It’s that time of year again … time to figure out what to do with all the yellow squash and zucchini my garden is prodigiously producing! Just two days ago I harvested 3 large zucchini and a dozen yellow crooknecks. Last year was our first year growing squash, and so I had a great time discovering and creating ways to eat (and hopefully enjoy) our heaping harvest.
Squash Patties Recipe
July 23rd, 2008Annual Conference Update 2
July 15th, 2008
The 2008 Church of the Brethren Annual Conference is now over half-way towards its completion. Today brought the first official business sessions of the gathered body, which went relatively smoothly. We also received the exciting news today that conference registrations now total over 6,000, and that our joint worship service with the Brethren Church was attended by over 5,000 people! Wow.
I’ve uploaded a few more photos to my AC Facebook album, sorry Flickr folks I haven’t sent any your way. I’m going to try to get some better (non-camera phone) pics to upload soon. Also, if you’re interested in more general reports of what is happening here at Conference, along with some more pictures, be sure to check out the official Annual Conference news page which is updated every evening.
Annual Conference Update 1
July 13th, 2008
I know it’s been quite a while since I’ve posted here, but that shouldn’t be too surprising since I’ve just started into the busy life of being a pastor. This week I’m at the Church of the Brethren’s nation-wide Annual Conference in Richmond, VA.
It was a long drive from Richmond (IN) to Richmond (VA) yesterday, but thankfully I had a friend travelling with me which made the trip much more enjoyable. I’ve been having fun already using my Blackberry to post pictures of my trip online. I tried using the Flickr app that’s available for Blackberry and uploaded a few photos from that. I may upload some more to Flickr, but I think that for the most part I’m going to use a different solution.
Firefox 3 - Get it now! (6 million others already have …)
June 18th, 2008
Yesterday around 1pm Eastern Standard Time, Mozilla officially released version three of their popular Firefox web browser. I’m a long-time Firefox user, and I’ve been using a beta version of Firefox 3 for a little while now, since it was installed by default when I upgraded to the newest version of Ubuntu Linux. It didn’t take long at all for me to begin to appreciate the many improvements in the latest iteration of Firefox.
Back in the early days of Firefox it held many clear advantages over its primary competitor, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. These days, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Firefox have all come a long way, and each has some very compelling merits. I’ve used all three and in my experience this newest version of Firefox is on top of the heap.
Of Bike Repair and Customer Service
June 15th, 2008I’ve written quite a bit recently about gas prices, and fuel economy, and I’ve wondered what I’m going to do in light of it all. One of the ways I’m planning on dealing with rising fuel costs is to commute via bicycle on a fairly regular basis when I begin my new job this week. I’m no stranger to such practices, in fact my first semester of seminary I biked to campus almost every day. But now my bike was in need of some repair work before I could seriously consider such bike commuting again.
