Bloggers to the Rescue, Chuck Sigars, and Hotmail Liberation
The blog world and my real life have been coming together in strange ways lately. Matt Sturges of "Correction" lives just north of Austin and has become a very close friend of mine. He drove down to San Antonio today to hang out with me and talk about everything. That's what Matt and I do when we get together. We talk about everything. While we were talking, I got a call from Michael Main, aka Pepe, aka a deacon at my church, whose car had broken down.
I told him not to worry, bloggers were on the way to help him. We picked him up and drove him to his house. No biggie. We bloggers stick together.
Coincidentally, Chuck Sigars from "The World According to Chuck" was in Texas this weekend and drove all the way down to San Antonio just to have Mexican food with Michael and I and to go to church at Covenant. We got a picture of the three of us on the front porch of our church.
Chuck and I have enjoyed an email friendship. Like many of you, he found his way to Michael's blog from mine. Now the two of them have become friends. It was GREAT seeing him in person. We took him to a very authentic Mexican restaurant near my home where the menu is in English and Spanish. I'm sure he'll write about the food and the encounter.
Blogging has brought me rich encounters with many people and numerous real live friendships. Amazing.
Finally, a word about my hotmail account. I've written before about my struggles keeping up with email. I get my share of emails and have a serious commitment to respond to all of them. It's just that sometimes I get behind. I had about thirty emails in my hotmail inbox. It was bugging me, and I promised myself I'd handle them when I got back from Colorado. In the meantime, I've setup a new email address at my domain, RealLivePreacher.com. I planned to answer those emails and then phase out the hotmail account. I hate hotmail for a variety of reasons.
When I got back in town, I opened hotmail to find that my inbox was wiped clean. I didn't lose the hundreds and hundreds of emails I have saved in a complex series of folders, but everything in the inbox was gone. I have no idea how this happened. You have to be very deliberate to delete emails from hotmail, and I didn't. I'm sorry to say that I was sort of relieved. I mean, there's nothing I can do about it, right? So if you wrote me and never heard from me, sorry about that. I try my best.
Now that the girls are back in school, I got to spend a couple of hours writing today. Tomorrow is a writing day as well. I'm thrilled to be back in the saddle.
rlp
10:04:42 PM 
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