Good to get away for the weekend. Last weekend, it was KC and a conference. This week, it was Minnesota and a baby shower. All in all, it was a good time for us to figure out some details of the birth and get some much needed stuff.

I do have to say a couple of things about events that occurred while I was unplugged from the internet:

No surprise.

I am sad about what is happening, but not surprised at all.

Wonder what I think? I agree with St. Louis about the ‘unity agreement’. I cannot say it better than they did. What about Portland? Read Seattle and Phoenix’s response. What about the new article on upsidedown21? It’s not an apology.

What’s important to me is that about 40 churches have asked to help New Orleans. Houston cancelled their conference to help. I couldn’t believe it when I saw it. That’s true heart to be commended. You can’t just call off one of those things the day before, you know? It was pretty big. I read about these things and it encourages me.

I believe in the inherent goodness of most members of former ICoC congregations. Not because of their theology, but because most of them just enjoy helping others. I think that is being demonstrated and will continue to shine.

Now if they will just cancel MOAC 2005 in order to help…

Actually, that needs to finish. Events of the past week need to play out.

By the way, you’ll see less about the ICoC subculture from me in the next few days. I write here to work out my thoughts and wrestle with God. Now, there seems to be an audience. It was fun, but the purpose of this site is being lost. The best way to deal with that, I figure, is to do more entries on the World of Dira and other odd things. Nobody comments on those. (Then again, no one comments on the New Orleans posts or any of the positive things I want to share.) I’ll have one more entry about the LA proposal and that will be it for awhile. If I need to wrestle out anything else, I’ll comment on salguod’s site and make more entries private. I may change my mind, so who knows.

The good news is that things are different. I can write an email to Al and Bruce in LA and my questions get answered. Used to be that asking was akin to rebellion. Others agree with me about so many things and write about them publically that I don’t need to echo their words.\

I plan to get back to teaching this winter, take care of my family, write, and do something about Clerry computers. When I do the classes, I hope to have an online version. When I finish the World of Dira, I plan on opening a lulu.com store. When the prototype computers are finished, I hope to make a little side money.

Bye for now. Maybe I’ll see you around.