Jess and I enjoyed an afternoon and evening with friends Jason & Mischele Denniston. Jason is the youth pastor at the Fairmount Wesleyan Church and both of them attended IWU with us “back in the day”!
We met them at Seeker’s coffee house for a quick drink after we had an “almost fender bender” with another car on the way to Seeker’s. Thankfully our bumpers did their jobs and nothing was injured and both parties left smiling (and thanking the Lord!)
After Seeker’s, we took in the 2:50 showing of “Second Chance” the Michael W. Smith movie. It was a good movie – I’ll review it, I’m sure here on stevansheets.com. After the movie it was off to Red Lobster to treat our wives to their Valentine’s dinner. We had a great time at dinner minus the poor service by our over-worked waitress.
A quick trip to Dick’s sporting goods and then Wal-Mart and we parted ways with our friends.
Gas was $2.01/gallon tonight as I filled Jess’ Buick up – that’s pretty stinking good for our area – what’s gas “in YOUR neck of the woods” as Al Roker would ask?
This morning after a hospital visit, I enjoyed another NETWORK meeting with 10 other youth workers from the Warsaw area. We meet monthly and take time to pray for one another as well as share ideas and brainstorm together.
After the meeting 5 of us enjoyed lunch at China Palace and then I headed to Jess’ classroom to read a book, “Where the Wild Things Are” to her 1st Graders. It was great!
Tonight we stayed in as I attempted to create our own personal media-library using a program called “Media Man” (imediaman.com) – the program is pretty incredible – just typing in the ISBN # from the back of any book, movie, or CD puts it in our personal media library, complete with track listing, page count, author information, etc. – including a photo of the cover! It then renders a 3D “bookshelf” of all of our media and allows us to keep track of borrowing too!
It also makes the library “export-able” so that we can keep a copy printed for insurance purposes. Currently, I have our entire DVD library inputed and one full bookshelf from the living room. Next up – children’s books and my office library! Media Man costs $40 on their website, though I’m still using the 30-day trial version to make sure I’m not just in a library-making phase!
Okay – so no dirty videos or even “dirty” talk tonight. (Thank goodness!)
The information tonight was pretty straightforward – no real surprises.
The free sodas and crushed ice made things go much better, too – we were out 15-minutes before 9.
It IS interesting to note the “partners” role in this whole childbirth thing is pretty substantial, however – I was waiting to find out about the “game room” that the dads get to go to when “things get rough”, but apparently there is no game room…
Next week’s lessons are on more breathing techniques, more relaxation techniques, learning the stages of labor, and what to expect when we arrive at the hospital!
We are in a class of 13-couples. I also took note of the PowerPoint projector being TOO close to the screen and the picture was less of a square and more of a trapezoid! How sad…
Seriously, folks, you NEED Skype!
Now’s your chance to “get on the frontline” of this technology that will eventually take over most households.
I spoke with my buddy, Glen Robinson a few times today via Skype and my usb phone arrived in the mail today, too! I now can talk to ANYONE in the WORLD (if they have Skype) and did I mention that you can call anyone in the U.S. for only 2-cents a minute with Skype? That means you can call their HOME TELEPHONE – NOT their computer (that’s free) for only 2-cents/minute!
If you DO download and install SKYPE, be sure and add us to your contact list. At home we’re, “sheets_home” and at the office I’m “navets”!
