Archive for May, 2007



Eileen Flynn from the Austin American Statesman called me up a few weeks ago and interviewed me about Phoenix - and then she actually showed up for our first service. She wrote about her experience in a blog entry on…

Apartments somewhat mirror the Austin residential real estate rental market (houses and duplexes), though not always directly. A weak apartment market, such as that which occured in Austin from 2002 through 2005, hurts the rental market for homes and duplexes. Renters who would normally not rent an apartment can’t resist the free rent and other […]

A New ‘Why I Blog’

Raincoaster turned me on to Barbara Ehrenreich’s Blog, full of wisdom and interesting thoughts, and the following post:

Before You Write That Book . . .
Everyone has a book in them, at least everyone who writes to me seems to have a story waiting to be packaged between hard covers and peddled on Amazon: The […]

Wasting Time

From iced mocha
A-Attached or Single?
So attached. In a good way.
B-Best Friend:
I’ve learned to never throw that around again, my BF should always stay the same, even if she lives in Denver, or NYC. She was the only normal one.
C-Cake or Pie:
If I had to pick, cake, if it’s cheesecake. It’s the only sweet I eat, […]

In that case, give me two!

Yahoo news had a story on Boeing today…Boeing Co. said on Tuesday it received an order for a private 787 airplane from Hong Kong real estate tycoon Joseph Lau.The order for Boeing’s new carbon-composite 787-8 model, which would seat up…

Here We Go

Cleaning 100 square feet shouldn’t be taking this long, but we don’t own a vacuum. I’m getting creative. Flapping the floor mats outside on the balcony is way more funny when you are 16 stories up. We have RD and AC coming in tomorrow night, and KD the next morning. LC and RD too, of […]

Some pics from Sunday Night

James looks pretty cool, worshiping in silhouette. David giving the announcements - weekend update style! I like this picture… The end of my power-point Is Jesus just another idol? looks cool…..

Top Ten Mistakes list - Perry Noble

Perry Noble, senior Pastor of Newspring Church in Anderson, SC, has a great post listing the Top 10 Mistakes Planters/Pastors make. It’s a pretty good list… It strikes me that many of the items on the list relate to others:…

Kelly Clarkson

Friday we ran, we ate, we shopped, we hung out and played a little Paper Mario. MK took me back to the library, I needed more books! I didn’t realize that one that I checked out was third in a four part series, I don’t do that. We got ready and went out to meet […]

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