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• it’s 11:30pm and the smoke detector was *beeping*… battery is changed! now my wife can sleep in peace #
• @brianhaleyeah DOH! why do they put those things in places where you can’t get to them so easily? #
• dang! it’s 3:42am… why aren’t I asleep?!?!?!? #
• http://twitpic.com/96wi - co-worker *gave* me 2 for tonite: journey/cheaptrick/heart #
• uh-oh… was just handed a breakfast burrito from anita’s… #
• vote for me! http://snipr.com/3ka9w #
• leaving to catch the Journey / CheapTrick / Heart show with me loveryly wife! #
• gee… it’s quite gloomy… hope it doesn’t rain on us during the concert :-/ #
• http://twitpic.com/9955 - here we are! Traffic was bad and we’re gettin sprinkled on… #
• http://twitpic.com/9969 - waiting for the 2nd act? I think we missed the opener… #

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• waxing nostalgiac… facebook “friending” all the names I recognize from high school #
• a quick visit to chiropractor and then to a church leadership mtg… hope there’s a chance to grab some din-din… #
• http://twitpic.com/94zk - jap manga for reading material @ chiropractor’s… who knew? #
• @pinkhairedgirl I may not be able grab anything either! #

• ‘tropic thunder’ is quite *funny*… too bad it’s sooooo crude #
• traffic. you can tell school is back. #
• @letosword yeah… i saw the email… looks good for the 1st round at least! #
• @stevenrussell you’re welcome! i’m not won-over just yet… but cellspin does look very promising! #
• @wfyoung3 … and did you like it?!??!??! #
• @readscott alliantstudios.com #
• @readscott alliant loves working with churches and ministry organizations… theur #
• @readscott oops… they’re good friends of mine! #
• @russhutto depends on what key you have definedfor Expose in SysPrefs. #
• http://twitpic.com/90ym - 4 shots… 4 misses… and the can is but 4 feet away! #
• @inprogress yeah. i’m used to it… and you wonder why there aren’t more asians playin’ basketball? #
• @andthejokeis *drool* i could go for some chocolate right about now! #
• shuttin’ down… walking out the door… headin’ home… IT’S DATE NITE!!! #

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Here’s how my fantasy football draft ended up from Friday night…

We went 32 rounds trying to fill 16 starting positions: 1QB, 1RB, 2WR, 1TE, 2DE, 2DT, 2OLB, 1MLB, 2CB, 2S.

By the time the regular season gets rollin’, well have a 28-man roster, 2 injured reserve slots, and a waiver wire pick each week where each pick can be rolled-over indefinitely through to the end of week 16.

We don’t play head-to-head. Instead we play for highest cumulative point total at the end of the season. A little bit o’ cash, dinner on the fellas, fellowship, and bragging rights are the prize.

The players in bold are my projected starters, and the ** are my keepers from last season. (As you can see, my keepers rounded out my offense fairly well, so my draft strategy was to grab some of the best players on defense early.)

# 3 DE Jared Allen (MIN)
# 12 ILB David Harris (NYJ)
# 17 OLB Ernie Sims (DET)
# 26 WR **Larry Fitzgerald (ARZ)**
# 31 DE Aaron Kampman (GB)
# 36 S Gibril Wilson (OAK)
# 45 DT Mike Patterson (PHI)
# 54 S Chris Harris (CAR)
# 59 QB **Drew Brees (NO)**
# 68 CB Charles TIllman (CHI)
# 73 DT Haloti Ngata (BAL)
# 82 WR **Braylon Edwards (CLE)**
# 87 OBL Chad Greenway (MIN)
# 96 RB Frank Gore (SF)
#101 QB Jay Cutler (DEN)
#110 DE Terrell Suggs (BAL)
#115 RB **Marion Barber (DAL)**
#124 TE Owen Daniels (HOU)
#129 CB Cortland Finnegan (TEN)
#138 MLB Kirk Morrison (OAK)
#143 DT Dewayne Robertson (DEN)
#152 TE Heath Miller (PIT)
#157 OLB Thomas Davis (CAR)
#166 CB Darrelle Revis (NYJ)
#171 S Daniel Bullocks (DET)
#180 WR Lee Evans (BUF)
#185 QB Aaron Rodgers (GB)
#194 MLB Karlos Dansby (ARZ)
#199 QB Vince Young (TEN)
#208 WR Jerry Porter (JAC)
#213 RB Reggie Bush (NO)
#222 TE Alge Crumpler (TEN)

An Apple iPhone or iPod touch will become a central part of Abilene Christian University’s innovative learning experience this fall when all freshmen are provided one of these converged media devices, said Phil Schubert, ACU executive vice president.

