Tim's Birthday

It was Tim's Birthday today.

What did he want as a present? Just some lengths of steel to finish the lining of his "apartment" or "shed" as we more accurately describe it.

After a suitably geek dinner of KFC and Vienetta ice cream which we shared with Alex, his day was made complete by the arrival of James. They proceeded to pull all the paper rollers out of our laser printer and scrub them clean to (hopefully) rectify our frustrating paper jam issues. After that they moved on to doing something terrible to a disused Mac computer with the long-term goal of turning it into a fish tank- as you do.

We had a terrible time with technology yesterday- the laser printer refused to print anything, the photocopier was also reluctant to copy things (paper jam issues also), the network card in the projector computer had to be replaced and the projector bulb popped just before we started night church. I think the Devil was pushing a few buttons. I think everything sort of got fixed along the way although we might need to use a projector from school next Sunday as the bulb won't get here until after the weekend.

When I first started ministry we thought a spirit duplicator was pretty nifty. When we first came to Narrabri mobile phones were still a novelty. We couldn't have imagined the technology that we now take for granted.

I think Tim had a happy day. And if the printer starts behaving itself it will have been a useful day :)

Another Tim triumph today. Our phone system started misbehaving. For some reason standard phones on the system such as cordless phones, the fax machine etc were not ringing when they should. Tim tried the standard technical fix- turn it off then back on. That didn't solve the problem so he opened the control box and looked at the electronics. Then he closed it and it all works again. I don't know how he does it!

Also, I found time to plant some pea seeds. I think, along with corn, peas are my favourite home-grown vegetable. :chef: