503 Service Unavailable
Slashdot must have put new code up. I have been getting 503’s this morning over at Slashdot. The only website that is popular that does not test out their code befor putting it live.
This weekend
This Saturday I have plans to go for a nice bike ride with a couple of my friends around the city. I hope to get some good pictures; I will post them here when I get them. It will be nice to get some pictures of the trails in Pittsburgh during the fall.
The videos on this site
This weekend I hope to put together a section for my web site for all the videos I have posted here. I am not sure how I am going to do it at this moment.
Only 25 more days
Only 25 more days until I am in the new apartment. It will be nice to have the bigger place. It will be nice not to have to crawl over my bed to get to my computers. Right since my current apartment is so small I am bound to have to clime over some object to get from one place to another place in the apartment. Another benefit of the new place is since it is right next to my church, which I am a sysadm at, and we have a wireless network there, I will be able to do some work on the network there from my home after the move.
I am going to have to start calling around to change my address with the companies that send me bill each month. Also I am going to have to get one of those change of address forms from the post office, so I can keep my mail coming to me.
It is over Kerry did the honable thing
Kerry concedes it’s over at lest we will not have another Florida 2000. Its over, we all can not rest easy. Well I hope that in 2 weeks we can get back to our normal lives. But I fear that the talking heads are going to go with this for months on end. Well lets see where things go. Now I turn my head to the next 2 big days in my life. Nov 9, I will then be 28, and Nov 27 I move to the new apartment.
Comments back to normal
Now that the election for the most part is over, I am going to put to comments back on normal mode. I hope the trolls will not troll around here. But I will delete any comment that I deem inappropriate.
Current predictions on the TV
Fox news is having it at 221 Bush and 133 Kerry, I will go so far to add another 55 to Kerry for California, there is now why on earth Bush could win California, but we only need 49 more Electoral votes now.
Let me remind my readers who wish to comment
No swearing, keep comments to G or I will delete your post, I don’t care if I agree with you or not.
Posts are now on moderation
Since I am getting some hate posts, I have put all posts on moderation for now. Hate posts from the dumbacrates will not be approved and will be deleted.
What is Matins (and Vespers)
In responce to a question I got in my guest book I will make a statement of what Matins (and Vespers) is. They are liturgical prays of the day, there are 7 prayer offices. They are
Matins
Lauds
Terce
Sext
None
Vespers
Compline
My church, First Trinity Lutheran Church, offers Matins Sunday, and Tuesday thur Friday
My church also offers Saterday night Vespers
These are liturgical prayer offices. When I am at home I use both “The Lutheran Hymnal” and the “The Daily Office” edited by Herbert Lindemann (CPH 1961, very hard to get a copy of this book)
Matins (from TLH) follows this order as typed up at the folks at lutheranhymnal.com
I will also pray them at home myself. Using both TLH and TDO
The Video of the Pittsburgh Area Reformation Celebration
This is the video I took at the Pittsburgh Area Reformation Celebration today at First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sharpsburgh. The video is 30Mb’s large so it will be a bit of time before it starts to play so please be peasant
Also if any one know of a good PHP program I can get to showcase the videos I have been uploading I would be appreciated of it if you could just leave the name and a site to look at in the comments.
4 big days in 3 days
Ok that seems odd, but there are 4 big days in the next 3 days this year. Usually it would only be 3 big days in 2 days. But of course depending on who you are you might only recognize 1 maybe 2 normally so for some people they might only see 2 maybe 3. Well you might wonder what all of them are, if you don’t know what 2 of them are.
Well most people know October 31 as Halloween
For Lutherans October 31 is also Reformation day (a celebration of when Luther nailed his ninety-five teases to the church door in Wittenberg, October 31, 1517)
Nov 1 is All Saints Day
And this year Nov 2 is Election Day.
I say since we have 4 days in a 3 day span lets party down, ok maybe not.
Pittsburgh Area Reformation Celebration
Today being the 31 of October and this is the day that in 1517 that Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg. Well today the churches of the LCMS in the Pittsburgh area had the Reformation Rally for the entire area.
I got a few pictures of it and you can see them here.
Octoberfest
Our church today had it annual Octoberfest that we have every year. It was like most Octoberfests good food good friends and some fun. You can see some pictures of it here.
This Blog Share Thing looks like it could be intersting.
I know it is not real money but it seems to be a bit fun I am going to play with it some more and see what I think about it in a few days.
Issues Etc
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