Monday I edited and produced the video of the team from Argentina and One Heart Church.

To consider a Team complete, I edit the video I’ve shot, upload it to YouTube, burn a DVD, and send an email to the leader sharing the links of all the photo galleries and the video on YouTube. I then write a short note and mail the dvd to the leader of the team.

Our goal at Whirlwind Missions is to provide the best missions experience EVER. Customer service is one big thing that sets our ministry apart.

Posted some creative writing onto my Twitter feed.

I finally completed the Annual Registration for Whirlwind Missions. Their “upgraded” website leaves something to be desired.

Enjoyed lunch at Kathmandu Grill with Ashley and Miles. They worked all weekend in Columbia, S. Carolina. There was a mission conference that Ashley attended. She did great. What else is new?

Worked at the mission with the kids.

I’ve been studying a book on Memory by Harry Lorayne. Absolutely fascinating. A central point of the book is that the brain remembers best in pictures. Just figuring out a crazy picture to illustrate that forces your brain to have “original awareness” which is the first step to really remembering something.

So when I’m helping the kids, I’m always trying to think of ways to have the visualize what I’m teaching them.

Enjoyed supper with Jesse. Then went to Walmart to pick up some supplies. Supposed to have a big storm on Tuesday. The place was PACKED and whole aisles of stuff missing. Pretty crazy.

Finally got home around 10pm.

Saturday evening I cleaned out my fish tank.

I also painted some messed up parts of my floor. They were destroyed in a fire in my room in 2006.

Kathy and I enjoyed going to church this morning at Clarkston International Bible Church.

Pastor Phil spoke on the authority of the Bible. Interesting historical facts.

Ate lunch with Jesse. Always good.

Then went back to Clarkston to start our ride to Stone Mountain.

We rode about 5 miles then decided to go back to Clarkston.

I was afraid we’d get caught in the dark. Not good.

We stopped to rest at the graveyard. I found these red hibiscus flowers near the edge of the cemetery. I thought they looked good on my bike.

My head got cold. I put a plastic bag on my head to keep the air off it.

Police helicopter kept circling where we were riding. Wonder if they caught who they were looking for?

We saw a Marta bus getting towed.

I like train tracks. They always remind me of my Grandfather who worked for the Tex Mex Railroad.

Why exactly?

I liked these vines.

I’ve been studying Steampunk art. It uses a lot of mechanical wheels like this, but tiny.

Enjoyed watching recorded episodes of The Middle with Kathy. I like that show.

I’ve tried to fill in the application for our annual registration with Whirlwind Missions. The State of Georgia web site has been “improved.” Yeah, right. I can’t even download the form. Maybe it’ll work tomorrow.

Admin duties now.

I enjoyed working with my team from Argentina today. The kids loved the games.


And their musical.

And the crafts!

My friend Chester did a great job!

Came home to work on Admin duties.

I’ve enjoyed reading this book on Steampunk art. I think the juxtaposition of Victorian style and tech stuff is really interesting. Here are some of my favorites from the 1,000!

New podcast this morning!

I love using my new equipment. The recordings sound awesome. In honor of the Olympics I created “THIRST Place”

Just click on the title and GROOVE!

I enjoyed a fun lunch with Kathy and Jesse today. K took the boys out for Red Lobster.

It was really good.

Met up with my team from Argentina. Seven ladies make up this fun team.


I enjoyed explaining most of what I do in Spanish, although most of them spoke really good English.

Had fun taking them to the Buford Highway Farmers Market.

We also visited Asian Square.

Then went over to Azalea Place to invite people to the block party we’re going to do tomorrow.

They plan on singing and doing some drama in Spanish. I think it’s going to go over great!

Tried to drop off a box at UPS, just missed their pick up.

I enjoyed watching the latest Duck Dynasty where the two brothers have a hamburger competition. The funniest part was Phil getting Jep to clean up the shed. When he told Jep why the papers were wet and smelled bad, I almost died laughing. I rewound it and watched it a second time and I laughed so hard I thought I might physically hurt myself. I haven’t laughed like that since I was in high school and watched Young Frankenstein. Anybody who thinks some writer comes up with this stuff is just crazy.

Admin duties now.

Enjoyed lunch with Ashley and Jesse.

Ash and I went church visiting. We are specifically working on lining up housing for teams to come and work with us. We visited FBC Mountain Park, Briarcliff Baptist Church, Briarcliff United Methodist Church, Briarlake Church and Dunwoody Baptist Church.

Seemed like they were all willing to think about housing folks, or expand how many they can handle hosting.

We’ll keep working on that project for sure.

Enjoyed helping the kids at the mission.

It was great to see our friend Abraham back to visit!

Not much homework, so I taught the kids how to play a new card game called SET.

It’s good because it takes logic skills and pattern recognition. Jesse clobbered us. No real surprise there. But some of our little kids did real well. We played it at the advanced level. We’ll try some easier ways too.

Kathy went to sleep early tonight.

I’ll be working this Friday and Saturday with a team from Argentina that’s in town. That should be fun.

