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I’ve been out of town the last couple of days. I spent the weekend with a bunch of youth pastors at a IYCM event called Recess. I had a great time connecting with friends and meeting new youth pastors in the district.

Today, we hired an exterminator to come out and spray for ants. We’ve had a minor problem with them over the past several weeks, but since we were gone for three days, the ants gained a lot of ground. Hopefully, we won’t have to deal with them for a while.

For those of you who actually come to my blog at erikscottberg.com, you’ll notice the new layout. For those of you accessing this through a reader. Do me a favor and check out the new design and give me your thoughts. There’s quite a bit I still want to tweak, but I’m losing motivation quickly on it.

Anyway, I’ll try to post with some more regularity in the upcoming days.
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Several days ago I was minding my own business while driving home from the office. Somewhere around 173rd Street I head a strange noise. I quickly realized that it was coming from the stereo in the car pulling up next to me.

Now, before I continue, I need to say that I don’t usually mind if people play their music very loud. Sure, there are times when the vibrations from the sub woofer cause the car to rattle and almost fall apart, but that’s to be expected.

This incident, however, was very different.

I’m not sure what genre of music this guy was playing, but I only know how to describe it as a Spanish, urban, love song performed by some male artist. Yes, you caught that right. A guy was playing this song.

Some songs were just made to be blasted as you cruise down the road. Other songs are great for working out. There’s songs for parties, others for putting you to sleep and some that inspire.

This song was made to torture everyone who heard it. It was awful. I can’t even begin to express how bad it was. I turned my own radio up to blot out the noise. I drove faster to try to get away, but still the voice of this Don Juan pursued and punished me.

Just thinking about it again makes me shudder.

Here’s a video that is about a hundred times better than the one I heard that day. Even with that seemingly glowing recognition, it should never, EVER, be blasted from a car stereo because of how awful it is.

I came across this quiz to see what American accent you have. Here are my results:

What’s your accent?

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For the last several weeks I’ve been thinking about changing up the layout on my blog. I’ve been scouring the net looking for good (free) templates and came across this one. It has some nice built in features (Live Traffic thing, easy to edit links in the upper right corner) I was going to leave it alone, and then I started tweaking it and came up with this.

What do you think? Any suggestions for the color of the link buttons in the upper right corner? I’ve got some more work to do (change the background on the sides, change the color of the red “Go” button, adds removed, etc.), but I don’t want to put more time into it if it isn’t an improvement.

Thanks.