One of the highlights of my year is getting to hang out with a group of Adobe community leaders from around the world in San Jose, CA at the Adobe HQ. It's a fun week of hearing strategy from Adobe, training, and catching up with some great people. The group is about 60% developers and 40% designers from more than …
Long Weekend
It's been a long weekend. I really wish our staff meetings weren't on Monday mornings. I suppose that it's both good and bad – we get the meeting done early in the week, but we have to be here on Mondays. We took a little getaway the first part of the weekend then came back for the normal Sunday morning …
Knitting Hobo
Knitting Hobo Originally uploaded by kerner. Apparently I'm a knitting hobo. Sarah made me a new scarf (in about two days) and wanted to take a picture this morning. I'm sure this is going to show up on her blog soon too. I just thought it was funny because I'm wearing a sweater she made, a hat because it was …
2008 Goals: Learn Guitar
This is probably the least likely of the 2008 goals to actually happen. I've had a guitar for several years, I know about 10 chords, and am completely incapable of switching between them with any semblance of musical ability. I know that the key to solving this problem is practicing. I'm not such a fan of practice though (which is …
2008 Goals: Weight Loss & Fitness
Getting in shape is the cliche goal for a lot of people each year. I've never had this as a New Year's goal before, so I'm hoping that I'll actually be able to follow through with it. I don't have a huge amount of weight to lose, but I'd like to be squarely in the healthy range for my height. …
2008 Goals: Creative Cooking
Another of my goals for 2008 is to cook more creatively. Officially the grocery shopping and cooking is all my job, but a lot of times Sarah ends up doing things. I haven't felt very culinarily inspired in the frenzy of life this past few months. My goal is that at least once a week I'll cook something creative. My …
2008 Goals: More Blogging
It's the start of another year and I figured I'd put together a list of goals for the year. Some of them will hopefully last all year, some of them are shorter term goals. I usually don't make resolutions to start the new year, but this year I felt like the goals were a good idea. My first goal for …
Rock Band
We've been playing Rock Band a lot at the church and I decided that I had to have a copy at home. I already had two guitars for Guitar Hero, so it made it pretty affordable to just buy the game. You can sing with an Xbox Live headset, so we're only lacking the drum set. We played a lot …
Wesleyan Theology Class Finished
I just finished my second seminary class at Asbury: John Wesley's Theology for Today. I've come to learn that it probably wasn't the best class to take as my second class – it's an upper level theology class. It's been a great learning experience involving a several of books about Wesley and his theology and an anthology of 52 sermons. …
Santa Fe Days 1 & 2
Originally uploaded by kerner. Originally uploaded by kerner. Tent Rocks Originally uploaded by kerner. Sunday morning we left Springfield for vacation in Santa Fe, NM. We had a rather uneventful 12 hour drive, which other than being long is good. We were in Santa Fe a few years ago and liked it so much we decided to come back. Santa …
Conferences Galore: Innovate then MAX
I'm going to be travelling a lot the next two weeks to back to back conferences. One ministry related, one tech related. I'm incredibly excited about both. Wednesday four of the media team volunteers and four of us from the Schweitzer staff are leaving for Innovate (Aviles is leaving Tuesday, for a preconference workshop). Innovate is hosted by Granger Community …
onAIR Bus Tour – St Louis
Originally uploaded by kerner. Went to St Louis for the Adobe onAIR bus tour event yesterday. I drove up in the morning, bummed around the city for the afternoon, then went to the event in the evening. This morning I got up, ate breakfast and continued to be touristy in St Louis. I even went for lunch on the Hill …