Trouble For Me

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My brother Ed is getting stronger and stronger now that he works as a prison guard (I’m sure he has a technical title that is more official sounding, but frankly, I don’t know what it is). The following picture shows off his muscles.
Ed's Muscles
Jessica brought me into the other room to show me the muscles in that picture and say, “You’re brother’s muscles look toned [or something to that effect].”

That inspired me enough to go work out 6 days in a row now. And I’m going to keep going. There will be no excuses (besides death and sickness) for not going to the gym. I will become ripped by June 19th when Ed and I are ushers at my sister’s wedding. There may be pain involved, and the last 6 days have had soreness, but I will win!

G33k

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You know you’re a geek when you see the text “MAP” and think there’s an I missing (IMAP or MAPI, you’re call.).

Alternate confession: I thought of also titling this “An Eye for an I.”

Sprinkling Tea

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Yesterday Jessica went to the Celestial Seasoning factory in Boulder with Jillia and my Mom. She bought some small individual tea packages for travel (or to spend more money) there. Abby has been walking around the apartment waving the tea bags over various things (in a sprinkling motion). She keeps saying, “Peppers.” I love my silly girl!

Lunch With Mike

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Had lunch with Mike Doyle of [insert something witty here] fame. What a neat brother in Christ! He’s an elder at Holly Hills and so I was glad to talk with him and get to know him a little better. He teaches the and looks at all of the Post Acts 2 New Testament through the eye of the Positional Truths. If you’re not familiar with those as I wish I had been all along they are that the Christian
1) Has died with Christ
2) Been buried with Christ
3) Been resurrected with Christ
4) Ascended to the Heavenlies with Christ
5) Is seated in the Heavenlies with Christ.

Those are positional truths as in they are sealed and accomplished right now for the Christian. They define our position as believers. At the same time while in these ‘mortal coils’ (our bodies) we also are experiencing the frustration of our condition. The thing about our earthly condition is that it may not match our heavenly position. However, because our position is sealed we can walk in grace through our conditional lives. When we receive our new heavenly bodies our condition and position will be ‘synchronized.’ Until then hold strong knowing that your condition may at times not line up with our position, but we need to be thinking with the mind of Christ and walking in obedience to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is making intercession for you so that whatever shortcomings your flesh has, He and Christ will make up for to balance out your condition and position (Romans chapter 8) [Picture: timeline].

On Being a Consultant

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So far I haven’t had a lot of experience at this, but here’s my thoughts so far:

Getting Work Done
A lot of folks (three) have commented on how they didn’t think they could actually be determined to work. They claimed they would be lazy and never get anything done. However, I’ve got three motivators:
1) Self Control
2) Fear
3) My Wife
If I find myself not wanting to work on the Self Control level, where I will myself to work, Fear kicks in. If I don’t get things done, my clients don’t pay me, and I’m hosed. If neither of the other two are working Jessica will kick my behind (she works out every morning) and say, “If you don’t work I can’t buy your crumby wheat-free foods and you’ll starve to death.”
Organization
I’m still working on this, but I think that organization is good, everyone should do it. When you figure it out, please let me know.

Actually, I find that because my days are structured almost exactly the way they were when I worked at Alt-N as an employee that I am getting much more done. Primarly because folks aren’t stopping by my office on the way to the bathroom. Oh, and Arvel’s not jamming in the room next to me 😉 [Arvel, you know we love you and your jam times. Props for the headphones.]

Billing
Yeah, I’m working on this, too. I have to bill for my first two weeks of work and if I don’t get a bill to my clients, I suppose they’ll have no reason to pay me. Not getting paid would stink because then I’d have to face #3 from above :).

Getting Known
I’m working on getting known by constantly interacting on various forums and also by networking with people who have, do, or know people who have or do web sites.

One example of sites that I’d like to redo is: http://www.burtkunihonda.com/en_US/
Their site dies in any browser besides Internet Explorer and uses more frames than I’ve ever seen used. Seriously. What kind of customer base do you hope to keep if your site won’t work in anything but the latest Microsoft product?

Derailed

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Yesterday at the men’s Bible study at Holly Hills [I did not design that site, nor do I endorse the use of Flash as the medium for an entire site.] we got derailed because a fellow there was confused about “The Lord’s Prayer” and its application to Christians. For the record, “The Lord’s Prayer” (recorded in Matthew 6 and the book of Luke as well) is not for Christians, it was asked for by the disciples, and replied to, by Christ, for the disciples. Why are we stuck on this? Because people don’t understand hermeneutics. Get your time lines straight, get your audience straight, get your language information strait so that your observations are all in a row, then interpret, then look for applications. If there are no applications to you as a modern day Church-Age saint, then don’t sweat it. God made promises to lots of folks in the Bible, not all of them are for you. This is OK. If you go around claiming blessings that God promised to any old body (Jabez for example) then you best start claiming the curses, too.

OK, the rant’s over.

Ranty Peterman

Caffeinated soda raises hypertension risk in black teens, White teens off the hook

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As CNN points out there’s no real harm if you’re white and drink four soda’s a day [Translation for those of you in the south: a soda is a ‘Coke‘]. I am so glad that I can let my white daughter consume four sodas and she’ll be safe. I’m glad that her heart will not be effected, her chance for diabetes will not be effected, her teeth will not be effected and other things won’t be effected because soda’s primary risk is caffeine.

Lucky me I drink Coffee so I’m in the clear, too.