Saturday the 22nd we are driving westward for two days, eventually ending up in my old hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. My more vocal kid is stoked, and I’m pondering how many Starbucks doubleshots I’ll need. At least I won’t have to worry about where the luggage will show.
The vacation will last for a [...]
A day and a half after I briefly mentioned mandated gasoline blend variety as a burden on gas prices, Reuters reports on a fuel shortage on the eastern seaboard as a result of switching to another gasoline blend.
Dozens of gasoline stations from Virginia to Massachusetts ran short of fuel on Friday as suppliers struggled with [...]
There have been some interesting discussions in the Lutheran blogosphere about oil and national security. CPA insists that we burn the resources of other countries before we drill ANWR, a position I respect in principle, but I’m curious as to whether he’d use government force to secure a commodity. Jeremy Abel reacts to a statement [...]
USA Today has a report on a summer “thriller”, Snakes On A Plane. The movie already has an Internet fan base, but apparently the producers feared a PG-13 rating would keep viewers from going:
Additional scenes were shot in March with more gore, nudity and profanity so the PG-13 rating would become an R, the better [...]
The title is the Response part of the “He is Risen/He is Risen Indeed” pair of phrases because everyone else has said the first by now.
The “Week Off” is often an exercise in humility and futility. The PDA is loaded with the tasks for the week. We try to budget time for [...]
Southwest Airlines took me through OKC-MCI-MDW-CMH. I’d have called, Mom, if they’d let me get off the plane in Kansas City. I changed planes at Chicago-Midway. Transit time: approximately 10 hours, adding in the time driving from Duncan to Oklahoma City. Before I even got started, I had ticketing issues (paper tickets are [...]
My solos tonight turned out okay. For some reason I felt a little constricted, and I didn’t get enough warming up out of the hymns. They were sung after the Old Testament reading and the sermon, which preceded communion. I got a little bronchial dilation after communion and sang out more. Thus the moral of the story is that I should have a glass prior to worship. 
I played a little more with WavePad and discovered it has a Noise Cancellation filter. It worked quite well, so well that it took out too much of my weak diction. It can be adjusted; I’ll have to work with it some more. My new digital voice recorder was able to pick up the pastor from my position in the back of the sanctuary, a distance of maybe 50 feet.
Sermon notes as best as I could take them off the recording:
Two days ago I purchased a Digital Voice Recorder so that the kids could hear Daddy sing. Just to see how it would sound before I used it Thursday, the accompanist and I met last night and tried it out.
The Olympus VN-960PC was the least expensive DVR that could transfer files directly to a computer. [...]
