Published on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 .
UPDATE: Well, apparently Wichita has failed Shaun Groves once again. The Dove Award-nominated soft rock star, prolific blogger, Compassion speaker and my best friend is no longer scheduled to come to Wichita. If anyone knows of a church or venue that is interested in bringing him in for free (the tour is sponsored by Compassion) next Spring, shoot me an email.
As you likely guessed from my clever headline, Shaun Groves, the Dove Award-nominated soft rock star, prolific blogger, Compassion speaker and my best friend (I’m not entirely sure he’s aware of this particular distinction), is NOT coming to Wichita. What you can’t glean from my headline is when and where. So read on for that information.
Ok. Thanks for continuing. Shaun is NOT coming Thursday, Sept. 18 to Riverlawn Church (click here for a map).
Shaun has been to Wichita before and, apparently, this town boasts among the smallest crowds of anywhere he travels. I would like to change this trend, and edge out Des Moines, Iowa for next to last place*.
If you’re unfamiliar with his music, be sure to stop by his site and have a listen. It will be worth your while.
Hope to see you there.
*I can neither deny nor confirm the small size of Des Moines Iowa’s turnout for Shaun Groves concerts. But come on, it’s Des Moines!
Published on Monday, September 8, 2008 .
Wow. This is the most fascinating contact I’ve ever received from The Todd Blog. I don’t even know what it means!
One o’ my inner gerania alleged to be living inside my wee little crania saw something shiny in her kpasta 16 Yahoo! inbox.
You are not familiar with me … yet, therefore I will politely introduce myself.
I am Janet Barnes who resides by the Sea @ Cape Henry in Furginny Beach, VA.
I am alleged to have multiple said gerania lurking in my crania. My alpha girl is Daniela and she can slay the English language in 4 or maybe more languages including her own, Espanglais and of course Pig Latin AND 2.5 species.
This little nibbler is courtesy of a nudder o’ my speshull inners, Beatrixx Fodder:
Back to that shiny in Kay Pasta’s Yahoo Inbox this morning….Subject Line reads… This may be your last notice of application
…
MyCashUpFront
MyCashUpFront
On Friday, she received a different e-mail from them, which she Spam-R-Rated and cast o’er the stern to Yahoo!. That Subject Line Read:
Loan Notification Center
…
Approval Notice From PrimeCashAdvance
Approval Notice From PrimeCashAdvance
In addition to reporting the communication to Yahoo! as offensive to her girlie-dawg sensibilities, Daniela replied directly to the first unsolicited whiff the following:
Keep your grubby interest mongering emails to yourself. I am offended by your continued time sensitive follow up spam.
get lost and stay lost.
DS Wright
Anybody got any clues to what/who this is?
Published on Monday, September 8, 2008 .
From my sister-in-law Erin:
I have some dear friends–Charlie and Mollie Middlebrook–whose grandson is very sick and in the hospital in Seattle, Washington. His father started a blog, so when you have a moment please visit it and leave a comment. Let’s surround little Max, his parents Sam and Shannon, and his brother Levi with God’s love!
So, please take a moment to pray for Max today.
Published on Friday, September 5, 2008 .
It’s time again for Friday Pun Time. It’s been a while since I last did a pun post, so it’s time to break out your wittiness and bring the punny funs. Excuse me. Funny puns.
I’ll kick things off:
Bob was not the only one arrested for growing marijuana when the cops found out that it was actually a joint venture.
AND
I don’t like hanging out at the pancake house, that place gives me the crepes!
Bring it on friends. Bring it on.
There’s nothing better than overcoming a blog-drought with a post about puns. I am, indeed, a blog master.
Published on Thursday, August 28, 2008 .
As you can see to the right, I have a pretty lengthy list of Totally Schweet Blogs. I personally subscribe to each of those blogs. If I stop subscribing, I stop linking. I try to only support those blogs that I actually read.
Some bloggers, in an effort to increase their Technorati authority score, will link to anyone who links to them, regardless of whether or not they actually read the blog. Often, these lists get so long, they have to implement a rotating blogroll. This tool shows a set number (usually about five to ten) of blogs that randomly change each time a person visits the site.
I suppose, if one has 100+ blogs the rotating tool does make your blog prettier. But really, beyond that, what is the point? Are you really recommending all the blogs on your list? Do you read all those blogs yourself? If not, why should your visitors?
And (this is my ultimate beef with the rotating script) what is the value for me, the linkee, to be on your list? There’s a high probability that most people will never see or click my link.
So, no matter how long my blogroll gets, I will proudly share all of them for all to see (a la my blog-idol Brody Harper). Because each of them are worth clicking. Worth reading. And worth linking to.
What’s your take on the rotating blogroll?
Published on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 .
Instead of a “Monday Musings” post, I’ve cleverly rescheduled my random post to Wednesday and changed the name to “Wednesday Wanderings.” Get it? But that’s not the only change. Expect to see roughly 64% more photos in today’s post.
First, things have been pretty crazy for the past few weeks. Work has been keeping my crazy-busy (which is good) and it seems as if we’ve had very few free nights at home. Hayley has been equally as busy. It’s just a wild time around the Ramsey household.
Secondly, our house, which is broken, is about to be fixed! We have a contractor scheduled and waiting for us to get some plumbing checked out. After three months of living upstairs, it will be nice for life to get back to normal. The picture to the left is taken in our kitchen. We have an equally large hole in our living room. It has been a beast getting contractors to call us back – which makes it very difficult to get on their schedules. It’s kind of amazing how so many contractors have such terrible reputations for customer satisfaction (at least on the residential side). It must be nice to be in such a high-demand business that you can treat people however you want.
Thirdly, Hayley had a casual hula performance on Saturday. She did awesome, per usual. You can see some more photos at my new hula-dedicated Flickr set.
Fourthly, I had the distinct pleasure of assisting Lou Heldman’s “Business of News” class set up some blogs Monday night. Below is a photo of my delivering a motivational speech to all the engaged – and obviously entertained – students.
Finally, I haven’t given up the dream of being on Larry King Live. Hopefully, the second phase of my internet-craze-creating campaign will commence after the holiday weekend. If you haven’t already, head over to the LKL post and send an email requesting that I be a guest on the show.
So what’s been going on in your worlds lately?
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