I Found $10,000!

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I misunderstood a finance report to the extent that I thought we had spent $10,000 more than we actually spent. For our church, a $10k hole in the budget is cause for concern. When I started adding numbers together, though, the numbers weren’t coming out that bad, so I knew something had to be up with the report. The bottom line: The report wasn’t user friendly…

No Screen Day

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A boiling hot summer keeps us inside, and we have ended up spending too much time in front of our various media screens (computers, TVs, and Video Games). So, Cindy and I declared No Screen Day. Here’s the report…

The Kindle: A 24th Century Birthday Present

The Kindle 2. Thin and light, it is a wonderful way to read books.

I got a Kindle for my birthday! A Kindle is a digital book reader. It connects you to Amazon, where you can buy books, and it automatically downloads them in seconds. So, with my Kindle in hand, I went to the lake, and spent a good part of the day reading in a hammock. I stopped reading only to [...]

Grumbling about Gumblar

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Ugh. I’ve had a virus on my computer before, but I’ve never had one that spread to my websites! This one is nasty, indeed.

Boys with Toys

A couple of posts ago, I wrote about how things have changed even from when I was little. I thought I would share an example: our Wii. Thanks to Santa, this Christmas, our household joined the millions of other Wii owners. Wii is the latest video game system from Nintendo and it has become so [...]