Assorted thoughts for mid-January 2009

I don't know whether I want to listen to Obama's inaugural speech tomorrow. There won't be anything he will say to change my opinion--I did not vote for him--and I will probably only feel worse hearing all he wants to do to our country.
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Spent the last two weeks preparing our church's annual report. We went electronic this year, mainly to cut costs, but since all but five members have email, we created PDF files of everything and emailed them. Now we need to figure out how to post documents for download from our website.
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We purchased the license to show the movie Fireproof throughout 2009 (our CVLI license does not cover it). Our small group is going to plan three showings in March, which we will open to the community "on behalf of the church in Littleton" so it's not an "our church" thing. I hope we can kick off two or three small groups from the movie, using the follow-up discussion material.
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Last summer I read Bill Hybels' book Axiom. One of his axioms is "Six by Six." Every six weeks, he selects six objectives/goals/projects he works on for that period. Bill works long days, much longer than I do or can, but I've been thinking that it may be a good idea to implement something like it this year for me. Maybe "Four by Six." I already have one thing completed two weeks into January (annual report). Number two: performance evaluations...(oh goody!)