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No Deer this weekend, going out Thanksgiving weekend again... Hoping to get meat for my family.

Other news, Becky's Birthday this weekend, Planning some fun activities for that.

Most of my blogging efforts have switched to the Learning Journey Blog Go there for more updates, I think that will be the blog we will be updating most... Until I leave I will still write here from time to time.

Our subscriptions @ Learning Journey have grown a ton and that is the best way to get out the information to our supporters... So please go there and fill out the subscription form so you too can stay up to date on our journey and can be in communication with us as we venture away from Ur. (Please understand I do not put myself on that pedestal, as far as we know were coming back with in two years.)

Hunting .... me .... this weekend ..... It's gonna be great! I've never gone before so I'm excited to be in the woods with a gun. My Father-In-Law may be sitting right next to me the whole time, I will find it hard not to talk to him.

I've been reading up on how to hunt etc. and I'm finding out that the big secret, the big deer tricks and the big money maker is scent, either becoming human-scent free or baiting with scent. Why is it that Deers have such a good sense of smell and I can't tell the difference between a live and a silk rose with my nose?


Finshed adding all the Honeymoon pictures to our Moblog. Its kinda fun having multiple blogs and multiple services, I would love to spend just a little bit of money to have a space on the net to store files and photos etc. But alas, everything comes with a price tag these days.

Got my name on "our" banking account, things are melding into we, first the living situation, now the finances, and eventually there will be just we. Never to seperate again. It is good.

Something like 8 weeks now, RSA here we come!

how do you like the new customize feature on the right...? Its not working the way I want it to but eventually it will be! for now enjoy the eye candy folks.

Christians here in the Western "free" world have become lazy, yet I wonder if they will take the time to read the following site.

Excerpt from Christianity is BULLSHIT!:

I don't expect Christians to like my website. People don't usually enjoy seeing their cherished beliefs, especially beliefs that they strongly regard as Absolute Truth, mocked and so easily debunked and shown to be false. I am not angry about god, nor am I angry at god. I do not believe that a god exists to feel anger toward.

I found this blog from a blog links site, I realized we were using the same services and I wanted to find a better design for an aspect of one of my sites... But instead I found a challenge. I wondered, and felt convicted how often I have read our ring of PoMo blogs, including non-religious spiritual thoughts on the church and I realize that I'm not reading the opponent's stuff. That I am not immersing myself in the right information, If I keep looking at our evidence I am blinded to what the opponent's team has.

Not that there is a competition. Its more for the reasons that in my sphere of influence which now includes Jeff the Atheist Blogger I have to be prepared, I have to be open minded enough to realize offering this guy a book from CS Lewis or from Lee Stroble is not going to solve his life issues. Instead I believe that God works through relationships and desire, meaning that God has sent people into Jeff's life and will continue to until he dies. These people must establish relationships of respect and honor. Jeff would not listen to me if I was just some random guy... But If I spent years on the Journey with Him he may just maybe he may listen when the timing is right.

But that means I need to be smart enough, well educated enough to know what not to say in the beginning... For example if you were white and trying to make a connection to a black person you wouldn't say "good-day", or "hullo mate", no you would listen learn and figure out that person's greeting and use it with him or her.

My point is, I hope to add this guys web-ring to my semi-weekly reading of blogs. By doing this I hope to better educate and prepare myself so I don't end up a fool and add fuel to the fire of those against God and the believers.

What a call.

Sometimes I wonder if the computers we thrive on are actually tools of the devil. Please note, I am employeed in the computer industry and thankful for that! Becky is at home with the laptop turned off and resting upside down to cool it off. My Mom's computer (my old one) has its side exposed becuase otherwise it too will overheat.

And we need these machines to survive. Once again makes me think of the Matrix, (I'm not spending money to go see the third, I heard it opened and flopped.) We need them to survive, and they need us to survive.

Becky has typed up a wonderful document which we need to turn in today or tomorrow, and now the computer after being flaky today and running really loud will not turn on. So its got our files on it. And we can't get access to them.

I work with computers, I fix them, but it all takes money. Like fixing a car, or fixing a house, knowledge only gets you so far until you need tools and supplies. I've got the knolwedge of what is wrong or what tools I'd use to determine what is wrong, or even to prevent what went wrong. But I do not have the money or the equipment to put my knowledge into place.

Wow, I'm glad I wrote that, I have been struggling this year with feelings of inadquacy because my computer and now my laptop are flaky, and I just now realized that those two machines are not reflections of my abilities. In fact for them to survive under the current conditions is prety good. So I will pray that the laptop cools off and that I can restore a good registry or fix the Hard Drive, or get rid of the Virus. But until I get home to repair it I must pray, and wait.

All this when I begin liquadating our stuff on Ebay and I need the digital pics on the laptop as well as inet access from home.

God is the God of everything, includding computers!!! This I will trust in and God I will rely on.

Does anyone know of a good Blogger Archives Calendar Script,
our pictures are at a picture blog... http://pictures.paulkortman.com
and on the left of that site you'll see they do a graphical representation of the archives... I'd love to do that for our Learning Journey Blog...

I noticed the title ot this post... anyone know the song from "The W's" "You are the Devil and the Devil is Bad!" hmm.
anyways... thats all for now.

So, were back, and now me is a we, and I is a we. There are new experiences, and new challenges, but a ton of new excitement all at the same time.

Mexico was great, if you get a chance visit the Riviera Maya, tons of fun, great beaches and good food. Montezuma's revenge hit on the last day and we are still recovering from it. This has been a good practice run for when the Learning Journey begins.

I began work again today. A lot to get done but a lot more to complete in the next two months.

Woke up for work this morning feeling great, met with a friend for breakfast and then went out to my car, which other than getting me to breakfast hadn't run for two weeks, and it didn't start. So I took Rebekah's car and now she is stuck @ home without a vehicle, so please pray for us as we try to repair the car this evening so she can have a vehicle to get around in because we have many things to get done in the next two months.

January 10 that is our official leaving date.
Pay attention for more details on pictures of Mexico, My wife takes really great shots and has a good eye for photography, I just hold the camera and push the button when she says to!... anyways they will be posted out on the web soon.

"May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand. "

It's only three more days now till I make the biggest move of my life, the transition from singlehood to marriedhood. I am excited for this celebration and for the life we get to live together afterwards.

I still remember when it was 6 months out and 5 months out and I thought it would be another lifetime befor the 24th of October would get here. And now its so close I can taste it.

Stress is low, today is my last day of work which will be good so I can pitch in and help out with the final details.

Needless to say I will probally not be blogging for a little while. But I'll have pictures to post when we get back from our honeymoon. Until then, this is Paul, signing off.
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