Update No. 1

The new toaster works properly most of the time. Don't know what happened, except that we make toast only in the morning now.

We still haven't filled the pulpit and problems evolved one side or the other with every man interviewed. Some decided they didn't want to leave where they are now and I don't know about the others.

I have not received my new transitional lens glasses. The frames had to be ordered. If I'd know it would take so long, would have picked something else.

Have read some of the Greek books ordered from Amazon ... the Loeb series has both the English and Greek. If I read along in the Greek, I find my translation different from the printed one, but then real scholars did those translations and I use the simplest meaning. But have had more fun reading the extra books in the Septuagint and found that facts, if they are facts, and I would suppose they are, are used in our teaching and commentaries. Expecially historical events in the Maccabean period. So it is fun to read this first hand. The Septuagint is easy to read compared to the NT and Paul's long sentences that hang on the main verb, Lukes more educated language, Jewish idioms, James used words that were seldom used in the Bible and I can't remember about Peter and Hebrews ... but think I found Peter hard to read in Greek and that nothing in the Greek structure of Hebrews resembled Paul's writing, but the thoughts did.

This probably bored you and you have left the site or fallen asleep at the wheel.