A man and his log...

2011-09-05T14:36:00.001-05:00

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2011-08-31T16:10:00.002-05:00

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2011-08-17T14:29:00.002-05:00

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ShutterBooth

2011-07-06T12:28:00.002-05:00

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JT and Abigail talkin Marriage

2011-05-24T14:55:00.002-05:00

In case you missed the video, here is the work of Shane Augon and Jason Reimer.

JT & Abby Wedding Intro Video from Shane Aguon on Vimeo.

ShutterBooth San Diego is born

2011-04-09T06:27:00.001-05:00

Very proud to announce that ShutterBooth San Diego has been launched. Also the CEO of this fine company made the cover of the San Diego Reader!

Microsoft Kinect is awesome, but not as good as being married :)

2010-12-01T14:11:00.000-05:00

Go Comment on our Engagement Pictures so we can get free stuff :)

2010-10-06T12:25:00.001-05:00

So our engagement pictures are in, and if we get 100 comments, we get a huge canvas of our favorite picture. So go comment!!!!!

Candice and Daniel Lanning rock!

http://thebeautifulmess.com/2010/10/engaged-justin-abby/

Engaged!

2010-09-24T14:07:00.000-05:00

Yep, a long time since I updated. The price you pay for working lots and moving to a different part of the world!

I've found my darlin that I want to spend the rest of my days with. She can be found below :)

30th Birthday and my girl is awesome

2010-03-26T01:29:00.003-05:00

So after 30 years of living, my birthday summed up pretty well.

1. Got to sleep in until about 11AM :)

2. Picked my girlfriend Abby up from work at 12 because she had a day planned out for me.

3. Went to the airport where there is a Mexican restaurant. Had a margarita.

4. During the time there, she handed me a pamphlet of a plane and said it was a clue.

5. We rode in a bi-plane 20 minutes later! It was amazing. The video below sums up how the day went down.

P.S. It also include a manicure and pedicure, don't hate :)

Music - Abigail Reimer

2010-03-12T07:24:00.002-05:00

Abby's site will be up soon!

www.abigailreimer.com

I cannot wait for my IMAC to get here!

Gospel

2010-03-10T01:58:00.002-05:00

Have you ever been reading something online and right before you are done reading, browsing, shopping, etc, the internet connection dies and you can't get to anything? Do you know that feeling that you have? You just want it to connect right back so you can finish what you are doing. Finish your purchase on gap.com, finish your CNN fix for the day...

I realized tonight that I didn't feel that way about reading the Bible. I was reading Ephesians 6 on my iphone and the application died, I couldn't bring it back. I realized that the feelings I have for something as trivial as internet suffering were nothing in comparison for the longing I should have for the Word and the Gospel.

This may sound stupid, but I think in our culture today, my prayer is that I will want Jesus more than google.

And here is what I would have missed out on:

Ephesians 6:

¹⁰Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. ¹¹Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. ¹²For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.¹³Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. ¹⁴Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, ¹⁵and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. ¹⁶In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. ¹⁷Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. ¹⁸And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.

¹⁹Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, ²⁰for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.

Final Greetings

²¹Tychicus, the dear brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will tell you everything, so that you also may know how I am and what I am doing. ²²I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage you.

²³Peace to the brothers, and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴Grace to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with an undying love.

Don't be greedy

2010-02-07T15:29:00.003-05:00

It's interesting that Jesus spends a lot of time in the New Testament talking about money. He talks about money more than Hell. I found this news story today and it hurts to even see. This pastor in the video has been associated with a church that I went to years ago, and it makes me wonder when that church too will go down this path, or possibly may already be down it. The Church should be above reproach, if there is something the outside world sees as wrong, we should be the first to make it right. The video is from www.alittleleaven.com and the link is here.

http://www.alittleleaven.com/2010/02/ed-young-luxury-cover-up.html

Sad.

Song for Food and Abigail Reimer

2009-12-20T17:20:00.002-05:00

So you must run out and support local food banks and my girl by purchasing this album. I don't promote many things but this album is super amazing and worth the money.

https://www.shopsongforfood.com/abigail/

Diego got a little more expensive

2009-10-12T02:17:00.001-05:00

So it's been a while 'ol blog, I'm sorry for leaving you. Just trying to stay afloat in San Diego in the busiest season of my entire life. My job has really become a lifestyle and not so much a set number of hours everyday. I'm on call almost 24/7 and I feel like I should be on a reality show. Somehow over the past year and a half here in San Diego, I've managed to meet an enormous amount of people and the loveliest girl ever. We have officially been dating 1 year as of October 8th! It's funny how God works out timing in our lives and I would even manage to be in San Diego working 70-90 hours a week and still meet a beautiful woman.

