After a quiet month, I’m making up for lost time. I just got my new issue of Relevant Magazine, which is my favorite magazine. Ok, so it’s the only one I’m subscribed to. My cousin hooked me on the Relevant Podcast a while back, and while I haven’t caught every episode (or should that be webisode?), it’s always entertaining, engaging, challenging, and many other -ings. The magazine is cool, but the website takes it a whole new level above that, and I just discovered (possibly my favorite) a really cool section of their site: The Drop. Now, they mention this on the podcast all the time, but I’ve never bothered to actually go see what the hubbub is all about. Free music that doesn’t smell, that’s what it is all about. You should go check it out. Now. Hurry, it might disappear. Probably not, but you should go. Quickly. They also happen to be featuring Seabird right now, which is one of my current favorite bands.
Year: 2009
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Jesusmas 2009
It’s really easy to forget what Christmas is all about, so the title is an extra reminder. We had a great Christmas, and while I got some really nice gifts, my dad had one of those moments again. He said, “we need to be thankful for friends and family, that’s what’s really important, not all the material stuff.” Don’t know if I can really expand on that too much, but I just want to take a moment to mention some of the ‘important’ things I’m thankful for before I post some pictures of all the presents and such. I’m thankful for my wife, and my parents, and my sister, and my cousins (all of them, even Afton…). I’m thankful for the little girl that’s on the way, and I’m thankful for my friends, at work, at church, and anywhere else. And I’m thankful for Scooter, Roo, and Oliver.
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girl
It’s a girl! And not a puppy this time. As mentioned before, due in late May. The ‘awesome’ ultrasound machine was broken today, but we still got to see some pretty neat things. She was sucking on her fingers for a bit, and yawned several times. We got to see her little heart pumping away at 153 beats per minute, and even were able to see the four chambers of her heart. It was incredible the amount of detail that could be seen, even with ‘old technology.’
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review
A couple of my cousins posted their Christmas letters on their blogs, so I figured I’d follow suit, sort of. I actually put together a little photo collage that we sent out this year, but in case you didn’t get one (sorry), here it is:
For more details, you can of course read back through my blog posts for the year. The side project I started, God Impact, is going quite well also. I’ve only missed one day (except for yesterday, when I forgot to hit the publish button).
We’ve also had a lot of exciting things happening at our church, and there’s a little info over at www.glendiveag.org.
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work
Seems a lot of my posts lately have been about stuff I’ve been doing at work. This one is going to follow in that tradition, even if it is Christmas. Maybe I’ll write something about Christmas later too…
At any rate, my assistant (not a secretary) left last week for greener (maybe bluer is proper here) pastures at Miles Community College. We’ll miss him dearly (I already do, it gets lonely on the IT Island). As such, we’re hiring. If you’re looking for a job working with computers, maybe this will be a Christmas present for you. If you’re interested, go to DCC employment opportunities and send in the required application materials.
