• February Bookshelf: The Rise of Nine, UnPHILtered, More Artemis Fowl

    In my continuing effort to read more books this year, I give you my February Bookshelf post (a few days late). February didn’t feature anything that I felt was as profound as January and there is less here to recommend unfortunately but they can’t all be winners. The Rise of Nine – Rating 2/5. This…

  • Give Me Some of that Strong Biblical Wine

    Growing up in a Christian home and church and attending a Christian school meant that the consumption of alcohol was looked upon as a sin and something that good Christians didn’t partake in. The only time it was really discussed was in relation to Jesus turning water into wine (John 2:1-11). The teacher or pastor…

  • January Bookshelf: A Glimpse of Jesus, Artemis Fowl Series, The God of All Comfort

    I decided that I want to be more intentional about reading more books this year. I guess you could call it a New Year’s resolution but that just seems like setting myself up to fail once you start calling it that. So don’t and I won’t either. I should note that some of these were…

  • Money Talks: Learning from the Founders

    Yes money talks, or more accurately for this post, currency does. I began thinking recently that there was a lot of wisdom in the founding fathers of this great country and several of those founding fathers have their faces on our paper currency. As time marches on and the history of our country lengthens, the…

  • 10 Months Later: The Story of My Pogo Water Bottle

    All the way back in March of 2014 my wife bought me a Pogo water bottle from Target. Unfortunately this water bottle from Pogo was defective and the water spout that pops up would separate from the straw down in the bottle, rendering the water bottle useless. We had lost the receipt for it so…

  • New Music Tools

    For Christmas some nice folks had given me a $100 gift card to Amazon and I knew right away what I wanted to use it for: A pair of studio monitors. If you aren’t familiar with what studio monitors are, they are essentially just speakers that are intended to produce a flat “untainted” sound. This…

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