Toenail update?

This is really gross... but my toe nail finally fell off and as you can see left a crater on my toe and tissue hanging off the side...

stubbed toe... swollen toe... bleeding toe... painful toe... nail-less toe...

just another adventure in Tulare, CA!!!

My big toe....

Here is my big toe...

notice it looks like a big toe more appropriately featured on a stainless steel table on the set of CSI.  A toe more often seen with a nice paper tag tied around it... but no i have to admit it is my disgustingly repulsive big toe.  you might be wondering how does one get a big toe like that?  and i would say, " i wish i had an awesome story for you!" but i don't.  i actually merely stubbed it.... playing basketball...on the inside of my shoe.  yes that is the fact... on the inside of my shoe.  

you cannot tell from this picture taken 5 days after the incident... but my toe has swollen up to the point that my nails is raised maybe half an inch where the nail bed usually sits.  There is blood and stuff in there so it is repulsive.  Also it is important to note that the following day after this was taken...i kicked a junior high kid (on accident obviously) and it in a way blew up.  Blood started pouring out from under my nail.  i then pressed on the now i am sure dead toe nail and drained out, in bubbling bursts, as much of the blood that i could.  This helped a bit... but since then i have been dealing with a nail that every couple of hours starts draining more watery, blood especially after showers.  This is the story of my big toe and it is not very pleasant.  To think i actually felt like a whimp bailing on my basketball game because of a toe injury... whimp no more!!  i am an animal, amazing tough monster of an animal.  hear me roar.... RAR!

Junior high camp was fun!

jb

Do people read these...?

The Question....

Why Do I write a blog...?

1. Because people read it who are interested in my thoughts, life, etc...

2. For a record of my life... like a public online diary???

3. For my own enjoyment

4. for others enjoyment...

5. because i think i am so important that my voice needs to be heard...

Something i am realizing...

I do not think anyone is reading this thing (largely because i don't add posts often or because i am not very interesting... both possible)

That means reasons 1,2,4, and def 5 are off the board or at least revised... (reason 2 amended from "public" to "completely private"... Nice :) )  so i guess i write a blog for an online record of my private life and for my own enjoyment... i can justify that i suppose...

keep blogging my friends or i mean just JB!!!

Save the Earth, be a jerk to people!!

Green Rage...

Well just yesterday Evonne and I had the wonderful experience of being on the receiving end of some dude's non-violent road rage.  This is a run down of what happened.  We are approaching a red-light so naturally like any well education...well no really, like any normal person with at least an ounce of sense i was slowing down... i think that is what one does at a red light.  Suddenly a man in a honda like the one above honks his horn and whips past us into the left turn late.  So i think, "oh my i guess i was breaking a little too early for this red-light."  He meanwhile continued into his left turn lane which was funny enough a red light as well. [I guess he was in a hurry to get to the left turn lane for a red light.]  The next thing we noticed when he zoomed past us was that he was not only driving a honda but a honda hybrid.  So i thought well that is nice, he is saving the earth but saving gas, but deep down really pretty upset he just honked at me for braking [in his opinion] too soon.  (i just try and be easy on my brakes)

Then Evonne looked over as she was talking to me and apparently this guy was giving us this dirty look and pointing at us with his finger.  Almost like making a gun shape... i think his face looked something like this....

there was definitely drool...  Anyways so i am like just floored as to why he was so upset that he was moved to honk, speed by, and then point at us with his "hand" gun all with a ridiculous drool face plastered on his wannabe environmental head! :)  So i thought well he is saving the earth but being a big jerk to people.  Wait aren't people part of God's creation as well!  Consistency people.

I love the earth.  i love God's creation and i think we need to be stewards of this earth.  In fact i think it is our call as Christians and so far we have not done a great job at it.  Being Green, whatever you want to call it, is great, but we cannot have blinders on to everything else, especially other people.  Why are we making gas out of corn? Tens of thousands of people die everyday from malnutrition and starvation and we are using food to power our cars?  I am not saying i have all the answers but lets keep the whole picture in mind.  Also i confess i do a lot wrong in all of these subjects...  be green yeah that is great... just lets not be Green jerks! :)  

Am i green to help care for God's earth?  or am i green to save money?  or am i green cause it is cool? or am i green so people think i am a great person?  or am i green as long as it doesn't affect my lavish lifestyle?  tough questions and i think i would have to confess that i would have to answer yes to many of the later questions... what is my motivation....

Anyways... mostly the purpose was to laugh at the irony.. but also to think a bit... or maybe now you can write an angry comment... either way GREAT!!!

grace and peace

Metamorphosis

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If one concentrates really hard...

and i mean really hard...

a metamorphosis will occur...

and greatness achieved.

~ SKEETER 2009

VBS 2009

Summer Internship...

Well i thought it was about time to add a little blogidy blog entry... because well i never ever do.  in fact i have been told that people have deleted my blog-ship since i never add... ok well here ya go we can be blog-friends again...  we have been in Tulare, CA for a couple of weeks now and things have been going well.  Evonne and i are living in a beautiful guest house, generously offered by the Wittens... awesome!  i have been learning and absorbing a ton so far... like a sponge!  i got two things to blog out today!

1.  Red box... awesome.. i was skeptical at first but it has been a great cheap way to rent new releases... that is good news!!!

2.  1 Kings 22: 8  .... Great verse just look it up and think about the last time your pastor or friend said something to you that you didn't like.... eek... and its funny!

man that is lame and nerdy to blog just that... but i just need to take baby steps...

From man to legend

This is a picture diary of the transformation from... beard to Burgandy....

From beard...

to Goatee...

to foo man...

to stash...

to freakin attractive...

i would write more on this but i think the picture explains it all... from normal ugly guy to a man who looks real good. 2 quick stories about this picture...

1. This picture is the first picture Evonne saw of me before i moved out to California... for some reason she still wanted to date me months later...

i was confused as well... i mean i didn't look this good when we finally met... i am surprised she fell for a man with out such a manly stash...


2. i lost a costume contest to some good friends at the Curragh... mine was complete with a jazz flute and a rock glass filled with Scotch... (watered down cola)... it was a fun night...

thats all....