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This Easter weekend you're invited to join us at Genesis Church for three days of worship, celebration, and prayer. We are celebrating both the resurrection of our Lord and the amazing gift of our new church facility. It's a "Grand Opening" and so many ways. Here is the schedule:Good Friday, April 2nd @ 7:07 PM featuring Jerad Collier and the GC.TV Band.Saturday, April 3rd @ 7:07 PM featuring

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This is truly amazing. Our church, Genesis Church, has been through a lot of hardship, growth, changes, gains and loss. At one time we were one of the largest Church of God congregations in Florida and we had slipped down to just a few hundred regular attenders. We sold our old building, went portable, started a three year building campaign, tried the multi-site model and ended up at a place

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Neither, thank you. This past Thanksgiving we gathered at Barbara's sister's home in Georgia and enjoyed something different for our main meal item. No, it was not Tofu. We enjoyed Cornish Game Hens roasted on the grill. Everybody pitched in and did their part and we had an amazing time together.So here's how these were cooked. We thawed out the hens, cleaned them up of excess fat and skin and

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Just a short update. I have been a busy fellow these past weeks. Too much going on at work and life in general. Anyway, we took today off. It's my birthday! My wife and I went out to eat breakfast and did some shopping. Hung around the house and generally laid low. Sometimes it's nice to just "veg". I went to a funeral last Friday for one of my coworkers. The gentleman was just 57 years

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Today has been different for me. I have been thinking of that day eight years ago when America was attacked. I was driving into work and listening to the radio when they announced that a plane had struck the World Trade Center. Comparisons were being made to the time when an airplane flew into the Empire State Building back in the 1940s. Suddenly the announce said that another plane had struck

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The old Pioneer It is sadness I have to leave an old friend behind. My poor old (about 12 years old) Pioneer receiver/amplifier has decided it no longer wanted to receive or amplify. This unit gave our family many hours of quality entertainment from the radio to cassettes and now Cds and DVDs. All good things had to come to and end. Sigh! The amp would run a for about three to four minutes and

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So how do you take a picture of your new camera with your new camera? You don't. Just go to the web and grab an ad photo off of the vendor's site. So, here is the new camera. It's a refurbished Nikon Coolpix-L18. Magnolia Fly pointed us to the site where they were selling these at a great price so we placed our order for the red model. They were sold out and after about three weeks or so they

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Apollo 11 lifts off, July 16, 1969Today, July 16, 2009 marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 our first lunar landing mission. It was an amazing time in the history of our nation. We were finally going to achieve the goal set out by President Kennedy to send a man to the moon and return him safely before the end of the decade (the 1960s).My dad worked at Kennedy Space Center for

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I really enjoy music. Good music is good music. We were down in Tampa visiting with my daughter, Katie, and son-in-law, Stephen, over the fourth of July. While riding around in Katie's car, I got to hear Imogen Heap's CD, "Speak For Yourself". I really enjoyed this CD. The vocalizations were amazing. She is a solo artist that uses electronics, synths, chorus, delay, echo and on and on. Her voice

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Barbara and I spent a Saturday pressure washing off our back deck. The "yuck" had built up and it was time to come clean. Well, while I was washing the deck, I decided it would be a good time to wash out my Weber Gas grill. I find that a good pressure washing is just what is needed to blow off all the grime, grease and stuff. Well, this time, it also blew out the bottom catch tray. That poor

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Sorry to have been off the blog for so long. It's been busy at work and I just didn't want to come home and snuggle up to a keyboard after handling calls all day. So here is your update:Barbara got down and back from Tampa OK. I really missed her. So did the cats. While she was gone, I spent Memorial Day at work installing my replacement PC. Desktop support had gotten me a new Dell 755 but I

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I just finished watching the movie, "October Sky". It's one of my favorites and I recommend it to you as well. It's the story of some small coal-town high school boys who get interested in rocketry after hearing about the launch of Sputnik-1. The main story is the conflict between Homer Hickam and his father, a tough foreman of the coal mine.The final scene is of the boys launching their last

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Not a fun day today. When I turned on my Blackberry at home before leaving for work, I didn't have my normal spurt of messages. Nothing - nada - zip - zero. OK, well, I headed off to work and got there at 6:30 AM. My morning routine is to check the status of the backups and there were some problems listed. Great...As I checked on our Exchange server I found that the SMTP virtual service failed.