At ACU - the first university in the nation to provide these
cutting-edge media devices to its incoming class - freshmen will use an
iPhone or iPod touch to receive homework alerts, answer in-class
surveys and quizzes, get directions to their professors’ offices, and
check their meal and account balances - among more than 15 other useful web applications already developed, said ACU Chief Information Officer Kevin Roberts.

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• when God transforms us, we see everything and everyone differently #
• family movie afternoon — Horton Hears a Who… and i’m gonna take a nap #
• on my way to see ‘tropic thunder’ w/ GregO #

• http://twitpic.com/8ozb - still drafting… everyone is scheming #
• it’s 12:15am… we’re about to close our fantasy football draft… 224 picks later… good times! #
• @motionhouse could be! (crayton was the very *last* pick in our draft) #
• *YARD SALE TODAY* … we need more signs… #
• hosting a yardsale is *hard* work… almost time to close shop! #
• we’re grubbin’ on subway subs in front of yardsalers… so hungry! #
• at costco picking up stuff for a steak dinner to share w/ neighbors we invited! #
• ouch! I got a splinter taking down our yardsale signs… #
• *dang* grillin’ sure does smell good!!! #

If you haven’t heard already, my wife and I are adopting a kid from Korea!

This is a picture of him at the time of referral at 5 months. We just got done with our first-ever yardsale to help raise a little bit of extra cash to help finance bringing this little booger home! Several of our friends from church brought over some stuff to sell and we had a great time meeting new folks and making some extra cash!  In our estimation (and especially in my wife’s all-important perspective), this yardsale was a *success*!

Anywho, here’s the quick n’ dirty story of all the adoption stuff that has happened up ’til now — the story and process isn’t anything spectacular, and right now, we find ourselves simply waiting for “the call” to fly over there and pick him up.

Ashleigh and I had always talked about adoption at some point after we’ve had a couple kids on our own, but for unknown reasons we couldn’t sustain a pregnancy after having our first kid. We made a number of various failed attempts which resulted in a wee bit of frustration and a lot of wondering as to why things weren’t “clicking.”

So, at about the turn of the new year (Jan.’08) we decided that we would investigate and pursue adoption.

Lot’s of phone calls and meetings and research and some reservations from parents and home studies and paperwork and prayers and conversations with friends who have adopted and discussions about finances ensued.

We knew, going in, that it would be expensive and that anything could happen at anytime — we needed to just be patient with the whole process. It could take 6 months, it could take 18 months, or it might even take years — we knew that there were those countries and agencies that “made” adoption an incredible ordeal — multiple visits and 2-3 year wait times!

Gratefully, we ended up with Children’s Home Society & Family Services as our adoption agency. CHSFS was the agency a friend of ours used to adopt 2 of their kids from Korea. We had decided pretty much from the start that we would adopt a Korean kid that was less than 12 months old, and as we were doing our research, we realized that CHSFS’s Heritage Program would help us through the adoption process faster than some of the other agencies.

We received the referral info on July 16. Our kid is in a foster home through Eastern Social Welfare Sociey. We chatted with a doctor specializing in adoption kids and went over the medical info and questions we had on the kid a couple days later — he’s quite healthy. We also conveyed much of the info with our parents, and within a week of the referral we accepted the referral.

More paperwork! WHAT?!?!? I thought were all done with paperwork!

So, from January 2008 ’til now (Aug.’08), we’ve taken care of all that we need to… and now we wait. We should hear something in the next month or two — hopefully sooner! I guess they call us, let us know that it’s go-time to pick up the kid… and in a matter of days, we’ll be in Korea!

We’re excited! And we’re grateful for all of our church and interweb friends that have encouraged us!

If we could ask for your prayers, please pray for the health and spiritual well-being of our kid-in-waiting. Pray, for our finances as it is a burden on our budget. You can pray for us (and extended family) as we prepare to bring the kid home and make him our own. And also pray for expediency for the whole adoption process.

We look forward to sharing more with you as we wind down this whole adventure!

*MUCH* thanks to those of you that have donated stuff to us to sell and came out to visit with us!  We just may do this again!