Taking a brief break from C3, I'd like to tell you all about some really awesome and exciting things that have happened in the last week or so. As many of you know I have plans to become a pastor and because I want to get through school as quickly as possible, I applied to seminary for the summer. Well boys and girls, results are in, I'm accepted! I'm now officially a seminary student and I start classes May 12. I got into grad school! What a change from how I started out. Also, because I am currently a religion student I was told that they may be able to accept some of my credits as transfer credits so in theory I could start seminary with 30 credit hours already taken care of. That's 1/3 of my course load that would already be done (and paid for)! I'm really hoping that I can get all 30 taken care of but I'm not holding my breath.
While in the midst of all this school work and with C3 still in the rear-view mirror of my past, I have signed up for yet another pastor's conference. Yes, I know it's crazy, especially since the money is coming out of our own pockets. And yes, I know that it is weird that I am going right after having gone to one just over a month ago. But, let me tell you about this conference. It is called Thr3e and is being put on by Elevation Church and is all about their first 3 years as a church. It is a 1 day event where they'll be talking about everything they've done that's worked and hasn't. They will be giving out every piece of administrative paperwork (constitution, by-laws, staff documents, etc) that they have developed over the last 3 years (I need those things). They will talk about their organizational structure and all other things that I really want to know about them. (Did I mention that this 3-year-old church is the 2nd fastest growing church in the country and has 3 locations with over 4000 attending a week?). I want to learn everything they know. After paying to go and registering they announced a competition where you tell them the effect they have had on your ministry and the winner will have their tuition refunded, so that's what we'll be doing this weekend... being creative!
Last night my wonderful wife (the best of all of them) took me out shopping for my birthday present. I have been complaining about not having a watch because the last 2 watches I bought were utter crap. The last one turned my wrist green and deteriorated tot he point that it was like wearing sandpaper. So, we went to the mall and started looking at JC Penney's. After bothering the clerk there for a while and not finding anything really good (my wrist is so big that most watches don't fit), we decided to wander around to some of the other stores. Along our journey we went to a bunch of places and didn't really find anything that jumped out at me or that fit well. Finally we stopped at Kay Jewelers and although we knew we wouldn't be able to afford a watch there, we let the sales guy show off a few. He asked what I was looking for and he showed me a really nice (and pretty stinkin' cool) watch that had a bigger band than most. It is an aviator watch with both analog and digital, it is almost all black with white hands and is stainless steel which I like. It also has a light-powered battery that charges with indoor or outdoor light and holds a charge for 6 months so in theory, I will never need a battery for it. How cool is that? It was also $500. It was the best-fitting watch I had tried on all day and Allie jotted down the info but as we left I told her she wasn't allowed to get it for me. As we walked out though, I told her that it was the same watch as one I had seen at JC Penney's, I just didn't point it out when there because it was too expensive.
As we get ready to head out of the mall we pass back through Penney's and I show her that it indeed was the same watch. Penney's was having a sale on their watches and she asked me if that's the one I wanted and I said that yeah, I would love to have it but I don't need it for that price. We call the sales lady over again, who comments on the fact that we're still in the mall looking at watches, and have her take it out of the case. In the case there are two of identical model but of different price. We take them both out to compare and try to figure out if they are in fact identical. As she looks up the price it turns out because of the sale they have, the one that is marked $100 more is cheaper by over $50. Allie decides to splurge and get it for me. So, getting the watch at JC Penney, we were able to save (post tax) more than half of what it would have cost to get at Kay's. It is by far the nicest watch I have ever owned (my last watch was the nicest I had owned to that point and it was $20 from Target) and should last me a long, long time. It is funny because when we went into the store Allie asked me what I liked in a watch and I told her that I like the look of a good analog watch but I had grown used to the features of digital watches, such as a stop watch and alarms. This one has both, and 22 time zones, and a timer, and 3 alarms, and the analog sets itself to the digital so they are perfectly in sync... it's awesome. Also I'm learning how to use the outer slide rule to do math... what a nerd watch. You can check it out here... I've never owned a watch before that has it own web page. I have the best wife ever!
