One pc + tv tuner card + cable tv wire - electrical grounding of any sort =
gutless fuse.Thank God for the fuse!!!
Monthly Archive for April, 2006
It’s one thing to talk about all the happy & cool things that are happening here in Latvia with the youth, but I wouldn’t be telling the truth if that is all I ever mentioned.
Agnese (whom I’ve mentioned earlier as one of my worship teammates) just told me that her friend’s boyfriend was just killed in a car accident today. Agnese is only 16, so it’s likely that her friend is about the same. She told me that she doesn’t know how to help her friend. My advice to her was to just go be with her friend & cry with her. That is usually the best solution in this kind of situation.
Lydia found an article on CNN about the Baltic countries & the high usage of alcohol, which leads to the highest amount of auto-related deaths in Europe. In that same article it tells how the 3 Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania & Estonia are in the top 5 for the highest per capita suicide rates in the world.
I don’t know if alcohol was the cause of the accident. I do know that this country is in a state of emotional crisis.
Please pray.
~t
I don’t like drilling big holes into cement. It’s just not satisfying like drilling into wood. But I was willing to endure the nearly 2 hours it took to drill 3 bracket holes, each 4 in. (10 cm) deep, so that I could mount my new satellite dish on my balcony wall.
The electronic shop wanted to charge me $50 to install it. Since I’ve done this sort of thing before & I know that it takes only a minor amount of calculations, guess-work & luck to get it going, I figured my money could be spent on better things.
So, sick as my honey is, she’s now happily resting on the couch to the Travel Channel. That’s worth the frustration of drilling big holes into cement.
I make Ieva laugh. I’m still not sure why, especially since I’ve discovered that she merely needs to look at me & she begins laughing. I asked her why & all she could come up with was, “I don’t know. You just make me laugh.” Well, I’m glad, I suppose. I told her, though, that I think God put her in my life to keep me humble. After all, it doesn’t do so much for the male ego to be laughed at for no apparent reason. Maybe it’s a lesson I should learn about not taking myself too seriously.
At any rate, I thoroughly enjoy playing guitar on Ieva’s worship team. This is such a talented group of teens. It’s odd to think that I get along best with people half my age.
So, on with the mirth!
pictured l to r:
Ieva, Peteris, Agnese - my worship bandmates
