10 Dollar Give-Away

I recently attended a church service where the sermon was on love. In the message, the speaker told a story about a professor at USC named Leo Buscaglia. After one of his students committed suicide, he decided that the academic world was teaching students all these random facts that they would mostly forget, which would not really affect their character. As a result, he created a class teaching students how to love.... i think it was called Loving 101. In the class he would give students assignments that would put them in situations where they had to benefit the lives of others instead of themelves. One of the assigments was to give away 10 dollars to a person you didn't know. That must have touched me because the other day at the sonic drive in, while ordering a chocolate milkshake, I had an overwhelming urge to complete the assigntment by tipping the high school waitress on roller blades 10 bucks. She kinda looked at me confused for a couple of seconds... "do you need change?... what is this for?" I could tell it made her day as she headed back inside to get another customer's order ready. So why not try the 10 dollar give-away challenge..... i'll bet you will be glad you did. share your 10 dollar give away story by writing in the comments.
ps for more on Leo Buscaglia go here: www.aristotle.co.nz/aboutus/gurus/Leo_Buscaglia.aspx

sleep, duct tape, and comforters

ok, last night i woke up and i could not go to sleep because the neigbor's flood lights were shining very intensely on my window. i loathe light when i'm trying to sleep.... its like if i shut my eyes and sense there is light i feel that it is an intruder into my being and i must stop it. normally the flood lights next door are on a motion sensor, so they go off in a minute, allowing me to get the rest i need... but something was different last night. i allready have the standard metallic blinds, which proved to be no match for these 2 intense flood lights... so I got up and started devising plans of how to block this woeful enemy. i figured id have to put something big and dark covering the whole window. I proceeded to take my comforter and try to mount it hanging over the window with duct tape. it didnt work too well. i managed to find some sharp hook things that allowed me to hang the comforter on the support that the blinds are hanging from.... i turned off the lights to my room and I got some rest as my enemy had been thwarted.. i just have to get used to a comforter hanging over my window while i think of another device that would be much more suitable.

admit you're a spare

A sports radio segment i heard this morning and an intense basketball game that i was involved in yesterday have got my brain thinking about how prideful we humans are.
The game of basketball, a supposively friendly game of 4-on-4 (court is small so we play 4 on a side) became intense and full of all kinds of arguing, complaining, whining, etc etc. we were playing a team that probably should have beat us but we jumped out to a commanding 10-2 lead (game to 11) . Actually 1 guy on the opposing team started getting really frustrated and complaining and stuff and just got more frustrated as his team got further and further behind. It's just sad to me to look around the court and see these guys who think that a pick-up game is like the NBA championship or something, that winning that game will just make their whole lives that much better.. dont get me wrong, i am not saying that you should be lazy and just not try to win.... i love competition and i try my best at whatever i do.. but at some point you have to realize the importance and significance that 1 pick up game has to do with your life. i think that some of those guys out there are still trying to relive their old dreams of playing college or pro ball and they just need to admit that they arent Pro material.
Its so hard for us as humans though to not live in our past and to admit we are a lot lousier at things than we really are. About the radio segment... they were talking about people who are sports imposters... these people will say they are pro sports athletes when they are not... they mentioned one guy who they saw in a hotel that was signing autographs, claiming that he was the captain of the special teams for the Dallas Cowboys!! who knows if this guy had an injury that destroyed his dream as a youth or what, but that is just messed up... i guess we are all a little messed up.. and the first way to getting out of our mess is to admit we are all a little bit like that spare part.... not as good as we should be, not as visible to the world as we want to be, and not as useful to our community as we ought to be.... I know from my own life and from my friends lives that if we admit to ourselves and to God who we are in relation to Him, then we begin to change because we realize that He can turn us into something great... which may not be in the form of being able to shoot lights out from downtown

adding links-help

i see that most people have links to other peoples blogs...
how do i add these to my blog site..
and yes i know that my first 2 posts were esentially the same.. i thought that the first one didnt get posted

blog rookie

ok, im a total rookie here and im not too computer savvy either..
but i have had a BORING day at work and have enjoyed reading some of my friends blogs like david penuel and will washington.. so i figure why not start one.. here goes nothing...