Chris's Musings

This is going to be a short blog this morning.  I am finally going in for surgery on my knee on Friday to repair a torn miniscus that I injured a week before the Silver Comet Half Marathon that I was supposed to run.  I appreciate your prayers and notes of encouragement :-) I'm looking forward to being on the other side and back on the trails.  I've already got plans in place to run the first LA Rock & Roll 1/2 Marathon in October... it should be fun.  

After watching my beloved Aggies get shellacked by a subpar 2009 Georgia Bulldog football team sans D.C. in a toilet bowl, you would you think that I'd be ready to jump off a ledge.  Well, perhaps then I was pretty upset, but "jump off a ledge upset?"  Not so much. My friend in Austin whom I was watching the game with was a little more so... the only mistake I made was allowing him to use my TexAgs account to berate our coaching staff and risk my account being tagged as a troll and getting banned for life.  Fortunately, the latter didn't happen.  Can't say so much for the former.  But that's okay, when you love your friends you let them sometimes act out.  Don't you? ;-) After seeing the state of Aggie football over the last month since that poorly executed football game in Shreveport, I have a lot of reasons for optimism and yes, faith in Coach Sherman.  We'll see if that plays out but looking at what's going on behind the scenes I think we...

I am reading through this book by Francis Chan for small group... you may have heard about "Crazy Love."  Can I tell you... this is a challenging book.  I'm loving it, but it's not a comfortable book for me to read. I read through the chapter "Serving Leftovers to a Holy God" this morning, and as a person that has been in food marketing and a guy that is really trying to eat healthy one of the analogies he used really got me thinking. Francis was talking about a bag of potato chips he ate, which on the front of the bag in big bold letters touted "Zero Grams Trans Fat" - as if to denote that these chips are not bad for you.  As we now know, trans fat is really bad for you it obviously should be avoided if you want to live a healthy life.  I was interning in the marketing department at a big packaged rice company in Houston when the news about trans fats came out and that the FDA would start requiring that trans fats be listed on the nutritional ...

A couple of months ago, I made one of the best cheap purchases at Target that I've made in a while.  $20 has changed my life - in the form of a waffle iron that I use very religiously now. It's easy to clean.  Simple to use.  And it just sits on my counter and calls my name in the morning.  And the results are really awesome... I made this waffle out of Trader Joe's multigrain baking and pancake mix and frozen fresh blueberries from Publix.  I got the fiber, the antioxidants, and the yummy goodness all in one plate.  It's awesome. Now you're probably asking, where do you have time to make this great waffle batter every morning?  The answer... I don't have to, but the waffle mix is pretty easy to put together.  I picked up an interesting tip from an article on reusing consumables and one tip that they gave I thought was pure genius.  They recommended repurposing a Heinz ketchup bottle as a waffle batter dispenser, so I tried this and it w...

Did I call it or did I call it?  In my October 2009 blog about Lane Kiffin at Tennessee, I called out this guy as "unworthy."  http://cdubsmusings.blogspot.com/2009/10/worthy-and-unworthy.html Yesterday, Kiffin solidified that position.  One year, and a 7-6 (4-4 SEC) record, and Lane Kiffin and his daddy are bolting from Rocky Top after getting beaten like a stepchild by the Florida Gators, whom Lane Kiffin won't ever be getting to beat the Hell outta because he's LEAVING.  For... USC.  Nevermind that Pete Carroll is bolting that program now that he has to compete with Rick Neiuhesel for recruits and the coaching talent pool in the Pac 10 has greatly improved.  I wonder if Southern Cal is going to want him back after tanking another NFL stint (did you see what he didn't do with the talent that Bill Belicheck had won 3 Super Bowls with in New England?).  Pete Carroll... definitely unworthy.  You should have stayed in school.  And L...

Monday night. Being led by the Hillsong worship team. Thousands of students Hands raised Voices united Passionately focused Singing to the One who is worthy of our lives In one voice.  In one accord So I’ll stand With arms high and heart abandoned In awe of the One who gave it all So I’ll stand My soul Lord to You surrendered All I am is Your s

Today was fun.  I say that loosely. For those not living in Atlanta, today may have been the coldest and iciest day I've had since I've moved here.  The high was somewhere around 25-26 degrees and it stayed in the teens for most of the day.  The coldest I've ever experienced in a place where I lived was second year at Indiana where the high reached only 16 degrees. But, that's Bloomington, Indiana.  They know how to deal with snow and ice there.  Atlanta, Georgia... not so much. When I left my place to drive (so I thought) to the gym, I discovered that I was a prisoner to a 50 foot streak of black ice in my community's parking lot.... in front of my car.  This became very real when I got into it and had the gas to the floor, my speedometer reading 45 mph, and the car not going anywhere.  The skidding and spinning sound added to the effect.  I was stuck.  What was frustrating was that my freedom was 50 feet away in the form of dry paveme...