Archive for January, 2009

Encouragement

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

We Christians are supposed to encourage one another a lot! Our church tries to set time apart for this in our meetings, but we can never really do this enough.

However, just in case you feel like you’re not getting enough encouragement, here’s how to get some. It’s only $25 and you too can jump up and down in your living room looking like an idiot.

BRRRR

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Here’s my desktop as of 3 AM or so (yes, of course I’m still up).  Our heat is going full bore but somehow I’m getting colder…  Time to snuggle in with the electric blanket.

Mission Organization

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

During vacation I did a lot of reorganizing in our bedroom. The closet, my desk area, pretty much all my stuff needed some organizational attention. So, I tried lots of different things, but in the end bought some pieces at Target and am very pleased with the results! Living in a small place requires some creativity – these cubicle units from Target are great!

Hacked, Quote Door, Pedalboard

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Last night I was hacked again. I’m not sure how these Turkish people are getting in, but I have my suspicions and have tried to fix them. Thanks for letting me know Dave and Julie! Fortunately, it was the same attack as the last time, and I could fix it pretty quick. I’m hoping some updates to my site fixed the problem, but we’ll see.  For now, I’m not integrating our blog into the rest of our site, so it’s pretty blah, but oh well.

Jill and I created a quote door today. I have long wanted to turn some wall into a place where I could spam my favorite quotes to the world, but a whole wall was not Jill’s cup of tea. So today Jill got some markers and I went to town. First, a picture of the previous boring white door:

Now, the new quote wall!

Neat, huh?

Also, for you guitar nerds, here’s my latest pedal board setup (subject to change any time, like as soon as I’m done blogging here).  I got a “Milk Box” DOD compressor in the mail today, been playing with that.

I have it routed as follows:

Guitar -> Compressor -> Overdrive/Distortion/Tone Box -> Noise Reduction -> Volume Pedal -> Delay/Verb/Mod effects

I took the LEDs off my amp and put them UNDER the board, so it’s like a pimped out pedalboard that glows blue underneath.

I also ordered another 1×12 cab, so I’ll have some cool stereo sound and enough wattage to wake neighbors a few houses down.