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my friend brother david

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it has been awhile since i intro’d a new blogger on ye’ ole blog.

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a number of years ago jonathon & i took a retreat down to Saint Bernard Abbey in cullman, alabama. there we met brother david. it was kinda odd finding such a young person in the monastery, but we got all jazz up talking websites, music, climbing & rappelling, and taking hikes through the woods. we have returned to the abbey a few times and hung with him again. the oddest thing was running into him randomly at opry land hotel in the late summer. he was there for the knights of columbus gathering and selling candles. now i see he has a flickr portfolio and is blogging as well, for the monastery of course.

a bummer of a day

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so my illness has continued into today. it hoped to shake it yesterday, but we ended up having our wednesday night programming so i was at the church through the day. no rest, but we did have a small, but good podcast.

i went to the doctor today. got me a steroid shot, which i asked if they wanted to administer it baseball style or in my arm.. the needle was apparently long, so they opted for my hip. i did get a chuckle from the doc with my comment.

directions from there, rest, drink lots of fluids and stay away from people. so what is a blogger person to do while they are napping away the day and not hanging with people? upload pictures of course.

so i’ve been uploading pictures from last weekends retreat. i posted yesterday the videos that we had created from the retreat.

i started reading "the misunderstood jew : the church and the scandal of the Jewish Jesus" by aj levine, which, so far, i really like.

evening of oovoo

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Oovoo

it took forever, those on my twitter might have seen my frustration. but i finally got logged in and joined a little chat time with joseph jaffe, new media marketing guru. i didn’t contribute too much to the conversation, other than my drinking a beer, in part because i got in late on the conversation, but i was also feeling sick.

as for the oovoo software, well, it was frustrating to not be able to get online. the software froze on me twice when i did get on and then when i finally got connected my screen froze at some point, but the audio was good and the idea of chatting like this was pretty darn cool. the mac software just got released a few days ago, so maybe it was partly software issues. though it could have just been our high speed internet. due to the location we live cable signals get bogged down rather regularly every few days.

as for the conversation. the one thing interesting that deals with much of the content of this blog. when i introduced that i am a youth pastor who lingers around these conversations to glean info. joseph mentioned that the ‘passion of the Christ‘ was one of the biggest community effort promos to date. which was something i had never thought about. probably easy as your have an 1600 year old community to help spur that on, but it cannot be denied the phenomenon of the buzz that movie generated out of normal means.