Sunday

Most of the time, if I don't post at least something each day, Joe gets worried about me and calls me up. "Just checking on you, since you haven't blogged," she'll say. I love that.

This morning I arrived at church at 6:30 AM... I did have alarm-clock problems, but Rick caught me in time and noodged me awake again. What would I do without him? Anyway, he said that my alarm DID ring, and that I turned it off. I have no recollection of that. It woke him up, however.

I tried to save my Windows MovieMaker movie to a DV-R, but for some reason my laptop isn't recognizing my CD-drive even though it's supposed to also be a DVD-burner as well as a CD one. I may take it in to CompUSA this week to see if it's just a setting I need to fix or if there's actually a problem. Anyway, we had to use an e-mailed version of my little silent movie, and the quality was totally totally crappy. I was really bummed. I plan on making a few more movies like that, but if they're going to look that bad... I do have the option of making the movie over at Tim's on his G5, which I may do next time.

At any rate, the version that played was just barely viewable on the big screen, but it still got laughs. That was one of the goals. The other goal was to get people to join a small group. I'll find out eventually if it worked. You can watch it here: Small Group Video.

The church is having a set of revival services for the next few days, but I doubt I'll be going. Not that I don't need "reviving" or anything; there's always room for improvement. But I heard him this morning and, while he seems to be a very nice guy, he doesn't keep my attention very well. Probably because he wasn't saying anything particularly striking or compelling, at least to me. I'm sure there were people to whom it was wonderful stuff, and that's fine. But unless a speaker is really dynamic or unless I happen to know the person and have a lot of respect for them, it's a waste of time for me to sit and listen because I won't. I'll draw pictures, I'll daydream, I'll fall asleep, what-have-you. My time is better spent here at home.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow, when I begin mentoring one of the girls from our youth group. She's an outstanding person and I'm very humbled that she chose me. I want to live up to that level of trust.