Tonight there is a LOW of 63 degrees.
How awesome is that?
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I’ve not put anything up here the last few days. I’ve sorta been out of pocket. There were a couple of tornadoes that came through here.
We’re still living with my dad in New Albany for the time being (hopefully we get our own place SOON!) Friday afternoon we were over in Oxford looking at a few houses and running some errands. As we were starting to leave, it got really dark and rainy in the middle of the afternoon. I stopped for some gas and it got heavy.
Driving across Highway 30 towards New Albany, I kept the radio on and would hear the National Weather Service give the updates of T-storm warnings and even a tornado warning. But it was about 10 miles behind us by that time. We drove through some really crazy looking lightning, but ended up getting ahead of the storm to where we could drive without the wipers on.
We got to my dads and it was still a dark sky. Rumbles of thunder. Cool lightning. But not much rain. But I knew it was coming. Soon after we got home it started getting bad. Then worse. Then it was raining sideways. I tried to get a radio tuned into a weather report, but then the power went out. Everyone was down in the basement. About 11 people and 3 dogs. Trees were going nuts outside, and my dad said that a huge tree across the street from the house was now laying across the road and into his yard. That’s why we had no power.
It disappeared. I could go out and see trees down and hear the weather sirens and emergency vehicle sirens everywhere. I called my mom because she could tell me what she saw on her tv. She said another was headed this way in a matter of minutes. So I moved a car out from under a tree then hunkered down again. Tornado #2 came by.
With no electricity, we went to Tupelo to stay w/ my out-laws. But leaving town I could tell it had been pretty serious close by. There were state troopers and sheriff’s deputies everywhere. Traffic was bumper to bumper in town. And there were vehicles w/ flashing lights going everywhere.
But today, as I drove back across Highway 30 through Union County, I saw Continue reading
I first heard John Piper at Passion back in the late 90’s. He was a guy you took lots of notes, read back through them. Bought the tape (yes, tape. Not yet cd or mp3) and re-listened to his talk. Then you figured out what he was really saying and meaning. He was usually pretty deep and profound.
I came across this video a couple of weeks ago. It is pretty profound too. Yet very simple. And real. Tell me what you think about it.
Well?
So this weekend my son turned one month old. It had been about three and a half years since my second little girl had been born. So there were a lot of things I’d forgotten about babies. Here are a few I remembered and some new things as well.
- Babies are tiny! He was the biggest of our three kids. But I didn’t remember the other two being that small when they were born.
- I’d forgotten the unique smell of babies.
- A baby will fool you with the first few nights in the hospital. They sleep like a rock. It changes after the first few nights!
- Diapers fill up fast and constantly.
- When you change a baby boy’s diaper, there are more things you gotta check around to make sure you get everything wiped clean.
- When you change a baby boy’s diaper, you gotta do it faster, or you might get squirted!
- Babies like for you to pick them up. But most of the time, it’s not just enough to pick them up. You need to walk and sway in order to calm them.
- Your parents stop wanting to see you for a while, only their new grandbaby.
- Spit-up stinks.
- A baby’s coo can be one of the most soothing sounds.
- A baby’s shrill cry can make you want to put an ice pick through your temple!
Sometimes our world does seem sorta crazy. But our world is pretty cool (especially in its natural state). Watching this commercial reminds me of that. And that I need to get out and experience it more. (It also reminds me that Discovery is a pretty cool channel.)
Boom Di Atah!
[ht to Andy]
So we’d been trying to get the message from our weekend services at The Orchard recorded for the last few weeks. But we had a few equipment issues, then some bad cords. But then I ended up buying a Tascam 144 USB Interface. You plug it into the iBook G4 and also into the soundboard. And then VOILA! Well, not voila…there were a few settings that were causing some frustrations
But then I got to work in Garageband for a while putting the pieces together, using the little intro music, recording a brief welcome message, and getting all the id3 tags right.
I’ve submitted our podast iTunes, but it will probably take a few days until it gets flying there. But we’re looking forward to this being a great way for our folks to keep up if they’re out a weekend. Also a great way for so many of our college students to listen in during the summer (or for their parents to check out where they’re going to church while away at college.)
Right now we have it set up on iWeb, so if you want to check out our first edition, go for it!
I remember one time in high school walking across the top, high arching supports of a rail road bridge. It was a complete rush. And made me shake a little. This right here would be nuts!
Could you even imagine doing this?
(ht to Brody)
I was trying to update my blog and a few others to WP 2.5.1 this morning. But one of them wasn’t working correctly. Still exactly not sure what the problem with it is, but I’ve got the techies working on it now.
But in doing so, I was cleaning up some things as well. And I ended up deleting my stats program. Like sent it to the far reaches of the internet to where I’m not sure it can be recovered. Ouch.
Sometimes I get excited about the things I can learn and do online. I am soooooooooo far behind a lot of people I know when it comes to what they can do with technology. But then again, I know plenty of people who still don’t even realize what a blog is (much less twitter) or have an email address.
Technology can be a beautiful thing. Just gotta make sure you’re using it for redeemed purposes!
Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night to a rain storm and started thinking about your car windows? And you start asking yourself, “How was the weather when I parked? Did I leave the window down?”
And then it gets to the point to where you have to get up and go check the window in the storm to make sure that your driver’s seat isn’t filling up with water?
That just happened to me.
Lucky me.
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LOOOONG ago I signed up for something called Twitter. I was reading about it on some blogs I visited. I checked back and the first time I ever used Twitter was on March 24 of 2007! Wow.
But basically Twitter is what I’d describe a cross between instant messaging and blogging. You can post quick updates no more than 140 characters to let people know, what you are doing! Because that’s the question you answer, “What are you doing?”
At first I was like, “Who cares?” and in the very beginning it almost seems pointless, but the trick is starting to follow people and have people follow you. [“Following” means you’re keeping up with someone’s tweets (messages they send by way of Twitter)] The video below explains it pretty well.
I started following people I “know of” through blogs and such. But once I had people I actually knew doing it, it got even more fun! So I have people who’s blogs I read like Brody Harper. He’s at the GMA’s right now and I know what’s going on backstage pretty often because of his Twitter. But then again I know Pat Ward personally, so I can keep up with his goings on too.
Is it overkill? Dunno, it’s up to you. It probably won’t seem cool right at first. But the more you do it, the more you find your people to follow, and the more you interact, the greater the experience.
Are there privacy issues? Of course, as there is with everything. Twitter was even on CSI. Watch this clip:
So, follow me on Twitter :: www.twitter.com/statedog. Sign up. Then search your address books for people you know who are already on Twitter!
