March 8, 2007

• Me, Myself, and Bob

  EDIT ADD: I cannot tell you exactly why I am fascinated with this book-but I am. I’m on Chapter 8. Eight chapters in less than 12 hours for Daniel is quite astonishing. All the rest of you avid readers out there just shutup.
  
  

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  Take a seat.
  You’re about to get your socks knocked off.

  I’m reading a book.

  No, I don’t read very often. In fact, I can probably count the number of books I read last year on one hand-and I’m not talking about novels, these are small books-devotionals and such. But today is different. Mark it on your calendar.
  Today, Phil Vischer-creator of Veggie Tales-spoke at an APU chapel and did a book signing for his new book “Me, Myself, and Bob”. We happened to accidentally have lunch on West Campus where the book signing was, and took Nathaniel in to see Phil…and consequently purchased a book for him to sign. That was pretty cool. Well, not buying the book, but Nathaniel talking to the dude that made and voices Bob the Tomato was neat. Except he didn’t really get it…I mean that’s a hard concept to grasp for a Kindergartner.
  “Hey Nathaniel! That cartoon you love is really just THIS dude talking in a funny voice. See! He can do it right now!”
  So, it went a little over his head, but it was cool for us to see them interact. Phil asked Nathaniel what his favorite VT character was, he answered Larry Boy (atta boy). And when Phil followed up with “What is your favorite Larry Boy movie?” Nathaniel answered “All of them”. Haha!

  So why did I pickup the book? I don’t know, but I was a little curious, and after reading a couple of pages I was totally hooked. I am on chapter five, but I’ve got to watch LOST…priorities, priorities…but I love the book. Highly recommend it, and partly is because I can identify with his artistry and somewhat wacky brain. He seems like a really nice guy, and I’m going to watch his chapel when it gets posted online.

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  OK-Just watched LOST, and that episode was much better than last weeks. I don’t need mythology and all of that, I just need the story to progress. This episode was great, and reminded me of LOST in the days of yore. Like, the LOST glory days…and the preview for next week also looks cool.

  Side note: we found out last night that a friend of ours that we have been praying for is now following Christ. It was really great to sit down and hear how God has been working in his life, and to reconnect after not really talking for a year. We sure do love our San Diego peeps! Oh, and the orchestra rehearsed together with the choir last night, and although it was a little chaotic, it was very fun. Frank P was back with his posse of instrumentalists. The orchestra grew exponentially in number and in quality! It was quite exciting!

  The GALA OF STARS at Concordia University in Irvine is coming up in mid-May. I need to finish orchestrating that show…not to mention auditions for vocalists is in the next couple of weeks. Additionally, I have most all the orchestra for the event already contracted. So all in all, the project is coming together nicely.

  That, along with the rapid changes that are happening in the staffing in my office at APU (goodbye office-mate <sniff> ), along with the two Easter programs I’m directing in San Diego and Covina, and the responsibilities of being a husband and father, is what is going on folks.

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