Studied Spanish this morning. Surprise!

Went to Westside.

Pastor Ben spoke about tithing.

God with us.

AMAZING weather!

Enjoying the book, “Stealing Fire.”

Went for a bike ride.

I thought the shadow made this look really weird.

Beauty is everywhere.

Raked my porch area.

Interesting designs.

Scrubbed my birdbaths.

And my shoes.

About three inches of leaves. They were still wet and super heavy.

St. Francis was about covered up.

Parts from the hornet’s nest.

Started playing Black Ops 4. Astonishing multiplayer experience.

Studied, POR SUPESTO!

Worked on getting my weather station running again.

Some type of battery issue between the transmitter and receiver.

As part of the 2019 Contact Resolution, I shoot for contacting at least one friend a day. Today I did two, Marcus Lewis in Derby, and Amit Badiani in Leicester, UK. Such dear friends. Great to talk with them.

Recorded an episode of Verbal Surgery called, “Polite Awakening.” It’s excellent.

Paid bills.

The chips in both my debit and credit cards malfunctioned this month. I wonder if the MARTA scanning affected them? So I had to get new cards. I have things tied for automatic payment with the credit card. I had to call Geico and get that squared away, as well as for taking the Nissan Altima off the insurance.

Then got the process started for getting the Altima donated for the last part of her life.

The trash pickup has been on weird schedules.

Bills in the mail.

Went for a 6.73 mile bike ride. Absolutely fantastic time.

Parts of the hornet’s nest they abandoned keep falling off.

Over 4.75 inches of rain over the last three days.

Fabulous time with the girls this evening. I got them on a call with Nana in Georgetown.

I loved the little food set I got Penelope.

We talked to Nana using Facebook Messenger.

Ashley picked them up around 10pm. I had rocked them both to sleep and was watching Super Why on Netflix.

Admin duties now.

Studied. Do I really need to say it?



Recorded a new episode of Verbal Surgery. Always one of my favorite things: listening to myself talk.

Chatted with my best friend, who is currently in Morocco.

Had this visitor while I was recording.

Released Verbal Surgery -624- “Love Lens”

We see everything through filters. Choose yours wisely!

Uploaded to my server.

Link on Facebook.

I’m not working on Swahili any more because the English answers were so bad. It was like I was having to memorize a weird form of English in order to continue moving forward. I continued to report the mistakes. I’ve had at least ten of my answers now considered “correct.”

Tim Ferris is an interesting writer. I liked him mentioning David Lynch.

A short excerpt from a book I’ve just started reading, Stealing Fire.

Been playing Black Ops 4 multiplayer mode. It’s always rough when you start a new game and everyone has way better weapons than you do. C’est la vie!

Admin duties now.

I actually wrote this Saturday morning when I thought I had done it last night!

Studied. Duh.

Had a talk with my buddy Ben Birdsong. K and I will be going to Birmingham for a night to speak with the students there. Get them fired up about coming to Atlanta for the mission trip. Here’s some details.

Continued with my Contact Resolution to call people. Left voice mail with some friends.


Recorded an episode of Verbal Surgery called “Tough Gloves.”

Went to Walmart to do the shopping. Always interesting things to see.

Under the category of “No-one ever went broke underestimating the taste of Americans.”

Nearly $200 today.

I liked the sound of this.

Does it all.

Deposited checks into the bank. Amen. Talked about a financial question I had with the chairman of our board. Glad to get the situation figured out.

Took the Mercury over to T&G to let them diagnose a Check Engine light.

My buddy Ben sent me a follow-up email.

Worked on trying the Portrait Mode of the iPhone. When it’s shot that way, you can post it as 3D on Facebook.



Selfies in that mode. You have to turn the phone around so you can’t see yourself to use the correct lenses.

Looked at my microscope. I couldn’t find the adaptor for the light.

All the memorizing poetry is rubbing off on me.


Played God of War. Gorgeous world.

Admin duties now.

I played some games. I loved the lava effects.

Took some pictures of objects on my desk.

My buddy Anthony said I should read this book.

I just bought and had it downloaded to my iPhone. Living in the future, baby.

This is the milage on the car Jesse just got.

Called T&G to see about bringing the Mercury into take a look at the Check Engine light that has come on. We’ll take it on on Friday.

Sent a letter to my friend Jouvens. I actually included two SASE to he can let me know if he gets released deported.

I studied. I learned.

Spent most of my morning working on getting the title for the car that was just donated to our ministry. It’s a Mercury Grand Marquis. Typical cop car.


The title place as only about ten minutes away.

Got through the line at light speed. Hardly anyone there. What a blessing!
Got the license plate, too.

I saw my friend Joel Harrison at the title place. We had a good talk about missions.

I told a friend of mine about some Banksy documentaries he wasn’t aware of.

I saw this piece of his live in Palestine. It’s big.

Rainy day.

Ashley came over to work on laundry. I was at the Tag office most of the time they were at the house. The girls both slept.
Went to El Torerro.
This picture reminds me of lines from “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” Dylan Thomas,

“Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning,
They do not go gentle into that good night.”

I’m following up on my resolution to contact people. Tonight I talked with Michael Perez in the Philippines and Bob Burns in Scotland. The internet wasn’t great, but it was still workable.

Admin duties now.

I watched “Leaning Into the Wind” last night. It’s the new documentary about Andy Goldsworthy. He’s my favorite artist after Banksy.

Studied. . . do I really need to say it?

That’s why they call it a habit.

Released a new edition of Verbal Surgery -623- “Multiverse.”

Deep stuff to make you feel good, NOW!

Uploaded to server.

Link on Facebook.

Fun lunch with Bill and Deborah. Always interesting conversation.

We went out to eat together, then I took them to Kitab Bookstore and Al Madina. Always fascinating and fun.

It’s all about the mileage.


Ashley’s art with Penelope adding background.

Beat the God of War game main story. Still bits and pieces to play. Incredible rivers of lava.

Worked on getting the documents together to get the title transferred into my name tomorrow.

Admin duties now.