E-bay Has Made Me A Winner

Why is it that winning on e-bay is so thrilling? Am I going to become an addict? I mean, as we speak I have 2 different wins being delivered to me and it's exciting... Products that are going to make my computer a happier friend to work with. Winning on e-bay is going to make my life a better place. I'll be able to shut myself off from the rest of the people in the bubble where I live in (some people might call it a community) and just check my e-mail and read about current events and talk to people through messenger and win more stuff on e-bay. A friend and I were looking for clothes and found some pretty cool stuff. I don't have to buy crap in the shops! I could even start placing orders at the Tesco website and have them deliver it so I would never have to leave my room. Like ever. And I wouldn't be completely anti-social; I have a room mate. And if she gets a wireless card, SHE can stay in the room all day long and order stuff from Tesco and e-bay and we can talk to each other on MSN messenger and look at cool clothes together and leave messages on each other's blogs! Maybe I'll meet someone online and get a virtual marriage certificate and once we collect enough money in our joint Paypal account I can move halfway across the world to Micronesia, or whever my on-line dreamboat is from, and I'll take my computer with me; a change of scenery would do us both some good, I think. Carry on from inside a set of 4 new walls with my new marriage-Messenger buddy who will always be on-line when I need him.

This is how Shut-Ins are born, isn't it?

From a Window in Closkelt....

(I will be arrogant enough, once again, to believe my photography is any good and invite you to enjoy the results.)

This afternoon, instead of preparing lessons, I took pictures of the queer weather. The scenery through my window changes from minute to minute and today I saw about 100 different scenes... The weather is so sketchy here sometimes. In an hour it can rain 6... 7 times? Probably more.

I normally take sunny pictures. But I wanted to see what kind of majick I could work with my precious digital camera through my window in the rain. How's that for double the challenge?

...in other news...

Got my passport back from immigration this morning. Both the British government and God have agreed to let me stay here in Northern Ireland till 2007...
Can't ask for much more than that as a sign, can you?

"Community Ministry"

This is the big fancy term I've come up with for the group of people I'm hoping to lead over the next 2 years whose responsibility is to find a place in the local community to serve, encourage, belong to and love people around us. We're a bunch of vagabonds who are hoping to put the "commie" -er, I mean, "UNITY" in Community.



Here are the first 3 brave souls to commit to this complicated project full time.




Mikael Kristansen, a Norwegian American who dwelled for some years in the sunny granolaville of Boulder Colorado, demanding rights for Mulberry Tree termites, pelting naysayers with fair trade chocolate chips that melt in your mouth, not in your hand, and can be used again and again!







Candice Rogers, from the actual OC in California. She's even funner than she looks.




Julisa Smith, a theatre major from Washington has dreamed of winning not only the state pageant, but the Miss America pageant with her original, thespian piece entitled, "Look Giapetto! I'm a Real Boy or Girl!"