Monday, November 24, 2003Lots of little things...
Wow - it's been a while since I've had a chance to write. So, lets get it going. I've had lots of stuff bouncing around in my head.
I like Pomegranates. They're a pretty strange fruit - but every fall I pick up one. I can't understand why you would want to open one up without it making a mess - so that link has some strange directions. Our dogs seem to like them too (but I think they like anything we feed them).
Final Fantasy X-2 was released yesterday. It looks promising. I've been playing the Final Fantasy games for a long time. I started with Final Fantasy III on the Super Nintendo and I've played all of them since then. This is why I bought a Playstation - to play Final Fantasy VII. I haven't quite finished FF X yet - but I really haven't tried to get the time to play again. I think I'm close to the last twenty hours. I suspect that I'll pick up a used game cube next spring for the Final Fantasy:Crystal Chronicles. The Final Fantasy games have always been great games.
Lighthouse Calendar - this year we are creating our own calendar. Maureen, Linda, Darlene and I each get to pick three pictures from the last couple of years. I'm just getting started groping through all of the pictures - we have a LOT of pictures. Once we have the pictures, we'll be collecting dates that we need to have on the calendar. Then we'll create it in photoshop - add all the dates that we collected and spiff up and place the pictures. Everyone in our group will get a copy of all of the calendar. Then we'll all print it - double sided. I picked up a lamination machine - so all of the pages will get wedged inbetween some plastic. We need to pick up a binding machine - there's a GBC type binder that should work out pretty well. Then we just poke a hole in the top of each page. Bingo - calendar. Got any dates we should remember for our calendar?
Cat update - O'Fleur has a lump that the vets will check out next monday. We'll be getting it removed quickly after that. O'Fleur is the daughter of Parano - I really liked Parano a lot (big, tough, lovable guy that he was). Toute has recovered great from her cancer surgery and seems to be perfectly normal now. Lacy (our first Birman cat) is having increasing problems... so, we spend as much time as we can with her. She loves to cuddle and to be patted - good kid.
Dungeons and Dragons - we have a game tonight. It's been a couple of months - so I hope we remember what we were doing last time...
Our SageTV PVR - a couple of weeks ago the DVD recorded died in the spiffy eMachines computer. This is the computer that we hooked up to record shows and can mail the DVDs to Iraq for our pastor. I had heard that eMachines didn't have very good technical support... but since it was under warenty, I called them up. They were pretty good - I had to check a few things (like uninstalling drivers for it, installing the lastest drivers, checking the electrical connections). Everything checked out just fine, but it just didn't work. eMachines shipped this computer with XP Home - I don't like XP at all. So, I installed my copy of Windows 2000 server on it (I got this for free from a conference a couple years ago). Since eMachines doesn't love Windows 2000, they wouldn't guarentee the software should work - I can live with that. We tried to boot their recovery CD and couldn't. Checked one last thing - BIOS settings - they were just right. The tech supports folks agreed that the DVD writer had broken and so they sent a new one. I have to return the old one yet... but the new one is working great. I noticed that the computer was really warm when I took out the old broken one, so I rearranged a few things to make it run cooler (like removing the DVD player that I don't use, moved the burner to top of the case, added a air filter where the burner used to be and took off the front plastic case to increase the air flow). It's not as pretty now... but it runs really nice a cool. eMachines scored points for doing the right thing.
Sunday School - we're starting the Purpose Driven Life book. I'll be blogging my way through it... more as I have a chance to write.
Oh yea - this was a sad one. Sheb Wooley died - I really don't remember him at all except for the One Eyed, One Horned, Purple People Eater. Lennie Peterson had a great cartoon where a line of Purple People Eaters were lined up with flowers for Sheb's tombstone.
I've been trying to listen to different preachers on the way to/from work (hey - it's usually at least an hour, I may as well try to use my brain a little during the trip :-). One of the preachers that I've listened to lately is Ravi Zacharias. He has a weekly broadcast called Let My People Think. On several of them he talked about John Wesley's conversation with his mother. John asked his mother what was her definition of sin. She answered:
I'm trying to get some time to practice my hammered dulcimer for in a couple of weeks. I'm scheduled to play special music at Our Church. Julie encouraged me to play a Christmas song or two. I was wandering what to play and then two broadcasts from Ravi pointed out this definition for sin. And we had sung a couple of hymns from Charles Wesley. So, it only seemed proper to play a Charles Wesley song... I'll post it once I've practiced a while more.
Have a wonderfully blessed day!
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Wow - it's been a while since I've had a chance to write. So, lets get it going. I've had lots of stuff bouncing around in my head.