Admin duties now.

About 1/2″ of rain yesterday.

Enjoyed recording a new podcast this morning!

It’s called “MASKerpiece”. We all have masks that we use.

What happens when we totally change that mask? A new favorite. Click on the title and GROOVE!

Enjoyed eating lunch with Kathy, Ashley and Jesse at Kathmandu Grill in Clarkston. Man, I ate too much Chicken 65. It was really spicy. But super good.

Went to the Post Office to certify delivery of my taxes to my tax guy. Would hate for that to go missing.

Dropped off some clothes to a co-op.

Came home to finish up my Valentine’s Day project. The hearts!

Went by my office to check on the plants and pick up bills.

Went to the mission to help the kids with their homework.

I helped them make a string phone with two cups.

I’ve been buying some new games.

It’s great to see a stack of boxes at the door. Most of the stuff I get is just a few dollars. I love Amazon.

Tried to listen to Kevin Kelly over the web. It’s a new video chat interface. Didn’t work very well. Kept getting disconnected. That’s discouraging. Surely they’ll have recorded it so we can watch it.

Admin duties nowl.

I worked on my taxes this morning. Got all the material together and crunched numbers to send to our tax man. Sure am glad I don’t have to figure all that stuff out by myself.

Worked in my yard this morning. Picked up sticks.

Also trimmed a couple of small trees in the back yard.

Painted a chair.

Did the shopping at Walmart with Jesse.

Helped the kids at the mission.

Admin duties now.

Spent most of the morning and early afternoon working on the carpets at my house. Yes. Again. Kathy was trying to help and poured a bunch of ammonia on where the dog had peed. Made a big stain, so had to scrub and clean it again.

First is the pretreatment with the strong solution of Oxiclean. Deep scrub.

Fill up the container with the clean water and additives.

You hold a lever and water is sprayed out the front end. When you let the handle go, it stops spraying. It constantly vacuums. If you go over it four or five times, the carpet is nearly dry.

Used my new swiffer to clean the kitchen floor.
Like my rainbows?
Looks pretty good now.
After all that cleaning, I had old man’s hands.

Finally got lunch around 2:30pm. Enjoyed reading the new edition of Wired. I liked these bits from the articles.

Finished the Book Thief on Audible today. Over all I’d give it an 8/10.

Started this one.

Went to Decatur to look for a part that goes on the back of one of the drawers I have in our kitchen. I guess they just don’t make that kind any more. Not sure which direction I’ll go in now. Complete replacement of the system is what they advised. I liked this gas pump that was at the Ace Hardware.

Then on to Azalea to work with the kids.

After we finished home work with the kids, I vacuumed and cleaned the carpet in the main room of the mission too.


Mopped the kitchen at Azalea. I like my swiffer better.

Still not sure why I’ve suddenly gone so cleaning mad. I read a book about getting rid of clutter. I’ve been actively doing that. I feel better.

Went back to Lowes this evening to drop off the carpet cleaner. For $27 that’s a pretty good deal. The stuff that goes with it costs about $20 and it lasts three complete carpet cleanings. So that’s about $35. Cheaper, but a lot more work for me for sure.

I liked these upper level clouds. Did you know that con trails from planes play a big part in creating clouds?

Nice icebow today.

Smarter than a Second Grader?

I thought this tree looked like it was on fire.

Recorded a podcast Saturday morning.

I got it on line late Saturday night. It’s a fun one!

It will make you even more “Shiny!” Just click on the title and groove!

I enjoyed eating lunch with my family today! Sure do love my kids. And sweet K!

Came home to work on my art projects. Painting today.



I became part of the art.

Then went for a 2.71 mile run. Felt great.

Always beautiful things to see along the way.

I think this may be salt. If I was a real scientist, I’d give it a lick. However, the chance it could be excrement rules that out.

The burning bush.

This reminds me of dendrites.

I wonder if there’s a body in the trunk.

Sometimes this is good advice.

I’ve enjoyed looking through the Cool Tool book by Kevin Kelly. This was from the page on how to draw cartoons.

This is my newly cleaned and remodeled desk top in meat space.

I left this on the trunk of my car. It was there from when I was collecting snowflakes to look at under the microscope. Doubt it would have stayed on there for long.

In this picture there is actually a funeral procession coming from the West and a funeral procession coming from the East. Bizarre. I reckon a lot of old people died during the cold freeze.

I took place in a Skype call to the UK this afternoon. Some friends of mine had a discussion group and included me. We had some technical difficulties. This is the picture that Skype froze on for a while.

It was an enormous amount of fun with guys that I love like brothers.

I painted a section of wood that was left from the roof repairs. Had to wait for the weather to warm up to spray.


Fixed.

Enjoyed having supper with Jesse and Kathy. I’ve missed seeing J. He’s been at the mission. He said he had a lot of fun with the guys there. I’m glad about that.

People are really angry over the disaster on the Atlanta roads this week. Screw up at a massive level.

I can’t believe they let in Historical Smoking. Shocking.