03.28.06

I really am a bad blogger!

Posted in Today at 12:25 am by artistry

Ok, so I have excuses. Being chief correspondent for two sites is enough to make anyone slightly lax on a personal blog. If I didn’t have help from David, the Common Ground site would be in as much need of attention as Xisti currently is. I do promise to do better, honest! The good news is that I got all my domains transferred away from Network Solutions. They were just too greedy. What is the sense of spending $35 a year for domain renewal when you can get it anywhere else for around $10 … that adds up with multiple domains!

So now I have to get to work on the sites. David has the new format for CG almost ready and then I can look at pages. I think we want to simplify a little, but we will have to talk it through. I am still in a quandry about Xisti, but will start with a few new articles and then see about changing the forum. Maybe there is no need for a forum? We’ll see.

Maybe I have no need for a personal blog? We’ll see. *grin*

Oh, and I am reading some really good books … “Encountering the New Testament” is a survey. And I got “Jesus & the Rise of Early Christianity: A History of New Testament Times” by Paul Barnett. It also looks very interesting, but I am not starting it until I finish a few of the projects in the works. I’m reading “Luke: Historian and Theologian” by I. Howard Marshall. I am finding it interesting, if a little slow going. I wish they all could write like F. F. Bruce. I learn much better when I don’t have to struggle with awkward prose.

That’s about all for today. I have laundry to finish … exciting, no?

03.13.06

Brrrrrrrrr

Posted in Today at 12:28 pm by artistry

What a day it has been so far! I woke up at what I thought was an early hour since my alarm hadn’t gone off. After a few minutes my brain said “hey, it’s light out!” I quickly discovered that we had a power outage in the night and my alarm was not going to ring for another 4 hours. Fortunately, I have a battery powered travel alarm which showed me the time.

We got up to a very white world. It was snowing when we came home from Bible study last night, but we now have 8 or more inches of heavy snow on the ground and it’s still coming down. The wind is picking up and I have a big drift across my driveway. Also, the plow made one pass and left big snowballs across the base of my drive. I’m not sure Jimmy will go through those without some help and I doubt that David can get into the drive without major shoveling.

One of my trees is so badly bowed by snow that I am concerned about breakage. I am going to go out and try to clear some of the snow and see if it will stand back up. If the snow isn’t too bad, I will try to clear the top part of the drive. The bottom is going to be all David’s project.

I outgrew playing in the snow a long, long time ago.