Well today at church the 3 trustee’s stayed after church, to do some work on the “serving” room upstars. It needs to be done soon since 2 people in our church will be getting married at the end of this month, and the reseption will be in the church. We spent the day striping more paint off of the cabinats and sanding them, so that they can get a new coat of paint soon.
Well as I posted a few days ago, the Wards just had their baby. Well today that child now has been welcomed in to the church via the Sacrament of Holy Baptism. The child is now a child of God. The child’s old Adam has now been drowned in the waters of baptism, and a new child has been born again.
Well today I went out for a bit of a bike ride. I figured it would be a good way to try to get use to the new pedals on the bike. I was not really prepared for them today, I went down twice as I tried to get out of them while stopping. I have a nice new scare on my left knee to show for it, and my left wrist hurts a bit, but all in all, I think I am starting to get use to them. I am just glad I was on the trails when I fell, and not in the middle of the road at the time, thank God for major favors. I only got 27 miles in today.
Well it looks like the Tour De France starts tomorrow. There is no way I can watch it live, but I have set my DVR to record it every morning. So I will be able to watch ever night when I get home. Today I heard that some riders were barred for using drugs. Is there not a sport that drugs will not destroy? I read that something like 9 racers are now out.
I got this one in the email from a friend
—–
The Pope took a couple of days off to visit the mountains of Alaska for
some sight-seeing. He was cruising along the campground in the Pope mobile
when there was a frantic commotion just at the edge of the woods. A
helpless Democrat, wearing sandals, shorts, a “Save the Whales” hat, and a
“To Hell with Bush” T-shirt, was screaming while struggling frantically,
thrashing around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10 foot
grizzly.
I am trying to get a few friends together for July 4th this year. I am hoping to go biking with some friends, stop for some lunch as some out of the way place, and end up at the North Shore to watch the Fire Works this year. If I could get that done, I would be really happy. But even if I can not get any one on board for it, I will still do the biking and watch the fire works at the North Shore.
Well I headded up to Bike Tek today today because I need new tires and breaks for my bike. My back tire had no tred left. And my breaks had no breaking power left in it. While I was up there I decided to spoile my self too, I picked up some clipless pedels and the showes I needed for them. I spent more then I care to admit here, but probably more then I needed to, but I did need the new tires and breaks, those were safty issues.
It seems the more I get caught up on things the farther I fall behind on staying on top of things. I keep getting things in my todo list, and it seems that the list grows faster then I can knock things off of it. One of these days, I will be able to site down and say my todo list is done, but the way it is looking that will not be for years and years.
I am sorry about the lack of posts. I have not really been on the computer at home much in the last week. I will admit I also was behind of posting the mp3’s for my churches podcast site. I have finally got around to the computer, and done some blog stuff, and got the mp3’s up on the podcast site for my church
Also I am working on a post for the Lutheran Carnival, which I will put up on the 30th. I am hoping that things will calm down a bit, I have been a bit busy as of late.
If you are a Ham Radio Operator, you know that last weekend was field day. I went to W3KWH’s field day. It was interesting, and a bit fun. I did some on SWL also, and did a little bit of contacting some people. You can see my pictures I took at my photo section of my web site Hope you enjoy them.
I have a friend who’s son got hit by a car. Today he said he found out that in a pedestrian vs car accident, the car insurance of the pedestrian is responsible for the medical bills. I sure hope that he misquoted or was give bad info. My question is if he has right information, what happens to people that don’t own cars, and therefor do not have auto insurance. I think if that is the case it is a stupid idea, not every one has car insurance because there is no reason to have one if you don’t own a car.
I have put a call into my insurance agent to see what the true facts are, and if what I hear was right how can I protect myself, I have learned one thing in the last 2 and a half years of biking, and that is people in cars either don’t see other people that are not in cars, or they try to hit people that are not in cars.
I should also note that the kid is going to be fine.
Kaethe Ward is due today, so she should be giving birth to her and Johnathen’s first child any day soon. So I just want to send the best of luck to them. I hope all goes well when the child is born. They have elected not to know the the gender of the child until the child is born.
Well my church just changed over from using the hymnals during the service to printing up the service in the bulletin. I do not like it much. I have let a few people know that I don’t like it nor will I be using it. They have changed the liturgy. Also the Gradual, intro, and anything else I really need, except for the hymns they may use from outside the hymnal. So I will stick to using the hymnal for myself.
They are saying that it is to make it easer on the people in church, my opinion is rather then make it easer but teach people how to use the hymnal. The hymnal is a very powerful tool to use, not just for the church service and hymns, but there are other good uses for the hymnal. There is some nice service that can be used at home, such as Matins and Vespers (I do, do Vespers myself at home) It also has a list of reading for every day of the year.
Up at the Easter District Conference CPH was there. They had a book out that was a collection of Hymns written by one Rev. Stephen P. Starke. I picked it up with the hope that it my have a few tunes I could play with on my Irish Tin Whistle. Also Rev. Starke was up there for the presentation on the new hymnal that the synod is putting together. So I was able to get Rev. Starke to sign my copy of the book.
Now all that is left to do is go though the book and find the tunes in it, that are in the key of D or G.
For those of you that might be interested the books title is “O Sing of Christ” and the ISBN number is 0-7586-0936-1
So far this year we have gotten some great JRPGs Persona 3 ReloadedShin Megami Tensei V: VengeanceLike a Dragon: Infinite Wealth And there are still more coming, coming on the 5th of July the one I am most hyped for The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak and latter this year we are getting Metaphor:[…]
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.[…]
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.[…]
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
Posting a new updated before and after picture. First one was taken in 2021, the second picture Just this last weekend.
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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.
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[…]
