Joke of the Week:I Hope I’m Sick

A fellow was sitting in the doctor’s waiting room, and said
to himself every so often, “Boy, I hope I’m sick!”

After about the fifth or sixth time, the receptionist
couldn’t stand it any longer, and asked, “Why in the world
would you want to be sick, Mr. Adams?”

The man replied, “I’d hate to be well and feel like this.”

Received from GCFL.net

Volleyball

The Youth Group got together at Partridge to hit little white balls around. It was a good time. I landed on an average or slightly below average team for the last 4 games. We lost the first game to a team that was definitely better than us. The second game we decided to “whip some tail” and so we beat. The third game was intense. We were playing against a team whose weakest player was about as good as our average player. I think you get the idea. We led off strong to about 7 points, then, got spiked on by Micheal Y. over and over since we didn’t have any blockers in the front line. Eventually, we got a little wise and had a blocker go up from our back row. After three tries, Kenneth Shenk managed a very successful block where he was traveling in a more horizontal/diving method then a vertical method, got one hand on the spiked ball, and shut Micheal down!!

From there we went up and caught them at about 20 points. (We were playing rally to 25–win by two.) Unfortunately, they took off from 20 and got to their game point, 24, and stopped. In an amazing comeback, we tied them at 24, gained another point on a spike they goofed, and then we had game point at 25. We served the ball. They had bad ball handling and got all tangled up. The last hit of the game was a too-long pass to the center middle that went into the net, then dropped down behind the back of the center. We SCREAMED!! WE SHOUTED!!! WE LET THEM KNOW THAT THIS LITTLE PEEWEE TEAM HAD TAKEN THEM TO THE GAME AND WHOOPED UP ON THEM LIKE THEY COULDN’T IMAGINE!!!!!!!!! What a feeling of power. What a feeling of accomplishment, fulfillment, and success. It was a good time!!!!

thesinger

Last Weekend In My Rearview Mirror

Friday lunch, my bros (minus Floyd), my sis, my sister-to-be, and myself got a 30th Anniversary Dinner around for the parents. Their anniversary is actually on the 26th but since they are currently at the Ministers Meetings in Illinois, we had to do something special for them before the actual day. We constructed, in their honor, a meal of Festive Hamburgers, cabbage salad, Bavarian cream, home-made Two-Hour buns, fruit juice, and an Ice Cream Cake. Pictured is the delectable Ice Cream Cake:

On Friday evening “The Nislys” came over to our house and made papusas which we sent packing into papusa heaven in rapid form. . . It was a GOOD TIME!!! You can see more pics and details at elsalgal.

Saturday was also a fun/friends-filled day. After some necessary work was completed at the home base, I went busting in to Kev’s house to meet him, Sheri, Matt, Ryan, and Jacob. The purpose for the meeting was to go to Wichita, KS, meet Vj, Luke, and Mark, and party the day away. This is us in the Chuck E Cheese’s parking lot, deciding where we would like to eat.

We decided to eat at La Mesa, a moderately priced Mexican joint. Yes, Sheri, we know you can smile. Way to share that brilliant smile with the rest of us. . .

After the massive lunch, we played Mini-golf at All-Star Sports. It was a nice time of sharing and being together. We wanted to hit a coffee shop on the way home, so we decided to drink coffee at the Riverside Perk. Since I had learned about the place on the internet, I was not quite expecting what we found. The place was smoky, dark, infested with hippies, and semi-grungy. Thankfully, they had tables outside where the second-hand smoke couldn’t kill us as fast. All-in-all, the place served relatively good coffee, but lacked in the professionalism and atmosphere departments.

Portraits was the name of the game, since Vj is busting off to SMBI and needed some pics. Here’s a random pic of VJ and Kev.

Of course, why just not shoot everybody in sight? I did, and came up with a jewel of a picture of rnisly.

