Peyton Manning is a Chump...and other random thoughts....

• Let's start with my title complaint...Peyton Manning just signed with the Denver Broncos turning down among other teams my 49ers...Fine but Peyton be honest about why you chose Denver...Because you don't want to hurt Eli and Archie's feelings and potentially keep Eli from reaching a Super Bowl, so you stayed out of his conference. San Francisco has a better defense, more offensive weapons and would have made you a king if you took them back to their glory days of winning Super Bowls...
• That being said I am glad Alex Smith decided to stay away from Miami and come back to the Niners...
• Finally got around to reading The Hunger Games, decent book. Not life changing but good. Pretty excited to go see the movie. 
• Been a pretty rough Lenten journey this year for me. I haven't been very good at trying to better myself and pray more. Course it got of to a rough start what with grampa's funeral right before.
• Tommy lucked out this year his spring break from school has coincided with a nice warm spell here in Minnesota...
• Saw The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo last night, as usual the book was better, :-). But it was a decent movie. They changed a few too many details from book to screen for my liking...
• Things on the job front are looking good, I have been temping out at a cold storage place pretty steady and I guess they are looking to bring me on...so that's a good thing.
• Things are going pretty good on the family front too, Matty is doing more new things every day. I tend to get frustrated trying to get him to use words but I have to keep reminding myself he is only 19 and a half months old. 
• His little cousin is on the verge of her first steps, she is at the point where she will occasionally let go of whatever she is holding onto to do something and as long as no one notices she can stand but if you notice she falls down...
• Looks like Mitt Romney is going to be the GOP nominee for president. Sad I was hoping Rick Santorum could rise up and take it away from him. Romney is just Obama lite in my opinion. Santorum is a good man and a solid conservative.

A Few Quick Thoughts...

• If you don't have an e-reader, why not? They are amazing. For my birthday earlier this month I got a Kindle 3G+Wi-fi...I love it...My parents have a Nook Color, not bad but I prefer the e ink screen of my Kindle...
• So many books in one little package...seriously everyone should have one. 
• I think I may end up buying everything Pope Benedict XVI has ever written...So much knowledge in such an easy to understand way of writing.
• I am working my way through God's Word right now, written when he was still Cardinal Ratzinger. It's a treatment of the twin founts of revelation: Tradition and Scripture. Expect a post on it soon. 
• Matty has the memory of a goldfish...He thinks if he is told no, looks away for a half second then goes back to the verboten item/activity it's suddenly acceptable. 
• Tommy has survived his first cold of the school year, actually he did really well with it...shared it around the house (to his mom and Matt anyway, I'm clean so far)
• I still think Matt's a budding priest or a theologian at least, he sure likes to dig into my religious books (The Catechism, Bible, apologetics) it doesn't matter to him. 
• My Niners are 2-1...So yay for that, here's hoping coach Harbaugh can restore the glory. 
• I've been really diving into a lot of apologetics works again, probably because of my ongoing facebook debate, read some good stuff lately. Including Devin Rose's If Protestantism is True, probably a review of that one on the way soon too. Devin has a blog of his own at St. Joseph's Vanguard, Highly recommended reading.
  
  
  
  

That's it for now. Keep checking in as I plan to review those two books I mentioned, sooner rather than later I hope. 

Random Thoughts....

• Why do Protestants accept the authority of the Roman Catholic Church to compile the New Testament Canon, but not the Old Testament. Or have all Protestants read things like the Didache, Shepherd of Hermas, etc. and just know they are not inspired.
• Why do so many people insist on a purely literal reading of the Bible, yet balk at Jesus' most plain discussion, one not couched in a single parable. John 6: 51-52, 54-55. 
• If I say my favorite Beatles song is Hey Jude does that make me lame and unoriginal.
• If I say my favorite Elvis songs all came from the Memphis sessions does that mean the same.
• Sometimes when I read a really good Tom Clancy or Stephen King book I get a warm fuzzy feeling, is that the same as the LDS idea of Burning in the Bosom from reading the Book of Mormon.
• When I look at Tommy I sometimes see a slow morphing of all of the stages and faces he has had and it makes me somehow prouder than usual. Just because he has been through so much.
• Is it ok to idolize my four year old. 
• If Tommy is the overcomer in the family, what will that mean for Matty and any other future children. 
• Why would anyone want caffeine free Mountain Dew...just drink water if you want to do that to the Dew. 
• I don't get Lady Gaga...she is average in every way....yet somehow she is a superstar right now...what are we thinking America. 
• Oh wait Scotty, who shouldn't have been final four material somehow won Idol last season...Was it Mencken or Barnum who said no one ever went broke underestimating the American public
• How amazing is it that the current Pope tried to retire twice as he had reached the appropriate age but his predecessor kept him on. And now we have one of the preeminent theologians of his day leading the Church. Can you see the Holy Spirit at work in that
• If you haven't read Jesus of Nazareth (part 2 especially) or Spirit of the Liturgy by Benedict XVI get on it...Two amazing books by a brilliant mind. 
• I'm reading the Screwtape Letters now, a wonderful little romp through the imagined correspondence of a demon to his nephew concerning the youngsters newest task. Turning a man away from God, referred to throughout as the Enemy.
• Do you realize CS Lewis, Aldous Huxley, and JFK all died on the same day. That must have been a heck of a conversation in Heaven's waiting room huh.
• Did any or all of those three get through the door? 
• How come fruit snacks taste better than fruit.