"Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."

-- Paul Rodriguez

I'm getting really tired of other people giving my email address away ... it has happened over a dozen times in the last week. I don't have the time to go on a big rant right now ... let me just say this as strongly as possible:

DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES LEAVE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION IN A PUBLIC PLACE.

This especially pertains to websites that ask for my personal information (i.e. "Enter your friend's email address"). Many of these websites (birthday lists, cute little forwards, contact managements, etc) are simply collecting people's private information and selling it to spammers. Read their privacy policy (if it exists) ... read it and weep.

I work very hard to keep my private information private. Please stop screwing this up, you're being naive and gullible, and my inbox (and eventually my mailbox and voicemail too) is paying the price. Thank you.

People always ask me what I teach. I think I'm going to start telling them that I teach integrity.

If you haven't figured this out already, my posting is going to be a little sparse the next couple of weeks. I'm done with track, finishing up school, starting camp, and working on a few side projects. It's nuts.

Most of my time right now is being spent on the 2004 8th Grade DVD ... a big project I'm hired to do every year for our school. I worked every minute last weekend on it ... literally. Thousands of photos, a huge 100-slide PowerPoint, and a lot of attention-to-detail that hardly anyone will notice. But that's how I work, when asked to be creative. Bring it.

Today I bought a 160gig LaCie hard drive from the Apple Store so I can move 60 gigs of old video projects off the PowerMac. The LaCie, however, is having a lot of errors and I'm very wary of trusting it with my information (yes, it's brand new. I hate hard drives.). I'm going to go in tomorrow to see if the genii will have mercy on me and help me verify its reliability. Needless to say, I'm not very happy ... I don't have a lot of days to work on this project, and I'm dreading the prospect of paying $172 to have all my important information erased. I know my life is always a complicated mess ... but I really really really need this one to be simple and predictable. I've worked too hard for variables to start going wrong. [please, God?]

The staff is arriving at camp in one week. I have to try really hard not to think about it, because I won't be able to focus on what needs to be done first. In fact, I'd better stop typing about it. I'll tell you about it all later. [but yes, I'm pumped!]

Honestly, I think this is the last year that I can deal with the overlap ... it's just way too hard to be juggling so many things at once. Something's gonna fall and hit the ground ... and it's probably gonna be me. If you're of the praying type, I'd really appreciate your prayers these next two and a half weeks (through May 5th). It'll be impossible by my own strength. Only by grace ...

Winners

lance webel

real-life Rube Goldberg devices

the Dilly sextuplets

catchy phrases for church signs websites

mystery machine for sale webel

webel

oj mayo

dr richard webel missouri

don't mess

gmail referrals

dela wear new jersey

8 queens of death explain

WEBEL

judge marilyn oconnor

WebL

rebekah bowling

webel stuff

north college hill oj mayo

"rachel mcpherson" blog

kyle neyer

appliance direct commercial orlando

Awards, Charlie Zimkus

lance blog cincinnati

Whiners

webel and bob

"Don't mess with Texas" T-shirt that is white and has orange writing

calculate speeding ticket fines

meet me in

thialand song bird

"first item ever sold on ebay"

rube goldberg type device made by kids

don't mess with texas women t-shirt

helping

chris rice cartoon song MP3

webel isp

ben roethlisberger mpg

matt webel

+"dunk tank" +"photos"

robbie neidlinger

"wedding vowels" and "better or"

laugh-in 3d comforter

east liverpool ohio paintball teams

dunk festival pictures

Free .mac account

pie hair cutting method

Did I just find what I think I found? Transparent Duct Tape?

The Mystery Machine is for sale. Oh, the temptation ...

"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."

-- Mark Twain

This is the best FAQ ever. Just read it ... it's about time that a company is willing to have so much fun and publish it openly.

In fact, the whole website is hilarious ... I'd hire them, if I needed production music. Or if I liked lots of multiplying bunnies.

I just got a phone call from old friend and PVM counselor Kourtney Klendworth. She and her twin sister, Krystal, are alumni of CHCA and recent graduates of Kentucky Christian College.

Krusher (that's Kourtney) informed me of some awesome news ... the gals are now officially graduated and moved back to Cincinnati! Even better, she got a job today and is looking to buy a condo with her sister. As if that wasn't good enough, the condo they're interested in is directly upstairs from me in the same exact building. That's right, they could live anywhere on earth, but they might end up 15 steps from my apartment door!

Here's the funny thing (to me) ... earlier this year, CHCA put on a production of The Odd Couple. Ever since, people have been teasing Killer (my roommate and a CHCA high school teacher) and I about being Oscar and Felix. We've tried to ignore it ... but if twin sisters move in upstairs (a la Cecily and Gwendolyn Pigeon), it's going to be simply unavoidable.

