Family Life

Daniel is learning to play the piano, and he’s learning to read. One thing he’s learned of music is that when a note is followed by a dot it is three beats long. He has to name the notes and count while he plays. So playing a piece goes something like, “A, B – two [...]

Tonight’s youth group was small. We had six leaders and three youth. The evening’s speaker had wondered about canceling altogether. But no, we went ahead anyway. Many or few, we bring God’s Word to those who are willing to listen. A small group is always a concern though. Usually you need a certain critical mass, [...]

After a few months of nothing much to do, it looks like we’ll be super-busy at work from now until the fall. A good six months of solid work. Nothing wrong with that. We’re bringing in a whole bunch of contractors to help out with the rush. The problem is we have nowhere to put [...]

We visited the Grand Canyon over a year ago and took lots of photos (of course). I dealt with all of them last year, tagging, cataloging, printing, uploading and archiving. All except one small set: a panorama composite of 130 individual pictures. I’d started to do something with it way back then, but it was [...]

It is increasingly difficult to justify my existence at work these days, mainly because I have nothing to do, but today I managed to earn my wages. I finished putting together ideas for a major upgrade to one of our machine lines. This was the first machine I designed when I started at the company [...]