Coming in last place

My big project at work coming along nicely, although this stage taking longer than I anticipated. I had originally planed to just work out a pilot project and then realized I really needed to work through the entire design in order to make sure it workable. Think in about another week I'll have all the preliminary figures together.

I'm starting to get out more. I'm continuing to eat lunch w/ Peter and Alban, Mon - Thurs. Stephan gone for a couple weeks. I look forward to it, not only for the fellowship, but also the good food giving me more energy during the day. Alban going to move away soon to his new job in Germany. This makes me very sad, he's great fun to talk to and we seem to connect on some level. Too bad it took so long to get past the saying Hi stage, I would have really enjoyed the opportunity to get to know him better.

On Wed. nights I'm going to a home group of sorts at the Peterson's house. They open their place up to anyone who wants to hang out. Jim makes up some yummy food around 6P, we eat it all and spend the rest of the night talking, playing computer games, talking some more, playing volleyball, occasionally catching a movie, mostly talking. The typical group that shows up big enough to meet some cool people, but small enough that folks like me who don't do well around bigger crowds (like at church on Sat/Sun) can feel at home and part of what's going on. I really admire the Peterson's. They are an amazing couple in many ways, advancing the Lord's work one person at a time by example, compassion and caring, rather than by formulas or clever come ons.

Riverview just wrapped up a series called Below the Water Line. Noel normally hands down my favorite, this time Steve and Mark did the preaching and I found I got into it just as much as I normally do w/ Noel. So cool!! Each week a different boat theme tied to a character trait. I'll aim to do a summary post, just to show I really did listen :-) and highlight the great preaching that occurred.

What up with the coming in last place title? Well, I want to make my blog a cool place, kinda like how Noel does, where people hang out and have a sense of community. Just I'm not Noel, not sure if I have the stamina to keep up the pace of posts he and his friend Dave manage to do in an average week. Nor do I have the polished literary skills of my friend Frank. Still I think I do have something, I'm generally honest, straightforward and transparent, or at least like to think I'm that way. Hopefully that counts for something.

The past few weeks I've failed to put up even one post, which bothers me, like I came in last place in the blogging world. Not trying to make it a competition, but from the readers point of view if you come back and don't see anything new, things get stale in a hurry, just like if you don't see or talk to your best friend for 2 weeks. Things get lost along the way.

So as get my routine down I hope to become a more regular blogger. We'll see how it goes.