BRENT LAYTHAM HAS A GOOD PIECE The thing about Brent is that he always wears a slight grin as he's inching you just past the boundaries of your comfort zone.
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DON'T BOTHER, I'M DEAD! There is a new "do not call" style registry designed by the caring folks at the Direct Marketing Association to remove snail and email addresses from all of the lists of their 5,200 members. It is intended to help grieving families.
But it will cost you -- $1 -- to pay for credit card verification. Association representative Pat Kachura told a reporter, "We're concerned people will abuse the list, putting the names of friends on it, that kind of thing... So we're very concerned that those who are on the list are those who should be on the list."
Yeah, right. They're more concerned, if you ask me, that all the living people will try to get more of their lives back by removing themselves from everyone's junk lists.
A truly reputable industry would make this option available for both the living and the dead -- and for free.
However, anyone desperate enough to spend a dollar can take a stab at registering for the list here.
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CRAIG DAUGHERTY, who was the youth minister at our church in Texas ten years ago, has accepted a position as West Texas Field Director for Prison Fellowship Ministries. Until recently he as been working with Young Life in Germany, serving high school age US military dependents. He and his wife, Stacey, will be moving to Lubbock.
God is good.
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LONG TIME FRIENDS STEWART AND BETH WEBSTER dropped by for a few minutes this morning. They leave tomorrow, heading back toward Sweden, where they work with New Life Church, a Swedish/English speaking congregation in Stockholm. They've been adjusting well to their new home. Up until last year they lived in France.
I first met Beth, who was an Anderson at that point, a Turlock High grad attending Stanford, when we both worked at Mission Springs' Frontier Ranch in the mid-70's. Stewart's parents were actually a part of our congregation in Texas for awhile. IOW, our paths have crossed in many ways over the years.
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CONGRESS WANTS TO EXTEND DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME another month. Why not go the whole year? Or, better yet, why not just leave everything at Standard Time and then let people adjust their own hours around the amount of sunlight available at any given time of the year? However, the economists say it doesn't make economic sense to do it my way.
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THE NATIONAL SEX OFFENDERS REGISTRY is online -- except it doesn't yet include California AND it does goofy things with the Firefox browser (Internet Explorer worked fine).
1 comment:
So congress wants to mess with Daylight Savings, eh? That would mix things up a bit!! Why not just follow the example of Saskatchewan - we don't do the time change thing. We're steady folk!
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