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 (Courtesy of Wikipedia) A recent (The Customer is) Not Always Right post made me think about the first time I tried ordering an espresso coffee drink.
It was the summer of my freshman year (1999) at LeTourneau University in Longview, Texas. I was working as an environmental field technician for an environmental consulting company who had their offices in the downtown area.
Off and on throughout the summery, my boss would occasionally bring in a cup of coffee for everyone (all three of us). The cool part about this coffee is that it was not the typically black sludge that most Texans drank back them (and still do).
No.
This coffee was sweet and creamy with a wonderful smooth flavor. Ah…it even brought back memories of sitting under a tree in Costa Rica drinking freshly brewed coffee right off the plantation with pure cane sugar. (yeah, that was a fun time!)
Immediately, I fell in love with this new West Coast style coffee.
Continue reading Adventures In Ordering An Espresso
 I have been asked to DJ a school dance on Friday – an elementary/intermediate school dance… which makes me wonder if anyone will be on the dance floor?!
My intermediate years of 4th through 6th grade were marked by avoiding the horned beasts opposite gender as they eked cooties. The one exception to this rule was Jolene (aka the Purple Girl) who played trombone (the BEST instrument as you could bing folks in the back of the head without getting caught!) and had purple eyeglasses, purple braces, and a sweet purple dinosaur on her trombone (give me a break, this was pre-Barney!!).
Years later when I was a freshman (or was it eighth grade?) in high school, I attended my first school dance with my mother. Yep. I took my mom to a school dance…what I can I say, she had a drivers license and we lived a half hour from the school.
This dance marked a turning point in my life as it was the first time I really loosed up and begin to be myself at school. Prior to this dance, I was the outcast of the school (ok, that fact really didn’t change) – attracting unwanted attention by jocks and others in the ‘in’ crowd. This made me retreat into myself (I could go through an entire day without saying 3 words – an act of God to anyone who knows me now) while outside of school I was talkative and friendly.
Continue reading School Dances: Awkwardness or Coolness?
 When I first heard that someone had started a winery in my old home town, I was skeptical to say the least. Surely any wine scavenged from grapes grown in the hot humid climate of East Texas was bounded to be cheap and terrible tasting…..
Yet, I was wrong (shocking, I know!)
The wines produced by Kiepersol Estates are first class wines with a smooth, oaky favor that does justice to old craft. Especially their “2007 Kiepersol Estates Syrah” – wow..that was a good bottle!
Sadly enough, I didn’t really care for their Cabernet Sauvignon….mostly because it was a tad too oaky – which was due to the wine being aged in America Oak barrels. However, I was impressed that all their wines are brewed to be aged five or six years – a striking statistic as most commercial wines are make to last one or two years max.
The third wine I tastes was their “2007 Vitzin Rosé.” This was also a very good wine, abet one that is not really my style (I tend to stay with the dry reds), but it did have a nice favor. Continue reading East Texas Wine
It was a multicolored package holding an excellent sophomore album by Midtown Dickens’.
In fact, it held the album “Lanterns” in four different formats: vinyl, CD, digital download and printed words. (this way you can enjoy the songs anyway you want!)
Much happiness!
For those who don’t know, Midtown Dickens is a great [...]
Today is a melancholy day – meaning it is a day to listen to my country playlist
- Johnny Cash
- Kenny Rogers
- Alison Krauss
- Charley Pride
- Charlie Daniels
- Conway Twitty
- Dennis Agajanian
- Confederate Railroad
- Hank Williams, Jr.
- Ronnie Milsap
And of course, King George
It was one of his songs that stood out to me this morning as the ones and zeros flipped files into my ears – If You Ain’t Lovin’ (You Ain’t Livin’)
In a nutshell, the song states that money and fame isn’t worth squat if there is no one there with you. Good words… Continue reading A Melancholy Day…Music
The Winter Olympics have thrown a wretch into my online TV show watching schedule – namely, the networks are not playing/uploading new episodes of “Castle” and “Burn Notice” (my two favorite shows).
So Em and I decided to do what any good Hulu watcher would do – we decided to watching something else!
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It is here – the newest mystery novel by the famed New York Times Bestseller: Richard Castle!!
Drum roll please….
Annnnnnnddddd END!!!
That’s a wrap folks – let’s go home and grab a cold one because today’s work is done.
Ok, ok, – maybe that’s only funny to me…but what is real is that [...]
You got to hand it to them good old boys – they knew how to spin a yarn and play a bass.
Just pop in a little Johnny Paycheck, loosen up your vocal chords and start taping your feet
Take this job and shove it
I ain’t working here no more.
I been workin’ in this factory
For ‘nye on fifteen years….
I’d give the shirt right offa’ my back
If I had the nerve to say.
Take this job and shove it
From there, move on down the road with C.W. McCall’s Convoy
Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin’ logs
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin’ hogs
We is headin’ for bear on I-one-oh
‘Bout a mile outta Shaky Town
I says, “Pig Pen, this here’s the Rubber Duck.
“And I’m about to put the hammer down.”
Of course, you can’t forget Stonewall Jackson’s Waterloo Continue reading Good Bass and Classic Country
 Released in mid-Dec, Avatar rocked the box-office – becoming the second highest-grossing film of all time worldwide as well as the top 2009 movie. All within a few short weeks.
Yet, is it all that? Or is it just a bunch of hype and fluff?
Knowing that you, the reader, would be asking those questions (hmm…assuming that you haven’t seen it….which is probably a mistake seeing how almost everyone in the country as seen it…well, at least all those with funds) – I decided to check out Avatar and see what deal was.
Hmm….ok….the little brightly colored avatar on my shoulder is tell me to confuse the true reason I went to the movies… I WANTED to – and it was a chance to hang out with my sister-in-law and her boyfriend. There! You happy? Now I just eliminated my last two readers! Sigh. 
I will now write my review to all the ones and zeros still out there…way out there….way out there, like me…..way out there…. Continue reading Avatar
I am more of a rock/country/pop/R&B/bluegrass/indie rock kind of guy. (yeah, I know – I’m a tad mixed up)
But yesterday my lovely bride introduced me to an a cappella competition show on NBC called “The Sing-Off”.
Wow!
It is amazing! We are not talking barbershop quartets here (well, one of the groups fall [...]
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Who Writes This Mess? My name is Joshua Hopping and I am a Son of the Most High journeying through a foreign land following the Wild Goose (i.e. the Holy Spirit) one step at a time.
As I journey along the Way, I have the privilege of serving as the bi-vocational pastor of the Payette River Vineyard Christian Fellowship. I am also a voracious reader who loves studying church history, theology, and world missions.
This blog, "Requisite Danger", is a record of what God is teaching and showing me as I try to follow Him wherever He leads as well as occasional random thoughts. I pray that you will join me in this journey through online/offline interaction as this life is lived in community.
May His grace and peace be upon you.
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