- What? I don’t think I ever said that a Friday Flashback was going to be posted EVERY Friday! Did I?

- I obviously haven’t blogged that much lately.

- If it makes you feel better, I saved a girls life yesterday.

- Well, I called 911 and the paramedics saved her life.

- I randomly pulled up next to a girl that was passed out in her car with the doors locked.

- She was in a diabetic coma…

- Random things happen to me…

- Can that count as a Friday Flashback?

- Can’t wait for Easter at Northway Church!

- UNITED LIVE is this Wednesday! Don’t miss it!

- The theme is Root beer and Hot Wings!

- Our guest speaker is Ryan Geiger! We are excited to have him up here!

- Wow! This is the latest on Monday that I have ever done my “re-cap”!

- I am so sorry that I have failed you!

- Are there people out there that you can hire to “bird proof” a particular tree in your yard?

- The picture below shows why I am so upset at birds.

- No kind of bird leaves that much turd, so I’ve heard, but I’m not a nerd! Spread the word!

- It rhymes!

- We have been learning about HONOR at church!

- You need to give HONOR! You need to receive HONOR!

- Did you know that Buddy Cremeans is now on Twitter? Go follow his updates HERE!

- We have over 20 students signed up for camp so far!

- Make sure you sign up soon! I’ll be blogging about camp this week!

Here is the bird turd picture:

Know any bird exterminators?

Remember those cheesy videos that Leah and I made during the 25 Days of Christmas Blogging thing that we did? Well, those videos are being viewed more and more on YouTube. How embarrassing!

Enter Manny and Scott.

This past weekend, Leah and I met a couple of our friends from Long Island in Saratoga. Long Islanders are funny! Scott works for Wall Street and deals with all of the guys and gals on the trading floor. Manny is a pilot and has taken me flying and even let me land and take off planes. Cool guys to know…

Check out the video we made with them below… Scott will tell you about how he liked our videos and sent them to everyone on the trading floor of Wall Street.

No big deal, but thought I would share… haha

Here is the video:

- Leah blogged again! Scroll down to check out our latest Friday Flashback post!

- She kind of threw me under the bus, but oh well, if it means that she will blog! haha

- My Christmas blog videos have hit Wall Street! Yeah…Crazy! Huh? 

- I’ll explain later this week! 

- Brian knocked it out of the park this past weekend! We need to SPEAK UP and HONOR UP!

- I have known Brian for 10 years now, and it is awesome to see how God has worked in his life! I learn a lot from him!

- Who has God placed “over you” that you need to honor?

- Can’t wait for the Red Sox season to start!

- Notice that I didn’t say “baseball” season. Who cares about anyone else but the Red Sox?

- I had our High School camp planning meeting last week!

- This will be my 8th year to go to High School LIFT Camp.

- We will be using the campus of Philadelphia Biblical University, and I have never seen a better campus to hold a camp on.

- Everyone WILL have air-conditioning! No…really!

- Register now! Get your camp packets at Guest Services at the weekend services…or at UNITED!

- A ton of people that I know signed up for Twitter in the past week!

- Why have you not? No…seriously! It’s a question!

This past Saturday, Kevin Twittered (such a weird word) that he and I were on our way out the door for a morning walk. Not long after we returned home, our friend from college sent Kevin a text. Apparently, Kevin’s Tweet had caused our friend to rear end the car in front of him. Now, “caused” is debatable for obvious reasons, but this is not the first time Kevin has been held responsible for causing a car accident.

Back when Kevin and I were in college, I was driving down the road in Lowell, Massachusetts on my way to work. And yes, I was *GASP* talking to him on my cell while driving.  And yes, we were *EVEN BIGGER GASP* arguing. I must have said something Kevin didn’t find too appealing. I know none of you are going to believe this, but sweet Kevin hung up on me. Surprised and outraged at his boldness is cutting off my flow of perfectly communicated insults, I looked down at my cell to make sure it didn’t cut out…and BAM!! I hit the huge conversion van ahead of me that had the nerve to stop at the red light in front of us.

My poor crumpled car was smoking and bleeding green blood, and was pronounced dead at the scene. (If you’re wondering, the van survived without a freakin’ scratch.) Now, you must know I was completely aware of the fact that is was indeed my own fault for crashing my car, but the situation lended me some pretty good ammunition to finish off our argument  so I tried blaming Kevin for the whole thing. I was unsuccessful. Of course.

Now you may ask, is this really a good memory that we have? Absolutely. It’s a great memory.  When our friend called to tell us about his crashed car, it set off a “Hey! Remember when…” followed by laughing so hard we cried.

And over the years, our arguments have become more constructive and adult-like.

Good movie, but that’s not what this post is about!

Last week I told you all that my bike got stolen. You can read about it HERE. The bottom line is that it got TAKEN, and I had to use my “CIA-like” skills to get it back… a lot like in the movie TAKEN, but it was my bike instead of a daughter.

After speaking to some of the neighbors last week, I became suspicious of some of the neighborhood kids. See! CIA-like skills!

