God-Wrestler

I can’t explain it, you just have to watch it.

Ben Rector – Free from TK McKamy on Vimeo.

I dont even know what to say bout this. Should I laugh? Should I feel safe? I really dont know. Either way this guy has got the city’s attention and people talking. Who am I talking about, none other than, Shadow Hare. Cincinnati’s very own super hero.

Coffee has become such a cultural icon for today. If your successful, prosperous, well liked, or cool you drink coffee. A long time ago coffee was a drink for the ordinary man. The man who worked hard, played hard, and needed a cheap pick me up to get up in the morning. Now coffee is found in corner boutique like shops and you spend as much for a cup of coffee as you used to for a pound.

People have become coffee snobs. A cup of joe is just not good enough anymore. I spent a month working the office for a Young Life camp and had the responsibility of being the town runner. My job was to fulfill the needs of the camp and campers by running errands in town for them. Our camp medic would have me make a special trip in a different part of town to get him this special locally grown coffee. Starbucks coffee from Walmart wasn’t even good enough for him. Why? Now I understand that coffee has degrees of quality to it but seriously.

You have your;

• 1 Filter Coffee
• 2 Espresso
• 3 Coffee with milk
• 4 Cafe mocha
• 5 Cappuccino
• 6 Frappuccino
• 7 Mochasippi
• 8 Cortado
• 9 Macchiato
• 10 Affogato
• 11 Liqueur coffee
• 12 Cafe Americano
• 13 Flat white
• 14 Galão
• 15 Greek frappé coffee
• 16 Indian filter coffee
• 17 Yuanyang
• 18 Ca phe sua da
• 19 Iced coffee
• 20 Instant coffee

On top of all of these different types people spend immense amounts of time adding to their coffee so its just right. You got to add your sugar/sweetener, cream or milk. Then its one pack or five packs and has to be stirred so many times. There are also the people who want their coffee fresh but then add ice because its too hot. Is the drink really worth all this work?

What happened that coffee became this fad? Now maybe I’m biased because I don’t drink coffee, but I missed the days where a plain old cup of joe was acceptable. As for me, just give me a nice refreshing Coca-Cola for my caffeine fix. 

A few months ago Blackberry released their first touch screen phone, the Storm. My Mother was super excited about it, so we got it for her birthday/christmas present. Little did I know it would end up being a gift for me too.

Verizon started a new promotion this week offering buy-one-get-one on any Blackberry phones they carry. I was bummed since we already bought my Mother her phone that we missed this great deal. Well woulnd’t you know, she gets this text message saying that since she was a loyal VZ customer and had recently purchased the Storm she could get a free storm on any line with and available upgrade. Guess who had the available upgrade.

So we go up to VZ and I walk out with a brand spankin new Blackberry Storm without paying a single dime for it. No pay now and rebate later, or any hidden fees. It was just FREE. I did buy a case and screen protectors but got a sweet discount on those too.

Not too many things are truly free these days but yesterday the Blackberry Storm was free for me. Thankfully my Mother loves me and lets me stay on her family plan. Thankfully I was available for an upgrade.

I know many of you have iPhones and will think that the Storm is an inferior device, but did you get yours for free, oh wait, I got an iPhone for free once too. Ha yeah, i just use it as an itouch though. I’m just to stubborn to leave the VZ network. They are the only network I’ve used since I got my first phone in 2000 and they haven’t failed me yet.

Well I finally decided to make the blog official. I guess that is what you can call this, but really all I did was purchase a real domain name for my blog. Now you can go to godwrestler.org and get to the blog. No more -’s or .blogspots needed. However if you do go to god-wrestler.blogspot.com you still will get here. I am excited because this will help make it quick and easy to get to the blog and I feel like I really own the blog now.

So I am officially introducing …

My cousins got some sweet Christmas gifts this year. Something that I always dreamed of when I was little. I remember watching Commando starring The Arnold. He was an ex commando trying to save his daughter and took out hundreds of men carrying this chain gun around. I would act out the scenes with my Nerf guns always wishing I could really do the chain gun thing. Well now my cousins can live my glory out if the so choose too.

Nerf always amazes me. Every year they get better and better. This gun comes with a reloadable chain that holds 75 Nerf darts and you can buy extra chains. The chain is stored in that side box and exits out the other side like a real gun.

This video here shows some guys who modified the gun to shoot the equivilant to 50 rounds a sec. Crazy Awesome!

Go on and buy one or two… you know you want it… think about playing Nerf Wars with this on your side.

Zondervan is putting together a new version of the NIV bible. It will be a hand written version, and some of the writing can be done by you. They have put together a cross country trip in an RV stopping through many cities and letting people contribute by writing a verse in the new bible.

On Friday October, 3rd they will be in Cincinnati, OH at the Berean Christian Store 1183 Smiley Ave. Cincinnati, OH 45240, from 10am to 6pm.

I plan on going to put my mark in this new bible. I hope you have the opportunity too.