Here are a two videos we recorded a couple years ago. They are excellent to take some time and go through - each is about an hour, so schedule some time!

What's in a Name

Flying Truth in Formation

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I was listening once again to Obama's address, and ran across this part once more:

We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.

What is more innocent than an unborn child?

Behold, we are that country. A house divided against itself can not stand.

We are completing the formatting of a new book - The Lamb in Chinese Simplified script. This, like most translations, has been in the works for quite some time. Sometimes it's a little discouraging working on a project, and when you get to this stage, you look at some files involved in the project dated back to June 2007.

Such is the case with my Interactive edition of The Stranger. I just burned a new version of the DVD and am now proofing that. But this project was on hold for a bit because of a new cover of the book, and then was delayed a little more because we re-worked the book by using more translations in the text (to help save us from paying royalties for quoting the Bible.) Looking back, it's better that we did wait and fix these other problems so all in all it's good.

You may have noticed this ‘test video’ below up for a while. We have found a new place to host our video, but it’s rather difficult to figure out the correct parameters to make it look good. One would think that the company hosting would have that figured out and instructions all over the place on how to do it. There are literally thousands of options when encoding video, and takes a while to weed through those finding something to work well. I’m happy to say that I have the whole Stranger series up, just not ready to actually use just yet.

However, when I used those same parameters on another video I edited, it didn’t look good at all. Go figure. Too many options, different software (just a newer version) and other changes make it very difficult trying to figure things out.

This past week has been involved with working on getting some books more ready for print (we are looking at 8 print jobs right now) as well as working on the Interactive edition of The Stranger.  We are close on this one, I need to re-burn the DVD with better quality audio, and hopefully that will be ready to proof-read a final time.

It’s been a full week, with some days having good progress, and others leaving me wonder if anything got accomplished! But all and all very thankful for the time / ability to be here at GoodSeed.

Just thought I better post some photos of the weather we’ve been having. Saturday I was home doing my finances, and it was around zero to start. So I wasn’t in a rush to get out. But around lunch time I had enough of being inside and looking at the bright blue sky outside, so grabbed the shoes and went up on Canfield.
Sunday, after church, went to see my buddy Dave. We shoed up to his cabin and hung out there for a bit. It was a good time to relax a bit.

I have been very blessed to be able to live close to where I work. It's just around a mile as the crow flies. And we know that crows don't fly straight. But with all the snow this year (over 5' in December, breaking all December records) I've enjoyed walking in instead of taking the truck or car. It's so different than driving or even riding a bike, in that it's very low tech. That is welcome after years of such a busy high tech living! It makes me think of how dependent we are on vehicles, and with lots of snow, things just come to a crawl. Just a nice way to unwind at the end of the day.

Times are busy around here. Some things listed below are left over from before, but none-the-less still a viable project. I would like to keep an update a little more current, but it does take time, and it's mostly all office work. (See my previous post: Not enough time -- and a record snow fall!)

Book printing - 7 books on the ready to print. Each requires a contract w/ the printer, having all the files complete and ready, money in place, quantity established, etc.

1. The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus, Edition 4 (on the press)
2. The Lamb - Portuguese
3. The Lamb - English
4. The Lamb - Luxembourgish
5. All That the Prophets have Spoken -- Arabic
6. The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus -- Interactive Edition
7. The Stranger on the Road to Emmaus -- Portuguese

4 Videos to finish / finalize / produce (each around 45 minutes):

1. Worldview Dynamics
2. The Power of a Biblical Narrative
3. The Power of Visual Aids
4. The Power of Prophetic History

Other things to do:

1. Finalize The Lamb - both Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional
2. Format books for Amazon's Kindle
3. Hook up a UPS in the office
4. Audiobooks - record / edit
5. Product photography for the web
6. Web maintenance, including helping get a new shopping cart up and running
7. Oversee warehouse

So, that's a quick look at where I am at right now in the scheme of things. It is a little overwhelming at times, but need to be faithful with the time I've been given. And it does get tough at times to keep focus.

Thanks to all of you who donate to allow me to be here, working full time, on these needed projects. Without your support, I would have to have a part-time job, which would make completing these tasks that much harder (and slower.) If you want to know more of how you can support me, check out this website: One-in-Sixty.