I felt that there was enough interesting, controversial, educational and even spiritual information surrounding water that it warranted the time of my day. The purpose of this blog post is to create a ‘go to’ place for interesting information about water. I look forward to everyone’s replies with links to other interesting water information. Here is my first batch of…
Category: Life Skills
The Tithe Challenge
The ‘tithe’ has a lot of significance to me these days. When I first gave my life to Jesus the first major challenge I had was the concept of the tithe because my worldly teachers had always taught me to ‘save and invest in my own empire’. Wikipedia defines the tithe as 10% contribution to a religious organization or compulsory…
Keep it Clean and Don’t Burn Bridges: It’s a Small World After All
It has been a few months since I have been spit out the other end of my coffee shop franchise – the most painful 5+ years of my life. There are not too many people out there who have lost their entire lifetime earnings plus their inheritance, but when this suffering occurs it creates an instant bond with others who…
Knowing my God, my Lord, my Creator
Even though I’m Wayne, I need to be frank. I greatly disappoint myself and regularly. I often feel that I’m a failure husband, dad, youth group teacher, son to my earthly parents on both sides and a neglectful friend. But worse than all of those is my feeling that I am a failure child of my Creator God Almighty. Yet…
The End of Geek
A friend of mine sent out an email to people he knew and respected about how he was invited to speak at a well known event with the word ‘geek’ in the title. It was apparently an honour. The reply-all response to the email by a gentleman whom I respect greatly caught me off guard and really got me thinking…
A Better Craigslist Selling System
Have you ever felt that Craigslist is a great system but a little difficult to manage in regards to keeping track of photos and content – especially when it doesn’t sell right away? It’s easy when you price something dirt cheap but sometimes you are trying to sell something that you want to get a little more money for or…
Learning from my Pee
So I woke up and whizzed – my normal morning ritual. But today was different. Today my pee was phosphorescent yellow. I’m not talking about ‘bright yellow’ or ‘really yellow’. I’m talking about so bright that I thought someone had dropped a glow stick in the bowl or that a nearby nuclear reactor had managed to send it it’s waste…
Special Cafe People – Part 1
Well, at long last it is time to feature the customers that truly make you wonder whether their parents were asleep at the wheel, or, sadly, whether you yourself are off your rockers. Some of these are your regular customers and you are afraid to ask them directly or the topic is awkward. Others are one-off wack-nuts that come in…
If You Want Dedicated Bike lanes, Then Ticket the Snot Out of Bad Bikers
I like bikes. They look healthy and clean and I remember enjoying them when I was a kid. I’ve also heard they are good for adults. I’ve even considered riding one again, but I don’t have either money or time thanks to a devastating investment I made five years ago… but I digress. I’ve been meaning to write this rant…
Nik Wallenda, Confidence in Christ, and Assurance of Salvation
I was doing my weekly 3 minute review of what I’m supposed to consider important (scanning the news headlines) when I came across an article and video that actually made me open it in a fresh tab. Nik Wallenda walked across this wire and became the ‘first person to cross the Grand Canyon on a type wire’. Before I even…