Well, I've moved my blog yet again. I realized that, while wanting to maintain my blog, my website had also been neglected for the past five years. So, I've combined forces...my website is now my blog...and now both can be updated.

adamcarmichael.com

The previous website layout...

There's something soothing about freshly-roasted coffee beans...

Capped off a great birthday with a venture to Granite City Food & Brewery. Cool atmosphere, GREAT food and a few Growler refills! Thanks to my lovely wife who made it a special day...as well as the friends that joined us!

My reaction to Apple's sparkly new iPad?

I think it's a glorified iPod/iPhone. It does everything an iPod Touch does, removes the phone capabilities of the iPhone but adds the basics of a laptop with no camera. If a laptop requires a backpack or briefcase for travel, and an iPhone requires a pocket, the iPad needs a purse.....or..."man bag".


Realistically, it's Apple's answer to the NetBook movement as well as Amazon's Kindle 2. They just vamped it up a bit to do anything everyone else is doing...and do it better (looking).

At the same time, you can't strap it to your arm and go for a jog.

But it certainly keeps us cascading toward a Star Trek era.

Overall, not too exciting...and I don't plan on owning one.

I'd rather pair my MacBook Pro with an iPhone.

Quick little blip of what I've been working on. A topical series for 24-7 called Living a Life That Matters...

Erected some trussing, suspended some fabrics, hung some lights. Pretty.

A preview of the staging for Parkview's upcoming series...

The star from Christmas...

...simply built with steel framing and Christmas lights zip-tied to the steel.




Not exactly the Times Square New Year's ball, but it worked.

So, is 2010 being calling "twenty-ten" or "two-thousand-ten"?

Personally, I'd lean toward "twenty-ten" for several reasons:

1. It only makes sense...after evolving from the 1900's and calling it "nineteen eighty-nine", for example.

2. If Jesus hasn't returned yet, we could get to 2020 and call it "twenty-twenty".

3. If we stuck with "two-thousand", 2017 would have six syllables, and people would be tripping over their tongues.

4. "Twenty-hundred ten" just sounds ridiculous.

Footage from one of our Christmas services this year showing Jesus' (Logan's) inauguration.

Great Grandma Carmichael meets Logan for the first time.

It's amazing...my parents' German Shepherd, Seena, has some crazy maternal instincts. Any time she hears Logan cry, she tries tending to him. She is curiously drawn to him and has to investigate why her "puppy" isn't happy...yet she has had no litter herself.

Must be Logan's outfit that attracts Seena...

...I could find while Christmas shopping...right in front of the store...

The "Here With Us" video I produced for our Christmas services this past weekend. One-month-old Logan takes the lead role with Holly playing Mary.

After reaching one month of age, Logan now gears up for his first major role as Jesus in our church services this coming weekend. He's the centerpiece of a song video, and these are some pics from the video shoot.