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San Antonio Zoo

Dustin Wright — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:38:58 +0000

We took our first family vacation to San Antonio and Austin. One of the days we spent at the San Antonio Zoo. It seemed to be real nice, with lots of animals and nice landscaping. I think I got a few pics that are pretty cool.

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the Gaylord Texan

Dustin Wright — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:40:11 +0000

The Gaylord Texan is a Hotel/Resort in Dallas, TX. It is a massive indoor riverwalk that is cooled to a comfortable 72 degrees even on the hot 102 degree day that we went. There was a lot to see there. All kinds of waterfalls and fountains along the river kept things interesting.

We ate at the Riverwalk Cafe which was a buffet style restaraunt with some pretty good food. It is a beautiful place to visit, but I would bet is a bit pricey to stay at..

Check out the pics in the gallery…

Mother’s Day Pictures

Dustin Wright — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:07:28 +0000

Mother’s day was great, my mom came over and spent the day with us. We laughed and played with the kids and ate some good food. I don’t know how I got this lucky, but my mom brought some fillet mignon for me took cook up on the grill. I had never cooked a fillet before, but they came out perfect. It was a very good day.

In the middle of a couple months of constant rain we got one day of sun and decided to take advantage of it. I have added some pictures to the gallery that we took (without any earlier planning) to remember that day.

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Websites, Hospitals, and Uncle Tim

Dustin Wright — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:57:34 +0000

The past few weeks have been crazy busy for me. I’ve been consumed by a new website that I have been developing for my work. It has taken longer than I originally thought and has been more stressful than I originally thought (I think due to the fact that I should have developed it on my own time, without leaking it to my co-workers that I was working on it), but I think it will also be a better final product than I thought. I will post it up here when it is done (it should be this weekend), because I would love to hear some feedback about it from you.

On top of the busyness of the website development, I also had a bit of a health scare. I was in the hospital twice because of the issue and still have more tests to do before I can put it all behind me. I have a plan to write a lengthier post about what happened and my thoughts on the issue, but for now I think it’s good enough to say that I am doing well.

The one relaxing and fun thing that I got in over the past few weeks was a visit from my brother Tim (Rachael’s Uncle). Although beat up from my time in the hospital, I had a great time with him. I wish I could hang out with him more often, however I think the 1400 miles in between here and CA will continue to prevent that though. Rachael had a great time with her uncle Tim. They spent a good amount of time just playing and hanging out. Rachael loves him a lot, and as always was really sad to see him go, as was I. But it was a great time nonetheless.

Here are some pictures from some time we spent at the park when Tim was here…

@ The Park (with uncle Tim)

Piper’s New Coat

Dustin Wright — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:08:21 +0000

Check out this video. I love seeing Piper having a little fun. Also, when you are done, check out the blog post from Mark Driscoll that the interview was about: Why I Love John Piper.

Rachael’s 4th Birthday

Dustin Wright — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:22:08 +0000

We had some family over for food, cake, and fun to help Rachael celebrate her 4th birthday on Saturday. And not to be confusing, her birthday is actually on the 11th of January, but somehow her party got pushed to this weekend. It was fun just the same. Rachael had a great time and behaved very well the whole day. We ate and laughed and generally had a great time.

I added some photos recently, so take a look…

Rachael’s 4th Birthday
Rachael’s 4th Birthday (from my mom)
Jan 18th, 2009

What’s in a name?

Dustin Wright — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:14:58 +0000

We have finally chosen a name for our soon to be born son: Isaiah Daniel Wright. The naming process brought out a lot of nit-picky rules in me about what names I like and don’t like. For instance I don’t like hard sounds like ‘k’ or ‘x’, so names like Isaac and Alexander were off the table. I also didn’t want a name that would be shortened easily by people too lazy to call him by his full name. For example, I like the name Benjamin but I didn’t want people calling him “Ben”. I also didn’t want his name to be shortened down to initials. For instance, one of the names that got shot down because of this rule was “Daniel Jacob”, I didn’t want people to start calling him “DJ”.

