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This is How to Get Stuff Done…

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 No Comments

Quite a while ago, it came to our attention that Crosslands Community Dinner was short one speaker stand.  One speaker was on a stand; the other was on a table or something.  So Wade went and bought another speaker stand for them.  But because he doesn’t have time to get out to the Community Dinner [...]

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Hidden Abilities?

Thursday, December 17, 2009 No Comments

This past Sunday, we presented a new watch to our intern Jon, who had just finished up his required fall internship with us.  This has become something of a tradition at Crosslands Church.  It wasn’t until a couple of weeks ago that I found out that Pastor Doreen had always bought the watches for the [...]

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Another Opportunity Missed

Thursday, November 12, 2009 1 Comment

Since our office walls don’t go all the way to the ceiling, we have at least three methods of inter-office communication within our main office:  telephone intercom, internet messaging (including email), and simply yelling over the wall.  Since yelling over the wall involves the least work, that’s usually the default option.  What happens, of course, [...]

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Going for coffee…

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 3 Comments

And so I went to coffee with David today and we had a cool conversation for about an hour.  I was surprised again to find out that some people are surprised to find out that we go out for coffee with people from the church (or not from the church), sometimes at the drop of [...]

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The rat…

Thursday, November 5, 2009 2 Comments

Okay, so we have this little rubber rat in the office. The game is to hide the rat somewhere so that somebody will be startled by it. When Vance was around regularly we’d get him almost every week. Some people in the office are tough to crack but I got Wade by stuffing it in [...]

Category: Around the office