I got some cash for my birthday and a Master Card gift card. So today I went and spent it!
Since I am somewhat of a computer geek I got stuff for my mac. I got a external hard drive case…..
And a 160gb Seagate hard drive to go in it! I had a 40gb external that I built that started to get full.
And then my favorite shoes! I think they are so comfortable and cool looking!
For those of you who do not have a Cold Stone Creamery near you, let me express my deepest sympathies! 
For the rest of us lucky ones…… join the Cold Stone Creamery Birthday Club and get your free ice cream on your birthday, like I am today! 
And here are the pics from that glorious event!
No, the ice cream does not make you turn white. It was just a bad pic.
Tomorrow, I get back in the saddle again. Kent has given me a wonderful opportunity to speak to RSM. He is doing a series on common heroes of the Bible and I get to talk about Abraham and I will also get to do Noah on March 12th and David on March 19th! That is pretty cool.
But what also is cool is that Kimmy will be singing on one of the praise teams at our church. I think I am more excited for her than I am for me! She has such a great voice and gift, and it is cool to see God using her at our church. I know she has missed it.
So it is really cool to be back doing the things that we know God has called us to do. And what is even better is that the two of us will be getting back in the saddle again on the same day. Plus, it will be the day after my birthday! What a cool birthday present!
Hopefully, I won’t screw up like this guy!
This one is from paulsadowski.com…..
Your date of conception was on or about 4 June 1972 which was a Sunday.
You were born on a Sunday
The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2441738.5.
The year 1973 was not a leap year.
Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 2/3/1973 and ending 1/22/1974.
You were born in the Chinese year of the Ox.
The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 22 April 1973.
The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) on your birth year was Wednesday 7 March 1973.
The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday 10 June 1973.
The date of Whisuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday 17 June 1973.
The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Thursday, 27 September 1973.
The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Tuesday, 17 April 1973.
The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 6 March 1973.
As of 2/23/2006 9:24:16 PM EST
You are 32 years old.
You are 396 months old.
You are 1,721 weeks old.
You are 12,051 days old.
You are 289,245 hours old.
You are 17,354,724 minutes old.
You are 1,041,283,456 seconds old.
Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 4.71663405088063 years old. (You’re still chasing cats!)
There are 2 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 33 candles.
Those 33 candles produce 33 BTUs,
or 8,316 calories of heat (that’s only 8.3160 food Calories!) .
You can boil 3.77 US ounces of water with that many candles.
In 1973 there were approximately 3.7 million births in the US.
In 1973 the US population was approximately 203,302,031 people, 57.4 persons per square mile.
In 1973 in the US there were approximately 2,158,802 marriages (10.6%) and 708,000 divorces (3.5%)
In 1973 in the US there were approximately 1,921,000 deaths (9.5 per 1000)
In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds.
In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds.
Your birthstone is Amethyst
There are 305 days till Christmas 2006!
The moon’s phase on the day you were
born was in its last quarter.
US President
Richard M. Nixon
US Vice President
Gerald R. Ford
1973 Prices
Bread: $0.27/loaf
Milk: $1.36/gal
Eggs: $1.22/doz
Car: $4,052 (wouldn’t that be nice!)
Gas: $0.39/gal (this, too!!!)
House: $35,500
Stamp: $0.08/ea
Avg Income: $13,622/yr (notice how a car was about a third less than this? not anymore!)
Min Wage: $1.60/hr
DOW Avg: 851
Top Songs for 1973
Let’s Get It On by Marvin Gaye
Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree by Dawn
Crocodile Rock by Elton John
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown by Jim Croce
Killing Me Softly with His Song by Roberta Flack (And here I thought the Fugees sang it! LOL)
Top of the World by Carpenters
My Love by Paul McCartney & Wings
You’re So Vain by Carly Simon
Keep On Truckin’ by Eddie Kendricks
Midnight Train to Georgia by Gladys Knight & the Pips
Academy Award Winners
Best Picture: The Sting (Directed By George Roy Hill)
Best Actor: Jack Lemmon (in Save The Tiger)
Best Actress: Glenda Jackson (in A Touch Of Class)
People born on February 25
1873 - Enrico Caruso Naples Italy, operatic tenor (Faust)
1913 - Jim Backus Cleveland OH, actor (Mr Magoo, Thurston Howell III-Gilligan’s Island)
1943 - George Harrison Liverpool England, rocker (My Sweet Lord, Beatles-Something, Traveling Wilburys-End of the Line)
On TV in 1973
Maude
The Streets of San Francisco
Kojak
Good Times
Happy Days
M*A*S*H (one of my faves and the greatest shows ever!!!)
