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Its here

So, I thought getting my new laptop would improve my consistency posting. Boy was I wrong. As the title said, however, “it is here.” Er, maybe should have said been here 1.5 weeks. Boy is it fast; especially considering the speed of my last laptop since it died.

Anyway, I’m back and you should be seeing more posts from me soon.

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Stick it on . . .

Some times you might see a notible quote stuck to a car bumper. Here is a collection my sister sent me with some really funny ones.

I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
If it isn’t broken, fix it until it is.

  • Wrinkled was not one of the things I wanted to be when I grew up.
  • Never believe generalizations.
  • Vegitarian – Indian for bad hunter
  • Avoid alliterations always.
  • Know When to Say When
  • I used to have a handle on life, but it broke.
  • The control key on the keyboard does not work.
  • Lawyers have feelings too (allegedly).
  • On your mark, get set, go away!
  • I didn’t climb to the top of the food chain to become a vegetarian!
  • What would Scooby do?
  • Suburbia: Where they tear out the trees and name streets after them.
  • My mother is a travel agent for guilt trips.
  • Stress is when you wake up screaming and you realize you weren’t asleep.
  • How do I set a laser printer to stun?
  • The trouble with the gene pool is that there’s no lifeguard.
  • Old age comes at a bad time.
  • Nice perfume. Must you marinate in it?
  • As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.
  • I took an IQ test and the results were negative.
  • Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
  • To err is human, to blame it on somebody else shows management potential.
  • Driver carries no cash. He’s married.
  • Watch out for the idiot behind me.
  • Don’t believe everything you think.
  • Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
  • All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
  • Never miss a good opportunity to shut up.
  • If it isn’t broken, fix it until it is.
  • What if the hokey pokey is really what it’s all about?
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Big Cave . . .

Saw this story on Fox News. Increadible. Taken from this story

Charles Brewer-Carias, from Zootaxa with permission of Magnolia Press
Inside the Cueva del Fantasma, in southeastern Venezuela. The two helicopters parked just inside the cave entrance give a sense of scale.
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Accordance

I’m sure you’ve heard the joke about the only way a Pastor can get his deacons in one accord is to drive them somewhere, but this is a little different.

Well, actually a lot different. Accordance is the Bible software I use to study the Bible on my (old) computer. It is incredible the way it has change and enhanced my Bible study. The ease of highlighting and leaving notes on a passage is unparalled with the extra benefits of a really easy way of looking at and searching through them my notes. Always having my highlighting list at hand keeps me up on what the different highlights mean and the nice multi formatted view allows me to see the commentaries on the current passage (screenshot)

Well, I said all that to point out a new Accordance blog I found with many helpful tips on making Accordance more useful . . . at least more useful when my “Bible” isn’t broken.

P.S. My new “Bible” is “supposed” to ship on the 17th. In the mean time, fortunately, I have the trusty old ink and paper version.

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Certainty

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.
– GK Chesterton

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Life with(out) a laptop . . .

I’ve not been posting recently and until this past week, I’ve not had a really good reason. From Sunday to Wed. my church had revival meetings with the Steve Pettit Evangelistic Association. They were really great and were a good reason I didn’t have time to post. But now I have a better reason for not posting . . . my laptop (Powerbook G4 500 Mhz) decided to retire.

I really didn’t realize how much I used it until Thursday afternoon it started acting really funny and crashing. Well, it froze up one last time that evening when I was trying to read my e-mail. I restarted the computer and well, it didn’t. The screen went black and well stayed black.

I tried to coax it to start-up several time and even got it to start once long enough to do a quick backup. But, alas, my poor laptop has died. After I performed an autopsy the cause of death seems to be a bad processor. The last time I got it to startup, it crashed again and then as if a final good-bye beeped five times and the constantly flashed the sleep light in intervals of 5 flashes (meaning a bad processor). I can’t complain, however, because it has been though much. It survived ~5 years, always on, through one car wreck, being carried by my when I was knocked off my pins by a car in the UT parking garage and having both it’s hinges broken when I tripped walking up the stairs.

The good news however, all my data is safe and sound and I am able to use a different computer to access it. Now, I just have to get my hands on this new laptop.

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Church

It has been a while in coming, but I’m excited to point everyone to my church’s website. It look great, good job Jon (he is the guy on the left side of the picture in the funny striped shirt :-) ).

While you are viewing the site, take a look at our next special event Friend’s Day and come as my friend. Steve Pettit is a great speaker and the music is beautiful.

Also, you can learn more through a short video about my Church here.

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Listening

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
– C.S. Lewis