Tattoos

I guess it is the rebel and the chicken in me, but for a guy who has no tattoos I must admit I am fascinated by them. I find myself staring at people's tattoos. I feel kind of weird about it, then figure if they placed it on a body part that is regularity seen in public, then staring is fair play.

I like looking at tats on the internet and have found some amazing work.





Just about every time I good into a bookstore I find the magazines and look through tattoo magazines to see if I find anything to stands out to me or gives me any ideas.

I have a lot of friends with ink and even a family member. I have taken an informal poll about where to get a tattoo if one were to decide such a thing. So far Pussycat Tattoo in Milwalkie (OR)and Atlas Tattoo in PDX are the front runners. People have even told were NOT to get a tat. I will avoid that last like the plague.

As weird as this may sound, I know what tattoo I want and where it would go if I got one. I have just not gone and done it. I am told that tattoo are like Lays Potato Chips, you can't have just one. Hmmm, what would my second be?

I am long over the "biblical" reason for not get inked, but I do struggle with what do I tell the boys or even worse how do I explain it to my Mom without her thinking I have sold my soul to Satan? I guess I will have to cross that bridge when I get to it (if I get to it).

Anyway, for now I will keep being at voyeur, admiring the good and bad tattoos that I see.

Quote of the Week

"People learn in all kinds of ways and all that, but no one does not learn from a story."

Christopher Louis Leonardo

Ditching my savior...

So over the past couple weeks I have been soul searching and have come to a conclusion. It is time to cast of the hope of being saved. I have lost hope in one of my saviors, because it has failed me. I am only jettisoning a "functional savior" mind you.

There has been in the back of my head the hope that my life would be set right if this savior would act. I hinged a lot of time and effort worrying about how to motivate this savior into action. But sadly, I can see this savior will not save me. It will not fix what is broken. It never could and was never meant to.

I am guilty of idolatry. This functional savior was raised to a level demi-god in my life and it has fallen short. It is not the fault of the functional savior, but it is my fault for trusting in it.

So, be gone with you powerless one.

I must now turn and rely on the Savior.

Its has been a while...

I have been busy, but here is what has been going one with us.

* Samuel (aka Hat Trick) has turned two.

* Jake got to fly a plane.

* Ben go to fly in a plane.

* Jake has advanced to intermediate Tea Kwon Do.
* Jake and Ben both broke boards in TKD.
* School has started for the "bigs."
* We have started a new Evergreen Home Group.

Things are good.

Chill'n with Jesus

1 Corinthians 11:23
"For I pass on to you what I received from the Lord himself."

I wonder how this conversation went.

I would love to hear this story from Jesus.

I would love to have seen Paul's face when he heard it from Jesus.

Do you think Paul got the long or the short version? He gives the church in Corinth the short version seemingly.

I wondered what else they talked about.

Failure

I saw this someone else's blog (I thought it was Tierney's), but I was wrong. So I had to go look for.

Anyway, I like the message.

Resilient

Dictionary.com
/rɪˈzɪlyənt, -ˈzɪliənt/ [ri-zil-yuhnt, -zil-ee-uhnt]

–adjective
1. springing back; rebounding.
2. returning to the original form or position after being bent, compressed, or stretched.
3. recovering readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyant.
[Origin: 1635–45; < L resilient- (s. of resiliéns), prp. of resilīre to spring back, equiv. to re- re- + -sil-, comb. form of salīre to leap, jump + -ent- -ent); see salient]

Websters Dictionary
Pronunciation: \-yənt\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin resilient-, resiliens, present participle of resilire to jump back, recoil, from re- + salire to leap — more at sally
Date: 1674

: characterized or marked by resilience: as a: capable of withstanding shock without permanent deformation or rupture b: tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change
synonyms see elastic
— re·sil·ient·ly adverb

Wikipedia:
Resilience is the property of a material to absorb energy when it is deformed elastically and then, upon unloading to have this energy recovered. In other words, it is the maximum energy per volume that can be elastically stored. It is represented by the area under the curve in the elastic region in the Stress-Strain diagram.

Modulus of Resilience, Ur, can be calculated using the following formula: U_r=\frac{\sigma^2}{2E}=0.5\sigma\epsilon=0.5 \sigma(\frac{\sigma}{E}), where σ is yield stress, E is Young's modulus, and ε is strain.

An example of a biomaterial which has a high resilience is articular cartilage, the substance lining the ends of bones in articulating joints such as the knee and hip.