Bullet Points

Aug 26, 2024 ∞

Bullet Points for a very hot Monday Afternoon

First day of school today for our two oldest kids… both at college so we won’t get chalkboard pics this year.
Back to a full work week; the summer grind seems to set in here in late August. I think our European friends have the right idea, just taking most of August for vacation.
A friend pinged yesterday to note it had been a year since a retreat we attended. That got me reflecting. It’s been quite a year.
Turns out some combination of time, therapy, improved habits, loving family, and patience can produce good results, even in the midst of sadness and chaos.
How am I old enough to have two kids in college?!?
I’ve been umpiring rec league softball again this year and tonight is the end of our tournament. Forecast heat index: 115F. Oof.
Once we get past Labor Day, life speeds up… a lot of business travel this fall.
Related to a couple of these bullets: time to shop for a new suit. Think this time I’m gonna invest a little bit and not just buy whatever I can find cheapest off the rack at Kohl’s.
I keep thinking that if my life gets too slow once the kids are out of the house, I could get certified and start umpiring high school softball. Feels like one of those things that you would have to jump into with both feet and make a fairly exclusive hobby during the summer.
Picked a book up off the shelf for book club yesterday and had forgotten just how good that book is. Time for a re-read, maybe. I don’t re-read too often.
If I stop and think a moment, I kinda wonder what things will look like a year from now when I look back on the (currently upcoming) year. Life is wild.

May 17, 2024 ∞

Bullet Points for a Friday

Between now and July there are only 2 weeks where I’m in the office for 5 full days. This week I was in DC Monday through Wednesday.
I’m gonna be back in the saddle, er, on the bench as a church musician the next couple weeks. Looking forward to it.
Pretty dang excited for the concert tickets I bought this week. More on that later.
Next week I’m out of office for 3 days for Anwyn’s high school graduation.
This means that by next week at this time we’ll have 2 of our 3 kids out of high school. When did we get old?
I’ve been helping pick out the hymns for our church services for the past several months, which has been a good way to learn the Episcopal hymnal and also to pick out songs I enjoy singing. Is that self-serving?
Obviously I mean that I got old but my beautiful wife is as young and lovely as ever.

Happy Friday, everybody.

Apr 16, 2024 ∞

Bullet Points for a York Tuesday

I’m visiting the UK for work this week - my first visit ever. A few thoughts:

Having a public transit system that seems to work: awesome. I landed at London Heathrow, took a subway, a bus, and a regional train and four hours later had arrived in York, some 200 miles away.
For my Iowa friends, this would be like flying into Chicago O’Hare and being able to get to Cedar Rapids via public transit. Nifty.
In-room electric teakettle: delightful, and quick. Why don’t we have them in the US? Oh, because the UK wall voltage is 240v and in the US they would work much more slowly.
York is a lovely place so far.
Antique shop here has the same ugly glass display cases that our antique shops in the US have.
“Antiques” here include tags that say things like ‘Roman, probably 400 BC’.
Felt like the authentic British experience last night when I spent my dinner in a pub next to three guys at the bar who were enjoying after-work pints and arguing about football.
Assuming my arranged cab shows up in 30 minutes, now I have to go actually do some work.

More later.

Dec 9, 2020 ∞

Bullet Points, Special Edition: Unpopular Opinions

I’m feeling particularly crusty today. In the spirit of efficiency, I expect I can write a bunch of bullets here such that everyone can find something that they disagree with.

On politics:

Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to subvert our legitimate election results are traitorous, and the Republican politicians unwilling to call him out on it are spineless opportunists who aren’t worthy to be described as leaders.
The Democratic Party’s insistence on making “any abortion, any time” table stakes for being a Democratic candidate is holding the party back from majority rule for the next 50 years.
The Trump administration’s failure to govern with any priorities other than “what’s best for Trump” makes it the worst presidential administration in the history of the Republic.
If the Democrats want to claim any sort of moral high ground, they’re going to have to get their own house in order. It’s time to stop trotting out Bill Clinton, even if he is a southern Democrat who gives a good speech.

On the evangelical church:

I won’t claim to be an evangelical any more, but I’m clearly still working through a bunch of stuff.
The evangelical church’s focus on patriarchy (dressed up as “complementary gender roles”) has deprived the church of more than half its voice.
The church’s continued trouble with tolerating and covering up sexual abuse would be significantly lessened if women were afforded the same church leadership roles as men.
The huge emphasis on the LGBTQ discussion within the evangelical church is the result of fundamentalist leaders desperately clinging to the same magisterial authority of Scripture interpretation that the Reformation protested against 500 years ago. Once the commoners realize the Holy Spirit enables them to understand the Scripture on their own and they’re not automatically going to hell if they disagree with the church’s teaching, the power is broken.
8 months of not attending worship services (thanks, pandemic) has made it clear how important being able to attend worship services is.

