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Leaving the House of Blues
Posted on Thursday, May 01, 2008 at 12:50 PM by Robby Roberts
Most of my friends and family know that I've had some very tough battles
with depression over the years. And, some people look at the things I've
been hit with (like a truck!) and say it's justifiable. We all have
those events in our lives that bring us down for a while. But, no matter
what reason someone has for GETTING depressed, there is NEVER
any excuse for living your life in the House of Blues. Hey, I love B.B.
King and the Blues, but I need some upbeat music as well! Life is no
different. Many people pay a visit to the House of Blues, saddle up to
the bar and just stay there.
Well, starting Sunday, Pastor Tony is going to be starting a new series about "Leaving The House of Blues" and I encourage ALL of my friends and family to come to Fusion Church with me for the next few weeks. Even if you don't deal with depresssion yourself, you know someone that does (Hey, you know me, that counts!!) and you will get a great perspective on what they go through and how to help them. And, if someone you care about fights this fight, BRING THEM. If not for you, do it for them. Learn that God's love can overcome ANY problem.
I don't care if it's a 2 hour drive one way for you, the next few weeks will be worth it, I PROMISE. If you need directions, email me (or click here and put in your address).
I hope to see everyone of you there Sunday. I'll be out, greeting people at my usual station in the middle court yard, so I'll know who's there or not!!! (Just for saying that, I bet Greg is going to move me to another post.)
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100!
Posted on Sunday, May 04, 2008 at 7:02 PM by Robby Roberts
- The number of years in a century
- A 100 year old person is known as a centenarian. George Burns. Bob Hope, and United States Senator Strom Thurmond were among those who had lived to 100.
- The number of pounds in an American short hundredweight
- The United States Senate has 100 Senators
- The number of subunits into which many of the world's currencies are divided; for example, one euro is one hundred cents and one Pound Sterling is one hundred pence
- The number of tiles in a standard Scrabble set
- The denomination of the U.S. hundred-dollar bill with Benjamin Franklin's portrait; the "Benjamin" is the largest U.S. bill in print
- The denomination of American savings bonds with Thomas Jefferson's portrait
- The denomination of American treasury bonds with Andrew Jackson's portrait
- Hundred Days, aka the Waterloo Campaign
- "The First Hundred Days" is an arbitrary benchmark of a President of the United States' performance at the beginning of his term
- 100 is the HTTP status code indicating that the client should continue with its request
- STS-100 Space Shuttle Endeavour launched April 19, 2001
- NASDAQ-100 is a stock market index of 100 of the largest domestic and international non-financial companies listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange
- In English slang, adding the number 100 to a particular skill or subject denotes introductory knowledge ("Physics 100", "Soccer 100"), akin to the name of a first year university subject.
- Games 100 is an annual listing of the year’s top games
- The Time 100 is a list of the 100 most influential people in the world, as assembled by Time. The list has developed into an annual event.
- 100 Grand Bar (formerly known as $100,000 Bar) is a candy bar produced by Nestlé
- Pope Valentine succeeded Pope Eugene II to become the 100th Pope in August 82
- The number of yards in an American football field (not including the end zones).
- The number of runs required for a cricket batsman to score a Century, a significant milestone
- The record number of points scored in one NBA game, set by Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriers on March 2, 1962
- The Freedom 100 is an Indy Pro Series auto race held the Friday before the Indianapolis 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
- The 2004 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals was the 100th Fall Classic
- San Diego Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson became the fastest player in NFL history to reach 100 touchdowns on November 19, 2006
- Ryan Howard of the Philadelphia Phillies became the fastest MLB player to reach 100 home runs on June 27, 2007
- The minimum distance in yards for a Par 3 on a golf course
OR - I could just come out and say it's Official, I've lost 100 lbs since Labor Day of last year.....
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All hands to the escape pods....
Posted on Thursday, May 08, 2008 at 1:03 PM by Robby Roberts
No, I'm not giving up and abandoning ship. "Escape Pod" is the name of a podcast I subscribe to and I'm really enjoying. First, what's a "Podcast" some of you may be asking. Think of it as a radio broadcast that you subscribe to and download to your PC to listen to. In this case, every Thursday they post a new, Sci-Fi Short story (usually Hugo Award Nominee's) that you can download. You can go to the site and just download the MP3 file, or if you use a program like iTunes, you can "subscribe" and iTunes will download it for you automatically and even sync it to your iPod. You don't have to have and iPod or other mp3 player, you can listen to them on your PC.
Myself, I like to listen to them on my walks.
Now, my buddy Greg has been trying to read more and more books. I used to be able to digest a book like nothing. I could take in a 450 page paperback in a weekend. But, after the accident in 2004, I have trouble PHYSICALLY reading for more than about 15 mins at a time. I get a bad headache and it's not my eyes. So, I have been turning more and more to audio books so I can still get my fix.
FYI - our Church has a podcast of some of our best messages, and Pastor Tony just uploaded the first of the "Leaving the House of Blues" HERE.
Oh, and for those of you that still like to read, or for those like Pastor Tony that are lucky enough to have an Amazon Kindle (on my wishlist, FYI!), there is a bonus. Click the link to the Hugo Awards page in the text above and you can download eBook versions of some of the stories to read.
