So tomorrow after I bust out of this joint, we’re heading to madison to crash at a nice econo lodge. Maybe connect with dwchang, then on to chicago. Anyone got some time to catch lunch with us, maybe at portillos. I know I need to phone wang, but what about you Rob? or anyone else? Just leave me a comment when and where would be the best time for you.

After that on to cleveland. for a little time off, which is much needed right now. Also, enough food to make me unbutton my pants…thats the ticket.

Hmm….besides that the church is starting a real service come late January. I think that will be cool. Jeff talks about it like it is all this work, and thats cool cuz it will be, but I’m just not convinced that being this cautious about it is worth my time. I know there are other people who are probably more concerned about it, but I’m seriously like “what else are we going to do.” I told him that yesterday, but there are other people who we have added on who live in the area who might not want to make that kind of commitment, but my new Big Dreaming attitude won’t let me be pleased with all this talk about how hard it is going to be.

Lauren is totally going to a ton of charity / outreach / mission type of things. It is really cool cuz she is starting to deveolop a true idea of what social justice really would look like, or how we can start participating in it. It is like she has taken this really broad approach to seeing as much of the stuff around the city that is wrong, or looked into programs around that are reaching out to the hurting parts of the community, and she is trying to look at this bigger picture. I kinda like that cuz we toss around this “social justice” phrase, but it always just says “charity” work to me. Her approach says much more about building up a true understanding of what this areas social justice would look like. Also I’m really proud of her just for approaching this in a broader manner. Usually she just focuses in on one or two little things and gets hooked on them, but she has been doing crazy kinds of stuff to get this new picture of what our church can do to better understand the city around us. Anyway, I’m proud of her, and I think this is one of the better approaches to this kind of thing I’ve ever seen….but then again, I’m biased toward broader system based approaches, and my wife.

Thats about it, hope everyone else is having a good break. Don’t forget all my geeky friends, the Nintend DS has arrived and there is already a free site to get one, more updates for those interested after I sign up and figure out what is the best offer for signing up.