sitting in a cubical and desire to waist time...here you go....

Desktop Tower Defense!

The new Abigail Elizabeth Dorn!!!!

Well, this afternoon Tiffany and I spent in the waiting room for Kim and Steve to have their little baby girl!!! And what a blessing it was for Tiffany and I to be there! Here are a few pictures of the awesome event!!!


Very happy Daddy telling the good news....to the waiting family and friends....


Grandmother and Great Grandmother loving the news!!!


The sweet breath of life! Abigail Elizabeth Dorn Two hours old and beautiful!!!


Now that is me and as soon as she laid in my arms she fell asleep...man I love that, heh!


Here is a happy Aunt(Surrogate) Tiffany


The brand new parents!!!

Feast of St. Patrick, and general life.....

last Friday i went to an awesome free gathering/conference @ St. E.'s. Here are a few shots of the worship time and of St. E.'s the building...(one that I love!!!)


(here is worship Friday night.)







the Friday night was wonderful, and Saturday morning was great too! I wish I coulf have made it to all of it...but oh well. Still looking forward to the Easter Vigal with these guys!!!

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Oh and want to see our new washer and dryer...that we had a fun story around? heh...here they are....



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And Wednesday i went into work to have a goose try to scare me...it did not work, but I caught them on camera.....



and here is the one that got mad at me:


you can even hear the hissing noise in the picture, heh...

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Monday or Tuesday I went to Dayton to meet with Ben one of te guys that did Th3 Waters website....(you know the most amazing website in the world!!!) Anyway we went to a downtown very hip and cool Thai Sushi place and as we were leaving I got this shot of the Salmon he was preparing for that evening!! oh man I love this shot!!!



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Well, OK the next post was what I did this entire afternoon!!! And man It was a blast! So until next time..... God bless and KUTPs!!!!

What's in your Nugget....

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Well, I am a McDonald's generation guy. I grew up eating it and I still do eat it......(and my fat belly shows the excellent results of such eating, heh.... but after this article it is a little scary.....

What's in your nugget?

Now I have been known to eat a nugget or two or ten...and every time I have ever ordered one my wife yells out that they are made of mouse meat..... so here is an article that proves her wrong...and make me never want to eat any more...woo hoo... maybe I will loose .02% of my body fat!


Well, the house is coming along and we plan on trying to have a big push today and Saturday to get all the stuff from the old house over here to the new house. (anyone bored and want to help? heh.)

We also almost have the furniture for the office @ Florence and Tiffany and I will be sharing...and those two will be nice.

I have up graded to Windows Vista here @ my house and I like it
(mainly because it is a Mac OS X wanna be, heh)....except for the fact that very few programs are Vista ready....and for some reason my Sound Blaster audio card is not working properly...so I will cal them for the third time today and see if they would be willing to replace the card for me and let my computer be able to sing....

For those of you who don't know I through my back out two days before our big move a week or two ago and the pain has moved to my lower right side and it is only there when I wake up in the morning...so I might try to go see the Dr. again and see what is up. If he gives me the OK I will try to start working out and see if I can find a track around here to run on. If not...the I might look into going where ever Tiffany goes for her water aerobics to work out.....we shall see.....

Well, other than boxes...life is going very good. we are starting to deal with the boxes that we have in the house from the first move...and almost to the point that we can start to grab a few of the boxes from the garage ad start working on them too. Who knows maybe by this time next year we could both pull into the garage! heh.....

oh I almost forgot... I went to the pre-opening party @ Guitar Center here in Florence...and I must say that is an amazing store!!! I went in thinking that they would carry guitars...but I got in there and they carry everything! speakers, monitors, mics, sound boards, mixers, guitars, percussion, song books, etc.... the store is big...and I heard that when they opened that the line was almost a mile long outside! So, after I get back with Kevin I hope to start looking into the tech we will need to d a good podcast and provide the room and equipment as a ministry to others to allow them to enter the world of podcasting...and hopefully have our own podcast or three to share with the world. I am very excited about this opportunity.

Th3 Waters is going well, and now that the website is up and running I just need to start the blogs up ad going and we should be ready to rock and roll!!!!

Well, yall take care and God bless ya! KUTPs!!!!!

Ok here is the rest of the story.......(little Paul Harvey joke there).....