The Little People
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Rookies
The Bob Newhart Show
Hot New Toys in 1973
Evel Knievel Stunt Cycle
The Lone Ranger Action Figure
Boggle
Perfection
Dungeons & Dragons
Fisher-Price Movie Viewer
Shrinky Dinks
Top Books in 1973
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Interesting facts about events that happened on February 25th. From “Any Day in History”
1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1¢)
1791 1st Bank of US chartered
1793 1st cabinet meeting (At George Washington’s home)
1799 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
1799 Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
1836 Samuel Colt patents 1st revolving barrel multishot firearm
1837 1st US electric printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
1838 London pedestrian walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours
1859 First use of “insanity plea” to prove innocence
1862 Congress establishes the US Bureau of Engraving & Printing
1862 Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln
1863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency
1868 Andrew Johnson impeached for violation of the Tenure of Office act
1885 US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds
1951 1st Pan American Games open (Buenos Aires Argentina)
1951 “Michael Todd’s Peep Show” closes at Winter Garden NYC after 278 performances
1974 Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975
1981 NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 minutes)
1987 Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bull record 58 points in a game
1989 Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career
1989 Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1998 Pamela Lee has husband Tommy Lee arrested on battery charges
1998 Switzerland’s 1st legal brothel opens in Zurich
The City of Detroit is in serious financial problems, projected budget shortfall of $300 million dollars, so the mayor is looking into ways to save money. And one of the ideas is to cut the yearly funding for the zoo and turn it over to the zoological society to find it. This only amounts to about $5 million a year, but every bit helps the city. The city would maintain ownership, but the zoo would just find funding in other places.
So guess what happened? The state said that it would pick up the funding! The city council just needed to decide if they want to cut the funding and let the zoo find it’s own funding. Sounds great, right? Of course! So what do the geniuses at city hall do? They decide that they want to continue the pissing contest with the mayor and vote it down, even though the mayor said that would mean having to close it down.
But it doesn’t end there….. One of the city council members decided that the states offer to help the zoo was racially motivated! WHAT?!?!?!? Why is the state saying that they see the zoo as an important part of community and so they want to keep it open, racism? Here is what Barbara-Rose Collins said…..
“This is not a plantation,” Collins said. “We are not owned by everyone else. Black folks are not owned by white folks anymore. I made the point Saturday that the state Legislature was pimping the City of Detroit, and that we should not play the role of prostitute. That upset a lot of people, but I stand by my words. The symbolism is that Detroit is a black city, and we’re not able to govern ourselves. It’s a racist attitude and I resent it.”
I don’t get it! 
Why is the state wanting to preserve our zoo, racism? But it proves my point from this post! I believe racism is propagated more by black people than it is by white people. And Barbara-Rose Collins proved my point once again.
“Yeah, Matt always thinks that,” said [Tony] Stewart, who had tapped Ryan Newman, enabling Kenseth to assume the lead on lap 57. “He has no room to complain. He started the whole thing, and I finished it.
“I guess Matt didn’t think anything when he got me sideways over in (Turn) 2, either. He should have thought about that first. He got back what he started in the first place. I got penalized for that,” Stewart added. “They didn’t penalize him when he turned me sideways over there, so he should have been smart enough to know not to be knocking down a guy’s door in the first 20 laps.”
From the USA Today.
So intentionally turning into someone for the sole purpose of wrecking them at a 190 miles an hour is the mature way to handle a little bump? Just about every bit of respect tony earned last season is gone in my opinion. What a freakin’ moron! Not only did he take Matt out, but he almost ruined many other people’s day. Nice job, Tony!
The above picture is a bad Photoshop job by me! LOL
Congratulations, Jimmie Johnson on your first ever Daytona 500 win! And another great win for Hendrick Motorsports (the team’s 6th) and the car owner’s first as owner.
February 18, 2001 was a very sad day in NASCAR history. 5 Years ago at the Daytona 500 on the last lap one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR died on the last lap of the race. This 7 time cup winner changed the sport of racing. Many drivers looked up to him and learned so much from him. So I honor Dale Earnhardt with this mini tribute to him.
Just got back from seeing this movie with my church and all I can say is, “WOW!!!” That is one of the most moving movies that I have ever seen and that includes The Passion of the Christ. While that was an extremely moving movie as well. But the difference between the two is this, The Passion showed us what God has done for us and End of the Spear shows us what we should do in response to that. And that is why it was more moving.
Our response to God’s love for us is to love one another and to reach out to everyone, whether or not that person killed your father or not. Sadly, I believe that we as a church are failing in this, because we can hardly find love for one another in our own hearts. The Bible tells us that, “Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.” John 13:35 And I think that we as a church are failing at this big time. A case in point is with this movie, some Christians are being very critical of it because it only references Jesus once in the whole movie. But yet you can’t help but seeing the heartbeat and fingerprints of Jesus all over these missionaries lives, throughout the whole movie.
The church in America is so good at telling people what we do not stand for, but horrible (in my opinion) at telling people Who we stand for! My church rented out a theater for us to see this movie after the churches staff went and saw it together, because they felt that it showed what our church is all about. In a recent message my pastor during his series on the “DNA of Rockpointe” said that our DNA and mission must and will be the same as that of Jesus, to reach out to the lost. And this movie really showed that same heart. If you have not seen this movie yet, I encourage you to go out and see it today, just bring a box of tissues with you. It will not be in the theaters much longer but it is worth it. If you don’t get a chance to see it in the theater, then rent… no buy it on DVD when it comes out. The makers of the movie are donating half of the profits from the movie to reach out to unreached people groups.
Thank you Randy for making sure that the DNA of Rockpointe and our DNA is the same as that of Jesus! And thank you for making sure we could all not only hear about that DNA via your messgae, but that we could see it by watching this movie together as a church.
The pictures that I posted here are all from HollywoodJesus.com.
Kathy!!! And we won’t comment on the fact that she cheated by refreshing the page!
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