Jamie Fehr

I am sure that a lot more of consequence happened this last week, but for all intents and purposes, my work for the last week can be demonstrated in one more click of a button: wordpress.asdika.org Update: the project is done, you can see it at asdika.org.

It’s really not quite done, but all that’s left is to fill out the content. So for the rest of today and the better part of next week I will be copying everything from the old site to the new one and then adding 16 brand new television programs and a whole months worth of new radio programming. Once that’s done the new site will be moved to the top level domain and project new Asdika will be done. Hooray!

My web presence is getting a little stale, I hope you’ll forgive me, it’s just that my work and life have become pretty focused lately and that focus has not been on my writing for this site. Anyway if you’re still reading here’s the short, mundane report of what’s been going in my world.

The Lent Abstinence Update

Now that a week has gone by I have realized that old habits are hard to give up. The only part of my oath that I have kept is to not get the news through RSS. But it is worth noting that as a result of keeping these things in mind I have become a more learned and better person. A lot less time is being wasted in front of the television and I have become more productive at work.

Asdika.org

I hope that your as tired of hearing about this as I am. It is ever so nearly done. If god wills it I will be done to the nitty gritty details and final polishes later today.

Echar Polvo

Maybe this isn’t an appropriate comment for a missionary blog but I laughed when it happened. Echar Polvo is an expression that the spanish here use to refer to having sex, I think it’s funny because it really literally translates to something like throwing dust. It really doesn’t have any innuendo when you translate it to english, but as I was walking home for lunch today I saw a road construction worker Echando Polvo on the sidewalk. I thought the two images had a funny contrast. Anyway, throwing dust.

Later.

These are getting to be far from weekly, and for that I apologize. Now that I have robbed my self of any thunder I may have had I would like to share a mostly official report of the last week and maybe even the last three weeks (yes it has been that long).

The first thing worth noting is that in my ongoing project with Asdika.org I have finally moved into the writing of the server-side code that will very shortly power the site. In the unlikely event that everything goes according to plan this site could actually be live early next week, but working in a language as different from english as arabic does not make the job easy.

Secondly, I would like to mention that despite starting late, I have joined in the spirit of lent and have given up a few things until Easter. Those things being; Movies, Television, Video Podcasts, YouTube and any video found on the web, News via RSS and Milk. I don’t know that I should elaborate but for the sake of your curiosity I am giving up video to make more time for reading and seeing friends, I am giving up news via RSS but it was distracting me from my work and milk because I couldn’t find any when I was making breakfast the morning that I made this decision and I thought that it was easier to swear it off than to go to the store and by some.

Also of note, later on today I intend to go downtown and buy a flashlight and a tent, I want to camping and those are the only items that I am currently lacking.

I have been away and I am not in the least bit sad to say that I didn’t miss being away from my website at all. It’s just after lunch on Monday, March 12th and I have a lot to share but very little time to put thoughts to words so what follows is a brief summary of where I’ve been, a short video, and a song.

I was in Morocco from March second to the tenth of the year of our Lord 2007. We were five, Ripley, Briana, Beth, Brandon and Myself and we landed in the port at Tangier. From there we took the shortest bus ride to Meknes that we could find, saw what Meknes had to offer and then we took off for Fez where spent two days. After Fez we had our own private guide take us into the desert where I had the opportunity to sleep under the stars of the Sahara desert and to ride a flying saucer down a sand dune after watching the sun come up on the hot Moroccan sand. We then went to Ourzazate where we checked out some Kasbah’s before heading through the High Atlas Mountain Pass to Marrakech. In Marrakech I ate sheeps brain and snails.

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