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Better Than Paypal…
Posted by Dan on 24 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: Life
If you use Revolution Money, you get $25 right away and account transactions are free. Not bad.
EDIT: Here’s a nice write up in USA Today about the company.
Parker Elizabeth Price
Posted by Dan on 04 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Family, Life
She was born yesterday at 7:20pm. She weighs 6 pounds 8 ounces and is 18 inches long. She and her mother are doing well!
Schedule
Posted by Dan on 28 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Friends, Family, music, Life
Here’s our schedule for the next couple of days:
Today: Meetings in the morning to the early afternoon. Rehearsal and dinner in the evening.
Tomorrow: Since Feburary 29th doesn’t usually exist I’m hoping my productivity at work really shows at the end of their year, hopefully my report will say something like “Dan really got at least an extra days work this year.” Or something like that. Also, little detail, Will and Monaca’s wedding.
Saturday: Get up in the morning, pick up Jeremy and Kristen. Drive to Akron, Ohio. Stop in and see the family. Drive with everyone to Swensons. Go see the Avett Brothers at the Kent Stage. Drive back to Mom’s. Watch Wilco on SNL (yes it will feel like my birfday). Sleep. Get up. Drive home. Set up for Merge. Listen to Theme and Variation. Listen to James’s teaching etc…
Next week: Have a baby.
Hopefully that last thing won’t happen before the weekend is over. Otherwise, Jeremy and I may be delivering a baby on the side of the highway. And by “Jeremy and I” I really mean “Kristen.”
Old Timey Remedies
Posted by Dan on 04 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Life
Well, I guess it fits that since I’ve been listening to more bluegrass, playing more banjo, watching westerns (310 to Yuma is awesome) and hanging out with our resident Old Soul-Brandon Foote, that I might as well add that my doctor (after seeing my sore throat) told me to buy some whiskey and honey because that’s the best thing I could do. It didn’t take much to convince me to grab some Johnny Walker and some Buckswheat honey. My throat is already feeling better.
Monterrey, Mexico
Posted by Dan on 22 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Riv, Life, Xianity
1. No, I’m not jumping on orphans.
2. No, I’m not holding JR’s hand.
Well, I just got back from a trip with Back 2 Back Ministries. I used to be on staff there doing high school ministry about six years ago and this was my second time to Monterrey.
This trip was amazing though for a few reasons. We were able to really hear the passion and vision of the workers down there who are giving their lives to reach these kids for Christ and who are meetings the physical needs as well. Todd and Beth, the directors were doing a missions trip about 11 years ago and they went to this orphanage and decided to host a BBQ. They were cooking the hamburgers and couldn’t believe how many the kids were eating. Todd thought that something wasn’t right, and asked his wife to follow the kids and see where the hamburgers were going. She followed a little girl into the bedroom and realized that the kids were taking the burgers and stashing them under their beds because they didn’t know when they would see meat again. Sad. That’s what captured their hearts though. We met a lady who decided to stay in the slums to minister to the people there even though she could leave if she wanted to. The slums smelled like crap. There were shelters without roofs. There were pigs eating garbage. There were neighbors with guns and knives. There were neighbors practicing witchcraft. It was intense. We were also able to go to Raylitos De Luz (Rays Of Light) the most humble of children’s home which had 17 kids and a husband and wife team that took these kids in. The all lived in a two bedroom house and had barely a pat
Going For It
Posted by Dan on 11 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: music, Life
There’s something about getting older that makes you want to be more comfortable-an old dog won’t learn new tricks and that sort of thing. Well, my post below I think might be illuminating this in my life a bit. I was pretty set on buying a banjitar, you know since I already play guitar I won’t have to deal with learning a whole new instrument etc… So, Suzanne and I go to Elderly and I play the banjitar a bit and it sounds a little like a banjo, but maybe more like a guitar than I had remembered. So I started messing around with a real banjo and realized that it’s tuned in open G which isn’t really that hard of a tuning to learn. So I messed around and plugged in an electric 5-string banjo and the difference in sound was significant. So, I’m going for it. As soon as I can save up enough money, I’m going to buy a banjo and learn how to play it.
Personality
Posted by Dan on 21 Dec 2007 | Tagged as: Life
About the ENTP
Expert Quotes & Links
“ENTPs are idea people. Their perceptive abilities cause them to see possibilities everywhere. They get excited and enthusiastic about their ideas, and are able to spread their enthusiasm to others. In this way, they get the support that they need to fulfill their visions”
- Portrait of an ENTP (The Personality Page)
“It is so natural for these individuals to practice devising gadgets and mechanisms, that they start doing it even as young children. And they get such a kick out of it that they really never stop exercising their inventive bent”
- The Portrait of the Inventor Rational (Keirsey)
“ENTPs are usually verbally as well as cerebrally quick, and generally love to argue–both for its own sake, and to show off their often-impressive skills… argument as a sport.”
- ENTP Profile (TypeLogic)
“ENTPs contribute an innovative, versatile, and enterprising approach to work. They view limitations as challenges to be overcome and look for new ways to do things. They need to find a niche for themselves in order to be free to maneuver. They prefer the start-up phase of a project rather than the followthrough or maintenance phase. Once the project is designed, they prefer to turn it over to someone else.”
- ENTP - The Innovator (Lifexplore)
“…attention seeking, experience junky, insensitive, adaptable, not easily offended, messy, carefree, dangerous, fearless, careless…”
- Jung Type Descriptions (ENTP) (similarminds.com)
Post Secret Project
Posted by Dan on 12 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Riv, Life, Xianity
Well, the weekend if finally over. I taught the second in a 4 part series call the Post Secret Project. We had people send in secrets and Noel and I based our messages on the needs that we saw in those secrets. Noel is on for the next two weeks, if you are around, it’s going to be really good.
If you weren’t able to catch my teaching this past weekend. You can listen to it here.