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Sunday

Quaker Meeting- 45 min late to the quiet hour- oops.  Earth Quaker action team (EQAT)- tee hee.  They were fun rebels who had to ask to get arrested at one point, but only 4 people were allowed to be detained.  They got PNC to make a statement against their funding of Mountaintop Removal, but were smooth with words so that they could still take part in issuing loans.

Mark Inductive Bible study.  This will be very good for me to read through Mark and trying to understand everything, but with more time to look up OT references and to use IV concordances.

Gym for a bit- lungs aren’t in shape L  It’s incredible the fitness I lost the two weeks after BAAM! when I didn’t do anything, and then being virtually immobile over winter break while reading and pondering.  No will be a time to get back in shape.  Been reading Did the Resurrection Happen? A conversation between Anthony Flew and Gary Habermas (http://www.veritas.org/Books/Books.aspx/1/Did-the-Resurrection-Happen-A-Conversation-with-Gary-Habermas-and-Antony-Flew) and it’s been interesting.  Flew converted to Deism after being one of the most lauded atheist philosophers of the last century, believing in an Aristotelian God, but open to the idea of a God of special revelation.  His main argument for a God was:

The philosophical question that has not been answered in origin-of-life studies is this: How can a universe of mindless matter produce beings with intrinsic ends, self-replication capabilities, and "coded chemistry"? Here we are not dealing with biology, but an entirely different category of problem.

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Played some more trombone.  I was never good at reading music with sharps, always throws me off.  I’ve gotten okay at hearing scales- doing more music theory would be good.

Later I made cheese, scallion beer bread using Joy of Cooking recipe.  It turned out too salty (1/2 tsp per loaf, 2 tsp baking powder, and 1/2 tsp baking soda).  I’d like to try again without any salt.  I made two loafs.  Here’s to jam and other things on the bread to mask the salt followed my much water.

Monday

Talked with a local guy on helping him out with a resource guide for kids in elementary/middle school.  He bought me a sandwich at Deja Brew.  I realized that many non-profits and businesses spend a ton of time wasted doing data mining and file formatting that could be easily done by some people with basic programming skills.  I wonder if there’s a group that specializes in projects for non-profits- probably, but I couldn’t find any quickly.  These types of projects would be great for undergrads and University-community relationships.

Tried to submit app for Meals on Wheels, but e-mail failed multiple times- their fault.  I think it’d be fun to drive old people food in the snow!  Or, at least it sounds heroic.

Need to not be in my office to get work done- to the public places!

Joined a choir that sings classical pieces.  I’ve never learned so much history about the music I’ve played- the conductor rocks.  Apparently, composers after becoming known for traditional pieces become badasses as they progress- Beethoven and Haydn.  Also, there’s this French guy Chausson who hung out with Monet, Debussy, etc. and had billions of dollars of paintings in his home from his buddies.  He died by crashing into a wall on his bicycle.  I forget the names of the pieces but Chausson’s is about epic wars between the gods.  The pieces are in latin, german, and French- sweet.  I’ve never tried speaking anything in these languages, besides “Je t’adore” which I failed at horribly, kind of on purpose.