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UncleCliffy
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Name: Cliff
Location: Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States
Gender: Male
Interests: Visiting with friends, playing board games, hanging out with my family (my whole family not just immediate), watching movies, reading, driving, yard work, building things with my hands, and discussing the big issues and trying to figure out ways to fix them
Expertise: Student Ministry. Actually, that's being a little pompus. Okay really pompus. I can't call myself an expert in student ministry, but I do have a good idea of what to do and how to do it. Plus it's incredibly fun and challenging! It's what God has created me for.
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Member Since:
10/11/2005
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| Well folks it finally happened. After months and months of yard work, fence building, phone answering, and other random tasks...I have been offered a job. A real job, that pays real money. Tomorrow afternoon I will officially accept the position of Marketing Director at Harris McHaney Realtors. It's a bit of a change from church work, but I feel it will be a good gig. This will also allow me still do ministry, but in a different light. Eventually I can obtain my own place and start doing home Bible studies and use my bachelor's pad for ministry. God has taught me a lot and is still trying to teach me some things like patience with people, forgiveness, waiting for Him to move, and perseverance. James tells us to "consider it pure joy when we face trials of many kinds". I haven't exactly been joyous this summer, but I've been working on it. All in all, Praise the Great and Mighty God, I am now employed full time!! | | |
| I HIGHLY reccommend that everyone check out the "Skinner for Ray Guy Award" group on Facebook. Funniest pictures I've seen in a long long time. 
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| Today I realized that October is my favorite month. The weather here in Northwest Arkansas is incredible. The days hang out around the 70's and the nights generally cool off quite a bit, but not to much that you can't enjoy a good cookout or an outdoor Monopoly match. Plus you get the benifit of the turning leaves, and fewer trips around the yard with the mower. But above all that, College football is in full swing, and playoffs in Big Leauge baseball go full throttle. But no other day in October can ever match up to October 7th, 2006. The day the Hogs turned it on at Auburn. Now I'm normally a pretty optimistic guy, and a bit of an idealist. I also value the character of a man over performance. This is why I've been a Houston Nutt supporter ever since he took the helm of the University of Arkansas Football Razorbacks. Even though many have questioned his coaching abilities on the field, I've always been glad to have him around because he's a good man, and is a great role model for his players. He's a man of God and he lets his guys know that about himself, and also lets his players know about HIM. Which is why I was always sad that people wanted him to leave. But again, being an idealist, I believe that eventually character will win. And today he did. Finally Houston Dale got his players to play a complete game. They played tough, and they played hard. Listen the Auburn team is not made up of a bunch of patsys. Today we just played better. Gus, Reggie, Tracy, and all the other coaches and staff of the Football Razorbacks definitely put their mark on the win. But I like to believe that because of Houston Dale Nutt's character and leadership (not just today but throughout his entire career here) we were able to defeat a formidable opponent. Thank you Mr. Nutt. In another instance of how character and class wins: Today the New York Yankees were asked to go home and not play anymore baseball until next spring, and the New York Mets were allowed to continue on and keep playing. Gotta love those Amazin' Mets! | | |
| Sure, I know it has been quite a while since I've wrote anything on here but let's get past that. Many things have happened, but few that I'd like to share with folks. Until today. On Monday night the state of Arkansas and the University of Arkansas lost a man of impecible quality. Legendary announcer, "The Voice of the Razorbacks" Paul Eells died on Monday night in a car accident on I-40 near Russellville. When I heard the news, I'm not afraid to say it, I cried. I actually met Paul Eells once. I was working at the Phillips 66 gas station in Russellville, next to the Holiday Inn. My shift was the grave yard shift from 11:00 pm to 7:00 am. One lonely night around 1:30 in the morning, he walked in and I said, "Hey you're Paul Eells aren't you?" He said, "Yes I am nice to meet you." I told him about how growing up I my dad and uncles would turn the game on the TV and turn down the volume and listen to Paul on the radio. He laughed. We then discussed the current status of the Hogs and he paid for his candy bar and coke, gave me an autograph and went on his way. It was the best thing that had happened to me in months. Anyway, I say all this because on the news all night, reporters and other people involved with Razorback sports talked about how great a guy he was and what he meant to them, and since I've yet to get a job on TV I needed an outlet to tell my Paul Eells story. I thought this would be the best way. If you have any memories of Paul Eells or comment you'd like to make please feel free to leave your thoughts below.
God Bless Paul Eells 
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| From time to time I'll make an observation and ponder it for days. Most of these observations are normal day to day things that most people take for granted, but somehow they seem to interest me and then I try to figure out the meaning behind it or what the application is, or what going on in the "bigger picture".
All that to say this: I was driving to the church on Monday morning and started noticing the number of dump tucks on the road. Now this isn't the first time I've been puzzled by dump truck quantity. One time while living in the D.C. suburbs I saw a convoy of twenty five dump trucks on the interstate. I still wonder about what was going on that day. Anyway, twenty minutes into my drive on Monday with all the dump trucks I was really impressed by the large number, and wondered if anyone else had noticed. So today when I left the house I decided I'd count the number of dump trucks that I saw on my way to work. From Prairie Creek to Fayetteville takes about 45 minutes and runs through Lowell, the industrial east side of Springdale, and East Fayetteville. Stop for a second and guess how many dump trucks I saw on my drive in....I'll wait...ready? Eighty-one! Eighty-one freakin' dump trucks. I'm not sure what this means. I mean, I understand that there is tons of construction going on in the area and dump trucks are part of the construction matrix. But the thoughts that go through my head are, "Is there a better way to transport dirt as to not have so many on the roads, thus keeping the environmental impact to a minimum?" or "Is there some kind of something going on that involves dump trucks that I'm missing out on?" and lastly "Why am I so intrigued by the number of dump trucks on the road?" | | |
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