• Who am I?

    adam mclaneI caught this on my vanity search this morning. It came from here. Since I don’t speak that language I have no clue what it means.

    But I am dead sexy, aren’t I?

  • Out of commission

    I made it through church today running tech at both services and the rehearsal. By the time the second service started I was feeling really bad. Somehow I made it through the worship set and then I went and crashed during the message. (Heard it in the first service!)

    After church I had Kristen drop me off at the Romeo Urgent Care. During my exam I was feeling very bad, I mean super duper poor. The doctor was listening to my chest and I breathed in and out deeply a few times and I got really tipsy. Somehow I made it vertical until he left the room then I kind of caved over on my side and fell asleep. About 20 minutes later or so the X-ray tech came in and had me go down to their X-ray machines. I was so dizzy, I thought I’d faint. Of course, the tech didn’t get a good image the first time and had to do it again.

    Long story short, I am sick. He called it “bronchitis” but he said he didn’t really know. With that he prescribed two mongo drugs and sent me on my way. With a tempurature of 103, it’s bed rest time.

    All that to say, I’ll likely be out of commission for the next 12-24 hours. As I type this I can feel the Codine kicking in to take me to a happy place. Since I didn’t sleep at all last night it is a welcome respite.

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  • Sick

    sickI don’t think anyone relishes being sick. I hate it. I have so many things to do and I’m sitting here freezing to death in 3 layers of clothes, a stocking cap, and my slippers trying to pound out some stuff I need to get done. I hope I feel better for Sunday and Monday but I have a sinking feeling that I’m just headed into this cough and not coming out of it for a while.

    In other news: I installed Joomla 1.5 today for the first time. I am a huge Joomla junkie. Almost all of my sites either use WordPress or Joomla and switching from version 1.0.13 to 1.5 is a pain in the neck. For example, you have to completely delete your existing site. Which scares the snot out of me when it comes to the church website and YMX.  I spent most of the day installing a site for a friend, getting the template all pimped out, and starting to look for the components he needs.

    easy buttonI have to say that I really like the new version. It is going to rock once I get past the migration issues. I am going to put off migrating YMX for as long as possible. I’m really hoping for an easy button but I don’t think one is coming.

    To make matters more fun, I still have stuff to do to get ready for the services tomorrow. Which means in a few minutes I’ll be making my weekly late Saturday night trip to the church get stuff done.

  • Lamentations 1:2

    Lamentations 1:2

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  • Saturday Tunes

    saturday tunesThis week I got a new MacBook. (not the Air, a black MacBook since I wasn’t impressed with the Air. Just to clarify!) In the course of moving over 40gb of data I wasn’t able to import all of my ratings from iTunes into the new computer. Total bummer on that. The result is that I have to start over with my ratings… all 5,000 songs now have to be re-rated. That said, today’s edition of the Saturday Tunes is going to be especially random. As usual, these are the next 10 tunes coming out of my iTunes shuffle, no cheating and ratings included.

    1. Walkin’ by Miles Davis ****
    2. Searching by Jadon Lavik **
    3. Pomp and Circumstance ** <– graduation song, too funny
    4. The Beginning by Lifehouse **
    5. Hidden Track by Shaun Groves * (this song is so annoying, I like it but the mix is so odd, there is a girl on the recording from the audience who kills the song)
    6. Restore by Daystar **
    7. It’s Like Me by Kutless **
    8. Listen to the Music by The Doobie Brothers ****
    9. I Can Wait by Out of the Grey *
    10. In My Place by Coldplay *** (Gotta be depressed to like this one)

  • Lamentations 1:1

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  • A brand new RomeoKids.com

    It took several month to say this, but RomeoKids.com has a brand new look. This was the first project that the church has ever sent out to a web designer and I think it turned out awesome. Matt Adams, that guy is great to work with. If you ever need a WordPress theme totally custom designed from head to toe… he’s your man.

    I think the new look is very bright, cheery, inviting, and screams “Kids!” as soon as you load it. What do you think?

  • Mercy: Some practical theology here

    Last night at Light Force small groups we talked about the difference between mercy and grace.

    Grace = Getting something you don’t deserve.

    Mercy = Not getting something you deserve.

    I could see the students wrestling with this. Here are students completely covered in both. They have parents who bathe them in both on a daily basis. Yet they don’t see it. I think it goes back, for them, to a fundamental misunderstanding of what “deserve” means. They think that they deserve mercy and grace.

    I left thinking that most of the students expect to deserve grace and mercy. (By their birth they feel they have merited favor with others and even God) And I wondered how I could communicate that they don’t deserve to deserve grace and mercy better?

    What are some practical areas of grace and mercy the students in your life experience but fail to acknowledge?

  • We are brothers

    Kristen and I have been walking around the house singing this song. It’s not only a classic American Idol moment it is a great moment in American television history.

    “Simon, you are a great human being. You give everyone a chance to talk to the world. You are my glory, Simon!” Good stuff there. The singalong, made me laugh so hard I cried.

    I’d buy this. Really, I would.