This weekend I went to Snow Daze 2010 with a group of middle school students from my church. We had fun with the craziness that was broom-ball, snow tubing down a hill, cracking jokes, eating good food, hanging out at the canteen, and listening to the middle school boys call Matt Myers “honeybuns” (and consequently get pummeled for it).
It was a good time – just getting to know the students better and build a deeper relationship with them. I look forward to seeing how these middle school guys are going to turn out in high-school.
Also had fun with a group of cheer leaders – taught them potato french fry and a few other moves.
All it all a great weekend! I had to sleep for about 15 hours to recover from it. And I get to look forward to a retreat with the high school students next weekend!
With the advent of Google Goggles, which enables people to search on the Internet by searching a photos, it is only a matter of time before the search engine is used to cyber stalk people
From the CNN article, I quote: Although the service can recognize faces, since faces are among the billions of images in the database, it doesn’t right now, Gundotra said. ”For this product, we made the decision not to do facial recognition,” Gundotra said. “We still want to work on the issues of user opt-in and control. We have the technology to do the underlying face recognition, but we decided to delay that until safeguards are in place.”
Imagine being able to take a picture of someone as you walk by and pull up their name, address, phone number and other related information.
Privacy has been dead. We’re just beating it with a large stick now.
I have taken it upon myself to start up a new pet project. That is to show how quickly a basic store front can be created.
It has to be able to connect to our SAP system, as well as our exsiting storefront database.
The goal in doing so will be to show to people that we can migrate off our legacy storefront into somethingthat is updated and modern. Another benefit is that the code is rewritten to take advantage of PHP, which can be learned easily and supported by developers, rather than a legacy Progress database programming language.
So last night Haley and I drove up to Milwaukee to sign up for a Packer / Vikings pork roast being held at OGBH this Sunday. Her sister Jill and her brother in law Stephen are meeting us there to watch the game. Then after that we headed over to Kopps on 76th and Haley got a Turtle Custard Waffle Cone – and I got a Zen Green Tea at the Starbucks nearby. We then headed over to Barnes and Noble to look at assorted books. I picked up a book called “The Year of Living Like Jesus”. So far it’s an interesting read. Something to share with others when I get done reading it.
Today Haley went to Madison for a few days, so I get the house to myself for a while. Have cleaning to do, books to read and forms to fill out for the adoption process. As part of the training that we need to do for adoption, Haley asked me to review each of the books that I read on the adoption blog. I’m wondering if she’ll do the same thing. There are some good things in the book that I’m currently reading that I need to be aware of or thinking of when going through the adoption process.
Our youth pastor is also going to a youth conference this weekend, so I’ll be giving a message this Thursday and Tuesday to the youth students. Already have the topics/themes that I’m sharing a message on – just need to develop it and write it out.
All in all – looking to be a good day today. Looking forward to middle school youth group tonight.
Why is it so hard to get decent customer service over the telephone these days? Especially when you’re calling to make a payment. I like making payments over the phone and the medical billing group makes it an option. However I called on Friday (3 times) and today (4 times) and I keep getting their voice mail.
I’ll be sending in a check, but I’m not exactly thrilled with AMG (Aurora Medical Group) Imaging Services’ telephone service. You would think they would want your money, but apparently they don’t.
Update: They called me back and I missed the call, but fortunately I called back again and was able to get it done over the phone.
So my wife heard the water running late last night and as it turns out, I left the sink water in the 1/2 bathroom. So the bathroom floor was covered with about a half inch of water and of course water likes to drip through cracks so it managed to get the basement floor wet as well.
Just want to give thanks and props to my wife for staying up late to help me clean up the bathroom and organize the things I handed to her to salvage from the basement.
Guess this means I just get to cleaning the basement a lot quicker!
I was having breakfast with a good friend of mine and our discussion was on various different youth ministry topics. We then got on the topic of several different youth students from different churches and we ended up talking about one particular student and how I knew her. I explained to my friend that I knew the student through her parents. Then my friend asked me how I got to know the student’s parents so then I explained that during the time that I was rededicating my life to God, her father had spent some time with me in doing one-on-one discipleship.
Here’s what my friend did for me (intentionally or not).
He managed to show me how God’s hand works in people’s lives. Here this girl’s dad invested the time to do discipleship with me and nuture my faith. I am now indirectly helping to be a Christ-like example / role model to his daughter. The sowing and planting of God’s Word that her dad has done with me is now being reaped by his own daughter (and other students in youth groups).
