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]]> Pastor's Husband http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=179 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:32:17 -0400 http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=176
As a service to my fellow Mitch Ross's, here's some of the more notable people who you might be looking for. I plan on keeping this post current with regular updates. At the very least, it may help weary Google travelers to find the right person they're looking for.
]]> Cool Stuff http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=176 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:45:13 -0400 http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=174 That's my boyToday on the way home, I got a phone call. The first person on the line was my 4 year old son.

Dada? I wanna play shooting game.
(translation: he wants to play an arcade game called Assault we have in the basement)

So when I got home, we played the game. Moma had to run off to lead a Bible study, so it was guy night at home. My son plays the first few levels, then he insists that I take over.

Today, for the first time in years, I won the last level in our favorite arcade game. I'm not sure who was more excited...

After that, it was bed time. All the way he was talking about "we won!" and "we got the next level!"
At the door to his bedroom, we had a little conversation:

Dada? Am I 5?
No son, you're 4.
Dada, are you 5?
No, I'm 35.
I wanna be 35.
Why?
I wanna be like you.
[[big hug]]

It was hard not to cry.

]]> Geek Dad http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=174 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:45:38 -0400 http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=172
Go check out "My Wife is a Youth Pastor".

Also check out "Married To A Youth Pastor". Not a PH blog, but there's enough youthful energy over there to make it a fun read.





]]> Pastor's Husband http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=172 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:56:01 -0400 http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=169 Cheap brass padlocksA while back I rented a storage unit. There's tons of these places around, so one is as good an another, right? I stored some stuff there. Time went by. I paid on time. Every now and then, I would go to the unit and slowly move stuff back out.

What could possibly go wrong?

Well, one day I dropped by with my truck & trailer, ready to do a major move out from my storage unit.

I pull up to my unit, and... that's odd, that's not my lock. I tried the key anyway, just for kicks. Obviously it didn't work.]]> General http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=169 Sat, 7 Jun 2008 21:43:13 -0400 http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=168 Bucket of flowersEach year for Mother's day, our church has been doing something cool. We go out on the streets and give out flowers. Each flower has a tag that says "Happy Mother's Day from The Assembly". No invite, no "Are you going to heaven?". On the back of the card, in small print is our address.

This year we gave out 350 flowers in about 2 hours. Groups of people leave them on door handles, and in person to any people we see. One year we stood in a grocery store parking lot, handing them out to cars as they pulled out.

We find that mid-way through each year's give away, people are tracking us down to get a flower!

Of course, about 2% of the people we meet think we're selling them or have other nefarious motives, and turn us down.

The vast majority are surprised and happy. And that's the point.
]]> Pastor's Husband http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=168 Wed, 28 May 2008 21:06:12 -0400 http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=167 scaleRecently my employer had an on-line "health & wellness" program, which included a form where you fill out stats about yourself, and it gives back a proposed diet & exercise plan. I entered my stats. Height, weight, gender, yadda, yadda.

According to the first steps of their analysis, they said that I was moderately active and slightly underweight. That's not news to me - I've never in my life weighed over 145 lbs.

I went through the rest of the on-line process, and it had a plan all laid out for me. The web site was going to change my lifestyle for the better. Change my diet this way, exercise that amount, and after 12 months I should reach my goal of losing 18 pounds.

Wait a minute - I'm underweight, and they want me to lose 18 pounds?!?]]> General http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=167 Mon, 26 May 2008 21:42:55 -0400 http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=166 Tessellated Geek! With a name that cool, you just know there's good stuff over there.

Check out his site, he's got some good stuff there already. Be sure to check out his "My Wife's Sermons are powered by chocolate" posts.

Right now, that makes just 3 total of us Pastor's Husbands that I know about. As always, if you know of any others, drop me a line. I'd love to link to them!

]]> Pastor's Husband http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=166 Sat, 24 May 2008 06:00:00 -0400 http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=165
It's a program to calculate the total size of files, by directory, for your whole drive. At the time it was something that was very difficult to do, and I could only find 1 other program that even came close to the functionality I wanted.

Well, the years passed, and I never did port it to Windows. There are now a lot of very good utilities out there that do a better job.

My last release was in June of 2000 - and shortly later I released the whole thing (with Turbo Pascal source code) into the public domain.

In the interest of allowing anyone who might still be interested in STREE, I've got links to the last released version with source below.
]]> General http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=165 Fri, 23 May 2008 23:25:26 -0400 http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=164
Over on the right side, see that "Top Rated" list of posts? Some of those were posts that I thought were under-appreciated, so I gave them a single vote of "10". My thinking was that the next person to come along would vote them down to a more realistic rating. I know not all of those "10" posts I made deserve a "10" status.

Having said that, I see that several people have been rating posts out there as 10's - thanks for vote of confidence!

Here's what I'm looking for. Check out some of those best posts, and rate them with what you really think the quality is. I want the real best to float to the top- not just the ones I liked. Some readers have been entering ratings - thank you! Keep going! But for those of you who haven't yet....

Please, tell me I'm lame. Vote up the good stuff, and down the lame stuff.

]]> General http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=164 Thu, 22 May 2008 06:00:00 -0400