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Deathdrone
While Krista and Alex were reading a book one day where one character calls another “Sweetpea”……
Krista: “Sweetpea? You know I call you Sweetpea sometimes too?”
Alex: “Don’t call me ‘Sweetpea’! Call me DEATHDRONE!!!”
Now ends the age of innocence.
New Phone on the Fritz
Ok, I’m not going to get technical on you but this last week we had finally decided that we needed to buy new phones in our house. The batteries were not lasting that long and we couldn’t have more than one person on the phone at a time (which is a problem when you use your phone for mainly talking with family overseas). So on Sunday we set up this great new phone and after translating the manual from German, we got it all set up, batteries charged, phone numbers entered into the “phone book”, special ringtone selected, etc. So we plugged it in and Alex really wanted to be able to call Grandma and Grandpa on the new phone so we dialed in their number and we heard nothing. We tried several times and nothing. No ringing nothing. So we dialed my handy (also known as a cell phone) and sure enough my cell phone rang but when I answered, I could hear stuff on the handy but not on the phone. So I called from my handy to our home number and the phone rang, we answered and it worked perfectly. So what is the deal?Well, after re-translating the manual (again) and then searching online for an English version of the manual, I could not find the issue. Now the way things get set up here in Germany when you have a high speed DSL line (mine is 16 Mbps download with a 1 Mbps upload – sometimes 1.5), you can not plug your phone directly into the phone outlet. This extra pull on the line causes you to loose your Internet connection. So our phone is connected through our DSL Modem/Router called a Fritz Box. So to test to make sure that the phone was the problem, I connected it directly to the phone outlet and well, what do you know – it worked find. So the problem was between our phone and our Fritz box. Did I mention that our Fritz Box only has German in it? So after translating all of the configuration pages on the Fritz Box setup, I still didn’t know what the problem was. Long story short (too late!), I upgraded the software for the Fritz Box and the phone started working just perfectly.
Now it has come to my attention that during all of this, that when we were so excited to call Grandma & Grandpa with the new phones that we forgot to look at the time we were calling them. As you might have guessed, we called them right in the middle of church time. Did I mention we that we remembered that they were traveling so we called them on my dad’s cell phone? They were traveling so that they could visit some new churches in our denomination and there was a good possibility that they were sitting right up front when we called and since I just now got the phone so that we can call out, I haven’t been able to speak to them about what happened.. So let me take this time to say to my Mom & Dad, I’m sorry for calling you during Sunday services and I am hoping that you had your phone on vibrate. Of course, my Dad probably didn’t have it on vibrate because who would ever call him during that time – everyone knows he’d be at church!
[Update: Mom & Dad were in a Sunday School class and had just been introduced when his phone went off. Better than when he was speaking in the church service!]
Virtual Prayer Walk on October 23rd
We want to invite you to be a part of a unique time where on October 23rd, our mission (Greater Europe Mission) is sponsoring a Virtual Prayer Walk for Europe. If you have every heard of a prayer walk, its when you go through a city or town and just pray as you observe. In this Virtual Prayer Walk, we will have a website where you can virtually travel around Europe and on that website will be some suggested things to pray for in each area of Europe. There will also be a place for you to mark that you prayed and participated in the virtual prayer walk.
To get an idea of what it will be like on October 23rd, go to http://www.gemission.org/Pray/Strategic.asp. You can also have the system automatically send you a reminder or refer a friend.
The logistics:
When: October 23rd, 2008
Time: Anytime
Where: Anywhere you are (just go to the website – http://www.gemission.org/Pray/Strategic.asp)
We are trying to have over 10,000 people participate so please let others know or go to the site http://www.gemission.org/Pray/Strategic.asp and invite them.
Made in Russia
Krista went out and got some new drinking glasses for us at IKEA. She’s been wanting to get new drinking glasses for months and finally broke down and got them. Yeah! Anyway, she brought them home and was taking off the sticker on the bottom when all of the sudden she said, “Well, that’s not something you see every day.”. Then showed me on the bottom of the glass how it says “Made in Russia”. Yep, not something you see every day. Also interesting that it was written in English but that’s pretty typical (even stuff made in Germany for Germany says “Made in Germany” instead of “Macht in Deutschland”).
Now we just have to figure out how to get rid of our old BLUE glasses. Do they go in the white glass recycling, green glass recycling or brown glass recycling?
God’s Gas
Ok, I’m not really sure what their intention was by naming this bar “God’s Gas”. I actually have another picture of me in an animated position that related to this photo but I’m sure my wife would come close to killing me if I posted it. Instead, I give you the more “subdued” photo.
This does make you wonder about why a pool hall/bar would want to name their place this. To me this just cries out “We want the Truth!” and I don’t mean religion. What are your thoughts?