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College Football Check-in
Here’s a mid-season check-in of my favorite teams.
#1 Notre Dame For a team that barely won 3 games last year, I’m please with their progress. I actually think some fans expected the Irish to win 8-9 games based on their week schedule. Essentially, they have beaten the team’s on their schedule that they were supposed to while gotten beat by ranked opponenents. With Syracuse and USC left on their schedule I think they will end up 7-5 before getting waxed in a bowl game. Some have said Charlie Weis is on the hot seat, I don’t see it that way at all. This is a rebuilding process, his team is very young. Now if they are 8-4 next year or less… I can see dumping him.
#2 Michigan State I’ve watched a couple of their games and been quite impressed. They have climbed to #15 in the polls and if they can manage squeak past Penn State and Michigan pulls off the upset of the millenium, they would be rose bowl bound. Most importantly, they didn’t collapse after the Michigan game. Kudos to State for finally figuring out how to play a whole season.
#3 Michigan Back in September I said it would be a down year and boy has it lived up to that hype. At 3-8 they have often been stunningly bad. I also said that they would have a chance to beat Ohio State. As long as the bus brings the Buckeyes to the correct stadium on Saturday morning I don’t see Michigan having a chance. That said, it’s a rivalry game and anything is possible. No, I take that back. Michigan has as good a chance of beating Ohio State as Jennifer Graham does in getting re-elected in 2010.
#4 San Diego State At 1-10 it is tough to find anything good to say about the Aztecs. Sadly, I never made it to one of their games either. When they played Notre Dame I thought they may have a chance to be .500. I must have been on crack that day. The good news is that I may be able to enroll in the grad school and walk on for the Aztecs. Sure, I’ve never played high school football. But I’m pretty good at NCAA 2008 for the Wii.
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Adam’s Rules for Sushi
Last night I learned a big sushi lesson. Actually, three good sushi lessons.
Lesson #1 Any dude from Indiana shouldn’t make a sushi run at 8 PM. He is hereby required to take someone who knows what the heck they are doing.
Lesson #2 Eight orders for two people means you’ll have so much left over that not even the dog will be able to eat it all. From now on, 1 fish order and 1 roll order is plenty per person.
Lesson #3 Be adventurous in moderation. I ordered cajon seared tuna… completely awesome coice. But I also order a more traditional raw tuna choice. It was good, but I had wish I had done something else in the “seared” category.
p.s. Yes, for those Michigan folks… Kristen and I really are getting Californiaized, aren’t we?
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Saturday Tunes
It’s going to be a fun weekend for the McLane family. Our friend Dave is headed down from San Fransisco for a quick trip. We’re not 100% exactly what we’ll be doing, but the weather will be warm and I have no doubt that we will find some fun.
I’ve got a couple more hours until he comes, so you know the iPod will be on in the background of everything else. Here are the next 10 tunes I’ll be listening to. As always, this is completely random, no cheating, ratings included.
#1 Replace Me by Family Force 5 ****
#2 Battle Without Honor or Humanity by Electric Samurai ****
#3 Lonely by Your Side by Johhny Blake ****
#4 Opposite Way by Leeland ****
#5 X-Girlfriend by Family Force 5 ****
#6 Gotta Have You by The Weepies ****
#7 I Need Words by David Crowder Band ****
#8 Yes You Have by Leeland ****
#9 Under Pressure by David Bowie & Queen *****
#10 Pictures of You by Poison Kiss ****
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Belfast City Hall
I got an email this morning from Emma Williams, who is the managing editor of a new interactive mobile map dealio called Schmap. Anyway, she just wanted to let me know that her group had picked this pictured Kristen and I snapped of Belfast City Hall to appear in their “Belfast in a day” guide. Pretty cool. Check it out here:
Belfast in a day
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Sometimes your best idea is stupid
Case in point…
This is why you need really good friends. We all need people in our lives to tell us when we’re investing in stupid stuff.
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A little housekeeping
As I get myself further ingrained over at the YS Blog you may notice a shift in my youth ministry related blog posts from here to there. Here’s a few recent examples.
#1 Don’t Give Up on What Makes You Unique, lessons from Mike Rowe.
