Wed Apr 10 17:54:07 PDT 2002
It’s been a fairly busy week. Sunday evening I went with a group to the Steven Curtis Chapman concert and it was really good. Lots of great music, and he also had one of the missionaries who was the son of a group who were killed by a tribe of south american natives and his aunt and he went back and lead them to becoming Christians. Also, one of the tribesman who had killed his father was there too, and they had a really great testmony about how these people who were basically living as hunter-gatherers came to follow God and are actually now reaching out to other native groups in the area.
The concert was also really visually stunning. Whoever is doing their lighting has a great sense of color, depth, texture and timing. Very impressive, and really helped contribute to the performance. They had large flat objects hung in the background at slightly different depths that were painted blue and yellow in a marbled texture so that they could shine different colored lights on different sets and get really fabulous effects. Also, they kept the singers in generally white light so that the colors on them weren’t all washed to one color, and that was nice.
Monday I worked a bit late and then mowed the lawn when I got home. It didn’t quite need it, but the weather was going to be bad for the rest of the week, so it was basically the last time I could do it for a considerable length of time. I then spent the rest of the evening practicing guitar with Jason (he played base of course). Later that evening I went to send James mail about which songs to play on Tuesday, and didn’t have an open VNC session on pooh, and I’ve disabled telnet connections for security reasons, so I went looking for a quick-n’-dirty SSH client for windows. Turns out that it’s a lot harder than it looked. I spent half an hour looking around without a lot of luck (downloaded two products that failed to install correctly or work). So I gave up a little after midnight and walked downstairs and started the VNC session on the console.
Tuesday night Bible study went OK. Turns out that they know a slightly different arrangement to ‘We Will Dance’ which turned into a big mess. Anyway, I’ll hopefully get to practice some on Tuesday with James and we’ll get it figured out so it won’t be so incredibly clumsy. Actually was a pretty small group this week which is kinda a bummer. Also found that the Xerox printer attached to pooh isn’t working. I’m not sure what went wrong. It’s still pingable, but it doesn’t seem to be accepting print jobs. It could be that some of the recent RH patches to the print drivers confused it, or that my pulling the mainboard out of the printer invoked some kind of problem. I’m not real sure what to do about it at this point. I may try using the parallel port to see if that helps the situation out some. But that means I’ll need to find a parallel port cable, since I don’t know if I’ve still got one.