SHERILYNmusic.com launches
My sister, Sherilyn (you might know her as Sheri) launched her new website in preparation for the release of her new EP this spring. Check out her site and artist blog at SHERILYNmusic.com.
Photo: Boeing 787′s amazing “sky drawing”
“This wasn’t a joy ride,” wrote Boeing’s vice president of marketing Randy Tinseth on the company’s blog. “It was an 18 hour Maximum ETOPS (Extended Operations) Duration flight test for a 787-8 with GE engines. Our team coordinated with the many air traffic control centers, choosing the routing to avoid restricted airspace. In the end, the flight covered over 9,000 nautical miles.” The path stretched between Iowa and Washington State.
Yahoo Story: Dreamliner jet “draws” Boeing logo across North America
Video: Ron Paul on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight
Dr. Paul sits down with Piers Morgan to talk about his views on government, the People, and his thoughts on preemptive war.
Photo: Sorry!
This comes from the scene in Elf where Buddy walks across the street and promptly gets run over by a New York taxi cab. It is easily my favorite funny bit in the movie. The music, the timing, is perfect.
Merry Christmas, and be sure to take your maple syrup with you to dinner tonight.
Sunday Set List for Advent Week 3
Steve and I are co-leading tomorrow at the LOV (Live Oak Vineyard church) and are pulling out a few of our favorite Advent season tunes. One of my personal favorites is “God With Us” by MercyMe, a cross-over tune that is good to use year round, but even better during advent.
We are closing the set with a tune by our buddy Terry Butler who co-wrote Glory To God with Brenton Brown. This one has become a traditional song for us at the LOV for Advent, too.
Set List:
Bless His Name – Sanchez
God With Us – MercyMe
Full Attention – Riddle
O Holy Night
Glory To God – T. Butler/B. Brown
This is the third week of Advent which is a preparation for Joy.
Prepare our hearts
and remove the sadness
that hinders us from feeling
the joy and hope
which his presence
will bestow.
Come, Lord Jesus. Come and visit your people.
We await your coming. Come, O Lord.
Check out my Tumblr updates for November…
It’s been a fall full of sad times and good times. I document my life through Tumblr, and below is my account activity since November 1st. Check out the details at http://t.scottkeller.org/.
On second thought…
I’ve grown up in a family that gets started on Christmas pretty early. No, never before Thanksgiving. That’s just wrong, in my opinion. But often the Saturday and Sunday after Thanksgiving Dad and I would drag up the decorations out of the basement so we could get the proverbial Christmas party started. Mom usually did the heavy lifting, but Sheri and I usually helped, and I always loved how the house was transformed over the stretch of an afternoon and evening.
I was the early riser in the family growing up, and one of my favorite mornings each year was the first one after the tree was decorated. I’d turn on the Christmas lights and bask in the glow and dream about what the season might bring.
Today Melisa and I thought we might head out to do a little shopping and pick up a tree. We drove around to look at trees and prices, and then thought we might stop at Kohls to shop. After a drive around the parking lot, we had second thoughts. I am pretty certain that there were not any spots left in the huge lot to park the car. Melisa and I glanced at each other, and we both knew we had avoided the swirl of Black Friday so far, and we were not about to get sucked in.
So we headed off to a garden center here in Glendora to pick up our tree and garland for the 2011-2012 Holiday season. We learned last year that a 6 to 7 feet tree is wayyyy too large for our little house, and we now have a wonderful 5 to 6 feet Noble Fir standing in the window, waiting for trimming to ensue. It was a stress free day thanks to second thoughts and that fact that I didn’t have to trim 35 pounds of branches off our tree this year to get it to stand up in our living room. Live and learn.
Cranberry Sauce question: Homemade or that gelatinous canned stuff?
The Huffington Post brings up a very important debate going on all over America right now with last-minute shoppers out picking up their Thanksgiving accoutrements. The debate is over cranberry sauce. More specifically it is about which is better: the homemade stuff, or that gelatinous canned stuff the slides out of the can and retains it’s shape like a pillar of finger jello.
I personally prefer the homemade stuff, but I’m not too proud to enjoy eating the stuff with the can ridges. Its’ all good to me.
Huffington Post: Canned Cranberry Sauce Refuses To Be Dislodged From Many Holiday Menus
Photo: Daddy time with Caed while we wait for Momma to come home from the Vineyard National Worship Leader’s Retreat-East
This week has been nuts. I launched a huge project at work at 6 a.m. on Monday morning, and all while Melisa is out of town helping to put on the Vineyard National Worship Leaders’ Retreat for the Eastern USA. But I have had a blast have some time to spend with my 16-month old son, Caed. Or if you prefer to call him Caedmon, that’s his full name.
Being a father is amazing. No matter what my day is like, I come through the door and Caed runs to meet me. There’s nothing that compares with that.
Caed and I are both looking forward to Momma’s return tomorrow night. It has been amazing to have some special bonding time with Caed, but we sure miss Melisa. I can’t wait for her to get back.
Photo: Tony’s Pizza, Placentia, CA – Bringing Chicago flavor and pizza to the OC
It’s not Gino’s East or anything, but it is some really great Chicago style pizza and atmosphere in the Fullerton/Placentia area. If you need a slice of heaven, head over to this place. It’s authentic. (Just don’t compare it to Gino’s….there’s only on place like that).
Video: Jeremy Riddle talks about his upcoming album, Furious
Furious (New Album from Jeremy Riddle) from Vineyard Resources on Vimeo.
This is going to be good. That’s all there is to say about that. If you are getting Vineyard Resource’s “Club Vineyard” series, you have already heard a couple of tracks from this highly anticipated release including the title track, Furious.
Furious has had an impact at our local church, and I’ve heard from other worship leaders that they are using this song as well as Your Are Good and One Thing Remains. Jeremy has gone to a whole new level in his last two albums, and I’m really excited about this record.
You can pre-order Jeremy’s record from Vineyard Music here.
