Uncool Greg

Let’s face it. Being cool 24 x 7 is tiring. After trampoline time, after a Wii workout, after checking all your friends’ ‘tubes or tweets, you need a break!

You need the uncool!

With sometimes help of his school peeps, the Uncool One will put things in perspective! (Dig the basketball tops!  Such hair! Good times, good times.)

Sample Uncool Greg’s words of reflection. By contrast everything else is cool! Even lima beans.

See photos of Uncool Greg’s latest adventures with a shrub. Once you wake up, that blurry cell phone image you snapped by mistake will be to you as Picture of the Year!

Don’t let the cool become commonplace! Read Uncool Greg!

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This is what happens when I hold in an update.  Overseas after weeks when I couldn’t chat in English, when I finally met an Australian, I talked his ears off.  Recently I went to a Bible study for the first time in weeks and babbled.

Young friends pictured above being cool have emailed me.  They say this blog has not been as much fun as Banana Month or our crafts projects involving power tools.  I hear you.  I’ll do what I can.  This works both ways.  I appreciate your Facebook pages. I just had a cheering phone call from a seven-year-old friend in Mississippi. She eagerly quizzed me on swimming and the piano pieces she is learning: “Do you know this one? … How about this one?”

I have hooked up with a small and growing group of Christians within biking distance of my apartment. I noticed the building when I walked to the Metro on the 4th of July.  When I returned last Sunday, I was greeted in the parking lot. By the time the winsome couple and I reached the door, we had identified good friends we had in common.  Strangers, but with only one degree of separation! There exist several ways for me to serve and grow. Here’s another sign of quality:  a song in the worship service today induced little kids to dance.  Genuine enthusiasm is an indicator independent of traditional or contemporary styles. (“Enthuse” = “En” + “theos” = God inside.)

At work, I’m impressed by how much I remember despite being out of practice for years. I’m impressed by how much new stuff there is to learn.  People still complain about slow networks, but the units of concern have changed from kilobytes and megabytes to gigabytes and terabytes.

[Update: To answer inquiries about the three amigos: that involves an inside joke with the kids previously pictured.  When I mentioned primitive times before iPhones, instead of saying "when I was your age...", I prefaced with, "Back when Abraham Lincoln and I went to school, we had to play DDR by kerosene lamp, and pentagons had only three sides."  Pocahontas, Huang Di, and Moses also went to my old school.  Now you know.]

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