Went for a 2.69 mile run this morning. Felt great.

Always something interesting to see! Looks like a lot of heavy machinery by the lake.

Spent time outside watching the birds.

Very peaceful and interesting. I have birds land within a few feet of me. It’s like being in a giant bird cage.

Flew my AR Drone 2.0 around the yard.

A lot of times it’s too windy to fly the drone. Then I bring out my mini kite. It’s fun too!

Enjoyed working with the Zome tool today. It’s a type of high end lego that’s built to display molecules and atomic structure in crystals. This is all the possible angles from one single hub.

I have fun making different designs.

This is a triacotehedron–it has 30 sides. The Romans believed it was a divine shape.

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Watched the Middle with K and episodes of Elementary.

Admin duties now.

Been studying Bengali. Here’s the website I use. It’s called “Learn101”

There’s actually a shadow of this contrail on lower level clouds.

Had almost an 1″ of rain around dawn.

Recorded a new podcast this morning!

The server for my podcasts changed their home page. Had to use a slight different system to upload the new recording.

Woot! Been feeling down lately? Time for a boost! Check out “Tune UP!” It’s time you did.

Spent time this morning cleaning my room and organizing. I found these pictures of me that the kids made for me.

Also found this picture of my band when I was in Baylor called Bright Star.

Been enjoying reading The Amateur Naturalist.

Fun book.

Learning parts of the bird.

Dropped off a package to UPS.

I liked this car there.

Ate lunch at Subway, then met up with Jesse at our house. J and I then went to the new Goodwill to check on clothes.

I got a couple of shirts, and one for a friend of mine. As we drove up, Ashley pulled in behind us. She was headed to go ride horses.

Ashley’s awesome.

I liked the pattern on this shirt. It was way too big for me.

All these shoes represented people who had walked in them to me.

After Goodwill, J and I went to Walmart. Got some supplies for the mission and some bird food.

I also bought these miniature roses for Kathy. It was a nice surprise and because they were on sale, she was double happy.

This afternoon I went to a local pond and collected some water.

I enjoyed looking through the microscope at paramecium.

Admin duties now.

Odd shaped Con Trails.

I liked this tag.

My car was covered in these little dots. I think it’s condensation and pollen dust. Weird that it’s so regularly spaced.

Jesse found this picture of him and his grandaddy.

Worked on some tax documents this morning. Took them over for our treasurer to read over.

Talked on the phone with our tax man.

I hot glued some fabrics together for my wife’s aunt.

Had a fun day with BOTH my kids.

Always good. We ate Indian food at Ashiana and talked about the teams coming.

Part of our ministry is finding good host churches for the groups to stay. We went by and talked to folks at One Heart Church, the YMCA, Peachtree Corners, and Crossroads Church.

Good day! Always enjoy talking to folks.

Helped the kids at the mission with their homework.


Mohosana and the other Bengali kids are helping me learn more Bengali. That’s always fun.

Saw a low flying helo around FBC Doraville on my way to the mission.

Enjoyed watching episodes of the Middle with Kathy.

Took out the trash. We have WAY more recycle than trash.

Admin duties now.

My computer was running rrrrrrrreeeealllllyyyyy slowly earlier this evening. Seems better now. Amen.

Hmmmm.

Dead bird outside the mission. Beautiful and gross at the same time.

Recorded a new podcast this morning!

Woot! Need more time in your life? Then take a listen to “Tempo!”

It’s time you did!

Household duties next. Paid bills. This was for my roof repair.

Swept and cleaned off my back porch area.

I had a fun day with Jesse today!

We met up for lunch. Went to a Peruvian restaurant: Manchu Pichu.

We liked it. Basically tasted like chicken fried rice.

We got Jesse’s iPhone repaired by Atlanta iPhone. I thought they did a great job.

Went to Barnes and Nobles to look at books. Always fun. We hardly ever buy anything, but we like the culture.

Over to Azalea to help the kids with their homework.