While we were wandering around the mall we went into Walden Books. Bad idea. As Allie pointed out, she never has a problem ignoring a sale at a clothing store but when she goes into a bookstore that is having a sale it's hard to fight the urge. While wandering around the store she stumbled upon this book that I haven't stopped thinking about all day. It is called The Rose Labyrinth and, while I haven't read past the first chapter of the book yet, I can confidently say it is one of the coolest books I have ever seen. It is a mystery book with hints of conspiracy and the supernatural. Reading the synopsis it looks a lot along the lines of The Da'Vinci Code. The book came in a cardboard cover that held within it 36 sheets of paper. Those sheets of paper are what makes this the coolest book ever. The papers or full of riddles, references to Dante's Inferno, Greek Mythology, the Bible, constellations, and Hebrew. On the back of each sheet there is what appears to be a map that, when put together, will show the labyrinth or something of the sort. At some point in the novel the characters find the stack of papers that we have from the beginning so the author challenges the reader to uncover the secrets held within before the characters do. It is so very cryptic and simply awesome... Allie and I are going to spend much of tonight putting things together and trying to decipher the sheets. If you do that, there is apparently a message hidden within the text of the book that you can uncover, and according to the author there are some secrets hidden in the pages that the characters never discover. It looks awesome and from what little we've read, it seems to be well written as well. You should definitely check it out.
Well, that's all for today. My kids (I'm subbing long-term for a 10th grade English class) are taking a midterm right now so I think I'll try to get some homework done. I hope that everyone is doing well and I'll have the rest of day 2 of C3 up in a few days. Adios muchachos!
Friday, March 27, 2009
Thursday, March 26, 2009
C3 Day Two, Part 1
Day two of C3 continued to blow away our expectations. It was a little bit rougher than that first night because after been up for two days in a row, a few hours of sleep wasn’t nearly enough to feel refreshed. We were beat. So getting up that morning and going to the camp shower (where there was only one room so the other had to wait in the car) was not the most fun we had all weekend. Oh, did I mention that the mornings in Texas were freezing and windy like a hurricane? Yeah, they were.
*I forgot something from the first night so let’s time warp for a moment back to then. The only other time I have been to Texas was for my friend Tex’s graduation. While visiting he took me to a fast food chain that I fell in love with, “Whataburger.” They are open 24 hours, dining room included, and at the time they had a burger that was made with A1 sauce… what more could I hope for? So the entire trip I had been telling Waffle about how we needed to go to Whataburger and have an A1 burger… I was jonesing for it real bad. While we were on the road, the last 5 or so hours of our drive we started seeing them everywhere. Every time I saw one I would point it out; I couldn’t wait to taste that delicious A1-edness.
As get into Grapevine and approach our campsite, we notice that there is a Whataburger literally within 1 mile from where we are staying. Since putting up the tent was such an ordeal and since we had spent all day in the car we decided to splurge and grab a bite down the street before going to C3. What a mistake. So, we must have been staying on the street that divides the Grapevine economic classes because the Whataburger was one of the most ghetto places I have even been in my life. This was crazy to me because it is 2 blocks down the road from a Great Wolf Lodge which is 1 block away from a super ritzy spa, which is another block away from a huge mall area… how we stepped into poverty in one block I don’t know but we did… perhaps it was a worm hole. We go in (remember, I was super excited) and the first thing we notice is that the décor was a bit messy and the place was fairly empty. Ok, this one does look like one of their older stores so that’s forgivable, plus we were a little early for the dinner rush.
When we step up to the counter, the second thing we notice is that nobody is speaking English. Well, not real English anyway. The cashier is Pakistani, the lady at the drive-through is African, there was a Hispanic working in the back and a Texas redneck who seemed to speak English just as well as everyone else. When I step up to the register to order, I ask about the A1 burger because I don’t see it up on the screen. Apparently it was a special they had, not a regular item. At that point I should have left. Needless to say, it took far too long, there were too many communication problems to count, the whole experience was uber-sketchy, my fries were cold, and we got a good (but also depressing) laugh out of the whole ordeal.*
Now back to day two. We made our way over to the church and were greeted by the exact same energetic people in the morning as we were the night before. One of the things that was discussed at the conference is how a church should want volunteers that are fully committed to the cause of the church and those greeters certainly were that. We walked in and were looking at seats over in the side area where we sat the night before but an usher found us and said that if we wanted to do things right we needed to sit in the middle. He managed to find us two seats which were indeed a huge improvement to where we were the night before.
When the lights went down and the music came up one of the singers was on the front of the stage holding signs that had the words of the song. As he would get to the end of a line he would throw the sign on top across the stage. They had strobe lights on and the whole experience was super cool. The rest of the group came out and we sang a few praise songs before Ed young got on stage. It was a great way to wake up in the morning.
