We got a cat from the Tails humane society in DeKalb. She looks like this: The only problem is, we’re not sure what to name her. Any suggestions? The folks at Tails named her Laverne, which is cool… if you’re someone’s great-grandma. But it’s decidedly uncool for a cat. I want to call her Froofaraw. [...]
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The pictures… finally
August 27th, 2006 
tristan I’ve been wordy lately. At Rachel‘s request, I’m finally posting pictures of Sharon and me. We don’t take a lot of pictures of ourselves (we really ought to take more, I know), so these are random shots from a variety of places and times. Niagra Falls (two shots pasted together) Hiking at Grandfather Mountain, TN [...]
This is war
August 6th, 2006 tristan Last Sunday (a week ago), I was wrenched awake at 2:30am by the smoke alarm right outside our bedroom. I ran to the sound, not knowing what to expect, and what I found was… nothing. Only the alarm is on a 10-foot ceiling, so I had to find something to stand on in order to [...]
On Church Music
July 25th, 2006 tristan After reading some controversial blog posts/comments on music & worship, my friend Chad wrote a post about church music, worship aesthetes, snobbery, etc. on his blog, and he asked my opinion on the subject. So here are a few thoughts off the top of my head. First: My favorite book on music in the church [...]
We got published
July 11th, 2006 tristan Our senior pastor, Fred, occasionally writes articles for the Plainfield Enterprise, one of the newspapers in the same city as our church. He is currently on sabbatical in Europe with his family, and he asked me if I would write his article for him while he is gone. [Side note: our web team is helping [...]
Blogging conditions are favorable
July 6th, 2006 tristan We finally got DSL and a wireless gateway, which means I can sit on my couch and type this. Since we moved in the middle of May, we haven’t had a land line, so I couldn’t even use dialup. If the weather was decent, I could sit on our deck and hold my computer at [...]
The kitchen is almost done
June 22nd, 2006 tristan Well, folks, our house is slowly looking better. Here’s a before-and-after of the kitchen for you: The floor is still 10-year-old scratched-up linoleum with pink and blue flowers… eventually we hope to replace that. I’d also like to install track lighting over the left counter area one of these days. But for now, we’re pretty [...]
