I caught this shot in Holbrook on the way back from New Mexico... Aaron Norwood's nickname is Woody & I had to snap this for him :)

So anyway, I woke up about 5:30 this morning having the strangest dream… I was in some school (high school, junior high) for some reason & saw this older kid beating up on this younger kid – you know knocking his books out of his arms, pushing him against a locker. So I walked over to him & blocked a swing & basically gave him part of the “everything a boy needs to know about being a man” speech. (for more on that speech, check out the movie Second Hand Lions) Anyway, he took a swing at me & I blocked his hand & played Mercy with him & explained that being a man did not mean picking on kids smaller than him – that took no courage, no real strength, no manliness… It takes a man to defend the weak. That takes courage, strength, etc. I told him I figured he already had the courage it took in that he took a swing at me, so he’s ready to start acting like a man & I felt he had what it took to do it well. Anyway, as I let go of him to walk off where I should have been I heard a female teacher say to me something like, “well, I won’t be reporting that to the principal…” I go to whatever I went to the school for and as I’m coming out I see police officers talking to the kid… I woke up before anything happened to me. I have a feeling this dream came from an experience I had over the weekend, coupled with the movie Second Hand Lions, along with a book I finished reading a bit ago called Wild At Heart.

My Apologies - It appears as if the TurtleCam has been going down occasionally. I have installed the client for the United Devices Cancer Project. I don't know if that has caused the webcam to crash or not... I'm running an older version of WebcamXP on a Windows 2000 server box at 400 Mhz Celeron... I might update the version of software or the OS, but am too cheap to replace the box. Anyway, check out the United Devices Cancer Project and Folding@Home. The both have clients that use unused CPU cycles on your PC to simulate folding proteins to help in cancer research and understanding other diseases & disorders...

I've been visiting this new site for a while now. It's Daily Rotation. It has headlines from 300+ tech sites & you can just browse their headlines & click on the link to go to the full story. It comes with a default selection of some sites & you can re-configure it to set up the specific sites you want. The great thing is that it is free & no account needs to be set up or anything. The downside I've found is that your site selection preferences are kept via a cookie. You delete your cookies - wham! You need to re-configure your preferences... Pretty cool otherwise!

Check out my new Interactive Worship Station Blog. I'm documenting all the different Interactive Worship stuff Terri & I are doing at The Bridge. I haven't gotten comments up over there yet, but hopefully folks can start using the ideas or tweaking them into better ideas!

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