Leah and I woke up on Saturday morning, and decided to go for a walk. What a perfect opportunity to search through the neighborhood yards!

Before the walk, I sent in a Twitter message saying:

Going for a recreational walk through the neighborhood…maybe I’ll search the neighbors yards for my stolen bike!

So…Leah and I went for a walk. We had two different directions that we could go in. Leah wanted to go one way, and I wanted to go the other. We went her way… See! CIA-like skills!

Two streets and half a mile later…there it was…in another snow bank! I run in that neighborhood during the summer and I know the house. They have a ton of kids that are always causing trouble. Leah knocked on the door, while I took pictures of the crime scene. I had left my finger printing brush and powder at home. No one was home, so I just took my bike back!

This is what I Twittered while walking home:

No way! I just found my bike two streets from my house in the yard of some punk kids! Took it back! Can’t wait to go back and knock on the door. No one was home.

Then later that night after church, I twittered:

Learned about forgiveness tonight in Church! Hey punk kids that took my bike, I forgive you…I won’t throw your bikes in the Hudson River.

So, it was an amazing day, and I am going to now offer my PI services for anyone that wants to pay a lot of money.

Here are some of the pics:

- As this posts this morning, I am driving to Philadelphia to plan our High School camp! (July 27-31)

- We are praying for up to 200 students from Northway to go to camp this summer! That would require an extra 70 students to go from last years numbers!

- Who can you help send to camp this year? Know any 6-12th graders? Sure you do!

- Remember my post last week about my stolen bike?

- Well, we found it in the yard of some neighborhood kids!

- Detailed blog post with pics coming this week…

- Have I ever mentioned that strange things happen to me?

- One of my Twitter messages caused a friend to get into a car accident! He received updates on his phone, and my message distracted him/her (I’m not going to specify his sex).

- Leah and I are house sitting this week! It’s like a vacation, but you still have to get up and work each day… Okay…so maybe not a “vacation”, but we still like to think of ourselves as wild and young.

- I want a miniature pinscher. Leah almost does… I’m working on her. Any of you have one?

- We feel like we should practice on fake kids (pets) before having real kids (babies).

- Did I mention I got my bike back? If I liked country music, then I would maybe write a country song about it…

I went to upload some pictures and a post for today’s kick-off to the “Friday Flashback” section, but hit a glitch! My website is over capacity, which means that just to type this post, I had to delete a post from a while back!

This just means that I have to buy more online storage space and upgrade! Grrrrr…

I’ll try to post it later today if I can work it all out! Otherwise, I’ll be having to push it back ’til next Friday! Sorry to ruin your Friday! haha

For those of you that really want to read a “Friday Flashback”, then watch this video!
This was a flashback to earlier this morning:

We had UNITED LIVE last night, and I had the privilege of speaking at it. I will post some of it some time later! (I just got a hold of the audio from February’s UNITED LIVE and have to post that first)

Anyway, I showed the below commercial after I asked the question:

“Why in the world would I want to buy a Filet o Fish sandwich?”
(I would rather eat pocket lint than a filet o fish sandwich!)

(I was talking about how we are affected by what we see and hear)
So…is this just annoying or brilliant?

That’s right! My bike got stolen straight out of a snow bank!

It all started about 17 years ago when I was eleven years old. I was riding my bike down the street and was wondering why all of the neighborhood kids were laughing at me. I think I cried to my dad or someone and they gently said, “Well Kevin, maybe we should lose the training wheels and get a bike that stands higher than 2 1/2 feet off the ground.”

In comes the green diamondback outlook peewee herman mountain bike! It stood almost four feet tall and had little levers that would let me change the speeds! I was in bicycle heaven!

Over the years, that bike and I were BFF! From the soda cans in the back wheel, to the trip to college, then Long Island, then Upstate NY, I had so many memories! There was even the time that I cut an artery and almost bled to death one mile deep in a bike trail and my bike saved my life! (I’ll save that story for a Friday Flashback!)

Fast forward 17 years and my bike was parked in the side of my fourplex apartment building in a quiet neighborhood. I used the bike maybe twice every year for the past five years since the near-death experience. September rolled into October, which rolled into November, which rolled into our first snow fall of the “winter”. Basically the bike never made it into the basement and instead spent the past few months buried in a snow bank thanks to the landlords plowing skills.

If you live in NY, then you know that we have had a lot of melting take place in the past few weeks. Well, the bike started to appear out of the icy embankments, which apparently was too much of a temptation for someone in the neighborhood.

I mean, who wouldn’t want a 17 year old rusty bike with blood stains?

Anyway, it got stolen between Thursday and Saturday of last week. Do I call 911? Do I question the neighbors? Do I do what Lance Armstrong did and twitter about it? (He got his back by doing that by the way…) I don’t know… I just miss seeing my bike in the snow bank and I want it back!

If the bike thief is watching this…I mean reading this, then know this…YOU CANNOT RUN! YOU CANNOT HIDE! I WILL FIND YOU!