February 9, 2009
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Twenty-five random things about me
I’ve shamelessly copied this from my Facebook page, but I figured people here may be interested. Or not.
Rules:
Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you. (I can’t tag 25 people since I don’t have Premium, but I’ll tag some. Feel free to pass this along even if I didn’t tag you.)- I’m the youngest of seven children and enjoy being part of a big family. I have three brothers, three sisters and two step-brothers. Curiously, my sisters all have FOUR brothers and only TWO sisters. Amazing.
- As you can tell by the last entry, I enjoy humor and think dry humor is usually the most clever.
- I married my best friend when I was 19. She’s still my best friend. After Jesus, Bev is the best thing that’s ever happened to me.
- Speaking of Jesus, I became a born again Christian (John 3:3) when I was 13. I thought I was a pretty good guy until the Holy Spirit showed me that I couldn’t get to heaven by being a good person. On April 7, 1979 I trusted Jesus Christ alone for my salvation. My life has never been the same.
- I have four kids (plus one in heaven): Tara lives in New Mexico, Greg lives in Lancaster, Kaitie and Dylan live at home. I love my kids.
- For my full time job, I am a computer network administrator for Luthercare. It’s a cool job. As an added bonus, Bev now works there too.
- I am also the senior pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Lititz PA. Before that, I was the church’s youth pastor for about 10 years. Previous to that, I was the youth pastor at Open Door Baptist Church in Clermont, Florida. Altogether, I was a youth pastor for about 20 years.
- Yeah I’m a geek. Ask Kaitie. I love electronic gizmos. I love working in the computer industry.
- I like to hunt. We didn’t get licenses this year, and I really missed being in the woods.
- I hate to shop … unless it involves electronics or firearms. Then I’m good.
- I have a blog on Xanga. Check it out. I think MySpace is incredibly stupid.
- My Mom died this past year (March 31, 2008) from cancer. I’m still dealing with that.
- I love to play the guitar. Notice I didn’t say I’m great at playing the guitar. But I really really enjoy doing it.
- In the past 10 years I’ve developed asthma, especially exercised induced asthma.
- I think it’s stupid that if you want numbered lists or hyperlinks in these notes you have to insert the html code. Sheesh, come on Facebook! What is this – 1995?
[note: don't forget that I wrote this for Facebook. Xanga coolly lets you do all this stuff at the click of a button.]
- If I could have a few additional lifetimes, I’d be a carpenter in one, something in the medical field in another, maybe a musician in one …. and in one, definitely a superhero!
- I’m interested in medical things, sort of as a hobby. I’m not reticent to talk about most medical issues, including body parts, female reproduction (Bev says I understand this better than most women), and other icky stuff. My eldest daughter is a nurse and Greg’s studying to be an EMT, so medical jargon can flow pretty freely around here.
- I enjoy teaching and writing. Judging by the comments I get, people seem to enjoy how I communicate, although they could be lying.
- I love playing basketball, but I don’t play nearly as much as I’d like. My schedule is too full as it is, and something has to go.
- As a teenager, I played Asteroids a lot. Once I played for several hours on one quarter before I had to stop to go to a wedding. I think I got a parking ticket that day.
Now I like playing Halo and Halo 2 on X-Box 360.
- I have some problems with OCD.
- I’ve lived in only two states and I’ve only been outside the US once (to the Canadadian side of Niagara Falls for vacation), I have traveled all up and down the east coast if that gets me any points.
- I like to use big words. I believe a large vocabulary is powerful. I don’t try to flaunt this though.
- I should read more nonfiction, but I don’t. Most of my reading is for recreation so I tend towards fiction. I like action-adventure style movies usually.
- I like most everything Celtic and especially Irish. Kaitie, Bev and I used to take Irish dancing. Someday we WILL visit Ireland!
So there you have it. Leave some comments.
Comments (8)
Wait…You’re a senior pastor?? You seem way too cool for that.
@weedorwildflower -
I guess that’s a compliment towards me but an indictment of pastors in general.
@SpiderDad - Nah, I’m just messing with you. I’ve been in church since I was three weeks old (or approximately 1,924 Sundays), so I have an appreciation for pastors. I just haven’t seen too many pastor blog profile pictures quite like yours. You seem very real–not afraid to be yourself–and that is awesome.
I thought for some reason that you were a youth pastor still…but a senior pasto. ok. that’s cool. i got your tag. i’ll do this as soon as i can.
this was pretty cool. take care PB ( short for pastor Brian…is that ok?)
Those were cool and funny.
@IfWallsCouldTalk21 -
Don’t be silly, Linds! You can call me anything you want.
@SpiderDad - lol. well okey dokey PB!
how ya been? i never see ya online much anymore. i miss our talks. how’s the family?
I married my best friend too!