A friend from school, Bryan Gutmann is starting to make a name for himself on the comedy circuit.
I think we had a couple communication classes together, but I knew him best from his days of hanging out with my old roommates Bobby and Shawn.
Check him out on Comedy Central and on Myspace.
Category: Friends
Myspace questions
I posted this bulletin on Myspace after my wife answered all the questions – so just to be sure I don’t limit the info to my Myspace friends I thought I’d share it here as well – and tag a few folks at the same time.
How old are you? 28
What did you do last night? Ate dinner with my wife, sat on the phone with Linksys tech support way to long, watched What Not to Wear with my wife
What did you do today? I’ve only been up for an hour so I’ve taken a shower, brushed my teeth, got dressed and checked my email
Current clothing? Jeans and a button down short sleeve shirt
Current mood? Restless
Do you miss anyone? I always miss my sister Amy
Last book you read? The last book I finished – The Seven Sins of Small Group Ministry
Do you love with all you have? I hope so
Is anything making you mad? Not at this particular moment
Do you have pets? Yes, we have a dog named Presley
Last person of the opposite sex you hugged? Laurie
Last person of the same sex you hugged? Come on – guys don’t really hug each other – or do we?
What was the last thing you bought? Green onions, a Snickers and a Butterfinger for Laurie
Something you need to do? Pack my lunch and go to work
Next place you will go? Italy, Texas – the Biggest Little Town in Texas
Last person you kissed? Laurie
Next road trip you will take? Maybe Austin – but who knows
Do you have a boyfriend/ girlfriend? I have a wife
When was the last time you danced? I tried to do the rump shaker the other night – I’ve lost some of my skills
Have you ever been pulled over? By the cops? Yeah
Is there anything you want to do? I’d love to have a week off and go on holiday with my wife
Is there anything you are looking forward to? Coming back home later today
What time do you usually go to bed? We try to get in bed by 9 or 9:30 but often its 10 or 10:30
What time do you wake up? 5:15 or so
Do you love anyone? yes
Who was the last person to say hi to you? Laurie
Do you want kids? Yup
How many do you want? 2 or 3
Boys names? That’s a secret
Girls names? Also a secret
What was the last thing you ate? A Skinny Cow chocolate ice cream “Popsicle”
Do you diet? I need to
Can you tumble? Not like my wife can
What is in your room? A king size bed, 2 dressers, a night stand, a make shift night stand and 3 or 4 fans
How big is your closet? Big enough to put most of our clothes in it and other misc things
Do you share a room? Yes
What is your favorite color? Green
Do you have a big family? Not as big as some
When was the last time you showered? about 20 minutes ago
Who did you last call? Linksys tech support
What was the last thing that made you laugh? My wife watching What Not to Wear
What was the last weird conversation you had? I don’t know
Do you own a laptop? Yes
Does anything hurt? If I slam my head in the car door I bet that hurts
Could you see yourself marrying a doctor? Not unless Laurie decides to become one
Do you eat candy? I try not to
Have you ever been kicked out of a bar? Nope
Do you like someone? I like my wife, family and peeps
Is tom on your top 8? I don’t even think he’s one of my friends
Why is your top person your top 1? Because she’s my favorite person in the world and my best friend
Cool momento
National Community Church recently held a “Baptism by the Bay” in which a number of NCCers were baptized in the bay in Washington D.C.
They shot some great video which in turn, was made into a DVD for those being baptized.
Along with the DVD, the church gave towels to those being baptized as a memento to keep of the momentous occasion.
I may be mistaken but as I understand it, we have six baptisms coming up in the next few weeks at encounter.
We don’t have a bay nearby but instead we use a horse trough that’s set up in the middle of the room for baptisms.
I think we’re also going to try having several people being baptized give a brief testimony live before their baptism.
What different things does your church do when people make public commitments to Christ through baptism?
See more photos from NCC and their video (click Baptism by the Bay).
Lazy weekend at Casa de Blundell
Well Laurie and I enjoyed a great fairly lazy weekend the past few days.
Jen and Jed came down from Dallas Friday night and joined us for some fajitas and margaritas at Campuzanos. Doesn’t get much better than that.
We came back to our place for a while and enjoyed some hot apple pie and vanilla ice cream while they looked at our wedding and honeymoon pics.
We crashed around 10 or so, shortly after they left.
I don’t think either of us were out of bed till after 11 a.m. the next morning. I woke up a couple times after 8 a.m. but said there’s no way I’m getting out of bed today unless I have to.
