Extreme pen spinning

So, I learned how to spin a pen when I was a freshman at Multnomah. I remember sitting on the floor of room 33 and reading a book for Theology Proper (I think) and trying to flip the pen over and over. Finally, it clicked and the pen revolved all the way around my thumb. Today I was reading through the news and found this article. Watch the video-this guy is ridiculous.

Arkansas!

Britt and I had an awesome weekend in Siloam Springs, Ar. with Greg, Carolyn, & Elisa. The weather was a little wet but there was also thunder and lightning which we don't get to see much. Here are some other highlights....


Sonic happy hour was a new experience. That monstrosity of sugary goodness cost about 50 cents.




We also went to a really cool loooonnngggg bookstore in Fayetteville. It was like going in to something from a movie.



We also had the chance to have southern meal at the AQ chicken house. Notice that Greg isn't looking at the camera but rather at the yummy pan fried chicken that he's about to consume....


The special that I got was all you can eat chicken and ribs for 10 bucks. For my sides I got batter dipped fries and fried okra all washed down with sweet tea. I think that one meal equalled all of the calories I should have eaten for the entire weekend.

For Greg

I had meant to post this a few days ago....Greg they are on their way

Mr Moore

A few weeks back we watched Sicko with some friends of ours. Now I know that Mr. Moore is a bit of an extremist, open to some criticism, and presents his films in a very slick one sided presentation...but if you haven't seen this, I think that you should. It's worth watching once and I think generates some good food for thought.

In particular, he focuses about a half hour on the health systems of Great Britain and France which only makes part of me really want to move there. A lot of Europe seems to have figured some things out much better (i.e. free universities, incredible mass transit, etc.) than the good ole' US of A-that's not to say that I don't like the US but I think there are some things we could work on doing better.