The 11:45 Incident

So if you were there, you know what happened. But if you weren't, let's just say I was no where to be found at the beginning of the 11:45 service sunday morning at church. Here's the story since I'm sure you were all wondering...

My dad and I always joke around about how we can't wear watches. He always tells this story about a watch he wore during a pep band gig during college and he heard this whirring noise after he finished drumming for a few songs. That noise was his watches going crazy after all the crazy wrist motion. It's hard to be a drummer and wear a watch. Well I wanted to be trendy and get a watch and see if I could handle wearing it while I played this weekend. It actually wasn't that bad. However, during the the 10:15 service, the timing dial (the thing you spin to set the time) must have popped out, making the time not advance. I was hanging out in D-mausts office reading Rolling Stone with the service playing over the loud speaker. I was listening to the pre-service music, and I looked down at my watch, which looked like it said 11:25, which actually said 10:25. I thought I was all good. Then I hear over the speaker "We have a drummer missing in action..." I have never run faster in my life. So fast that I feel up the backstage stairs, and I swear the entire room must have heard me scream. Anyway, that's where I was. I will be accepting punishment in the form of verbal mockery, angry post-it notes in my mailbox, fiery e-mails, and perhaps an actual repremand that descends from on high.

On a positive note, LIFELINE went really well tonight, and I got an official David Crowder Band whistle from Corey. I also purchased a copy of MI-3 at 11:57 PM on sunday night, which is technically the day before it comes out so uh....think about that.

Would you rather...?

Would you rather be....

a middle reliever for the cubs

-or-

a back-up goalie for the sabres


...let's find out who my real friends are.

Why?

I know this is a pretty shallow follow up to my previous post, but I had to ask. I'm not seriously upset about this or anything, but can anybody tell me why automatic windows on cars will roll your window down but not back up? Jason Miller told me it's because you can't get your finger/head/various extremity caught in the window rolling it down but you can rolling it up. But ya know what, I don't buy that. You're telling me they can't put a sensor on it or something? My garage door could do that when I was in 4th grade. Surely by now they'd have figured that out. Sounds like something they'd complain about on Seinfeld.

Interesting conversations...

So today at chapel band rehearsal, we were all talking about our days. Rachel Erdel brought up a conversation she had while 'subbing' for one of the greek professors that day. She read the story where Jesus talks about the pharisees placing themselves in places of authority in the temple without deserving it. She didn't say what passage, but I can only assume Matthew 23:2. Then one student yelled out "ya, like youth pastors with no biblical training." My ears really pricked up at this point. Apparently their class 'digressed' into conversation about whether we should allow people with no biblical training to be teachers and pastors. Well since I work with three youth pastors who technically have no formal biblical training, this was interesting to me. I went out to dinner with her and two of my other friends from the band to talk about it a little bit. Suffice it to say, the two people at the table with the biblical training were against the idea. I bet you're waiting for me to say what I think about it, well I'm not going to. How about you tell me what you think?

ND vs. UCLA

Well this weekend was a first in the life of Jeff Myers. My good friend Steve Smith called me awhile ago and asked if I wanted to go to a Notre Dame game with him this season. I was a little bummed because I thought I was going to be at work on all the remaining home game dates. But as fate would have it, Corey called me thursday and said I should take this saturday off. I quickly called Steve to see if he still have the tickets and he sure did. So needless to say, I was going out of my mind in excitement. I also found it rather odd that my best friend plays football for ND and I've never been to a game, so this was sweet for a ton of reasons. I got to tailgate for about 4 hours with Steve, and some other guys who work with him at the Notre Dame Web Group, some of which I went to Bethel with a long time ago. Then the game itself was fantastic. Steve had great seats that were the front row of the upper bowl in the north endzone. His seats we great, the people next to us never showed up, the people around us we normal, and it was right next to the concession stand. Ya, I ran out during the third quarter and got pop and nachos without even missing a play. When Notre Dame scored the final touchdown, I had never heard anything louder in my entire life. I was going nuts, steve was going nuts, and the people behind us that left early were probably going nuts in their cars. Great time! Here's some pictures. I parked next to Big Papa B and his friends. He had a better camera and better seats, so he probably wins. But these aren't bad.

I love my job

Jeff-e Like-e

Project 86+Usher+Marilyn Manson+Maroon 5+Sum 41+The Sugar Hill Gang+Toby Mac=Family Force Five

Man of the Year

Not what I thought it was gonna be, but it was good. Done

3 Things

3 Things ...

Three Things That Scare Me:

1) Lightning (I still think God smotes people that way)
2) Angry sports fans
3) Things that might hit me in the forehead

Three Things That Currently Make Me Laugh:

1) Mac Commercials
2) Taylor Richards
3) Andrew Schaefer

Three Things I Loathe:

1) Wet Socks
2) Laundry
3) John Mayer when he's talking

Three Things I did Today:

1) Played drums
2) Watched the bears game with some INSANE people....(*COUGH* ROBBIE LIGHTFOOT *COUGH*)
3) Ate Wendy's

Three Things I Want to do Before I Die:

