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It’s alive!

GG.comAfter a lot of love, attention and tweaking, phase one of GretemanGroup.com is officially live.

Featuring our updated brand, a new portfolio and our very own blog, the site is refreshed, easy to navigate and provides more opportunity for interaction. While we’re still ironing out some minor issues and planning to add more features in the future, the site is live and it is good. At least I think so.

So go check it out.

Let me know what you think!

Have a great holiday weekend.
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Would you rather…

Ok, this is pathetically similar to my “preference post,” but let’s play a quick, clean game of “Would You Rather,” with the ridiculously clever twist of adding “why” to your answer. Be as honest as you feel like being. Or be funny. You choose.

Would You Rather…

  1. Be a rock star OR a movie star?
  2. Have the ability to fly OR be able to sharpen pencils with your belly button?
  3. Have the blogosphere’s most-visited and popular blog OR have the most MySpace or Facebook friends possible?
  4. Would you rather be a flawless speller OR an expert in geometry?
  5. Would you rather pen the world’s greatest novel that only a handful of people ever read OR would you rather write a shallow, trite story that takes the nation by storm?

Don’t forget to tell us why!

It’s posts like these that really propel me towards the upper echelons of influential bloggers.
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The preference post

In an effort to get to you know you, my readers, and get a blog post up, I would like to know your preferences for the items below.

Do you prefer…

  1. Cell phones on vibrate that are sitting on a colleague’s desk OR annoying, personalized ringtones?
  2. Chipotle’s chicken OR beef OR pork OR steak?
  3. Water with ice OR water without ice?
  4. Reading blogs via RSS feeds OR on the actual blog page?
  5. Mac OR PC?
  6. Facebook OR MySpace
  7. Old Testament OR New Testament
  8. Wordpress OR Blogger?
  9. Twitter OR Plurk?
  10. Memorial Day OR Labor Day

Any items you need personal opinons on? Leave ‘em in the comments!

Let’s see what you like!
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Is your church better than Westboro?

Westboro Baptist’s head cheese, Fred Phelps, released a video the day of Tim Russert’s death, declaring the act an example of God’s further condemnation of America and, in particular, its media.

Obviously, I don’t agree with Phelps’ assertions. But I do wonder what he would have us do. They continually call for repentance, but they never provide a clear call to action. How are we to repent? How are we to turn our nation back to God? What do they want us to do?

What is your church doing differently? Is it making the message of repentance and salvation tangible and practical? Or is it equally as abstract and unclear as Westboro?

Just curious.
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Back in the groove

Friends, I have returned from Phoenix, Arizona. I was there, celebrating the marriage of my ol’ college chum and Theatron pal Sam Peters to Brooklynne Travis-Peters. (I can neither confirm nor deny the possibility of Brooklynne using a hyphen.) It was a beautiful ceremony, but it was outdoors, in Phoenix, in June, in a tux. So…I got hot.

But my heat-suffering wasn’t the low-point of my trip – it was my airline “adventures” that stole the show. On my way out there, I missed my connection in Denver due to weather. I arrived in Phoenix at 10:30 instead of 6:15. Which in CST is 12:30 a.m. Needless to say, I was a sleepy fellow.

On the return flights, we hit some nasty, nasty turbulence on our way into Denver. It wasn’t terrifying, but it wasn’t fun either. Unfortunately, on our way into Wichita, I experienced terror such as I have never felt before. I’m not afraid of flying – mostly because I’ve never had reason to be. I don’t mind turbulence too terribly much. But I do mind my plane turning on its side and doing a significant dip, while picking up speed, going through an electrical storm.

I sincerely thought that I was done for. I think the two pilots to my right (they were out of uniform, and only later did I discover they were pilots when they said, “That was the worst I’ve ever experienced”) thought we were done for. All the women (and probably men) who screamed thought we were done for.

It. Was. Terrifying.

But, I am alive and well.

As is my wonderful wife, Hayley. And today marks the 25th year of her being alive and well. Since she no longer maintains a blog of her own, leave your comments here, wishing her well and providing words of encouragement for arriving at her mid-20s – I’m not sure she’s handling it well.

Happy Monday.
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Best Music Video Ever

This is flippin’ brilliant.

Happy Memorial Day Weekend everyone!
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(h/t: Paul Isakson)


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