Four jobs I’ve had

* Sacker at Safeway
* Dr. Vinyl
* Intern at Hewlett Packard
* Web Developer

Four movies I can watch over and over

* The Princess Bride (Hey! Shut up! It’s very witty.)
* The Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
* Bubble Boy
* Braveheart

Four places I’ve lived

* Amarillo, TX
* Colorado Springs, CO
* La Grange, TX
* Arlington, TX

Four TV shows I love

* Monk!!
* Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
* MythBusters
* Anything besides “reality TV”. I’d rather gouge out my eyes with a melon baller.

Four places I’ve vacationed

* Aspen, CO
* Las Vegas, NV
* Jenny Lake, WY
* Weatherford, TX (Don’t knock it. They’ve got some very nice hot tubs!)

Four of my favorite dishes

* Meatlovers pizza (which I’m not supposed to eat)
* Spaghetti marinara with Italian sausage (which I’m not supposed to eat)
* Huge chimichanga smothered in chili con queso (which I’m not supposed to eat)
* Carrots (which is a blatant lie)

Four sites I visit daily

* PvP Online
* Dilbert (I use RSS to avoid pop-up ads.)
* Engrish.com (Sometimes R rated)
* Drudge

Four things I do at least once a day

* Tell Tammy I love her.
* Refill my 32 oz. mug with water (Now if I could just finish it every day.)
* Stretch (I’m going to touch my toes again before I die, even if it kills me.)
* Tuck Tammy into bed (with a requisite pat on the head)

Four things I do at least once a week

* Study my Bible (I try to read it every day, but don’t always succeed.)
* Go out for dinner with Tammy (It’s called “date night”. Even if it’s just dinner at Chili’s, I still recommend it.)
* Rock climb in my garage
* Eat at Taco Bell (You can be healthy all the time, right?)

Four places I would rather be right now

* Mountain biking in Colorado
* Rock climbing in Colorado
* On my couch, watching Monk and eating a big bowl of Blue Belle ice cream
* At work (Oh, wait. I AM at work. Jeez, I better do something more productive, huh?)

That is all.

Well, I’m back. Thanks to all my faithful readers who sent concerned emails and comments (all three of you). I am, as you can see, not bleeding in a ditch somewhere.

I’m glad this month long internet fast came in February. Any longer month and I might have gone sane! During the last few weeks, I’ve been intolerably bored in the afternoons, but I have gotten a ton of work done. I created a whole new web application for the office intranet (twice, actually). I also learned that my RSS feed aggregator stops counting unread posts at 200. (For those of you who are not Geek enough to know, that means that some of the blogs I read daily had more than 200 posts that I have not read.) 200 posts in four weeks?! Good grief, people, get a life!!

I have also missed out on all sorts of great news bits and internet silliness. I totally missed the vice presidential lawyer hunt, and have all but missed all the good stories about Muddy Gras in the flood plain formerly known as Nawlins. I don’t even want to think about all the hilarity that will never be because I missed out on the entire 2006 Olympics. I watched them, of course. Don’t be silly. I live with the world’s biggest Olympic fan. (No, no… Big like enthusiastic, not big like plump. Jeez, you’re going to get me in trouble!)

It was interesting to see that when I stopped posting to my blog, my comment spam instantly disappeared. Something my Web Geek friends might find intriguing.

So, anyway. Enough rambling. I’ve got reading to do!!

I’m baaaack. Back to the internet. I thought it only appropriate for this week’s WBQotW to come from “Back to the Future”.

Why don’t you make like a tree and get out of here.
Biff Tannen

I’ve been playing Delta Force the last few nights. I used to be a DF-aholic years ago. It was the game of choice when I worked at Insurance Technologies. We’d play for hours after work.

All that is to say that I’ve got bullets on my mind, which is why this weeks WBQotW cracks me up.

We can make safer weapons. We can make safer bullets.
Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders

I picture a policeman drawing on a thief and a bright red “BANG!” flag popping from his gun barrel.

Cop: I got you!
Robber: Nuh-uh! You missed.
Cop: I totally got you I was pointing right at you when I yelled, “Bang!”
Robber: Oh yeah? Well, I got Superman underwear on, so your bullets don’t hurt me!

I’m sure there are oodles of things I could be blogging about lately and you may have noticed a conspicuous lack of posts. Allow me to explain.

The kids in our high school and middle school youth groups are joining with other youth groups all over DFW in a project called “The Way” (http://www.studentsoftheway.com). Part of the project is for kids to fast and pray for the project and pray for the conversion of their lost friends. Fasting is not always about going without food. Fasting is basically giving up something that occupies your mind in exchange for prayer. So, this month, I’m fasting from the net.

Obviously, I can’t stay off line all month. I am a web developer. It’s my job to do some surfing. But I know I spend way too much time blogging. So until March 1st, I am limiting myself to surfing on my lunch hour. And during the day, whenever something comes to mind that I would usually pop open a browser and look up (that’s not work related), I’ll restrain myself. Instead of spending a few minutes googling and/or blogging something, I’ll spend a minute praying for our kids, for “The Way”, and for revival in our town.

With only an hour for recreational surfing, I won’t have time to read all the nitty gritty political news, nor all the wacky web sites that spawn most of my blog posts. I’ll keep the white board going and I’m going to finish the climbing wall post (volume three), but that’s about it.

So, when you come back by and there’s nothing new to read, take a minute and pray for the kids of the Way. Thanks!