This weekend we had the Nuzzi’s over again.
As you would expect we had a good time.
We really enjoyed the kids together (Abby and Josh and Davis are so cute
together).
I got pictures of it all and hope to have them back from being developed by
Thursday.
Jessica and I are tired, as I imagine Tony and Erin are, because we stayed up
so late after the kids went to bed.

We did church at home because the church we’ve been going to for the last
couple of months (rather off and on, really) is just so dull and drab.
We studied Matthew 22:15-22 and it was good.
That passage really hit me because it reveals God’s image being reflected in
His creation, man.
I was glad to have lead because I really like to talk about spiritual things
with Tony and Erin.
There was a time when our conversations with them were not so relaxed because
I was a fiery non-charismatic.
I praise the Lord He’s tempered me there and that I have a greater grasp on
His word.

Tony is a great friend, he and I went out on Friday night and talked about
all sorts of things at Denny’s (our ‘official’ hang-out when visiting).
I’d tell you what we talked about but that would violate a trust that I
treasure too highly.
If Tony and I ever start a business together (something which we’ve talked
about for years) it will be a scary thing because we’re going to have to
actually work rather than just joke and laugh.
Erin and Jessica seemed to have had a good time as well, which I treasure as
well because Jessica and Erin have been friends for about as long as Tony
and I have (mostly because we got to know one another as couples).

Anyway, I’m going to bed soon, I’ve got a busy week ahead culminating in a
trip to Denver to see my parents!
I’ll write more later, I promise.

Resting in Him,

Randy “Hell-fire and damnation” Peterman

Wow.
I should write about porn more often.
I’m currently ranking in the top ten in Google for “Women of Walmart”,
“Walmart Playboy”, and various other combinations of the two for my
article a few days ago.
I’ve gotten more hits based on that (as far as referrals from Google are
concerned) than any other post to this site.
I suppose that on certain levels it’s good because people will see that I’m
disgusted, however, I don’t think that’s going to turn the tides on the
fight against online pornography.

I’ve also gotten fun referrals from MSN for my recipes.
Makes me feel like I could be contributing to the delinquency of some cooks
:).

OK, back to the weekend with the Nuzzi’s, I’ll write more later!

Randy “Referral” Peterman

Jessica liked it when I made this – she said it tasted like ‘Restaurant Chicken’.
This means I’m a chef now – I could work at a restaurant.
Stop laughing, that’s not nice.
Hey, quit making cracks about me working at McD*n*ld’s.

Ingredients

Chicken

• Chicken Breasts

Marinade

• Some Kraft Italian Dressing – not the light stuff, but the full flavored, fatty kind.
• Some Honey

Preparation and Cooking

The Pre-grill stuff

1. Prepare grill
2. Throw the chicken into a container (most likely not cardboard) that will hold
   liquid, preferably one that will allow you to submerge the chicken in the
   Marinade.
3. Squeeze/pour the dressing into the bowl.
   Make sure you shake it first – the bottle, not your money-maker.
4. Squeeze in some honey.
   Not too much, but in Goldilocks tradition, just the right amount.
   This is a subjective thing, so I can’t tell you how much, but don’t make it more than 12% of the marinade.
5. Let the bird sit in the sauce for at least 30 minutes or I’ll say you did it wrong.
6. Grill the chicken.
   You could use a George Foreman grill for this too, if you’re really feeling like a lighter dinner.

Serve with a nice salad, because mean salads aren’t worth eating.

NOTE: We have actually marinaded the chicken for ~24 hours before and had great results – try this at home.

sung to the tune of the Old Oscar Meyer commercial

My friend Tony has a first name.
It’s F-r-a-n-k.

OK, stop singing, I think I have successfully lodged that song in your mind.
You’ll thank me in about 4 hours when its still running through your brain.
Like a nightmarish merry-go-round.

Anyway, Tony’s got a blog.
It will more than likely be filled with similar stuff as mine.
Similar in the since that he puts the fun back into Texas.
He’s coming up this weekend with his family and I’m stoked to see him.

Resting in Him,

Randy “has a last name” Peterman

This is almost as frustrating as anything I’ve ever seen.
Two companies I really abhor, Playboy (for its horrible effects on
society) and Walmart (for its horrible effects on society), are
somewhat in bed together.
Playboy has managed to get 6 Walmart employees to pose at least partially nude.
I don’t know, I haven’t seen the pictures, and don’t plan on seeing them.

