COURSE-PLOTTING
Friday, June 20, 2014
From ISBE, the definition to our title: (1) εὐθυδρομέω, euthudroméō, “forward or onward movement,” as of a ship: “We made a straight
course” (Act_16:11; compare Act_21:1); “We had finished our course.” (the
Revised Version (British and American) “voyage,” Act_21:7).
From actual events of June 7th thru 19th
defining is a different tale:
Leaving Omaha for
Maryland, we forgot not one single item, and having traveled the course
numerous times there should be no problems, but things did not go precisely as
planned.
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We are now expert orange cone drivers. (Hundreds
of miles each way.)
·
Learned GPS devices will often lead astray.
(Knowing how to go we would turn her on
to hear/see what she had to say.
Especially funny was her telling us
firmly that we missed or made wrong turn.)
·
We now know how to drive underwater. (Lost count
of times and durations going east. Three occasions of 30-45 minutes each
returning west.)
·
Traffic on high speed interstate highways at
times goes low speed 5 to 25 mph or moves not at all.
·
Interstate drivers are comparatively kinder than
city drivers.
·
Paid high of $4.10 for fuel in one state.
·
Paid outrageous 17 dollars tax for hotel room in
another state.
·
AAA membership discounts saved us far above
yearly cost of 95 dollars.
·
Shandree now can identify wall clouds (3 times)
and potential fingers reaching for earth. (Too many to count. Plus now know how
big her eyes can get.)
But the most
serious course change had to do with DTs. My deciding to continue writing
daily, I purchased big book laptop which my tech pal setup and tested before
departure. The silver beast had other ideas. Even after several resets over
period of days by expert it would not cooperate.
Was this really a
PC problem, or the Lord’s intervention?
In the weeks
prior to leaving several respected elders mine advised taking time off from DT-ing.
What is your experience-based
opinion on the matter? EBB4
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