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These are on the hall wall outside the study rooms.

I’ve been here several days now and the dust is settling; conversation is picking up at the supper table, and people are getting just a little bit crazy in the study rooms. With over 60 students here, I still haven’t nearly got everyone’s name down. Crystal and Krisanne are about the only students here from my era. I’m taking Principles of Teaching and College Algebra. I’m the only student in Algebra, so Mr. Koch and I are having a grand time of it.

Charlene and John, my sister and her husband, made a surprise run from PA to VA just to see us! We were so happy. This evening Johnny took them fishing in our pond. From left to right, it’s Patrick, Erinna, and Johann.

Well, I know I’ve been a total slacker with this blog lately, and thought that now that I have some time, I should give you a little update. So below are a few pictures from the last month or two, with some brief captions. (Continued)

Just finished an upgrade to WordPress 2.3.3, which fixed that lousy database error on my blogroll.  I also imported all my 87 bloglines feeds into my blogroll.  So there you go, world.  =)

We had our annual church picnic tonight, and we managed a whole church (well, almost) picture!

School starts Tomorrow.  At 9:00 I will be smiling happily and nervously at a crew of 20 7-12ers.  Am I ready?  Not overly.   But I can’t wait for the thing to start so I get a feel for this thing.  I don’t know if I’ve ever been more keyed up about something in my life.  Seriously.

I feel bad that I haven’t posted more about IGo.  I want to sometime post more pics, tell you more about it, put a few more plugs in for the place for the benefit of all you future students out there.  I will do that, once I get a few free moments.   Not sure when this is going to happen.

In other news….  Eric is still gone…  Only 1 yr, 11 3/4 months till he comes back.  Yes, life is a tragic vale of tears.  But… at least I get this whole huge room to myself.  Not that I really like that or anything.

In other news… my laptop is now luxuriating in 2 GBs of memory.  Ahh….  Yup, it’s real snappy like.  Can’t wait to see what it does once I stick Vista on it.  On the subject of memory, let me put a plug in for crucial.com, the only place to buy memory.  I ordered yesterday, opted for the 7-10 day free shipping, and the stuff arrived today, all the way from Idaho.  Not sure how they were able to pull that off, but hey, I was very happy.  Crucial’s stuff is top notch, too.

On another subject… Passion Camp was a wonderful wonderful weekend.  We were incredibly blessed by God.   The guys loved it, and we were all impacted with some seriously life-changing stuff.  I will never be the same, for sure.  God is incredible!

Another piece of news I was really happy to hear was that the 19 Korean hostages in Afghanistan are set to be released!  This is very positive!  We had prayed a lot for these folks last month.

Well, I will hopefully post a picture of my 20 brilliant future world changers on here soon.   Peace out.

Just got a break for a few minutes from all the stuff that’s happening at Passion Camp to come post a few pics so you all know what’s happening and could pray for us.  We’re having a great time, hearing some incredible teaching and talking seriously about real guy issues, etc.  Merle Burkholder just finished a session on relationships that was incredibly powerful; the stories he told I will never forget.  We’ve got around 60 guys attending.  Pray that God would have freedom to work.  Pray against our enemy.  Pray for physical strength.  We’re not getting too much sleep!