Browsing archives for January, 2009

Update: Life in Portland

Life 27 January 2009 | 0 Comments

Here’s an idea of what some of my days look like here in Portland.
During the week, on a typical work day I:
- Wake up around 7 when Robin get’s in the shower and Amalea starts talking
- Take a quick shower, get dressed, run downstairs and feed Amalea.
- Then the process of getting ready for work [...]

Obama Font*

Politics, Random Thoughts 21 January 2009 | 0 Comments

Get it now!
here
*thanks andy for the link!

Evergreen FC – Season 1 Results

Life 18 January 2009 | 0 Comments

Evergreen’s indoor soccer team finished the season with a double header / double win!
Here is our final stats:
Wins: 4
Loses: 4
Goals for: 48
Goals against: 40
It was a great season, and I had a lot of fun playing with everyone on the team.  I was so excited to finally do this – as I have been wanting [...]

Rescue Me…

Church, Life, Random Thoughts 16 January 2009 | 0 Comments

Tonight I had my first service opportunity in Portland.  Evergreen, the church we attend here in P-town, was volunteering at the Portland Rescue Mission in downtown.  So after I got off work I walked over to the mission and made my way through those outside who were in line for dinner.
It was a strange experience.  [...]

I <3 Oregon

Life 13 January 2009 | 1 Comment

I started my new job last Friday at this web design company in Downtown Portland, and yesterday I started a new set of after school classes with a web design class.
So yesterday I took Amalea to day-care, drove to downtown and worked a few hours, then drove to Lake Oswego to teach this web design [...]

My first…and only…

Random Thoughts 7 January 2009 | 1 Comment

…sermon.  For your listening pleasure.
A former student of mine was staying with us recently, on a journey through the northwest, came across this sermon cd in a box of dvd’s we were looking through, and he exclaimed to me:
Dude!  Do you know that this sermon changed my life?  I’m serious.  This was the first time [...]

A New Year

Family, Life 3 January 2009 | 1 Comment

2009.
It’s so hard to wrap my mind around time.  It’s really useless to think about it… because the moment you start thinking about what time is, you realize it is constantly flowing past you and you’re wasting it.  You start contemplating time and you realize that the time you spent thinking about it, is gone.  [...]