Washington Post

Clinton, Obama Face Off in Crucial Primaries

Key primary elections are in play Tuesday for US Senator Hillary Clinton and her rival for the Democratic Party presidential nomination


My take :

Kristie and her friends hold a regular monthly get together. On occasion they let the guys and sometimes the kids attend. Tonight we all celebrated Teresa’s youngest son Andrew’s birthday. He turned 13. Andrew had specifically requested the Chinese Buffet and had requested I come.

We did some serious damage to a LOT of food. Had a large chocolate iced cookie and drank several gallons of sweet tea. Why is it that Chinese Restaurants always have good sweet tea?

Happy Birthday Andrew

Since I don’t blog as much on weekends.

Here is my "Weekend Update".

Our weekends always seem to fill with activities. This time of year it’s basketball.

Ashley had a game at the “Y” late this morning. We got there early and watched the really little kids play. Right after the 4 year olds finished the Monk arrived with her entourage. Grand parents, Great Grandparents, Mom, Dad, and little brother Blake who recently turned 6 months. Counting Kris and I she had about half the stands full. The kids are fun and yes they won.

We hurried off to A.U. for the next games and got inside with seconds to spare. Janet, and Kevo came down after her tennis match, and they actually beat us there. Thankfully we left their names at the ticket office.

Kevin and men’s team member number 22, Jonathan Mattox were on the Oconee High team a couple years ago. It's fun to see him play. Tonight we saw another example of the small world we live in. The assistant coach of the St Andrews lady’s team had been their assistant coach at Oconee. Janet and Kevo had seen him just the night before. He was visiting ( recruiting maybe? ) as the team Kevin now helps coach won their championship game.

The A.U. guys are earning a nickname in the local press. They were dubbed the Comeback Kids as they once again pulled off an amazing rally from 19 points behind with seven minutes

to go. And won by 14 points, 84 to 70. Go A.U.

The Lady Trojans playing the second game rolled to an easy victory over the rebuilding Knights 78 to 51 but honestly the game was never near that close. Most of the A.U. starters only played less than half the game.

Ashley got to dance with the Trojan dancers. Several of them say she did better than they did. Blake grabbed my nose and growled most of the second half.

Prior to the games Kristie and I enjoyed grilled hamburgers. Our volunteer fire department had a sale going on plates with homemade cakes galore. But we were getting hungry.

After the game Janet and Kevin stayed a while at the house and we held a “post game “ tailgate party complete with chicken, chips and string cheese. Then we watched a movie.

I filled in on camera Sunday night at church had a great time working with old friends from the blue team.

Oh best of all. We baptized 152 people this weekend. Ain’t God great?

We celebrate my Father-in-law's birthday tomorrow. Happy Birthday Roy. He is basically a beans and cornbread kind of guy, but the one thing he loves is catfish. He likes it so much we took him to Harbor Inn for dinner tonight. The food was very good.

Ok I confess. I give Kristie grief often about going to a sea food place and ordering chicken. I mean it’s a seafood restaurant for crying out loud. But tonight though I arrived with my mind made-up. I was ordering popcorn shrimp. That is until I saw the sign with the special. Prime Rib $ 10.95. Now I know what you are thinking. How can a mid-priced seafood joint have good steak. And how could you possibly get a quality Prime Rib for just $10.95? I don’t know. But I assure you it was one of the best I ever ate. So tender I actually cut it with my fork. Never needing the knife. Great flavor, just enough fat for special taste. A near perfect steak.

Harbor Inn = great Prime Rib………. SURPRISE !!!!!!!

I've been reading about the life of Jesus. It's a pretty amazing story.

Jesus is not about big business, show business, or even his own business.

He is about the Fathers business and NOTHING else.

With all the power Jesus had he could have called a lot of attention to himself.

But that wasn’t his style

Jesus came to earth with a simple plan. Not His plan, but the Fathers plan.

He honored the one who sent him, the one with more authority. His father.

You see, the son can do nothing by himself. He can only do what he sees his Father doing.

Because whatever the Father does the son does.

John 5:19

Jesus put aside his own ideas, his on will his dreams, and followed the will of the Father.

He was willing to die for it.

