Plates

So I started a new game where I'm looking for license plates from all fifty states in the Little Apple. I thought about getting pictures for proof, but I'd be pretty weirded out seeing someone seeing someone purposefully stop and photograph my license plate. Here's what I've got after about a week.

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

Puzzles

So, I like to do jigsaw puzzles. I bought three the other day for $1.50 each. When looking for something to do puzzles on(I don't have a table) Target had the cheapest corkboard bulletin board, $7 for a 22"x35". I bring it to the apartment and start to do my first puzzle, and lo and behold! The puzzle size is 22 9/32" by 25". Ridiculous. All three puzzles are the same size. Hmmm, guess it pays to pay attention.

Things about today

Some things I did today:
1. Carried $60 worth of groceries on my bicycle halfway across town. Actually, because I used my Dillon's card, it was only $42 worth, but sixty sounds more impressive.
2. Watched a Harry Potter movie for the second time. I've seen all but OotP in theatres, but never ever watched one over again. Until tonight. And guess what? They're still lame-o. The books are better. But then, that's pretty much true for anything. However! However.......it did make me want to re-watch this....
3. Did some actual studying. Woof. I hope that doesn't become a habit.
4. Tried to call my goofy brother back. But he never answered. After he called me twice.
5. Ate fresh raspberries (well, fresh store-bought anyway)


Some things I thought about today:
1. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire would have been AWESOME if The Undertaker had been cast as Mad-Eye. Wow, that would have been intense.
2. Would Terrell Owens really have made that touchdown catch that Roy Williams missed? Really?
3. I wish all the K-State players in the NFL were just incredible.
4. Why do I even watch How I Met Your Mother? It's pretty much garbage.


Some things I learned today:
1. Even in Africa, Danielle is kinda clumsy.
2. I don't really like fresh raspberries.
3. While not as bad as I thought it would be, yogurt is still gross. I wish they made ice cream you could eat for breakfast.
4. You can't treat a virus with antibiotics. You can't treat a virus with antibiotics. You can't treat a virus with antibiotics. You CAN'T treat a VIRUS with antibiotics. YOU CAN'T TREAT A VIRUS WITH ANTIBIOTICS. I think she said it about fifteen times total. But seriously, you just can't.
5. No matter how good my day is going (or bad, as sometimes happens), Pam Beesley can make it better. I'm telling ya, to walk in the door every day and see that smile... I think my heart beats a little faster on Thursday nights.

So my youngest brother got engaged this weekend. Excited for him. I guess that leaves me as the sole remaining available Coltrane male. Not sure what to think about that.

Baptism and Blogging

Hello blog. My name is Jason. They say you're like a diary, which means in ten years, I'll stumble across you and this single entry. But really, I hope we become fast friends. Everyone should have real, intimate friends they can count on, don't you think? I do.

Speaking of friends, today I went to a baptism for an acquaintance of mine. I guess maybe a friend, someone whose name I know and we say a friendly hello whenever we happen to meet or play frisbee on Friday afternoons. Anyway, he, S***, was baptized, and six other people too. They all got up and told their story about how they found themselves at a point ready to publicly declare to their friends and family and everyone that they associated themselves as a follower of Jesus Christ. You know what I noticed? Their stories had a pretty common theme. And it wasn't how good of people they were, or how they always went to church and obeyed the right rules, and how pleased God was to have such honorable people on His side. No, they all shared how their lives were pretty much in shambles and not about to change, and but for the grace of God, they would not even be standing there. It's pretty incredible, this grace. How God can look at us in the midst of disgusting selfishness, pride, adultery, lying, abortion, cheating, stealing, and all the other ways we pervert His glory, and say... I love you. Incredible. I'm grateful for it. And I would that you would be as well.