TheEdigers.comTheEdigers.com:The daily musings of the Ediger five2008-09-13T21:43:14ZCopyright (c) 2008, ChrisExpressionEnginetag:theedigers.com,2008:09:1336.239657-86.571272theedigershttp://feedburner.google.comNew Flickr Photosets Addedtag:theedigers.com,2008:blog/1.12352008-09-13T21:35:36Z2008-09-13T21:43:14ZChrischris.ediger@gmail.comPosted by Chris...
Spent some time this afternoon getting our Flickr account up-to-date with photos we have taken throughout the summer. Here's what's new - over 280 photos in 9 new photosets. You can access them directly via the links below, or by visiting our Flickr profile:
]]>What does that look like?tag:theedigers.com,2008:blog/1.12342008-08-07T15:58:00Z2008-08-07T17:06:00ZAndreaandrea.ediger@gmail.comPosted by Andrea...
At the end of June, some friends of ours from Nashville (the McCaskills) visited us here in Georgia for a few hours one afternoon on their way back home from vacation. They brought along their spaniel, Barney. Fast forward to today...
Emerie and I are in Kohl's and I'm looking for a new purse. She's bringing me different ones to try. I'm looking at one that is a gorgeous color called paprika (more like a burnt orange) but feeling if-fy about whether it will really go with everything or not. I ask Emerie, "Sis - what do you think about this color?" "I like it," she replies, "but it looks like the color of Barney's dog poop, you know." I grinned and asked: "So you are telling me this purse is the color of dog poop?" At this point a stranger nearby hears us and bursts out laughing, "That's the funniest thing I've heard all day - no - all week! They just tell it like they see it, don't they?" She adds, "How old is she anyway?" as she walks away. A few minutes later I decide on the same style of purse, but in a chocolate brown shade instead. Me: "What do you think about this one, Sis?" Emerie: "I like it! Now THAT one looks more the color of Mercy's poop." Give them an audience and they'll take it a mile, huh? But I have to admit while attempting to re-tell this story to Chris tonight, I laughed so hard I was brought to tears. As I ended my story to him I asked him, "So, do you wanna see my purse that looks like dog poop?" I don't know if I'll ever get that image out of my mind. Gotta love it. ]]>What I Blog About, p2tag:theedigers.com,2008:blog/1.12332008-07-30T04:30:00Z2008-07-29T04:40:01ZChrischris.ediger@gmail.comPosted by Chris...
So, I posted a cool image/link at ChrisEdiger.com to a service called Wordle that will look through your blog/site and paint a cool image of that most used words. Because I only carried over mostly non-family related posts to the new blog, I thought it would be fun to do it on here as well.
We have close to 750 posts here that span five years. Here's a glimpse at some of the most blogged about words.
Not sure where 'biscuits' comes from :-) I don't think the site works exactly right. But still interesting...
Click the image for a larger version ]]>A Little Like the Little Mermaidtag:theedigers.com,2008:blog/1.12322008-07-29T00:28:01Z2008-07-29T01:32:18ZAndreaandrea.ediger@gmail.comPosted by Andrea...
After Bible story, I often sing a song or two (or five) with Emerie. Tonight I asked, "What song do you want to sing tonight?" Emerie replied, "Sing me one I haven't heard before - a long one." I thought a moment and then sang two verses of "Because He Lives" When I finished Emerie commented, "That was good, Mom. You know - you sound a little like Ariel." (The Little Mermaid) ]]>These Biscuits Are So Good!tag:theedigers.com,2008:blog/1.12312008-07-12T17:25:00Z2008-07-12T19:23:46ZChrischris.ediger@gmail.comPosted by Chris...
Andrea made some store-bought biscuits as part of a "breakfast for lunch." The kids were discussing at the table how much they loved them.
Emerie said, "If I sold biscuits, I'd sell these for free so everyone could eat them!"
Micah said, "If I sold biscuits, I'd sell them for a dollar because they're so good! If you sold them for free then everyone would be running in & grabbing all of them."
Josiah said, "If I had two stores where I sold biscuits, one in the U.S. & one in Canada, I'd sell them for $1 at the one in the U.S. & for $2 at the one in Canada - because everything always costs more there." ]]>ChrisEdiger.com is Live!tag:theedigers.com,2008:blog/1.12302008-07-02T12:32:00Z2008-07-02T12:33:57ZChrischris.ediger@gmail.comPosted by Chris...
Well, after a couple of months of want-to, and a couple of weeks of hard work, the new blog is now live! I’ve spend the greater part of the past week tweaking the design and importing over quite a few of my previous blog posts from our family site. Didn’t realize what five years of blogging looked like until I tried sifting through 700+ entries to find those that fit the new blog!