On moral issues:

Most “pro-life” people don’t really, at a core level, believe that an early-term abortion is the same, morally, as killing an infant after birth. If they really did, they would take stronger action.
Nobody wants to get a late-term abortion. The ones that tragically may be needed are worked out in painful circumstances that won’t benefit from laws that would force jumping through a lot of hoops.
Everyone should want the number of abortions to go down. This would happen with better access to contraceptives, better sex education, and better support for pregnant women and young parents.
LGBTQ people deserve the same rights, protections, and affirmations as anyone else. Including in the church. Yes, I’ve read all the verses and heard all the arguments. But I’ve met LGBTQ brothers and sisters who clearly love Jesus and have the Holy Spirit working in their lives. And then I go to Peter’s words in Acts 11 after preaching to the Gentiles.

As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as it had upon us at the beginning. And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit’. If then God gave them the same gift that he gave us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could hinder God?

Acts 11:15-17, NRSV

The arguments can be complicated. As Robert Capon says in Between Noon and Three, if God is a bastard, we’re all in trouble. So in the end, I’m going to rely on the hope that God is loving and gracious and he can sort it out.

Lord Jesus Christ, son of God, have mercy on me.

May 9, 2020 ∞

Bullet Points for a Saturday Morning

Since I started working from home 8 weeks ago, my morning routine has changed. No more gym, reading and writing in the morning instead.
Also, Wordpress is impressed with my 10-day posting streak. It’s easy to write about music. But a lazy bullet points post will get me to 11.
(Insert Spinal Tap reference here.)
Saturday mornings have become cinnamon roll mornings. It’s not helping my waistline but it’s a nice way to celebrate the weekend.
The siding guys are done with our house. It looks great and I’m enthused that I will not need to paint the outside of the house again.
I’m thankful that we have local coffee roasters still doing their thing because Walmart-brand coffee isn’t the greatest.
I’m kinda gonna miss the siding guys, though, since the noise and bustle of them working made it not feel so creepily quiet every day.
I bought a Bibliotheca Bible boxed set when they did the kickstarter several years ago. It seemed like a cool idea but I ended up not being a fan of the translation they used and they quickly just started collecting dust on my shelf.
This week somebody on Facebook wanted to buy them. They are like new other than the New Testament volume which has some minor notes I put in the first 5 chapters of Matthew. Oddly enough that person preferred to buy an incomplete set rather than buy a NT volume with a few notes in it.
Going to the post office to mail these books will be the first time I’ve gone anywhere all week.
These bullet points aren’t as random as they should be. It feels like a lazy way to do a partial narrative without any through line. What the heck, it’s 2020, we all deserve some slack.

Sep 9, 2019 ∞

Bullet Points for a Monday Morning #6

Because it’s been a while…

Lots of topics have rattled around in my head… none have congealed enough for a real post. Oh well.
We did an Alaska vacation in July. It was amazing. It’s really kind of sad that I haven’t posted anything about it so far.
It’s September, which means my summer cheering for the first-place Chicago Cubs has faded into a fall where the Cubs fade and likely just miss the playoffs. Fortunately football season has started. Now if only the Huskers could win a little more consistently…
I listened to some old school Caedmon’s Call last week and was reminded why I loved that group. So tight.
In the spirit of supporting local journalism, last week I subscribed to our local newspaper. My kids think it just means I’m old.
My goal for book buying and reading was to keep the book pile shorter than my bedside table. Then I split the pile into two piles and now the goal is to keep each of them shorter than the bedside table. I really just need to find room for another bookshelf somewhere.
Oh, and my kids are probably right - I am just getting old.
Without mentioning titles, I can tell you off the top of my head that I have books in my to-read stack by Chris Arnade, David Bentley Hart, Fleming Rutledge, Bradley Jersak, Craig Allert, Justin Earley, and tomorrow will add one by Rachael Denhollander. And that doesn’t even acknowledge the pile-up of ebooks in my Kindle app.

Probability of my next post being anything than another Finished Reading Compendium? Pretty slim.

