Eugene and Heidi

I had a surprise visit from my brother Eugene and his wife Heidi this week. They were here just one night, stopping by on their way to Georgia. It was good to catch up with them a little bit. We spent most of Monday evening trying to get Eugene’s new (never used) wireless PCI card to access the internet via my dial-up connection shared over wireless. It took most of the evening, and finally I decided that going from my Dell’s dial-up connection, over ethernet to my PowerBook, and then to Eugene’s laptop over wireless, was too complicated. So I switched things around so my PowerBook was on the dial-up directly, and it worked great.

Here’s a picture of the happy couple:

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SEYC

On the weekend of March 17-19, I attended the second annual South Eastern Youth Conference (SEYC) in Collegedale, Tennessee, on the campus of Southern Adventist University. This was my first SEYC experience, and I was eagerly anticipating it.

With the help of my friends the Santos family, I found a hotel not far from campus, which I shared with Samuel Santos. We arrived late Friday night, maybe 30 minutes or so into the main meeting. The featured speaker was Mark Finley of It Is Written, and all of his messages were excellent. I also enjoyed seminars by Dr. Ron Clouzet, who is a faculty member of SAU and previous guest speaker at the General Youth Conference (GYC) meetings. The messages were clear and powerful, and I felt blessed spiritually to be there.

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