when the deluge hit--but they were trapped alongside large numbers of people from two groups: criminals--and wards of the welfare state, people selected, over decades, for their lack of initiative and self-induced helplessness. The welfare wards were a mass of sheep--on whom the incompetent administration of New Orleans unleashed a pack of wolves.

All of this is related, incidentally, to the apparent incompetence of the city government, which failed to plan for a total evacuation of the city, despite the knowledge that this might be necessary. But in a city corrupted by the welfare state, the job of city officials is to ensure the flow of handouts to welfare recipients and patronage to political supporters--not to ensure a lawful, orderly evacuation in case of emergency.

No one has really reported this story, as far as I can tell. In fact, some are already actively distorting it, blaming President Bush, for example, for failing to personally ensure that the Mayor of New Orleans had drafted an adequate evacuation plan. The worst example is an execrable piece from the Toronto Globe and Mail, by a supercilious Canadian who blames the chaos on American "individualism." But the truth is precisely the opposite: the chaos was caused by a system that was the exact opposite of individualism.

What Hurricane Katrina exposed was the psychological consequences of the welfare state. What we consider "normal" behavior in an emergency is behavior that is normal for people who have values and take the responsibility to pursue and protect them. People with values respond to a disaster by fighting against it and doing whatever it takes to overcome the difficulties they face. They don't sit around and complain that the government hasn't taken care of them. They don't use the chaos of a disaster as an opportunity to prey on their fellow men.

But what about criminals and welfare parasites? Do they worry about saving their houses and property? They don't, because they don't own anything. Do they worry about what is going to happen to their businesses or how they are going to make a living? They never worried about those things before. Do they worry about crime and looting? But living off of stolen wealth is a way of life for them.

The welfare state--and the brutish, uncivilized mentality it sustains and encourages--is the man-made disaster that explains the moral ugliness that has swamped New Orleans. And that is the story that no one is reporting.

Ditto!3e

As I see it too, Truth will prevail!

2005-09-09T19:15:00.000-07:00

In a message dated 9/6/2005 10:24:18 PM Pacific Standard Time, GB ADS writes:

This is a post from Bill Weiler, freelance journalist, over in Merritt Island,
FL, who has been researching what went on before the storm hit. These are the
authors comments - I find them very interesting.

Politics over Duty

I think all of Mayor Nagin's pomp and posturing is going to bite him hard in
the near future as the lies and distortions of his interviews are coming to
light.

On Friday night before the storm hit Max Mayfield of the National Hurricane
Center took the unprecedented action of calling Mayor Nagin and Governor
Blanco personally to plead with them to begin MANDATORY evacuation of New
Orleans and they said they'd take it under consideration. This was after the
NOAA buoy 240 miles south had recorded 68' waves before it was destroyed.

President Bush spent Friday afternoon and evening in meetings with his
advisors and administrators drafting all of the paperwork required for a state
to request federal assistance (and not be in violation of the Posse Comitatus
Act or having to enact the Insurgency Act). Just before midnight Friday
evening the President called Governor Blanco and pleaded with her to sign the
request papers so the federal government and the military could legally begin
mobilization and call up. He was told that they didn't think it necessary for
the federal government to be involved yet. After the President's final call
to the governor she held meetings with her staff to discuss the political
ramifications of bringing federal forces. It was decided that if they allowed
federal assistance it would make it look as if they had failed so it was
agreed upon that the feds would not be invited in.

Saturday before the storm hit the President again called Gov. Blanco and Mayor
Nagin requesting they please sign the papers requesting federal assistance,
that they declare the state an emergency area, and begin mandatory evacuation.
After a personal plea from the President, Nagin agreed to order an evacuation,
but it would not be a full mandatory evacuation, and the governor still
refused to sign the papers requesting and authorizing federal action. In
frustration the President declared the area a national disaster area before
the state of Louisiana did so he could legally begin some advanced
preparations. Rumor has it that the President's legal advisers were looking
into the ramifications of using the insurgency act to bypass the Constitu
tional requirement that a state request federal aid before the federal
government can move into state with troops - but that had not been done since
1906 and the Constitutionality of it was called into question to use before
the disaster.

Throw in that over half the federal aid of the past decade to New Orleans for
levee construction, maintenance, and repair was diverted to fund a marina and
support the gambling ships. Toss in the investigation that will look into why
the emergency preparedness plan submitted to the federal government for
funding, and published on the city's website was never implemented and in fact
may have been bogus for the purpose of gaining additional federal funding as
we now learn that the organizations identified in the plan were never
contacted or coordinated into any planning -though the document implies that
they were.

