Virtually Paul

Cars, Trains and Server Problems

October 13, 2006 on 11:21 am | In Church, Ministry, The Life of Paul, Youth Ministry |

Well, my valued readers, I’m writing this to you on a train into the city and I’m not very impressed. My car decided that it didn’t like the hot day so I pulled in to the mechanic up the road from work who seems to think that my radiator is 50 percent blocked. I’ve pretty much already decided to bite the bullet and trade it in for something else. Not The best timing given my looming study deadlines and the sermon that I’m preaching in less than 3 weeks, but having a car with a working exterior driver’s door handle would probably be really nice and convenient now that I think about it.

Of course, on the one day that I am without a vehicle, the server at work decided to drop a RAID disk, leaving me running the database repair tool on the email database until 7pm before I could leave the office knowing that all of the happy staff will be able to open Outlook in the morning without having their routines disrupted by an uncooperative error message. Business professionals without email access are not unlike 16 year old girls that don’t have any battery left on their hot pink flip phone. They tend to panic that someone cool might be trying to contact them and would gladly trade a 6 month subscription to Dolly/The Fin. Review to have everything working again. Luckily, they pay me and I fix it. It’s somewhat of a symbiotic relationship.

*switches to outbound Broadmeadows train*

It did mean that I’ll arrive late for the church meeting that’s on tonight with no dinner, having missed the pre-meeting prayer time that I was originally supposed to be organising until I passed it off to Heath at the last minute. The meeting should be interesting. It’s been advertised as a ‘Church Family Forum’ (also known as a Baptist Opinions Convention). The headline topic is what to do about our lack of a Youth Pastor while we still don’t have a Senior Pastor. Suffice it to say that I’ll be intrigued to hear the ideas from across the group.

I could really go for a steak sandwich about now. At least I’ll be able to get a lift home from church from one of my housemates.