A Small Faith

Miracle Max: Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there’s usually only one thing you can do.
Inigo Montoya: What’s that?
Miracle Max: Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

Like poor Westley, I think our blog is on the verge of being miscategorized. But there may still be some life left in it yet. All we need now is a chocolate-coated miracle pill…

I’d like to say that we were on sabbatical or fasting technology or some such spiritual gobbledygook as that. I can’t speak for the others, but the truth is that I just had nothing to say. Well, that I could put on the blog anyway. There were some choice things I could have said but discretion and all that.

What about 2009? How about an honest I don’t know? I think the blogging part of my brain(it’s in there, really) has atrophied and I’ll need to figure out how to use it again. I want to keep it up. I think it’s good for me. But we’ll see what the future holds.

Oh, Happy New Year!

Well, according to Sitemeter we broke the 1000th visitor mark this week(Woohoo!). Don’t know how much stock to put in this as our built in AWStats package shows over 1400 visitors in August alone. I know that it includes hits from feed readers and stuff that Sitemeter doesn’t count but it’s still a pretty big discrepancy. Who knows? I guess all I can say for sure is that the trend is towards more visits and for that we thank everyone who takes the time to drop by. And a special thanks to those who’ve linked to is in various places : Tulipgirl, Ilona, Rey, Lynn, anyone else I forget?

What else? Hmmm……

Since Reon’s IQ post, the single largest search that brings visitors here has been something to do with crayola. Nothing else even comes close. The funny thing is that of the 95 searches, about 70 of them are using www.bhg.com/crayola as the search term instead of going directly to the site.

Reon also has the most views on a single post. Here’s how the top 5 break down :

• Ode to the Daddies & Husbands – 285
• What’s Your Child’s IQ? – 90
• Fourteen and counting – 81
• When a Door Isn’t – 67
• A tangle of questions… – 60

Of course, this only measures how many people went to that post directly. It can’t tell how many read a post on the main page so it’s not entirely accurate.

Ok, enough of this. Get on with your weekend and as always, “be careful out there”.

I’ve been thinking about topics that I’d like to blog about, so I thought I would make a list. That way, at least I would have somewhere to start when I get a case of blogorrhea. Plus, I’m sure I’ll make Reon especially happy since she loves lists.

Finance
1. Mvelopes
2. Budgeting
3. The cost of Houses

Sports
1. Something about Golf…
2. Something else about Golf…
3. Substance abuse in Golf??? lol…
4. Golf as an Analogy for Life

Theology
1. Our view of the Bible
2. The purpose of prayer
3. God’s will
4. My view of Church
5. The role of Women, Elders, Sound Technicians, etc…. in the Church.
6. Giving
7. Church Buildings
8. Ministries and their use of money
9. Why I have all the answers…

Technology
1. Google Rocks
2. Apple
3. SalesForce

Well, there is my first list. I’m sure I’ll add to it later. What do you think? Any requests from the audience as to which one I should address first? Any suggestions for other topics? I’m open and flexible…just couldn’t decide which one to do first, so I thought I would at least try to get organized. Once again, more brownie points from my wife….

Welcome to A small Faith!

This is a grand experiment of a few ordinary people. We have high hopes for what this can become, but we’re starting small. Please feel free to have a look around, and be sure to come back soon. We’ll be adding new things (and completing what has already been started) as we get rolling.

-the AsF gang