{"id":532,"date":"2006-01-06T21:19:49","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T05:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2006\/01\/06\/holiday-highlights\/"},"modified":"2006-01-06T21:21:28","modified_gmt":"2006-01-07T05:21:28","slug":"holiday-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/06\/holiday-highlights","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As always, we spent Christmas in Lousiana. In addition, I got to spend around 14 hours in a car driving from Lafayette, LA to Louisville, KY for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theworldmissionssummit.ag.org\/\">The World Missions Summit<\/a>. Nearly 4,000 college students from Chi Alpha groups across America gathered to consider their role in God\u2019s global plan. And then I got to spend 14 hours driving back&nbsp;again.<br>\nSome highlights from the&nbsp;trip:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting loot for Christmas, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/munchkin\/game\/\">Munchkin<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Having Dana decide that daddy was her favorite for a little while.<\/li>\n<li>Watching my parents finally get broadband internet service. Also, fixing computers for both my parents and my in-laws.<\/li>\n<li>Discovering that Steve Barke has a snore that would cause a dead person to search for ear plugs. Also, purchasing ear&nbsp;plugs.<\/li>\n<li>Listening to J. Rufus Fears <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teach12.com\/ttc\/assets\/coursedescriptions\/807.asp\">talk about Winston Churchill for 12 hours<\/a>. I\u2019ve long admired Churchill based on what little I knew about him\u2013now that I know more I\u2019m astounded. He was among the greatest of all&nbsp;time.<\/li>\n<li>Hanging out with <a href=\"http:\/\/gregpavydavis.com\/\">Greg<\/a> for 14 hours in a&nbsp;car.<\/li>\n<li>Discovering that there are whole stretches of road in the South which only receive country and\/or rap stations.<\/li>\n<li>Chatting with <a href=\"http:\/\/lifewithlindsey.com\/\">Lindsey<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/nichollusion.blogspot.com\/\">Nicholette<\/a> about their upcoming moves to join us. They\u2019re both such great people\u2013Paula and I can\u2019t wait for them to be&nbsp;here!<\/li>\n<li>Meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/willphillips.org\/blog\/?p=26\">Will Phillips<\/a>. He was every bit as entertaining in person as I had hoped he would be. For some reason he thinks he out-geeks me. Someday I may have to disabuse him of that notion (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&amp;target=GlenDavis\">I contribute to Wikipedia<\/a>, for crying out&nbsp;loud).<\/li>\n<li>Seeing my old bud <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehouseblog.com\/\">Randy Jumper<\/a> again. We were classmates at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agts.edu\/\">AGTS<\/a> and have kept in touch digitally since. Nice to have a face-to-face again.<\/li>\n<li>Discovering that Stanford frosh John Sillcox can focus out of each eye separately. Freaky.<\/li>\n<li>Way cool worship in the morning. In an odd turn of events, the morning services were consistently 5 to 7 times better than the evening services.<\/li>\n<li>Seeing over 650 students make a one-year committment to missions with the option for a lifetime extension. Woohoo! And they weren\u2019t just signing up for the easy places, either. A lot of closed countries are in for a big surprise.<\/li>\n<li>Watching the amazing level of panache with which the Ascent (a Chi Alpha staff event) was pulled off. Knowing that Belkas Lehmann and I had planned the whole thing made it extra-special.<\/li>\n<li>Getting a free copy of <a title=\"View product details at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=myspeculation-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=0310263085%2526tag=myspeculation-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/0310263085%25253FSubscriptionId=1ESPWHQPEAFEE2CS3BG2\">Full Gospel, Fractured Minds<\/a>. I\u2019m enjoying it so far, and I\u2019ll post a review when I\u2019m done. Big thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/jerrygibson\">Jerry Gibson<\/a> for hooking me&nbsp;up.<\/li>\n<li>Randomly walking around Louisville at dark looking for food (which I finally discovered at a gas station).<\/li>\n<li>Finally watching <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0054047\/\">The Magnificent Seven<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Watching <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0120667\/\">The Fantastic Four<\/a> and finally realizing that they\u2019re the four elements.<\/li>\n<li>Having Dana behave on both flights.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As always, we spent Christmas in Lousiana. In addition, I got to spend around 14 hours in a car driving from Lafayette, LA to Louisville, KY for The World Missions Summit. Nearly 4,000 college students from Chi Alpha groups across America gathered to consider their role in God\u2019s global plan. And then I got to \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/06\/holiday-highlights\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cHoliday Highlights\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-news","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-8A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}