OK – STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND - click here to go on a 360-degree, panoramic, tour of Michael Jackson’s private nerd video game collection/super nerd lair. THIS PLACE IS AMAZING! I am having geek lust after looking at this awesome place! This guy spent some serious cash on his geek lair! This place is simply amazing! This entire room comes from the infamous Neverland Ranch – as you look around you’ll such great hits like “Simpson’s pinball, Jurassic Park, Crazy Taxi, and the entire cast of Star Wars; in other words – a mega arcade!
Many of the items you see in the panoramic tour were auctioned off by Julien’s back in April of this year. (If you haven’t seen the items listed in his auction – you should browse through the complete catalogue, as it is very interesting – you won’t believe some of the things Jackson owned!)
{warning – if you are on a slow computer, or your iPhone, you may want to bookmark and come back later – as the file is very large, and puts your web browser to work. But trust me when I say – it’s worth it!}
{via Pinsane}
All I can say is “Wow! God did it again.” Watch the video above to hear the entire story. But basically the story is this – I thought I had a really bad stomach ache yesterday afternoon, that bad “stomach ache” got REALLY bad around 3:30 this morning (in fact it was the worst pain I had ever felt – and it wouldn’t stop.) My awesome wife took me to Presbyterian Hospital, and they quickly ran some tests after making me drink some extremely “uncool” liquid. (click here for a video I made while drinking it.) After they ran the tests they found out that my bad “stomach ache” was really an appendicitis and decided that I needed to have an emergency surgery – an appendectomy.
By 9:30 am I was out of surgery (click here to view a video I shout when I came out of surgery – Warning, I’m a little loopy!) – and the extreme pain that I had before was gone! (instead replaced by three nice scars around my lower stomach.) The Doctor said that my appendix was in REALLY bad shape, was super infected, and that gangrene had sat in, (gross) in other words – it “REALLY” needed to come out! Believe it or not, by 4:30 pm THEY LET ME COME HOME!
The nurses said they couldn’t believe the doctor allowed me to go home, since a surgery of this nature requires at the very minimum an overnight stay. They simply could not believe I was walking to the restroom (although extremely sore), talking (i had a breathing tube in for a while), using my phone, making jokes, and even eating a nice chicken dish for lunch! I told them I had lots of people praying for me, and our great God works like that sometimes (granted, He is always great, and wise – but it sure is awesome when your prayer requests, and His will line up). So thank you to everyone who prayed, called, texted, twitted, left a voicemail, etc -it meant more then you know. In fact I was overwhelmed that even some students that I minister to sent me text messages – that was super cool! One more super cool “God thing” that happened today – as many of you know; summers are very busy for me, and normally something is going on every day of the week – but this Sunday and Monday were very “low key” days, and I’ll only be missing a few appointments. So as crazy as it sounds – this couldn’t have happened at a better time! Big thanks to Presbyterian Hospital, and Dr. Shires (who just happend to be the cheif surgeon who was on call today – another “God thing”) – you guys rocked it today. Your entire staff was exceptional! Thanks for making such a scary, and stressful, experience a great one! Thanks to my iPhone 3GS which allowed me to capture such great footage! Thanks to my awesome wife who is always so loving, and most of all thanks to our super, awesome God. He really did do a miracle today – I can’t believe I’m home right now typing this. (24 hours ago I was on the floor in tears because of the extreme pain I was having.)
{p.s. – I had a breathing tube in my throat, and as you can see, the Lord has really allowed my throat to heal up very quickly!}
{p.p.s. – And to my mean appendix, – I’m mad you kept me from seeing the awesome firework show, and enjoying my Joe T. Garcia’s – I’m glad we’ve parted ways. You weren’t much fun to have around, and you won’t be missed!}
Here we are again – Sunday; and you know what means? That’s right, another great installment of “Throwback Sunday.” Today’s Throwback Sunday is a real treat for me, as this was one of my favorite cartoons growing up! How about you – did you dig Ducktales?
enjoy.
Several year back I was on the programming team for a youth conference ran by Campus Crusade for Christ at CSU in Ft. Collins, Colorado. We shot a series of videos that we showed during our main sessions. Despite the embarrassment this may cause me, I’m posting them anyway – enjoy!
{I’ll be posting all of them during the next few days.)
On my hobbies is natural aquatic environments. (aka – aquariums) I have two of them, a saltwater (video below) and a fresh water planted. The fresh water, planted tank is from Japan, and is my “trophy tank” (I’ll show that one later.) But below is my saltwater tank, with many live corals. I have collected these corals for sometime, and it has taken a while for the tank to have that nice, purple color that you see in the video. (those rocks don’t come purple by the way!) Also, most of the corals that you see in the video have taken a long time to grow as full, and as thick as you see. I enjoy the colors of the coral, and the saltwater tank.
Any other “fish fans” out there? You ever try to set up an aquarium of any kind? What was your experience? What did you think of my coral? Enjoy!
{p.s. – the barking you here in the background is our little doggy – Gizmo, in case you were wondering!)
I just got back from spending a week with Lakepointe church at Highland Lakes Camp in Austin, TX where I was the speaker for their Trek 2009 Camp – and I had a great time. I spoke around 15 times last week, so was wore out, but the staff (and students) at Lakepointe are GREAT! They really are super people to work with, and I consider them good friends! So thank you Lakepointe (and the students who listened to me all week), it was an honor.
As usual, God showed up and did his thing. Many students begin their life long journey with God, through Jesus Christ, this week. Many more said they learned “so much” about God this week. My prayer after any sort of “event” like this is that students would live their life after camp, the same way they lived it while they were at camp. That they would live a life just as excited about their relationship with God through Jesus Christ, as they did while they were at camp. But above all – I know God showed up and rocked some teenagers lives this week – and to that I say, Amen!
The Matt Wheeler Band played worship at this camp – and they ROCKED! If your looking for an incredible band to play at your camp or event, you have to contact these guys. They did a super job! The summer’s only half-way over, but so far, it’s been a great one! Here’s some pictures from the camp!
{p.s. – I will be uploading the messages from all of my talks very soon for anyone to download and listen.}