1) Become a competent Kayaker
2) Hike at least half of the appalachian trail
3) Work on a horse ranch

Three Things I Can Do:

1) Play drums
2) Make a fool of myself
3) Pop my shoulders out of socket

Three Ways to Describe my Personality:

1) Humorous
2) Urlacher
3) ADD

Three Things I Cannot Do:

1) Shoot a basketball
2) Date anybody...
3) Poop everyday

Three Things I Think you Should Listen To:

1) "Come By Me" -Harry Connick Jr
2) "Dreaming Tree" -DMB
3) "God is Fathering Us" -Donald Miller @ Mars Hill

Three Favorite Foods:

1) Wendy's
2) Spaghetti w/ketchup
3) French Fries

Three Things I Loved as a Kid:

1) Hockey
2) Drums
3) Mac's

Three People I Tag:

1) Bobby Morton
2) Geoff King
3) Derry Prenkert

Biggest compliment I've ever recieved

Read this

I love souveniers

My parents just got back from their retirement trip up to Alaska. After 30 years of service in the public school system for both of them, my parents wanted to be as far away from Kalida High School as they could on the first day of school. So it was an alaskan cruise for them. They picked up a few things for me, including a small handmade drum (which I collect) and a c.d. of some native drumming (ya I know it sounds dumb. So what if I like drumming c.d.'s. Big deal...wanna fight about it). They also bought me what seems to be their token gift for holidays, birthdays, etc. They always buy me boxers. I think they must think I only own two pairs. Anyway, I love these. Enjoy!

Dating Schmating

Corey posted on his blog twice now about why teens shouldn't date in high school. Let me just say from my experience that he's right on. I didn't date through high school, and granted that was more by circumstance than by choice, but the fact remains. I had my first girlfriend my sophomore year of college which was actually the result of Trace Rorie making a prank call. Well I'm now 23 years old and I still stink at dating.

I only know one couple who actually married after they dated in high school. And I'll just say this, if you're not dating to get married, that's just dumb (thanks ricky bobby). So if you think you and your high school boo are the exception to the rule, and that God has favor on this decison, then I dare you to seek Godly counsel from some of your wisened elders for an ok. If God really is ok with it, I bet those people can confirm it. And when I say wisened elders, I'm not talking about your crazy uncle who only wears one shoe, hunts cats, and eats food in liquid form. I'm talking about spiritual leaders. Go on, I dare ya. What are you scared of? I'll say this, about 95% of the time that I get advice from adults who have been there before, I find out I was wrong, and the decisions that I was making or was about to make were really damaging. Why Dr. Bob smacked some sense into me this very weekend. Give a shot. Not only is it humbling, sometimes they invite you over for food.

Oh ya, and if you date in high school, don't exchange car keys. I have far too many friends with high insurance rates because they gave their significant other their car keys. Guard your heart (Prov. 4:23), and guard your car (1-800-GEICO)

A taste of what's to come

Neat Trick

One of two things happened...

-Either somebody came over here and messed with my beard trimmer and set it on the 'almost bald' setting and forgot to tell me

or

-One of Tim Steven's 'minions' was sent to reset my trimmer so I would get the point that I really was supposed to shave my head

...because when I went to trim my Gotee to the usual '5' that we've all come to know and love, I took one pass and noticed I barely had any hair left. Apparently sombody thought it would be fun to set it on '1' and see what happens. So needless to say, I will have a very, very short and lop-sided gotee for the next week or so. Neat Trick!!!

Goals Recap

Last sunday I blogged about some goals I set for myself this week. Here they are again...

1. In bed by at least 1:00 a.m. every day
2. Spend an hour alone with God before 10:00 at night
3. Eat properly

Here's the recap:

1. 6 out of 7 nights I made it. I failed on thursday night/friday morning and actually ended up staying awake all night talking to a friend of mine about some important issues. Although I'm not sure if I should have actually had the whole conversation. Jury's still out on that one. I'm ammedning this goal. I was glad to get a good night sleep, but I don't want to cut things short with friends just because I have a self imposed bedtime. So I'm gonna call it, in bed by one or whenever I'm done hanging out with the guys at D-house or talking to Trace. If those things go past one, I have a half hour to check my e-mail and what not, then off to bed.

2. Perfect score. I took a page from the book of life according to Corey Mann and decided to spend my hour walking with my 'godPod' as I've come to call it. Sermons, bible audio, audiobooks, and some silent times too. I'll spare you the details, but man that was LIFECHANGING. I guess the impact of those things don't set in until you actually try them. But if you've been listening to Corey talk about it this long, go try it once for yourself. The fact that you're doing something, and you know that it's just you, God, and the road, for the next hour does something to your frame of mind and makes you think..."Game on, what do you want to say God? I'm not going anywhere for awhile." I'm gonna keep this one going for another week, hopefully longer. I'm excited.

3. Ok I just put that on the list because I thought a list with only two things on it looked lame. But I guess in hindsight I actually ate pretty well. But not intentionally. I'll wait til I either (a.)get fat or (b.) learn enough about proper nutrion to revisit this one.

