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I am finally back at home. While at SBL I missed my family and my study. While in SE Texas I missed my study. It is so nice to be able to sit in my super-groovy study room in my super-comfy recliner. So nice.
So yesterday began in a less than optimal way. I woke up, slumphed my way over to the shower in by sleepy stupor and turned on the water, waiting for it to get warm. It never did. Hmm... So I called the help desk and they explained that there was a fire outside the hotel and they were waiting on the city to tell them whether or not they could turn one of their boilers back on. Doh! So I had to go without my hot shower for the day. Not the best way to start.
I'm sitting in bed here in the hotel doing a little reading in two of my favorite purchases, the New English Translation of the Septuagint and Hengel's The Four Gospels and the One Gospel of Jesus Christ, and realize that I have some SBL updating to do. So here I am, giving you my summary of the happenings of Sunday. Later tonight or tomorrow morning I'll post on today's highlights.
Today was the first actual day of SBL for me. It began bright and early at 9:00 with the first meeting of the Computer Assisted Research section.
As I believe I have mentioned before, at FBC Parker we are working through the Gospel of Mark for Sunday School. I was planning on, and hoping, to teach Mark 3:20-35 but that Sunday fell this weekend while I am away at SBL. In lieu of teaching the pericope, I figured I would chat about it here.
Thankfully, the rest of the trip was without incident. I got on my plane and arrived in Boston on time. I then promptly checked into my room and got that hot shower that I had been needing. Then I tried to find a steak. After walking up and down Boylston several times (in 30 degree weather in high winds) without finding the Mortons I had heard was down there somewhere, I went to Smith and Wollensky and had that really nice birthday steak. And it was a good steak, though not as good as Papas Bros. They were nice enough to also bring me a birthday desert. Of course I just blew much of my food budget with that one meal, but I have a supply of pop tarts, snickers and chips to help keep the food cost down over the next few days :)
I tell ya, my fortunes have not been spectacular. It started with three weeks of little sleep. It continued with a B-Day yesterday that had a number of mishaps (was supposed to have a nice steak for lunch, we had an emergency release at work so I had to stay late on my birthday, dinner at the local brazilian churrascaria was not very spectacular, my hot water heater started leaking water profusely and I didn't get to bed till about 12:30 because of packing).
Just want you all to know that you have one more shopping day till my birthday, Nov 20th (Thursday). So far it looks like it is going to be a good day. I think I'm going to be eating steak for lunch (yum!) and that night I'm going to a local Brazilian Churrascaria where I will eat from a plethora, even a schmorgesborg, of various tasty meats. Yum! Yum!
It seems a bit meme-ish for Jim, but he just posted his desktop challenge. It sounded like fun, and it gave me a chance to show off my rockin' 1920x1200 resolution, so why not?
The death march at work is over. I actually got a decent night's sleep last night. I am now actually able to interact with the world. Woohoo! As my first act, I will now share some things I thought funny.
I will make a very brief mention of politics (I generally try to avoid it on the blog). Yesterday was an odd day for me. I have, in my brief time as a voter, always voted Republican. Yesterday I did not.
A lot of things, really. For example, they are all men. They all also created carbon dioxide, which is useful for plants. But beyond that, and perhaps more relevant, I received books by all of them in the mail today.