The suffering people of New Orleans need to be asking some hard questions as
do we all, but they better start with why Blanco refused to even sign the

multi-state mutual aid pack activation documents until Wednesday which further
delayed the legal deployment of National Guard from adjoining states. Or maybe
ask why Nagin keeps harping that the President should have commandeered 500
Greyhound busses to help him, when according to his own emergency plan and
documents he claimed to have over 500 busses at his disposal to use between
the local school busses and the city transportation busses - but he never
raised a finger to prepare them or activate them.

This is a sad time for all of us to see that a major city has all but been
destroyed and thousands of people have died with hundreds of thousands more
suffering, but it's certainly not a time for people to be pointing fingers and
trying to find a bigger dog to blame for local corruption and incompetence.
Pray to God for the survivors that they can start their lives anew as fast as
possible and we learn from all the mistakes to avoid them in the future

Junk

2005-09-05T06:48:00.000-07:00

I get home and check my mail and its mostly junk mail now days... We had a telephone in the house with push button dial(remember those days) and we would get nothing but solicitations for everything from home loans to hemmroid cream. A fax maching proved to be futile also wasting all my precious thermal paper(remember that stuff). So now I get a cell phone so only a few select people can really get ahold of me and I get text messages from people and places I dont even know... Leave me alone.

I set up a blog site so I can write/type whats on my mind or let people in on a few items I believe to be important and some unknown person/company reponds to my blog with a generic, "site looks great check out this site." with a link to their product. Again leave me alone.

Everyday I go to work at the airport and travellers are just absolutely lost. I have no hope for the future of our great country if this is the product of our kind. Rude, lost, unwilling to do anything for their own needs. "where is Spirit (standing in front of Spirit), where are the bathrooms, where is my cousin he's comming in from Germany, i can't find____________(insert anything, usually 'my car')
LOok I screen bags for a living, not the most challenging job or the most lucrative or glamourous or.... you insert the discriptor. I am not your personal aide. I cannot do these things for you, I will not find your family member that is at the other terminal, I cannot provide any assistance anymore (first aid) or I will lose my job.
Yes I was providing basic first aid to travellers at the terminal, and was told to stop! Fingers pointed in my face, fingers wagged in my face and was told if I provide anymore assistance I would be removed from service. This is your gov'ment at work! Look around people and see the fleecing of your mind, smoke and mirrors were once used as a magicians tools, now it seems the DHS has a set to. We are there to poke through your stuff and look for explosives. Not be bothered by you. Again the ultimate leave me alone!

Not Going Down

2005-09-03T19:40:00.000-07:00

My wonderful (?) employer has decided they dont need us for the disaster relief effort. It has come to their attenetion that TSA screeners are not law enforcement and my not go into the area due to liability reasons. DUH!

We cant go because we are a patckwork of displaced 9-11 refugees, island of mis-fit toy, redheaded step children of the Department of Homeland Security, with absolutely no training, guidance or management.

The real reason I cannot disclose because it was all a farce. They were only asking us to sign up to see how many people they cound get to go. Those of us who signed up were ready for the task, just to find out today that "TSA is understaffed, so we wont be going."

Last I heard they were going to let 100 to 120 people go from our airport alone (also not true).

Look dont play with me. Send me if you let me sign up otherwise dont float out a trial sign-up sheet to see what comes if it?

Jack-asses!

I am truly sorry for those of you that said they could help us out in my time of being down south. I am grateful that you offered of your time and money to us and the cause. I am humbled and thank God for you all and what you would have done.

I love my country and I fear my government. Wait.....I am the government......(is this thing on)

Goin Down!

2005-09-02T07:46:00.000-07:00

As an employee of the federal gov'ment, and particularly the Department of Homeland Security, TSA, I have volunteered to go down south to New Orleans to help with whatever they will have me do.

They will pay for all my expenses while I'm gone, fly me down to Atlanta first for some
"FEMA Training" and shots and an In-briefing. Give me to a "unit" and I could be down there for as long a two months. I will be living in what ever I bring down. (like my tent)

What a great opportunity to do GODS work. I pray that one life could be saved by what little skill I have in this type of situation. I pray that I have the strength and will-power to be a blessing to those who need help, please GOD let them see YOU through me, and that even though we have these struggles and death and destruction that without YOU it is all meaningless but with YOU there is purpose and reason and focus on YOU to get me, and those who are suffering through this.