So, that night all I could do is wait to call the insurance company the next morning and then find out what they said..... and see if H.H. Gregg could help out with replacing the laptop. Well for some reason I have set y cell phone to silent and I charge it in the office room of our house so I never heard it ring...but after I woke up that next morning I went into the home office and I saw that I had 2 cell phone messages. I immediately grabbed my phone and held down the number 1 button to get into my voice mail and low and behold there was the Affinity rep. guy (the one who came over to my house the night before) and he told me that he had good news and that they recovered the laptop, and he was heading over to my house with it and a small gift from H.H. Gregg to apologize and let me know of their appreciation of the entire ordeal!

The next message was from the loss prevention guy @ H.H. Gregg to make sure that I got the other guys message and to make sure that the laptop was OK and in good shape.

I immediately called back the Affinity guy and told him I was thrilled that he got the laptop and that I would be here at the house until he arrived and that i could not wait to hear the story.

Ok before I tell you more I must tell you what else happened the day before:

After the two police men heard the description of the truck and the two guys they immediately called Affinity and after lots of talking they finally found out the next two places the truck was going to deliver stuff too and questioned the two guys and searched the truck all over the place and they found nothing. So, this then made the story my word against their word. And I think that is why the H.H. Gregg general manager and the Affinity man came over to my house to see if I was legit and if my story panned out. (and there was no other way my laptop could have been lost unless I just lost it and could not find it.

OK, so the Affinity guy shows up to my house that morning with the laptop...and tells me the story.....

He said that when he visited our house last night that the one thing that really hit home wiht him was that we could careless about the laptop itself...(the church has insurance it could be replaced) but all the ministry on it could not be. That killed us...there is a ton of work that has gone into Th3 Waters and most of it was one this laptop and in my head...and I need the ministry on the laptop more than anything else on it. And the Affinity guy said that he realized that this was a horrible situation and really hit hard on his heart.

So apparently, they had a (heart-to-heart) talk with one of the guys and one of them must have been touched in some small way and called up the other guy who had the church's laptop @ his house. After talking to him for a while he went over to his house and "softened his heart" a little I guess and he eventually gave it over to the one guy who gave it over to his boss who had just given it to me wrapped in bubble wrap.

I got the laptop, opened it...and signed in and everything was there! The laptop had a few scratches on it...but it woluld have gotten those over time anyway...so I was not worried about it at all...and then the Affinity guy went back to his car to get me the small gift from H.H. Gregg. It turns out the other guy the GM from H.H. Gregg felt like we needed some kind of compensation from them to say they were horrified and sorry for what happened. And he handed me a $200 gift certificate to only be spent @ H.H. Gregg in 6 months!

And that blew me away. They kept telling me that I was one of the nicest guys they had ever met and that any number of them would have been throwing things into the walls and much more upset, heh.... well then I decided to call the other loss prevention guy to tell him the laptop was fine and to thank them for the gift...and I told him I was going to give him a hard time...and he said go ahead that it fine with me, heh... so I told him that it sure was funny that they were going to be willing to replace a $2,700 laptop, and then all they gave me was $200? ha ha ha ha... i really was just joking....and he had a good laugh and we hung up the phone...but then the GM called me and asked if everything was OK, etc... and I told him the whole story and then i gave him a hard time too....and he said....wait...your right... I agree with you. And so, he proceeded to tell me that he would sent out another $300 to go with the $200 and make it an even $500!!!!

I was blown away! I know that when I was in corporate America we could do things like this, but man oh man that was very cool.....and he said that when ever we decided to make the purchase for me to call him and he would get the product at cost!

so, that is the rest of the story, and now I have no idea what I am going to do with $500 in a store that sells electronics (insert ironic tone here, heh) again if anyone of you know me then you know that I love my tech...and home theater especially)....the only problem is that I am not sure if I can save up enough money in 6 months to get what I would want, heh....

but isn't it amazing how people even when they have been bad....might all have a small soft for him?

I will not press charges against the guys, what I told the police was i would love to take them out to eat and get to know them and show them grace! I have no idea if the policeman will put out a warrent for them or not.... he has plenty of evidence to do it and it would at least go on their record...and that might not be a bad thing too. And the one guy I know for sure does not have a job...and the other guy I am not sure about...but anyway...what a wild ride.....heh


Well, it is off to Staff meeting...the 1st one with Tiffany as the new youth and children's pastor!!!

