Chris Bishop

So I have not been posting at all in the pas couple of days weeks, and there is a clear culprit at work.  Katie gave me my b-day present early because of the beautiful weather and…well I have been soaking it up.

My wonderful wife purchased for me a Brazilian hammock that I have set up in out backyard with some climbing webbing, and now I hide in there whenever I can.  The first evening I set it up I fell asleep in under 3 minutes.  I have since done sermon prep, youth ministry reading in it as well as spent time with Eden in my new hideout and bonded with the dog.

Simply put…the world would be a better place if everyone had one of these.

After about a week of dealing with a jacked up computer i have decided it was time to backup and reformat everything, so there everything is back up in working order again. So, with that the posts may drag a bit. Plus when i came into the office today I remembered that I was preaching this week…oops. So I have to work on that. Any who here goes nothin….ahhhhh

So my computer has been acting up a little the past couple of day thanks to some Vista update.  So i have been breaking out the old pen and paper and I got a ton of planning stuff done.  Maybe it should go on the fritz more often…nahh

On one of the bolgs I read I found a post similar to this one and couldn’t resist…

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On Monday morning I was going into the office thinking that it was a beautiful day.  The sky was blue and the birds were singing.  We even had 2 blue birds eating some seeds on our back deck.  Wow what a wonderful start to the day.

As I drove into work over the mountain a very dense fog engulfed the mountain.   The fog was only on the mountain and not on the Middletown or Frederick sides.  Weird.  It was so thick that I couldn’t see more than a few feet in front of my faithful Explorer I lovingly call Thunder.  Read the rest of this entry »

    Whenever I feel like a great number of things are going my way and that I am a great, wonderful pastor that rocks the socks of any and all congregants I know that a trip to Home Depot will stop all of that prideful foolishness.  Actually this trip to the home improvement universe wasn’t for such reasons, just some floodlights and drain-o, but it sure did the job.

A long time ago when I was young and idealistic I thought that I could navigate this colossal establishment with only the innate sense of direction  every male (thinks he) possesses and a keen ability to read the signs that announce what sort of product the isle contains.

Checking my pride at the door I embarked upon my journey.  I looked for the light bulbs in the lighting section to no avail.  I passed a 75 year old woman talking about putting down hardwood floors in her kitchen by herself.  I made out something about epoxy and a trout and knew I was out of my league.

Finally, asking an associate (who I suspect has a degree from HDU) said “turn around. The isle behind you is all light bulbs.”  With my tail tucked firmly between my legs, sure enough he was right and I found my floodlight bulbs.

The triumph of the trip was that after only 7 mor minutes I found the drain-o.  woohoo!!

The moral of the story–Your not perfect so don’t pretend, and don’t shop with Chris.

The past couple of days Katie and I have teamed up to stomp the competition in some serious Halo 3 action.  Halo is Katie’s new found love.  She has given the game a serious shot and now we have been playing all of the time.  Usually I have the baby strapped to my chest in one of her packs.  Eden sleeps as her parents rid the galaxy of meanies.