So I'll be adding a goal for this week. I've had a bit of an issue with the occasional 'satan twister' as the church lady used to put it on SNL. Just to clarify, I curse every once and again. And I'm getting a little tired of 'dancing on the moral guardrail' with this issue, as Big Papa B so eloquently put it this weekend. So no cursing for me this week...hopefully anymore. Luckily Notre Dame has some easy weeks ahead of them so that should help.

Thanks to all of you that were praying for me this week. I could tell

Guys Getaway

Great guys
Great fellowship
Great teaching (thanks John and Corey)
Great experiences (rockin the high ropes)
Great cheer (We got spirit, ya ya, we got spirit, ya ya, We got What what what what what what what what what what what)
Great weekend. Enjoy some photos

I hope my future wife likes to do laundry...

In the last week, I've had quite the laundry mis-adventures:

On tuesday, I did a quick load which, among other things, contained my three favorite t-shirts, my four brand new pairs of lucky jeans, and my new bethel basketball Jersey. While most of these items are blue, the bethel Jersey is VERY blue and had also never been washed before. Needless to say, everything came out Blue. Not such a big deal for the jeans, but two of the three t-shirts are now tainted, and I have about twenty pairs of blue socks.

On thursday, I had the service guys from the apartment complex come out to fix my dryer because it was taking about 5 runnings of the dryer to dry anything. That's not great for the electric bill. They came out, and fixed it with the diagnosis of: "Lint blocking air vent" Apparently I had let the lint build up so much on the trap that it actually fell off in clumps and got permantly wedged down in there. Smooth myers.

On Sunday, I go to wash my clothes from the guys getaway, and then right before I take off for lifeline, I throw them in the dryer without checking them out. I got home that night, only to pull a broken G2-07 pen out of the dryer, as well as my $100 pen drive. Might want to check the pockets from now on. At the moment, one of my new pairs of jeans, my brand new express jacket, and my TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES SHIRT are ruined. I made an attempt to stain spot all the black ink marks, and they're in the washer as week speak. Anybody got any tips on how to get black ink out of a brown jacket, blue jeans, and a red t-shirt?



On a brighter note, my pen drive which I mentioned above was actually not ruined. Even after one run through the washer and a cylce in the dryer, I plugged it in and it still worked, and all the files that were on it opened with no flaws. I guess SanDisk doesn't make crap.

One of the best purchases I've made in awhile...

Entourage

Excuse me?

In chapel today, we had a speaker come in who is a pro-life activist and lawyer I believe. Reguardless of your stance on that particular topic, I heard something today that struck me as kind of strange. Instead of trying to paraphrase it, I will qoute what he actually said, and if you'd like to listen to his entire speach, you can listen to it here. So read this if you will. He's talking about what his group does when he demonstrate at abortion clinics.

"We do a lot of things, as I mentioned. One thing that we do which is very unpopular among the general public, is to go out on the streets with these great big, huge ugly signs of what abortion does to a child. And we will have a hundred people lined up at an intersection. And at the intersection we have a big picture of Christ holding the baby, some of you have seen that. It's Christ holding an aborted baby, and He's weeping. There's a tear going down. And then we have an American flag, because we like to join church and state every chance we get. (applause) People say 'you shouldn't have a flag there with Christ.' I say 'Oh, He likes America. It's pretty bad now but He'll bring it back one of these days.'"

-Joe Scheidler

Your thoughts?

Sigur Rós

So yesterday, my friend Andrew Schaefer insisted that I give the band "Sigur Ros" a listen. It's this icelandic band that just basically plays instrumental silliness. At first, the idea really kind of turned me off, but the more and more I listened to it, I felt like I was watching the trailer for some really inspirational movie, without the classic movie annoucer guy, or the film. Somehow, if you manage to tune the fact that you're listening to jibberish out of your head, it's actually pretty good. It's worth a listen if you've never checked them out.

Goals

Since the school year started, I've been running around like a chicken with my head cut off trying to get my schedule figured out. Trying to find some time in all that to have some personal time means I end up staying up later than I ought to, and 'in the wee small hour of the morning,' nothing constructive really ever happens. So I've set some goals for myself this week.

1. In bed by at least 1:00 a.m. every day
2. Spend an hour alone with God before 10:00 at night
3. Eat properly

I only set it for a week, just because I know myself and a month would probably be too un-realistic for myself to want to stick to, but maybe if this week goes well, I'll just form a habit.

I've been spending time with God lately, but recently I've been convicted by something I remember hearing Terry Bley talk about. He once told me that he spent a year, 'tithing' his time. He spent two and a half hours a day with God, or about 10% of his day. I know God doesn't insist that we do it, but that always seemed like something to attain someday. Well a mandatory hour a day isn't necessarily 10%, but let's see what happens. Wish me luck

(Before you all read what time I posted and notice the irony, you can ask Trace, I did go to sleep before 1, but then I woke up...wide awake...at 3. Despite my best efforts, there was no going back to sleep for me, so I figured blogging would put me out pretty quick.)