Oh and the KY Conference has officially accepted us to join their conference so at this annual conference they will vote us in....and we will both be officially members of the KY Conference of the UMC! Very cool indeed if you ask me! Praise be to God!

And I must apologize for taking so long in getting this post up...several of you begged and some of you ordered me to put it up, heh... but life is just a little busy right now. we are not totally out of the old parsonage yet, we are trying to move into the new office @ work, and our house is filled with boxes that seem never ending! So, thank you all for putting up with my crazy life and until next time... God bless you just as much or more so as he has blessed and is blessing me, and never forget to KUTPs!!! love yall!

i got it back...crazy yeah I know...

Well, I can't believe it either...but I got the laptop back and a small gift from H.H.Gregg!!! More about it all later.....but thanks for your prayers and thoughts...and please pray for the guy (and maybe guys) who stole it.
Thanks...and when I have time I will tell the rest of the story....Love yal!!! KUTPs!!!

We got a washer...but they took my laptop....

Yep, you read that one right.... 2 guys came again today to install the new washer (that replaced the broken one they tried to install yesterday) and here is how it went down.

I was working on my laptop checking email and about to start work on the Saturday evening worship talk...when the door bell rang. I cosed the laptop (and with a Mac it went to sleep mode) and set it in the Home theater chair beside the other one I was sitting in. I went to the front door holding Halo back...and it was the H.H. Gregg delivery team here to install my new washer and stack the already existing dryer on top of the washer!!! Woo hoo...(Tiffany and I have been living out of out suitcases we were in desperate need for clean clothes!)

Well, I watched them most of the time while they installed the appliances. And then I asked them if they would like a drink...and the new guy (one of them came last week) said that he would like to taste my new favorite drink "Bawls"....so I left them and went up stairs and got him the drink. I brought it down to him and everything was fine... Well, I had needed a wrench to take the shower head off upstairs and I thought that maybe they would have brought one with them...and sure enough they did have one...so they let me borrow it and I went upstairs to go and take of the shower head.

I guess it was during this time that they finished and walked into the Home Theater room to find a Mac Book Pro just sitting there in the chair. Sleeping...not doing anyone any harm... just laying down there with it's little glowing white light in the front...and I guess one of them (or both of them) decided that it would be fun to steal a $2,900 laptop ($2,500 with two programs on it that were not cheap). Well, I walked down stairs to find the new guy waiting for me to sign the paper work so they could leave. I noticed that the other guy was already in the truck and the truck was running. Then we walked back into the Home Theater room to sign the papers and I noticed that they put the washer's instruction booklet on top of the laptop in the chair... I signed the paper and they told me it might be a good idea to just let the dryer and washer go through one cycle to make sure that they were working...I said OK, and walked the new guy out of the garage door and watched him get into the huge white box truck.

Well, I went back inside and turned them both on to make sure everything was good and then I sat back down and reached over for my computer to find that my computer was not covered up by the washer instruction manual, but had been replaced by it!!!! I freaked out! I torn the chair apart hoping to find it in the cracks or under the chair with no luck...then I tore apart my other chair the one I was originally sitting in and nothing....then I decided to just go up stairs to look all over the place for the laptop..............nothing.... then it dawned on me the only person inside the house other then me, Halo(the dog), and Sushi (the cat)? The H.H. Gregg guys!!!! then I got mad! So the first thing I did was cal the H.H.Gregg 800 number to tel them the installers stole my laptop....after waiting for an operator ad being transfered 2 times, I talked to Vinnie (sp?) he proceeded to tel me that I must have made a mistake because these guys have been on the job for a long time and all of there workers go through background checks, etc...I told him that they did it and he sad that he would call them and call me back....I proceeded to tell him that that was not the best idea...because it they did steal it...they would never tel their boss they stole it and they would know that i was on to them......bu the guy would not help me at all and so I got off the phone and proceeded to call the previous home owner (who just so happens to be a cop!) I told him and he was @ my house in a matter of mins. I told him everything and he took the invoice and called and talked to Vinnie (who would not help him either (at all) and really ticked us both off. He hung up the phone and told me to go ahead and call in the theft and they sent an Elsmere policeman to the house to make an official report. I told the policeman everything and he got eh serial number of the laptop, etc. and all the info. They started to look for the huge white box truck, and I don't thin they found them. Well, long story long... I have to call the church's insurance company tomorrow and make an official report to them, as well.

