Mental Note: In the future, don’t move into a new house during the beginning part of a semester.

OK, so we are emerging from the boxes and some rooms are actually partially set up, including my home office. Despite the rain the move went very well. I had a number of very good friends show up Saturday morning at 9 am to help move. I was able to upsize my the rental truck, so I had a 26 foot truck and friends brought three other pick-ups. We were pretty much finished the move at around 1:30 pm when we sat down to a feast prepared by my mother-in-law (it was a good thing we had pretty much finished since no felt like carrying much after lunch!).

Well, I need to do some work for my courses. I will have to put some more pictures of the hosue and my new office soon.

My blog has been quiet lately, due in part to the beginning of semester crunch but more recently due to the fact that we take possession of our new house tomorrow.

Suffice it to say that our current house is in a bit of disarray with boxes and piles everywhere! Everyone is pretty excited about the new home. I’m happy that I will actually have some pretty neat space for my home office and library and my kids are estactic that they will have their own rooms. All of us are happy that we will have a bit more space and a bigger backyard (complete with fire pit!). Here is a picture of our new house:

There will be a brief interruption in internet service, so I’m not sure how much blogging I will be doing the next few days. I have a couple posts in draft form that I may finish tonight, but I can’t promise anything!

OK, time to get back to packing…

I came across a reference to the “Jesus Diet” while reading the comments from Ed Cook’s blog entry on “Fat Yanks” and I couldn’t believe it!

The “Jesus diet” consists of (1) no pork; (2) a lot of fish and kosher foods generally; (3) “four legged meat” only occasionally; (4) lots and lots of bread (no low carb diets for Jesus!); (5) fruits, vegetables, grains, etc.; (6) good physical condition; and (7) [ample amounts of] beer and diluted wine.

I personally could lose some weight, so I was thinking I should cash in on the trend and start my own “biblical” diet craze. I was thinking about the “John the Baptist Diet” where you can eat all the locusts and honey you can handle. Or what about the “Ezekiel Dung Cooking Diet”? I imagine that if you had to cook all your meals over human dung, you would eat less! How about the “Holy Land Milk and Honey Diet”?

As you can see, my biblical diet craze still requires some more thought. I’ll have to ponder it over some beer and wings…

The first-ever “GodBlog” conference will be held at Biola University on October 13, 2005.

The conference will feature some blogosphere heavyweights including syndicated talk show host Hugh Hewitt, author of Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation that’s Changing Your World, whose personal blog draws more than 40,000 viewers per day. According to promotional material, GodBlogCon is designed to mobilize the Christian blogging community and to provide opportunities for Christian bloggers to think strategically about their role within the religious and political blogospheres.

Sounds interesting, though I would personally rather get together with other bibliobloggers during SBL if I had the choice. Unfortuantly, I will not be at SBL this year 🙁

Source: Newswise

I must of missed this discovery due to how busy I was starting a new semester and everything. It appears that another new Dead Sea Scroll was recently discovered and it puts an end to the spurious claims of The Da Vince Code. I think it’s great that Brown’s book has now been debunked once and for all!

Here is an except of the article:

Translators in Jerusalem have just finished work on another of the Dead Sea Scrolls. This one, known as the Gospel of Peter, covers the time period after the crucifixion and proves many of the allegations of Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code to be false.