This year I decided I was going to participate in Lent. Quite a few people have asked me why I decided to do such a thing since it’s “not in the Bible” and quite a few Bible School students I know didn’t even know what it was and those that did associated just with the Roman Catholic Church.  I think some more church history lessons are needed.

Lent lasts 40 days (like Christ’s 40 days in the desert), generally from Ash Wednesday to Holy Saturday. In this time, we are to remember and prepare for the commemoration of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Ed Gungor, Pastor of Peoples Church, describes the Lent season as a time in which we to make room for God in our lives.  I know I get busy with all the things going on in my life and take more into thought material items than I do Christ and his everlasting love for us.

I decided to remove Pop (or soda for you other people).  I’ve had pop all of my life and never go without it each day.  I have to say the first two weeks were stinking hard.   But every time I had a battle, I did my best to keep the focus on why I was doing this seemingly trivial abstinence.  Needless to say, there were quite a few occurrences and struggles.

I have to say I recommend participating in Lent for any Christ-follower, even us Charismatics and Protestants..  It’s been a very good experience and time to regain some focus back on Christ.

• Buffalo Wild Wings has a very high turnover rate of employees..makes it hard on consistency.. #
• Installing a CC processing software…yeah fun! #

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• I do not like mornings.. nope nope nope #
• Eating at 5andDiner for my bro’s birthday..strawberry lemonade is great! #

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• I’d love to blog tonight, but I’m just too tired anymore. #
• Setting up for the uscaa basketball tourney this week..audio broadcasting #
• Rocklobster! #
• Driving a friends convertible..its a nice evening =) #

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• having trouble installing pfsense.. quite frustrating. #
• pfSense box is up and running. bye bye linksys #
• @terrystorch Internet Campus went well on my side today. Very grateful for it. #

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• Just finished at the Holland Hall book fair..lots of finds.. Food time! #
• starting my pfsense install at home, this temporary linksys has to go.. #
• @djberg Say hi to my grandma while you are there! I’ve never been tot he charthouse. #
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A new site called Online Primary lets you vote who you would vote for. Pretty cool.  Go check it out and share it.

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I’ve seen a lovely handful of concerts the past few years including: Josh Groban, Michael Buble, Elvis Costello, Coldplay, and Tony Bennett.  Last night I was able to see B.B. King finally after many years of having to miss his concerts.

The concert was fantastic, other than the security staffs close to violent measures to keep photographs from being taken.  I even saw them make an elderly lady delete her photos or they threatened to take her camera. The unmistakable King of the Blues played for nearly two hours.  There was no stage set, but you didn’t need it.  He sang, played Lucille, told stories and jokes.  I had tickets in the 8th row and was completely satisfied.  It was a great experience.

In other news, I have been fighting a cold/cough for over a week; mainly brought on by my excessive working. So on those nights I couldn’t sleep the past 10 days and those few days I took off from work, I caught up on watching all of Heroes seasons 1 and 2.  Next, the last two episodes of Chuck!

People keep telling me I should watch Lost.. whats everyone think?

First, I mentioned last month I received Streams in the Desert by L.B. Cowman.  The devotional is absolutely incredible.  I recommend it to anyone looking for a daily devotional.  Google has the original version for reading online as well.

I also got My Savior Lives by New Life Church.  I love the album.

Just thought I’d share.

I started my Domain Controller server change-overs today.  I have two old servers running as DC’s that I am replacing..  I didn’t get started ’til 3p.m. and just now calling it quits for the day.

Will work more on tomorrow.

My plan is to be able to just have to do any troubleshooting on Monday, besides switching over to the new Cisco 3560 I have in to replace an old Dell 12-port gig switch and a Cisco CE 500 12-port gig.  This will give me more control and features..

Thanks to Dave Mast and all the other citrt guys on the idea of how to deploy the DC’s among the other help..  VM here I come!