I pray for those that are in need of GOD right now, they will make it if they have faith, but if it is their time please let them understand that there is a time for everything and please I pray that they know YOU and Call YOU LORD and SAVIOR and that YOU will pull them from this mess.

If you are reading this, my family could use your help while I'm gone (if they choose me to go). Bryan needs to get to school at 8:40am and Jill needs to get to work early. If you see fit to help on some mornings that would be great and I thank you in advance.
3E

I'm back, sorry!

2005-08-31T08:07:00.000-07:00

After seeing the destruction of this past hurricane, I can not help but wonder that really need to start pulling together as a nation around our own problems and fix us (as a nation) as a whole before anybody else in this world. I might be a little scorned here, and this I am sure is a bit political but as a few other people have been saying, ....Where are the other countries of the world when we have such a calamity?

Look what happened in Indonesia and that area when the tidal wave hit. Were we not dispatched as aid providers? And when Iran (of all places) had that horrible earthquake a few years back? Not that we can not do all of it on our own, we are after all the greatest country in the world, but at least where are the "token gestures?" We are basically "begged" (expected really) for help when other nations has their national disasters, and as Americans we do the right thing and help out. All the our expense don't forget!

The leadership of this country needs to step up and say from now on, "no soup for you!" We are going to have tens of thousands if not more of people with NOTHING! (I will rant and rave about border protection, fiscal policy, and foreign aid later.)

Step up Americans take care of our people. God has commanded us to do so, and in a dark time that we are in during this clean-up effort we need to step up beyond what we "normally" do and save our brothers and sisters from a life of pain and suffering. Go Forth and do Gods work here.

Typical male!

2005-08-24T07:49:00.000-07:00

Jill and I were having a great "couples" conversation last night before I went to work. She reminded me that I was male. Typical male. And after thinking about it at work in some ways yes and some ways no. A typical male does have the tendency to want to hump his wife's leg all the time (yep), drink beer in front of this weeks "game of the week on tv" (nope), drive a fancy hotrod (nope, unless you consider an Outlander cool?), fart in bed(yep), ask for help finding everything (yep), make a mess doing anything (yep), let his son/daughter play in the sandbox with their best clothes on (yep), break promises to her and GOD (for me, yep) but here is where I am not the typical male. Confess my sins to her and GOD, beg for forgivness, and actually do things to change himself to become a better person, father and servant of the LORD (YES THATS ME!)

It has been a long time coming for me to want to actually write of my transgressions but part of the healing process I believe is that you can be man enough to admit to your mistakes to anybody that askes if you've made them. I have made the absolute worst mistake a husband could, I became a cheat and a liar. I have fallen the most far from what is and was expected of me and my sworn duties as a husband and a man of GOD. I let my impulses and irrational mental state almost ruin my entire life. I fell the farthest from the tree of life. The only saving grace was the fact that I couldn't take the mental and physical pain I was suffering anymore and GOD broke me down. So much that I admitted to my GOD given wife what I had done. Of course she was angry, and yes we paid the price in our relationship for the mistake I alone made. The saving grace was Jesus Christ has had a plan for us and that HE has saved us from the depths of divorce and hatred. I can't even tell you how humbled I was/am that He showed me the way to Him through a wife that DID NOT give up on the sanctity of our marriage. It is by GOD alone that I still have a wife and child to come home to. That I was not thrown out to the street. GOD, and GOD alone has saved me. I am truly sorry to HIM, my wife and those who know and were involved.

Heavenly Father I am sorry for the pain you have suffered on my behalf, You have sent your Son in my stead for my sins and I basically shut you out. I beg for your forgiveness again as I let it be known to those that read this that I am truly a changed man. A changed man that by the love and grace of Jesus Christ am in the process of being a "new creation.' Jesus take me to the wash board and ring me through, for you alone can fix this and fix this You will. I will not let the great divider (the devil) into this house. There is no room for satin in this marriage!

I 3e kneel and bow down to Him who has saved my life!
2 Corinthians 5:17 says "therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation: the old has gone, the new has come."
Hebrews 10:17 says "their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more."

a few days past

2005-08-23T07:17:00.000-07:00

So nothing really going on here.

