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Hey Everyone -

It’s Monday evening … bookkeeping night for my biz. Joy and I have this routine for Mondays … I get home from church, we do dinner pretty early, and she takes off to do the week’s grocery shopping (or at least, most of it) while I get the kitchen cleaned and get the kids to bed. Then, I start on my books and before you know it, it’s time to crash.

It’s been a long, busy day so I just kinda felt like “blogging” .. just go clear my head before I start into this bookkeeping session.

1. Tonight, I helped JM with his homework. 1st Graders never had homework in my day. JM has it every night. He has a folder full of work to makeup from missing school for our vacation. But, it was the first time we’d ever sat down and done “real homework” together. It was a special moment for me.

2. Tonight is probably the last Monday night that I have to do my QuickBooks on my laptop … ’cause I ordered a brand spankin’ new Mac Pro today … (yes, Dave … we paid cash!). For an internet/computer guru, it’s horrific how old my studio computer is. I think it’s nearly 8 years old. I’m upgrading from my old Power Mac G4 Dual 1Ghz MDD to a new Mac Pro 4-core with 2 Dual-Core 2.66 Intel Xeons, 3GB of Ram … finally, I hope to not have “you are running out of CPU horsepower – please disable some plugins” messages when multi-tracking in ProTools. Robert – I ordered it from Gary @ MacMall.Com … and he thanked me for sending you to him, and apologizes that your new Mac still hasn’t shipped, and that I’ll get mine in 3 days.

3. “Restore My Heart” is on IndieHeaven.Com’s FanFaves charts. Please show your support and vote for it daily. I opted to not announce it when I added it last week, and it’s climbed into the 60′s all by itself. Praise God.

4. Joy doesn’t feel good … she’s all stopped up, didn’t sleep well, and sounds rough. Pray for her.

5. We are doing “For the Love of Money” by O’Jays for the walk-in song the next two Sundays during our “Money Matters” message. I think I’ll ditch the verses about women selling their bodies and “laying down, laying down” for money. True, but maybe not church lyrics … but the rest of the lyrics are pretty good – even for church.

6. I’ve got a bunch of Worship Leader stuff I want to blog about, but can’t seem to find the time. But on the radar is a new “Worship Leader Pitfalls” post … “what every worship leader does NOT want to hear” … and a video walk through of PlanningCenterOnline.

7. It’s been a few weeks since I last visited our church’s construction site – a 74,000 ft2 facility that is going to be unlike ANYTHING in this region. God has really entrusted a lot to us at SSCC – and it intimidates me a bit, and I know I have to be faithful and PRAY like never before.

8. Joy and I host our first small/home group meeting next Sunday night … we’re excited about the couples who are joining us, and will be kicking off with Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University.

9. speaking of Dave Ramsey …. I’ve been meaning to blog this separately .. .and maybe I still will .. but I just can’t stand it any longer … after many years of living in debt, and after kicking off Jan 1, 2006 with a passionate, aggressive strategy to “work the plan” according to Dave Ramsey, $55,000 in corporate and personal debt later …

10. with the exception of our home mortgage ….. WE’RE DEBT FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Man, that felt good!

Time to get to work.
Fred