It’s 1:23 am…

and I have to be up by 5:30.

I am going camping tomorrow with a bunch of random guys from church.  It should be interesting, and fun, and stuff.  I plan on catching at least one fish, eating smores, reading my Bible, finishing a book, journaling [that's not a real word], looking a the stars,  and not getting hurt–safety first.

You see I don’t have a great history with Land between the Lakes.  I almost died via tornado when I went with my 2nd grade class on a week end trip.  True Story.

The second time, my best friend broke my arm.  It was a father-son retreat with church.  The dad’s were up talking at the campsite while the some of the sons were playing some tips at the basketball goal down the hill.

Play by Play

A ball rolls out off the court [there are no out of bounds in tips].  Travis runs for the ball at full speed.  Jeff also runs for the ball.  Travis is in front of Jeff.  Jeff pushes Travis.  Travis lands arm first on hard ground.  Ground snaps Travis’ right fore arm.  Travis looks at arm and calmly says, “Someone go get my Dad.  I think my arm is broken”.  Travis shows arm to guys.  Guys react in various ways ["OOOO" "AAAAHHH" "NO WAY!" "Maybe it will leave a cool scar!" "At least it wasn't your leg!" "Suck it up, whimp"].  Brandon runs to top of hill at full speed to get Travis’ dad.  Dad comes.  Paramedic Shane confirms the break and makes splint from pillow.  Dad takes Travis to the hospital.  Todd comes too.  Dad and Todd eat dinner while Travis gets X-rays. Doctors put arm in sling and give pain meds.  Dad and Todd refuse to get Travis dinner on the way back to camp site.  The end.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I broke my first bone.  It really wasn’t as bad as expected.  The worst part was not getting dinner that night.  I still don’t know why they wouldn’t get me something.  I ended up staying for the whole retreat.

I’m pretty sure it was worse for Jeff.  The guys picked on poor Jeff for the rest of the retreat, and I always had the whole “Hey, you broke my arm” line if I ever need some leverage.  I’m not going to lie.  I still pull it out when needed.

I still have use of my right arm today.  Thus is the medical history of my right arm.

So What  Was That About?

[Really I just wanted to ask a question and use bold font just then.]

This is why I listed safety in the things I would be doing on this trip.

Back to the Reason I’m Blogging

I’m not really sure why I decided to blog right now.

I actually have had a lot of bloggable thoughts this week [someone should make a shirt that says 'bloggable' on it.  I bet it would make a couple thousdand bucks.].

It turns out I’m not going to actually share any of those thoughts.

I am going to turn you onto the new single from Needtobreathe though.  I am pretty excited for their newest cd to hit Itunes.  I’m not really sure about the date, but it’s soon.  I’m going to guess August.  Actually I’m going to look it up right now.

Yep, looks like the end of August.  It is to be called “The Outsiders”.  Like the book but different.

Here is the song.

I like the foot stomping.

It has a weird part in the middle.  It doesn’t really sound like that when you buy it from Itunes.  That’s right you can buy the single from Itunes right now.

I am going to bed.

I love you,

Travis