My Worship Revolution

In the spirit of my last post…
Went to Lulu’s fo my weekly hang time with Ryan this morning.
Ride my bike there sometimes, but today I was running a little late.
Little did I know it’s bike to work day/week.
Here was the scene between Lulu’s and Jamba Juice:

Free breakfast from Jamba Juice.  Free Bagels.  Surveys.  Bike accessories.  Free massages for bicyclists.
Man, I chose a crummy day not to ride!
And it’s kinda pointless for me to ride to work…all the way across the parking lot.

I’ve mentioned in the past on this blog the many oddities that exist in Santa Cruz.
When Charlie was here a few weeks ago at a midnight movie, he said several times, "This is the weirdest city in America."
It also just so happens that Santa Cruz takes pride in that title.
I try to share some of those unique Santa Cruz experiences with you here.
Here is an excerpt from a video I’m throwing together of our Goonies Midnight Movie Scavenger Hunt last Friday night.
A post on that to come very soon I hope.
As we were waiting outside the theater around 10p.m., this came by:

Only in Santa Cruz.
But you know what…
That’s one of the things I love about this city!

Exactly one week before Caleb was born, Ryan Michael Farmer was born.
My nephew.
Son of my sister and brother-in-law.
Well, they didn’t waste any time, and yesterday out came boy #2.
With no further ado, welcome to the world, Noah Timothy Farmer!

Now I’m just super bummed that I live so far away and I can’t be there to meet the kid.
But I guess that pic sent via text message will do for now.

Hi.  My name is Bobby.
Yes, I love to document parts of our lives via video.
Yes, I then like to put it up on YouTube.
Yes, I then like to broadcast it on my blog for the world to see.
Yes, I even filmed Rachel’s LASIK surgery experience.
I think all the doctors thought I was kinda nuts walking around with our Canon SD1000 the entire time.
But now you get to watch them cut open my wife’s cornea.
Instrumental music from Paul Wright‘s new album, Diego’s Diaries.  All songs inspired in my old hood.
Enjoy!

By the way…Rachel actually has very blue eyes.  But they looked really green on the screen.

Who else out there has had LASIK?
I’m just glad I watched Rachel’s after I had it done!

And there will be more videos coming this weekend.
Next up…Goonies midnight movie scavenger hunt.
Stay tuned.

Not sure if it will be that good, but hopefully my wife’s vision will be close after today.  Today we drive over the hill to San Jose to get her some Lasik surgery.

My mom took care of me having it done 5 or 6 years back.  It was freaking amazing.  The next day I was seeing better than I ever saw with contacts or glasses.  So, I had some money left over from an inheritance I got a while back when my grandparents passed away.  There’s lots of things we can use it for, but I can’t think of anything I’d rather see it spent on than something that’s gonna change the way my wife does things forever.  So I pulled the "It was my grandparents money so I have 51% ownership even though we’re one now," trump card and today is the big day.

So if you think of it, please keep her in your prayers this afternoon around 1pm west coast time.  It would really suck if something went wrong.  Check out her blog this weekend as I imagine there will be an update there.

And hopefully she doesn’t see that pic before we go to the appointment today!

…to get me to do this!  Seriously, I don’t care what the grand prize is.  No way!!

This is just painful to watch.  Check it out:

Anyone else wanna give it a shot?

HT: Creative Procratination

To the left you see the 3.2 miles that I ran this morning as I continue to prep for some triathlons.  I was out for about 34 minutes.  I haven’t been updating y’all on that much, so here are some tidbits to bring you up to date.

• If you have no idea what I’m talking about, see this post.
• I finally actually signed up for two triathlons.  This sprint in Pleasanton, and this Olympic distance in Pacific Grove.
• Umm…yeah, I’m especially intimidated by the Pacific Grove triathlon.  I really have no clue what I’m doing.
• I’m supposed to work out 6 days a week.  I’ve actually been averaging around 4.  Trying to bump that up this week, but 0-4 aint bad if you ask me.
• I realized this morning how deceiving running on the treadmill at the gym is.  Running in the real world was way tougher and a little discouraging.
• However, I ran (mostly) a 5k this morning, the same distance I’ll run in the first triathlon, without dying, and it’s still 2 months away.  That on the other hand is encouraging.
• Of course, I’ll have to run that after swimming and biking, so I figure I’m somewhere between discouraged and encouraged.
• Worst part: after consistently exercising for over a month, I’ve gone from 166.6 lbs to 166.2 pounds.  .4 lbs…not very impressive.  Maybe I can just tell myself it’s turning into muscle!
• Then again, maybe it’s the fact that I figure I can have those root beer floats because I’m exercising them off anyway.
• Thursday nights are spin class.  Ryan has joined James and I at those and the instructor really kicks our butts!  How am I not losing weight?!

Well, there you have it.  My month or so update since deciding to front like I’m a triathlete or somethin.  Figure I can’t claim that title till I’ve at least completed one, though.  Even then it might be iffy.  That’s all for now.

What are you doing to stay in shape?
(And when I say "in shape" I don’t mean round.)

So, last Sunday the lamp on one of our projectors went out during the service.  Not gonna lie.  i knew it was going out.  Should have gotten a replacement for it earlier.  But, I didn’t.  So we had no back up for this past week.

So I ordered one online, 2 day shipping.  They were back ordered though.  So the next day I ordered another.  Different company.  Thought it was all good.  2 day shipping again.  On Friday, wondering why I didn’t have it yet, I checked the status.  It hadn’t shipped yet.

At first i was gettin hot, then I looked at the site again.  My fault.  I missed the spot where this lamp says typically ships in 6-8 days.  Shoot!

So I had to get creative to make it work.  So, spare projector from the youth plus gaff tape plus a 14 foot ladder =

Yep.  I gaff taped another projector securely to the hanging one.  Wasn’t quite a large enough image for the screen, but better than nothing.  Not ideal, not long-term, but it worked!  And the new lamp just showed up in my office!

So when was the last time you had to get a little creative to solve a problem?

Alright…call me a sucker.  Call me what you will.  But I’m gonna give this whole "get a free iPod Touch" thang a go.  But I need your help.

I’m usually pretty skeptical about this sort of deal.  I saw this at Rick Bambrick’s blog.  So if it ends up sucking, we can all blame him!    There’s a short video that describes how it works at the end of this post.  Quick note on that – the video suggest the Stamps.com offer.  I agree.  Good offer.  Except one thing.  If you only have a Mac…no dice.  It’s Windows based software.

So here’s the deal.  I want a 16gig iPod.  Actually, I want a 32 gig, but why be greedy, right?  So that means I need 8 of y’all to take the plunge and help me give this thing a shot.  I know we can make that happen!  Please?

So…
Click here.
Find an offer that isn’t too high on commitment level.
Hook a brotha up.
Make sure you click here though (or up there)…that’s my referral.

Who’s in?

Last night was 31 cent scoops at Baskin Robbins.  So Rachel and I met up at our friends James and Jill’s house to walk down to Capitola’s 31 flavors with the kiddos.

It was cheap, and it went to the cause of fire fighters, with fire fighters serving behind the counters.  So it was a bit of a zoo.

It was a good time hangin with friends, and as you can see the kids enjoyed their ice cream.

Afterward we ended up at their house getting whooped in Wii tennis and Guitar Hero.  The guitars are totally different timing on the Wii.  Tonight they’ll be at our house with the PS2…they’re toast!