Arkyp Stoller
I was browsing the Blogger site for other bloggers my age. I found a guy named Arkyp Stoller.
His blog is WELL WORTH A READ! Apparently he is trapped in our Present (his Past) from the Future year of 2317 (his Present). I'm unsure of his location, and I think he is equally disoriented after arriving in 2006 last night (June 29, 2006). It would appear though that he's still confined to the room in which he first arrived. Maybe he's already made it back to 2317?
I am going to follow his blog, and hopefully find that he unravels the mystery and makes it back to 2317. Arkyp's blog might also give us some insight into the future!
Go read it for yourself: Arkyp Stoller's Blog.
Friday, June 30, 2006
Monday, June 26, 2006
I stumbled on this song
While flipping through the Salvation Army songbook, I found this song. I've never heard it sung and I don't know how the tune goes, but the lyrics are brilliant.
Song 30
God of concrete, God of steel,
God of piston and of wheel,
God of pylon, God of steam,
God of girder and of beam,
God of atom, God of mine,
All the world of power is thine.
Lord of cable, Lord of rail,
Lord of motorway and of mail,
Lord of rocket, Lord of flight,
Lord of soaring satellite,
Lord of lightning’s livid line,
All the world of speed is thine.
Lord of science, Lord of art,
Lord of map and graph and chart,
Lord of physics and research,
Word of Bible, Faith of church,
Lord of sequence and design,
All the world of truth is thine.
God whose glory fills the earth,
Gave the universe its birth,
Loosed the Christ with Easter’s might,
Saves the world from evil’s blight,
Claims us all by grace divine,
All the world of love is thine.
Richard Granville Jones
SAGALA training done!
KATOOMBA, I love you
Janene and I took Melissa and Elizabeth (twins) in our car to the Katoomba Christian Convention center on the weekend. John and Jennifer Armstrong took their car with Sarah Radburn and Adeline McDougal - that makes 8 from Dubbo!
The weekend was for training for leaders of SAGALA (Salvation Army Guards And Legion Activities) and there were about 86 leaders all up from all over the country, including South Australia, Victoria, ACT, NSW and Queensland.
Dubbo is about to start doing SAGALA again (after 8 or so years since it was last run). So we spent the weekend learning all about SAGALA and preparing ourselves for the new challenge.
I loved the cold weather in Katoomba, and also enjoyed our visit to Scenic World. I went on the railway car thingy down the side of the mountain (wasn't as fast, long or as scarey as I hoped). Then I walked around amongst the beautiful trees and ferns before catching the Cableway back up over the valley to the top of the cliffs again.
The most fun part of the training for me was probably learning to tie knots :D Next time someone falls in the river, I'm gonna be so excited! I'll grab a piece of rope, tie a rescue knot - secured with a half-hitch - chuck it in and rescue that drowning person.
I also passed my First Aid Course a couple of months ago, so I could then bring em back to life if they happened to be dead.
So anyway, being a SAGALA leader is going to be great - I think... I hope! I will be leading the Adventurers group, which is the boys aged 7 - 11. I already have my SAGALA badge and my shirt... so I'm really looking forward to decking out in the whole uniform.
It may be a fanciful goal, but I hope we can do enough fundraising to attend the next World SAGALA Jambouree. This year it will be in the Netherlands, so you can imagine how badly I wanted to go to that. :-( Maybe it'll be in Russia! Wow, that'd be cool.
Check out my select photos of the Katoomba weekend.
Janene and I took Melissa and Elizabeth (twins) in our car to the Katoomba Christian Convention center on the weekend. John and Jennifer Armstrong took their car with Sarah Radburn and Adeline McDougal - that makes 8 from Dubbo!
The weekend was for training for leaders of SAGALA (Salvation Army Guards And Legion Activities) and there were about 86 leaders all up from all over the country, including South Australia, Victoria, ACT, NSW and Queensland.Dubbo is about to start doing SAGALA again (after 8 or so years since it was last run). So we spent the weekend learning all about SAGALA and preparing ourselves for the new challenge.
I loved the cold weather in Katoomba, and also enjoyed our visit to Scenic World. I went on the railway car thingy down the side of the mountain (wasn't as fast, long or as scarey as I hoped). Then I walked around amongst the beautiful trees and ferns before catching the Cableway back up over the valley to the top of the cliffs again.
The most fun part of the training for me was probably learning to tie knots :D Next time someone falls in the river, I'm gonna be so excited! I'll grab a piece of rope, tie a rescue knot - secured with a half-hitch - chuck it in and rescue that drowning person.
I also passed my First Aid Course a couple of months ago, so I could then bring em back to life if they happened to be dead.
So anyway, being a SAGALA leader is going to be great - I think... I hope! I will be leading the Adventurers group, which is the boys aged 7 - 11. I already have my SAGALA badge and my shirt... so I'm really looking forward to decking out in the whole uniform.
It may be a fanciful goal, but I hope we can do enough fundraising to attend the next World SAGALA Jambouree. This year it will be in the Netherlands, so you can imagine how badly I wanted to go to that. :-( Maybe it'll be in Russia! Wow, that'd be cool.
Check out my select photos of the Katoomba weekend.
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