I am such a stick in the mud
I must be a major stick in the mud, I have a friend that I am debating music in the church with, also debating hymnals and the new up comming hymnal for the LCMS. God have mercy on me.
Mike and Kellie’s Wedding
A couple of friends of mine got married today. You can see the pictures I took at it here. I wish Mike and Kellie all the best. That is so far 1 out of 2 weddings that I will be going to this summer down, and 1 more to go. Mike and Kellie are friends[…]
My Churches Sermons are now being PodCasted
Our church is now podcasting the sermons from Sunday morning if you want to know the RSS feed for it you can get it here, just plug this into your iTunes, or what ever podcatcher you use This is now possible, because one of the computers I built up for the church yesterday. I have[…]
Here it is almost 11 and I am just finishing up here
Well this has been a bit of a long day. I have setup 4 Linux computers, one was to replace the churches older file server, the only one only had 1.6Gb of disk space, and we were down to the last 2Mb, the new one has 160Gb of disk space on the partition that is[…]
Bat in the church today
Well today, as I was working on some of the computers for the church (I am still working on them at this time) a bat got into the lecture hall. There were some of the ladies from the church in there doing some scrap booking. Well they were not to happy about the bat in[…]
A video up for my friends
Many months ago I helped some friends of mine with a video. I was the first (besides them) to find out this info, they had me hold onto it for a while. Last week I was asked if I could put a link up for them so they could post it to their blog, so[…]
A night with friends
First off this is not the post I promised in the post where I talked about a big post coming I am planning to put that up on Monday night. Tonight we had a function at church; we had dinner and then watched a movie. The movie was Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Dekalog 7. After watching it[…]
Irish Lutherans
On a lark I decided to start up a new yahoo group. I call it Irish Lutherans. I know of one other Irish Lutheran, but I wonder how many people out there have Irish ancestry and are Lutheran, not a common combo to my knolage. The group is at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IrishLutherans/ I have not really set[…]
A new blog just came on the net today
I helped one of my pastors get a blog up on the net. It is a blog for him to put anonucments about up comming LSF and ISM events on. I have some more work to do on it, but it is up now. You can see it at http://lsfpa.com
Sunday Adult bible study at my church
This Sunday my church stated a new class for the adult Bible study on the Book of Concord. It looks like it is going to be a good course, I went to the first one today. It looks like it is going to be a good course. I look forward to the course to see[…]
Hockey stuff
A friend from church, have me a bunch of magazines he had, from the beginning of the hockey season this year called “The Hockey News” So I will have to look thought them later, I probably will do it starting on Friday, when my Christmas Vacation starts. Thanks Russ. Also he is going to try[…]
Trinity Concert Series Presents “Caroling, Caroling!” as sung by The University of Pittsburgh Men’s Glee Club
This comming Sunday (December 11) at 3:00 PM our church (First Trinity Evangelical-Lutheran Church) will be hosting The University of Pittsburgh Men’s Glee Club, as they do a concert called “Caroling, Caroling” a Program of Holiday Music. The Concert will be free, but we will be taking a free will offering, to help us pay[…]
Happy Advent
Well today was the First Sunday in Advent. Thus begining the church year. I hope that you have a good Advent.
Finding a church when you are out of town
One of the things about travailing that I don’t like is when you travel and will be away from home on a Sunday, is trying to find a church to go to. This trip for me I have 3 things I have to find normally I only have 2. I have a friend that is[…]
Politics, diffent communities and some thoughts
I have been doing some thinking about groups and politics. I have been thinking about this since I started to look into the biking “community” in Pittsburgh. I have found that this so called community is very intolerant of any one that holds any political view that is not their own. I tried to ignore[…]
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Recent Posts
- weight loss continues, but end is n… by Michael O'Connor
Today I weighed myself and came in at 130 pounds. When I started I set a goal of 125 pounds. So only 5 more pounds to go. I am a long way from where I started, I started at 300 pounds on March 31, 2022, it been about 15 months since I started this diet.[…]
- A summer snack by Michael O'Connor
With summer coming buy, and me still on my diet, I came up with a snack, I have always enjoyed popsicals, so what I am doing now, is I am taking those water enhancers that say they have 0 calories and use that as the flavor for my popsicals, and I have some popsical makers.[…]
- My apartment setup. by Michael O'Connor
For my friends I did a video to show my friends how I have my apartment setup, because I did some changes to the living room and the bedroom. Here is the video
- An updated picture of before and Af… by Michael O'Connor
Posting a new updated before and after picture. First one was taken in 2021, the second picture Just this last weekend.
- Today is the 1 year anniversery of … by Michael O'Connor
March 31, 2022 was the day I hit 300 pounds and decided to loss weight, today I weigh in at 135 pounds. To date I have lost 165 pounds. My goal still remains 125 pounds, so I only have 10 more pounds to go. I feel so much better, later on I will post a[…]
- Meal prep for the week by Michael O'Connor
Today I did some meal preping for this week. Cooking both in slow cookers. First dish, is a ham and veggie soup contianing Ham Potatos Celery Spinish Carrots Onions Veggie Stock With the amount of stuff and what I put in it, the whole slow cooker has about 1200 cals in it, this should make[…]
- Weight loss continues by Michael O'Connor
Today I did my daily steping on the scale this morning, it read 140 now. So since I started my diet last March, I have lost a total of 160 pounds, and only 15 more pounds to go, till I can start working on keeping the weight off. But I been feeling a lot better[…]
- Weight loss continues by Michael O'Connor
Today, when I did my morning weight in my scale read 143 pounds, so to date I have lost 157 pounds. And now I have only 18 more pounds to go.
- My Backup internet. by Michael O'Connor
In the past I have used a 4G T-Mobile hotspot, that was costing me about 50 a month for 10GB of data. But for that same 50 I could get T-Mobiles home internet. So I cancled the hotspot line and added the Home Internet for my backup internet. First they say there is no data[…]
- Just setup a local Plex server by Michael O'Connor
So in my journy of cutting the cable. I just setup a Plex server for my local network. I have a lot of mp3 still that I ripped from my CD years ago. Now I wonder if I can rip my DVD to the Plex server, not to replace them but to have them accessable[…]
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