Category Shootn the Bull

Pain in the &*(%#

The following picture is not for the squeamish of heart. My wife will be embarrassed that I’ve posted this, but I wanted to invite everyone else into my own misery of the last few days. I also recall a comment…

What theologian am I?

You scored as Karl Barth. The daddy of 20th Century theology. You perceive liberal theology to be a disaster and so you insist that the revelation of Christ, not human experience, should be the starting point for all theology. Karl…

Awwww, shucks…

Boy, was I excited when I saw in my Bloglines window that Andy had two new posts over a liveabiglife.com. Imagine my surprise to discover one of them was about me and Notes, as well as ignorantprotestant.com. I felt like…

Books I’ve bought…

I recently told a friend that I had pretty much stopped buying a lot of books. From the time I made that comment till today, I have purchased the equivalent of one Wendy’s restaurant full of books. Dadgummit. I like…

Weekend posting…

I’ve been using Sitemeter to track my stats for a while now, and my stats always dip on the weekends. I wonder if that’s common? Of course, I rarely post anything significant on the weekends, and this post is no…

Superman vulnerable to TiVo

Aaaaah. I accidentally deleted Smallville Season 5, Episode 2 off of my TiVo the other night. I was stunned. What to this point only Kryptonite could do, I had accomplished with a plastic remote in less than a second. You…

Add this to my list…

I have a running list of things I will humbly and helpfully suggest to God one day for the betterment of humanity who remain on earth after I make the homeward journey. My latest is this: Why poison ivy? This…

Welcome new readers…

In the past week there has been an upsurge in traffic on Notes from the Trail. Lots of new folks getting their feet dusty with us on this journey. Taking a cue from John over at Typepad Hacks, I thought…