And absolutely hilarious. :)

New York family court judge Marilyn O'Connor ruled that a couple "should not have another child" while Australian Treasurer Peter Costello says that citizens "owe it to their country to have more children".

As long as they don't buy iPods.

I cannot stand listening to people eat. Slurp, crunch, chomp ... it simply drives me crazy. My momma taught me to eat with my mouth closed, and now I cannot be in the same room as a noisy eater without having to pee out of annoyance. I just get up and leave (unless if I'm in the car, then I turn the music way up).

Why can't I say something? I must be a coward. A coward that's sitting two rooms away and can STILL hear the slurping! Just finish your food, already! AAAAAAaaaaahhhhh!

Winners

• Saddleback Mel Gibson
• mel gibson and willow creek
• copley ohio blog
• rebekah bowling
• saddleback community church passion gibson
• lee strobel passion
• "Amber Bennett" Cincinnati
• oj mayo pictures
• dilly sextuplets
• friends listen to each other
• lance blog cincinnati
• Matt Wicker
• bowl chair
• to work at apple
• webel

Whiners

• happenstance May 6 1978 12:34 PM
• cultural considerations in disney's entry in france
• goodwill donations gahanna
• saddem jehovah
• blog hot or not
• noxema
• injection molded toothbrush grips
• why did david and bathsheeba baby die
• who is Sadamm
• My school computer blocks Yahoo
• kmax energy drink lawsuit
• alert

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can. All of them make me laugh."

-- W.H. Auden

You may remember my post on March 28th where I talked about commissioning a student to do a work of art for me. I asked Jenny Shen, a very talented 8th grader, to create a 24" square wall-hanging (her choice of medium) that visually depicts salvation. She's not done yet, but here's what she's got so far:

It's time to clean out some old bookmarks that have been lingering for a while. Unfortunately, I haven't recorded my sources for any of these websites, so sorry about the lack of citation. It's on the web, though, so it's all public knowledge, eh?

• Britney says that it's time to celibate!
• "Portland schools ... point out that they do give religious groups places to exercise their free speech - just not display cases."
• Perhaps it's wise to know the answer before you ask.
• Check out how God protected this little girl with rickets in a 45-foot fall from a freeway overpass.
• In case if you missed it, it's a crime to harm a baby in the womb.
• This subservient chicken is all flashy trixie goodness, letting you boss him around with a pretty intelligent interface (or in-his-face).
• Are you a grammar freak like me? Then play the Eats, Shoots, and Leaves Punctuation Game.
• Oh, yeah. The ultimate. Frisbees.
• Ever wonder what vending machines in Japan look like?
• Looks like my hometown is starting to use fingerprint identification in school lunch lines. For real.
• You can now buy a bag of garbage on eBay.
• I cannot believe that this man drove home. A great example of the effects of alcohol, kids.

Eye halve a spelling chequer. It came with my pea sea.
It plainly marques four my revue miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word and weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write. It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid, it nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite. Its rarely ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it, I am shore your pleased two no.
Its letter perfect in it's weigh. My chequer tolled me sew.

[via an email forward]

I'm pretty sure that he reads my blog.

I don't understand why President Bush is so afraid to publicly apologize for things.

• You get a sunburn just from teaching classes outside.
• A student tears up because of a compliment that you give her.
• You wave to the President of the United States as he passes in his pimped-out SUV (no, I didn't get in).
• You get dinner paid for and you get to keep the leftovers.
• You accidentally lock your keys in your classroom so you have to go home earlier than expected.

"I've been married for 43 years. But if anything happened and my wife kicked the bucket, I wouldn't marry again for love ... it's too hard. I'd marry for money."

-- Lonnie Black, CHCA Middle School Custodian

Gmail is Google's new mail service. Supposedly it's awesome, letting you keep 1000 megabytes of storage, search through your mail, and remain ad-free (except for "relevant text ads"). Critics have been divided on it however ... some raise issues of privacy, others are selling their addresses, some talk about the trixy mixing of personal communication and Google's caching reputation, and even others contend that the FBI is involved in Gmail.

Here's my personal situation. I have a promotional Gmail account (I don't think they're available to the public yet) that I created a couple of weeks ago. I've never used it. But I've already received about 10 spams ... not at my Gmail address, but at the email address I used to sign up for Gmail. Yep ... they have given away the address I used to register.

Whether they intentionally sold it or had a security breach, they have violated my personal rights. How do I know it was them? I use a website called SneakEmail to monitor and control the ways companies use and distribute my email addresses. It's foolproof ... I once caught and confronted Sprint giving away my email address to spammers. And now Google is doing it. I'm highly disturbed.

I'm surprised. But the facts speak for themselves, and I wouldn't trust Google with any personal information any more. They're gonna have a lot of 'splainin to do before I use them for anything but general web searches again. I may even start looking for alternatives for that as well.

"The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."

-- Willy Wonka