My life group

My life group is several young married couples.
We eat and talk about a lot of things, and share life together.
Everyone needs a group like this.

Here are some words and topics we discussed from 6-9:30pm tonight.

vasectomies
universal health care
welfare
labor contractions
water birth

contraceptives
government mandatory parenting classes

should we use tupperware?
father's day comedian
socialism
marxism
james's petting zoo
nature versus nurture
core weekend
mandatory neutering
catheter
shoulder length gloves
First Assembly church planting in Arthur?
white middle class
Is wifi harmful to our bodies?
Should we watch the One Prayer small group dvd?
arthur days flooding.
james acting like mark twain.
dorm roommates
handicap people.
wondering if travis' voice is higher now?
wayne
fast rocker or slow rocker for a baby swing
evan's blog
part time model outside washing boat
700lb man
parking at eiu
feminists

Speaking at Experience

Katie and I are speaking at a Jr. High retreat in St. Louis at the end of the month.
We are pumped.

Everything is Spiritual.

I know.
I know.
This is so 2006.
But I finally just watched Everything is Spiritual by Rob Bell last week.
It is incredible.

He takes complex issues and makes them simple.



Have you seen it?
What did you think of it?

Jak Prints Emailed Me.

Evan,

First I would like to apologize for my demeanor earlier. I had already made up my mind on the course of action I would take before even speaking to you. This was an judgement error on my part. I failed to assess the situation from a customers viewpoint and was more concerned with policy and protocol. As soon as we hung up the phone I knew I had made the wrong decision.

In order to try and make things "right" I have upgraded your shipping priority, these will arrive on 6/6 as you requested.

I fully understand if you no longer wish to do business with Jakprints again. If you do decide to place a future order I would like to extend a future order discount of $125. Just shoot me an email if and when you place that order and I will take care of the discount.

Thanks

Josh Arnold

My bad experience with Jak Prints

I've been going thru Jak Prints for whenever I needed promotional postcards printed for different events.
They are cheap and have a good turnaround time.
I've always have been fairly pleased with them.

But.
The latest order I sent in was for some dated material for our promotional postcards for our Father's Day event at First Assembly.
I uploaded the artwork, ordered the cards no problem.
Eight days later the postcards show up.
I open the box to look them over and to get ready to pass them onto our team that was going to label, stamp, and mail them that day.

But.
When I opened the box, I noticed they looked a little odd.
*ats where the problem came in.

So, I called JakPrints.
Here was their solution.
"Send back a couple of the postcards back to us, so that we can verify they are 3" instead of 3.5", and if so, we will do a reprint."
So we did that.

5 Days later.
When I logged into my JakPrints account today, I noticed they started production on the postcards again, so I immediately called about the date I would have them in my hands.
They said they would do standard shipping and I would have them in my hands on Monday, June 9th, 10 days after the initial postcards were in my hands.

3.5"


3.0"

I then asked for the supervisor, and here was our conversation. Paraphrased

Me: "I ordered the postcards, you cut them wrong, and now I'm 10 days behind, can't you overnight them?"
Supervisor: "You only paid for standard shipping."
Me: "I paid for 3.5" tall postcards and got 3"."
Supervisor: "But you didn't put a rush on them the first time."
Me: "Exactly, because I planned out enough time, so I didn't have to rush. Now I'm 10 days behind on a dated event."
Supervisor: "Sorry we don't do that."
Me: "I guess I will switch all of our printing to Vistaprints for now on."
Supervisor: "Ok"

Who do you use to print with?

*UPDATED*- Jak Prints emailed me. I posted it here.

Signs You May Need to Get a Life

I edited this to from the Joy of Tech comic here.

My One Prayer

Our church joined with the global teaching series One Prayer.

This Sunday I kicked off the series at First Assembly with my prayer "Make Us Selfless." Listen here.

Here are my notes. I used a technique called mind mapping. It worked great.