Ed ran two sessions that morning, the first of which was titled “Crazy Pills.” They passed prescription pads out to all of us as we came in which was a really nifty tie-in I thought. He talked about how there are crazy people and there are good crazy people, the kind you want to be spending time with. Satan, though, manages to surround us with crazy people that take up most of our time and don’t ever change. If we want to meet the good crazy people we have to push through the actual crazy people. Pastors spend the majority of their time dealing with crazy people that won’t ever change.
In that session he said “one thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn from history.” He talked about Daniel 5 and how Belshazzar didn’t learn from Nebuchadnezzar. His pride got in the way and he didn’t listen to God or to Daniel and unlike Nebuchadnezzar who had years to change, Belshazzar was given one day because he should know better because of the history. He doesn’t learn and Darius comes in and doesn’t listen to God and doesn’t talk to Daniel… the pattern continues.
Then he came to something that hit me pretty hard. He pointed out that in Daniel 6:11 the administrators went to Darius as a group. The majority, he said, is usually wrong. In fact, every time that people voted in the Bible they were outside of God’s will. Read that again because it’s important. In verse 6:13 it says that “Then they said to the king…” Who are they? What do they matter? Eventually though, those that tried to throw Daniel to the lions became lion bate… remember that our God is all-powerful and is faithful when we follow Him, even in the face of opposition.
The second session by Ed Young was geared even more specifically toward pastors but I’ll give just a brief overview. He was talking about depression and pastoral ministry, how pastors do and will become depressed at some point in their ministry. He used Elijah as an example when, after “fighting” with the other priests and God lighting his alter, and then after outrunning a chariot, Elijah went into a deep depression. Ed referred to this as the “Holy Hangover.” Many pastors experience this every week; some call it the Monday Morning Hangover but they experience it none-the-less. Ed gave a great example of what it feels like. He said that preparing your sermon and doing all of the study and work each week is like being pregnant but on Sunday you get to give birth. Sunday is usually great; you’re on a Holy High. But when you wake up on Monday, it’s like finding out you’re pregnant again.
He gave some scary statistics, especially for someone who is just on the forefront of ministry. 80% of pastors believe that pastoral ministry has a negative effect on their family. 75% have had a personal crisis. The clergy has the 2nd highest divorce rate among professions. And 70% of pastors don’t have anyone they would consider a close friend. These statistics frighten me. I can only pray that I don’t become one of them.
His overall point was that we need to be aware that the holy hangover will come and that we need to be prepared to deal with it. He drew a graph that illustrated his energy level over time and while it may start at 100%, after the first hangover it drops to 50% to then jump back up as he gets excited for the next week. But it doesn’t get all the back up to 100, this time it only goes to 95%. When it drops it might drop to 45 and so on until you have to take a mental health vacation to bring it back up. It all makes a lot of sense to me because camp is the same way. He also encouraged the audience not to make decisions when suffering from a holy hangover because it’s then that we make really bad decisions or lash out in frustration, anger, etc.
I am going to stop here because I have already written much more than I intended. I am writing just about as much as I can remember both for those of you who want to hear it but also for my future self to look back and check it out. I will hopefully post part 2 of day 2 very shortly. I hope that you are having an incredible, God-filled and God-inspired day. Let Him lead you and you will never fail.
*I forgot something from the first night so let’s time warp for a moment back to then. The only other time I have been to Texas was for my friend Tex’s graduation. While visiting he took me to a fast food chain that I fell in love with, “Whataburger.” They are open 24 hours, dining room included, and at the time they had a burger that was made with A1 sauce… what more could I hope for? So the entire trip I had been telling Waffle about how we needed to go to Whataburger and have an A1 burger… I was jonesing for it real bad. While we were on the road, the last 5 or so hours of our drive we started seeing them everywhere. Every time I saw one I would point it out; I couldn’t wait to taste that delicious A1-edness.
As get into Grapevine and approach our campsite, we notice that there is a Whataburger literally within 1 mile from where we are staying. Since putting up the tent was such an ordeal and since we had spent all day in the car we decided to splurge and grab a bite down the street before going to C3. What a mistake. So, we must have been staying on the street that divides the Grapevine economic classes because the Whataburger was one of the most ghetto places I have even been in my life. This was crazy to me because it is 2 blocks down the road from a Great Wolf Lodge which is 1 block away from a super ritzy spa, which is another block away from a huge mall area… how we stepped into poverty in one block I don’t know but we did… perhaps it was a worm hole. We go in (remember, I was super excited) and the first thing we notice is that the décor was a bit messy and the place was fairly empty. Ok, this one does look like one of their older stores so that’s forgivable, plus we were a little early for the dinner rush.
