The World According To Chris Brewer

1. This morning when I stepped outside to get the morning paper, I didn’t want to go back inside. For the first time since I’ve been here, the air was cool and crisp — definitely the first true tinge of autumn that I’ve felt since I’ve been here. (Don’t know if tinge is the right word but it sounds cool so I’m keeping it in there.)

2. Mom’s heading out for Las Vegas tomorrow to spend some of her hard earned money and try to multiply it at the casinos. Okay, not really, but since Dad is a safety inspector or something like that at a construction site in Sin City, she’s gonna spend some time out there visiting him. Much needed, and I’m gonna see how I can survive the next week housesitting.

3. Watch out over the next couple of days, because our church website is going to be up and running.

4. Elderly drivers here in Springfield are the ultimate paradox. I think that they read the speed limit sign and only obey the first digit displayed on it. If the speed limit is 60, they drive 6. If it’s 70, they’ll go a whole mile an hour faster. If I were in a position of authority, I would require visual acuity and dexterity tests yearly for anyone over the age of 65 if they wanted to drive.

5. Speaking of the dexterity test, and I’m going to patent this so don’t steal my idea, will consist of a game of Hot Hands. If the DMV employee slaps the test subject’s hands three times in 30 seconds, no license. It’s that simple. If you can’t pull your hands away to prevent getting slapped, you definitely can’t be expected to make critical snap judgments on the road.

6. On that note, props to two disabled drivers I passed today on the James River Freeway heading toward Republic. They were zooming, 75 in a 60. That’s more like it.

7. Church is tomorrow night and I think I am going to stick out going to Wednesday night discipleship sessions for the rest of the quarter. It’s tough being the only person age 21-25 in the church and having to grind it out in the adult class, but I think it’s also a good challenge because it forces me to elevate my thinking a bit. Which I desperately need to do. Hey, they gotta have someone young and unmarried in there anyway, right?

8. The Van She Technologic remix of Feist’s track “1234″ is absolutely amazing. I’ve posted this before but I’m going to do it again because it’s as close to glorious as you can get here on this earth. Five minutes of pure stereophonic bliss — I personally enjoy the 1:03 to about 1:48 mark and could put that on repeat all day. Click the play button below to indulge.
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9. My blood-related brother and two not-blood-related sisters are great people.

10. That is all.