I went golfing with a bunch of Youth Pastors from the southern Evangelical Free Churches in Wisconsin. It was great and the director was generous enough to treat me to free golf and lunch. Those E Free guys are great. It was a great day too.
Golf with E Free Youth Pastors
So I mowed the lawn today around 8:30 pm. The temperatures are getting cold. It was 58 degrees while I was mowing. I could see my breath in front of me. Now that’s just plain crazy.
I figured out how to embed video into my blogs but I haven’t tried audio yet. I’m going to give it a try here.
Grant Schneider’s Missions Presentation
Our family went to the Independence Day parade this morning. There was a “kiddy” parade before the main parade. The kiddy parade consisted of a police car, a boy scout troup of seven boys, and two yellow buses. That was it. We showed up with the twins an hour early to see the kiddy parade. My guess is that we were in the wrong place at the right time.
The main parade was great. The twins are now in the phase where they don’t like loud noises. Poor girls had to cover their ears for every fire truck and redneck pickup truck that went by. However, they loved the candy. By the end of the parade they were covered in sticky goo from Tootsie Rolls and grape suckers. What fun.
There was a huge thunderstorm that lasted all but fifteen minutes. Yet it dumped buckets of water on my lovely grass. I was taking a nap when the rain arrived. My intention, of course, was to mow the grass after my nap. I guess this is why the Bible warns us to redeem the time and to consider the ant and to work while it is yet day…etc. I’ll take a nap over cutting the grass anyday.
I am having summer Bible study tonight. Who knows how many students will show up – if any. Nonetheless, I’m gong through with it all the same. I’m sure God has it figured out.
Here I am on a beautiful day mowing the lawn. I did not have much time in this video so I strapped on my running shoes, sharpened up the mower blades, and pushed with all my might. It’s a good thing Heather had a cold glass of water for me on my break because I was really moving. Enjoy the video.
By the way, I am for hire. Contact me if you would like your lawn mowed really fast. I can do up to 739 lawns in an hour depending on the number of trees and pink flamingos in the yard.
I’m working on “tableless” layout using CSS. That’s Cascading Style Sheets for my web challenged friends – and mom. I’ve designed all my web sites using table up to this point so it’s time to learn the better way.
The point is that the HTML page contain all the content with few images and formatting while the CSS file get all the design and layout. This makes life easier in many ways. First of all, it makes it easier to code content into the HTML file. I won’t have to scan through layers of layout code to find the sentence that I want to edit. Secondly, it’s easier on the web browser and search engine. The page will run cleaner on the computer system, display faster in the browser, and rank higher with search engines.
Crescent Lake Bible Camp has graciously agreed to have me redesign their current web site for a new one.
This is great for me and them. They get a sparkling new web site and I get to learn some new tricks. It’s been fun going at it.
By the way, the link to the new site will change as I design and develop. You never know at what stage you will be viewing the site. Even worse is that I will eventually break the link to the next site. Enjoy while you may.
I just returned from the Willow Creek Arts Conference. It had to have been one of the best conferences I’ve ever attended – and I have attended many conferences.
The best parts of the conference for me were the breakout sessions. I attended audio soundboard mixing, earbud monitoring, and how to develop a Media Ministry sessions. All were very helpful and will change the way I lead my Media Ministry team at Pine Grove Community Church.
I’m editing the video that I shot down in the Florida Keys when I went with Fort Wilderness on their Marine Biology trip. Here is a video of Jake serving a volleyball to himself on the other side. Now that is one talented volleyball player.
Sitemaps are a nice way to help search engine spiders recognize and crawl your web site. The Google sitemap generator did not work very well so I went to XMLEcho to generate my site map. It’s so easy. Finally, something that’s easy. Yes!
I spent my free time today planning a web site for Crescent Lake Bible Camp. Heather was a big help and we really enjoyed working together – as usual. I realized that Adobe GoLive sucks and that I am more comfortable hand coding my web pages than using a WYSIWYG program. So, I cracked open my JavaScript for the World Wide Web book and reviewed my rollover programming.
As a practice, I removed all the GoLive code and reprogrammed my buttons to a nice snazzy look.
Enjoy.
I’m done redesigning my blog for a while. It’s been fun but I really don’t know CSS and PHP well enough to redesign my blog into a static page. My goal was to build Crescent Lake Bible Camp‘s web site from WordPress. However, it’s just not worth the time investment when I can design their site using simple HTML and CSS. It will be static but at least it will be a well designed site.