When we step up to the counter, the second thing we notice is that nobody is speaking English. Well, not real English anyway. The cashier is Pakistani, the lady at the drive-through is African, there was a Hispanic working in the back and a Texas redneck who seemed to speak English just as well as everyone else. When I step up to the register to order, I ask about the A1 burger because I don’t see it up on the screen. Apparently it was a special they had, not a regular item. At that point I should have left. Needless to say, it took far too long, there were too many communication problems to count, the whole experience was uber-sketchy, my fries were cold, and we got a good (but also depressing) laugh out of the whole ordeal.*
Now back to day two. We made our way over to the church and were greeted by the exact same energetic people in the morning as we were the night before. One of the things that was discussed at the conference is how a church should want volunteers that are fully committed to the cause of the church and those greeters certainly were that. We walked in and were looking at seats over in the side area where we sat the night before but an usher found us and said that if we wanted to do things right we needed to sit in the middle. He managed to find us two seats which were indeed a huge improvement to where we were the night before.
When the lights went down and the music came up one of the singers was on the front of the stage holding signs that had the words of the song. As he would get to the end of a line he would throw the sign on top across the stage. They had strobe lights on and the whole experience was super cool. The rest of the group came out and we sang a few praise songs before Ed young got on stage. It was a great way to wake up in the morning.
Ed ran two sessions that morning, the first of which was titled “Crazy Pills.” They passed prescription pads out to all of us as we came in which was a really nifty tie-in I thought. He talked about how there are crazy people and there are good crazy people, the kind you want to be spending time with. Satan, though, manages to surround us with crazy people that take up most of our time and don’t ever change. If we want to meet the good crazy people we have to push through the actual crazy people. Pastors spend the majority of their time dealing with crazy people that won’t ever change.
In that session he said “one thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn from history.” He talked about Daniel 5 and how Belshazzar didn’t learn from Nebuchadnezzar. His pride got in the way and he didn’t listen to God or to Daniel and unlike Nebuchadnezzar who had years to change, Belshazzar was given one day because he should know better because of the history. He doesn’t learn and Darius comes in and doesn’t listen to God and doesn’t talk to Daniel… the pattern continues.
Then he came to something that hit me pretty hard. He pointed out that in Daniel 6:11 the administrators went to Darius as a group. The majority, he said, is usually wrong. In fact, every time that people voted in the Bible they were outside of God’s will. Read that again because it’s important. In verse 6:13 it says that “Then they said to the king…” Who are they? What do they matter? Eventually though, those that tried to throw Daniel to the lions became lion bate… remember that our God is all-powerful and is faithful when we follow Him, even in the face of opposition.
The second session by Ed Young was geared even more specifically toward pastors but I’ll give just a brief overview. He was talking about depression and pastoral ministry, how pastors do and will become depressed at some point in their ministry. He used Elijah as an example when, after “fighting” with the other priests and God lighting his alter, and then after outrunning a chariot, Elijah went into a deep depression. Ed referred to this as the “Holy Hangover.” Many pastors experience this every week; some call it the Monday Morning Hangover but they experience it none-the-less. Ed gave a great example of what it feels like. He said that preparing your sermon and doing all of the study and work each week is like being pregnant but on Sunday you get to give birth. Sunday is usually great; you’re on a Holy High. But when you wake up on Monday, it’s like finding out you’re pregnant again.
He gave some scary statistics, especially for someone who is just on the forefront of ministry. 80% of pastors believe that pastoral ministry has a negative effect on their family. 75% have had a personal crisis. The clergy has the 2nd highest divorce rate among professions. And 70% of pastors don’t have anyone they would consider a close friend. These statistics frighten me. I can only pray that I don’t become one of them.
His overall point was that we need to be aware that the holy hangover will come and that we need to be prepared to deal with it. He drew a graph that illustrated his energy level over time and while it may start at 100%, after the first hangover it drops to 50% to then jump back up as he gets excited for the next week. But it doesn’t get all the back up to 100, this time it only goes to 95%. When it drops it might drop to 45 and so on until you have to take a mental health vacation to bring it back up. It all makes a lot of sense to me because camp is the same way. He also encouraged the audience not to make decisions when suffering from a holy hangover because it’s then that we make really bad decisions or lash out in frustration, anger, etc.
