My New Strategy

You may have noticed that I'm trying a new strategy with my posts. For one, I'm working hard to post something every day. As I told Marty yesterday, I didn't know when I started this blog that it would become a full time job pleasing my viewers! I'm just kidding...I'm glad that someone out there cares about what I'm doing enough to check this thing every day.

The second "new strategy" I'm implementing is I'm trying to include a picture with at least most of my new posts. I hope this doesn't slow down the page loading for those of you who are using dial-up. Please shoot me an e-mail and let me know how you feel about the pictures.

Also, I'm going to Southland Christian Church tomorrow morning. I'll let you know what I think about it sometime tomorrow.

My First Web Story

I successfully posted my first web story today on the WKYT website. You can view the story here.

My First Motorcycle Ride

This picture used without the written consent of Samuel Curtis Bowles

Sam brought up a very good point regarding my post about last weekend. I failed to mention that he had let me ride his motorcycle! Sam, I apologize for leaving that very exciting detail out of my post! :)

Most of you probably know this about me but I'll say it anyway...I'm not a dare devil in the least! I never enjoyed riding my bike over ramps or jumping from roof tops. I don't even like climbing trees. This may come as a surprise to you but it's really true. I don't typically drive fast...although I have been stopped a few times. (I certainly don't drive fast now because it is so inefficient for fuel) I do love roller coasters and scary rides but that's about as crazy as I get when it comes to doing things that could hurt me. I've always admired Sam because he is willing to try just about anything. I think most of you can recall a broken arm he suffered because he fell out of a tree he was climbing.

This difference between us was once again evident over the weekend when I took a short ride on his motorcycle. I was scared! I didn't go fast, I didn't make any sharp turns...in fact, I made a very wide turn. I never even got the bike out of 1st gear! It's funny but we've both always been like that. What can I say? I'm just a scaredy cat!

Lexington Catholic vs. Dunbar

Tonight I actually got to do some reporting. Now, I gotta clarify and let you know that my reporting didn't actually get on the air but it was an opportunity to get some practice and put some stuff together for my resume tape. I'll try to put the package on youtube when I'm done with it. I may not get it up until Friday if I get it on at all.

I covered the baseball district championship between Lex Catholic and Dunbar. They are two teams with no love lost between them. They despise each other and last season the district championship paired the same teams and Dunbar advanced with a 1-0 victory. This year however was a different story as Lex Catholic won tonight's game 7-0 upon the arm of University of Florida bound pitcher Nick Maronde, pictured above.

Tom Leach

I e-mailed Tom Leach (the voice of UK football and basketball) a few days ago about critiquing a couple of my past broadcasts. He e-mailed me back today and told me he would be glad to do so. It's pretty cool to have a guy with a high profile position critiquing my tapes. I'll let you know what he has to say about my broadcasts when he sends his critique my way.

Family and Friends

It may sound like a bit of an exageration but this past weekend was one of the best weekends in recent memory for me. I didn't involve any spectacular sporting event or great trip. It didn't even involve me broadcasting any games. It was just a laid back weekend where I got to spend time with my family.
I have to be the luckiest person in the world to have the family I have. My Granny and Grandad and MawMaw and Pawpaw are so loving and encouraging. They are so interested in what I'm doing that they actually get perturbed when I don't blog for a couple of days. My parents just pour out love for me. They encourage and advise me and make me feel like I'm the most important person in the world....and the crazy thing is they also do that for 3 other boys.
I think I just needed to say thank you to my family and friends that shared this weekend with me. It was encouraging and enjoyable.

I'm Actually Doing Stuff

I was a little bit worried heading into my internship at WKYT that I would not really get to do much more than go fetch the carry out or watch the video feed to make sure nothing "went wrong." However, after only a couple of weeks at WKYT I'm already really getting my hands dirty.

WKYT is in a unique circumstance because not only do they produce all of the newscasts for WKYT but they (or I guess I could say "we") are also responsible for the local fox affiliate's news show at 10 pm. So...last night Drew Deener, the weeknight sports anchor for WKYT let me produce the entire 7 minute sports segment for Fox's 10 pm show. I chose which stories we would run, I wrote those stories, then I edited the video for those stories. The only part of the segment I didn't do was the actually on-air delivery. It was a cool learning experience. And, in case you were wondering, everything went perfectly smooth.

I'm home for the holiday weekend and I'm enjoying some time with Jessie and my family! I'll write again soon.

"Loving Everyone Without Really Loving Anyone"

Today Greg and I went to Beatyville, KY. Beatyville is a small town, no larger than Orleans. It is is Lee County which is the county just north of Osley County. And to help you understand the situation of this area of northeastern Kentucky let me tell you that Osley County is the 2nd poorest county in the entire country! People in Lee and Osley Counties do not have very much money.

So today we stopped by a camp ground of sorts. The place is an area which houses mission teams throughout the summer and sets up these mission teams with projects to serve the people in these poor and struggling communities. The camp group also houses a second hand store.
Greg and I stopped in this store and had a good conversation with the lady that runs it. She was extremely nice and extremely talkative. And she is certainly living out Jesus' love to those communities.

This lady is 63 years old. She started this store because she saw a need that poor people in the community needed a place to buy clothing. She doesn't like to make people pay for things but the store has generated much more business when it charges a little money for items because people keep their pride. I was so moved by this lady's concern for her community. She works so hard trying to make people's lives a little better.

As I listened to her speak I couldn't help but think about something that Joe, the minister here at Gardenside said on Sunday. He said, "Too many Christians are loving everyone without loving anyone." In other words, we are not being specific and purposeful in our love for others. The lady in Lee County is loving people in specific ways. She seeks out people who are hurting and needing help and she finds a way to enrich their lives. I pray I can be more specific and purposeful in my love for others.

Jessie

I need to mention my beautiful girlfriend for a moment as well. She is simply AMAZING! She has a way of lifting me up and loving me the way I need to be loved when I need it. I haven't mentioned her very often on this blog and that's not really fair to her or to you who are reading and wondering what my life is like on an everyday basis. Jessie is such a huge part of my everyday life and she's a blessing that I do not deserve. I love her and miss her.

Another really neat story dealing with sports

Here's the link to a video that is pretty cool. I've always thought doing something like this would be neat...obviously somebody else thought so too. This is certainly something these kids will remember and cherish for the rest of their lives.

Watch the video

The Beauty of Sports

Here's a video by ESPN that proves once again people have something to gain from the world of sports.

Sara Tucholsky's First Homerun