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Today (April 30), Emily and I celebrate our third wedding anniversary.
We are on vacation the rest of this week. Thursday we’re taking a day trip via Amtrak to Chicago. We are certainly looking forward to a wonderful vacation and time to relax and get away!
I love my wife a ton, and I’m so blessed to get to be married to her! I look forward to many, many more years with Emily.

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Today I’ve almost made some pretty major typos.

I nearly submitted a support request to a company containing the word ’shifted’, but accidentally left the ‘f’ out of that word. Luckily I caught that one!

Then just a few moments ago, I was in Photoshop working on this weekend’s notes, and I don’t often make mistakes. But this time I decided to double-check my work, just in case.
I found an error! What the heck? I spelled ‘Outisde’.

At that point, I almost stopped proofing, but decided to continue. What? I found another–’Relationhsips’!

Man…I’m slipping.
Yikes!

Have you found it true that when we think we’re doing okay, thast wehn we messs up?

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This morning I was thinking about my house. I don’t really know why, but I was thinking ‘My house will never have a mouse get in.’

And I’m right–it won’t. My house is built with concrete block from foundation to roof, so every exterior wall is an 8″ thick piece of concrete. A mouse isn’t going to get through that!
I am well protected with a very sturdy home.

There are some major benefits to a block house. But there are also some major setbacks, too. There is no insulation ‘between the studs’, so heating/cooling costs a bit more. Water seeps in through the basement blocks much easier than it does a normal concrete basement wall.

Strengths and weaknesses. The thing is, you can’t ever find the perfect construction method–there’s always a better way to do a part of it, but then that hinders a different part. So it’s all about balance.

Have you had to balance anything in your life or in your walk with Jesus lately?

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This reminds me of what I previously blogged about here, here, here and here.

2 Peter 1:12-13 (NIV):

So I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you now have. I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body.

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Today, April 22, is Earth Day.

It’s a day to put the focus on the enviornment. Are you doing anything today in honor of Earth Day?

Me? Well, I drove to work today for the first time since last Monday. Last night I filled up my gasoline tank, costing me a cool $45. Not that driving is Earth Day friendly, but I had to–errands to run right after work in Auburn, and I also need to swing by Town Hall with a 30-pound piece of equipment, and I’m not going to carry that for the 13-minute walk!

So, are you doing anything earth-friendly today on Earth Day?

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This is the scene in the office today, which I see every time I walk too and fro (which is fairly often today).

Talk about tempting…

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Today I came in to the office, and something fishy was going on with our network.

It intermittently just stopped working. Our database is all but unusable because the clients are crashing due to the network dropping.

The secretaries in the office started complaining that print jobs were taking a long time to print–what used to take 2 seconds to start printing now took 30-120 seconds to print.

My first thought was our network had somehow been compromised, so I opened up my sniffer to see where the extra volume of traffic was coming from.
But there wasn’t anything unusual there–there was not an exceedingly high volume of traffic.

So I started looking at our hardware, and I restarted all three network appliances we have (for good measure), and no change.

So finally, I unplugged literally everything from the switch, taking our network to its knees (even more than it was previously). I unplugged everything except 2 computers and the DHCP server.

This meant no one could do anything. I had to kill the network. Once it was all killed, the two computers were functioning back and forth together as normal.
Slowly, one by one, I plugged things back in. One at a time I tried and tested. It’s a long process, especially when you’re testing for an intermittent issue.

Isn’t this a lot like how God has to clean us up sometimes? He has to bring up to our knees before he can start to build us back up. But I think often, we don’t want to slowly test and we get our life back up to speed–we just want what we want when we want it.

Can you relate to this?

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In keeping with last week’s question of the week (which Operating System is better-built), we continue this polling this week with:

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My brother Adam is Worship Arts Pastor here at New Hope.

He blogs like I do.

Only, I don’t accept advertising, he does. Here’s a screenshot of the advertisement I found at the bottom on his site today:

I thought that was absolutely hilarious! After I showed him this ad, he stated he was going to remove all ads from his blog.
What a riot!

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I am really looking forward to this weekend.

Hopefully I’ll be able to relax and unwind whilst not doing much of anything. I would like to get some work done outside, including mow for the first time of the year, if it doesn’t rain too much.

I also have some landscaping to do, grass to seed and some further work to do on my compost pile (Todd would be so proud of me!).

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This week, I have walked to work as much as possible.
I have walked to work on Tuesday - Friday. I wouldn’t have driven my car at all in that time, except I had to get a couple of bags of softball equipment and didn’t want to carry 30 lbs of awkward bags for a 10 minute walk.

But it’s been really nice to be away from the car (which, btw, will need filled up with like $40 in fuel the next time I drive it). The morning walk perks me up (it’s usually a bit chilly in the morning!) and really gets me going in the morning.

In about an hour, I am going to walk to town hall over my lunch break, pick up my mail and head back. I’m sure the mid-day walk will be a welcome break and hopefully a needed stress-relief.

In addition to walking to work, I’ve also put in two running workouts this week, and my legs are feeling it. It feels good to know I’m getting my body back in shape.
Have you been exercising this spring?

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