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Common Sense points to an article on life as a member of the White House Press Corps in Crawford.
Assignment: Crawford, Texas
“CRAWFORD, Texas – President Bush has spent nearly a year of his presidency at his ranch in Crawford – and wherever he goes, the White House press corps follows.”
Personally I prefer the article Dallas Morning News did several weeks ago in their Sunday paper.

I’ve been reading lots of books lately. I’m not sure why, maybe its the loss of my t.v. satellite or just an odd desire to make up for all the books I didn’t read as a kid.
Over the past couple weeks I’ve finished, “Jesus CEO,” “This Present Darkness,” and “Prince Caspian.”
I’ve been intrigued by all of them, but I was struck this week by “Prince Caspian,” part of C.S. Lewis’ epic Chronicles of Narnia.
I’ve been trying to catch up on the books slowly this year before the “Lion, Witch and Wardrobe” comes to the big screen later this year.
As you may remember, the story is based on four children who find a secret passage to the secret world of Narnia.
They become high kings and queens of the land and are led by Aslan the Lion.
In this fourth book in the series, the children find themselves swept back to Narnia, called by an ancient horn that was passed from generation to generation to be used in the upmost of emergencies.
As the children wander the land, the youngest child, Lucy swears she sees Aslan looking down upon them, across a great river. The other three children scoff at her and carry on their way, ignoring her pleas to turn and head towards Aslan.
Later that evening, they realize in fact they had continued the wrong way and should have followed Lucy’s advice — regardless of her seeing Aslan or not.
That night Lucy spots Aslan again and he questions her not following him earlier in the day.
“But no one else would come,” Lucy said. “I couldn’t travel alone.”
Aslan continues to look upon her as her guilt overcomes her. She knows the answer Aslan is looking for.
“I’m sorry,” she continues. “I should have followed you no matter what anyone else does or did. It doesn’t matter if they can see you or not. I could and I didn’t follow you.”
How true is that to life?
How often do we know the right direction and right way to head in life and yet we continue on our same dead-end path, because we’re afraid no one else will follow us.
I remember singing often as a child, “I have decided to follow Jesus… no turning back, no turning back. Though none go with me, still I will follow…”
How bold will you be when no one else goes with you?

Our AC in the office went out sometime between yesterday afternoon and this morning, and it is dang hot in here right now.
I think the heat level has just continued to rise and the AC has done absolutely nothing about it.
So I’m going home. I’m not working late here, unless I get some crazy whim to come back with two or three fans after the sun goes down.

Sidebar: I’m watching a couple teachers in the High School parking lot. It appears one has a bad battery and the other teacher is walking 100-yards to bring her jumper cables. But there is no other vehicle within 100-yards to jump the stalled car from. UPDATE: the second teacher is now walking back to his truck and has apparently realized his 10-foot jumper cables will not reach 100 yards. Looks like he’ll do the smart thing and move his truck closer.

KLTV 7 Tyle covered our event in Tyler this weekend. You can read the story as well as watch the video from the page.

And sorry, I haven’t posted this earlier, but here are the results from our show.

Chris Idol v Jonah – no contest after interferance from Tim Storm and Apoc
Eagle def. Cub
Tim Storm def. The Bishop
The Bishop, Jonah and Chris Idol def. Tim Storm, Apoc and Eagle – Bishop made the pin

We didn’t do an alter call at the end of the show, so we don’t know how many decisions were made, but there were 450 people there and we know God was at work.

Here’s an interesting connection…
Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan.
Should we play the 6-degrees of Michael Moore now?

Regardless of the pay and the long hours I might complain about, it’s always fun to work in a position where congressmen stop in just to say hello.
Just spent 20-30 minutes chatting with Rep. John Carter and two staff members. He’s doing one of his normal tours of the district to keep in touch with media and local leaders. I think this is the fourth or fifth time I’ve talked with him on a tour of the district since he took office in Jan 2005.
I have to respect a congressman like that. I was in Belton for a full year while Chet Edwards was in office and he never stopped by our office and I don’t know of anytime he stopped in Belton other than the 4th of July parade or a special ceremony at the Bell County Museum. The only time I met him was the day he announced he would not run for re-election in our newly aligned district, but run in Waco instead.
Granted I think he did some great things for this area, but I never once talked to the man, either after all my phone calls or in person.
I think that’s smart marketing and working.
As a representative in the U.S. Congress you need to make yourself as available as possible to the media. If you’re not, you can’t get your name out there and winning re-election is rough.
Well, now that I’ve met my “celebrity” for the day – back to the salt mines.