Belated Seminary News
Greetings from lovely Fort Wayne, Indiana! Many of you will be receiving these updates for the first time as I finally (!) cleaned up my address book and added those who wished to be added. If any of you would prefer to not receive my periodic updates, let me know. Most importantly our new information is in the signature line. This includes new address and phone number. Our cell phones will work until Aug 15th, at which time they will be terminated. For those of you who missed it before, I will attach the listing from MLS for the home. We liked the home when we first saw it and have found few flaws we can't correct. Speaking of corrections, Anne and the kids were out of town on Saturday picking blueberries, so I spent from Friday at 6 pm until they got home on Saturday at 6 pm putting in dedicated 20 amp circuits for the computer, the home theater, and the stereo. I still need to replace a good portion of knob and tube but I will wait until winter when the attic is tolerable. In addition, I ran CAT5e from the TiVO to the computer and interconnect the voice-over-IP to the home telephone infrastructure (well mostly). Its loads of fun doing this in a 100 year old house! Many have asked how Greek is going. Well, by their scale I am doing great with an average of 91.7% before today's quiz. I seem to do well on the quizzes which keeps my score up. I didn't do as well I as I could have on the midterm (88.5%) but it only dropped by score 2.5%. The score at this point is inconsequential as it is pass fail. I do use my score to judge my knowledge of the material and I know I could do better. Of course, in the last two weeks we have moved, switched from bachelor life to family life, and done a good amount of housing and other trivial billing and licensing issues. Thankfully the class is transitioning from practice sentences into a majority of actual greek readings from the new testament. This helps provide proper motivation. Speaking of the move, we have mostly unpacked the important things. I have moved about 30 assorted boxes and bins to the basement on pallets. Most of this won't get unpacked. Don't ask why we are keeping it. A majority should be gone by vicarage in 2 years. If there is any consolation with our bare-bones financial status I won't be amassing nearly the possessions that we managed so far. Good friends have been made here and are offering positive support. Anne will miss the second in a series of barbecues on Sunday but the first was a dramatic success. Chris Yang, native to China, has two children @ 2 and 4 who match up well. Sam Needham, from Wheaton has a 9 month old who is coming of his own quickly. Gabriel and he get along well even though Jonah is now mobile apart from a rapid crawl. In the interest of studying I will leave you know. I will take questions and respond in due time. Chris
