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The Cincinnati Reds announced a sweet deal for Reds fans for the Milwaukee series next week. Seats in the View Level, normally$22 are only $5 and the hot dogs are only $1. Of course the promotion is probably only to sooth lingering irritations at the Ken Griffey trade and horrible post all-star performance of the team.
At any rate, I thought, "hey what a nice time to take the family down to a game" and called to place an order for tickets. The long and short of it is the Reds would love to sell me the seats but they just don't have any accessible seating available in the view level seats. So sorry charlie, it sux to be you!
I really appreciate the fact that I can go to the game at all and that the stadium has generally good facilities for a wheelchair user including family style restrooms, but it is frustrating that once again, my handicap is costing more money than for an able-bodied.
We are still going to the game and thankfully it occurs on a night when teachers can purchase tickets for half price. So we are sitting at the top of the lower level along the first base line. I'll enjoy the view but will probably think often of the $5 seat we could not get!
To view the PowerPoint slides from the June 8, 2008 class on Chapter 18 from "Heaven" by Randy Alcorn click here. Note: You will need to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer for the presentation to show correctly.
The video used for the class presentation has been removed from the website due to some copyright concerns.
As we prepared for church this week on Christmas Sunday, we turned on our television, as we do each week, to the Hour of Power broadcast. While we always enjoy the music and the message on these broadcasts, this week was special since the message was brought by Max Lucado. Mr. Lucado spoke from his recent book, "3:16". This was made more special since our "Spice of Life" Sunday School class is studying this book right now. In fact, we have just covered the parts of the book that Max focused on.
You can get more info on the message and watch a high quality video at the Hour of Power web site. More info about the book and study series can be found at the Max Lucado
web site.
The football season for Southern Nazarene University (SNU) started last weekend with a game on the road in Brownwood, Texas with Howard Payne University. The Crimson Storm was victorious (42-14) and in the effort, our son, Robert (#85) managed to stretch out for a pass. He was interfered with but because of a wide reciever's error in the formation, Robert, at tight end, wound up as an ineligible receiver down field.
Today, SNU played at home against Belhaven from Jackson, Mississippi and again were victorious 28-21. Robert scored his first touchdown as a SNU player to tie the game just before half-time. Robert also had a 27 yard reception early in the third quarter. While Robert was in on many other plays, you can listen to these receptions as covered by the SNU Internet Radio broadcast clicking this green play arrow:
Click "Read More" to see some great photos from the Belhaven game, including Robert's touchdown pass.
The 1973 drum corps season was both a great and tragic year for the Argonne Rebels Drum and Bugle Corps of Great Bend, Kansas. For a very nice recap of the ups and downs of that season please see Jeff Yeager's great article. Jeff penned that story a little over a year ago as preparations were being made for a great Argonne Reunion. One of the highlights of the 1973 season was a pre-season football half-time performance for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Before and After Frames From the 1973 Argonne Show at a Kansas City Chiefs Pre-Seaon Game
While this performance lived in infamy within the minds of those who performed it, it had been so many years since a film of the performance had been seen that I think many of us had forgotten about it. Through the generosity of the Corps former Director, Glen Opie, the film was digitized and distributed on DVD to coprs members last year.
Unfortunately the quality of the video was not good. I assume the years of storage were unkind to the film and it was yellowed in appearance and very dark. In an attempt to make the video more enjoyable I've done some editing with it and have done some decent color correction, lightening, sharpening and cropping to the DVD material. No matter what shows like CSI want to make you think, one cannot create sharp, well defined images out of material that does not exist. So, watching this is nothing like viewing a good HD broadcast or even a good standard definition show but, it is the show and it still stirs excitement within my heart. (click "Read More" to see the video)
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