In the end it matters very little who those six people are – Walmart
will now do things to them to make their lives miserable.
Those things of course will not be as miserable as the feeling they’ll
have when other strange men see them somewhere in public and make
gross remarks to them because they’re not just ex-employees, they’re
whores.
I know there are those out there that disagree, but adultery, no
matter the form, leads to degradation of some relationship, even
if its a relationship with someone you don’t know.
You can’t tell men, who are visual by nature, that they can look at you
naked (for the price of a magazine) that you’re not just out there
to have sex.
I apologize if this is not the normal fair for this site 🙂

Anyhow, I just thought you might want to know that.
Or, maybe I should just say I needed to vent and tell someone (you)
that I find this repulsive.

Resting in Him,

Randy “Persnickety” Peterman

Today one of my father-in-laws turned 5 followed by a zero.
That is to say that if he were a dog and he lived this long he’d be in the Guiness book of whirled records (at what point will they upgrade to CD or MP3?).
But he’s not.
Clair is a neat guy and a fabulous father-in-law.
He likes golf and despite that he still works long hours.
This is quite a feat since most people sho like golf work fewer and fewer hours.

This is not quite a surprise since when I first saw him I was pretty darn scared.
I was sitting in a low seat (the cusions had been shot on that chair for a good 15 years, I’m sure) and Clair walked into the room and towered over me (I think he’s about 6′ 1″).
I was also scared because frankly, any guy named Clair has probably knocked at least one or two people down for making fun of his name.

Then, the first time I went over to their house I had to go to the bathroom and ran out of toilette paper!.
Clair graciously got me a new roll.
I think he thought that was pretty funny because I remember being super embarassed and hearing him laugh as he walked down the hallway to get some more paper.

Clair and I also have had quite a few good talks, and I’ve been glad to have him as a dad (thats another cool thing about marriage, you get at least one new dad – without any of the biological unless you live in Louisianna).
If it weren’t for Clair I think I would have never learned all sorts of things – one of the primary lessons was do not park in his parking spot on the driveway.
While I deserved a good chewing-out he kindly asked me never to park there again (since I’d been told not to park there previously) ;).
Clair also has taken lots of time to drive Jessica and I (and later Abby) around the Pacific Northwest.

Not only that, but Clair is a Christian – and despite frustrations at time he’s been a dedicated brother in Christ.
He’s got a pretty cool wife too 😉

H@ppy 8irfd@y Cl@ir!

Randy “Son-in-Law” Peterman

This morning I was watching some television (briefly) and they showed
a segment about the DaVinci Code.
It’s a book that purports (in a fictional format) that Christ was Mary
of Magdalene’s husband.
While the work is fiction, the author’s belief is that DaVinci along
with many throughout history believed that the two biblical
characters were married.
The proof?
An argument from silence.

The argument is that the Bible does not say they aren’t married.
That’s weighty isn’t it?
You could equally say that Abraham Lincoln was a cross-dresser.
When people try to refute it with various arguments you simply retort,
“Lincoln wouldn’t have wanted it known, and so it wasn’t recorded
in any mainstream sources.”
Then, because its truly an argument from silence you can proudly
purport the bizarre behaviors of your imaginary Lincoln without
any contest.

Fundamentally this is rooted in those who do not take the Bible as
the inspired word of God.
If you don’t have God’s word as your final authority then you’ve got
plenty of room for other impressive texts and authors, including
DaVinci.
But don’t ask me to abandon the Texts just to (attempt to) prove a
point.

This is similar to one argument that I heard that tried to explain
away Jesus Messiahship in favor of a political motive.
His idea was that Christ saw that the people of Israel needed a
leader and he tried to be a leader, but later the people who
liked him so much added His claims of deity and manipulated the
facts to make Him the Messiah.

The person telling me this idea was completely ignorant of the
scriptural text because that’s exactly what the pharisees
wanted.
Had Christ been more political the pharisees would have accepted Him
and been more inclined to revolt against Rome rather than
reject Christ and later push for his crucifixion!
Any claim that is extra-biblical or outside of the text stands
directly against the dispensational hermeneutic, something which I
espouse.
Truth is absolute.
God revealed His truth to mankind.
We can know what truth is.
I believe God’s truth.

Resting in Him,

Randy “Fiery Theologian” Peterman