Taco Day has begun – the drinks are in the cooler, the decorations are up, the first taco has been eaten, and there is money in the pot for the East Valley Men's Center already. Today is going to be a good day (except for the 110 degree heat!).
If you are in the Phoenix area and looking for a place to cool off and to grab some free food – we love to have you join us. Or come by tonight and watch the suns game with us.
Click here for a map to our place – we're here until 10pm.
"If you want to build a ship, dont drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." Antione de Saint Exupery
“Maybe the greatest feat of the Enemy is convincing us that God is absent in this world and in each moment.”
NBC Nightly News is broadcasting live tonight from Africa. If you are involved in the efforts of the ONE campaign or are aware of Bono's efforts to fight global poverty and AIDS – you should check this out. I am tivoing it – so if you miss it – we can have a replay party at my house. (or I can burn you a DVD of the broadcast).
Here is the writeup from the ONE campaign website on the broadcast:
"Tuesday evening, May 23rd, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams will broadcast live from Africa for the first time ever. Please join us as we help Bono focus the world's attention on stories of hope and inspiration from Africa. Invite your friends, family, and neighbors to come together and learn more about ONE, global poverty and AIDS, and how we can all make a difference."
You can find out more here. Thanks to my buddy Mike for bringing this event to my attention.
For the past few months, I have been dreaming of getting a bluetooth enabled cell phone to connect with my bluetooth palm tx and to step into the future of connectibilty (all my devices are connected via bluetooth?Ǭ†– laptop, palm, cell phone, and a bluetooth headset.)?Ǭ†The problem of my search was that I am in the middle of a cingular 2-yr plan and these types of phones aren’t cheap.?Ǭ†Well…I have been saving up my Starbucks tips and I counted them last week – $475 worth of rolls of quarters and $1 bills.?Ǭ†Yesterday the fam and I went to Fry’s electronics and I discovered this motorola slvr cell phone for $150.?Ǭ†So I grabbed it, took it to the front counter and was told that it was typo and it really was $250.?Ǭ†I was bummed, but then excited once again?Ǭ†when they told me that they would honor the price on the rack for me.?Ǭ†So I got this great little phone for $150 .?Ǭ†And so far – I love it.?Ǭ†It has itunesd built into it, so it basically is a cell phone and an ipod in one device.?Ǭ†It’s pretty slick looking, ultra-thin, well designed and links with everything bluetooth I got.?Ǭ†No more manually tranferring all of my phonebook numbers from my old phone to my new one – just synced it with my powerbook.?Ǭ†The camera is decent and so far I likke everything about this phone – except for the fact that I can’t listen to itunes through my bluetooth headset.?Ǭ†Oh well.
I find Thee enthroned in my heart, my Lord Jesus.?Ǭ†It is enough.?Ǭ†I know that Thou art throned in heaven.?Ǭ†My heart and heaven are one.
Alistair MacLean
Today (April 22nd) is Earth Day.?Ǭ†If you’re like me, this day is usually missed and forgotten before it happens.?Ǭ†But for some reason, it got on my radar this year.?Ǭ†I wanted to at least begin trying to be a bit more environmentally conscious, so I have been trying to figure out where to start on my journey toward environmental responsibility. I tried to convince some friends to rent a Prius for the day, but nobody seemed to like that idea.?Ǭ†I landed on at least becoming aware of the reality of my way of life by doing a survey found on the earth day network’s website.?Ǭ†The survey asks you a series of questions about your personal wastefulness and resource consumption, then tells you how many earths we would need if the entire human opoulation lived that way.?Ǭ†If everybody lived like Zack, we would need 6.4 earths.?Ǭ†Not too good.?Ǭ†See how many planets you would need here.
Happy Earth Day! 
I couldn’t resist sharing the the world this guy my buddy Zach and I ran into while hiking a local Mesa trail. Note the gardener’s gloves, the baseball cleats, and the old cut-up t-shirt headband. Imagine a wealth of local hiking knowledge shared by a hard-to-understand German (I think) accent. Good stuff.
My buddy Shawn scored 4 tickets to the DBacks home opener tonight from a radio contest (I guess there are actual winners to those things!). What makes him my buddy is that he invited me as one his guests. Here’s a view from our seats. And the diamondbacks didn’t really show up they lost to the Rockies. Oh well maybe next year….or the year after that…or the….
I just learned via the East Valley Tribune (our local paper) that Margie Frost, a local pioneer for the underpriviledged and disenfranchised in the East Valley, died today.?Ǭ†Margie was a local hero of mine who fought for the rights and needs of the homeless and was the founder and director of the East Valley Men’s Center – a redemptive shelter for homeless men who wanted to get back on their feet.?Ǭ†Marge served the needs of the poor and homeless for the past 35 years in various capacities.?Ǭ†I had the pleasure of meeting Margie a few months back and had the even bigger pleaseure of getting a hug from this sweet woman. Here is the articleabout her passing:
