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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.  …

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 …