There were a number of names that I liked but were already taken up by friends or family members. For instance I really like the names Stephen and Timothy but I didn’t want to use those names because they are the names of two of my brothers (and oh, that timothy is one shady character, jk). There were other names that I liked but have lately had some negative connotations to me with people I have known, like David.

I’m sure that I had more rules that also drove Alina crazy through out this process, but hey, it’s all over now. So what’s in the name “Isaiah Daniel”? Well, Isaiah means “YAHWEH (or, God) is salvation”. And Daniel means “God is my judge”. I like the the idea that the names together show that God is our judge and because of His Son we have salvation. I love how they together tell a great story.

Oh, and just as a reference…
Alina means “noble or kind”
Rachael means “innocent lamb”
Dustin means “valiant fighter” (don’t believe me, check it)

So, I am a valiant fighter that defends my noble wife and innocent daughter through the strength of Yahweh my salvation.

Hmmm, sounds dramatic.

Airsoft, the problem with society?

Dustin Wright — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:42:31 +0000

I saw this video the other day, and it piqued my interest. I obviously, side with the host, Laura Ingraham, about the issue. I wonder what you think.

And I tell you what, my guns are looking a little lonely and I’ve been getting an itchy trigger finger lately. And I think the only fix for that will be a day out with the guys making liberals mad as we play with our realistic looking airsoft guns.

Supertones: Escape from Reason

Dustin Wright — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:08:24 +0000

That last post really got me remembering a song by the always cool OC Supertones. I love this song. Oh yeah, and make sure to read the lyrics (there’s a lot to them), and good luck keeping up them.

Supertones ~ Escape from Reason

Escape from Reason
The OC Supertones

Down Down Down
That’s the way we’re traveling
Our social fabric unravels
But who pulled the string
Philosophers politicians or the school teachers
Game of life and death and we’re sitting on the bleachers
What happened to our voice
What happened to our influence
Tell me who will listen to uneducated congregants
and why should they, when all we have to say is
Bumper sticker doctrine and cute catch phrases
Does this amaze us that no one will take us seriously
We talk big but then we sit in atrophy
Apathy they make comedy of our hypocrisy
Unaware of true biblical philosophy
So we gotta watch what we do and what they see
Cause we represent Christ plus Christianity

{Chorus}:
The underground sound here to take your mind higher
I pound the ground Burn it down like fire
We walk the long path, Still on the first half
You escape reason, we escape wrath.

God is not concerned with Gallup Poll opinion
Or if the whole human race were to disagree with Him
Truth is what I spit
But you ain’t hearing it
Or you ain’t having it
But it don’t matter which
‘Cause God is still Himself
and He could strike us dead
Even in the pink of health
You don’t think I should say that
You say you don’t believe that
Our opinion counts for zero,
Well that is simply that,
Like I’m Mojo that’s how it goes that’s just the
way of things,
God is not impressed disagreeing won’t change anything,
We all must beg for mercy and surely God will show it
There’s a reason for our hope you ask me how I know it
God said it and that without a doubt
“He who comes to me I will in no way cast out”

{Bridge}:
A city under siege who will you believe
champions of truth or of apostasy
you wanna take on me
you take on Elohim
He controls all the that was is and what will be

What I’ll Be Doing This Weekend

Dustin Wright — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:57:36 +0000

Stumbleupon is a terrible creation of the devil. If you don’t know what I mean, you haven’t used it. It finds all kinds of websites on the Internet that you never would have found otherwise and sucks away your life, hours at a time. There’s no better way to waste away your life than to stumble upon all of the crazy stuff out there on the Internet, and waste away time that you could be spending doing other more productive things.

That being said, as I was stumbling last night I found this video that totally inspired me to go out and do something fun this weekend. See what you think below. I bet you’ll laugh, and I bet you’d agree that me jumping out of a trash can at you would be terrifying.