Author: Dave Miers

This guy began a quest by trading a red paper clip for a fish pen, a fish pen for a door knob, a door knob for a coleman stove, … for a red generator… a red keg of beer… for a skidoo… for a trip to yahk… for a van… for a recording contract… for a year in pheonix… for an afternoon with Alice Cooper… for a KISS snow globe… for a movie role… for a HOUSE!!!! It took him a year and he is now going to write a book about it. Read more here.

I dare someone to do this in Australia??? Who is up for it???

Here is the Australian Football team training squad ahead of our game against Kuwait on August 16. Sydney are clearly the best team in the competition – and they’ve got 8 players in the squad. This is appropriate. Central Coast have proven themselves to be the 2nd best team in the competition yet they only had one call up! (I’m sure that Beauchamp and Heff would have been called if they were still in Australia). Melbourne who are cellar dwellers have 4 players. Newcastle aren’t much better and they also have 4 players! The one thing that it may show is that Central Coast is a champion TEAM rather than a team of CHAMPIONS???

This is a get-to-know-you thing. Chris sent it to me and part of the deal is to pass this on to someone else (like a chain letter, but without the death threats or rewards). So DANIEL G, CRAIG S, ADAM S, ANDY M and any others who wish to do this… take it away…

1. One book that changed your life:
‘Romans’ by Paul the Apostle

2. One book that you’ve read more than once:
‘Guidance and the Voice of God’ – Phillip Jensen

3. One book you’d want on a desert island:
‘Boat building for dummies’ by Keep A. Float

4. One book that made you laugh:
‘Molvania: A land untouched by modern dentistry’ by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Rob Sitch. (click the pic for more info)

5. One book that made you cry:
‘In the presence of my enemies’ by Gracia Burnham

6. One book that you wish had been written:
‘How the world turned from the idolatry of self and secular humanism to trust in the True and Living God’… maybe one day…?

7. One book that you wish had never been written:
‘Pride and Prejudice’ by some woman… is it Jan Austeen???

8. One book you’re currently reading:
‘The Man Called Cash: The Life, Love, and faith of an American legend’ by Steve Turner

9. One book you’ve been meaning to read:
‘How to get things done’ by David Allen (the irony…)

10. One book that you would use as a door stop:
‘The gagging of God: Christianity confronts pluralism’ by Don Carson (just never been able to finish it!)

I spoke on the Beecroft Uniting Church young adults retreat over the weekend. The weather at Copacabana was warm, the fellowship was even warmer and it was marvellous to reflect upon the theme: RESURRECTION.

The place that we stayed had some bizarre signs. This was my favourite!

Is anyone reading this? Give me a comment if you are!

Tim Challies from www.challies.com has just clocked up his 1000th day of consecutive blog posting!! Congratulations Tim. Read about it here. I occasionally read his blog… but often his entries are a bit too long for my attention span to last… and seem like a large time investment for me to read and comment regularly.

1000 days!! That’s an incredible amount of blogging! I wonder if it’s a record? Is this extreme?? Can you blog too much?? I’m assuming in that time that Tim and his family have been on holidays. Do you really need to blog every day!! Does Tim ever take a real holiday?

Do you blog? How much is too much?
Does blogging and reading other blogs ever become an idol for you?
What do you do to guard yourself from letting it become all-consuming?

(BTW I’m in no way having a go at Tim… he’s made a valuable contribution to the Christian blogging world.)

Check out these two photos of Djibril Cissé.

He broke his right leg vs China while playing for France in their last game before the World Cup in Germany.

He broke his left leg a couple of years ago vs Blackburn playing for Liverpool.

I hate thinking about broken bones. I can still remember watching a Wimbledon tennis match maybe 10 years where either Goran Ivanisevic or Michael Stich (I can’t remember which one and can’t be bothered to look it up) majorly snapped his ankle… it still haunts me to this day!

Have you broken a bone?
What’s your worst break?
If you haven’t broken a bone, what’s the worst break you’ve seen?

(Look here and here for context.) I downloaded a free graphics program (GIMP)while I was at scripture this morning. I have just played with it for 5 minutes and graffiti ‘d the collage of Aaron. Do you like it? Which is better #2 or #3?