Jul 25, 2018 ∞

Bullet Points for a Wednesday Morning, German Edition

I’m on work travel this week, visiting Cologne, Germany. It’s my second visit to Cologne, which is a lovely European city. Random thoughts:

Jet lag is a weird thing. I’ve slept solidly the past two nights here in Germany but I’m still dog tired mid-morning and late afternoon. Coffee is only marginally helpful.
One thing I love about Cologne is the number of bakeries with fresh bread and rolls easily available. A croissant and coffee for breakfast is just my speed.
18 people in my meeting today and only 4 women. Which, sadly, is still better representation than our industry overall. We should do better.
I’m astonished by the number of people out and about to very late hours. 10 pm and it’s just twilight, restaurants all still going strong, lots of people hanging out along the river.
Trips to Europe turn into opportunities to do two workdays - just as the workday here is ending, the one back home is cranking up. Lots of stuff popping back at the home office this week.
I wish they did air conditioning better over here. It’s HOT.
“Economy Comfort +” on an old Boeing 767-400 is kind of a joke. It’s still expensive and isn’t really comfortable.
They have an abundance of beer house restaurants over here that are remarkably the same - get your choice of bratwurst, wiener schnitzel, or schwein haxe (pork knuckle) with potatoes and sauerkraut. They only serve one kind of beer, the house brand. It’d be kinda like choosing between the Budweiser Restaurant, the Miller Restaurant, and the Coors Restaurant, all of which served similar burgers and fries.
So much beer, not enough water.
That all being said, it’s kinda fun to order 1/2 meter of bratwurst at the restaurant.
I just realized last night that I misplaced a meeting on my calendar for the fall, and since my wife has already scheduled around it, I’ll probably just need to miss the meeting. Oops.
On the other hand, if I could keep that trip I might just make it to gold status with Delta for the first time. Two international trips this year and a bunch of domestic travel…
Oof I’m tired. Where’s the coffee?

Feb 14, 2018 ∞

Bullet points for a Wednesday morning: travel edition

It’s grey outside and I’m on business travel all week. Bring on the bullet points!

I’m ready to be done with this head cold. Bleh.
Normally on a business trip I’d be looking for a nice restaurant to hit for supper. Given that today is Valentine’s Day, I expect they’re all gonna be crazy busy tonight. I think I’ll hit the mall food court instead.
Here’s hoping my 11-year-old remembers to give her mom the card I left with her.
Oh and it’s Ash Wednesday. Thinking I’ll go to a service tonight.
I can’t remember the last time I’ve really gotten into a new album. Probably when the Hamilton soundtrack came out a couple years ago. As a guy who used to be buying a new CD every month or so this seems sad.
I gotta set myself a reminder that I’m leading worship this weekend… have everything planned but need to do some mental rehearsal.
Pitchers and catchers report today. Looking forward to another good season for the Cubs!
Before Hamilton, the last record I really fell in love with was Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs.
Wordsmithing documents in a 20-person committee is quite an experience.
Is it lunchtime yet?

Jul 14, 2017 ∞

Bullet points for a Friday morning, July 2017

Hey, it’s Friday.

The weather is really too nice to be sitting in the office all day today. I might have to do something about that.
My oldest daughter is in the College for Kids program at Coe College this week and next. One of the classes she’s taking is Web Design, and I had a proud nerd dad moment when she told me she was ahead of the rest of the class because she already knew some HTML.
It’s amazing how a shower, shave, some weights at the gym, and it being FRIDAY helps a guy’s general outlook.
Reading through Matthew in my reading plan the past couple weeks and I have started highlighting every place that Jesus heals someone. I have green highlights now on almost every page. Setting things right, indeed.
The back-and-forth the past few days over Eugene Peterson’s comments regarding homosexuality and gay marriage have been enlightening and saddening. I feel mostly like the big evangelical machine took advantage of an old saint who deserves better treatment. Ugh.
How is it mid-July already?
My friend Lyz wrote this piece a couple years ago about her sisters and a major car accident. It’s a beautiful piece of writing.
It’s been a fairly quiet summer event-wise, but in September Becky and I have tickets for concerts two weekends in a row: U2 in St. Louis, and Andrew Peterson’s Rich Mullins tribute concert in Nashville. Now to figure out what we’re doing with the kids.
I’m leading worship this weekend, but apparently I haven’t thought much about it yet because the worship leader disaster dreams haven’t started yet. Probably tonight.
There’s a lot of pain in this world. Be kind.