School starts soon and Bryan will be in first grade, wow. We had a little party for him here at the house and it was fun. Its always fun keeping family civil and worring about what your mother in law will say or your my dads wife will say (i refuse to say step-MOTHER, unless it is preceeded with "EVIL", or as well call her "she who shall not be named." do we need permission from J.K. for that?)
Anyway family dynamics are a funny thing. I have just become tolerant of my mother-in -law after 15 years of being married. I understand her a bit more now and I see some things that really don't bother me much anymore. On the other hand quite a few things still do. This is my problem not hers!. I need to change for the betterment of my family, be the real man that GOD wants me to be and make family happen!

Now for ..she who shall not be named.. it's a whole different ballgame. I need to pray for forgiveness on this because I pretent to like her, get along with her and such but I do believe that she is just a wedge between my father and I. Oh the stories I could tell.

God commands us to love each other as we would ourselves, there was a time when I absolutely hated myself, and through His grace and love I have learned to realize that I am a decent guy, but to try and see the good things in her and be a good Christian and love her as myself? This is not a task I wish to take on right now. Be it as it may, I am confessing the sin of hatred here on my blog for all to see that eventhough I am forgiven I am still not perfect and still full of sin. Only God can fix this situation and He will if I give it up to Him. This I have learned to be THE TRUTH!

LEG CRAMPS!

2005-08-16T14:43:00.000-07:00

I'm having these damn cramps in my right leg, medial quad from my hamstring to my kneecap. These cramps are so bad they wake me up at night. I'll be in a cold sweat and almost ready to pass-out from the pain.
I believe they are being caused by some nerve damage that I had gotten from an auto accident almost 6 years ago.
Whenever I run too far or too fast(LOL) work to long (LMAO) etc. they seem to return.
Heat seems to calm them down but nothing else does the trick. Anybody with any ideas please feel free to pass them along!

It looks at if my trip to Wales is not going to happen for my 4oth. birthday! Instead I am trying now to do a mission trip with my church to Alaska.!.(www.bellcreek.org)....
Seems as if God provides us with opportunities and we must act. I am feeling a deep need to help out and am trying to get into the planning stages of it as time goes by. Pray for me that if this is what God wants that my family, job, and extras fall into place and that God sees it fit for me to go and takes care of these details. What an exciting place to be called to do HIS work.....I had better take my Sig-P226 (40cal) and at least some bear killing bullets. I think 40 cal to a Bear that size would be like trying to kill a dog with a spitwad.
Todays color is red..........................as in............ run the bear is comming and he is going to eat you red!

Hey buddy, welcome back!

2005-08-14T18:34:00.000-07:00

Thanking James for adding a link to my site!! I'll try not to rant and rage too much (yea right).

My son Bryan spent the last two days in Chicago with his his grand-dad. He had a great time. I work at the airport so I went to greet them at the gate tonight. You should have seen his face when he caught mine, it was priceless! Even though I wasn't the one spending the time with him you could just tell he had a GREAT time by the look on his face. He was non-stop talking all the way home telling us about his trip with grandpa to Chicago. That "look" on his face is what makes being a dad all worth it.

My son is a great kid. He will grow up knowing that his mom and dad love him very much, and that we love the Lord and that we want him to see that we have tried our best to be parents to him, provide for him, but most of all that we want him to understand and feel Gods grace and love for him as He has shown his mom and dad.

Happy Birthday Bryan, your dad is very proud of you, and he loves you more than words can say.
Todays color is brownie!
(thats what Bryan wanted for today)

Boycott Walmart, and Schostak Bros. Builders

2005-08-09T20:24:00.000-07:00

The powers that be in Livonia have been purchased by Walmart and Schostak Brother and have decided to tell us poor south of I-96'ers that they are "in the planning stages (have already planned)" of the new Wonderland Villages at Middlebelt and Plymouth Roads.
Basically Walmart has purchased Schostak Bros. and the Livonia City Council at the expense of our safety and peace and quiet. So vote on dear brothers and sisters of Livonia, let it be known that the south of I-96'ers will not go down without a fight! Vote the bastards out, boycott every stinking Walmart and tell Schostak that the Devil is alive in his conscience. I will not tolerate the urban sprawl in my neighborhood!
Please take the time to read this from the GOOD BOOK!
All passages from Ecclesiates

^{ECC 1:9} What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.
^{ECC 2:4} I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards. ⁵ I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. ⁶ I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. ⁷ I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me. ⁸ I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I acquired men and women singers, and a harem ^[a] as well—the delights of the heart of man. ⁹ I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me.

