Finally! I updated the firmware on my phone. It's taken a while to get everything squared away. I lost the info on my data line and couldn't connect to the internet. When I got that squared away, I had to get this keyboard working and install vox. I still can't get the headset to pair. I'll keep trying on that.
I'm getting caught up with church podcasting. There's still way too much to do there. With Elwood being out of sorts, I couldn't focus and then there was the book packing spree. I have to contact the pastor in Syracuse to say the books are ready. Apparently he's not getting back to me. I hate that. I have something he wants.
I broke the coffee grinder by shrinking the lid in the convection oven. I didn't realize it had fallen into my pan. I decided to buy the cheap grinder. I'm thinking that was a mistake as it really is a lesser grinder, but given my track record with appliances these days, it may not last and then I can get something different. For another $6 I could have gotten a quisinard, but I really don't think I should be spending all this money on a coffee grinder. It would have been nice though.
Elwood and I are getting out to walk. That is helping us both.
I'm really posting tonight to make sure everything is working and t get back into the habbit. The keyboard feels a little strange which means I haven't been using it enough.
Holy Week
This has been the weirdest HOly Week ever. I had this idea ... I would read the narrative from Matthew very diligently. I would attend Mandy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter services. I would be very, very diligent.
Instead, I have packed books to be given away. I've emptied 3 bookcases and will give them away, too. I'd like to get a 4th empty. I've tried reading and fallen asleep, largely because I was drinking decaf instead of regular coffee. I've been headachy, from the same cause. I have to decide about my addiction to cafine later.
I'm cleaning up my hard drive slowly. I've gotten most of Norton off the laptop. I'm trying to run lean there, too.
ANd the most weird thing is, I went looking for music yesterday, to at least mark the day. "Jesus Keep Me NEar the Cross" is what I played because, after all, that's the point. I played the end of Godspel, too. What is left? It isn't worshiping a dead hero, as my NT teacher would say. It's about the living God. Keep me close, Jesus because you hold us all in your heart.
It is such a relief to not to think I have to be profound, only to report, respond and ruminate.
I got an emnail yesterday from a pastor in the reigion talking about the sin of spending on books--so many books they clutter the shelves and most go unread or, having been read, hang about. I think it has to do with wanting to impress and a form of conspicuous consumption. Anyway, he packed up about half his library and the books are going to a church in Africa. Who wants to join him?
The email came late in the afternoon. While I had dinner in the convection oven, 20 minutes, I had one shelf examined and a box of books. It is a liberating experience. Thousands of pages either read or never to be read as well as pages read for class. My rule has been been: don't get rid of anything you really want. Let me tell you, there isn't a whole lot I want to hang onto when it comes down to it. I'd rather someone else use it.
Now we're trying to figure out how to get the books from Jamestown to Syracuse. Perhaps the Episcopalians can get them as far as Buffalo.
I don't live in an Irish area so ST. Patrick's Day is a non-event. Given my diet, I'm not eating corned beef either. Soda bread is a possibility, but I probably could't eat it fast enough. So much for celebrating.
Curiously, ST. Patrick's Day falls in Holy Week. This Lenten/Easter season of early dates won't happen again until the 2300's I think.
I bought the Daily Message. It was only one credit at audible for 76 hours of audio. It doesn't fit on my 2gb card for the Victor Reader Stream. I found part 3 has the gospel of Matthew and I'm reading Jesus in Jerusalem this week. Peterson's paraphrase alwlays sheds new light on old texts. It usually prompts me to reread the passage in a standard translation.
Today's surprise was this: I didn't know the image of Jesus as mother hen was also in Matthew. It's in Luke 13, not in Jerusalem. But in Matthew's gospel, Jesus says it in conjunction with his denunciation of the scribes and pharisees. "I will send you prophets," the text says. Jesus speaks for himself or for God here in Chapter 23? I had always read right past this part or rarely read it at all. Curious.
Well, Lent has been ashambles. All my high hopes of intense study evaporated. The public journal would have been better served on this blog than as a polished podcast. Live and learn.
It's been a while since I've posted. I guess I've been busy and busy in a way that has not prompted me to blog. I've been working with system access, synching a lot of things to my Creative Zen Stone and Victor Reader Stream and listening to them. As a result, more has gone into me than come out of me. All of my resolutions to journal and blog and even podcast have seemed to disappear this Lent. perhaps that is what the wilderness is all about. You disappear for a while and then re-emerge into civilation. More later.