Feb 8, 2017 ∞

Bullet points for a Wednesday afternoon

I’m glad I signed up for the 0530 kickboxing class, but it’d really help if I’d go to bed earlier at night. Short sleep + workouts = ouch.
Also = zzzzzz. The folks at the coffee stand know my order (large Americano) now and have it going when I walk up.
Not so great: realizing 45 minutes in that what you thought was a one-hour Webex meeting is actually a two-hour Webex meeting.
Better: having said two-hour Webex meeting only take an hour.
My diet that’s supposed to be accompanying my kickboxing class isn’t helped when my wife buys two-pound cinnamon rolls from the local bakery.
I’ve been busy enough lately that I started drafting this on Tuesday morning and just finally published it on Wednesday afternoon.
On balance, I’m not really complaining about the cinnamon roll.

Oct 4, 2016 ∞

Bullet Points for a Tuesday Afternoon

After traveling two out of the last three weeks for work, it’s good to be home.
It’s been really fun having football season start up this past few weeks, but now that the MLB playoffs are starting I’m likely gonna ignore football as long as the Cubs are still in it.
There is a huge amount of Cubs gear for sale in all the stores around here.
I’ve been saying that my goal is to not buy another piece of Cubs gear until I can buy one that says “World Series Champions”. Here’s hoping that means I’ll get to buy some before too many more weeks/years go by.
Please don’t jinx it please don’t jinx it please don’t jinx it #GoCubsGo
On reflection, it’s been an odd year for me music-wise: I don’t think I’ve bought an album or really sunk my teeth into anything new all year. The last record I bought and really fell in love with was the Hamilton Original Broadway Cast recording last fall.
Hamilton. Chicago. March. Can’t wait.
It’s possible that part of my reason for buying less music is that I’ve had a Spotify subscription this year. I don’t listen to it a ton, but it’s great for taking a listen to some new album w/o having to go purchase it or just listen to 30-second samples first.
Can we just get done with the election already? The presidential candidates have been in Iowa since at least August 2015. This is far too long.

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Jan 28, 2015 ∞

Bullet Points for a Wednesday Morning, 2015 edition

I’m in Florida for a work trip this week. It’s been a good time so far. Doesn’t hurt when the view out your conference room window looks like this:

But without further ado, the bullets:

Rental car for this week: Chevy Camaro convertible with about 3000 miles on it. As usual with sports cars, it doesn’t have the visibility I’m used to in my old Saturn and my minivan.
Amending the previous statement: if you put the top down, the visibility is pretty darn good.
How can you tell the Midwestern boy visiting Florida: it’s the coldest week of the winter here (highs only in the low 60s!) and I’m driving around with the top down.
I’ve been a long-time Tweetbot user but I’ve been fooling around with the official Twitter app on my phone the past few days. It’s interesting to evaluate the design choices. All the ads, sorry, “sponsored tweets” in the official app are sure annoying, though.
Last year when I came to this committee meeting, Atlanta got their big ice storm and it took me three extra days to get home. Glad that this year the storm went much further north and won’t interfere with getting home.
Watched Guardians of the Galaxy on the way down here. Not sure it was what I was expecting, but I enjoyed it a lot. The plot seemed far less important than the characters, and I really liked the characters. Merits a second watching.
Then watched The Maze Runner the other night. That was 90 minutes I’ll never get back.
I picked up a $199 Samsung Chromebook right before this trip. I’m reasonably impressed. Cheap hardware, but still functions pretty well. Will be curious to see how it holds up as I use it more.

Enough for now.

Aug 20, 2014 ∞

Bullet Points for a Wednesday Afternoon: San Diego Edition

I’m on business travel this week to San Diego and with so many thoughts rattling around in my head, bullet points might be as good as it gets for now.

There’s been a long-time West Coast - East Coast argument among my friends related to burger joints: In-N-Out vs. Five Guys. I like Five Guys, and today made my first trip to In-N-Out. It was fine, but it’s no Five Guys.
I had more response on Twitter and Facebook to my burger joint comments than I’ve had on any post for months. Apparently I have a lot of friends who have very strong opinions about burger joints.
It’s been a burger-heavy trip; I ate at Hodad’s at a friend’s recommendation on Monday night. It was also pretty tasty.
I love the SoCal weather but can’t imagine living here. The traffic. :shudder:

Some thoughts unrelated to my location this week, in decreasing levels of significance:

Ferguson, Missouri. So sad. So much pent-up history rearing its head the past week or two.
Everywhere else in the world: apparently also falling apart. Come quickly Lord Jesus.
I have a long post about death rattling around in my head but no time or will to write it right now.
I’ve found precious little interesting new music this year, but the eponymous debut record by the band Colony House is a winner.
I won (well, shared) the “Special K” award in our church softball league this season: the award for the most strikeouts. I think I had two.