ECC12: ⁹ Not only was the Teacher wise, but also he imparted knowledge to the people. He pondered and searched out and set in order many proverbs. ¹⁰ The Teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true.

¹¹ The words of the wise are like goads, their collected sayings like firmly embedded nails—given by one Shepherd. ¹² Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them.
Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.

¹³ Now all has been heard;
here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
for this is the whole duty of man.

¹⁴ For God will bring every deed into judgment,
including every hidden thing,
whether it is good or evil.

I, 3E believe it will all work its way out whether or not Walmart is there or not.
I'm not frowning on progress, Lord knows we need to fix the eyesore, but lets be a bit more wise about it.
Look at the dicotomy it is...
On one side we have Walmart (discount everything, made in China), on the other they want to put in upscale shops. Seems a bit odd... With upscale shops selling good at higher prices, demands people with more surplus/discretionary income to spend on said items. The same people I believe do not shop at Walmart. These two demographics do not co-mingle.
Am I wrong??
let me know what you think please. (be gentle)
3E

2005-08-05T19:55:00.000-07:00

Self Portrait after 10:00pm

Well it's been a few days.....

2005-08-02T17:22:00.000-07:00

I've been a bad boy and have blown off my blog so here it goes.

Bryan is a VBS this week, how cool is that! My part time job starts soon. Jill and I have three days off together this week. God is Great, He has shown me many things about myself lately that I am more than willing to fix. Let the Holy Spirit take me to the washing board and ring me out.

Later 3E

Having a great week.

2005-07-27T07:44:00.000-07:00

Being back from vacation is not all that bad. Thrown right back into the mix at work, all the back stabbing, name calling and middle school silent treatment, I could possible take for two days. Now that I'm back at work the slackers have another adversary to give bad looks to. It's good versus evil even at the work level. I am amazed that everything can boil down to the simple fight of Good versus evil, how ones perspective on life can change when you see life that way. God has really shown me that this is really true in all aspects of my life. That which is not for the Glory of Jesus Christ is evil, the devil divides us in everything from family, work, friends, and even the time we spend with ourselves. Be aware, satin tries to have his way with us but if we know the Way the Truth and the Light we can be free of his fodder.

Love ya,
3E

todays color is.. 65degrees thank GOD

Vacation Over! Back to Work!

2005-07-24T05:53:00.000-07:00

Today is one of the hardest days of my life. To go back to work after having a week plus off is a challenge. I guess we will see how it goes. No big deal though, I work Sunday and Monday then I'm off Tuesday, Wednesday for my "weekend." Don't worry I'll be fine.

Todays color is "I got the blues"

Back Home

2005-07-20T18:41:00.000-07:00

Hello All,

Had a great time even though we cut it short by three days. Gas prices in Chicago $2.69/GAL the lowest price we paid on our little trip was here in town at $2.27/GAL

Anyway we saw Purdue University (where we met in 1985), and wow things have changed alot. I guess 20 years will do that to a campus, well us too. (duh) We got some cool pictures, if I knew how to post them I would.

Camping was fun except for the 90 degree heat, the 2.5 inches of rain on Monday afternoon and the fact that my back went out on Monday morning (great timing) while I was in the "shower" at the campground.

Jill did better that I thought she would, Bryan was a mess Sunday night, he wouldn't go to sleep. Finally about 1:30am he hit the ground. I had to stay up with him.

All in all, missing out on going to my alma matter (University of Iowa) was only a bit disappointing, I guess we can go next year.....Iv'e not seen campus also in 15 years but what's another year or so.
Great to be back home. My own toilet, shower and Select Comfort bed, I'm a 35. (non-paid endorsement)
Enough for now...
Todays colors are Black and Gold, Go Hawks, Go Boilers!! A house Divided

T-minus 3Days and Counting

2005-07-14T09:47:00.000-07:00

No not the launch of the space shuttle (which I think is great), but my first actual PAID vacation. Yes, thanks to the Great LORD I have found a job and have earned a 40 hour paid vacation. Watch out house work I'm coming home! I think the first thing I'm going to do...beside go to Tim Hortons for another coffee... is ...well.....NOTHING! HA!

