Snow Day

I tend to have a problem putting what is in my head down on paper, or in this case zeros and ones. All week I’ve had all these things to write but when I sit down to so, I can’t seem to. But I shall try.

It’s snowing this morning in Shoreline, WA so I thought that was a good reason to not go to class this morning, and the fact that I have some blogging and some blog reading to catch up on.

In 34 days from today I will be a married man. We’ve taken care of most of the wedding plans, there are only a few things we still need to get done. One thing is that we don’t have a finished place to live yet. We’re going to be renting out a basement apartment of some friends of ours from church. I’m helping him remodel it and there’s still a bunch of things to do before it’s finished. Over the weekend we got it painted for the most part. We still need to be put in floors and a bunch of other stuff.

Google Maps was launched this past week and it’s already my map website of choice. Before this I was a faithfull Mapquest user but what they’ve done is pretty cool. The coolest thing is you can drag the map and don’t have to wait for pageloads every time. For an example, click here to see where Jenae and I will be living. Speaking of such, it will be nice to longer live in a Seattle suburb and actually live in Seattle and have a sidewalk in front of my house and many shops to walk to and all the other wonderful aspects of urban life. Also, we will only be about 8 blocks from Mars Hill, which will be great because we are there sometimes 3 days a week for Paradox shows. Instead of driving 20 minutes to get there we get to walk 5 minutes. Google Maps says driving time is “about 1 minute.”

Gideon Strauss has written an amazing article for *catapult magazine called “The scandal of the evangelical coffeehouse.” Here are some of his comments on the piece:

“Cafés - coffee-houses, coffeeshops, coffee pubs - are my favorite public places … with the possible exception of libraries. The combination cafés offer of hospitality, comfort, leisure, aromas, flavours, and company, while allowing visitors to choose a degree of familiarity (but never intimacy) or anonymity (but never isolation) suits my temperament better than almost any other humane habitat.”

Reading this article made me think of my time spent in Eastern Africa and how the Muslim men would meet over coffee for hours on end and discuss matters of religion, politics and whatever else was the hot topic at the time. The coffeeshop is the place where the public life and the private life meet and coexist and where real change begins and grows.

That’ll do it for this morning. I’ll leave you with a picture of Gus and I watching TV last night. He really wanted to watch the Grammy’s last night because U2 played and Gus really likes U2.

One last note: I find it funny that both “blog” and “Google” come up as mispelled words in Blogger’s spell checker.

Grace,
Dustin

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