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Wednesday, September 17, 2003

•••I've Been Swamped A word of assurance to my kind online readers and friends, I am alive and well. My comment service was down until the 9th or 10th, but now that it's back up and running I reckon I should be too. So what's been going on in the preacherman's life? A fair bout of brotherly grief at the death of a local pastor's little girl. That local pastor also happens to be married to my second-cousin, and I count them both friends and family. God bless and keep them, visiting them with his comfort and lending them his strength as they continue to live on in Christ. Then I had the good pleasure of spending a couple of days here at the house with Danny, his wife Carolyn and their son and our fellow blogger Grant (aka the Rawkstah). All were members of the first congregation I served fresh out of seminary, and I don't see any of them often enough. They saw me make all my new preacher mistakes and loved and supported me through 'em. Well, Grant maybe didn't notice as many of 'em. He was in high school in those days. As the small-town newspapers say of such visits, "A good time was had by all." Season those busy few days with lotsa work and it all adds up to no blogging. Then, on my day off rather than write here I decided to follow the advice of good old Syndir and try out the 10 free days of Shadowbane. So far, I like what I see better than EQ. Seems to have a good potential for roleplaying, but is more geared toward nation-building, politics, conquest and strategy. Too many PC users, too much testosterone permeating the world. Initially, at least, it seems too strictly like a 'guy game' -- and that's not a Good Thing™ in my book. Too bad I don't have 10 days to spend playing it. Lotsa work to get done. But in the evenings (when I don't have meetings, and classes to teach, that is) you just might find me as Krinan in the Carnage world newbie lands -- probably near Swampstone.   11:16:49 AM   googleit 190

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