We did a short Goodwill stop on Maize Rd. on the way home. I purchased a magnif short sleeved shirt that fits like an old glove–really well.
That evening, I went to the Oren Yoder residence and played (what else?) Dutch Blitz, otherwise known as “da splits”. I have two pictures to share. The first is of a “touching moment,” and the second is not a jewel of an expression, but a “rosene” of an expression. . .

Peace I leave with you. . .

thesinger

Ah, willow trees.

Subtle growth. Restraint. Secret to happiness. Craig and Ra. Engaged.

Willow Trees?

Ah, Yes, Willow Trees!!!

thesinger

Quote of the Day

Jewel after a really intense game of Dutch Blitz: Oh, I’M SO EXCITED! I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO!!!!!!

Evidences of Spring? YES!!!!

I think we might be on to something here!!!!

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Messiah Wrap-Up

Neal is actually “almost/kindof” fun to sing under during concert. I think it forces him to become someone other than himself and adopt a “Mr. Nice Guy” attitude. Oh, and he gets himself totally into the music. That part is wonderful.

The soloists and the orchestra (minus a trumpeter) did very well. One of my favorite parts of this year’s performance was watching world class musicians, the first violinist, cellist, soloists, and Neal, work together to create a musical/spiritual experience that was MUCH greater than the sum of their parts.

Neal got ticked off several times during the performance. Sometimes the chorus did bad things, then he glared at us. At other times, a particular voice part would have really bad tone, then he would glare at them. Once he glared at a soprano for coming in a half-beat early. (Yeah, everyone heard that goof. ) Occasionally he would make wild gesticulation that that was supposed to mean that we were to sing louder. If we did, he smiled at the “stars”. If we didn’t, he would look at his music and GLARE!!!! Moral of the story: Neal is an intense conductor during concert.

End of wrap-up.

Messiah Is This Afternoon

We are singing all but nine of the fifty-three pieces, which as David Ross said is incredible for a town of the size of Hutchinson to pull off. We have a full orchestra, and some totally rockin’ soloists. Their names are Nancy Kerr, Soprano; Robin ___?, Alto; Bryan Stranghoner, Tenor; and Glenn Litke, Bass. If the names don’t mean anything to you, that’s fine. Just take my word for it that it’ll be worth hearing them.

The chorus has struggled a bit more this year than average. Neal did pull in several high-quality sopranos to help the chorus. It makes a marked difference when each voice part has a strong leader.

So, join us this afternoon at three o’clock at Stringer Fine Arts Center on Hutchinson Community College campus for a wonderful performance of Messiah, by Handel.

thesinger

Reading Material

After church yesterday evening, some kids came over to “hang out” and “chill.” In the early stages of the party, most of the guys grabbed a piece of reading material. It was my pleasure to pick up my camera and record most of the readers and their reading material.

Undeniably, it is slightly more difficult to discern who this man is. We can deduce, however, that he is well caught up in “world news”.

Mr. B and the foreshown reader of World got into an intense discussion about the ethics of allowing a child to read World. It’s obvious to me that Darrel has Answers!!!!

Ah, quality reading material at it’s best. At least Daniel and Loyal seem to think so. . .

Kevin was the first to walk in the door to join the party. Whether it was hospitable or not, I gave him this book, “SAT HIM DOWN”, and told him that he needs to read this book. He nicely obliged my latest kick, and began to read You Just Don’t Understand, by Deborah Tannen, Ph.D. Throughout the course of the evening he read at least 100 pages.

In the previous paragraph, I mentioned “my latest kick.” This kick is closely related to my studies in Speech Class, since I plan to give a speech on the subject of gender differences in communication. I have found the aforementioned book to be extremely down to earth, yet full of meaty ideas to chew on. I think that everybody should read this book because you are either a man or a woman and are forced to communicate with both men and women everyday. The book is full of truths that will change the way you think about relationships and communication. It’s definitely a must-read for all.

Ok, time for thesinger to get off his soapbox and leave for church.

Later.