I am not running to lose weight! That is a benefit only. And to be honest, I haven’t lost that much weight.

I am training for a half marathon for a lot of reasons, I was going to tell you, but I can’t they are personal to me. But I do want to make it clear that weight lose is not my motivation.

The book we are reading right now is Tess of the D’Urbervilles It is the hardest book I have read for a book club. Normally I would quit, but I keep going because my friend named her first born Tessa after it. I wanted to know why, so I kept reading. And behind the really confusing language is an amazing woman and a timeless lesson.

That is what this blog is really about. A timeless lesson.

Her husband is judging her for past deeds, that is all you really need to know for my favorite quote. Ready, here it comes, drum roll please….

“In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire.”

And I just want to testify that is true. Do not discount the defective, whatever that may be. Homeless, alcoholic, whatever. Small thing, big thing, past, present. The Lord can and has worked miracles in people from day one. He can and He will do it again.  We don’t know what is in another’s heart. And we don’t know what the Lord can and will do in another’s heart. So remember, “the defective can be more that the entire.”

The Stanley Cup Playoffs have begun!

I will probably not get to watch much of the games this year, busy busy you know, but I do intend to follow my team until they get to hoist the cup (or fall flat on their faces, as the case may be).

GO AVS!

This time of year hasn’t really been all that nice for my team (Colorado Avalanche, just in case you didn’t get that from the cheer above)  since 2001. That was the last year they won the cup, and the last time thy did anything of note in the playoffs. I guess they did make it in 2002 to the Western Conference Finals against Detroit and lost in a game 7, so that was pretty good I guess. But every year they have made it to the playoffs since (and they haven’t made it every year mind you) they have been eliminated in either the first or second rounds.

Come to think of it, this has been the case ever since the great Patrick Roy retired. How sad.

Sure Anderson does well during the season (and this season he has done pretty good (lets not look as the last dozen games)).  I guess we shall see if he (or Budaj I guess) will step it up and help this years team make it a little farther (even a game 7 would be nice).

So for all of you AVS fans out there, the first game they play in this playoff season will be on Wednesday night on either CBC or VERSUS (if you are privileged enough to get either of those channels).

Anyway, I decided to try my hand at animation today with Blender. This is the end result and it only took me about 30 minutes to create (more time to learn how to do it, but now that I know how it doesn’t take that long to do something simple).

Enjoy!

Now all I have to do it link up a different font to the web page and BAM, the header looks different and I don’t have to keep changing it in an image editor and make tons of different images just to change the look of the header every now and then.

Note: You will have to be viewing the site in a modern browser. If the header ever just looks like a standard serif font, you probably don’t have a modern web browser, and should download Firefox 3.5 or higher or Google Chrome browser.