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2009 May 20
What’s new?
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making a lot of noise. listening for the signal.
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Hey! Thanks for asking. Been learning to play Mandolin. Getting some ducks today for some healthy egg eating over the coming years.
You?
Not much, though the petition on Aung San Suu Kyi has reached 280,402 “signatures” http://www.avaaz.org/en/free_aung_san_suu_kyi/ who knows you might add yours and persuade some of your friends to do the same
I’m tired of life. Too many problems. Too many disappointments.
God is good. He is always good and always the same and no matter what my circumstances. I trust in His character.
In Christ Alone is a great book I’m almost done with.
Hope you are still enjoying ministry as much as ever.
Jeff
Thanks for sharing, Jeff. I’m praying for you.
I just finished scanning my old slide collection. You old enough to have missionary slides??
He probably isn’t but I definitely am
How did you do it? Was it effective? Was it easy? Was it expensive?
Yes, Linda–How did that go? I’m not old enough to have “real” missionary slides, but I am old enough to have summer missionary slides from my teenage years.
As far as what’s new here, well, I’m figuring out how to open up my dryer and replace the belt. When it stopped working, I figured I needed a new one, and then sighed because Google told me my problem was only a broken belt, and I didn’t figure I could justify buying a new dryer for that. Off to the appliance store for the replacement belt…
Oh yes, and I’m enduring one of my kids’ favorite songs as background accompaniment:
“I want a head like the heads you see on Easter Island…
I want a three ton nose job…
I want to stare at the seashore and do nothing. At all..”
It’s a capella and pretty musically fascinating, even if dreadfully annoying.
Hmm. Lessee:
1. Posted this week’s Sunday School Notes
2. Wrote a blog post reminding certain branches of Protestantism that hey, May 21st is Ascension Day!
3. Am in the middle of reading an Eastern Orthodox theology based on patristic quotes. My head hurts.
4. Watched two ye olde Hammer horror DVDs last night.
5. Did my yardwork to beat the rain that is still dragging its heels in coming.
6. Starting to count down the days to my next week of vacation.
Yup. Nothing much. Howsabout you?
Your life in America is too fast paced for me. I like the slow pace of African existence.
Pace differences aside, I’d love to hear your thoughts from Africa (albeit days and days of LandRover journeying from South Africa) on what DanielandTonya were watching on tv here in one part of the USA, on those other parts of Africa:
http://hebrewandgreekreader.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/the-big-debate/
Spent two wonderful days with 90 guys at Man Camp on the McKenzie River. Great teaching, great music, soaked in the hot springs and had two huge bon fires, and all the food and coffee a guy could ask for.
Since then its been working on the “farm”, wiring the new pump, building a new pump house and emptying the wheelbarrow as Carol relandscapes the yard.
Last night we studied 11 Corinthians 10 & 11, tomorrow night is cards, and Sunday a hike and picnic at Silver Creek Falls.
Just another ho-hum week in sleppy Oregon.
I bought a slide scanner for around $200 over a year ago and hooked it up to my home computer. I dug out the boxes of slides and fed them into the machine 4 at a time, sending the files into Picasa so I could get a quick look at them. Most all of them I scanned on the “quick” setting, but a few I used the “professional” setting. Sometimes I had to dust off the mildew and cat hair and rescan. They are mostly for my personal enjoyment, and a few will someday be appreciate by our kids (I hope). Most of them weren’t/aren’t worth much or of poor quality. (I sure like digital cameras a lot better than the old fashioned ones!) I scanned over 1100 slides total. Now, I’m trying to rent my scanner to other missionaries for $1 per day–but so far, everyone is too busy to face their mountain of slides.
Once the photos are in Picasa they can be edited, add captions, and make backups.
Thanks Linda, I suspect you are in the USA not NZ so I won’t be able to take advantage of your dollar a day scheme, plus unless I took up my holidays doing it (or wait till I retire – when I am convinced I’ll suddenly get all 36 hours of every day back for getting thingds done
I suspect it might take me 200 days 
especially with all the cat hair I’d be blowing off… So, scanning our old slides is not one of the things I’ll be doing soon. I wonder if they make a scanner with a magazine that holds more than four…
I think they do make a slide feeder that more or less automates the process, but I went the cheap route. It is a time-intensive effort, no getting around it.
You love to rip on messianics, but you believe G-d came down from heaven and knocked up a adolescent Jewish girl? Christian ideology for the most part is crazy at best, heretical and worst. Read the Bible without your Constantine-colored glasses and then come talk to me.
do constantine-colored glasses come in any other color but rose? psychedelic, perhaps?
Sc-tt, since I’m blogging less, I need you to comment more.
dave–
i’ve longish replies to two of your older, more serious posts, but i want to think about the material a bit more.
in the meantime, how about a hippo limerick?
a hippo named karl had a dream:
to spend his whole life in a stream.
“the world would float by
at eye-level, and i
could dream of adaire and ice cream.”
karl’s girlfriend, the hippo adaire
came down to this stream just to stare.
“it seems too extreme
just to sit in this stream–
life’s not just a current affair!”
Wonk! Wonk! (hippo-speak for “I love it!”)
I’m in Missouri, working. My dog (and the rest of the family) is home in California. Nothing is new about that. I work and eat and sleep. Oh, and I started trying to walk off some of the fat. I’m spending an hour after work each day walking up and down the roads in a hilly part of town.
I’m always in California. Nice to hear from you.