When your friends start emailing you and calling you asking if everything’s OK because they haven’t seen you online in a while you can safely assume at least two things:
- Your life is wired
- You’ve got some good friends
In all seriousness though, things are going very well for the Gray family right now. Ministry is going well and it’s from this ministry that I’ve taken a week’s vacation to Chicago to visit my parents. I’ve been sleeping a lot, eating too much and spending lots of time with my parents and my brother.
A book?
I’ve decided to start a book. Not sure what exactly it will be about yet but I would really like to write something relating to ministers and/or churches. More likely than not (knowing myself and my passions) it will focus on new media and/or new models for organizing a church in this post postmodern culture. My brother hooked me up with an editor from InterVarsity Press who hopefully will help this project see realization. People have told me for a while that I should write a book. It’s also something that I’ve wanted badly to do and even tried to accomplish at one point or another. I’m looking forward to getting started on it when I get back home.
Vista impressions
In other news, my mom just bought a new computer (long overdue) and with it got Windows Vista. In fact, I’m using her computer right now. Vista is really very nice. It’s more intuitive than XP was and it includes just the right amount of eye candy. In all honesty, the visuals remind me a lot of my Ubuntu install on my computer which is running compiz. It’s got the nice shadows under the windows, nice fade in/fade out effects, and the font rendering is more Linux-like. I’ve heard some people say that Windows had these effects before Linux but I’m not sure of that. Can anyone confirm which OS had these composite effects first? I’m pretty sure it was OS X, then Linux then Windows jumped on board but I’m no techie. Please fill me in on this.
But IMHO Vista is a huge step up from XP. My mom has a much easier time with it than previous Windows versions. Makes me think back to the good ol’ days of Windows 95 and how “awesomely powerful” we all thought it was. Oh well.
