Entries from June 2008 ↓

• @cadillaczak – dude, you need to learn to preach without notes! :-) one of the best things i got from dallas seminary. #

the recent explosion up north which apparently brought about a major crisis in gas supplies to business and possibly households seems amazing to me… can it really be that all of our gas energy supply eggs were wrapped up in a single plant?! that seems unbelievable! surely someone would have had the planning awareness to think through the issues of that kind infrastructural limitation. in a state with our levels of these sorts of resources, it just seem incredible that a single plant failure should result in this kind of situation.

Warnbro Worldchangers Today!

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A new year lies ahead.

• Sitting out in our courtyard in the winter sun. Very good way to chill. Relaxing, except now the kids have come out. :-/ #
• Yep – definitely a lot noisier with the kids out here. #
• my 16 year old son sold over $40k worth of merchandise today at his part-time job… wow! that blows me away! #

• Just saw an odd sight for australia – burning car on the side of the road. Used to see them all the time in the US. Why? #
• yep, definitely decided i don’t like that smug smirk mccain does after each point. surely one of his spin doctors must have noticed this?!? #
• off to a meeting at the COCWA headshed to discuss our thailand missions stuff. should be interesting. hope to get others on board fully. #
• Churches are so different and it makes these sorts of combined decision-making meetings interesting… Very different way of viewing things. #
• We ran out of West Wings to watch so I just topped up our supply by buying the entire series. Cost was less than buying the 2 I needed! :-) #

• Off to the Rockingham Ministers Fellowship breakfast this morning with Pat Mesiti as guest speaker. Should be interesting. #
• “What you believe in your darkest moments is what you believe.” – Pat Mesiti. It’s true. #
• Had an amazing encounter with God this morning as I did sermon prep. Last thing you would normally expect out of a commentary! :-) #
• Another full day. Had a guy email me today asking after my view on the doctrine of salvation. Hmm… I know I’m going to get this wrong. :-) #
• @baggas – Dude! Very disappointed… no-one brings ME muffins! :-( #

having a mathematics degree, i kind of thought this was funny…

now it all makes sense…

[via xkcd.com]

• pretty productive morning, and now i’m heading into a bunch of meetings, one after the other. the flavour of tuesdays! :-) #
• meetings done, and home cooking a roast. i’ve never cooked a roast. everyone says it is easy. hmmm… we’ll see. #
• The roast was not so easy, but it turned out ok. Thankfully, Nic got home to rescue my efforts. #

my old rugby coach used to declare that there are three kinds of people… those who makes things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who don’t know what the heck happened… (his language was a bit more colourful, but you get the drift…)

came across this one today, and i know this one is totally true…

“There are two types of people: those who’ve lost data and those who will.” — Dan Frakes, MacWorld

true dat…

i’ve played a bit of street ball before, so i thought this was uber funny…

oh, and before i get in trouble, i got this from my daughter, beloved amy… :-)