Day 200

I'm John Matlock, guest blogger for Day 200 of this fine little blog. I normally blog over at Life As I Know It and when Ben asked me to fill in for a day I was happy to oblige!

Today's awesomeness is the wide variety of hiking trails located all over Saint Louis County. Saint Louis County is fortunate to have a great parks department that maintains a huge network of trails. I particularly enjoy exploring the Meramec River valley and I'm headed out that way with my dog this afternoon. So click over to the Saint Louis County Parks web site and then schedule some time to get out and enjoy God's creation!

Stay Awesome, St. Louis!!!




(today's awesome haircut courtesy of Dara @ Concord Plaza Barber Shop)

Day 199 (a day late)

First off...I'm a day late on this (sorry Ben), but I'm excited about the chance to sit in for Ben for a day while he's out chasing lions or whatever it is he's doing today.  Actually, speaking of Ben...I think it's awesome that he's taken several days away from his normal routine to take advantage of the opportunity to try something new.  In this case, traveling out of the country.  It'll be interesting to see what stories he has to tell when he gets back.

So for today (i mean yesterday) the subject of awesomeness is "taking advantage of new opportunities."  Because when you do that, you never know what it might lead to.

For me, about two years ago I took advantage of the opportunity to join a band with some old friends from college.  Now two years later, I've played over 100 shows and spend most of my weekends traveling around the country playing music that I love.  All because I took advantage of a new opportunity.  Pretty cool when you think about it.

- Joe McGill

(This is me in Nashville, TN where I'll be playing tonight with my band, Fundamental Elements)

Day 197

What a day. By this time tomorrow, I'll be in a third world country. I'm excited, nervous, fearful, faithful, and more emotions.

Quick awesomosity (totally should have signed up someone for today. Dangit!) before I head out. Very basic, and not that awesome until you don't have it. Phone chargers.

I totally left mine at home, which means that I am totally leaving my phone here too. Not that I would use it in Haiti, but its like a security blanket or something. And if I did bring the phone, it would definitely die before I got home, which is even more frustrating.

the teams here and we gotta roll, so I'll talk to you all Tuesday. have a great week, pray a bunch, enjoy the guest bloggers!

Muehleisen, OUT!

Day 196

Today is indeed an awesome day. A very busy day, but nonetheless very awesome. As I think all of you know by now, I will be leaving for Haiti in under 24 hours. And I have a lot to take care of before then. So, I'm gonna make this another short and sweet post from something I found last week.

Most of you know, or have probably figured out by now that I like to have fun with my beard. I will let it grow for a few weeks, you know, to work up a good "palette", then I shave something awesome out of it. I think I may have found my next one, though I'm not sure my chest hair grows up that far. What am I talking about? This:

Scary, huh? I found it from this kinda fun site called "geekologie", which I think I told you about a few days ago, but I can't remember, and frankly, I'm too lazy to go look. But what do you think about it? Should I go for it? If not this "nip-stache", then what? Tell me what to shave and I'll give it a shot.

Ok, on to getting ready. Talk to you all later!!

Day 195 (for real)

e title of this post has to do with my ineptitude at properly naming my posts. Oh well, the "problem" has been fixed. Also, I think I have all my bloggers for the trip, I think I'll just let you all find out who they are when they post. If you signed up, you should get an email from me shortly explaining whats up.

On to the awesome. I have never been a big fan of Van Halen (Roth or Hagar or the guy from Xtreme that sang for them briefly), however, thanks again to Very Short List, I found some awesome that has to do with "Diamond" David Lee Roth.

Some of you may be familiar with "soundboards" (have I ever used "quotes" this much, I don't think so). A soundboard is where someone takes clips from a person, TV show, or anything else, and makes buttons so you can make them say funny things. Well, this one isn't really "saying" anything, but if you've heard any Van Roth, you know Diamond Dave likes to scream and make other random noises. That's what this is, mostly YYYEEEEAAAHHHHHHHs and AAAAHHHs. Pretty entertaining. Enjoy.

Know any other cool soundboards around? Let me know.

Have a great day!!!

Day 194

Today was a very special day. Today was the celebration of 4 years of life for my nephew Ahren, which is today's awesomosity.

First part of the awesome is getting personally invited via a phone call from a 4 year old, which just melts your heart.

So I get to the party. Lots of fun of course. Kids and I get along really well (probably because I'm just a big kid). Lydia showed me her new big girl bed, Ahren and I wrestled, and a good time was had by all.

The best part was that I hit the ball out of the park with the gift. Ahren is big into football, and loves the Rams (we'll fix that), so I got a Rams football. That was good. Better was that it was in a Spider-Man bag. Best was the $.97 mouthguard, which is why Ahren has his mouth open in the picture.

Happy Birthday Ahren!!!

Hope ya'll have a splendid day!