Today is yet another beautiful day. High in the mid 60's and sunny. Not counting Saturday's rain fest (3.2 inches here at home), every day has been beautiful for 10 days. I love this weather!
We got a new basketball goal on Saturday to replace the one we had to leave in St. Louis. It's nicer with a stronger, transparent backboard more realistic to gym backboards. So I've been playing basketball yesterday and today. Until I hurt my back earlier today. I tweaked it somehow. Not instant pain but it hurts to do much of anything. But stretching my back helps and I've got a heat pack on it so hopefully I'll be able to get back out there.
Church was good yesterday. I went to evening service last night and we had The Lord's Supper. Afterwards, a group of us students helped empty and dry the communion trays. That was cool. I didn't realize how much went into putting all that together. Each dish has to be hand-washed and packed back into a box. After that, we went to Moe's Southwestern Grill, which was good. Kind of expensive but good. I had a quesadilla, and chips with queso. The lady overcharged me so it was $6.55 instead of under $5, oh well. I'll have to pay more attention. But the food was good and the time with new friends was good too. God's blessed me with some great friends in St. Louis and some great friends here.
Heroes is on tonight. Looks like a great episode. It's 63 minutes long so if you're taping it, make sure you get that in there, don't want to miss the end. I also have Bible study tonight which is awesome. Florida plays Tennessee in basketball tomorrow, Go Vols!
And I have discovered another reason Switchfoot is a great band: bootlegs. Switchfoot charges considerably less per concert in an effort to keep ticket prices affordable (most are around $20 to $30 that I've seen compared to what could be $50). They're outspoken critics of DRM (Digital Rights Management, they were especially critical of their label for putting some spyware DRM on the CD Nothing Is Sound). And they now offer bootleg CDs of the night's concert at the venue. Right after the show you can buy a CD of that night's performances. That's cool but doesn't affect me or most people because many won't get to see one of their concerts. But Tim of Switchfoot has said that people are welcome to distribute those live versions to get the band's music out there as long as they don't sell it. So there's a podcast on iTunes that has several places' bootlegs for free. And it's legal. The set list changes each night so there are many different songs and versions including an improvisation of "American Dream" in Canada to "American/Canadian Dream". So check it out if you have iTunes: Switchfoot Bootlegs Podcast
Oh, and Switchfoot's music is good too :)
That's all from here, I'm going to attempt to play basketball again, we'll see how the back responds...
-Kevin C. Burns
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