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Ransom Notes Keep Falling Out Your Mouth
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Oops, another 2 months without a post. Time to play catch up.
1 year anniversary was fantastic. I highly recommend Horshoe Bay for anyone looking for a nice vacation place near Austin. We went waverunning, spent time at the pool and psuedo-beach, had a few nice meals and some incredible desserts, and just had an all around great weekend. I very appropriate way to celebrate one full year of marriage.
Built my mom a website, working on one for Katie and one for Cameron. Also hoping to have a paying client soon, but waiting to hear back from them.
Teamworks is amazing. I absolutely love it. I know I already gushed about it in my last blog post from two months ago, but time has only made my heart grow fonder. God forbid, if anything ever happened to my current job, I'd be applying at IBM for a position as a Teamworks developer. :P It's fun, intuitive, and extremely useful. I get to work on a pretty time-intensive project in TW for the next couple of months, so that should keep me interested at work.
College football - less than 3 weeks away! Conference realignment stuff kinda fizzled, if you weren't keeping up. Colorado and Nebraska are leaving the Big 12 for the Pac 10, but Texas is staying put. Should be a fun season with Gilbert taking the reins of the offense and waiting to see if one or two running backs step up and become the primary RB. The defense should be stout, though. Any worries I have about the offense should be offset by how awesome the defense is going to be. OU and Nebraska worry me, but if we take one out of two of those games, we should get through the rest of our schedule without much trouble and still have a good shot at going to the conference championship game. (I really need to finish up my Garrett Gilbert website...)
Celebrate Recovery is going well. It's helping me put the focus in my life back where it needs to be - on God. Too often my spiritual life becomes a footnote or afterthought, instead of being the primary focus and everything else being in relation to it. It helps to have a bunch of guys who understand the kind of stuff I'm dealing with and are encourage me. If you don't know what CR is or have never been, check it out. There isn't a single person that couldn't benefit from going.
New house! We got all moved in a little over a week ago, and got the last necessary piece of furniture moved in last night (refrigerator). The house is really starting to take shape. If you haven't seen it yet, look out for pictures soon.
Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness will go before you,
and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
Then you will call, and the LORD will answer;
you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.
~Isaiah 58:8-9a
Time to see what we have time to see
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ginni and I celebrate our 1 year anniversary this weekend. We are going to Horseshoe Bay Resort and we are very excited. It's been the best year of my life, and I know next year will only be better.
I've been on a coding hiatus lately. No particular reason, I just haven't felt motivated/inspired. On my To Do List for web stuff include adding Category/Tag clouds on my site, pictures on both ginni's site and mine, as well as making my mom a new website (not to mention AptFinder).
I've fallen in love with a new piece of software: Teamworks. It's a business process management tool and is very cool. It has a GUI that is as simple as a flow chart to map out a business process, but has the coding complexity to implement functional applications. Recently, I've had to force myself to work on stuff that isn't Teamworks, or I'd get nothing else done.
College football is crazy lately. All the conference realignment talk is keeping the off-season rather interesting, for sure. In case you haven't been keeping up: as of now, the Big 12 is down to 10 teams (Nebraska left for the Big Ten, Colorado for the Pac-10). Despite rumors of Texas, Tech, OU, and Okie State joining Colorado out west, these schools announced that they are staying in the Big 12 and will keep the conference going. I wouldn't doubt if this wasn't the end of it, though. I foresee 4 Super Conferences forming some time within next 3 or 4 years.
Not much else to say except that the Rangers only a couple of weeks out from the All-Star Break. Yeah, I know.
Into the darkness you shine
Out of the ashes we rise
There is no one like You
None like You
Awoken by a Cloud of Steam
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ginni and I went to Tuxedo Junction on Thursday. It was really cool. The guy that helped us (Damont) knew how to provide customer service. He helped us decide on styles for the tuxes (mine and ginni's dad's will be slightly different from the groomsmen and each other so we stand out), colors, shoes - everything. They had a deal running that gave us 50% off the tuxes if we rented 3 or more, plus my tux was free (!) when renting 4 or more. Since we were renting 5 tuxes total, we were able to take advantage of both deals. I ended up spending a little bit on upgrades to my tux, but it was still an incredible deal. It turns out that the tuxes will be relatively inexpensive for the guys (Austin said he paid about $50 more than this for his tux to prom last year). The thing we came away from the experience more than anything, though, was how awesome Damont was. It would have been worth paying a little more to know that we'll have that kind of customer service throughout the process.
I love watching/listening to ginni play piano. She subbed in for Cedar Ridge's pianist yesterday and she was great. We're really praying that we find a church where she can play in the worship band. In related news, she's considering taking on another piano student if anyone is interested. If you know anyone that would want to learn, let us know.
The wedding planning is going well. We should get our engagement photos back any day now (yay!). We'll have those on facebook as soon as we get them, I'm sure. ginni went to the florist today to discuss our options, so hopefully that was productive. We may have found someoen to make our cake, too. She's is giving us a good deal on it, but before we decide she going to send us photos of cakes she has made before. We're looking at the guest list every few days trying to finalize it. It's hard because we want to invite everyone, but the church only fits about 200 people. We're around 253 right now, and we have no idea how we are going to cut it down anymore. I'm sure we'll make it work.
I redesigned ginni's site (www.ginnitamez.net) and am much happier with it. She's excited to have a place to put her lists online, and I just enjoy having another playground. I have another site I'm going to start working on soon, but I gotta figure out exactly what I want to do with it. I'll tell more as I figure out more.
Only the skilled can judge the skilfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result.
~ C.S. Lewis
ColtMcCoyForHeisman.com!
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First of all, I have to give a shameless plug. I recently purchased ColtMcCoyForHeisman.com and am working on improving the site every day. Check it out and feel free to give me feedback if you see areas it can be improved (especially Jon). Also, before everyone reminds me, yes, I know the Heisman was given out a week and a half ago. This is for 2009. :-D
In other news, I'm really excited about Christmas this year. ginni and I worked together to come up with some really good gifts for everyone. I'm very happy with how everything turned out. Her gifts are going to be awesome, although I can't yet reveal what they are.
We are going to Fort Worth tonight to spend the evening with my mom (& family). I should get off work early tomorrow and will spend the evening with ginni's family. Thursday we are going to Fort Worth again to have lunch with my dad and the extended family I have on that side. We'll be busy this week, but it's a good busy.
This Sunday is the final service for Woodcreek. Essentially, attendance is lower now than when the church was planted, we are in debt (loan on our building) and barely making ends meet, and everyone is tired (many members have been around for 6 years working to help the church succeed and grow, only to see more people leaving than joining). It is sad, but the congregational vote was unanimous and we are confident that this is God's will. Many people will be attending Gateway Fellowship, as they are right up the road and have very similar core values, doctrine, and beliefs. ginni and I will begin our church hunt there, not committing to staying there but willing to try it out and see how things go.
Prayers can definitely be used for all members of Woodcreek as they seek to find a new home, as well as for the selling of the church building.
Until next time...Merry Christmas!
Addi's First Myspace Photo
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Also, a new look is coming to AlanBeam.net soon.
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