Someone should invent this
An alarm clock that can sense when you are in a deep sleep cycle, and when you’re not, and can then wake you up when you’re not in a deep sleep cycle. I think it could work. It may require you to sleep with a suction cup on your forehead. I think it would be worth it though.
Maybe I’ve just given away a brilliant idea that could make me millions. How do I patent this? I guess it’s copyrighted since I just wrote it, but I don’t know if that does me any good. Oh well. If someone invents it I can at least buy one, and then maybe getting my rear out of bed in the morning wouldn’t be so terribly difficult.
In other news…ummm…we’ve been trying to get everything done before we leave for vacation on Wednesday morning. I’m trying to finish a chapter/section in my Christian Education course I’m writing. I’d be able to get it done if I could just get about 6 hours to write.
Check out the new website for our church, New Restalrig Parish Church of Scotland, that I designed. The layout/structure is done (aside from the constant tweaking); the content is mostly done, but I’ll be revising it a bit to make it a little more friendly to nonChristians. I also need to work on search engine placement, which is tough.
My sister and her family have just moved from Scotland to Santa Barbara and I’m curious to know where they went to church today.
I’ve designed some flyers and posters for Neyir’s show in the Edinburgh Fringe. They look fab, if I say so myself. Just use your imagination.
I’m trying to decide which books to take with me on our trip. Currently at the top of my reading list are:
Christian Apologetics, by Cornelius Van Til
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson (actually Ash has required that I read this on our trip, so…)
The Deliberate Church, by Mark Dever and Paul Alexander (which I have to review by the first week of September)
and The Story of My Life, by Giacomo Casanova (which I started reading at the beginning of the summer and have left to the side; very interesting/weird)
Obviously I’m not gonna get all of those done. I’m thinking I can probably get through two of them. The problem is, I can’t decide how much work to try to get done.
Listening to techno/trance while I’m working late at night is really cool. It helps keep me motivated. I wish I had more than this 1 CD, though.
I haven’t been able to check my main (Westmont) email account since Friday morning. This is highly annoying. Their server has been pretty inconsistent lately, and it’s getting to the point that I may have to change my main address. I like my Westmont email address and was planning to keep it until I get a job and have a bryce@somesweetchurch.com address. But if I can’t depend on my Westmont account, I’m gonna have to make a change pretty soon. Soooo, if you’ve sent me an email recently and not received a response, I’ll get back to you as soon as I get your email. Hopefully some IT dude at Westmont will be working on Monday.
Wow, I didn’t think this post was gonna be so random.
Ok, that’s it for now.
August 8th, 2005 at 5:54 am
Love the website! It looks great. I have packed 3 books for the trip – you will really like Gilead, by the way. See you at Heathrow!
August 8th, 2005 at 6:13 am
I’m reading “Gilead” now based partially on your wife’s reviews of it.
August 8th, 2005 at 3:14 pm
Hi Bryce,
The New Restalrig website looks good. I sense strongly that you are called to a church planting ministry in your native California: specifically, to plant the new Neverland PCA congregation.
Your e-mail address could be Bryce@JustMeAndMichael.com or bryce@MJinthePCA.com or something like that. And you could name your house ‘Neverland Manse’ and put a ferris wheel in your garden.
Hee hee!
James
August 8th, 2005 at 5:42 pm
Looks like some serious reading on our trip! I’m thinking more along the lines about a detective mystery. I hope I can hold my own among the cultured. See you on Wednesday in Heathrow.
August 9th, 2005 at 12:06 am
James, I’m speechless.
Tor, if you’re worried about the “cultured” then we will be the least of your worries, me thinks. Have a good flight.
August 9th, 2005 at 11:53 am
Have a great time! We will miss you. I would like to say that the flyers and posters Bryce designed are beyond fab!!!! We are blessed beyond measure in having such talented and generous friends.
August 9th, 2005 at 12:04 pm
Neyir have you got them from the printers yet? I’m excited to see them. You’re sweet.
(I, of course, am taking credit for my husband’s technical and creative genius) — haha.
August 9th, 2005 at 12:18 pm
I haven’t even received the proofs from the printer yet! I dropped them off yesterday, it takes a week.
Neyir, thanks and you’re welcome.