changes afoot

It seems that Blogger will be discontinuing the ftp-publishing method, which is how I publish my blog. So, I will be migrating, most likely to WordPress. Expect some disruption as I do this.

I know, it's been ages

I somewhat neglected my blog in 2009, but I plan on rectifying that this year. While I decide what I want to blog about, here's a little of my recent news.

2009 was the year I played at least one game each day. It took a lot of my time, and I'm cutting back this year. It was, however, a lot of fun. You can read more about it on my BoardGameGeek Geeklist

The St Louis Boardgame Meetup Group that I run continues to go from strength to strength. While I'm not going to be playing a game every day this year (in fact, my first board game of the year was yesterday), this group will still take up a lot of my time.

We got a Wii and Wii Fit+ as gifts, and I've found it a lot of fun so far. We've used it a lot since the start of the year, and some of the games are pretty hard work.

And yes, I've neglected knitting, too. But I'm going to take that back up again. I think another pair of socks seems like a good plan.

New year was brought in by celebrating communion and worship with 17,000 people at Urbana 09, a student Missions conference run by InterVarsity. We volunteered earlier in the week, to help the participants with their arrival. It was a couple of early mornings for me, which was a lot of fun, even though I'm not a morning person.

Ah well, on with 2009, and hopefully some more substantial blogging.

On a final note, as heard this morning on Car Talk, a new bumper sticker: "Honk if you love Jesus. Text while driving if you want to meet Him."

New phone

I now have an iPhone and I'm still figuring out its many features.

A very exhausting week.

It's been a very exhausting week.

Early last week, Karyn's grandfather was in hospital, having chemo for a recurrence of brain cancer. Karyn's parents were driving from NY state to OH in order to be with him and his wife, and to help out when he came out of hospital. While they were still an hour out of OH, Karyn's uncle called them to say that her grandmother had fallen, hit her head, and was in a coma and not expected to last very long. The next day, Thursday, they took her off life support, but vital signs didn't look good. She passed away in the early hours of Friday morning.

Saturday, Karyn and I drove up to just outside of Akron, OH. Sunday was the visitation, and Monday was the funeral. Both days were pretty hard. But it was good to see family again, some Karyn hadn't seen in a very long time, and that I'd not met before.

Tuesday, and we leave to drive home. About 100 miles east of Indianapolis, still in Ohio, we are involved in a 5 car pile up. A large truck that I was about to pass decided to pull into our lane, I braked to avoid it, and we're hit from behind, and additional cars join in. We're the front car and not liable, and the car isn't damaged so badly that we can't get home, but we make arrangements to stop with friends in Indianapolis for the night to give us some breathing room.

We're now home, and the car is in the shop, and we're doing OK, though transportation is going to be problematic for us :(

Obama's elf!

Scary Knitting

Home!

I'm home. Tired. More later.