So about that beautiful woman, I decided to do a few sweet things for the special day and one of them happened to be a nice restaurant called Nobu. Abby and I have eaten so many places around San Diego so I wanted to take her somewhere she or I had never been. Well, this place was not amercianized sushi, it was the real deal. You name it, we ate it. It was a course after course kinda meal, that ended with the sushi, then some desert. :) Well, let me back up to our ordering process. Many of the things on the menu, we weren't sure what to choose. So I saw they had the "chef special" which included the signature dishes across the menu. I saw it as a way to eat everything, at least get a sample of everything. The waiter said it was a must. So we went with that. Abby was not a big fan of all the food, but it was still an awesome time of trying lots of different things.

After dinner, Abby got up to use the restroom while I asked for the check. The waiter brought it over, I opened it up, and found that the "chef special" for $120 was actually per person. So on October 9th, I officially paid for the most expensive meal of my life, $347. All I could do was smile and laugh, you can't really get mad. It was a memorable story. Abby just looked at my face when she got back, I waited til we were outside to actually share with her the amount of money we had just consumed. All and all, it was a $347 experience that we will never forget. I would have been happy sitting on the back of a truck eating Zaxby's with her.

So I'll spend the rest of the month eating noodles. :)

Something bigger than yourself

2009-09-28T02:41:00.004-05:00

So as usual, life took over and I haven't updated this since I was writing about prostitutes in Costa Rica, which my girlfriend didn't like for me to write about :)

So tonight, I helped a friend with something really special. He reached the point in dating where you spend a few extra thousand dollars and commit your life to that person, engagement. He wanted some help setting up something romantic, so his roommate and myself jumped into the plan. It was a fun night, I gave him my ebay special Land Rover, and off they went on their night, which included one of my favorite places, George's at the Cove. While he was away at dinner, we setup an enormous amount of candles right along with rocks near La Jolla. We made this awesome pathway with candles, and had a bottle of bubbly along with a camera setup in the background. They showed up, the whole thing went down beautifully. We met up with them afterward and she was ecstatic. It was so neat to see her glowing.

It really made me think, this was awesome to be apart of this story. Even doing the simplest things. It was neat to be apart of a story they will share with people the rest of their lives. I got to be a piece of the story and helped push them along down their road.

What made me think even more was how much more I want to be apart of a faith story for so many people. It's cool to be a piece of a story for something that lasts during this lifetime, but how much bigger to be apart of something that lasts for eternity. I was humbled tonight that God wants to use us in the stories of so many people. Of all his power and creation, He has chosen to use sinful and broken down people like us to call people to Himself. How cool would it be to meet hundreds or thousands of people in heaven that remembered you telling them about Jesus. Not that it's about us, but how much more it's about the fact that we pointed people to the King of the Universe. That's a story to talk about.

Costa Rica Night 1

2009-07-11T04:26:00.000-05:00

5:30 Am wake up
Hottie Girlfriend Abby takes me to airport - what a sweetie
Leave at 7:30AM from Diego City, connect in Atlanta.
Talk to a nice woman my mom's age from Coronado about all the fine foods of San Diego for four hours!
Connection in Atlanta, eat some marinated chicken and rice, then leave for Costa Rica
Fly into Liberia airport at 7:00PM and no problems getting through
Take a $75 cab 1 hour away to Tamarindo. Had a nice conversation with the cab driver Marcos who didn't speak English. We had fun learning each other's language and finally settled that we both liked Michael Jackson's music and ended our cab ride jamming out to it.
Met up with J Greezy at a nice lil restaurant Nougi's. Had some chips and guac. and a margarita.
Hit a dance club up, got hit on by a prostitute, sorry, I'm taken.
Hit up a place down from the club that was grilling marinated chicken on the street, SO GOOD.
Hit up another dance club. Didn't dance.
Ended the night eating a really huge hot dog with bacon on it!

Tomorrow the plan is to surf and eat nachos :)

Costa Rica Bound

2009-07-07T22:49:00.001-05:00

Anyone been to Costa Rica? I'm going on Friday and would be interested in hearing about fun things you did there. I plan on doing a zipline and chilaxing.

Sharin' struggles

2009-06-11T01:49:00.003-05:00

It seems that when we share our struggles, we see that we aren't that different than everybody else. At least that's how I feel. In the past few weeks, I've heard and seen so many things that remind me of how broken this world is. I've been reminded of how uncertain so many things are. I hear of friends being really hurt and I am feeling their pain. The only thing that is certain is Him. He is constant, He will never leave you, He will never forsake you. No matter the pain or success we experience in this life, I want to know and look forward to the day I get to meet Him in person. Somewhere in Christianity, we just forget the future and what it holds for believers. It's pushing me to grab old of every good thing I know and have and be thankful for it and look forward to the day He comes to get us.

I'm guilty of pride and sharing that I need prayer, I so do. He's shown me lately the fruit of prayer and I wish it would encourage me to pray more, but I still struggle. I want to feel the Lord leading every step and morsel of my life so bad. Please pray for me if you read this, He listens. I'm rambling. It's scary the things that have happened over the past week, it's proven to me that we don't serve a God of coincidence, He is very much in control and has let me know it. I'll stop rambling and just hit publish post.