Jul 4, 2014 ∞

My Fourth of July:

Ran the local 8k. Didn’t set any time records.
At home: finished the laundry and cleaned the bathroom.
Mowed the lawn
Finished tearing out the chain link fence on the west side of the yard
Filled in all the holes left from ripping out the fence posts
Filled four lawn bags with garden weeds
Washed the dishes
Ate a really yummy dinner of grilled chicken and roast potatoes
Strongly considered taking a nap beforzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

Happy Independence Day, everybody!

Jun 25, 2014 ∞

Bullet Points for a Wednesday Morning

Just a few random observations…

Crazy softball game in our church league last night. We were behind 3-0 most of the night, then with two outs in the bottom of the 5th inning we scored 13 runs to invoke the mercy rule. Wild.
I finally got my iPhone back from Apple after I sent it in to get the lock button replaced. Or at least I got an iPhone back. I didn’t record serial numbers, but the device ID reported by my work’s network is different, and it’s missing the little scratch on the screen. I’m not complaining - it’s basically a like-new iPhone 5, 18 months after I originally purchased it.
Curious what the iPhone 6 will turn out to be and whether it’ll be enough to tempt me into an upgrade. If they have a larger device and I can get a decent price for my old iPhone, that might be enough… otherwise I can always wait for the inevitable iPhone 6S.
I thought I lost my Fitbit somewhere going through security on the way home from my business trip last week. Was thinking it’d be a good excuse to need to check out the next round of wearable devices undoubtedly coming out this fall. Ends up I found it this morning in an obscure corner of my backpack. Oh well.
Looking forward to meeting another “internet friend” in person tomorrow. I’ve met a couple dozen folks over the past decade who started out as “internet friends”, and they’ve been pretty consistently awesome. I have no doubt this next one will be, too.
I’m feeling really tired this morning. I have a few vacation days scheduled over the next couple weeks, which should help. I need to schedule a few more. Things just don’t slow down.

May 15, 2014 ∞

Bullet Points for a Thursday - French edition!

It’s Thursday at nearly 7 pm and I’m on the next-to-last day of a quick business trip to France. This is my first visit to France, so my bullet point format seems useful for sharing a few assorted observations after a few days here.

Jet lag is aggravated by shifted working hours. At home, I’m an early bird. Up before 5 am, at work before 7, home by 4, asleep by 10. Here work starts around 9, and dinner doesn’t start until at least 8. Last night’s dinner with customers started at 8:45 pm and ended just after midnight. Yummy food, but tough in the morning.
I think I could spend a full day exploring the Amsterdam airport before I really got bored. The place is huge. Unfortunately I only have 65-minute layovers there both directions.
For business hours being so late, all the shopping around here apparently closes at 5pm sharp. Makes it hard to shop for the family when I’m not here for a weekend. (Sorry in advance, family.)
If I were coming here very often, I would need to learn some French.
The food has been really good. I guess that shouldn’t come as a surprise.
I’ll probably set 3 alarms tonight to make sure that I wake up in time to catch my 6 am flight.
I know I’m bigger than the average human, but it’s still a little unnerving when every toilet I sit down on gives off ominous creaking noises as if it were going to fall off the wall.
That last bullet probably gave you an unpleasant mental image. Sorry.
OK, if I were really sorry I would’ve deleted that bullet.

Tomorrow morning at 6am I leave Toulouse. TLS -> AMS -> ATL -> CID and Lord willing I’m home by 4 pm Central time. That’s a long day, but with a happy end.

May 1, 2014 ∞

Bullet Points for a Thursday

Because hey, I haven’t done one of these on a Thursday for a while.

It’s been kinda quiet at work this week. Certainly that won’t last.
Looks like I’m going to make my first trip to Europe in a couple of weeks for some work meetings. Gonna be a lot of flying for two days of work, but it’ll at least cement my frequent flyer status for another year.
With the cold wet weather all week I have this suspicion we’re gonna go from pseudo-winter to summer without a decent stretch of spring in between. Which is kind of a bummer. I like spring.
I’m not sure what it is about Stephen Hough’s playing, but I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every record of his that I’ve gotten so far. (I got his new one, “In the Night”, this week. Hyperion has the digital downloads available a couple weeks before the CD drops.) My favorite is still his recording of Rachmaninov’s second concerto, though.
I’m annoyed that Home Sharing doesn’t work well on iOS7. I wanted to listen to that new Stephen Hough record on my phone in my bedroom last night, and should’ve been able to just hook up to home sharing from my iTunes library on my iMac. However, it stalls out about 80% of the way through the loading process and never actually works. Sounds like it’s a known problem since iOS 5 or so.
Even with that and a few other gripes with iOS, I have a hard time believing I could be inclined to get some Android phone instead of an iPhone 6 next time I need a phone.
This fall will be the first time in nearly 15 years of owning a cell phone that I won’t be champing at the bit for my 2-year contract to come up so I can get a new phone because I’m so unhappy with my old one. (I may be champing at the bit if the iPhone 6 is particularly awesome, though. I’d love a bigger screen, and to get a 32GB model instead of the 16GB iPhone 5 I have now.)

Well, that ended up more tech-oriented than I thought it would. Sorry. That’s what you get for random bullet points.

Mar 25, 2014 ∞

Bullet Points for a Tuesday Evening

Because hey, I like this format.

Just when you think spring was here, we get snow. The ground and roads were covered this morning. Ick. At least it’s melted off by this afternoon.
There’s a 60 degree day in the forecast. I’ll believe it when I see it.
Of course, next week I’ll be in Florida for work where the highs are supposed to be in the low 80’s every day.
You aren’t reading this just to get Chris’s thoughts on the weather, are you?
I just submitted a big proposal at work this afternoon. Praying that it is looked upon favorably.
I desperately need some other music to get rid of the Frozen soundtrack earworm that’s plagued me the past week. The girls have been singing “Do you want to build a snowman?” incessantly.
I did something this morning I haven’t done in ages - turned off my alarm w/o realizing it and overslept past something on my calendar, in this case my Tuesday morning Bible study. Oops.
I have fresh brownies on the stove and a chapter of The Hobbit to read to the girls, so this will be my last bullet.

Mar 17, 2014 ∞

Bullet Points for a Monday #5

Because, hey, it’s been a long time since I’ve done one of these.

Did my first three-service weekend on worship team the last two days. I think I made the right decision to go to only one week per month.
The worship set, albeit short, was a good one.
Did a special number with a friend and it turned out really well.
Have come to happy acceptance of the fact that I’ll never really be a soloist, but I can be a darn good backup singer. That works for me.
Work has recently given me a case of ‘be careful what you wish for because you might just get it’. More to follow, but it’ll be an interesting next few months.
We’re right in the middle of birthday week at the Hubbs house. Two birthdays down, one to go. Being 37 doesn’t make me feel nearly as old as having my youngest daughter turn 5 does.
After griping that I missed Markdown support in my move back to Wordpress, my friend Randy pointed out that Wordpress added Markdown support via the Jetpack plugin a few months back. Huzzah!
I’ve got a lot of thoughts brewing on the recent developments re: Bill Gothard and Mark Driscoll, but nothing really that feels solid enough or useful enough to be worth posting. Praying for all concerned.

Such are my scattered thoughts for Monday.

Jan 9, 2012 ∞

Bullet Points for a Monday #4

I haven’t done one of these in a while, but was reminded just how much fun they are. So, without further ado…

I just got invited to join the Boar’s Head Tavern. More exciting than I’d like to admit.
Just ordered a little M-Audio MIDI controller keyboard to hook up to my Mac. Christmas money well spent! Time to start playing around with Garage Band.
I have to remind myself when blogging through Stringfellow that it’s not necessarily that I’m reading groundbreaking thoughts, but that I just haven’t read many liberal / Arminian theologians.
After a couple of years of not traveling much, my spring looks like it’s settling into a once-a-month travel groove. December: Florida. January: Seattle. February: Washington, DC. March: Wichita.
My not-quite-3-year-old daughter correctly used the phrase “That’s what I’m talkin'” tonight. I could not have been more proud. (We’ll get her to add the “about” one of these days.)
Excited to hear the news that I will be an uncle come July - first time on my side of the family! So excited for Andrew and Heather.
While I’m happy that this nifty daily Bible reading app I found for my phone might help me do the read-through-the-Bible-in-a-year thing, I feel shame that it’s taking my technology addiction to help encourage my soul addiction.
I could’ve posted each of these as Tweets or FB status updates, but somehow this was more satisfying.