Between Facebook and my Wordpress site, that's about all I update anymore. Here's the Wordpress site. I update it weekly (so far).

Today is Double-Bob day! The digital representation for today’s date is 8.08.08 which looks a lot like “Bob-ob” or “Bob-Bob”. My son and I often set deadlines for what we call “Bob-time”, so our household is already familiar with the concept. “Make sure your room is clean by Bob-time, son” or “You can play Super Mario Smash Brothers until Bob-time, then you have to get ready for bed.” He knows that 8:08 is Bob-time. When I told him this morning that today is Double-Bob Day, he was excited. Tonight around 8:08 we’re going to have a Sponge-Bob DVD party.


Since this is the only Double-Bob Day in this century, why not take advantage of it? Call someone that you know named Bob and tell them how much they mean to you – or just harass them or something. Download pictures of Bob Hope and Bob Dole and use them as your desktop background. Bob for apples with a guy named Robert. Play some music that you can bob your head to. Plan a weekend Bob-B-Q.

It's Mike Week. My wedding anniversary (8 years) was on Tuesday, my birthday (42) is Saturday, and Father's Day is Sunday. I'm honored 3 different ways in one week, which happens every year. I like Mike Week a lot because I like me. But this year I'm using this week to reflect upon one thing: how do I make my life NOT about me?


As a husband, I shouldn't be selfish. The same thing goes for being a dad. The entire belief system that I ascribe to lends itself to selflessness. In fact, as a follower and servant of Jesus, this ongoing relationship should be the cure for selfish living. I'm inspired by the lives of others, both living and promoted, who fully understand and live selfless lives. While the concept of piety gives me a warm-glow kind of feeling, I find it hard to focus otherward in my day to day life. So.. happy Mike Week to me. May I somehow become less this week. Maybe I should make my user pic smaller. Nah.

Next month I will be married for 8 years. When we first got married, Jennifer and I had a nice little queen-size bed. I should have underlined "little". I'm a fairly big guy who was not used to even sharing a bed. I hated it, and suggested that we get a bigger bed. We never did. There was always something else that we could better spend our $$ on, so we put it off and put it off.


Now, 7 years and 3 kids later, we REALLY need a bigger bed, because you never know how many crumb-crunchers may end up snuggling with you by morning. I remember the night that Jen and I made the decision to go ahead and get a new king-size bed. I was jubilant. No more nights of me ending p on the couch or one of the kids' beds because of my thrashing-aroundness. Yay. Let's go shopping.


As it turned out, the internet had the best deal. We ordered the bed in January, being assured that it would arrive soon. It arrived in February, with a piece busted. We had to reject the order and have the company re-ship. That shouldn't take long, right? February turned into March, which turned into April. This whole time we were sleeping on the king-sized mattress on the floor (which we thankfully bought from a different company.)


Many, many (sigh) emails and phone calls later, finally on May 5 - the bed arrived!! And what a bed it is! I wasn't sure exactly what my wife had ordered, but apparently it's the biggest bed known to man! This monkey is huge. There are drawers all around underneath, which eliminate the need for other furniture in the room (good thing). And get this - when I'm laying down on the bed, I can lift my leg and touch the ceiling fan with my big toe! The bed came with a little step-ladder thingee so we could actually get up there. Gravy! I have a bed so huge that I actually have to mount it. If any of you ever come to my house, you won't be impressed by our vehicles or yard, but YOU GOTTA SEE THIS BED.

This morning I didn't feel well and was unable to go to church. Not being able to teach my Sunday School class, I sent the discussion notes by my wife. The class had a question about something in the notes, so Jennifer called me and put me on speakerphone. Then and there I was able to explain religious fatalism to my Sunday School class.. while at home sitting on the toilet! It's a high-tech world we're living in.

Have you ever met someone whose faith and walk seemed to be independent of circumstances? I have. I aspire to be one of them; a person who can find a place for anything that life throws at them; a person who can take whatever comes in a manner that gives them a platform of faith to stand on - a solid wall, instead of a disheveled mess. From time to time we can be thrown some pretty odd pieces. I want a relationship that is so solid that the odd-shaped pieces all fit together.

Here's episode 10, hot off the emac. Props to Chuck for the updated theme music. I bumped up the audio quality a bit because I finally have the bandwidth. Enjoy. Post your praise or criticism. Anything you want to hear Josiah expound upon? Have a question for him? Let us know.

After a year long hiatus, here's episode 9 of the Mike and Josiah Show podcast. This episode also features Noelle, a first. I still try to keep them short and low-quality to keep the file small. Let me know what you think!

I stick with livejournal mainly for the friends. I love checking my "friends" page for updates to everyone else's blog. I've never been much of a myspace guy because the pages look so helter-skelter. I've flirted with getting a Twitter account, but I don't know anyone who is on that network, so what would be the point? But I am using tumblr, one of the easiest quick-and-dirty pleasing to the eye micro-blogs out there.


I'm using tumblr as a temporary web home for our young adults group, First Circle. It's way easy to update, and has some nice templates and widgets. It's free. And yes, you can enable comments by editing the CSS and using a third party client. I'll probably stick with LJ for a long time, but tumblr is proving to be fun to play with.