The Hungry Heart

I am working on converting Mile’s Stanford’s devotional The Hungry Heart into an RSS feed. I recommend that you read it if you’re interested in spiritual growth, it’s a powerful series of biblical principles that I’m going to go through as well.

I’m excited and hope to be able to get permission from Mr. Stanford’s wife to publish it in RSS form.

Rockies, Also in the Background

Today, after a fabulous time at church Jessica and I went to a Colorado Rockies game with Brian and Jillia and watched them trounce the Atlanta Braves. I expected more from a team who had been to the World Series a couple of times. The Braves lost by 9 runs {13 to 4 was the final score}. When we arrived, a few minutes late we sat in the ‘nose bleed seats’ along the first base line. What made the game, and what makes most baseball games fun, was the fellowship and talking. Brian and I talked about all sorts of things because in the end the game was kind of lame.

When the home team is whooping up on the visitors like that you sort of feel bad. It looked like the Rockies were playing a college team.

Jillia is ready to have the baby at any time, and Brian’s birthday is on Thursday, so he’s hoping for the best present ever, a baby girl!

Coffee

To help me reduce my coffee intake Josiah (from church) gave me freshly roasted coffee. He roasts and grinds it all himself, which I thought [the roasting] would take a huge furnace. I was wrong. Instead it was a little device that looked like a cross between a hot air popcorn popper and a coffee pot.

He gave me some beans so I ground them up and am making a pot right now. These beans smell so different from Starbuck’s beans, probably because they’re fresher than Starbuck’s can make them and distribute them to 5 million, bazillion, quadrillion stores.

Thanks Josiah!

Happy Birthday Hadley

Yesterday Abby went to her first CO birthday party (for kids). Hadley turned 2. We had a fabulous time and it was a neat time of fellowship. We’re looking forward to getting to know these people.

Abby got some little rubber animals, a frog and a snake, a lobster and a sting ray. Abby quickly introduced the frog and snake to one another and they were shortly sitting on the couch together, which is what people do when they get to know one another 🙂

Gotta love kids.

Freakazoid

When I was a kid I used to watch Freakazoid (or, I may have been a young teenager). I’m watching an episode now. I love non-sequiturs. I also love how the show makes absolute fun of popular culture. It’s like ‘Weird Al’ the cartoon 🙂

Welcome to the Web

My friends Brian and Jillia White have a web site now. I helped Brian set up the same software that I’m using on this site to run his. Which means they look similar (almost identical). Which means that I need to alter the CSS on this site so that it doesn’t quite look the same.

I’ve got a lot to do though, I’ve got two clients and an office to organize. Gotta pay the bills before I have ‘fun.’

HP Celeron Web Surfer

Last night I went to Micro Center [Sadly, there’s no Fry’s, yet.] and bought an HP [an HP is not grammatically correct, but I like the way it sounds better than ‘a HP’] a305w refurbished machine for cheap. I bought it so that Jessica could have a computer out in the front because I’ve hogged all of the other machines in my office, which is finally up and running.

I’m actually sitting in my office right now coding. The DSL modem got here yesterday, it’s not what I wanted and it doesn’t work with my NETGEAR router yet, but I’m going to keep it just so I can work. I love my setup, with the exception that I’d like to have four or five more monitors.

Right now my setup consists of:
1 Dell D600 Latitude laptop
1 Frankenstein Desktop with Soundblaster Audigy ZS
1 Both computers are attached to a Dell 18″ Flat panel monitor – source switching enabled.
1 Microsoft Ergonomic (“Natural”) Wireless Keyboard and Mouse for the laptop
1 Roland Dinosaur (D-10) keyboard
1 Alesis SR-16
1 Sony Tape Deck to record tapes into MP3’s
1 Altec Lansing Surround Sound speaker package – which can’t be turned up loud enough at the present
1 Really nice desk given to me by Phil – a really nice guy at the church
1 Epson ‘perfection’ scanner
1 HP Deskjet 950C printer
1 Wacom tablet for graphics work
1 Wife who wishes she could get her husband away from the computers for a few minutes
1 Daughter who thinks CD’s go in a VCR that now doesn’t work
1 Broken Crystal Lewis ‘Hymns – My Life’ CD

pictures are forthcoming:)