Ministry Assistant's Day

Nichole and I had a good time at the Couples' conference, but had to leave early because I have been sick the past week. We had church and then YAM in the afternoon on Sunday. I am not going to tell you about the cool activity we did at YAM, because we may do it on a Sunday morning for "big" church.
Yesterday we celebrated Administrative Professional's day with an Atrium lunch catered by The Oasis courtesy of Pastor Gordie.

Friday fun links

This weekend Nichole and I are going to "Weekend to Remember." One of the perks of being a pastor is free admission to any Family Life Today event. We are looking forward to getting away and spending some time together. Here are the links.

Fun
1. Star Chemistry
2. Hangaroo

Serious
1. Easter around the world
2. Gospel of Judas
3. Manners
4. Godcasting

Sporty
1. Steve Yzerman

Easter

Nichole's parents have been with us for the past week and yesterday Nichole and Pat made an Easter feast fit for royalty. We had turkey, ham, mashed potatos, green bean casserole, corn, two kinds of gravy and fruit salad. It was delicious. We also dog-sat Bridger Gibson. Of course Nichole loved it and it just makes her want to get a dog even more.

Friday fun links

It is about half an hour early for me, but some of you out there are already in Friday and I wanted to make sure you have a chance to visit all the links.
Nichole's parents are here this week. I am going to Portland with Dale on Saturday to do a survey with him. Nichole has worked alot this week, but is excited to be at her new job. We are going to be having both turkey and ham on Easter. Yay meat!

Here are the links.

30 significant Apple products

Youth ministry mishap

Detroit Tigers

Josh McDowell DaVinci Code Interview

The next link will download a file. Go to page 10 for the implications.

PDF of cell phone study

Last but definitely not least, the man the myth, the legend.
Click him to go to his website

Opening Day

This past Monday was opening day for the Mariners. I surprised Nichole with tickets to the game. We had trouble find a parking spot, but enjoyed the game. Our seats were great, thanks securing them for us Cindy Junkert. The Mariner's are off to a great start and until yesterday, their only loss was the game we were at. Nichole loves going to baseball games and we hope to go to more games this season.

Friday fun links

An article about my favorite band

U2 and religion

An article about potty mouths or where I come from, "swears"

Profanity

I have been accused of being a treehugger, I was even not considered for a position at a church because of my tendencies. Haha!

Bikes (pick up the current issue of Bicycling for another great article related to this)

Restoring Eden

Ubiquitous

(yoo-bik wi-tes)
Being or seeming to be everywhere at the same time; omnipresent.

I have one, my wife has one, Lance Bauslaugh has one, Mitchell Scott has one, Deb Bauslaugh has one, Bee Briscoe has one and I even think Jim and Donna Skogman have them.

What do all of these people have in common? iPods!!
I drive by myself to work and see the same people pretty much all the time. However, this week I went to San Francisco and witnessed an interesting phenomenon. I spent approximately 2.5 hours on public transportation and 4 hours walking around the city. Wherever I looked I could see the telltale white cords of iPod ownership running from pockets, bags, and hands up to the wearers' ears. It was amazing for me to see how many people were listening to iPods and it wasn't just young, or old, or white, or black it seemed that the iPod has become something that everyone can have. Which iPod are you?