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My "first" car was a 1957 Mercedes-Benz 219S. It was black and kind of looked this this: (Not my photo - thank you Google image search).The MB 219S had dual headlights, fog lights and dual carbs. We got it from an insurance sale. Turns out the engine had just slipped timing. Dad got the car's service manual and we had it running in about two hours after getting it to the house. When we fired it

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It's late and I am still at work... You have to love computers.Today (this evening) I get to install the "Critical and Security patches" to our Microsoft Windows servers. Oh Joy!This is a monthly exercise of downloading the patches from Microsoft and then deploying them to our test lab machines. If all goes well, the next step is to deploy them to our production servers.Production servers can

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Finally I have a few minutes to look over the photos and write about our church's opening day. Together we have been fasting and praying for the past three weeks to get us to this point. Things were being worked on right until the last possible moment to make everything work.My Sunday started off at about 5 AM. That's my normal getting up time. Spent some quiet time in prayer and meditation. What

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What a week. Extra hours at work. Extra hours helping out at church. I am running out of extra hours! Sometimes I feel like that character from the comedy western "Cat Ballou". Lee Marvin played Kid Shelleen, a worn-out gunfighter. This picture of Kid and his horse after a night of drinking says it all: Kid Shelleen (Lee Marvin) in Cat BallouIt's all good! This week has flown by. I have had my

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This was an exciting Sunday at Genesis Church in Tallahassee. It was our final service in the Tallahassee Little Theater. Next Sunday, February 1, 2009, we will meet in our new renovated facility at 862 Blountstown Highway behind Tallahassee Community College. Our first service begins at 9:29 AM and our second service is at 11:01 AM. Yes, they are odd times, but you will remember them! How long

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Today, I have been listening to the CD "Prophesy" from Christian City Church, Oxford Falls, Australia. Chris O'Brien was the worship leader and his energy fills the church service where this was recorded. One of my favorite songs is ,"I'm Building Your House". It goes right along with what we are doing at Genesis Church. As I was listening to this song, I felt that while we are building the house

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No, rainy days and Mondays have not got me down. I got to spend a few hours helping out the team at our new permanent church home. It's great to say that, "Permanent church home." We are still rigging up lights, covering up the side windows, redoing the bathrooms, getting signs up. People are working like ants all over the place. People, get ready for February 1st. It's going to be great.The main

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Things are going a little quiet today. Part has arrived for a server repair. Did a Proofpoint email block rule to block test messages from a server. Deployed patches to a bunch of workstations and now I am doing patches to our Disaster Recovery site servers.Things are going well with the fast. No talk radio but lots of praise & worship CDs. Today's selection is Gateway Church's "Living For You".

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Just spent Thursday afternoon with the wild and crazy folks from Genesis Church. Oh, I am one too! Assisted with getting our new main speakers hung up and aimed. These monsters are JBL's JRX-115 -- a two-way 15" system in a great cabinet. Pastor Jerad drilled and mounted the three eye bolts into each one. He and Pastor Scott then hoisted the speaker up and hung it from the supports using the

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Traveled out to the West Campus of our church (soon to be the main campus as of February 1st) and spent a few hours with the "gang" Tuesday afternoon. We had people up the scissors lift doing lights in the ceiling. Folks cutting holes in ceiling tiles. Stuff was stacked all over. They had hung two of the three main projection screens and were working on the last one. I go back Wednesday afternoon

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Today's title is a famous line from the old Pogo comic strip. Walt Kelly had some of the greatest political satire ever in the comics. Long before Doonesbury and IMO a lot better.There was a one of the characters, a turtle named Churchy LaFemme, that feared Friday the 13th. Each month had one no matter what day the 13th came on. If the 13th really fell on a Friday, the turtle would be outa here!

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Well, it's back home after a good but tiring day. Got to play with Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager or as we have come to call it, "Ops Man". Got the basic system installed and will move onto putting agents on to some of our production servers tomorrow. Agents are wonderful pieces of software that sniff around a server, gather bits of information on the health and activity and pass

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Well, here is my first blog post. Hopefully, I can keep at this and share all the interesting things that go on around me. I even get to participate.

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