I'm going to follow the order in the post title...
It's becoming difficult to find the preferred balance between traditional and contemporary in the area churches. On one hand, FBC Benton has a traditional service with mostly hymns and slower music. The church we visited today, Church at Rock Creek, has a contemporary service and style that goes beyond Sunday morning. Rock Creek doesn't have Sunday School, doesn't have a specific night for activities (Wednesday typically), it's very contemporary. So the struggle currently is to find the balance. Contemporary worship service, traditional schedule.
It was weird to be out of church at 10, out of lunch and at home at 11:30.
We caught our third mouse in the kitchen this afternoon. Two others were killed previously around 11PM last night and a few nights ago. Today's mouse didn't die in the trap. It only had its leg caught. Thankfully it couldn't escape. But it did require effort for Dad to kill it. I won't go into any more details.
I have completed the viewing of the first 11 episodes of Heroes. Great show. Can't wait for its return on the 22nd.
It has rained consistently since yesterday morning. As of 8:30 this morning, my rain gauge had received 4.7 inches of rain. Likely above 5 inches by now. That's in the past 36 hours. There are large puddles/ponds all over the area. Our yard isn't a valley collecting all the rain but it has its streams.
We went to Hot Springs yesterday. That was pretty cool. The water tastes good. When it comes directly out of the ground with no cooling done by the city, it's hot. I think it's above 135 degrees hot. Didn't get to spend much time there but we'll go back sometime soon. Cool city.
I have made up my mind on a TV tuner for my laptop (a TV tuner is like a TiVo in that it can record TV shows when connected to cable/satellite, it also allows you to watch TV on your laptop or desktop computer). I have decided upon the Autumn-Wave OnAir GT tuner. It's a mobile HDTV tuner for your laptop. It requires no external power, it runs on your USB 2.0 port. It has the standard inputs (red-yellow-white RCA, and a S-Video in). It comes with a telescopic antenna (metal pull out antenna like old "rabbit ears") that's one foot long allowing you to receive free HDTV from your local stations. I am sooo pumped to watch LOST and Heroes in HD. I didn't think HD would be a big deal but I've watched some short HD videos and it's sweet. You can get some cool still shots. Plus sports in HD looks amazing too. Go watch a movie trailer in HD on Apple's site to see what I mean (my laptop can't process 1080i from Apple but the 720p still looks great). Click here for Apple's trailer section. Anyways, it's currently $169.99 at Circuit City. The only reason I can consider it is the $100 CC gift card I got from Mamaw and Papaw at Christmas. So I plan on buying that soon. Waiting until after my birthday...
That's all that's going on for me 'round here in Central AR. I'm ready to see my friends again next weekend for MPACT!
-Kevin C. Burns
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