Here are some good resources for you. I don’t use them all religiously but I recognize the usefulness/creativity of all of them.

1. This is a cool little scheduling webapp that’s worth checking out.
http://www.rememberthemilk.com/

2. Diddo from number one.
http://www.nozbe.com/

3. I haven’t gotten to play around with this one yet, but I can see its potential…and I think I like it.
http://www.empressr.com/

4. I’m working my way through Financial Peace University right now, so this webapp was quite intriguing. It’s very easy to use and worth a peeksipoo.
http://www.mint.com/

5. Want to send out mass texts easily and without charges? This is the way to go. It’s going to be a lifesaver for me.
http://3jam.com/

6. This is just for your churchy folks out there. But it’s a very easy to use webapp, simple, and practical. It helps churches track important information and such.
http://www.churchmetrics.com/

7. I personally won’t ever use this…I don’t think. But if this fits your style of thinking it would be great. It definitely looks nice and seems fairly simple.
http://bubbl.us/

8. This one is fun. You must play.
http://www.mrpicassohead.com/

9. This webapp gives you piece of mind if you’re a hardcore blogger.
http://www.bloggled.com/

10. I’ve got an account for this. I like it. It intruigs me. But I don’t use it at all. We’ll see where I end up with this one.
http://friendfeed.com/

11. Up until last week when facebook stopped updating my status via my phone this little guy was great. It updates your twitter feed through facebook.
http://twitterfeed.com/

12. Best news site ever. Period. I don’t care if it’s fair, balanced, or accurate. It’s down right fun and that is no lie.
http://doodlebuzz.com/

Oh there are so many more I’d like to share. As I’ve learned from my friend Jonathan webapps are where it’s at…especially a free one.

I made this video to honor Paul and Julie as they left us for their church planting venture in Canada. Goodbye PJ. Sorry for the poor quality. In no way does the poor quality of this video reflect the manner in which I’m trying to wish Paul and Julie good riddance.

Dear Canada, please enjoy PJ. Please don’t mess them up like you’ve messed everything else up that you’ve put your hands on…like health care.*

* Please note that I don’t know what I’m talking about and I wrote it simply because it makes me laugh.

I don’t have much time to write much of anything. I’d tired. Real tired. The first two days of strategy lab have been wonderful so far. The dream that Jess and I have been talking about for over two years is starting to be put on paper for the first time and is transitioning from a dream to a vision (dreams have no plan to accomplish them while visions are a future reality).

I can’t wait to share more. Most of what I’ll share about strategy lab however will come through our newsletter…so…join my facebook group or sign up for email updates in the box on the bottom of the sidebar!

If you live in or near Vancouver make sure you come to the Kairos church planting event this Saturday at the Vancouver Church of Christ. There will be a presentation of seven different church plants that have been crafted this week. Some of them won’t be launched for a couple of years, some have already begun in some stages, and others will be starting in the upcoming year. We are just on the edge of some seriously exciting times. I hope you’re on board with what God’s doing in church planting!!!

Peace.

First off, I can’t stop typing “www”. I know it’s unnecessary but I just can’t seem to stop!

On with the post! I’ve got a couple of hypothetical questions I’ve been mulling over in my head that I’d like to present to you.

Would you rather…

1. Watch someone die from stab wounds or eat McDonalds hamburgers for lunch every day of your life?
2. Be bald or have your favorite movie be Short Circuit?
3. Have razor blades in your home instead of carpet or have a live goose growing out of your chest?
4. constantly be picking your nose in public or be married to your mom?
5. Be married to your dad or breath coolaid instead of oxygen?
6. Speak Vietnamese or chop wood on the weekends?
7. Have your vision be as if you were always wearing binoculars or be attracted to eagles?
8. Be an armless lion tamer or squirt grape juice out of your eyes when you blink?
9. Be nicknamed the Chubby Keyboard or beat up a girl (if you’re a girl insert your own random statement here)
10. Have your nose shaped like Texas or smell like Tuna?

Jess grew up on a fake farm. It wasn’t a real farm where her summers consisted of waking up at 4:30 to milk the cows or something. But at different times she had chickens, goats, cows, pigs, turkeys, horses, etc. And she hated it. She hated feeding the animals. She feared the chickens because they’d chase her and try to attack her. The pigs stunk. Horses aren’t fun to ride. Canning makes her hot. Cooking is a hassle. She just wasn’t into the whole farming homemaker thing.

I didn’t grow up on farm (though occasionally as a jr. high kid I’d go to Jess’ house and torment the Turkeys so that their little turquoise blue neck dangly thing would grow until it hit the ground.) We did, however, always have chickens for whatever reason. I never liked them and tried to avoid them at all cost. Really my only memorable interaction with the chickens was when I got to cut the head off of one. I believe that the reason was that the “chicken” ended up being a rooster. You see, when chickens are just chicks its often easy to mistake a rooster for a hen. And then when they grow up and you realize that they’re a rooster you’ve got to get rid of them in some way (because it’s illegal to have a rooster within city limits).

With all that said…

Look at us now! What happened! We’ve got chickens in our back yard. Worms in our garage. Home made jellies and applesauce in our cupboard. What’s next? We’re becoming the dirty hippies that our parents always pretended that they weren’t!

And to top it all off, one of our hens turned out to be a rooster…or at least we thought it was…until it laid eggs this week! Turns out it’s just a butch chicken.