Okay folks, no long introduction here.  I think that I may be tired.  I spent about 15 hours driving in the last two days.  But the good news is that this driving completed my June of touring.  Nineteen days out of thirty I’ve been on the road this month.  Let’s see, 19/30=63% of my month spent travelling,  It’s been great, although I’m happy to be home again.  However, I wanted to just gather some random observations and notes together from the last month.  This is one of those, “enough to warrant mention, but too little for its own post” kind of thing.  So here we go!

  • I was introduced to the show “True Beauty” this last week.  I proceeded to introduce it to Tara.  She likes it.  A lot!  She is currently on her third episode, while I sit here blogging.  It’s not exactly life-giving television, but I think everyone should watch a clip of how the show ends, because the loser of the week gets shown all the bad things they’ve done over the course of the show (which have been recorded by hidden cameras).  I think it may be the closest thing we have to a picture of judgment day.  Very interesting, but also very cheesy.  Especially since one of the main judges is a man who holds much moral authority in our world, this guy:

Helping people look good . . . on the inside?

  •  Northern BC is windy!  Everywhere from Chetwynd and north is just a wind parade.  It makes the temperature a few degrees cooler, and the people a few degrees tougher.  Also, if you want to live in a place where the trucks outnumber any other vehicle by about 6:1, you need to live in Fort St. John.  I’m also fairly certain that there’s more guns than people in that town.  I told the pastor that when the revolution happens, I’m going to Fort St. John, because they should have no problem defending themselves.

 

  • Okanagan Lake was surprisingly warm.  I was there for a baptism, and it was incredibly windy.  For some reason I thought the temperature of the water would be affected in the same way that the air temperature was.  Apparently this was not the case.  I learned some science this summer!

 

  • This month has been a month of babies and puppies.  On my first tour, almost everyone had young children.  Same with my second tour actually.  This time, everyone had puppies.  Really cute little bouncy puppies.  No real point in me telling you that.  I just thought it was interesting.

 

  • If you’ve never listened to the Relevant Podcast you really should.  I owe it to Josh Otto for introducing me to this one.  It’s so fantastic and funny.  It’s sort of what I want my podcast to be.  I particularly recommend this one.

 

  • In case you’re wondering, I’m still in love with the ocean.  Not in the same way that I’m in love with Tara, or Jesus for that matter.  But it’s something special.

Well, that’s about all I have for now.  Except I should tell you that I just downloaded the new National album, and I’m already a big fan.  Great work guys!  So we’ll end with a video or two.  Oh, by the way, I’m going to have a Phil Collins week sometime soon.  Why?  I don’t know.  He and I have a complicated relationship.  Maybe I just need to work some things out through Phil Collins week.  Perhaps you can all celebrate and loathe him together with me.  We shall see.  Now, for the record this doesn’t mean I’ll be posting about him all week.  It just means that I’ll only be posting Phil Collins videos.  Yay!

Now, I hate doing this but there’s just no good live version of this song on youtube.  This is a band called Sleigh Bells who I just discovered through the above mentioned podcast.  If this song doesn’t literally melt your face off, nothing will.  But please don’t come knocking on my door if your face does get melted off.  It would gross me out.

And, from the National’s new album (Song starts at about 1:10):

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