I like Pomegranates. They're a pretty strange fruit - but every fall I pick up one. I can't understand why you would want to open one up without it making a mess - so that link has some strange directions. Our dogs seem to like them too (but I think they like anything we feed them).
Final Fantasy X-2 was released yesterday. It looks promising. I've been playing the Final Fantasy games for a long time. I started with Final Fantasy III on the Super Nintendo and I've played all of them since then. This is why I bought a Playstation - to play Final Fantasy VII. I haven't quite finished FF X yet - but I really haven't tried to get the time to play again. I think I'm close to the last twenty hours. I suspect that I'll pick up a used game cube next spring for the Final Fantasy:Crystal Chronicles. The Final Fantasy games have always been great games.
Lighthouse Calendar - this year we are creating our own calendar. Maureen, Linda, Darlene and I each get to pick three pictures from the last couple of years. I'm just getting started groping through all of the pictures - we have a LOT of pictures. Once we have the pictures, we'll be collecting dates that we need to have on the calendar. Then we'll create it in photoshop - add all the dates that we collected and spiff up and place the pictures. Everyone in our group will get a copy of all of the calendar. Then we'll all print it - double sided. I picked up a lamination machine - so all of the pages will get wedged inbetween some plastic. We need to pick up a binding machine - there's a GBC type binder that should work out pretty well. Then we just poke a hole in the top of each page. Bingo - calendar. Got any dates we should remember for our calendar?
Cat update - O'Fleur has a lump that the vets will check out next monday. We'll be getting it removed quickly after that. O'Fleur is the daughter of Parano - I really liked Parano a lot (big, tough, lovable guy that he was). Toute has recovered great from her cancer surgery and seems to be perfectly normal now. Lacy (our first Birman cat) is having increasing problems... so, we spend as much time as we can with her. She loves to cuddle and to be patted - good kid.
Dungeons and Dragons - we have a game tonight. It's been a couple of months - so I hope we remember what we were doing last time...
Our SageTV PVR - a couple of weeks ago the DVD recorded died in the spiffy eMachines computer. This is the computer that we hooked up to record shows and can mail the DVDs to Iraq for our pastor. I had heard that eMachines didn't have very good technical support... but since it was under warenty, I called them up. They were pretty good - I had to check a few things (like uninstalling drivers for it, installing the lastest drivers, checking the electrical connections). Everything checked out just fine, but it just didn't work. eMachines shipped this computer with XP Home - I don't like XP at all. So, I installed my copy of Windows 2000 server on it (I got this for free from a conference a couple years ago). Since eMachines doesn't love Windows 2000, they wouldn't guarentee the software should work - I can live with that. We tried to boot their recovery CD and couldn't. Checked one last thing - BIOS settings - they were just right. The tech supports folks agreed that the DVD writer had broken and so they sent a new one. I have to return the old one yet... but the new one is working great. I noticed that the computer was really warm when I took out the old broken one, so I rearranged a few things to make it run cooler (like removing the DVD player that I don't use, moved the burner to top of the case, added a air filter where the burner used to be and took off the front plastic case to increase the air flow). It's not as pretty now... but it runs really nice a cool. eMachines scored points for doing the right thing.
Sunday School - we're starting the Purpose Driven Life book. I'll be blogging my way through it... more as I have a chance to write.
Oh yea - this was a sad one. Sheb Wooley died - I really don't remember him at all except for the One Eyed, One Horned, Purple People Eater. Lennie Peterson had a great cartoon where a line of Purple People Eaters were lined up with flowers for Sheb's tombstone.
I've been trying to listen to different preachers on the way to/from work (hey - it's usually at least an hour, I may as well try to use my brain a little during the trip :-). One of the preachers that I've listened to lately is Ravi Zacharias. He has a weekly broadcast called Let My People Think. On several of them he talked about John Wesley's conversation with his mother. John asked his mother what was her definition of sin. She answered:
"Take this rule: whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness
of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your
relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the strength
and authority of your body over your mind, that thing is sin to you,
however innocent it may be in itself."
-- Susanna Wesley (Letter, June 8, 1725)
-- Susanna Wesley (Letter, June 8, 1725)
I'm trying to get some time to practice my hammered dulcimer for in a couple of weeks. I'm scheduled to play special music at Our Church. Julie encouraged me to play a Christmas song or two. I was wandering what to play and then two broadcasts from Ravi pointed out this definition for sin. And we had sung a couple of hymns from Charles Wesley. So, it only seemed proper to play a Charles Wesley song... I'll post it once I've practiced a while more.
Have a wonderfully blessed day!
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