Stats Suck Sunday – In Bullet Points
Dang. It’s Sunday again already? What the heck? Well, if you can’t tell I’m slammed with work. Slammed with getting ready for The Roadshow, slammed with wrapping up the packaging for “The Generous Mr. Lovewell“, slammed with launching some new sites, you know… all at once. So it doesn’t really surprise me that Sunday is the day that I can actually try to catch up on things here. So here goes. It’s Sunday and these are my thoughts.
- Gymkata has to be one of the worst, awesome moves I’ve ever seen. I swear the script was probably three pages of notes. It felt like there were several times in the movie where they just didn’t have lines so they just ran through the woods or something. Yep. That awesome.
- Blue is sitting next to me shooting people’s heads off in some video game. I think it’s kinda weird, but that’s because I have to, not because I really think it’s weird.
- We’ve been going through some major ‘adjustments’ on the SkörInc front. Lots of organizing and lots of team building talk.
- Everyone thinks I’m either gay or a hippie… or both for talking so much about “team building” but them having to listen to me is one of the perks of being the boss right?
- I had an idea last night that originally I was going to write about today, but then I realized I’d rather start working on it before I talk about it. You know… element of surprise and all that…. plus I don’t know what I’m doing so I have to check with some people before I go and start talking about things.
- I’m pretty excited to hang with the Crowder boys in the next couple days. This will be my third tour with them and it’s always a good time.
- Maybe the Crowder boys will want to do some team-building stuff with me.
- I’ve still chickened out about wearing my letterman jacket anywhere, but I’m thinking that we start something on here where people send in pics of them wearing their letterman jacket somewhere in public. It’s time to bring that back.
- Apparently Franklin, TN has a basketball team.
- How do you pack for a month away from home? I wear the same thing every day. That either makes it really hard to pack, or really easy. We’ll see which one it is tomorrow.
- I’m still glad I’m not Kobe Bryant.
- Kristin and I are going to see MUSE tomorrow. Yes sir. MUSE. Tomorrow. My wife is awesome.
I think that’s it for now. I really should be stopping Blue from shooting people’s heads off. What’s on your mind peeps?
Welcome The Afters To The Bunch
It’s been a whirlwind of a few months, that’s for sure. Yesterday we officially welcomed the boys in The Afters to the SkörInc family. Currently the guys are wrapping up their next record and along with that we will be coming along side them to create a new interactive site connecting them to you guys. We’ve got some new tricks we’ve been playing with and I’m crazy excited to get this project as a whole going.
Currently TheAfters.com is a splash page showing off some of the pics from their new photo shoot. Check it out and let me know what you think. And as always, stay tuned for more on this.
‘I’m Just Being Honest’
I saw on Twitter the other day a guy laying into MercyMe because he thought that the “theme” of their new song had been over done. Apparently ‘Worship and Love’ is so 2009. He went on to berate the guys publicly for a while and then I saw it. The Tweet that I had been waiting for. It went something like this: “Am I the only one on Twitter who tells it like it is?” then he went on to say how everyone else was weak and he was awesome or something like that. Funny thing is, the guys in MercyMe dealt with it graciously and he ended up apologizing a couple days later. But I thought he was just ‘telling it like it is’?
Now, that’s not even remotely the only instance where I’ve heard someone proclaim on Twitter, Facebook or blogs that they are “just being honest”. It seems that we are all allowed to ‘just be honest’ whenever we want even if that means that we come back a day later and apologize because we realized our ‘honesty’ may have been inappropriate at that time or place. You’ve seen it too haven’t you? Someone spouting off from their soapbox that is Twitter or Blog and tag it with “I’m just being honest here”. Then there’s a whole bunch of comments about how “authentic” they are, or how “real” they are being. Meanwhile the destruction in their wake leaves people feeling beat up and hurt.
I think if we’re really being ‘honest’ the posts would look a little more like this:
I’m an insecure person. Technology has allowed me to have a platform to a handful of people who agree with my views and opinions on certain things. Because I have this circle of people digitally surrounding me I feel safe to lash out at people I’ve never met because I know that a good percentage of ‘my people’ will agree with me.
Because of this digital expression I have also found a small niche of things that I have thought about maybe a little more than others, and can now claim to be an expert on it, thus giving me the right to berate people who feel differently or haven’t thought about it as much as me. After all ‘my people’ will agree with me right? And if they don’t “I’m just being honest and, they apparently just can’t handle my honesty. That’s not my fault. It’s theirs.
Never mind that we are called to love each other, this is an expression of ‘me’ and if you don’t like it, that’s just too bad. Jesus never had a blog or Twitter, so there’s no rules on what can or can’t be done there. It’s fair game blanketed by ‘honesty’, and the way I am ‘honest’ makes me feel better about myself as a person. In fact, when I attack people digitally I walk a little straighter that day because I ‘stuck it to someone else’ and proved to my readers how much I know about my niche topic. It makes me feel good about myself and that’s really what I’m after. That’s what we are all after when it comes down to it.
