I want to share this, for no other reason than that it's so tech-geeky. The bulb in our projector at the church is dying. Thankfully one gentleman in the church offered to donate his projector, at least until we can get a replacement bulb. But the video cable that went to the old projector is a wonky connection that doesn't go with the new ( Read more... )

We had a movie night at our church for the film Courageous. If you haven't heard about it, it's about a group of cops who dedicate themselves to being better fathers. It's really touching, and of course it makes me think about my own job as a dad. I would generally say my performance has been in the "acceptable" range, but the whole point of the ( Read more... )

I think I mentioned earlier that I was elected as our church's Sunday School Superintendent, which includes the job of organizing the Vacation Bible School (VBS). This week was VBS week, and it went smashingly. I was worried that I wouldn't have enough help, but it turns out I had plenty. Gretchen's sister Pam was huge in this-- she made sure we ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my 400 month birthday! What did you get me? I got myself a car. No, really. Gretchen and I found a little Dodge Neon that we pretty much fell in love with. It's an '05, which might be the newest used car I've ever owned. My father-in-law checked it out and couldn't find anything wrong with it, and he said he hadn't seen any cars that ( Read more... )

Gretchen is gone to a Women's Ministries weekend. She took Corinne, leaving me with Ethan. That's good. I have a feeling that he and I are going to have a good weekend. He'll probably spend some time with his friend KC from down the street, and we might go see a movie at the cheap theater tomorrow. We also need to do some reading, because we've ( Read more... )

Wow, busy weekend. Saturday, Ethan and I (along with a bunch of other Cub Scouts and their parents) participated in the annual Scouting For Food drive. The first part was last weekend, where we went door-to-door dropping off empty grocery sacks with instructional fliers in them. This weekend, we went around and picked up the sacks, hopefully filled ( Read more... )

...in list form, of naturally:

• We're still trying to figure out how we're going to make ends meet in the fall. We talked about the idea of Gretchen opening an in-home daycare, but we ruled that out for a few reasons. It's a lot of work for not very much return-- Gretchen's sister did it for several years, and basically broke even with it. And ( Read more... )

Well, the big events from this weekend are basically done. Corinne's baby dedication at church was so wonderful. My parents, Gretchen's parents, Gretchen's sisters, and all of the cousins were there. I need to send a little thank you note to the pastor for doing such an outstanding job with it. I was so thankful that so many members of Corinne's ( Read more... )

I've been slacking on LJ (specifically tbone and tb0ne) lately. Here's the rundown for today:

• In one hour, I will be attending Ethan's kindergarten graduation. GO ETHAN! Yes, we have the camera all charged up.
• Later tonight, Ethan has a tee-ball game and I have a softball game. Hopefully I'll get to attend both for at least a little bit.
• Work is work. It's ( Read more... )

We had an alter call at church this morning, and for the first time I actually went up to it. I guess I overcame my fear of public weirdness or... whatever my excuse always is. Actually I've never had a pressing enough need to go up for an alter call, but things are a little crazy in my life right now. It's not just the worry about the car (and the ( Read more... )