Still not completely where I’d like it. For example, the side navigation on the individual post pages (the one that says “Such and such” is the previous post, and “Such and such” is the next post) isn’t working correctly. You can still reach any post via the archive links in the main nav, or in the side bar of the individual post pages, or via the search box. Hopefully I’ll get the last little bugs fixed next week.
For now, it’s good enough, and with the fam getting set to head out to Nashville for a mini-vacation I wanted to go ahead & get it up and running.
FYI - you can now reach me at ChrisEdiger.com or InTheThinPlaces.com. Family stuff will likely end up more so right here at TheEdigers.com, although some will bleed over to the new blog as well.
More on the “Thin Places” in later posts on the new blog. For now, hop on over & take a look, then let me know what you think. I’d love any feedback! ]]>“Healer” - Incredible Video from Hillsongtag:theedigers.com,2008:blog/1.12292008-06-27T18:45:00Z2008-06-27T03:50:58ZChrischris.ediger@gmail.comPosted by Chris...
Just finished watching this from Hillsong's website. It's a clip showing & talking about their latest live album "This Is My God" being released in July. Needed this awakening today - good stuff...
When Even Bill Gates Hates Microsofttag:theedigers.com,2008:blog/1.12282008-06-27T14:11:01Z2008-06-27T03:16:49ZChrischris.ediger@gmail.comPosted by Chris...
So, Bill Gates is finally gone from the day-to-dayness of Microsoft. In a series covering the leaving, Seattle based blogger Todd Bishop drew from the archives and pulled out an internal email rant from Bill to his team after unsuccessfully trying to download & install Windows Moviemaker from the Microsoft website. It is absolutely hilarious!
Or you can listen to a dramatic reading of the email by Dave Ross of KIRO-AM/710 in Seattle below:
]]>Enjoying Old Friendstag:theedigers.com,2008:blog/1.12272008-06-27T02:58:25Z2008-06-27T09:58:25ZChrischris.ediger@gmail.comPosted by Chris...
Today was a good day. Started off kind of crazy with juggling between a dentist & haircut appointment for myself, the last day of swim lessons for the kids, their own haircuts, and a last-minute doctor's appointment for Josiah who began complaining about his throat hurting last night. It ending well, though, as we had some good friends from Nashville stop by on their way back from vacation in Florida.
The McCaskills were a part of the homeschool co-op we were in, and quickly became good friends during the three years we were in Nashville. Tonight was such a good night as we talked together, laughed together, ate together, etc.
Makes me even more excited about our trip to Nashville next week! We're heading there Wednesday morning to spend about 5 days. Our good friends Chad & Jessica have asked me to officiate their wedding at Gladeville on Saturday, so we'll be doing wedding misc for part of the trip. Spending considerable time with our friends Craig & Barbara (yes, they're 'good friends' too, just thought I was being a bit repetitive :-) ).
Here's a couple of pics of the gang before they headed out tonight...
]]>Working on the New Blogtag:theedigers.com,2008:blog/1.12262008-06-26T11:07:07Z2008-06-26T18:07:07ZChrischris.ediger@gmail.comPosted by Chris...
I've begun working on the design for the new blog (which will reside at both chrisediger.com & inthethinplaces.com). I'm hoping to have something launched around the first of the month. Posts here may be sporadic until that happens.
I'll send out an invite once it is up! ]]>Finished Clusters: Creative Mid-Sized Missional Communitiestag:theedigers.com,2008:blog/1.12252008-06-26T10:55:22Z2008-06-26T17:55:22ZChrischris.ediger@gmail.comPosted by Chris...
Finished reading Clusters: Creative Mid-Sized Missional Communities this morning. This book was co-authored by Bob Hopkins and Mike Breen and birthed out of the journey of a number of churches seeking to reach people in a post-Christendom UK.
I picked this up because I got a chance to meet Mike about a month ago and because Bridgeway, the church Andrea and I were a part of in Oklahoma, is one of the churches who have been adopting the principles of mid-sized community (MSC) that this book addresses.
The hardest part, for me, was that this book comes off very textbookish. Not sure if it is because of the writing style of Hopkins, who, I believe, writes most (discussing principles Breen developed), or because it is meant to be a manual of sorts for churches seeking to move toward MSC. In either case, it took some determination to push through some of the heavier text. If someone were to pick up the book outside of a true desire to understand and implement the principles within it, they would have difficulty, in my opinion, getting through it.
That being said, this book has done more for me in helping me understand how a church like Bridgeway is structured and operates - a church that I feel very much akin to.
