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| Sherry reminded me that I wanted to give you guys this link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeJPmSrHUQo
Good one.
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| There is this operations system from a large company that has gotten a very bad reputation in the last couple of years. Well, honestly, in a really weird and annoying sense, the OS is actually pretty fun: it is CONSTANTLY full of surprises. Just a few will suffice:
1. Every time you plug in a device with a USB plug, you can never really be sure if your computer will recognize it. Countless times my mouse was simply not recognized. Unplug, plug into a different port, and then it worked again. The best situation of them all, however, is when you plug in your mouse for the 100th time and the OS informs you that it has just discovered some new hardware! How exciting!! The mouse must have had a hardware update, wirelessly, while being unplugged in my bag!
2. I use a laptop; when I am in my home office, I plug the laptop into a second monitor and use the dual-monitor setting. The first time I plugged that monitor in, it asked me kind questions: which one will be my main monitor? Should the slave monitor be to the right or left of the main screen? Really nice. That worked for a while. But now, every time I plug in the monitor at home, I can be prepared to be surprised. The laptop was my primary monitor, but not anymore! When I switch it back, a couple of days later, my laptop becomes the slave again anyway. The different folders and documents ... wow, virtually every time I plug in the monitor, they are somewhere else than I had them last! And the resolutions, my goodness, they (yep, they, as in the prime and slave monitor) change from one extreme to the next. And where does the monitor extend to? Oh, sometimes to the right ... sometimes to the left of the primary monitor.
3. The previous OS had a similar nice feature which warns you when you are about to install new software as the OS which just was superseded. That feature can be helpful ... especially when the OS warns you that you are about to install the internet browser, produced by the same company as the OS with these words: "The publisher could not be verified. Are you sure you want to run this software?" I could not help myself ... I took a picture of my screen!
4. This got to be my favorite ... unfortunately it has happened only twice in the last ... oh, 6 months. It is the great option that I call: "Re-size the window into nothingness." Well, you all know that you can maximize a a program on the screen; you can minimize a program on the screen, and then you can re-size a program on the screen. It appears that the "re-size" option sometimes is confused with the minimize option by this particular OS. No matter what I did, I could not run two programs next to each other on the same screen, neither could I move that program to another monitor (since it is maximized on the other screen). If I chose to align the two programs vertically, one was maximized, while the other went into minimized mode. Well, after a couple of minutes I got tired of my surprise. I don't remember what I did to get rid of that surprise. I think I hit that all-important click: "Restart"!
But, come on, you got to love surprises!!!!
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| Time to update again.
So I got those two books which I want to keep unnamed last week. It was quite a drag ...
The commentaries turned out to be a different story. I got done with all but one on Friday, but had to read through it on Monday. I also started (and finished) Jay Adams' book on Self-Love, Self-Esteem, ... Much better book than the first two: shorter, bigger print, much better theology. Now I am working on Brownback's "Danger of Self Love." I read about 30-40 pages an hour in this one. The discouraging thing is that it is longer AND has smaller print than Adams' book. Still, it has a lot of good stuff; some overlaps with Adams, but much of it is much deeper and more detailed. I have about 50 pages left, but after reading until 11 pm + every weeknight for the last 3 weeks, even that seems very long.
What else is going on? Work is somewhat slow these days. I spent 65% of my book budget (which started only on July 1st), so I order only the absolute minimum. Journals keep me somewhat busy, especially when publishers half way around the world forget to ship stuff to us... for the last 3 years.
Sherry and I finally cleared out and re-arranged the garage in a way that both of our cars fit into it. I am not sure why, but the people who designed these houses really must have thought: "Let's make the garages in such a way that we can advertise 'Two-Car-Garage," but so small that only one car can realistically fit into it."
Lastly, just try to live out what I am teaching at GPCC. Loving yourself is easy; loving somebody else the way that Paul describes it, a completely different story.
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| So, not much going on on Xanga. Well, I at least need to get back to it a little; this way I at least know that I have done some work.
For the last three days I have essentially stayed up until Midnight studying. I am working on getting my research done for Mark 13. Two weeks ago I did my initial reading (taking notes on every verse); last week I read through it once every day, adding to my notes. Now I am at the commentary stage. I have gotten through Cranfield, Lenski, Hiebert, and tonight finished an article published in a journal ... The Master's Seminary Journal or something. 
Still have France, Edwards, Lane, Stein, and Hendrikson to do. Bad news is that they are the more technical and longer. On average, each commentary is about 35 pages; takes a good 2 hours plus to get through them. I would like to finish them by Friday so that I can focus on other things next week.
I also have been reading two books which I will not mention here. They deal with self-love and self-esteem, promoting them that is. They are written by a "pastor" and I always wanted to get through them, and now I have to since at some point of time we will deal with "love your neighbor as yourself." They are both about 160 pages long. I finished on on Monday, and now try to read 40 pages a day in the second - you guessed it, to finish by Friday.
Then I have two books on the same subject, but written from the other, the biblical side: Jay Adams: "The Biblical View of Self-Esteem, Self-Love, Self-Image" and Paul Brownback "The Danger of Self-Love." Both of them are about 150 pages. Hope to get through those next week.
Oh, and then I still have to get that exam done for the denomination ...
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| Just in case you have not yet heard ... it is a boy!
Both Daniel and Hannah are happy; so are we.
Please keep praying for us.
The house is slowly but very surely coming together. The only major thing left is the flooring, and the guy who is supposed to install it has not been very reassuring!
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