New Car?

So it looks like my van (1995 Chrysler Grand Voyager) is at the end of the line (lose bearing in the differential of the transmission-does that make sense?). Jonathan said I should "run it to the ground." He might be right.

Anyway, it seems like I will have to go car shopping. Here's what I think would be best but feel free to post your opinions (you guys are so verbose, it is hard to keep you down): I want the car to last for the next 10 years with only a few repairs; decent gas mileage; at most 2 years old; and somewhere in the cost of $10,000 - $20,000.

So what car should I buy? *help* *help*

Walk the Grand Prix

If you live in South Bay, please consider registering for and donating your time to walk around the Grand Prix track, bringing awareness to the Prevention of Cancer.

Here is what is said about it:

This is the first year public access will be granted on the track before Champ Cars! Be the first to walk one lap around the Redback Raceway as soon as it is closed to vehicular and through traffic on Wednesday, July 25. Tell your friends you were on the same racetrack the Champ Drivers will whirl down at speeds over 180 mph on Race Day!

This twilight memorial walking lap will symbolically “Light The Way” as we recognize the strides being made in the early detection of cancer.

Learn how the Canary Foundation is affiliated with the San Jose Grand Prix, and the urgency of supporting this important work.

Preliminary Event Flow (subject to change)

7:00 – 7:45 pm Check-in, Registration

7:45 – 8:00 pm Canary Foundation Introduction

8:00 pm Enter track at Chavez Park gate (Market Street & Park Avenues)

8:00 – 8:45 pm One Memorial Lap walked on the Redback Raceway

8:45 pm Event officially ends

Sign up here! I'll be there and I hope see some friends.

Adventuring through iTunes ... again

So last April 2006, my hard drive on my PowerBook died totally. I had a three year warranty that allowed me to get it replaced with a new one for free (yippee!) but I lost everything that I had collected during the three years that I had it, including over 4,000 songs on my iTunes. Now I am trying to bring my iTunes back up to speed. Today I broke 2,000 and I still have over 200 CDs in the basement to bring up and copy. I think this will take the rest of summer. I also might copy some of my dad's CDs.

*Happy 4th of July!*

"It is interesting, as someone has pointed out, that every single religion known to man is a religion of works -- except the Gospel of Jesus Christ! Hinduism tells us that if we renounce the world and relate ourselves to the 'spirit of the universe,' we will at last find our way to peace. Buddhism sets before us eight principles by which man is to walk and thus find himself on the way to salvation. Judaism says we must keep the Law absolutely and inflexibly and then we will be saved. Islam says that a man must pray five times a day and give alms and fast on the month of Ramadan and obey the commands of Allah. All are ways of works. Unitarianism says that man is saved by having good character. Modern humanism says salvation is by service to mankind. But in every case salvation is said to be achieved by something we have to do. But the good news of the Gospel is that Christ has done it! He alone has done what no man can do for himself and thus has set us free.... True freedom is to be expressed in loving service for one another. This is truly life."

Ray Stedman, Galatians: Don't Submit Again to the Slave's Yoke (DP #249)

I love my life of freedom in Christ. I love being free and empowered by the Holy Spirit to love people even when my own nature challenges this blessing. It is a worthy cause and I am most honored to pursue it.