Then I'll do some more of that, and possible when things get too hectic, I'll stop and reflect on what its like to have worked for 20 years (basically) with out any real time off, and I'll start to plan next years vacation. (solo hike thru Offa's Dyke in Wales for my 40th. birthday, 181 miles total lenght)

The sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied!
Proverbs 13:4

No color for today

Getting new shoes

2005-07-13T09:15:00.000-07:00

Yes I am getting new work shoes today because I failed a uniform inspection at work. My shoes were not polished enough. Out of all the things in the world going on, my shoes aren't shiny enough. Like that is going to matter when I blow up! If you know what I do for a living that statement will make sense to you, if not go figure it out!
I think the terrorist would say, " yea we took out the terminal, but damn those TSA guys looked sharp, their shoes were just so well polished, they were not praising ALLA, but their shoes were top notch, and what about those ties.....WOW! "

Don't get me wrong I love what I do, we do a great service for the public, focus is a bit off but it's a great job.

todays color is....
patent leather

Tuesday comes again

2005-07-12T01:10:00.000-07:00

This is my weekend! For those of you that dont understand, I work for the Government, that should explain it.(LOL)

A question for us all.

Which quadrant are you spending most of your time in; 1,2,3 or 4?

The Covey Time Management Matrix says quadrant 2 results in : Vision, Balance, Discipline, Control and a life of Few Crises.

Is your life working to improve on your quadrant 2 "stuff"? Have you learned to say "no" to things in your life that are not important and not urgent?

My perspective on quadrant 2 is this; GOD, Country, Family, Business. In that order, in that importance! For without God we are nothing. Without a country that lets us have the Freedoms we have we are bound. Without Family we are lost, and without Work we are aimless.

Awaken the man within you and plunge yourself into the things that are most important. Faith in Jesus Christ, your great American heritage, do everything you can to make your family know that are important to you and work (serve) the people that you have been given that opportunity to shine for!

Gods peace for us all,

Todays color is purple!

I'm back!

2005-07-11T21:35:00.000-07:00

Sorry that I've been gone for so long, it has been a busy few weeks.

I went to Promise Keepers this past weekend in East Lansing, Michigan. All I can say is that if you are a man of GOD, you must attend PK in a city near you. What a fantastic opportunity for me to get together with about 10,000 other Christian men and learn more about being a servant to GOD and how to better treat our family!

Thank you, Bell Creek Church, Kev, and my wife for letting me have the time to go and being bold enough to ask me to go and for covering the cost of admission and the hotel room.

If you are looking for a home church in the southeastern Michigan area check us out at www.bellcreek.org.

Todays color is pea-green.

Thursday

2005-06-30T22:28:00.000-07:00

Storm killed my tent!
A co-worker got suspended(finally).
And I'm almost out of Rum.
What a silly post!
Maybe it is coded for some other meanings, you figure it out!!
Another month has gone by and the changes in my faith have grown so much that I can't begin to tell you.
Thank GOD for Bell Creek Church and the people that make it happen, GOD BLESS them all
Todays color is NAVY BLUE

Tuesday

2005-06-28T13:55:00.000-07:00

Had a great meeting with Kevin today. This is the stuff I've needed for a long time, thank you LORD, for putting me into a church were I can finally get to know YOU.

Painting the bathroom also. It has only needed to be done since December. Watch out, I'm a fiend for deadlines. (LOL)

Todays color is red.

For the week of June 26th thru July 2nd. 2005

2005-06-26T17:57:00.000-07:00

Here is a "sched" (techie talk) of my week if you need it.

Sunday-Church Bell Creek Community Church 10am to 11:30am. Work noon to 8:30pm Fireworks rest of the evening.

Monday-Decipleship with Nast at Panera 9:30. Work at noon til 8:30pm. Free after.

Tuesday-OPEN

Wednesday- House sit for my dad

Thursday-Work noon to 8:30pm. Free after.

Friday- Work noon to 8:30pm. Free after.

Saturday- Work noon to 8:30pm. Free after.

Call me during break times only please usuall 5pm or so

UPcoming events......

Promise Keepers July 8/9

Summer vacation July 17 thru 22

Detroit Youth For Christ Summer Camping trip August 12 thru 19

Hello!!

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This is hopefully a spot that I can keep track of on a daily (weekly) basis. Please forgive me if I blow it off for a while for something else.

Peace,
3esteeve