I am going to stop here because I have already written much more than I intended. I am writing just about as much as I can remember both for those of you who want to hear it but also for my future self to look back and check it out. I will hopefully post part 2 of day 2 very shortly. I hope that you are having an incredible, God-filled and God-inspired day. Let Him lead you and you will never fail.
Monday, March 9, 2009
C3 Day One... Finally
Well, as promised, I am finally getting around to telling you all about the wonderful C3. So, I think that the easiest way for me to explain everything is to split it up into the days that we were there. That means this is the first of three installments. It is very tricky to explain everything that we experienced because the things that were the most influential are the hardest things to recreate into words. The worship was amazing and it is easier to explain than the many wonderful speeches we heard. They were so influential that it is impossible to recapture and share it. But I'm going to try my best.
Before I get to that though, let me tell you a bit about the trip to Texas. Due to some scheduling conflicts, what was going to be a two-day trip ended up being a one-day, straight drive. Waffle (my brother-in-law) and I left my apartment at midnight on Tuesday night and drove 17 hours arriving in Grapevine, TX, just outside of Dallas, at about 4 o'clock (TX time). We got to our campsite and decided it would be best to set up camp before the evening C3 session so we proceeded to put up our tent. Now, I can't speak for all of Texas but the two hemispheres of it that I have visited (Dallas and Midland) are stinking windy. I swear we put up our tent in 30 mph winds. It took one of us to hold the tent at all times while the other worked at setting it up. To make our lives more difficult, it turned out that we were staying on a concrete slab surrounded by rocks... have you tried to spike a tent down into a rock bed? When all was said and done, half of our tent was nailed down while the other half was tied to various trees. It was sketchy.
Praying that we would have a home to return to that evening, Waffle and I drove the painfully long 3 miles to get to Fellowship Church, the host of the event. When we turned down the road to the church we were met by an army of people directing us where to park. As we got out of the car and were about to walk in, Waffle realized that he had left his keys in the ignition and the car was still running. Thankfully he hadn't locked the doors so we were able to get in but we shared a moment of panic as we didn't want to be stuck in Texas, locked out of our car which, upon getting into, would have run out of gas.
On our way up to check-in we were very warmly welcomed by a slew of greeters. It didn't feel like we could walk 100 feet without being given a handshake or high-five. It sounds like it would be obnoxious and if the greeters were not sincere it would have been, but as they were genuine it was really nice. When we got to front door we had to go through registration. They simply asked for the name of our organization (because I am a student I got a discount and I payed for Waffle so we were listed under "Liberty") As the girl flipped to that page I gasped as I noticed that we were right above Lifechurch.tv on the list. For those of you who don't know, Craig Groeschel is one of my biggest pastor/ man crushes. I have the greatest respect for him and the fact that he was speaking at the conference was part of my motivation for going (his church is in Oklahoma).
We were both given little cloth backpacks that have some cool booklets, a pencil, and a puzzle game in them. It was wonderful having those because I didn't have anything to carry all of my stuff in that wasn't already packed with other, well, stuff. We approach the doors and wander around looking for a seat. The night sessions at C3 are open to the public but the front section of seats are reserved for attendees. We make our down the right side and find a seat right next to the mini-stage. It was really cool because while people were filing in there was a band playing some really awesome music right next to us.
So, when the night started, I got chills and had to fight back tears. The lights turned down low and a video popped up on the 3 screens. It was a video of a guy in military drab standing in a field of wheat. “The world is dying and will one more song, one more skit, one more small group, concert or conference change anything? That’s up to you.”
BOOM!
The lights blazed on and from just about everywhere an army of singers descended on the crowd. From the back doors came the choir, all dressed up in military-esque drab, being led by two big marching band drums. Along the left and right balcony appeared people dressed all in white, singing like a band of angels. The band and praise team came down from the front of the stage… as if all of that wasn’t crazy enough, on the front corners of the stage were two big blue barrel drums that had glitter on the top. Have you seen the Blue Man Group? There were people dressed in white from head to toe that pounded on the tops of those barrels so glitter was flying everywhere. From waiting in the seats looking around and being blown away at the size of things to 1 minute into C3 starting, our excitement level leapt from 7 to about 9,000. Talk about sensory overload. It was awesome.