And to top it all off the washer was leaking after they left... I fixed it myself...bt still I mean come on...this is stinking horrible! The loss prevention guy @ H.H.Gregg called me and apologized profusely, and told me that he was contacting the general manger for the area and would do the best he could to take care of the situation. Then about 45 mins. after that conversation, a rep. from the delivery company Affinity,and a rep from H.H. Gregg. showed up to my house and wanted to see first hand all about the incident etc... so I walked them through the house and told them everything and gave them the police report, etc... So, we will see what comes of all of this.

so, if anyone sees a MacBook Pro laying around anywhere that has all of my stuff in it's programs...could you just get it to me and bring it back. We (Tiffany and I) went to tonight to have our date night and I told here wen we get back maybe the laptop fairy would bring us a new one...and sure enough....I guess he/she forgot my house...oh well. It is a laptop after all, and not a human being...so I have a good view point on all of this..but it still sucks!


And the funny thing is, man I would have given these two guys the money in my wallet if they just would have asked for it. I really liked them and if yall know me at all I would have invited them to dinner if I had seen them again.....but even now I love them. I wish I could just talk to them. Let them know what I know about grace, love, and forgiveness. I would have done (and still would) almost anything for them. Oh well, please pray for all involved. the two guys, all the H.H.Gregg people, the Affinity delivery guy, and the policemen who help throughout this whole ordeal. God loves them too.

Well, please pray for Tiffany and I, as well. We are interviewing with the KY Conference tomorrow afternoon to be transfered over the the KY Conference of the United Methodist Church! We are excited about it and can't wait to tell more people about Th3 Waters.

Thank you all for reading my blog. your thoughts and prayer are always greatly appreciated! and please KUTPs!!!! God bless!

We are home!!!

Well, the past few days have been a blur..and it looks like the next few might just be the same...but life is good and fun...right now. I am happy, but very stressed...and stressed makes me a little angry...and angry makes me less of a Christian...or maybe I should say makes me act less like a Christian. It is weird...ever since Jay's death.... there are just times out of no where that I cry, and other times, that I laugh, and other times still, that I just get very mad. I hate getting mad, and I know that I could control it if I wanted to, but I do not sometimes...and I just get angry...and then turn green and muscles grow, and my pants rip, heh... just kidding, but Anytime I feel like this it is usually a good indication that i am stressed and tired, and eve more so I know that I need now more than ever to spend time with God. Please forgive me God, and Tiffany for getting angry over the smallest things in the world and even though sometimes it may feel like I am yelling at you... I promise I love you and I am not yelling at anyone...just yelling...that is all.

Anyway... we have internet, the computers are up and going, the guest bed is up and needs to be made, the kitchen is coming along nicely (thanks to Tiffany) and the home theater is getting up and going too. (I still need to hang the side surround speakers and buy/put up the cable management stuff, but all in all I think that everything is coming along swimmingly.

We bought a washer and dryer:



(click on each picture to read more about what they can do)

The washer was brand new and the dryer was a scratch and dent floor model...and when they delivered it this afternoon...guess what? Yep...the dryer was just fine...not evena scratch on it, heh...and the (BRAND NEW washer) had a broken door......so, it looks like tomorrow I will get to sit around again and wait for them to deliver a new washer...and we have asked them to stack the dryer on top of the washer....I think it will just be better for Tiffany to have at least one of them higher up...if it does not work, then I will have a few people help me to make drawer/pedestals for them both to be placed on...and that way both of them will be higher.

Well, other than that...I have got to find some time to work and unpack at the same time... and I have to say that I loved the movie 300....it is not the best movie in the world...but it sure was on kick donkey (in the Biblical sense) action flick and anyone who loves battle scenes and a few good manly lines needs to go see this movie. Next up for me will be Pan's Labyrinth, and maybe a few more...then again... I could just wait fr them to come on DVD and I can not wait t get to see the next Heroes that I DVRed!!! woo hoo....well, I must got to bed... I am stinking tired...God bless yall and KUTPs!!!!

The moved went well!

