EELS tonight! So stoked. Well, aside from the being old and staying out late thing. But still-EELS ( Read more... )

Surreal: they're playing Newsboys' Take Me To Your Leader at Irwin's.

Little known fact: I'm on that album (as part of a crowd singing "Breakfast In Hell"). If I did that "25 things" meme, that'd be on it.

New tips for my earbuds arrived yesterday. Makes time at Irwin's so much easier ( Read more... )

I've decided I'd like to be known as "Deacon Blues ( Read more... )

Annual leadership offsite meeting for our church today. It's a good chance to look back and forward together, and thankfully it's still cool and gray, or else we'd probably have an insurrection on our hands. Have to give two presentations (one on church operations and one on serving the city of Seattle) as part of my omnibus job (plus being part of ( Read more... )

Current events I'm trying not to be too bummed about:

• barlow_girl is in Atlanta for work until Tuesday. Couples deal with separate travel and schedules all the time, and it's really not a huge deal (it weirds me out when people are incapacitated when their spouse is away), but it's still the first time we've been apart for this long and I miss her.
• Got notice ( Read more... )

Anyone know of a good online tool to build a web-accessible catalog of my home media (books, CDs, DVDs, etc.)? I'd love to be able to look up what I have when I'm not home so I can share with friends, etc. Mac compatibility a plus if there's a client, but web-based solutions should wash most of that out (unless there's, dare I hope, an iPhone

Can't figure out that tune stuck in your head? Problem solved.

For anyone feeling like this world is unpredictable and topsy-turvy, a message of assurance from Rick Astley:


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Setting up the digital cable on Saturday was indeed a pain, involving two trips to Radio Shack for cables (the ones they directed me to the first time were wrong-I hate when sales staff feel the need to get involved instead of letting me do my thing) and a kludgy infrared workaround to put the TiVo and the cable box on the same page. Blasted thing ( Read more... )