November 13, 2003

Thursday Items

Well, today has been very interesting. It started out as I came to the office early to get some things done. I was able to chat online for a while with my friend Tiharu. Tiharu is a Brazilian of Japanese descent, who is currently studying physiotherapy (I think I got that right) in Japan. We had a great conversation about different things. I was able to get in touch with a couple of mission agencies to see if they had missionaries starting churches in the area where she is studying.

Most of the day was spend at McDonalds. Woo hoo! It was a very non-eventful day. I did find out that I have Thanksgiving off! This will be the first time in five years that I have been able to spend all of Thanksgiving with family and friends.

After work, I came back to the church office, finished some games of Global Conflict and completed some correspondence. I also got to chat online with a good friend. We had a big laugh over the way the Google translator rendered some Brazilian websites.

Came accross this article, and found it interesting for a number of reasons. I will let the reader draw his or her own conculsions.

Also, as a public service, and in the interest of being fair and balanced, I am including a link to the Chairman's article on the Confederate Flag. I disagree with him on his premise--and most of his conclusions--but it is well written and deserves a look. He is a good guy at heart. To my Southern brothers and sisters, I implore you to look beyond this article and see the MAN.

I am kind of enjoying this free time I have right now, because it will be the last I have for quite some time. Tomorrow I will rise early to tie up loose ends at the office, and pack for this weekend. Then I will go to work until 10 pm. Upon finishing work, I will go home, sleep for a couple hours, then return to work at 5 am on Saturday, and stay there until 1 pm. After that I will load my family in the car and head for Ocala, for meetings which will last until Tuesday. Right now I feel like I am floating in a lazy current--just before being swept over the waterfall.

Posted by Andrew on November 13, 2003 11:35 PM.