Jim Cymbala on calling on the Lord

I thought this picture was kinda funny ...

the matrix: reconsidered

luau, post-mortem: well, the pig in the ground cooking style turned out to be a disappointment - after 8 hours, it turns out our initial temperature was either not hot enough, or we lost too much heat during the process. The pig was not cooked. So we quickly turned to plan b - chop the sucker up and stick her on the grill and in the oven. .... I couldn't help but to feel quite disappointed after all the work and hope put into this thing. But that feeling of disappointment quickly disappeared. I mean, its just a pig, right? Hehe.

Well up at the donuthouse, we've been laying out a front and back patio for the duration of this week. Arg arg, real men don't need instructions! Pictures will hopefully be up soon. We also spontaneously came up with a plan to roast an entire pig, luau style, in time for this weekend. To be honest, I had some serious doubts as to whether we could pull it off or not, but amazingly enough, just trying to do it is really encouraging in the way that most things can be accomplished, but most things aren't accomplished because people aren't willing to try. Hmm. Unfortunately it looks like it may rain today and we have a 7 foot long by 3 foot wide by 1.5 foot deep HOLE (soon to be pool) in our backyard. What's going on this weekend? Yes ... a bachelor party for Cong. I've been thinking for a while now whether or not I'd be a participant in this whole thing, because, as a typical bachelor party, there will probably be some typical bachelor party goings-ons occuring. Since the scope of the event has widen up considerably (cooking the pig, showing off our new patios, open for female friends ...), I'd participate in those particular events, and then when bad things are happening, I'll run to New Life Fellowship and say hi to the people at the coffee shop event. I heard a sermon this morning, How can I sustain a vibrant faith? and it was really cool and encouraging ... I'm feelin encouraged and ready to continue fighting the good fight ...

there's a program called "Jocks to GIs Direct" in which professional athletes correspond with U.S. troops. It's pretty neat: Jocks to G.I.s Direct Tiki Barber learned C++ in college and has a half vietnamese half korean wife.

Back in the mix here at work ... Pictures from Las Vegas are up: http://donuthouse.homeip.net/gallery/albums.php

Had training the entire week at work - "How to write Linux device drivers" so that was kinda fun. Refreshing to just kick back and take a course. Not that I plan on actually writing any device drivers ... What a great week: Wed - visited John at the Fish, ate some fantastic food. The cod is really good there. Thurs - went to Portico, met some new people, really got ministered to Fri - took a massive afternoon nap, went to a NLF house church, had a wonderful time!

all template changes are strictly incidental. the blogger service seems to be acting quite funny today and i think i destroyed my old template in an attempt to set things straight. *shrug* oh well, i'll get it straightened out soon.