#2 Tech Bytes for Youth Ministry, cheap tech buys that’ll make you look like a pro.
#3 Why You Need Help in Youth Ministry, because you can’t succeed on your own, you know?
Here at adammclane.com I’ll continue doing pretty much everything else I’ve always done. Personal updates, rants on church life, rants on politics, sharing about our new experiences here in SoCal, what I’m excited about in our church, stuff too controversial to share on the YS blog, stuff I’m proud of, stuff I’m reading/listening to, pictures and videos. You know… everything else I always do here.
OK, you get the point.
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The tax code, simplified
Brought to you by the United States Congress.
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Hump Day!
It’s Wednesday already. I was in 6th grade at camp and first heard the term, Hump Day, I’ve always giggled at that expression. I’m 32 years old and it still makes me snort a little.
Here are some random tidbits going on in my life, none big enough for a whole thought.
#1 We’re entering into the 21st century of television soon. When we moved to San Diego I cut back on our cable costs for a while until I could grasp all our bills. To say the least, housing in Southern California is a lot different than in Michigan and I feared there were other hidden costs I wasn’t seeing. With all that settled and a normal monthly budget in play, we upgraded. I know this surprises some people to know that we did analog cable, being that I’m such a total tech dork. So we will soon have a bazillion channels, including tons of HD choices, and a DVR. You mean I won’t need my VCR anymore?
#2 Social networking tools and the church. Kristen and I are getting more and more engaged in the church in an awesome way. One thing I’ve agreed to help out with is getting their website in order. Now, in addition to that, we have a Facebook group and I’m asking the staff (no office, decentralized staff) to play with Google Groups for their collaborations instead of emailing everything all over the place. Next step for them, they want a team blog to help tell their story. The biggest challenge for me is that we truly are a multi-cultural church. Yet, I’ve never done a website in multiple languages. I have to figure this one out!
#3 Proud of YS this week. There’s been quite a stir about our publication of the book, Barack Obama: An American Story. It’s a team that rallies together, prays for one another, and genuinely loves one another. We knew this release would cause some people to question our sanity so we weren’t taken by surprise by the response. But it’s really cool to see Marko (the president of YS) be transparent about it on his blog. I love the values of YS, always have, and am proud to be a part of what God is doing through them.
#4 Speaking of politics. It’s been a slow news week. I’m pretty sure by the end of the week Katie Couric will have a story, “A Retrospective of My Time on The Today Show.” With gas prices diving, a peaceful presidential transition, all of my sports teams sucking, and even murders and teen pregnancy on the decline… there really isn’t much to report on.
#5 One more week until NYWC Nashville. Half of me says, “I’m still tired from the first two!” The other half of me says, “Bring it on!” Someone in the YS office loves me. After being in the adjoining room to Marko’s suite in Pittsburgh, I got moved down to the adjoining room to our VP of Marketing’s suite in Nashville. I think Dave knows every person in Nashville! Sleep? Who needs sleep? Not going to lie, I’m a social butterfly so I’m looking forwad to it.
#6 Our kids rock! Don’t take my word for it, read Megan’s guest blog post on Kristen’s blog yesterday. I think Megan will have a guest post here soon. Turns out mommy is paying Megan to be her editor now, $1 per piece. She’s going to need an agent soon.
#7 The Wii is back. After a summer’s long hiatus, the kids noticed we had a Wii again. In fact, Paul told me… “Your friend Ian has a Wii, so I want to play.” Kid’s brains work in the weirdest ways. It is true, Ian has a Wii… Paul saw that when we dropped off a stray turtle at his house over the weekend.
#8 Reading again. Glance over at my sidebar and you’ll see what’s currently on my nightstand. I really am reading all of those books at the same time. Perhaps that’s why I rarely finish books?
#9 Kristen’s new job. It’s been a fun challenge as we’re figuring out life with both of us working. She’s doing customer service for Calorie King in nearby La Mesa. We now have an ongoing joke that while she is the Calorie Queen, I am the King of Calories.
#10 I don’t really have a tenth one. It just sounded like a good idea since I had nine.
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Great Texts as Word Clouds
John 1
Declaration of Independence
Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech
Luther’s 95 Thesis
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