[Meme fearlessly stolen from CJ].

Step 1: Put your ipod on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarassing.
Step 3: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

Now, y’all got lucky here and got some easy ones. Bonus points to the person who guesses the artist for #1.

1. Crown him with many crowns, the Lamb upon the throne
2. It’s all right, it’s all right, carrier, carrier…
3. Well I can always tell a liar, and I always know a thief
4. She turns like the ocean, she tells no emotion
5. From glass alabaster she poured out the depths of her soul
6. Part of me, you are part of me I never want to lose
7. Save yourself, cause the only thing that matters that you get away from the pain and the thought of losing your mind
8. All your ways and all your thunder got me in a haste running for cover
9. I started asking some questions about your walk with the Lord
10. Feel the weight of this passing time all those crazy faces run through my mind
11. I was thinking the other day, what if cartoons got saved
12. Another day that I’m runnin’ and I hear somebody pounding on my door
13. Hard times have fallen on you even when you smile I see the hurt come through
14. I mount up with waxen wings, high to reach the sun
15. Once upon a time you dressed so fine
16. Every tree is green again in the wood out of my back door
17. You dwell in glory, the heavens are your home
18. There’s a man goin’ round taking names
19. In your hands I know he could be a man of peace
20. I stood on that Cherokee plain and the Cimarron broke free and jumped its banks
21. It’s a muggy night in Houston
22. Barbara Manatee, you are the one for me
23. Hard time here and everywhere you go, times is harder than ever been before
24. No one serves both God and money
25. I thought we would always be together, never be apart

Have fun!

This place has been full of links lately and very short on actual posts. Partly that’s been due to some network difficulties, partly that’s just been due to my own laziness. So finally I’ve got my blog reconfigured so I can get to it all the time, and now it’s time to write something.

Becky was remarking last night on how funny we are with our scheduling. If we have our whole week scheduled full with stuff, we go crazy. It’s just too much. We have to have a couple of nights on the calendar kept open just for us as a family. That being said, when we have nights free on the calendar, we are unlikely to just stay home; more often we’re out doing something as a family. (Maybe this’ll change a little more now that spring is here and there is more outside work to be done?)

Take last night, for instance. We had the night free, so what did we do? Head to Coralville to the mall. Becky needed some summer clothes, so we spent a few hours, found a bunch of stuff for her, ate some supper there, and got home way past the girls’ bedtime. But it was a good night. Now morning has just come a little early.

I’ve got a bunch of travel coming up in the next week. Friday afternoon I’m driving to Omaha to see Andy Osenga play a concert. I’m planning to just drive back after the show, so it’ll be a lot of hours on the road, but still definitely worth it.

Then Monday I’m headed out on a trip for work to Salt Lake City, and will be there until Wednesday night. Then with Friday off (Good Friday), we’re heading up to Wisconsin to visit my folks for Easter weekend. So yeah, it’ll be nice to finally be back home after all that. So far April isn’t booked up too much… dunno how long that’ll last.

Having thus caught up on the trivial business of my life, I’ll sign off.

• Focal Length and Aperture Explained for the Photography Novice
  good explanation.
  (tags: photo tips tutorials)
• YouTube – Divison II Basketball Championship… Barton vs. Winona St.
  The most amazing basketball comeback I have ever seen.
  (tags: video basketball)

• Confessions of a Car Salesman
  fascinating stuff about a guy who went undercover as a car salesman.
  (tags: blog shopping tips)

• Mona Charen on Fred Thompson on National Review Online
  I think I’d like to see Fred Thompson run for President.
  (tags: politics commentary)
• “A Cure for Political Depression” – OpinionJournal – Peggy Noonan
  “…Reagan never said he was optimistic. He wasn’t “optimistic,” he was faithful and practical. He said we could turn around the economy and beat communism. Then we did it. Which left everyone feeling optimistic.”

  Reagan should be an inspiration for ev

  (tags: politics commentary)

• Andy Naselli’s Blog: D. A. Carson MP3s
  I will be filling my iPod with these before my next road trip.
  (tags: theology audio mp3)

• UGMK.INFO – The game!
  a good little hand-eye coordination game.
  (tags: flash games)

My pastor and friend Richard wrote a post today entitled “The Tired Peacemaker”.  It’s worth a read.

• The Dream of Pastoral Leadership
  Willimon is becoming one of my favorites, and this quote he pulled up on leadership is a gem.
  (tags: leadership church)
• A Blue Crescent Moon from Space
  awesome picture from the ISS
  (tags: photo space)

As I updated my 2007 reading list yesterday, I became convicted about how many novels of dubious quality I’ve read (23 books in 75 days!) and how short my time in the Scripture has been lately. As such, I am making this resolution: for the next month (March 20 – April 20), I am going to restrict my reading to just the Bible. I want to read it in broad pieces, to try to pick up the sweep of the grand story of God’s work.

I don’t know how far I’ll get in just a month, but I have a feeling it’ll be a ways. So don’t expect any reading page updates for a while. I don’t think it’ll be a great loss.