Last night I went out with Lauren to get a few things that we needed (and a few that we didn’t) before we left. I picked up a new pair of jeans for the upcoming winter since my favorite pair has a hole in crotch, and I picked up a new pair of shorts cuz my favorite pair is starting to wear holes in the seat. But, before that we picked up a couple of braclets for the “Until” campaign, that seeks to find a cure for aids. I’m also using it to talk about the One campaign that is trying to end poverty in Africa and create a more open economy to help the world.
Sometime I’ll post about how I reconcile the idea of a more open ecomony with the fact that currently if you weaken the American Economy you are weakening the global economic structure, but since I feel this argument is going to be refined at my family reunion / wedding this weekend, I’ll hold off for a bit.
The best part of my shopping trip was stopping at the Cingular kiosk and asking when the nokia 6682 will finally be available (I’m buying one as soon as it comes out…so no more bad jokes about how I’ll never buy a new phone). The guy says that he is hearing a couple of weeks…which is pretty standard for “I have no idea” amongst cingular reps. But then he whips out a working 6682 off of his belt, and I’m all jaw dropped w/ the “HOLY SHIT!” look in my eyes. Apparently Cingular did a training session where a rep from each store/kiosk got one of these phones along with the GPS unit that goes w/ it. The phone is sweet, and it is smaller than I expected. Not much bigger than the phone I have now.
I also bought the book “Hearing God” at Jeff and Dave Lin’s recommendation. I’m hoping that makes good plane reading.
Finally, if people would please take a look at this beta project I’m working on for the church. I need to know if it looks right in a bunch of web-browsers (for you slobs who don’t use Firefox). Ignore the wierd pictures in the gallery section, since that is just a friend of mine’s art, my art, and my wedding pictures. That will someday be populated with actual pictures from the church. Also, don’t go too crazy downloading Jeff’s sermons, but if you are actually interested in hearing them (none of which are labeled correctly at the moment, so you won’t have any idea what they are about until you listen to them) go ahead and download them. I would like to get a rough idea of what our average bandwith usage is going to be…and my website has a good bit of bandwith. Also, later tonight, or tomorrow I’m hoping to put the last two weeks of MP3’s up of Jeff’s preaching…I’m a little behind with my trip planning and what-not.
So please comment with any flaws you see in the website, please don’t comment with “I dont’ like how you did *insert certain design element*”…cuz I don’t care….unless you are someone who actually has stock in what is going up on the final site (which is pretty much Jeff and Q….and maybe some of the other church plant team). Also, please no comments are my good friends art…his views are not the views that our church has, or wishes to express in any way.
Thank you.