Man, tonight’s tear-down at the Rock was awesome. It really reminded me of the days in MacKay, when we used to move every single desk out of the auditorium and bring in folding chairs. The most prominent thing about that memory was learning what it was to give your all in service to the church.
I remember vividly watching Pat Sokoll working with everything in him. I don’t remember him ever sitting still, even when there wasn’t much to do. He was always there when there was something heavy to lift, and his attitude was joyful the whole time.
Tonight reminded me of that, as there were several brothers and sisters carrying all they could in service for the kingdom.
It was really cool….
So, I thought I would be like everyone else and write about the Passion…
…Or wait…I haven’t seen it yet. From everything I’ve heard it’s a great movie, but our team went to see it at 9:50 last night. I start to get pretty sleepy around 10:30 or 11…so I thought I had better wait to see it at some time when I am sure to be awake for the whole movie. So, hopefully I will be heading to the theater sometime in this next week to see it.
Overall my spare mental energy has been consumed by thoughts of houses and health insurance lately. Tony and I have been in the process of considering whether or not to buy a house sometime in the next several months…and I’ve also been looking for health insurance to replace GCM’s insurance once I drop down to part time staff.
We’ve now looked at around a dozen houses, and spent hours pouring over newspaper ads, financing spreadsheets, and websites listing various information about houses for sale. We’ve gotten to the point of deciding we definitely want to buy some kind of house…but I have a feeling we still have a lot of work ahead of us to find just the right house, and get all the details to fall into place.
Buying a house is a real learning experience. For instance — I had no idea that you could get so much money back on your taxes by having mortgage interest to deduct! And I can’t say I have ever spent so much time before staring a pipes, wiring, furnaces, basement walls and more as we try and determine the potential problems each house may or may not have.
But, at least it’s an adventure. You never know what you might see when you walk into a house…like one place we walked into that was selling for a very cheap price…and had mold and mildew growing all over every wall and ceiling.
Keep praying that God will lead us to the right house in the right location at the right price!
Tony found me a blogging client with a spell checker and lots of other nifty features. So, hopefully this will greatly reduce the number of spelling gaffes I will make in this blog (If I remember to use it!).
It’s a good thing I wasn’t an English major or a professional writer/editor before the days of spell check. I probably wouldn’t have gotten very far. Or maybe I just would have been forced to improve much more quickly. Hmmm…Even though some people knock spell checkers because they don’t catch common word errors (like interchanging there and their), spell checkers are perfect for people like me who have just had difficulty remembering certain rules, like which words contain double letters.
While I have many praises for spell checking, I have a lot of complaints about the way most programs like Outlook deal with managing “to do lists” and the like. Tony and I have been talking lately about designing the ultimate time/task management program that really works for people with tasks like mine. I’ve noticed that almost everything I do is recurring in one fashion or another. However nearly every “to do” program I’ve seen is really flaky about how it shows the future to-do items — usually the future ones don’t show up until the previous one is checked. And it’s difficult dealing with the nested to-dos of projects, and the ambiguity of tasks that should get done at some point, but are of a lower priority and don’t necessarily have a specific due date.There’s also issues with how tasks show up that are “in progress” — meaning, I should be working on them right now, but they aren’t actually due for a few days or weeks.
So, if anyone has any brilliant suggestions of programs that deal with these issues in a better way, let me know…so we don’t reinvent the wheel.
Okay, Okay, Okay…I was supposed to start blogging about a month ago. But I got lost somewhere in my own philosophical musing about what kind of a blogger I wanted to be. Serious? Funny? Philosophical? Spiritual? Informative? Practicing my writing skills for bigger and better things in years to come? I know, you are laughing by now, but real writers think long and hard before starting new projects. …So, blogs aren’t really real writing anyway, and I probably shouldn’t have thought so long about this….
Tony got PlanetRock into a more finished form last night. It’s a blog aggregator (I think that’s the right word) for any Rock blog that can be syndicated, and for some reason that is enough to motivate me to actually start. It makes no sense, but I was ready to dive right in… And now I will actually read other people’s blogs too…yes, I am admitting I have not yet developed the habit of reading my friend’s blogs…but now I can go to one place and see them all (If they can be syndicated that is),
I’m sorry we got you all excited last month when Tony started blogging for two days and then we disappeared…but this is the real deal now.
