I wanna play xbox

Well I really wanna play my xbox.  The problem is that i am in limbo.  All my stuff is packed up and I sold my tv a while back.   I got out the Xbox and my monitor that I use for a secondary display for programming.  I have a cable that i can plug the xbox in to the VGA.  Problem being no sound because i have no idea what box my speakers are in.  So i though well i could thought the audio from my macbook pro mic in to the speakers out.  After playing with the audio settings and garage band this is not the case.   After some searching on the internet i found a program called LineIn from the fine folks at Rogue Amoeba.

Now that i got sound next I wanted to get it online.  I got an airport as the wireless but it to far away to run a cable.  So i decided that I could take my Airport Express I travel with and set up a WDS network.  After some fiddling got it connected.  Nice thing about the apple wireless stuff is that once you set this up, you can use the  ethernet from the airport express to add wired devices to the network.

Here’s what it looks like

Going back on a promise.

So I haven’t been able to update the blog as much as i hoped  It not due t o my laziness this time.  More to the face that most internet is pay for here in australia.  and when you do pay the data cap is about enough to pull down email, check twitter, read the news and then you are out.

Or like this morning it is free… but loading google is painful. trying to set up a way to update via my phone.

 

All is well in Australia we are almost 1/3 of the way through the 2nd leg of the Restore Tour.  First day of performances where long doing the show for 4 services at Hillsong.  In 2 locations 2 shows at the main hills campus and 2 shows at the city campus.  The staff at both where so friendly and willing to help.  There is no way we could do that kinda schedule without their help.  After that we have been plugging our way trough the eastern coast traveling north to Queensland.  YOu might have seen pictures of the floods in Australia.  Most of them where in the Queensland.  Though the tour did not encounter any flooding.

 

Next was the typhoon to the north.  It was about 1200 miles away so did not see any effects of the storm til the war hot air engulfed us.  But tempatures are settling down and the sea breeze is back.

 

Well off to do the last show in Queensland before heading south to Victoria.

 

 

 

ni yesu we

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This is a picture from Restore tour at Watoto Church in Uganda.

It’s a scene of life in Uganda Pre civil war. A happy and vibrant community. Before war took over.

Preshow

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Pre for tour in Uganda at Watoto church in Kampala, Uganda.

Let’s DO this…. LEEROY JENKINS!

I am horrible at blogging   But since the tour I am on is going to Uganda, Australia and New Zealand, I have committed to posting to keep people up to date on my adventures.  If you haven’t heard i am the LD out on The Restore Tour. This past fall I was out with them doing the US, Canada UK legs of the tour. The tour is out bringing light to what has happened during the 20 year civil war.   It is a theatrical story of abduction, captivity, escape and restoration.

So for the next 3 months check back here. I will post photos and blog post.

Satisfied

Here is where the previously post came from.   This is a section that God keep bringing back to my mind.

1 Timothy 6:5-10 (Amplified Bible)

⁵And protracted wrangling and wearing discussion and perpetual friction among men who are corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, who imagine that godliness or righteousness is a ^[a]source of profit [a moneymaking business, a means of livelihood]. From such withdraw.

    ⁶[And it is, indeed, a source of immense profit, for] godliness accompanied with contentment (that contentment which is a sense of ^[b]inward sufficiency) is great and abundant gain.

    ⁷For we brought nothing into the world, and obviously we cannot take anything out of the world;

    ⁸But if we have food and clothing, with these we shall be content (satisfied).

    ⁹But those who crave to be rich fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish (useless, godless) and hurtful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction and miserable perishing.

    ¹⁰For the love of money is a root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have been led astray and have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves through with many ^[c]acute [mental] pangs.]

Verse 8 what i keep going back to.  The last 8 months in my life have been less then what Most american’s would define as Good.  I have been unemployed for that time.  I have been living with my parents and taken odd jobs to pay the bills. All I own in this world is a 13 year old car, couple bags of clothes, and a couple of boxes. It was not the plan I had for myself. Nor what I dreamed about 5 years ago.  Yet I have food and clothing, and i am starting to find contentment in that. As well as thanking God more for little thing.  I think I am living the unamerican dream.   Which I wouldn’t trade for anything.

Duality

 Funny how we can proclaim one thing and do the opposite.   I was reading some quotes…

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. –  Albert Einstein

Recently I have been wrestling with the duality of America…

We want to be paid top dollar…. but buy the cheapest products.

 We say we want workers to be treated fairly regardless on where they live… but we will buy the cheapest item without asking why is it cheaper.

We say we want Justice…. but settle for less

Just a few thoughts…  night

So there goes my hiatus…

I horrible about blogging… I every 6 months I will try to due it more  frequently… and I do for a while… then poof…  I stop.  Lets try another go around and see what sticks.

Todays inspirational quote

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive”—Howard Thurman

I think I have always know what makes me “come alive.”  Why do I fail to see it until I step away from it.

Blarq

So I have had this quote in rattling around my brain for a couple of months now.

“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion”— Jack Kerouac

And as I do technical ministry I feel that it is speaking to me.  I have been thinking of how we (the church) care about what everyone thinks and was that the “cool” worship set, or trendy thing that will bring  MORE people in.