Dianna goes to our church and she gave her testimony last month. I’ve seen hundreds of testimonies, but hers was different. She made a bunch of poster board sized signs chronicling her life. When it came time for her to talk, she didn’t talk, she played music and walked around holding each sign up, one by one. It was very powerful.
We usually record our church messages for our pod cast, but with her testimony, there wasn’t anything to record, so I took her signs and made this video. While I think it is still powerful and moving, nothing beats having seen this in person.
Time for some local politics here at WunderKraut.com.
A local County sent out an RFP for engineering services at the request of one of the cities in the County. The scope was to do detailed engineering studies to change the FEMA flood maps. There are a total of 88 houses affected by the new maps, 60 of which are in the City.
So the County sent out RFP’s. Our firm submitted on it, but came in 2nd in the evaluation. It happens. You win some, you lose some.
The rubber hit the road the other night when the question of how to fund the $74,400 project came up. The County scraped together half of the funds and then went to the City to get the other half.
Leesburg Mayor Jim Quinn, who told the Council Tuesday “some of the houses (affected) are in Leesburg, but all of them are in Lee County,” said Wednesday the Council’s action was not meant as a swipe at the county.
It’s funny that when it’s time to divvy up Sales Tax funds, the cities are all about getting their fair share since they are their own thing and all. Then when the hat is passed for a project which overwhelmingly benefits the City, they want to pretend that they aren’t a city but just citizens of the County.
Bummer that they aren’t funding the project. Even though we didn’t get selected, it is a very needed and worthwhile project for the City and the County.
Hopefully, they will reconsider and come up with the funds.
It seems the Turks have a fondness for debating the merits of Concrete Roads vs Asphalt Roads, noble people the Turks. Visitor 301,711 to my humble blog entered in through a link from this Turkish forum
Anyway, they keep linking to the definitive blog post on the matter…mine…found here.
I re-read it today.
Thing of beauty.
The best part was the Marshmallow Creme vs Vanilla Creme epic battle which erupted in the comments.
I do believe that the issue was settled once and for all once Peep Cthulhu showed up on the scene.
I was listening to NPR’s Performance Today while on the way to the bank yesterday. Most of the show was dedicated to Frédéric Chopin, on his 200th birthday. They had Rob Kapilow on who asked, “What makes him great?”.
I learned a bunch about music from just listening to the interview. I realized that I miss a bunch when I listen to classical music. I guess its just easier to enjoy the music, but often times there is a ton of stuff going on in the background.
Take the time and listen to the interview. Of course I had to buy some Chopin, including this delightful piece:
Nate and I were chatting the other day about which superpowers we would want. Both of us would want to fly, be invisible and have super strength. We differed in that he wants X-Ray vision and I want to be able to walk through walls.
