I apologize. We have been having trouble with our recording equipment at the church so some weeks record and others do not. We are working on correcting that error. Thank you for your patience.

Over the last three months I have been eagerly preparing for May 27th, just a week from this Thursday, when I will fly to Colorado to begin the Ellerslie Training program. A round trip ticket to Denver has been purchased, and the tuition is paid in full. I am down to the last 64 of 722 pages of Scottish Chiefs, the “not required but highly recommended” pre-arrival reading. A ten-week leave of absence from work has been approved. And finally, prayer upon prayer has been offered up to God asking Him to go before me and prepare me for the weeks that lay ahead of me.
 

I was happy to be enlightened on Saturday, April 10, that “Not everybody needs an iPad”, according to the humble opinion of the Akron Beacon Journal columnist. I hope he was right because I don’t happen to have an extra $500 laying around the house. Apparently, the iPad does have a few amiable features, such as an interface that “moves fluidly under your fingertips”, as well as enough apps to ensure that you need never again spend time with real people doing real things.