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Clutch

mounty — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:48:23 +0000

Clutch is key. You never know when you may be called upon to pull out the winning play - when everything rides on one crucial decision, that’s clutch.

I was with some friends at Red Robin this afternoon, celebrating the life and times of one Peter Crane, who will be heading back to greener mountains in Vermont this weekend.* The food was great…the service, not so much. We had to flag a second waiter to bring extra fries, and our original waiter never noticed that my “bottomless” drink had found bottom and was sitting, bottomed out, for quite some time. Not that he could have seen it, because after bringing our food he dropped off the face of the planet. Not only that, but once he returned I had to ask twice for a refill. So I was calculating the minimum tip I could give without being rude (always the firm believer in leaving a tip, however small, no matter what), when he came by again, this time with the clutch question:

“Would you like one to go?”

Now, I know they always offer to-go drink topoffs at RR. But usually it’s only soda; and in fact I asked for a Coke, thinking there’s no way he would bring a Blueberry Pomegranate Limeade to go. But sure enough, he brought out one overflowing with red, white, and blue goodness. I looked at Brad and he shrugged and said, simply, “Clutch.” And it was. His tip went from bare minimum back to standard 20% rounded up to the nearest convenient dollar increment. Why? Because that’s clutch. Because that’s bottom-of-the-ninth, 11th-hour, buzzer-beating clutch, that’s why.

* Did you see what I did there?

The Mount Lives!

mounty — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:43:40 +0000

No, I was not hit by a car (though I did almost hit a deer). And no, I haven’t dropped off the face of the planet, though that trip is at the tail end of the planning stages, and I expect to go through with it in the next few months. I hear it’s quite a blast, though getting back on the face of the planet is kinda troublesome. Let’s just say that, with a new job position, new hours for that position, and new forms of recreation at a friend’s house, I haven’t really been home all that much to do a lot of blogging. And let’s face it - the age of the personal blog (excluding those blogs that are specifically focused on a certain topic or area of expertise) has just about seen it’s demise, courtesy of “new” (not really new, but perhaps mostly mature) outlets like Twitter and Facebook, to name a few. For self-published news digests, how-tos, and other related miscellany, blogs remain the sine quo non of their fields. But for personal communication, social networking sites have taken over as the new standard in forcing your up-to-the-second status on people. Hey, at least with blogs people could choose whether or not to view what you were having for dinner.

All that to say, things have been quiet around here, with the exception of that HCSB thread that keeps getting traffic on a consistent basis. To all who have commented - you should be receiving yours shortly. My source apologizes for the delay.

And what back-from-the-grave update would be complete without a notification that more bloggers have been added to the list? Check this out:

Title: GraceFlow
- URL: http://www.graceflow.org
- Author: J. D. Coleman
Title: The Mercied
- URL: http://themercied.blogspot.com/
- Author: Rebecca Phillips
Title: The Confessing Historian
- URL: http://timtaylor.edublogs.org/
- Author: Tim Taylor
Title: One Little Hour
- URL: http://paulmatzko.edublogs.org
- Author: Paul Matzko
Title: Cafe Biblia
- URL: http://www.CafeBiblia.com
- Author: Craig Johnson

First Blogger in a While

mounty — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 22:32:54 +0000

Some of you may have thought that The List was dead. Actually it’s still very much alive and quietly ticking away back there. And just to prove it, I’ve added another blogger - Noel DeLisle. Noel and I had a few classes together, sang in a few official and unofficial groups together, and basically did most of the stuff that music students in the same classes do together. After a long blogging hiatus he’s back on the grid with a shiny new Mac.com blog, so drop in and say hey.

I’ve found him! Greenville’s Worst Driver!

mounty — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:19:21 +0000

Folks, I know what you’re thinking. How could I have found the worst driver in the 300,000-strong Greenville metro area? Simple. I nearly hit him/her this morning. Sir/Ma’am, if you somehow find this, do the following:

Have someone drive you to your nearest SC DOT office (for you, it’s Woodruff Rd.).
Turn in your driver’s license.
Ask them to note your file that you may not obtain another driver’s license without a notarized doctor’s evaluation stating your eyes work.

So here’s the story:
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I Love my NAS!

mounty — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:56:55 +0000

The absolutely wonderful thing about being a Christian and a blogger (I shun the term “Christian blogger” for all its baggage), especially one who, in a former life, was known for being wildly controversial on a whim, is that I can occasionally trot out the “old me” and stir up the dry bones of controversies past. Because most people think this is what Fundamentalists do for recreation, it is not considered strange at all, and people even look forward to the day a “Christian blogger” does so just for the sheer pleasure of ripping open old wounds and giving it another go-round.
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