Smarter Sheep

This is the famous… “where have i been?” blog apology……you know, the one where I tell you how busy I am and that I sincerely promise to do better in the months ahead at posting on a regular basis.

Well, my beautiful 3rd grade daughter managed to suprise me with another hand made sack lunch this morning. Her reckless abandon and apparent disgregard for calorie intake, carbs and protein value is both exciting and concerning at the same time. Lunch today includes a PB&J sandwich, Pringles chips, string cheese, green apple, chocolate cupcake and a Capri Sun juice…. I plan to settle down at some point to enjoy it along with a good book, which just so happens to be Asp.Net Ajax in action by Allesandro Gallo, David Barol and Rama Krishna Vavilala.. I’ll keep you updated on the book, and more importantly the lunch.

Our senior pastor Ken Wilde started a series today titled “Radical”. Here's the introl for the series.

It bothers me that snak pack puddings don't have to be refrigerated…but i ate the chocolate one anyway…

If you have something that bothers you feel free to add a comment.

Yesterday my oldest son who is 15 came in the house while his friends were out front skateboarding on that eye sore of a skate ramp they built in my driveway… jeff jr. proceeded to tell me that one of his buddies was having a hard time at home because they were going through a financial tradgedy. His mother wanted him to hang out in our neighborhood with his friends tonight because she didn’t have any food in the house to feed him. Jeff jr. also noted that the boy didn’t have a board to skate with and had asked his mother for one, which resulted in her breaking down in tears because she wanted her teenage son to feel like he could fit in but didn’t have grocery money let alone, cash for a skateboard. I could tell from the look in my son’s eyes that he was deeply concerned and I was also very proud that he felt he could ask us for help… my son gave his extra board away last night and I put the boy to work for 15 minutes straightening the garage so that when he went home to his mom with the biggest chunk of cash he ever got for 15 minutes of work, he could at least honestly tell her the extra grocery money he found was for work he had performed…… this morning he brought me a note from his mom which read, “Dear Mr. Bull, thank you so much for giving my son an opportunity to work for you and make an effort to contribute at our home when times are tough, this helps his esteem imensely, it’s interesting how things work out for us when we are in need”…  I don’t know the mother, and barely know the son.. but I do know Jesus… and I know Jesus wanted to skate with the boys yesterday and help feed their mom’s as well.

Our creative team frequents several close by Starbucks coffee shops near the office.