That’s something we should take very seriously

Jesus came to this world to pay the price for us. He modeled the behavior the creator wanted for us.

No one said it would be easy.

All things of real, lasting value take hard work and some sacrifice.

But when you believe it and truly live it, then you shall be free.

It was Rally from behind night at Anderson University. The Lady Trojans fell behind early and at half they were losing by four points. But in the second period they outscored Limestone 40-22 in a rally from behind win over the Saints 70-56.

A milestone was reached by senior Latrice Thomas tonight. About midway through the game she scored her 1,000 career point, making her only the sixth Lady Trojan in A.U. history to achieve that mark.

The girl’s team still has a solid lock on conference first place with a three game lead.

Yesterday the latest NCAA division II East Region Poll came out showing them at number 6. And just this morning the newest USA Today/ESPN National Poll had the Lady Trojans moving up from 20^th to 17 in the Nation. A.U. 19 – 2 overall, have won 11 straight, and were the highest ranked team in the southeast.

Rally from behind number two tonight was the Boys. After falling as far as 22 points behind midway in the second half, the guys turned it on. In what the media is already calling "The Miracle Rally" they refused to fold. Finally with just six seconds left on the clock, Nayte Russell scored on a hard driving layup to pull ahead. Then Brandon Young cut off the Limestone inbound pass to seal the victory 75-73.

I saw this headline in todays local paper:

Upstate sleep center receives accreditation

They could have called me... I would have given them credit for my naps.

It's a cloudy, rainy, wet gloomy day here. Perfect weather to be Chillin' to Marillion. So that is just what I am doing.


I need another cup of Java

Mister Coffee..... I'm calling

I attended a FAA pilot’s safety meeting in Greenville this evening. Tonight’s class topics were winter maintenance and winter operations. The classes were co-sponsored by the F.A.A. and Bob Jones University's Aviation department. I especially learned from the engine preheat section.

Are you still here?

Since I was going to pass near by, I left early enough to drive over to the NewSpring Greenville site. I wanted to see it myself. It is exciting seeing what the future will be and knowing so many lives are going be changed. I'm so thankful to be part of such an amazing movement of God. The Greenville Campus will be easy to get to. It looks like there is plenty of parking and it is in a great location.

Next I headed over to Steak and Shake..... The mushroom and Swiss steak burger fries and soup. 'nuff said. Unfortunately I could not hold one of their great shakes after eating.

Wish I had it now.

Weekend catch-up

My sister had given us a framed picture of Kevo as part of our Christmas, and we wanted something that would match for the photos of Katelyn and Logan. So while I headed off to the Church for rehearsal run through Kristie was off to the Mall, K-mart, Target, Hobby Lobby etc in search of a suitable match We needed two smaller ones for the other kids. After that she went to Ashley's basketball game.

Since it was Super Bowl weekend we moved our two Sunday night services to Saturday. It was a great idea since it was the second highest rated show ever. Second only to the final episode of M.A.S.H.

On Sunday night our home-group got together for a Superbowl party. We gathered at Alvin and Sheila's around 6:00 pm with all the food we could carry. You know eating is very important and energy level are critical during a close game. We had a great time. It really did not matter who won, since none of us were rooting too hard for either team. We were all there really for the commercials.

I kinda felt sorry for the folk working at the pizza place. Kristie and I stopped on our way to pick-up our pie and it took 10 minutes to run my bill. The phone was ringing that much.

We went to a play at the college last night. Boy am I ever disappointed. I thought Hamlet was about a little pig.
Kidding ...

The Playhouse at A.U. did their production of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The Belk Theater was packed. The cast and crew did marvelous job on a task the director himself admits made him nervous. Most everyone can quote a few lines and you're thinking everyone has done this one. Right? Well honestly since we are not all that removed from the type events in this tragedy. Wars, assassinations, political intrigue, and people who strive to build a public image, yet don't even know who they are. It is worth doing here, if only to remind us.

Brad Brinkley did a superb job in the lead role, as did the cast as a whole. Even the sword fighting was realistic during the final act.

I had a good time and enjoyed the evening despite the downpour we had to suffer getting there. I can't wait the next event.