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The weekend… a flashback to pre-married life. A few of Kim’s college friends were in town for girls weekend. Thus I was escorted to the door. It was a nice escort.

Our weekend started a little early — watching the Hokies, and my new hero Darren Evans, under the lights in Blacksburg. Watched a little high school football Friday night, worked Saturday and then raked leaves at my parents’, and spent Saturday evening in a guys college dorm with my brother. We watched Texas Tech (my new favorite team for this season) while the typical Saturday night madness ensued around us. Sunday was a long, busy day — but at least I got to go back home!

To-do list this week… A retreat to get ready for, a trip to pack for and school work to get ahead on. It’s gonna be busy.

What’s new… I started Twittering last week [maybe that's why I didn't post a Monday Rundown last week...that's my story].

Coming soon… Spending 24-hours this weekend at the river with the GBC high schoolers. About 40 of them. It’s just a quick getaway, but should be fun. Sunday morning worship on the dock.

And counting down the days until Nashville! More on that next week…

The weekend that was… we caught a little high school football Friday night, the Deep Run Wildcats massacring the Godwin Eagles. Deep Run is #2 in the city and #10 in the state. And yes, they are that good.

Then Saturday, Kim and I went to Roanoke so we could be in church Sunday when her cousins got baptized. And back to Richmond Sunday afternoon for engage at Gayton.

Where I am at the moment… Here, again. In the cold. At least it’s not raining today!

To-do list this week… Hmm, not really sure about that. Working ahead? That’s kind of vague, but it’s all I’ve got.

Music that caught my attention… I know I already posted about Aqualung in July, but we were poor and I didn’t buy the tunes then. We had a friend in town this weekend and watched the slideshow, so it reminded me about the song. It’s in my iTunes library now. Maybe I’ll win another iTunes gift card at the National Youth Workers Convention in a couple weeks…

The weekend that was… the leaves are changing and this weekend the temperature plummeted. That meant it was great weather to stay inside and relax on the couch. Friday we ventured out into the rain to pick up a refurb’d PS2 (it’s DDR time now!), had a great lunch at Casa, got pumpkin muffin mix at Trader Joe’s, went out to the jam-packed theater (it was raining…) for Secret Life of Bee’s (another great portrayal of race relations in the mid-20th century) and got dessert after that. On Saturday, we spent all day (literally) in front of the TV watching football: Clemson vs. Georgia Tech, Spiders vs. UMass and Hokies vs. BC. Unfortunately, only one of our teams won. And during the VT/BC game, I put up our 2nd TV next to the other one so we could keep up with the Red Sox and Rays.

And Sunday. Oh, Sunday. Sundays are so busy now! We had a great close to our (entirely too long) series on our storyline. The students walked into the youth room in complete silence, had some guided prayer and Scripture reading on the big screen and then worship time. The message was reading the stories of Jesus’ life, and we closed with the first Last Supper story, broke the bread and had communion. The kids had a great experience. I think we’ll do it again!

Where I am at the moment… Richmond for the week. Actually, Richmond for a while. I’m good with that.

To-do list this week… This is catch-up week. And it’s Fall Break, so no class Thurs/Fri. Last week was insanely busy and I felt like I was behind all week. This week is more relaxing. And I might venture out to see an unnamed presidential candidate in the capital city tomorrow…

Music that caught my attention… Two songs. Both by Jason Mraz. The first one is his new single, “I’m Yours.” The second was the closing track on his last album, “Mr. A-Z,” titled “Song for a Friend.” At the end of the track, a choir sings with him, and in that choir are some of my former youth. They recorded that three years ago and I’m just not listening to it…