Rudeness

Why do some people feel it's okay to just be outright rude? I'm in the middle of a project at work and one of the vendors has a horrid attitude. While I'm used to dealing with rude users I'm rather taken aback by the rudeness from a vendor. We're paying them for the service and they're rude to us as well as the other vendor involved in the enjoyment of the project. It ties in with the whole bike month debacle. If it wasn't for a few rude people there wouldn't be a problem. Now MB has come up with an entire list of local laws for motorcycles (helmets, quiet pipes, curfew, etc.). It affects everyone that rides a bike in city limits. Way to go Mr. Mayor. He raises property taxes to offset lost revenue from bike month. Lots of coverage about bikes on the local paper http://www.thesunnews.com/bikers/

More fun happenings around here. The Run To The Sun car show was over the weekend. Somewhere around 2500 cars at the show. Mostly hot rods. I'm not sure how many more '57 Chevys can I see at one place. Seems to be two extremes. Either the $5k hot rod that's driven too often or the $100k + super clean that never gets dirty. Neither have much appeal for me. Car shows tend to just make me want to drive my Corvette. Some of the highlights for me

I love old rat rods. There are a couple of ebay that I was looking at. I think my wife thinks I'm
joking about them ... someday I will own one. I

need to get my Corvette in a little better shape first though. I do love the flat black, super channeled, lowered to the ground, big engine rumbling look. This truck amazes me. My favorite body style of truck. I looked at one as a kid that was in pretty rough shape. My dad & I still make fun of it. Comments by the owner such as 'The tires were new at one time' and 'I painted it myself ... with a roller like you'd use on a house' and 'the key isn't working right now. Just have to climb underneath it and put these two wires together and she'll start right up!'. For a 16 year old with limited funds I decided it probably wasn't the best way to go. In retrospect, it would have been a lot of fun.


And on that note ... another one of life's mysteries ... why do Christians think that Christian rock is 'of the world' or Satanic? Our oldest is moving schools to be closer to the new house and one of the Christian schools we were considering has a policy that they can't listen to any Contemperary Christian Music, etc. due to the beat and lyrics being worldly. They obviously haven't listened to bands like Flatfoot 56, Pillar, Flyleaf or Day of Fire. I'm not sure the lyrics could be much more overtly Christian than those. I always think of a question posed to Family Force 5 was awesome when they were asked about why their lyrics aren't 'Christian' enough and the response was that they're on stage every night talking about Jesus and God's love for us. What are we doing with that affect. That had a profound influence on me and thinking of how I critquie other people that are serving Christ. This is an awesome interview with FF5. Just found it while trying to find the one I reference.

Time to sign off for the night.

My toe is no longer constantly throbbing. That's a good thing.

It sounds like my kids are all asleep. Yay!

For Jason ... I love cheese