Thank you to everyone who helped and prayed for us. The moved was successful...and now we get to have months of boxes all over our house. woo hoo! heh... pictures will be coming soon, but we will not get internet or cable until Monday. oh well, I guess I will have to unpack a box or maybe even read...aaaahhhh heh. Thanks again! KUTPs!!!

We have a new house!

Well, today Tiffany and I are offically home owners!!! And in the matter of minets doubled our debt!!! woo hoo! heh....

oh well, so I wanted to show yall what it is like....

Here is the view of the buyers (I bet we signed our name or initialed it around 40-50 times)And here is us:




And here is the view of the sellers (they might have had 4 signatures they had to put on paper):



So, anyway...we are officially homeowners...and guess what? I ....am sick! What great timing on my part, heh... oh well, it i mainly in my head...and I have ache in my muscles...but all in all it really means for me that I get tired fast. So, needless to say our packing has not been what I had hoped for at this point...but we help coming almost everyday of this week and we would appreciate prayers. We hope to have 4 rooms painted and the other house packed by Saturday so we can attempt to move this Saturday!....yeah I know it is a big goal, but if we are a few days behind we can take it. Thank you in advance for everyone who will be helping! We hope to take care of everyone soon!


Oh and BTW: While we were @ Re-Max they had this really nice big painting of two houses in the front...and then I realized that one of the houses had a ReMax sing in front... now that is funny! Here it is in it's fully glory:




KUTPs!! God bless yall!

Totally agree....

Here is an article in the New York Times about how Wi-Fi is becoming the new air conditioning of the market place world. And I totally agree!!! I decide where I will go to "hang out" most of te time on if they have FREE Wi-Fi internet connection or not. Here is the article...and let me know what you think:

What Starbucks Can Learn From the Movie Palace

Looking up....

I have been looking up a lot more lately...not sure why...but I sure have enjoying doing it. It is almost a spiritual thing for me! I think I love mountains so much because they force you to look up! Well, the other night I was (walking Halo) and looking up and the clouds and moon were VERY cool...so of course I took a video of it and here is what I saw...man when the moon broke through the 3 separate levels and layers of clouds it was awesome...and my little poopy camera can not do it justice...but here it is anyway....



Then yesterday I was cooking Jambalaya (we used chicken instead of Duck) (thanks to Alan who has made me crave it ever since I went to his house and while cooking the entire thing... I went outside to cool off and I looked up and was amazed at how cool the clouds were that were moving so fast over head...so here are two videos of that....and even though they are short...just spend some time in awe of God and this world....

this was the view when I looked straight up!



And this was the few looking up at the trees and clouds together:



And lastly here is one more video of Sean..... he was the only one to vote for more of himself...but what can I say i love the guy (in a manly, heterosexual, Christan, way of course!)!





OK... well, we are planning on closing on our new home Monday morning....so I better get back to pacing up the one we live in right now!!! Love yall, God bless, and please KUTPs!!!





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oh, and I took off the cross wall that we had...and all that was left were the nails...and Tiffany wanted me to take a picture of it because it had a small spiritual significance for her...and so I did and this is for her...but maybe in this Lent season you can find purpose in it as well....(remember this used to be covered in crosses and now all that is left are nails)....

Th3 Waters site is live!!! Go check it out and send other to it as well!

Sean my botha man get'n his DDR on....

Well, I promised Sean that i would put his crazy amazing DDR (Dance Dance Revolution a interactive video game) skills on video and pot it to the web...so Alicia will not be the only one that I have put up....here is Sean free styling:



Oh and I have more videos of Sean... but I just need to know if yall want more of him?

In the next video Sean go much faster, heh.

Willing to discover new music....

Musicovery: interactive webRadio

Today's lent thought...

Thursday 2 Cor. 4:13-15

"....This was, of course, a problem in the ancient world as well. So-called 'benefactors' gave gifts to people specifically in order to get a return, to enhance their social position, to look down thier noses at those who benefited from their generosity.
But when god gives things, and indeed when God gives God's own self to people, it isn't like that at all. It is a glad outpouring of who God is, which should never produce guilty indebtedness. God wants s to be grateful, of course, but only because he wants to enjoy the relationship that is thereby created, together with the richer flowering of our genuine humanity."

man I love this stuff! OK again go buy this Reflecting The Glory by Tom Wright

Well, yall have a great day!