Itsara

There are a lot of little things going on, so I’m going to give them to you all at once.

Thailand Updates

• Cindy has been in contact with some of the staff of Im Jai, and we’re really encouraged by their response. We’ve received volunteer applications from them, and one of their directors wrote that she was very excited to have us come. From what she says, and the questions she asks, it’s just more evidence that this move and the timing of it has been Engineered. Hopefully Cindy or I can give you more details about that soon, but I don’t have access to them right now.
• We will start officially raising support in the coming weeks. I’ll talk more about this later.
• Cindy’s Mom has graciously offered to buy our tickets to Thailand. We currently plan on leaving in late March, after we have our passports and visas taken care of.
• As of yesterday morning, I no longer work for SAIC. I was sadder about this than I expected to be. I’m not sad to leave the job (which was fine, but not what I want to do), but rather the people.
• This Sunday is my last Sunday as worship pastor. I know I’m sad about this.
• Cindy and I are going on a cruise down the coast of Mexico next week (we’re leaving right after church and getting back in time for church the week after). We’ve been meaning to do this for a while, and now that we’re cancelling our credit cards we figure we’ll use the points we’ve been saving up. It also helps that neither of us are working full-time anymore.
• To celebrate no longer working for The Man, we’re going to watch Office Space tomorrow after Cindy and Sean’s soccer game. Wanna come?

Website Updates

• I’ve removed the “First Time Here?” section on the sidebar and replaced it with some static “About This Site” pages. This way I can say more and people can find what they want. Look them over if you haven’t already.
• I finally found a plugin that allows you guys to receive e-mail notifications whenever Itsara is updated (if you want them, of course). You can subscribe and unsubscribe yourself from the “E-mail Notifications” link on the sidebar.

Like I said, Cindy and I will be gone next week, but I’m trying out a feature of WordPress that lets me post into the future. So check back next week because there are some posts that are scheduled to show up (if I did it right, there will be one each on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday). It’s the unabdriged story of why I don’t have Nintendo games anymore - and no, it’s not because video games are childish or of the devil. (Note: if you are signed up for e-mail notifications, I don’t think you’ll receive them when these posts get published. It’s some bug related to future posts).

Is there anything you’d like to see on Itsara? Leave a comment and let me know, otherwise I’ll keep doing what I’m doing. Some feature of the site that bugs you? Something you wish the site had? Posts you wish I would write about? Let me know.