Archive for August, 2004

fireplaces and bunkbeds

Tuesday, August 31st, 2004

Whew - we just finished stripping the paint off of our fireplace on Sunday. Can you tell I am still feeling the effects? As I was slaving away, I could only imagine that the Romans must have invented the idea of stripping paint from brick. After all that hard work, though [...]

more of what you want to see

Monday, August 30th, 2004

<sigh> … I have finally succumbed to the all the bullying and verbal abuse - the photos section is back - AND B-B-B-BETTER THAN EVVVERRRR (spoken in a demolition derby voice). In addition to the link in this post, there is one at the main dowski.com index page. Of course, the first Album [...]

connect four

Sunday, August 29th, 2004

In a rare event that has never happened before and will likely never happen again, Sarah and I became immersed in the same computer game. The game is called Gnect, and is a PC based version of the popular game Connect Four. It is one of a number of free games available with [...]

dowskinet is back!

Saturday, August 28th, 2004

Ha! I forgot to mention that dowskinet is back. We got some new wireless equipment on campus that has better signal strength and I am now able to link up wirelessly from our new house. Ah, broadband…
cw

guys hangin’ out

Saturday, August 28th, 2004

It’s just me and Curtis today. Sarah is off at a moms conference. Curtis came in to work with me for a few minutes this morning. It was “bring your baby son to work on a Saturday” day (for us at least!). Oh yeah, Curtis’s shirt is on inside out, but [...]

a new start

Friday, August 27th, 2004

Today marked the start of a new school year. Freshman and teary-eyed parents arrived. There is a very exciting buzz at the beginning of a new year of school; Maybe it’s just the tons of stuff that all needs to get done before the beginning of the year. Or maybe it’s [...]

more on the kenyan adventurers

Monday, August 23rd, 2004

Steve says he is going to do a blog. Here is a Kenyan newspaper. The WikiPedia entry for Kenya.
In other international news, my brother-in-law Joseph is somewhere in southern Mexico (below Mexico City) on a short term mission trip. He has been there over a week and will return on Wednesday. [...]

i hear the drums echoing tonight

Monday, August 23rd, 2004

Steve and Jen leave for Africa today. Kenya. We drove to Ohio and saw them a week ago. It was a frantic visit, but it was great to see them before their journey. They are going to do awesome over there. Steve will be discipling African Christians and helping to [...]

bringing out the dead

Wednesday, August 18th, 2004

ha!
dowski.com is back…sort of…here we come at least…with the old school style posts too…
cw