I’m currently in Berea, WV typing this. Although, it won’t be posted right away (there is no internet access here), I’m going to blog over the next few days and hopefully have several posts to put up at once. I’ve never done anything like this before, but I hope it will allow me to blog, keep you informed, without being too disjointed. Over the next few weeks, let me know how you think it worked out.
Today we…
Today we started by taking a look at the mower the brke while we were mowing Uncle Doug’s place. Turns out that the entire bearing unit had sheared off the mower deck. So, we took that off and set it asside…we figure we can order a replacement at Marietta Ignition. After that, we started mowing the field next to the house (the horses used to be there, but they went up to the farm). Well, after about 30 minutes, the mower broke so we spent some time working on that. It turned out that the bolt holding the middle blade to the shaft wouldn’t tighten up. We looked around for a replacement, but didn’t find one. It was just about lunchtime, so we took a break and eat.
After lunch, we made a trip to Harrisville. We got some replacement bolts (they proved to be too long, but that is for another time), gas, sugar (to make food for the bees), and grass seed. We spent the afternoon discing up the field. Once that was done, we sowed some grass seed in it and drug it to cover the seed up. We figured it was going to rain tomorrow so we can spend the day working on the mower.
I talked to Cyndi a few times. I’m currently trying to get some new glasses before we head overseas. I didn’t get that done before we left Richmond and that is turining into a hassle. We are also looking at buying a cell phone before we leave here (I’d like a camera phone with mp3 player that will work via wifi to get this slick program to work on the phone).
I don’t know what we are going to do tomorrow. We need to work on the mower. I’m sure there is also several other things we need to do, but I don’t know what that is right now. I’ll write more tomorrow morning and evening.s
Finished
Well, Cyndi and I finished with our overseas training yesterday. We had spent 8 weeks with others who were also being trained to go overseas. It was a bittersweet time. We were ready to leave and be done with training yet we needed much more time to get to know people.
We are currently at a hotel and don’t have time to post pictures. I’ll take some time tomorrow morning to upload a few and post them (we’ll also post some more too).
Hotel Speed
Cyndi and I are staying at the Country Club Motor Lodge in fairmont, WV tonight. They have free WiFi (go for them). So far, it seems fairly fast. Here is a report from DSLReports.com:
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Wow!
Well, our training is finally over. Today is our “graduation” of sorts.
If you are in the Richmond area and want to swing by the ILC, come on out. It starts at 2pm. We’ll post pictures and more later this evening.
Interesting Tidbit
Use Vista? Installed SP1? Why not clean up all the old files and get some extra hard drive space back?
I saw this article today talking about the necessity of doing just that: http://www.labnol.org/software/tutorials/finish-install-windows-vista-sp1-clean-junk-files/2641/
When you install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on your computer, the SP1 installer will not remove the older versions of Vista files from the hard drive. This is because the older files may be required in case you decide to uninstall SP1 later from the system.
Naturally, these files occupy important disk space. If you are satisfied with the performance of Windows Vista SP1 and unlikely to remove it later, why not reclaim some disk space by removing all the older Vista files.
There are no manual steps involved. Just open your Windows command prompt and type vsp1cln.exe (short for Vista SP1 Cleaner). It takes less than a minute to execute.
Fasting
Over the next 40 days (well, 38 now), I will be joining others in fasting and prayer for the Serbian people. This is the first time I have done anything like this and am still trying to figure out how it should work. But, just so you know and can help encourage me, I decided to give up sweets and pop.
Living in the Spirit
Oftentimes, we as Christians can fall into the trap that the “Christian” life is hard. There are so many don’ts and dos that at times it can seem very difficult. Well, this morning in my quiet time, I was reading Romans 8 and came across some verses that were interesting:
9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Look at verse 10: If Christ be in you, the body is dead. We all know that we “died” to “the old man” but do we act like it? I know that I don’t…most of my struggle is with the “old man.” But, if the old man is dead, how can we struggle? The last part of that verse, and verse 11 goes on to say that we are alive because of the spirit.
So, if our old man is dead and the spirit is what is making our bodies alive, why don’t we live like it?
Improv Everywhere
I was surfing the other day and came across these two videos.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth — Chapt 45
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