San Diegans Like To Grill

2009-06-08T01:49:00.002-05:00

So after two back to back "BBq's", I've realized that San Diegans like to be out and about. We have a least 1 grill out per week. I really like it and people are always willing to come out. This is what we will do in heaven, so I believe in practicing now.

God has also taught me a lot lately about His control. It is impossible to fool Him or surprise Him, He orchestrates everything and nothing is outside His reach. I've been blown away lately with how much He is showing it to me. It's neat to know that the God of the universe wants to interact with you. If you don't believe it, you should.

Dear Tony Horton

2009-06-05T01:38:00.001-05:00

Dear Tony Horton,

Thanks for your contribution of P90X, but I am writing this to confess to you that your dvds haven't moved in 3 weeks. I would like to say that I have done about 75% healthy eating. I hope to do better soon.

your facebook friend,
JT

Yeah I'm on the road

2009-06-03T23:40:00.002-05:00

I realized today that I blog a lot more when I am traveling. I have learned in the past 5 years that we are designed for people. In the last year, I've realized even more how much I need community and how everyone needs community. I enjoy traveling and I really don't mind eating by myself, but there are a lot of times, you really just want to talk about something. You eat something really really good, like a spinach and Gorgonzola salad that is the best you've ever had, and the first thing I want to do is talk about it. You see someone picking their nose in the car, you want to talk about it. It's been amazing in the last few days how much the Lord has humbled my heart. Anytime He deals with me, He really deals with me and it can be so good and so tough sometimes. It's neat that the God of the universe has a personal relationship with punks like us. He knows the amount of hair on a yachts back in Egypt and He knows each one of our hearts, the good and the bad. Have you ever had something happen that you really know that you need to journal it down because one day, you will need to read it again. Sometimes I feel like God does things in my life and I just forget, it seems to be a common theme in the Bible. I'll part the sea for you, I'll set you free, and the next thing you know, people are complaining to the one who saved them.

God reminded me today of how quick this life is and how we can't take ourselves too serious. He has the most amazing ways of humbling His people.

Excited to get on a plane tomorrow and head back to Diego City. I wish there was a big motorcycle waiting on me, I would drive drive drive drive.

If you haven't listened, you should

2009-06-02T20:46:00.001-05:00

http://cdn.marshillchurch.org/media/2009/03/22/20090322_marriage-and-men_hd_video.mp4

On a jet plane

2009-06-01T23:55:00.003-05:00

For the first time since New Year's, I got on a plane today. It was a little strange driving to the airport after I haven't been in so long. I remember way back in the day, flying over San Diego and thinking about all the things that were going on down there that I didn't know about. Mostly I was flying in and flying out and didn't settle in for any type of community. It was strange to fly out today and kinda miss it. There is something about traveling that always revives me in areas. One thing it does it refreshes my need to read. I usually read more when I travel, today I chose to read about everything from bank robbers, biblical dating, song of solomon, and listened to some Ravi Zacharias. Traveling alone makes me way more intentional with my conversations, party because you can get lonely traveling and it helps to talk with people. I am often visited by a clothes gnome that steals my clothes. He usually sticks to stealing my socks one by one, and moves to my boxer briefs, and occasionally steals shoes and jeans. This time it was jeans. I never really buy big ticket items and you won't find me on a $500 shopping spree. I try to buy things as I go. Well I've bought all sorts of jeans and they just disappear. I am down to I think 2 pair that I actually like to wear.

I flew into Washington early today, but too late to go into the office, so I didn't want to just sit in the hotel room, so I went to the mall. I did something today where I actually changed the way I think. In the past, I DO NOT LIKE to try things on. I'd like to just pick up a pair of something and take it home. I usually stay about the same size so it works. Well today, I changed. I went into The Buckle. Now, I've been in there before, but never to buy jeans for myself. It was actually a good experience, I humbled myself and let the sales people help me. I actually tried on multiple pairs of jeans. I am glad I did, because some of their stuff can be really baggy and REALLY tight. It was a good experience and I had a good conversation with the nice people at The Buckle.

I am about to start the Bible in a year plan over again. I struggle to stay focused. It feels good knowing that the God of the universe knows our heart and wants good things for us. I'm glad to know I can trust Him and He never fails.

Does anyone ever have really crazy dreams? I've had some really crazy ones lately and friends of mine too. It's neat to know the Lord can use dreams.

Prayer

2009-05-29T11:10:00.004-05:00

Ashamedly so, I haven't fasted in a long time. There were some things I wanted to really pray through. I decided to fast, I don't say this to brag that I fasted but to say that I enjoy food more than God. That is a sad statement to make. I could see people eating, commercials talking about it, and listen to people talk about it, all I could think about was food. I realized that I'm supposed to see creation, think about Him, see people and their gifts, and think about Him. I'm so far from that. At least it pointed me to where I lack. So many places.

Ever feel like your heart might just implode? I like knowing that no matter what ,we serve a God who is in control, and by following Him, we know we are in His will and we can discern all things. It doesn't mean that the process is always easy. I trust Him. I want to believe I do.

I want to get on a motorcycle.