i first watched firefly on dvd in 2006. if you are a sci-fi fan then it’s a great series. i found it on hulu a couple of weeks ago and i’ve been slowly watching it again. it really is a wonderful series and it is yet another reason that i really like hulu.
i hope we are the middle one
from asbo JESUS
q ideas
this is just me thinking out loud and so nothing will probably come of it.
in order to keep things fresh i need to be exposed to new ideas at least annually. for me in the past this has meant conferences. therefore, i’m looking into a conference for next year. the one that i find intriguing right now is q 2009. i heard it mentioned today during an advent conspiracy podcast and i thought it sounded very interesting. then i went to the website and my interested was piqued even more. it’s a conference that is designed with conversation and participation at its core. 18 minute presentations are made by some experts in the presentation’s area and then the group responds. it could be a great thing.
so i was wondering if anyone else might be going or at least interested in going to this thing. a little company would be fun.
THANK YOU!
just wanted to give a blog shout out to ben sheets. ben and good shepherd lutheran church gave me a snow blower today. woohoo! the blower was sitting in the shed and they had no use for it so ben apparently thought “why not put this thing to use by giving it to someone else” and i was the recipient. i like thoughts like that.
thanks ben and good shepherd.
the snow has arrived
a decent amount of snow has finally hit the point area. now if we could only get a few more inches then the terrell family can go cross-country skiing.
our little copper tree – week three
i posted about our copper charlie brown tree earlier. i’ve been trying to improve it a little each week. this week i gave it lights. oh yeah, i continually pull out all the stops. sometimes i even impress myself.
monthly prayer email – december 2008
every month i put out a prayer email for those who have agreed to pray for us and tapestry. here’s the email for december. if you do not already receive this email and would like to then send me an message and i’ll add you to the list.
thanks for praying guys and girls.
the best laid plans of mice and men
last week i discovered that our outdoor church signs have been made meaningless by the darkness. as many of you know tapestry meets at night. it makes for a wonderful sunday and our signs work great during daylight savings time. during daylight savings time it’s very well lite at 6 p.m. and is usually still daylight when we get out at 7:15 p.m. but that’s not true when daylight saving time ends. tonight sunset was at 4:19 p.m. in stevens point. this means that our non-lighted outdoor signs are useless. pam told me about this situation two weeks ago (i’m usually inside getting things ready and don’t get to see the signs) and then i noticed it on my own last week. the signs were not visible at all.
then i had what i thought was a brilliant idea. i determined that we could use a gobo projector to shoot a sign on the school wall. it would be visible, portable, cool, and decently inexpensive (i’m all about the cheap aspect). the gobo projector will take a few weeks to get to us but it will be here soon. to tide us over i thought of the tripod flashlights you can buy. i remember these from their commercial with an alien using one to fix its spaceship (sometimes advertising does work). i realized i could get two of these and project light onto our street sign so it would be visible. i thought it was brilliant.
then the snow came.
the snow trashed my wonderful idea. 15 minutes before the worship assembly the sign was completely covered in snow. it was very well lite snow but it was still snow. if you were real close to the sign you could make out what it said but if you were more than 20’ away all you saw was a well lite placard of snow. i felt a little like crying in defeat.
free dryer
hey if anyone who reads my blog needs a dryer then i have a bargain for you. when we moved to point 15 months ago we had an electric dryer. the problem was that our new home was rigged for a gas dryer. since we wanted to move to high-capacity, more efficient washers and dryers anyway, we decided to take the money we would have spent in rigging an electric connection for our old dryer and put it into a demo high capacity/ efficient dryer. unfortunately that means our old dryer has sat in the garage waiting for me to do something with it. poor sad little dryer. not being used. sitting in a dark corner by itself. no purpose or meaning in life other than holding some fishing supplies on its lid. makes a tear come to one’s eye.
so here’s what i’m going to do with the dryer. if anyone who reads my blog needs a dryer then you are welcome to have it but you have to buy me a cup of coffee. that’s right there is no getting around the cup of coffee (unless of course you’re too busy at the moment and then the cup of coffee is completely optional). pam and i would rather a friend who has a need gets this thing. so email me.
if no one want this thing (which was functioning perfectly last time i used it) then i’ll probably just put it up on craigslist and try to sell it for $50 or so.
thanksgiving break at the terrell house
it’s not over yet but i still thought i would hit a few of the highlights of the terrell family thanksgiving break. the first highlight was thanksgiving lunch. bree, from tapestry, came over to join us along with three new friends from uwsp, they are international students from china. i can’t remember how to spell their names right now so i’ll fill those back in after i get pam’s help. it was a blast having them join us for lunch and we are going to try and do a few things with them in the future – including possibly introducing them to their first ice hockey game.
the next things on the terrell agenda revolved around spending family time working and resting. the working came in the form of decorating the house. unfortunately now that all the lights are on the roof of the house one of the strings has apparently developed a short that’s blows its fuse within 5 minutes of being turned on.
the resting part came in the form of all of us watching season 2 of “the office”, playing pikmin, and watching bama beat auburn.
it was a really wonderful break and i am very thankful for it.