The view from Budapest

This is total blog-plagiarism. I’ve been wanting to blog about this great article that appeared in the Orlando Sentinel. Since my close friend and partner in ministry here in Budapest, Jerry already blogged it and as I read his, I couldn’t have said it better. ===============================My friend, Rob, who started a blog about [...]

Well, the Aggies ran out of gas in the 2nd of half of last night’s showdown with Texas, but I’m not too disappointed with our effort against the #5 team in the nation on the road.

It did create a couple of bizarre plays. With 30 seconds to go in the half, I [...]

Well, our washing machine bit the dust on Tuesday. It stoppedspinning and the diagnosis was a bad part that is unavailable inHungary. It was the owner of our house’s and they purchased it in NewZealand so there wasn’t much chance of fixing it here.

We set out on Thursday to find a replacement. [...]

Blogger stopped working on my last week. It wouldn’t FTP to my websiteanymore. I don’t know what the deal is. It wouldn’t work all weekend,but all of sudden it started working today. I had sent an email to mywebsite techies. I think they fixed something and didn’t tell me.

Well, it started snowing this morning.  The first snow of the season.  Right now the kids are excited and there is excitement in the air.  Unfortunately, in a few short weeks or months, this excitement will wear off and the drudgery of bundling up to go out, sliding around in the car, and shoveling snow [...]

Everyone go by and welcome by brother-in-law, Grant English to the world of blogging. He is a student pastor at Grace Church in Little Rock and has some great insights and views. His blog is also connected to his new student ministry website. Go bye and say hi for me!

While researching mobile phones to replace my almost dead current phone, I found this. I can’t believe there is a big enough market for something like this. Also, if it wasn’t on Motorola’s website, I would think it was a joke, but here it is.

I’m thinking F16 fighter pilots can [...]

Last night was Kendall’s first performance of the musical Annie. Sheplayed the part of Molly, the youngest orphan. They did a great job andhad lots of fun doing it. Of course, Kendall stole the show. She hasanother performance tonight. Here’s a picture of Kendall and the otherorphans singing “It’s [...]

After 32 hours, Kirby Ann & I made it back to Budapest. All of theflights went well and while on our 10 hour layover in Zurich, we took atrain into town and saw the sights. We were both totally exhausted, butnevertheless, home. Here’s a picture of us at the airport as [...]

On Saturday I attended the football game between Texas A&M and Oklahoma.It was a wonderful day. The skies were blue . . . the atmosphere waselectric . . and I had great seats (thank you Mary Jane Alexander)!!I’m here to say that you can’t blame the Aggies’ loss on me. I havehardly been [...]