Hi guys,
If you’re in TeenSS and you came along to the Summer seminars in 2007, my handouts are available online and can be downloaded from the Resources section of the site. If you have any further questions or issues, feel free to contact me.
I had just gone to the orthodontist’s on Monday and he added in my mouth two springs to attach to the two ‘bolts’ coming out of my gums; and two hooks, one of which to hook a rubber band onto one of the bolts with. For dinner that night, I took off my rubber band to eat and I forgot to get a new one (or put the old one back on) afterwards. Upon realising, I sensed myself saying, “oh it’s okay, it’s just one night I forgot.” But as that thought began to drift through my mind, another voice reminded me of what my Pastor said the other Sunday. He said it takes one month to get a habit going. Regularly, day after day for one month, and that is the best way to set a habit. Someone also said once, it’s the accumulation of time that makes the outcome so effective.
After coming back from KYLC with another stack of photos, I decided to process some of the ones that I took at the end of December last year. You can find them at the gallery.
For those of you who read SMH’s Tech section, there was an article (more like a review, really) of Adobe Lightroom beta 4.1.
Now, since I shoot almost exclusively in RAW, I’m always on the lookout for something that helps speed up my workflow when mucking around with photos. Currently, I pretty much use Digital Photo Professional since I find that it fits most comfortably with my workflow. It’s also free since it came packaged with my camera, and I like free. Right now, Adobe Lightroom beta 4.1 is also free (until February 28) and so I decided to download it and give it a try.
I was sitting here staring at an empty luggage case, figuring out what to pack for a week at KYLC, when I found this tiny compartment containing the receipt for the case as well as a warranty card. The receipt is your typical receipt, but the warranty card caught my attention. The first line on it reads thus:
Your luggage is guaranteed for 15 Australian years against defective workmanship and materials.
Hmmm… I wonder what 15 Australian years is meant to be…
So I’m sitting here, trying to work out how to allocate accommodation to approx 350 week 1 KYLC people whilst keeping (in order of priority):
Having looked at comments like “1st Pref: CMS with ensuite, 2nd Pref: CMS”, let me do everybody a big favour and tell you that the chance of that request being acknowledged is somewhat slim. KCC committee usually assign accommodation there. Your best chance is to be in the same church as someone that KCC has assigned to lodge at CMS.
This leads to my next point. People from the same church will be kept on the same site if possible. Hence, please don’t bother with comments like “Please keep me with other members of
OK, enough ranting from me. Back to more fun with accommodation…
So the second part of what it is like to go out with a nerd; the not-so-good bits. After thinking this through a bit I do think the good outweighs the bad. No-one is perfect including myself. So hopefully below is a description of some of the quirks you may face if you go out with a nerd / engineer…