After a decent worship session the host, Ed Young Jr. and his wife came up and welcome the first speaker to the stage, Jentezen Franklin. I had never heard of him but he is the pastor of Free Chapel in GA and CA. He was so nervous because it was his first time speaking at C3 but he did a great job. He talked about how we need to restore mercy into our churches. He used the Ark of the Covenant as an example, how the angels on the top are touching wings but that they aren’t looking each other in the eye but are instead looking down at the mercy seat. As the universal church we need bring mercy back into focus… God is merciful; we have no right not to be.
The second person to speak that night was Christine Caine from Hillsong in Australia. She is a phenomenal speaker (which makes sense since she spends almost all of her time on the road speaking) so even though I didn’t know her beforehand I am glad she was there. I wish that I had my notebook that night (I left it in the car) but there were two things she said that night that really hit me. She talked about how as Christians we like to see ourselves as being in the world but set apart from it, which is Biblical, but we take it to the extreme. We have done such a good job of being apart from the world that we’re no longer in it. Many of us even see the “world” as something discusting that we must shy away from… not true! If we are to be effective at acting out Christ’s cause (notice, it’s His cause, not ours) then we can’t do it without getting dirty! We can’t be afraid to surround ourselves with the filth of the world because if we don’t, they will never see light. The other thing she said that if the estimated 2 billion Christians in the world put forth their full effort to evangelizing, we could have the job done in three days. How amazing would that be? If we all put forth our lives and efforts to reaching people for Christ, we could do it and Christ could come back because it would be finished.
All-in-all, first impressions were great. (Since I’m writing this so late I can tell you that the whole thing was great). I am dedicating myself to write more often now, so hopefully the new update will be here in a day or two. I hope everyone is doing well and I want to say hello to my two new faithful readers, Anna and Erika. Hey guys, good luck on your midterm.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Check Please
Ok, so that C3 update is coming soon, I promise. For now though, some random ramblings...
I don't know how many of you use checks regularly but I wrote two checks today for the first time in literally years. I have to be honest, I'm a big fan of the debit/ credit card and have never, since getting a checking account, carried checks. That said, right now my debit card is broken and I had to go to the doctors (more on that later) so Allie gave me her checkbook. The coolest things happened when I went to write out my check... I was amazed by a wonderful piece of technology that to me was completely new but is in actuality probably pretty old. The lady said I didn't need to fill out the check but to just give it to her. She had a machine that read it then printed on it and took the money out of the account right then... it used my check as a debit card. Then she gave it back to me with the printed info and a printed "void" on the front for me to keep as a receipt. Later when I went to Wal-Mart to get my drugs, they had the same thing. Is this technology new? Or am I really that far out of touch? Either way, I thought it was awesome and worthy of sharing.
So, it turns out I have pneumonia. This last week I have struggled with epic coughing, a terribly sore throat, fever, cold chills, dizziness, and the all-powerful symptom, "etc." I am currently writing under the influence of codine which almost reminds me of the many time I have written on no sleep. On that note, I think I need some sleep. Sorry for the very random update. I promise, C3 update is on the way. Just know that it was amazing and I can't wait to tell you all about it.
~Seth
I don't know how many of you use checks regularly but I wrote two checks today for the first time in literally years. I have to be honest, I'm a big fan of the debit/ credit card and have never, since getting a checking account, carried checks. That said, right now my debit card is broken and I had to go to the doctors (more on that later) so Allie gave me her checkbook. The coolest things happened when I went to write out my check... I was amazed by a wonderful piece of technology that to me was completely new but is in actuality probably pretty old. The lady said I didn't need to fill out the check but to just give it to her. She had a machine that read it then printed on it and took the money out of the account right then... it used my check as a debit card. Then she gave it back to me with the printed info and a printed "void" on the front for me to keep as a receipt. Later when I went to Wal-Mart to get my drugs, they had the same thing. Is this technology new? Or am I really that far out of touch? Either way, I thought it was awesome and worthy of sharing.
So, it turns out I have pneumonia. This last week I have struggled with epic coughing, a terribly sore throat, fever, cold chills, dizziness, and the all-powerful symptom, "etc." I am currently writing under the influence of codine which almost reminds me of the many time I have written on no sleep. On that note, I think I need some sleep. Sorry for the very random update. I promise, C3 update is on the way. Just know that it was amazing and I can't wait to tell you all about it.
~Seth
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