Adit was actually riding the bicycle! He calls it riding a “two-wheeler.” Groovy.

Spent time cleaning the mission. There was an odd smell in the mission. I took out all the garbage.

And sweeping all the gravel that they put on the mission entrance during the ice.

Ironically, all that sand made the concrete slippery when the weather was nice.

Vacuumed and swiffer moped.

Then home. K and I enjoyed watching episodes of The Middle.

Admin duties now.

ZERO emission car.

I liked the sound of this.

This is one of the games the kids like to play. It’s called Munchkin.

Kathy and I had a fun Valentines weekend in Rome, GA! Jesse gave us a good send off.

We’d never been there before.

Lots of fun stuff to do.

I’ve been a bird watcher for over forty years.

Seeing a Bald Eagle has definitely been on my bucket list! There is a breeding pair of eagles there on the campus of Berry College.

I’m a big fan of the “EagleCam” streaming live video from the top of a pine tree where the eagles have their nest! So K and I went to see the real nest. We were able to see the top of his head. Super cool.

Enjoyed biking. Lots of good trails in the area.

I also enjoy looking at the architecture.

Berry College had some interesting buildings.

Great food!



This guy reminded us of Kathy’s daddy, Bill Doverspike.

Beautiful clouds.

The clock tower really stood out as something special. It was at the very top of a hill.

We worked at Azalea this afternoon.

I also helped Adit start to learn how to ride a bicycle.

Training wheels came off.

J’s iPhone fell and cracked. Sad. We’ll get it taken care of tomorrow.

Lots of wild things to see this weekend.

Nice.

Happy Valentines day!

Our city continues to thaw out.

Took out the garbage. We have a new day for pick up.

Enjoyed eating lunch with Kathy at Matthews in Tucker.

I went to Azalea to check on Jesse and the kids. J had a stomach ache. I brought him a sandwich. It was fun to watch the boys play soccer.

Came home to hang out with Kathy.

Admin duties now.

When it was all said and done we had about 1.5″ of rain/sleet/snow.

Looks like we made it through the ice storm!

Finally started to melt off.

Cleaned the house. Vacuumed.

Used the swiffer to mop the kitchen and laundry area.

Cleaned some carpet stains left by our dog. Thanks a lot, Sugar.

Cleaned windows.

Enjoyed watching TV with Kathy. We celebrate Valentines a bit early. I made her a little heart shaped note.

Been reading the Geology Sites book. Had fun glancing through the paper airplane book. It’s like complicated origami. I learned a couple of patterns.

Admin duties now.

More wintery weather hear in the ATL!

K and I are stuck in the house. No driving around from our neighborhood!

I enjoyed getting my 20x microscope and looking at snowflakes.


Actually, it wasn’t really snow but mostly freezing rain here in Stone Mountain. The “snow” was billions of tiny perfectly spherical little balls of ice.

Hard to believe it was there all along, but because of it’s size I just couldn’t see it.
Over 2″.


Amazingly beautiful.

I’m especially vigilant with my bird feeding when we have really bad weather like this.

Enjoyed watching the Way Way Back and After Earth with K. I liked them both.

Admin duties now.

This morning I worked on an application for grant money for one of the kids at the mission. I had to write an essay about why he should receive the scholarship.

Hope the support him!

I finally got the Glif in the mail. It’s a holder for an iPhone.


It can be used as a stand.


As well as a way to connect the iPhone to a tripod.

That’s great when using the iPhone for a video recording.

Looked at a bottom drawer in my desk today. I wonder when the last time I did that was? Floppys and 35mm film. Wow.

Cold day outside. Kind of rainy. I enjoyed eating lunch with Kathy.

Restful afternoon as we hunkered down to avoid the big ice storm. Really nothing to speak of.

Had fun watching many episodes of the Middle with K.

Been reading books that I got on Amazon, including a book on memory, another on snowflakes, clouds, building props, Steampunk and what I’m currently looking at 101 Geo locations in the USA. FUN!

Admin duties now.

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.