Finally around 1 p.m. or so we spent a couple hours geocaching around Waxahachie.
The batteries on our GPS unit were going bad so we struggled to keep it alive long enough to get two caches in.
On our hunt we were the first to find one cache and also spent some time looking at homes in two of the neighborhoods near the caches we found.
We grabbed some Chick-Fil-A on the way home and then jumped in the pool for an hour or so.
After swimming, our friends Amy and Josh came down from Dallas and joined us for some more Mexican food at Don Jose’s Mexicant Restaran (yes – that’s really how it’s spelled on their sign :-)).
Josh was actually one of the few people this weekend to notice my “psuedo-beard” (or at least make mention of it).
After breaking out with poison ivy in a few places on my face this week I thought it would be best to not shave those areas directly, so rather than keeping my gottee and pretty scraggly face, I just decided to trim it all on Saturday afternoon and make it a lot closer to the same length.
The jury’s still out. I’m not a fan and Laurie said she’s still trying to make up her mind about it as well.
Either way, after dinner we headed over to the Texas Theater to watch Shari and Smiley and their improv group, After Hours Improv.
They had a great show with over 130 people in attendance. If you think about it, do say a prayer for them. They got some bad news after the show regarding their plans for the next year or so.
Amy and Josh came back to Casa de Blundell after the show and looked at our wedding pics, as well as a photo album Laurie put together for them of pics we took at their wedding in June.
Sleep came soon after they left as well.
We wrapped the weekend up with church on Sunday morning, where Brian talked on the context of Christianity and how so often we view Christianity out of it’s intended context – but inside it’s proper context it can be a beautiful thing.
We came home, enjoyed some homemade pizzas and then Laurie spent the rest of the day studying for a skills test she has to take for work today.
While she studied I uploaded the podcast for the week, did a couple loads of laundry and took a nice nap.
Around 9 p.m. or so I started getting a little stir crazy and after our Internet went down (for some unknown, frustrating reason) I spent the rest of my evening wasting time playing with our camera and coming up with new Myspace angle photos.
I also did a goofy animation with our camera.
Now I just need to extend it by five minutes or so and add music from The White Stripes “The Hardest Button to Button”
So there you have it – a photographic recap (somewhat) of a lazy weekend at Casa de Blundell.
For more entertaining stories, be sure and drop by and read Brandi’s recaps of Summer Camp.
Community is a web…
Thomas has some good thoughts on community and specifically online community.
Thomas says that we build community on the web and with new tools like the iPhone, or Myspace or Facebook and it may not be as bad as some might think.
Community is about connection… no longer solely physical connection… Its rubbish to say the world is going to end (OK… I paraphrase) because of tools such as the iPhone that can help us connect further with our community.
Maybe the very people the iPhone user is chattering idly with is his / her community? I have 54 friends on Facebook… (again I am not boasting here but stating a fact) I consider them just as important a part of my social fabric than my next door neighbour… who, btw, is new to the street and I haven’t had a chance to speak to him yet (Olly has though).
Watching Smackdown tonight?
Watching Smackdown tonight? The show was taped in New Orleans this week and my buddy Dennis (Apoc) is scheduled to appear near the end of the show.
Look for the sad clown getting punched in the face by Kane.
In other wrestling news, John Cena, Bret Hart, Chris Jericho, Ted “Million Dollar Man” DeBiase and Steve Blackman were on Larry King Live discussing the Chris Benoit double-murder suicide.
Watch the podcast if you missed it.
King also showed clips of a previous interview with Hulk Hogan.
Jericho said he thinks the media took the easy route out by blaming steroids for the Benoit event.
“I spoke at length with a psychiatrist here in Los Angeles who specializes in murder-suicide and she told me it’s never one thing. It’s always a combination of many things. I think it’s lazy reporting and lazy investigation that a lot of people are just tying this up in a nice steroid bow and putting it under the corner and moving along and saying that is the case. I did some research and if you are a massive caffeine user and abuser it can lead to hallucinations, depression, anxiety, violent behavior and sometimes psychotic behavior. Now if I came on here and said caffeine caused this you’d think I was a lunatic but if I take out caffeine and put in steroids with the exact same list of symptoms you’d say ‘Bingo’ that’s it. This is not about steroids this is about a man who had severe mental, damaging, horrible issues in his head that he kept bottled up inside and it exploded into this horrible violent act.”