Author Archives: Randy Peterman

In Transit

This morning we’ll be leaving at 7:00 from Reno and we’ll be in Denver at 10:00. This means that I should be back to work by 1:00 Mountain Time. It also means we’ll miss my brother’s family and my sister’s new family. It also means Abby will have to go through a transition time that could be quite intense 🙂

New Blog to Monitor

My buddy Ben Linn, and his wife Dorine, have a blog now. Super cool. Ben is really oddly funny so I love to chuckle at what he says. He was the DJ at Becky’s wedding. Ben is a much better MC than I am, he’s funny, he’s got a lot of wit and I’m too focused on changing the songs correctly with little interjection. But that’s a throw back when we use to DJ at ‘Christian Skate Night’ at Skate Trak here in Carson City.

Ben and I used to be in a band together (should have been ‘banned’) in high school and also we played at a coffee house in Reno a couple times. His skillz rock and he’s fun to play with. I look forward to some future playing… when we come to visit again. He and the Missus are a blessing.

GMail Invites

I sent out more invites to GMail today… honestly I don’t find it that powerful or amazing. It is a nice, clean webmail interface, but that is what we try to do with WorldClient as well. I’m working on a Standards based theme for WorldClient that should be able to use CSS and DHTML easily and create a powerful, fast theme that people will want to use. It won’t be browser specific either (though I do use some Mozilla tricks here and there, but only to enhance style and not limit functionality to one browser). We’ll see what happens, hopefully people will receive it well.

Last Day

Today is the last full day here in Carson City and unfortunately I’m going to have to work (it’s not very unfortunate, becauses at least I’ve got clients and an income). However, tonight I hope to get some extra good time in playing with my nephew and hanging out with my brother and his wonderful wife. We’re blessed to have them as family and I wish that I could come visit them more often! Anyway, we’re getting down to the last minutes so I’m not going to blog on and on about it.

Theology and Hermeneutics

I’ve had a conversation or two here that has made me want to say, “Get some basic understandings of Hermeneutics!” Understanding context, who the intended audience is, and what the key details of the language are makes a HUGE difference in what you conclude the interpretation and application are. If Christ was speaking directly to his disciples then just throwing yourself into their midst to gain direct application of what he said makes you a Disciple. “I am a disciple,” you say. Yes, but you are not one of The Disciples. And therein lies a great distinction. Don’t get confused about who you are in Christ. His disciples were small servants, we are called to be even smaller servants, more humble, more willing to serve… don’t try to be great and powerful, but be a simple vessel who can be used.

I also stuck my mouth in my foot (not a typo but a joke) last week when I went to breakfast with my brother and his mentor, Eric. I talked negatively about Benny Hinn (who is a heretic in my opinion). Eric didn’t seem to like my negativity about Benny. Then on Sunday at church the pastor, Louie, talked highly of him. Doh!

Father’s Day and the Day Before

Well, as a father I happen to like having a daughter, and Abby was especially cute saying, “Happy Fathers Day.” I think it was Shari who also taught her how to say, “Sup Dawg.” So Abby is learning a lot of things here and she is having a great time with cousin Brennan.

I got to see a long list of people at the Katzorke-Peterman wedding – I was an usher along with my brother and so I got to seet folks – which gave me a whole 45 seconds to chit chat and tell them that I like Colorado. Colorado was the major question I got asked about.

“How do you like Colorado?”

“I hate it.”

“Really? Why?”

“Because it seems like a nice place and if it is a nice place then it means that any day now I’ll be unplugged from the Matrix by swallowing the red pill [Nyquil].”

“Follow the white Rabbit.”

Speaking of rabbits I haven’t seen any here for some time so I hope that we’ll be able to take a walk when I get back and go for a long bunny counting walk and see 29 bunnies – a new record for a bunny walk (28 is the current record).

Sponge Bob Square Pants has been the DVD of choice for the kids and “Madame Blueberry” [Veggie Tales] the VHS video of choice. I have seen all 10 episodes of Sponge Bob at least 2 times if not 3-5 for some of them.

That is all for now – class is dismissed.