Mackenzie: "Daddy, we go camping in the VW Van?"
Daddy: "That is a great idea but the VW Van is broken."
Mackenzie: "Oh, VW van need a new engine?"
Daddy: "Yes, the VW Van needs a new engine."
Mackenzie: "Um, how bout we take Honda car engine out and put Honda car engine in VW Van, Daddy?"
Daddy: "Hmmm, I never thought of that idea."
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Brilliance
For the next church meeting
Angela sent me this good one from Henri Nouwen:
The Virtue of Flexibility
Trees look strong compared with the wild reeds in the field. But when the storm comes the trees are uprooted, whereas the wild reeds, while moved back and forth by the wind, remain rooted and are standing up again when the storm has calmed down.
Flexibility is a great virtue. When we cling to our own positions and are not willing to let our hearts be moved back and forth a little by the ideas or actions of others, we may easily be broken. Being like wild reeds does not mean being wishy-washy. It means moving a little with the winds of the time while remaining solidly anchored in the ground. A humorless, intense, opinionated rigidity about current issues might cause these issues to break our spirits and make us bitter people. Let's be flexible while being deeply rooted.
Daily Meditations
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Technology
A lot has been happening in our lives in the broad area of home technology and appliances.
Two weeks ago, our washing machine decided to deposit oil spots on our clothes. Since our dryer was a fire hazard (the switch broke to the door so you could open it without it turning off AND the dryer quit shutting off on its own!) so we bit the bullet and bought a new washer and dryer. Not a cheap venture and thankfully, a few people felt our need and pitched in to help cover the cost! Thanks sooo much! And now, washing clothes is a riot! We didn't realize that clothes only took 20min to dry! It was taking us an hour and a half.
Then, I soft-modded my Xbox two days ago. Woooot! I have evolutionX and Xbox Media Centre running on it now. For those that don't really know what this means, now I can watch DVDs, watch video files that are on my home computer (over the network), listen to music stored on my home computer, play video games from the past like any Nintendo or Super Nintendo game, and much more! All this stuff was not possible before the mod. I am still tweaking and having much fun with it. We still gotta get together and do some gaming, Doug. Do you still have that Lego Star Wars game? I'd like to borrow it. And what was Charmaine's favorite game?
I bought a used mountain bike yesterday. I am excited to ride! I want to get in better shape, using the car less and just having fun in the hills. We want to get the hitch for our stroller to make it into a trailer but we'll have to wait until Lukas is a little bigger. Shouldn't be long. Then we'll hit the trails as a family - that's if my prairie legs don't give out on me. I'd take a picture but that is the other thing . . .
Our Canon A75 has finally taken its last picture. Yup, it served us well but it has breathed it's last. We took more than 10, 000 picture with it over the years. So what to do now? We spent our money on the washer/dryer and now the bike. I guess I should get back to work - now for more reasons than 1 . . .
Books
So I read a couple of books in the past few weeks. Nothing really heavy or spiritual. Kinda liking reading fiction and, I don't know what you would call it, uh, real life stories/biographies/first hand accounts. I am speaking of Krakauer's books. Can you literary people (who are familiar with Krakauer) tell me what you would call them?
Anyway, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer reminded me that I'd love to climb Everest but that I never will. It's a great read for you adventure lovers. Be warned - not exactly a happy ending,
Hornet Flight by Ken Follett was allright. It is set in Denmark during World War I. It involves spying and old airplanes which is kinda cool. Some of the book was cheesy so I don't know if I'll read anything else by Follett.
Because I really liked Into Thin Air, I thought I'd read another of Krakauer's books: Into The Wild. It was good. It's about a wandering young man who decides to spend some time in the Alaska Wilderness - alone. He died out there and Krakauer retraces his steps with this book. He tries to find out what kind a person would head out into the wilderness to live alone. The idea is romantic but like Krakauer's other book, I am reminded that I will not be heading into the wilderness alone, for a length of time, any time soon.
Those Photos
I don't know why blogger messes up the photos when it resizes them. Sorry about the bad images. You'll have to click on them to see the full size image.
I don't have the time at the moment to learn how to fix it so anybody got some ideas?
The Boyz
Just wanted to show some pics of our last trip to the park.
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