I know that I’m supposed to put others before me, but I try not to let that affect the way I Tweet or blog because sitting in my room it’s really about me and what makes me feel good. And that’s just me being honest.
Stats Suck Sunday – In Bullet Points
Man, it’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. I sort of miss them. I miss seeing other folks random thoughts, so I’m bringing it back. Now, I will warn you though, most of what’s floating around in my brain is probably work related at this point, simply because that’s where I’m at. So here goes. For those of you who have never heard of ‘Stats Suck Sunday’, the rules are simple. Write some random bullet points on your blog, then fill out the box below. That’s it. Ready?
- I had two ideas last night at church that are completely unrelated to each other, but I think they could be awesome. One is serious and the other is not. I think the serious one could be a really cool thing. I’ll let you know if it starts moving forward.
- Trying out Evernote again. I’ve had an account for a while, but never took the time to figure it out. Turns out it’s pretty simple, but I need to make it a habit.
- MercyMe‘s packaging for ‘The Generous Mr. Lovewell’ is due a week from tomorrow. We’re a long way off from being done, but if we can pull it off it’s going to be really cool.
- On top of the MercyMe packaging, SkörInc’s got a couple pretty substantial website launches this week or nest week, Natalie Grant is hosting a benefit show for the Home Foundation, and it’s time to start preparing for the start of The Roadshow.
- See, I told you I was busy.
- Continue to pray for Addison Road and FFH. If you haven’t heard Addison Road was renting FFH‘s RV for this tour with Sanctus Real. A couple nights ago it caught on fire and completely burned.
- I think I forgot to tell you I got a new car. It’s gray, and it’s a Prius, and looks like this. Now I can save on gas milage as well as being conscious of the environment. Not to mention it’s like driving a video game so it’s fun.
- Wondering when the NBA is getting to playoff time. It could be already, I just haven’t noticed. I like NBA Playoffs.
- Our house needs a wash. I wish I could somehow roll it through a car wash type thing. Most likely I’ll end up getting one of those long brushes that you hook to a hose and going at it.
- I’ve got about 50 games of Words With Friends going, and having a hard time keeping up. Blue is really good and keeps making our games hard.
So that’s about it rolling around in this brain this morning. I think I might try to get to that house washing today, but who knows, it’s Sunday. Your turn.
Sport Parents
Last night Blue played his last basketball game of the season. They lost by about ten points. The other team’s coach screamed the entire time. Running up and down the court, waving his arms, pointing, kicking and stomping. Sort of a joke really, if you ask me. But his team won. Kristin and I sat in the bleachers with a couple other parents from our team surrounded by parents from the other team as they screamed and yelled at how bad the ref was doing, how bad their team was doing (though they were up by ten points) and all sorts of other things. I’m pretty sure my jaw was dropped in dis-belief the entire game.
Maybe this is kids sports. Maybe it’s kids sports in the South. Maybe it’s just that team. Either way, I know that if any of our kids ever end up on a team with that type of coach and those types of parents, we’ll take the season off and go camping.
Anyone run into these parents? I wonder, it’s almost cliche’ to make fun of these parents. How is it that they still exist?
In Walmart’s Across The Country
I bought all four of these yesterday. Hopefully Walmart had more in the back or something because it was the only four on the shelf.
Krisitn has always been super creative and talented so when we started talking about her painting a heart for the new MercyMe record, I knew she’d knock it out of the park. And check it out. She did. And here’s the thing. She will try to pawn this off and say that I had something to do with the design of the packaging for the ‘All Of Creation’ single that’s currently on iTunes and exclusively in Walmart’s across the country, but not true. See, I actually had nothing to do with this packaging at all. This was completely ‘label chosen’ and ‘label designed’. What that means is that my wife is awesome and so is her heart painting skills. Enough so that it’s the entire cover of the single. I told you she was awesome.
So here’s the deal. This thing is only at ‘Select Walmart’s’ and I have no idea what that means, but if you haven’t already, you need to track these things down and buy them…. lots of them. What that also means is that in our house is that Kristin is an awesome painter and now her art is everywhere. And I think that’s pretty cool. I’m proud of her and think she did a great job and I love the fact that she can’t put any of the credit on anyone else.
Weekend Getaway
Here’s a few shots from our weekend away. Total we were gone about 36 hours but it was just enough for my phone battery to die and stay that way until we left. It was amazing to get the boys out in the dirt and woods and be, well, boys. Kristin and I rode four wheelers until we were sore and we made a big fire. A perfect way to spend a weekend away from home.
Most likely there will be more pictures and a better story over at Kristin’s blog, but I wanted to get these on here.
