Of all my pet peeves in the world is when you reainstall firefox and all your bookmarks are gone, or moving from one computer to another and you have a different set of bookmarks than the one you are used to. I have tried syncing the bookmarks folder on different machines and it never works…
Freedom can mean alot of different things to a lot of different people. To some people freedom means not being locked up, to some it means that you are able to say whatever you want and to others it might mean to be allowed to walk with no clothes. For a Christian however it is…
So we have been a little worried that Anja hadn’t peed yet, but today as I was snugglig her up in my armas after bathing her I felt how I got all warm and fuzzy, well at least warm and wet as a flood came pouring through the towel soaking my shirt. Proudly I called…
The other day I was asked to sign a petition against the Latvian pride parade. Now since I do not understand latvian very well and couldn’t read the exact wording of the petition I might be making a chicken out of a feather here… I am told that last year a pride parade was held…
It’s 03:22 and guess what, I am not sleeping…. as per normal. Anja is holding a birthday vigil to make sure she is celebrated properly. Hanna is asleep, hopefully dreaming of cows and producong milk (as she has none yet). Angelina sleeps also and Anja is resting on my other arm, hopefully fallling asleep. Every…
As I was writing over at our family blog I am realizing that my observations on parenthood carry over to my spiritual life once again. As the list of Anjas needs is very short so is the list of our spiritual needs. Clean, Close and Calories. That is all we need. We need to have…
10:35 pm last night my second daughter Anja Trinity Olterman was born. This morning I went home to pick Up Angelina our oldest to take her to see her brand new sister. Though cautious at first Angelina seems to have accepted our newest family member, however whatever we do for the little one Angelina demands…
We arrived at Ģimenes centers at 19:05 where Hanna was examined and told that she was dilated five centimeters, the contractions where strong and everything was moving along just as it had with Angelina. Hanna was devastated and convinced that she had another 20 hours of labor to go. I was secretly hopefull because I…
Oki so Hanna has been braving the contractions at home for a few hours now and we have decided to leave for the birth clinic. Keep us in your prayers as we go the last mile on this pregnancy! Next time I post I will be the proud father of two and give you all…
So we went for a checkup this morning and Hanna was disapointed to hear that she was only in the beginning of the opening faze. After checkups we went to Lido and Angelina enjoyed herself greatly at the different attractions around the Lido Grounds. Hannas mom who is here enjoyed Lido and gave many ooh’s…
At four o’clock last night the contractions started. And kept going steady all through the night at 9 o’clock they where 9 minutes apart. I was musing as was writing my post about the trinity on warcry, 1+1+1=1 That in this house 1+1+1=4 at least today It is quite surreal that we are going to…
Yesterday I had to teach on the deepest mystery of Christian faith, the trinity. And as I prepared I realized that no matter how much I read and no matter how much I prayed I would never get beyond the words of the nicean council, “una substantia, tres personae” or in simpler language 1+1+1=1 And…
I was reading Graemes blog – uksalvationist and had to comment on it. The fact is that most initiatives to bring fire to the people of God are for young people and rightly so seeing that round 80% of all that come to Christ do so in their teens, but what is there for us…
So I have had the privilige to spend a day tweaking my computer, since I had to spend some time upgrading the office XDMCP server to Dapper! And OMG! I have always been a sucker for Eyecandy so I have been waiting for e17 but now I sense that even Gnome and KDE can compete…
I had an interesting conversation with Mackan last night about the gifts of the Spirit and NCD. Mackan raised the question if we don’t limit the expressions of the gifts when we try to define them and explain how they work to the church. Now the gifts of the Holy Spirit requires us to recieve…
At coffe today our chief of administration loudly announced that he had seen the [[da vinci code]] yesterday and that it was an excellent movie. I don’t understand what all the fuss is about, no one in their right minds would actually believe in that stuff, he continued. The problem is too many people do.…
As me and Hanna are expecting the birth of our second child any day now I have discovered what Christian life should truly be like. As I look upon my wife I see the signs clearly she is ready to give birth and it can happen any minute. However, since we do not know the…
Today I sent of a letter to start a study group under Schola St. George. With Graeme me and hopefully some other enthusiasts we will embark on the great adventure of learning longsword according to fiore.I am now looking for wooden wasters at affordable prices and as close to Latvia as possible. I am also…
This week we are filling out our applications for officers training, please pray with us as we embark on this new adventure. It has been long coming for us and even though I think we have known since our enrollment as soldiers that we where headed this way it is still a bit scary to…
A new breed of salvationists are infiltrating our corps, a breed of Christians who want to transform the army in their likness, to become not a marching army but a circle of fluffy bunnies who cannot possibly offend anyone. (This is an offensive post, but for the record, I do love all fluffy bunnies, they…
This was the cry of a young hispanic male in the movie “blood in blood out” making a grim portrait about gang life in LA. It is interesting to note that these young gangbangers are willing to do anything to defend the honor of their colors (wich is a gang tatoo, and a bandana of…
So today we had a visit from our TC, Hasse Kjellgren. One of the topics that was discussed was uniform, some people got agitated because they like the uniform and some got angry because the uniform should not be a big deal and therefore, a waste of time to discuss. The argument for the uniform…
Today is a black day, it seems that in the midst of the raging battle we are left alone to fend for ourselves. We being part of the Salvation army, but not apparently in the Salvation Army system. I am just now realizing how valuable it is to have an organisation backing you at home…
Today I spent half the day upgrading my computer to the beta version of ubuntu linux. Ubuntu linux is a [[Linux distribution]] funded by a [[philantrope]] who wants a good easy to use home user operating system to be spread out to the masses, and hopefully with it the ideology of ubuntu. Ubuntu linux also…
So today I made the plunge on my main machine, I have been running dapper for a while on my laptop but I just felt it was time to upgrade my desk. So here we go, I am now running Dapper on my main computer, and provided the next week goes smooth I will be…