If you know me, you know I can be a little much at times. I'm over the top; I'm confident, sometimes too confident and a little cocky. Some people think I'm arrogant and look down on people. Yet daily I find tears trying to come out of my eyes, but not being able to stream down my face. Am I that chided that this world is what now seems normal and God's grace seeming so out of reach is something I'd like to cry for, but just can't? I'm not really sure, but I know that God is working in and on me in a way that he hasn't in a long time. I now have a wife and a dog to take care of and provide for, the last time He moved in me like this I had an early 80's VW Diesel Rabbit and my days were consumed with growing my hair as long as possible, wearing a sweater everyday for a month, and trying to figure out what to do with the summer that was bearing down on me. It was my sophomore year and I don't know why I feel like God moved me then, but I think he did. I think he's moved me a lot since then too, but maybe I haven't been noticing the moves. All I know is that now I'm not only noticing moves, but I desire moves, wanting more. I want to move away from the worldly desires that consume my mind everyday and move into a world filled with Glory and Grace, a world possible only through Him who created it all.

I'm sitting here at my desk, and I'm not lying, I've done no work today. I've read and forwarded a couple of emails, but I have yet to do one stroke of work other than answer the phone three or four times in the three plus hours I've been here. This lady at my work who gets here earlier even than I do and sits near me is considering an internal transfer at my company. She was expressing how she needed a job that challenged her. It took everything I had not to burst out in a furious rant about how little challenge there is in 85% of the jobs at this entire place, we are like a non-efficiency factory, it's appalling. Yet at this point I really could care less. I've been trying to find something else, who knows if it'll happen. I want it to happen, but I suppose what happens next is not necessarily my decision, at least it hasn't been turned over to me at this point.

For everyone who wants to know about something way cool, let me offer you not one cool thing, but two - that's right folks, it's two for one day. First cool thing, newcomers home, one of the great up and coming bands recently relocated to Nashville and will be playing here a lot. These guys are awesome and among the many reasons to love them, they started in Boulder, CO, my hometown. Second cool thing, Randall Goodgame, one of the best songwriters in all of Nashvegas is playing what will be an incredible show on Saturday night and I cannot wait. Randall is funny, insightful, sincere and "tuned-in" to something that few people who strum a guitar are, it'll be a great show. All the best to all y'all...I'm out...af