I "love" SAS

At about 11:30, i was ready to throw the office computer on the floor and kick it. And kick it even harder when it was down. I am glad I didn’t because I finally got it to do what I wanted it to do. The reason is multifold: a teaching style that stinks (especially compare to Dr. Loughin's), the unhelpfulness of error codes, the absolute hapless help service of SAS help, and just bad coding.

So, to cheer up the mood before going to bed; I worked on some of my picture from KC this past weekend. Enjoy

. . . . Lauren & Sis. . . . . . . . . Brittany, Holly, & Anna

The final results! . . . . . . . . . . . . Tom & I . . .

. . . . Tom after working . . . . . . My fantastic Rook Partner

PS I have fuzzy feelings for castpost too! On October 14, they installed flash player for all mp3 files. There is no way to save the mp3 to file. Grr.. But the other stuff still saves—for now.

Wife Beater

This past weekend was awesome. It started with a Rook game that Scott Kellenberger and I swept. Next came a shocking experience during the service project in Kansas City. We still don’t know the price tag of crossing the wires in the attic, but the electrician was working on the problem. I am just so thankful that Tom or I didn’t touch bare wires and that we found the problem before we left!

Saturday night was an enlightening Bible study by Kent Heimer in Fort Scott. He expounded on the types of believers and lost persons. I have yet to listen to first 8 minutes, which I can from castpost. The best part of the weekend was testimonies and baptisms on Sunday. Robin and Jud had such encouraging stories and radiating joy. It was great.

I didn’t do a good job packing last Friday. I had to borrow an undershirt for Sunday because I only had my white shirt and would in NO WAY go without an undershirt if I didn’t have a jacket! I found out why wife beaters have a bad rap. The straps were just wrong. I wondered if I needed to shave my pits after I put it on. After the whole day, I was nice to put it in the wash and rejoice in my collection of undershirts!

Jeremiah 35

to my faithful fans! i can’t wait to see you in Plymouth in a few weeks. i’ll keep you posted on my plans for the holidays

Ever since College Weekend, I have been thinking about the Rechabites. These were like the puritans/separatist of the old testament. For over 200 years, they observed the commands of their father (grandfather, great-grandfather, ect.), Jonadab, to be pilgrims in the northern kingdom of Israel. In addition to not owning property, they were not to drink wine—and they didn’t, even when it was given to them.

Their obedience is astounding! As God notes, their descendents will be in a much better situation to serve him because of their actions. In fact, through all time there will be at least one of their descendents serving the Lord God.

I strongly encourage you to read Jeremiah 35 and contemplate the significance of this story. This makes the prayer of Jabez look puny. If you want you children to serve the Lord, you need to be obedient!

PS. There are several sources of college weekend mp3s:

Bluffton Young Group: www.blufftonyg.com
They have the main 5 speakers (not sisters-only talk) at a 128 bit rate (0.92 MB/min)

Castpost: Kellan’s and Dona’s
Together these sites have everything released on the CW CDs at a 56 bit rate (0.40 MB/min) that personally sounds as good as the 128, but is half the size!

PPS. Warning: b/c of Jonadab, i came across Jehu. Since he has similar driving patterns as many Americans, expect a post in the near future about him!

PPPS. That was so kool! I mentioned pilgrims, puritans, separatist, and Plymouth all in the same post:)

PPPPS. There is the odd chance I will end up at indyoutreach and francesville this next weekend!

Simplicity

Everything in life is simple
There are a lot of little things

(the wonders of the mind in a stat course)

Rollerblading on Campus

Several facts of life which were very real today:
Backpack limits ability to respond to movement
Rollerblades often stop at heavy electrical cords
Body still moves forward
Backpack is capable of flying forward
Backpack can land on back of head
Head can hit concrete twice
Once on the fall
Twice on the hit
No Pictures b/c hair covers all
Lied to girl, it hurt

The small things in life

A reflection on the past ~30 hours
Today is my day to enjoy the small things of life:
Class (prof had a breakdown, I think he hit his head against the floor)
Chess (game in progress)
My Bible (and my notes tucked inside)
A time of sharing (KSYG)
Breakfast with a friend
Note from your little sis
Newspaper
A delicious lunch (the reason for this post)

I hope and pray that you can find it in you to thank God for the little things in life.

Champaign — Urbana

It was such a good feeling
the lid went clunk and the paper fell inside
I opened the lid again and it was empty
big blue box

I send the college weekend postcards today. It was an accomplishment, since I never quite get them sent—at least before the weekend. College weekend has been on my mind lately.

The fellowship—I will be able to see friends from Indiana!

The speakers—great exhortation for our lives!

I am really looking forward to the speakers and have been praying for them:

Tim Funk
Dewayne Dill
Ken Wuetrich
Ted Witzig Jr.
Ron Messner

kI - o - wä´

This past weekend was a great adventure out west.

The reason for it taking so long for me to make this post is editing of the following video.
Yes, I did use a MAC for the editing.
Yes, MACs may be better for video editing.
No, MACs will not take over this world.
I still think PCs are better than MACs!!!

WARNING—to all my faithful readers (ie. Mom and Dad) that do not have much experience viewing video on the dial-up, 38.3 MB is a large file! Maybe try downloading it from HERE overnight or when you can tie up the line forever. (right click and select “Save Target As…”)


Chubby Bunny powered by Castpost

Whatever you might think, we did more than laugh on this trip:

• The times on the road were great times to share, listen, and sleep
• The campfire was a quite time of reflection
• Saturday morning was a wet, soggy sleeping bag
• Saturday breakfast as tasteful in the shed doorway
• Saturday noon was a great time to grab a shower
• Saturday afternoon was a long talk with Kent Kisling
• Saturday night was a joyful noise in the grain bin
• Saturday night was a dry night by the fire
• Sunday was two good sermons by Ronald and Jeff
• Sunday ‘lunch’ was provided after church by the Bahrs
• Sunday fellowship was provided with the ‘lunch’
• Seth drove the entire trip safely
• I got some more kool pics

Kiowa Campout!!