I won't go into the full details (I did take a lot of notes in my Moleskine, which speaks well to the content), except to encourage anyone looking to find a new model of doing church to check it out. So much more in that our country is beginning to slip into the same post-Christendom challenges that have been found in the UK in the last couple of decades.
You can grab the book from the 3DM website, and even download a digital copy for around $10.
]]>Having Company Feels More Like Hometag:theedigers.com,2008:blog/1.12242008-06-25T01:04:00Z2008-06-25T02:06:35ZAndreaandrea.ediger@gmail.comPosted by Andrea...
With summer comes one of my favorite times of year - company.
Having people here makes me feel loved, sought after, valued. Having company back-to-back-to-back makes me feel the need for a little solitude. But having company every few weeks is a good thing. Something to look forward to.
Since leaving Kansas we've had company on a somewhat regular basis - especially in summer. And now that we are in Georgia and company has been coming to our new home here, it somehow makes me feel more at home in a place that has been a smooth, positive, but feels-longer-than-usual transition. I think I may have lost my patience for 'getting through the first year'. So - company is good and helpful. In case I didn't tell you already, thanks for coming. ]]>Phonebook Freetag:theedigers.com,2008:blog/1.12232008-06-24T03:11:02Z2008-06-24T10:11:02ZChrischris.ediger@gmail.comPosted by Chris...
Just threw out all of our phonebooks for the first time in my life. Yeah, I know, it's about time. Actually, our new phonebooks arrived the other day (note Steve Martin The Jerk memory now) which prompted the whole thing. I walked out to get into the van & noticed a plastic bag bundle on the front lawn. The kids, of course, thought it was some kind of present. My thought, "who in the world uses a phone book anymore?"
We've always kept one, typically stored somewhere in the top of a closet or in the back of a kitchen cabinet, "just in case." Now that I can pull a phone out of my pocket and look up anything I need, that 'in case' will never happen.
How about you? How many phone books do you still have laying around your house? When was the last time you used one?
]]>Important Deadline for Catalyst Would-Be’stag:theedigers.com,2008:blog/1.12222008-06-18T18:44:00Z2008-06-18T18:57:50ZChrischris.ediger@gmail.comPosted by Chris...
Just wanted to let you know that we're approaching an important Catalyst cutoff date. Next Friday, June 26th, is the final day to register before the rates jump up as much as another $40. I know I've spoken to many of you and there are several people who have expressed interest in coming to Atlanta in October to hang out with us & attend the conference. The rates are $249 for individuals (going up to $289), and $139 for full-time students (going up to $159). If you're registering more than one person, there are discounted rates. You can see all the rates on the Catalyst 08 Conference site.
We're looking to hopefully have a houseful for the week. Hope you can come!
Here's a fun reminder from the Catalyst crew...
Catalyst / Geico Spoof from Catalyst on Vimeo. ]]>Announcing - GiANT Perspectivestag:theedigers.com,2008:blog/1.12212008-06-17T14:55:02Z2008-06-17T00:04:49ZChrischris.ediger@gmail.comPosted by Chris...
Since my life is so intertwined in web design and development, I thought it would be nice to post new sites and launches that we have so some of you can see what we're working on.
We just launched "GiANT Perspectives" a new GiANT blog authored mainly by Jeremie right now, although I think we'll probably see multiple authors in the future. I'm really excited about this one as I think it going to be different than most business blogs out there.
For starters, it just looks cool. Seen any business blogs lately? Trust me. Jeremie is also looking to offer free tools and resources that will go along with many of the posts. So instead of the typical "listen to what I have to say," I think GiANT Perspectives is going to come off as much more of a "let's start this conversation, and download this free tool that will help you put into practice the things that we're talking about" feel. Third, the video elements work great with my iPhone. This isn't much of a draw for regular sites, but for a blog that is really geared at business professionals, especially CEOs and business leaders, I think the iPhone integration is going to be really nice. I've set it up so that we can even roll out a completely iPhone version of the site in the near future.
Some other recent adds/updates you might like to check out:
Catalyst Conference - Nice flash site rolled out; didn't have anything to do with this one as they were working on it before I arrived.
Catalyst Space - Same thing here - new updated design that I didn't have a hand in; we just moved it into our internal system, though, so I've added some new features to take advantage of our new ability for site membership.
GiANT Impact - Minimalist company site; this one will go through several revisions.
Spent some time this afternoon getting our Flickr account up-to-date with photos we have taken throughout the summer. Here's what's new - over 280 photos in 9 new photosets. You can access them directly via the links below, or by visiting our Flickr profile: ]]>
Finished reading Clusters: Creative Mid-Sized Missional Communities this morning. This book was co-authored by Bob Hopkins and Mike Breen and birthed out of the journey of a number of churches seeking to reach people in a post-Christendom UK.