Free Tommy Chong

no idea what that means, just the slogan spray painted on a freight train that rolled by. Yes, I'm enjoying this wifi way too much.

vinings

sitting on a patio in GA having lunch, blogging via the community wifi. To cool.

Returning to Atlanta

Well I've had a just over a week at home. Mother nature was not too kind with cold and snow till the last couple of days. I did get 50km of biking in but that's all.

At least the spirt of Tim Hoton was smiling on me a bit:


And I had a meaningful time with friends and family, blah blah blah.

- Peace

Mobile Blog

A quick test of Diarist for the pocket pc.

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It is Finished

yeah, well it's that all right.

Are you sure that's what he said?

Thats what he said.

A flair for the dramatic, even at the end.

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How's Marry?

Broken, hurting. She at my house.

She'll have to face the brothers sooner or later. 'We told you he was crazy! Dad wouldn't have let this go on!' Poor women.

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Where's Thomas?

With any luck he's hunting down Judas.

You know that's not what he would have wanted.

I don't know what he wanted, or what he was thinking. Should have stayed in Samaria
Eh Peter, Peter? Hasn't said a word since yesterday morning.

We could have gone with the Greeks

yeah that would have been cool. Always wanted to see Greece.

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Will one of you get the door?

The sun's barely up!

Who could it be at this ungodly hour?

WiFi

Had the Element into the dealership this morning, the aux port on the stereo that I plug my ipod into was cutting out on the righthand speakers. Cool thing is they had WiFi set up, so I could browse the web from my iPAQ while waiting. Now if only blogger didn't crash pocket IE. Will have to find some software so I can blog on the go.

- Peace

Signs of Atlanta

While I was in Atlanta I couldn't help but notice a few of the signs

Bridge May Freeze in Winter

Are there bridges that freeze in summer? Are they mocking us northerners 'hey our bridges don't freeze every winter!'

Speed Checked by Detection Devices

Wow you just know some committee started out with something like Speed Enforced by Radar'. Then they realized they sometimes use lazzers not radar, and who knows what's coming out next year... They also may just want to monitor speed and not enforce it so...

Slow Church Ahead

I'll be taking the digital camera next time. I need a picture of this. Reminds me of the classic from Fredericton: Slow Men Working in Trees.

- Peace

Ya Gotta Be Real

Jason Guy has started blogging. Jason is biking buddy who's moved to Edmonton, he was also one of our pastors here in Calgary. I'm adding him to the blog roll.

- Peace

Robots: a quick review

Amazing animation and some funny sight gags in search of a plot twist. Way too predictable and cliched to be worthy of the animation.

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Eugene Peterson on Relevance

I think relevance is a crock. I don't think people care a whole lot about what kind of music you have or how you shape the service. They want a place where God is taken seriously, where they're taken seriously, where there is no manipulation of their emotions or their consumer needs.

From Spirituality for All the Wrong Reasons. If this was anyone but Peterson I would have dismissed this out of hand. But Peterson wrote the Message in accessible english that carried the emotion of the original, he thinks U2 is prophetic. He's not against being hip and cool. He's against cool as a way around the hard work of loving people one on one. It's a great article and a must read.

Thanks to Jordon for pointing it out.

- Peace

Jeff

Jeff's done his first post here at IdeaJoy, so I thought I should introduce him. Jeff's one of the guys I camped with at Cornerstone 2003, he's a writer, educator, a lover of music and culture. He does one mean air guitar. He's old enough to be my Dad but listens to Fiver Iron Frenzy and speaks lovingly of seeing Lust Control live. I did have to explain the Wizard Needs Food Badly connection to Gautlet, but thems the hazards of being born too soon. He's also a jazz connoisseur, Coltrane and Felonious Monk cds are common in his office. To say Jeff loves music and literature is to say Wayne Gretzky played hockey.

Jeff's a gentle spirit who loves a good debate with a wicked sense of humor. To me Jeff's a natural blogger, so when we got together on Thursday he let me set him up an account here at IdeaJoy so he could give bloggin a try. Welcome Jeff.

- Peace

In Atlanta

I'm in Atlanta with work. I'll be here for a couple of weeks, then back home for a week and then here for most of April and May. This feels strangely familiar, I started IdeaJoy when I was working in Toronto, too much time in a hotel room not much to do, so I started to blog.

It's also familiar in that I have friends in Atlanta I haven't see face to face for sometime and I'm looking forward to seeing them. Seeing friends and relatives was the hightlight of my Toronto trip, made it bareable, would have gone crazy with out them.

I brought the bike, I plan to ride part of Silver Commet Trail and around Stone Mountain. Since I can't make it to CJUG I'll have to make do with AJUG. I'm doing my best to adjust.

Atlanta is at the south end of the Appalachian mountains, I grew up at the north. Like back home people in Atlanta give directions in terms of left and right. The prairie ideals of north south east and west just don't apply when the roads follow the contours of the land. It's a good thing I brought my gps, it's easy to get lost here.

- Peace

Pernel is Evil!

yeah I know you knew that, but now there is no doubt.

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Before and After

Kim shaves me one every three or four months, the change comes as quite a shock to people. I understand it the first time, but when it's the third or fourth time I find it funny that people are still shocked.

Happy Birthday Annemarrie

- Peace

Kim Won

grrr... ok I know I should be happy for her, but you know... I'm not.

To my American readers, sorry you kinda have to live hear to understand.

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Nurses

I have no idea who these two are. Ken forwarded me this email.

Dear Susan & Ken,

Here is my file with all Mom's old picts in it. These are the ones I have the originals for.

Deb!

Thing is I don't have a clue who Ken is. I replied and asked what was up but he's been silent. Thought I'd share the pictures of the nurses. I hope Deb doesn't mind.

- Peace

Picture Answer

From this original picture you can see the street lamps that got in the way of the sky line view. I was able to 'erase' them using the GIMP.

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Lift Up The Lip to Lose

It's that time of year again...