Next week I am going to New Orleans, and two more tickets just became available.
Round trip airfare? $270
Room and Board? $120 (bring your own sleeping bag)
A week in January outside of Western New York, doing good work? Priceless.
All of the above, with Drew on the trip? Double Priceless.
I know its short notice, but if you know anybody who might go, let me know.
Drew's Journal
My Podcast Link
01/03/2008 09:57 #42735
Wanna get away?12/31/2007 10:43 #42691
10 Things I like about 2007Category: 10 things
1. It's the year I moved to Buffalo, bought a house, and started at Lafayette church.
2. It's the year I got to visit Vietnam.
3. I discovered Derek Webb in 2007.
4. Our country didn't start ANOTHER war in 2007 (I think I can safely say this with 14 hours left).
5. I discovered estrip in 2007 (and some other fun online stuff--wordpress, google docs, attack!, but estrip is the favorite).
6. One of my brothers started college, another finished (and even got a job!).
7. 2007 was the first year of Steelers head coach mike Tomlin.
8. 2007 was the last year of my Grandma's life (I don't like that she died, but I like the WAY she died--very thoughtfully, prayerfully, and peacefully.)
9. Marriage with (e:janelle) continues to get better (2007 is the third year in).
10. The Pittsburgh Pirates changed all of their front office staff (this may or may not lead to improvement, but they could not have done worse).
2. It's the year I got to visit Vietnam.
3. I discovered Derek Webb in 2007.
4. Our country didn't start ANOTHER war in 2007 (I think I can safely say this with 14 hours left).
5. I discovered estrip in 2007 (and some other fun online stuff--wordpress, google docs, attack!, but estrip is the favorite).
6. One of my brothers started college, another finished (and even got a job!).
7. 2007 was the first year of Steelers head coach mike Tomlin.
8. 2007 was the last year of my Grandma's life (I don't like that she died, but I like the WAY she died--very thoughtfully, prayerfully, and peacefully.)
9. Marriage with (e:janelle) continues to get better (2007 is the third year in).
10. The Pittsburgh Pirates changed all of their front office staff (this may or may not lead to improvement, but they could not have done worse).
12/26/2007 18:35 #42657
The story of StuffA friend emailed this to me: 
It's a long video, but good. It's about stuff--where it comes from and where it goes.
Sorry I haven't been a frequent poster. I think December will be my weekest month since July.
It's a long video, but good. It's about stuff--where it comes from and where it goes.
Sorry I haven't been a frequent poster. I think December will be my weekest month since July.
12/21/2007 15:13 #42609
Look at the animals!Category: religion
Tonight. 6:30-8:30. A living nativity, with sheep and babies and everything. There are even pony rides for the kids and a pastor in his own brand new Lafayette Church hoodie.
Oh. Should I not wear a grey hoodie? Did they ever catch the bad guy that always wears a hoodie?
Oh. Should I not wear a grey hoodie? Did they ever catch the bad guy that always wears a hoodie?
paul - 12/21/07 18:51
I think you could pull of the grey hoodie without fear as long as the hood is not up. I mean you are the wrong color.
I think you could pull of the grey hoodie without fear as long as the hood is not up. I mean you are the wrong color.
drew - 12/21/07 16:20
james, that would be simultaneously cooler and cheaper than paying some guy to bring animals into the city.
joshua, where were you when the hoodie attacks took place?
james, that would be simultaneously cooler and cheaper than paying some guy to bring animals into the city.
joshua, where were you when the hoodie attacks took place?
joshua - 12/21/07 16:09
C'mon gimme some credit - today is the first day I've worn the Sabres hoodie to work in over a month! And I have no idea where the gray hoodie is.
C'mon gimme some credit - today is the first day I've worn the Sabres hoodie to work in over a month! And I have no idea where the gray hoodie is.
james - 12/21/07 15:40
Drew, I had the most wonderful dream about the living nativity. You were in your Halloween costume connecting cables from the nativity to the top of the church tower. Then, lightning struck the tower and electrified the plastic members of the nativity to life as you yelled "It's ALIVE!!!!!"
Drew, I had the most wonderful dream about the living nativity. You were in your Halloween costume connecting cables from the nativity to the top of the church tower. Then, lightning struck the tower and electrified the plastic members of the nativity to life as you yelled "It's ALIVE!!!!!"
jason - 12/21/07 15:37
Shit, my brother is a bad guy? :-D
Shit, my brother is a bad guy? :-D
12/18/2007 23:50 #42576
Ten Things I like about Attack!Category: 10 things
1. It's Risk, online (as a facebook app).
2. It's slightly different than Risk, to avoid a lawsuit.
3. But it plays just the same as Risk, only faster.
4. There is a little chat box to make alliances.
5. There is a chat box to talk trash.
6. It fills my desire to take over the world, without me actually having to take over the world.
7. I can take vigilante justice, and when I know that I am not going to win, take the player I feel to be the most deserving down with me.
8. I don't have to count out/move around those tiny little plastic pieces.
9. Its fun to watch losing players desperately seek alliances, as I take them out.
10. Wars on Attack don't cost anything except time.
2. It's slightly different than Risk, to avoid a lawsuit.
3. But it plays just the same as Risk, only faster.
4. There is a little chat box to make alliances.
5. There is a chat box to talk trash.
6. It fills my desire to take over the world, without me actually having to take over the world.
7. I can take vigilante justice, and when I know that I am not going to win, take the player I feel to be the most deserving down with me.
8. I don't have to count out/move around those tiny little plastic pieces.
9. Its fun to watch losing players desperately seek alliances, as I take them out.
10. Wars on Attack don't cost anything except time.
Kook! you are in! Jenks, one spot left!
I should have told the trip planner that I was a long time friend. Instead, I said, "I know him through a local blogging community," and she was like, "well is he a freak?" and I said. "He's a little goofy, but he's ok." And she said, "Goofy how?" And I said, "Goofy like he likes model rockets. Nerdy goofy." "Not scary goofy?" "Not scary goofy."
Kook, I put my good name on the line for you. Don't kill anybody while we are NOLA.
Jenks, you could totally volenteer as a surgeon. Wandering the streets, performing double bypasses on the needy, insert a stent into the urethra of poverty, and give the city of New Orleans a nice tummy tuck.
almost. Sunday the 6th through Saturday the 13th.
next week as in monday the 6th thru friday the 11th?
By the way, if you are thinking of going, there may be special jobs for an MD. I can find out.
We'll be working with Presbyterian Disaster Assistance. :::link::: The work changes fast enough and is varied enough that we never know for sure what we will be doing until we get there, but there is a lot of de-construction (removing stuff so a structure can be treated for mold) and construction work.
I tried to sign up for cross on Bourbon Street duty, but that position is filled.
what sort of good work are you doing? I know you mentioned it before, but I forget- some sort of katrina relief?
Every year during mardi gras, there are all sorts of different religious groups trouping around bourbon street... many carrying a cross on their shoulders- but they all yell and harass and scream a the people there for being sinners. :(
I wish I could go.
In a parallel time stream where I don't have an adorable bay bay who needs me constantly, I'd be all over this.... I have to say it's still pretty alluring, my ancestors originate in New Orleans and I've never seen it. I'd love to see the real New Orleans too not the tourist version and this trip would have been it... FARK! Blasted destiny and such!