Currently eating:

Teriyaki chicken salad, split pea soup, a boiled egg.

Currently listening:

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Switchfoot – ??Nothing Is Sound?? – Enjoying this album. Well-written, well-mixed, well-played, and other applicable hyphenated adjectives. Anyone else think the drums sound exceptionally well-miked and processed, or is it just me? Yeah, I recognize that I’m a freak. Thanks.

HEY, I’m back. Our holiday services at Christ Community went well. We had two Christmas Eve services and one Christmas Day service. Sharon and I spent most of Christmas Day with some friends from church, and then on the 26^th^ we drove to Pennsylvania and spent a week visiting friends and family in the Lancaster/Hanover area. Drove back on Jan 2^nd^, swang through Columbus, OH to see “Joel & Sharon Estes”:http://www.estespage.com, then it was back to work, trying to accomplish the things I forced myself to ignore during vacation and prepare for Sunday. Then a day trip to Indianapolis for my dear friend Kari’s wedding (string quartet. ice sculptures. radiant bride.), where I saw friends from Cedarville I have greatly missed. Finally, today I led worship in the morning, crashed at Pastor Fred’s house for lunch, helped set up for and lead the first time of worship led by our fledgling youth band (which, by the way, shows promise of knowing how to rock), and hung out with the youth group for the rest of the night. Great times, but I have to say I’m tired. Sharon is in Tennessee visiting family, so for the next several days I plan on being alone and quiet… reading, sleeping, thinking, listening, writing, examining. I wish you the same in the naissance of this new year.