When it was announced last night that John Lynch had left the Broncos to ‘explore his options’ elsewhere, I was not a happy camper. In terms of talent/playing time, I’m not sure how much the Broncos lost here. There are 4 safeties on the team that can all play, hit, and cover. So John’s role read more
Wednesday, July 16 Think I finally got all the junk off my website. It was that stupid cybercafe in Porec. Plus…I think I’m sick. Fever. Sweating. Coughing. Not good. Thursday, July 17 Feel better. Good enough to get out and eat and see some sites. I’ll pack tomorrow and leave on Saturday. The Budapest Boob read more
Tuesday, July 15 Conference is over. I now head to Budapest with my brother-in-law for a few days of down time before I head back to the States. The last 8 days have been hectic, insightful, and humbling. And I’ve got an 8 hour van ride in front of me to chew on these things. read more
For a season, Will Smith couldn’t miss with movies. Call him Mr. 4th of July, Mr. Blockbuster, whatever. When Will Smith does a movie, it will have an edge and be worth going to see. To be fair, it’s not that Hancock is a bad movie…it’s just not a great one. It starts off funny, read more
Monday, July 14th Last full day at Porec and conference. Tomorrow we’ll load up and I’ll drive the 8 hours to Budapest with my brother-in-law. Morning excursion we did motor boats. I use that term loosely. It technically had a mechanical engine of the sorts on the back of it…all 8 horses of it. I read more
Sunday, July 13 On the docket was sailboating and parasailing. Both got cancelled due to the high winds. Instead we beat the snot out of each other on paddle boats in the middle of the Adriatic Sea. The hotel next to us had this cool little water play set…that big mountain in the middle is read more
Steve “Purk” (of July 4th hike fame) is training for climbing Mt. Bierstadt this August. It’s one of Colorado’s famed “14′ers.” In fact, we are going to try to bag 2 in one day – Bierstadt and Evans. They are two of the more “friendlier” 14′ers plus we’ll have a guy who has done it read more
With Cayden in half-day Kindergarten and me off – Amy and I headed to Hidden Mesa Open Space. We’re pretty fortunate. We have the best metro hiking venues within minutes of the house. We headed to the top, a little over 3 mile hike roundtrip.
Toby, Shaun and I headed to The Dark Knight this afternoon. Two and half hours later we just sat there. Finally one of us exhaled. “That….was….sick.” In the first movie, Nolan took us on a character development ride as to what makes Batman/Bruce Wayne tick. This time around he just takes us on a ride…a read more
Miracles will never cease!!! This was my list to get done on the blog and I honestly thought, it would take me the rest of my life. 1. recent comments with excerpt 2. on this day calendar 3. archive page 4. contact me page. 5. top posts by view 6. top commenters of all time read more
First off, I’m back in the USA. I have lots of stories to tell and you’ll be getting multiple posts over the next few days about it all. However, in the rush to keep you informed I used a cybercafe in Porec. Normally this is not a big deal. People do it all the time. read more
Ever since I used that cyber cafe in Porec to post – I’ve had some issues with my blog. Today – I’m trying to get them all fixed. But it’s a complete pain in the butt. So bear with me. Hope to be up and running in a few.
Saturday, July 12 Day Off Technically this is a day off but so many us went to Pula together. It’s about an hour south or Porec. Roman ruins – ampitheatre, Temple of Augustus and Diana, Fortress. The Amphitheater was breathtaking. You pull up to it and WHAM there it is….just built right into the hillside, read more
Friday, July 11 We went ATVing today. Check out the blue jump suits. Some of us looked like Oompahloompahs. I won’t mention any names. I couldn’t get totally in my blue suit. I ripped the crotch right out of it because of my height. That got more than a few laughs. We rode through olive read more
Thursday, July 10 Today is my sister’s birthday. So..happy b-day, sis. Today was fun. We went spelunking. Baredine Cave just outside Porec. Legend has it that two lovers got lost down in the caves looking for each other. Moral: Don’t follow a girl in a cave without a sure fire plan on getting out. Words read more
Wednesday Evening Session: John 5:1-15, Healing at the Pool at Bethseda. There are times where it just doesn’t matter what you do…it’s going to be rough night. You can see it coming, know it’s coming…and it just doesn’t matter. This one was of those nights. First, the students were ALL over the place. That’s nothing read more
Wednesday, July 9 We’re in a pretty good pattern. Goof off, get active in the morning – open the word in the evening. Today, I taught the crew the game Inversion. This is where you have 5 people in a line facing one direction, another 5 people along that same line but facing towards the read more
So they have nude beaches here. It doesn’t work out exactly like you think. It’s not like a restaurant with a nude and non-nude section. You go to the beach and hope for the best. I was preparing myself for the experience by interviewing the missionaries here. “Do you every get used to it? You read more
The wireless internet is down in the hotel. The cybercafe landline works. What probably needs to happen is the router be reset but none of the hotel employs will do this. Either they can’t or won’t. They called the company that installed it – it’s their job. Meanwhile, we have about 13 IT guys in read more
I’m uploading about a jilion more pics than I put on the blog. It’s a hard decision as to which pics to use in a post and which ones not to use. So – I put them all up on flickr so those of you are pic fanatics can enjoy all you want. Here’s the read more
Tuesday, July 8 Jet lag isn’t too bad. Slept good. Ready to roll. My goal this week is to make cultural geniuses out of these students. Can they tackle a culture, discern what is good and can be used as a springboard for discussions of Jesus and what is not good? Are they able to read more
Now for the rest of the trip… Monday, July 7 2.00 am We’re about to land in Frankfurt. It’s 11 am local time. I tried to sleep but the teenage foreign exchange student next to me had a bladder the size of a walnut. As we come in for landing, I see the city of read more
Sunday, July 6 2.00 pm No line at Lufthansa at all. Get seat assignment, head to security. No lines here either. Aim and kids walk me up to the line. All three kids start tearing up and crying. It makes me realize how much stuff we do together as a family, how much we like read more
We may have stumbled on a new family tradition. The Purkapiles (okay – it was Steve. There was no way Camille was going to spearhead this…) were heading to Eldorado Canyon State Park. There was a moderately difficult trail to an old hotel site in early 1900′s. Cayden made it…with a little help. We made read more
I’ve said this before but Aerosmith has got to be my favorite rock band. So for my birthday/father’s day – the fam got me Guitar Hero: Aerosmith. It’s freakin’ awesome. I’ve already beat it on Medium and will tackle Hard next. But it got me wondering, I’m not sure if there are too many more read more
Go see Wall-E. Right now. Go home, grab the kids and catch the matinee. It’s that good. And you figure that the odds are stacking up against Pixar. I mean, at some point they have to release a dud. Animated films are always a mixed bag and studios have struggled for years to maintain any read more
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