Number 33: "I WAS RIGHT"

Number 32: "Love to me is like a summer day"

See if you can spot the Scrubs-esque transition:

Number 31: "Back in T-Town"

I was back in Tulsa this past weekend to celebrate the nuptials of my dearly beloved friends Doug and Danae. It was a splendid wedding and good to see all the Oklahoma people I haven't seen in a while. Somehow I failed to take any pictures of the wedding, but I did go on a scavenger hunt with my brother, so here are a couple from that, as well as 2 really creepy portraits:

Number 30: "The new camera"

So I just bought my brother's digital SLR so that I can now be a fancy photographer. After literally spending hours looking at these photo's I have decided one thing:

I will never take a picture of a flower (or at least, never take a picture and then post it). I think that at least half of the photo's posted on that site are of flowers. It is not that I don't think flowers are pretty, it just seems kind of cheap to me, taking a picture of something that already does most of the work for you to look pretty. I imagine that when God goes scrolling through these digital picture albums and sees all these flowers He starts thinking to himself, "Hey! I remember creating that. Why the heck do they get all the credit for that picture?" But then again, I guess He could say that same thing about taking pictures of humans.

So, with that in mind, here is the first picture I completed:



Bear in mind that the upload of this diminished the quality of this photo. Go here for a truer representation.

Number 29: "Babies always make good videos."

A video for this Sunday's sermon:

Number 28: "It makes me want to shovel something"

2 observations from the day:

OBSERVATION 1:
Most days I go to lunch around 1 and stop by the mailbox to pick up my mail. Sometimes the mailman is still there, and it makes me really uncomfortable. This is why:

Right next to the mailboxes is a big trash can that everyone throws their junk mail into. Usually I throw mine in there as well, except when the mailman is present. I just feel like if I was to take the mail from my box and then turn around and put it directly into the trash it would be like an insult to his profession. I wonder if sometimes he thinks to himself, "Maybe I should cut out the middle man and put this stuff where it is going to end up anyway....I hate my job."

So today I took the junk mail with me and waited until I was home to throw it away.


OBSERVATION 2:
Usually when I am buying things with my credit card the person behind the counter doesn't check my ID. But today the cashier did, and we had a fun conversation as a result:

Cashier: An Oklahoma license, huh?
Me: Yup. Have you ever been to Oklahoma?
Cashier: Nope. I don't really know anything about it.
Me: Yeah, there is not much of a reason to go there.
Cashier: It is fun to say, though. Oh-Kulah-Ho-Ma.
Me: Yeah...
Cashier: It makes me want to shovel something.
Me: Okay...can I have my license back?

Number 27: "A Very Video Update"

Haven't posted many video's as of late, so here are a couple:

Number 26: "Eating chlorotabs like Skittles, or, Better Jump on the bandwagon before it fills up."

When I lived in Oklahoma I thought I had bad allergies. But then I moved to Atlanta and realized I have horrible allergies. Pollen moves through the air as thick as smog, covering everything with a yellow green film. It really is quite remarkable, waking up to find the once black streets now a strange shade of green. So I knock back allergy medication like it is candy and pray that the summer heat gets her and kills everything.

But in better news:

A few months ago my dear friend Bailey and I decided that we needed an American League Baseball team to cheer for. We quickly decided against the natural choices of the Red Sox and Yanks, instead opting for a more unlikely team to cheer for: the Tampa Bay Rays.

In the 1o or so years of their existence the Rays have never even come close to winning half their games. They are perpetually the worst team in baseball, a joke of an organization whose only real news has been whether or not to keep the "Devil" in front of "Rays" (which they decided to drop this spring).

But there is hope. Since Bailey and I have started cheering for the Rays they went 18-8 in Spring Training, and are currently ahead of both the Yanks and BoSox in the A.L. East. Granted, this is more than likely to change, but we are not cheering for a division title, or even a playoff berth. Nay, we are rooting for a winning season, a season that has more wins than losses, or heck, even a season with as many wins as losses!

Oh, and I promise to put up another video soon.

Number 25: "And the home of the Braves"

While I am not necessarily an Atlanta Braves fan, the mere fact that I finally live in a city with a Major League Baseball team has me acting really irrationally.

Yesterday my friend Andy and I decided to buy a "Season Ticket Flex Plan" for the Braves 2008 season. It's a pretty sweet deal, about 15 bucks a ticket for 17 games, the first one being this Thursday. We decided to buy every Thursday game they had at home, since that is the start of both of our weekends. Then we added in a couple of others (he is a Cubs fan, so we're going to that whole series) when we thought the game would be good.

Hopefully my work schedule won't give me too much of a hassle so I can go to the majority of the games I paid for.

Number 24: "Would you like to join our cause?"

For some reason today was "Petition Justin to Join our Cause" day.

It started this morning with some cleverly disguised Jehovah's Witnesses (dressed as an elderly woman and a younger woman in a peacoat) who held my attention long enough to hand me some literature enlightening me on such topics as "Why do Jehovah's witnesses not use the cross in worship?" and "The Mystery of the Monkey's on the Rock".

After they left I realized that I knew next to nothing about their beliefs, so I did some research, using the Internets most reliable source for information, Wikipedia. Some interesting (and sometimes creepy) things I learned along the way:

1) Rather than just Jesus ruling over the Earth after the Apocolypse, He will be joined by the 144,000 elect, mentioned in Revelations.

2) The Second Coming of Christ actually already took place in 1914, but it was done so invisibly in heaven, and Armageddon is currently occurring.

3) Blood is not to be eaten, sucked, stored or transfused.

4) Only they follow the true religion as commanded by God, and all other religions, including Christianity, are false religions that will be destroyed during the End Times.

Well that's fun...

Secondly, today as I was getting of my car in the Blockbuster parking lot I noticed to people dressed in military uniforms. I had this sense that as soon as they saw me they would try and cajole me into signing up, or even worse, giving them my phone number or email address so that they could perpetually hound me with "a great opportunity". And that sense proved correct. Here is conversation:

Military Guy (MG): Well hey, it looks like I am on time.

Me: Excuse me?

MG: You called me and told me to meet you here, right?

Me: Uh, sure I guess...

MG: Hey, I am Sargent Mike. Have you ever considered joining the Army?

Me: Yeah, I considered it, and decided against it.

MG: Well, you know, you can do it part time, work on the weekends.

Me: Oh, well I work for a church, so weekends are no good for me.

MG: Well, they would be able to work with you on a schedule. Here is my card, give me a call sometime so we can talk about some opportunities for you.

Me: Okay, I will.

Alright, so that is a lie. I won't. But I really wanted to get inside and rent a movie, so I said what I had to.