It’s funny because it’s true.

On her way home from Toledo Sunday evening, Maria noticed in several places along the interstate (I-75) people along the side of the road in lawn chairs. Yes, in lawn chairs, in their pick up beds, along the interstate, just outside the fence, like they had come to a parade or something. She says there may have been 100 people along a 20 or so mile stretch from Findlay north.
She and my sister, who was with her, couldn’t figure out what was going on. They almost stopped to see what sort of sight was going to come down the freeway (they were all on the southbound side). She searched local news web pages, but came up with nothing. I think we’ve figured it out, though.
The weekend NASCAR race was at MIS in Michigan so all those NASCAR trucks would be headed south on Sunday to Charlotte, right down I-75.

“Hey Hon, grab a case o’ Bud and the keys to the Silverado, we’s goin’ to to see Jr.’s truck go by on I-75!”

On Father’s Day I had the entire day to myself, Maria and the girls were at a bridal shower in Toledo for the day. I did have to sub for maria with the 4-5 year olds and the lead teacher was also family-less, so we decided to see a movie in the afternoon. We went and saw Cars. I’ve already read three other bloggers rave about it, so I decided going in that I would not. But the thing is so good, I can’t help myself.
Boy, what a wholesome, laugh out loud, feel good, bunch of moral, gear-head, goodness that movie is. I cannot say how much I enjoyed it. As a car nut, I’ve been looking forward to this since the first previews. I couldn’t believe they were making an animated car movie, how cool will that be? The fact that it is such a good story is just amazing. I spent $8.50 on that thing and don’t regret a dime of it.
Oh, and BEG, there’s some cool animated tractors and the Devil’s own combine that I think you will just love.

Seen on I-70 in eastern Indiana on our holiday weekend road trip:
An Amish family of four – complete with Papa’s beard and wide brim hat, and Mama and 2 teenage daughters in their white bonnets – driving a late model Buick LeSabre with Kansas plates.
I know that some Amish are more strict than others, but after passing a couple in their buggies on Missouri gravel roads on Saturday, it was a little surreal seeing them doin’ 70 MPH in a large GM quasi-luxoliner, I’m sure with power windows and locks, AC and cruise control.
It also strikes me that “Four Amish in a Buick” is a good name for a rock band. Or maybe “Big Amish Buick” or “Amish Buick Daddy“.

Since some of you were dissapointed that I had nothing for April Fools, go check out ICOCinfo before Tuesday morning when they take down their spoof. UPDATE: The spoof is now here. Here’s the best quote:

SOME KEEP PLANTING With only 19 baptisms in its first 20 days, the newly planted Chicago International Christian Church made room this week for the planting of the Chicago Intercontinental Christian Church. The team, to be sent from Oregon, adopted the now familiar plant-first-then-discuss-co-existence-later strategy:

We along with disciples from Georgia, Kiev, Phoenix and our sister church in Eugene will join a group of even more totally “ultra-mega-sold-out” disciples to plant the Chicago Intercontinental Christian Church. This is not a replanting of the Chicago International Christian Church. We have contacted the leadership of the Chicago International Christian Church to try to set up a meeting to discuss how we can mutually co-exist.

Funny stuff.

Pinakidion tagged me, so I’ve gotta fill out this list and then tag four more. Here we go:
Four Jobs I’ve Had

• Pizza Delivery (High School and College)
• Paper Boy (High School & as a second job between about 6-8 years ago)
• Hotel Doorman and Valet (college)
• Injection Mold Designer

Four Movies I Could Watch Over and Over
Hmm, I’m not big on movies, particularly on watching them repeatedly, but here goes …

• Monty Python & The Holy Grail
• The Matrix
• Peter Pan (The live action one from 2003.)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Four Books I Could Read Over and Over
Ditto my comments on movies. I just don’t read that much. Somehow, as a Christian blogger, I feel guilty about that. Oh well.

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Series, Douglas Adams
• Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis
• Uh, OK, so I can only think of two. 😛

Four Places I’ve Lived

• Maumee, OH
• Cincinnati, OH (mostly near UC)
• Riverview, MI (our building is just above the pool in that link)
• NYC, NY (If you check out that link, it will take you to a new map & search service from Amazon called A9.com. In a few big cities, they’ve got street level photos to accompany the map. So, in the image at right, you can see my NYC apartment. It’s just past the ‘Park’ sign on the right side of the street, beyond the Subaru Outback Wagon.)

Four TV Shows I Watch

• Lost
• Survivor (New season starts Thursday!)
• The Amazing Race (New season starts February 28th.!)
• The Late Show With David Letterman (Frequently on as I type my posts.)

Four Places I’ve Been On Vacation
These aren’t necessarily my four favorites, but as I thought about it I realized I’ve kinda been to the four corners of the USA.

• Lomita, CA (Near LA, my Uncle lives there)
• Seattle, WA (With Mom and Dad as a kid)
• Tampa, FL (Visiting my Great Aunt and Uncle and my Great Grandmother)
• Hartford, CT (My last vacation with Mom and Dad in High School)

Four Websites I Visit daily
Well, the list is at the left, I visit at least the first set daily. If I could only visit four, it would be these:

• Pinakidion
• ICOCinfo
• Tent Pegs
• Autoblog

Now I’ve offended the rest of them, sorry. 🙁
Four Favorite Foods

• Pizza
• Meijer brand chocolate chip cookies. Just like Chips Ahoy, only cheaper.
• Red Robin’s Banzai Burger, medium
• Oreos

Four Places I’d Like to Be Right Now

• Driving the T’bird on a warm summer evening on a gently winding country road. Top down, natch’. Nothing is more relaxing than that.
• Pelee Island in Lake Erie, sitting on the beach doin’ nothin’.
• On a private weekend getaway with my wife.
• Dinner with good friends, talking about important stuff – Kids, family, church, relationships.

Four Bloggers I’m Tagging

• Clarke
• Alan (welcome to the silly, time wasting side of blogging 🙂 )
• Virusdoc (if he can pry himself away from the new baby)
• Gary

I realize that I haven’t put a list out there and you loyal salguod.net readers are probably wondering what to get your favorite blogger. In consideration, I refer you to this list at Bogs4God. An excerpt:

Nothing says “I’m faithful” than by bustn’ a move (in the Spirit) to a ‘Fiddy Cent’ tune while sporting your hip cool not-so Mediterranean, Wonder White Bread-o-life, happy heart-o-Jesus Ipod Skin bling. Word-up dude!

Come to think of it, I don’t have an ipod so that’s not a good idea.
Actually, none of those things are a good idea, but they are a good laugh.
If you still feel compelled, I could use a new Mazda3 5 door or a new set of leather seat covers for the old ‘Bird. 🙂

[Note: This looks pathetic, but I don’t know why. Anybody know why this table that was a nice neat 2 row 2 column table by itself is so screwy here? Phoey.]


[Note 2: Nevermind, I figured it out. It was Moveable Type converting my line breaks to [/br] tags.]


Mom reads my blog occasionally and she might find this troubling: