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I’m back baby. I’m in the process of writing some articles, probably more tech related. We’ll see.
Amy and I met up with the ‘crew at Celebration at the Station. It’s this annual free outdoor symphony with 35,000 other people from the KC area. It was a good time for sure. And I must give myself a pat on the back for parking where I did because I took some back roads and avoided nearly all the traffic. Huzzah.
As for what I’ve been doing lately. Well, Project X has been occupying a lot of my time. As it should, but still it’s a definite change of pace that takes some getting used to. What is Project X you may ask? Well I’m being pretty discrete about who I’m telling.
We’re both doing really well though. Our small group still continues to amaze me. Numbers are good, but content is better. And we have both! Praise God!
On a nerd note: I recently had a chance to show off my computer to a die-hard Mac fan and he was throughly impressed and is now starting to ask questions about how he can achieve the same thing. Thanks to Beryl and Ubuntu. Oh I almost forgot, huge news for the Linux world. Dell is now shipping computers with the option to have Ubuntu Linux installed instead of Windows. Yes!!
Pictures from Union Station.
Ohh, scary…Friday the 13th beware. Well nothing real bad happened, so that’s good. But our basement did develop a little bit of a flood (more of a backup really). See picture:
If you look close enough you can see, yep you guess it, chunks of food. Apparently everything that was washed down from the kitchen sink would end up in the basement. I found some humor in the situation (as I do with most situations).
Great, now what do we do? We called our home owners insurance that came with our house. They were nice enough to put us in touch with a plumber. The main benefit to having home owners insurance is that you only have to pay a deductible. So instead of paying $140+ for hiring a plumber to come clean (or snake) the pipes we’d only have to pay our $55 deductible. That’s good. But still, being that Amy and I are trying to save up money for China we’re looking to cut corners where possible. I talked to my dad who told me how to do it myself. So, long story short, after only 3 feet of snake, our pipes were cleared and I saved myself $55! Hooray!
Onto the next bit of interesting Friday the 13th business. It snowed! In April!
Granted it was more of dusting, it still counts.
On a different note: I saved a Mac today. Ugh very, very frustrating. [for any mac-heads out there] What’s the deal with how valuable Fonts are to the Mac system? Anyway, below is what I stared at for a couple hours. It was a good learning experience I guess. And yes I use all 3 of the computers.
One more thing. Our small group is doing really well. I think in coming weeks we might have to split to keep the group healthy. (we’re running 12-14 average). We’re studying the book of Mark and this next week we’ll be in Chapter 3. Man I love Mark, short and to the point. But of course sometimes the details that he left out are important.
Last thing I promise, I love Facebook.
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