Justin Acuff’s Blog

Ok, so this came up last night at our meeting and I’m kinda curious as to what you guys think about it. Lately, its not been hard to notice that the numbers at Laurel have been down. When Dr. Siburt came to town a couple of weeks ago, both first and second service meet at the same time. Several people have said they noticed that the worship service seemed more spirited than normal. Ok so here’s what I want to know.

What would you feel about having only one service? Service would start at 9:00 and class at 10:15. Until the numbers go up and the auditorium just can’t hold any more people, I think it is a great idea. It also makes it easier on the worship leaders. Instead of doing two services, there would only be one. Also, we’d be done with church a little ealier, so we’d be guaranteed to beat the Baptists.

Ok, let’s play a game of Where’s Waldo, except we’ll substitute Waldo for a local CSC’er…

Same site, new address…

www.justinacuff.net.

The old address will still work. This one is just easier. Also when I (eventually) graduate or leave UT, I’ll be able to move the site and update the address pointer.

After work I headed over to Laurel as some hopes of getting dinner. Since we all meet in the auditorium for class on Sunday morning, the usual signup sheet did not go around. By now, Mark and Rachel Scarlett count me whether I signed up or not, so its all good. So afterwards I headed over to the CSC to meet up with the group that would be going to the Knoxville Center of the Deaf. Just about 5 minutes before we were to leave I get a call from Mr. Mike Buckley. There was a Communications Committee meeting tonight. He first asks me if I would be willing to be on it, and then he asks if I can make it over to the meeting. Since I was at the CSC and it was 6:10, getting over to Laurel seemed to be a futile effort, so I told him next meeting.

Anyways, over at the KCD, Jesse D., Adam B., Adam F., and I moved stuff out of this room upstairs and put it into a garage downstairs. After this was finished, we joined up with everybody else who was putting masking tape around the edges so another group can paint. It was pretty fun. The guy thought it was probably a two and half hour job, but it was finished in a little under an hour.

Muriel Brown passed this onto me. This is an exchange between their daughter Jessica and Jessica’s husband Matt who is serving in Iraq. Jessica’s response is below in the picture.

Oh how these are missed! Which ones are your favorites?

Somehow that word seems to aptly describe these past couple of weeks. I guess I had forgotten how draining Grad School can be. Plus I have found out that between now and Spring break I am going to have to go back up to D.C. not once, but twice. That would be cool with me if the professor would allow myself and the other research professor that has to go, to get the $168 round trip tickets through Independence Air. Total travel time is about 3 hours. Instead he wants us to drive our lab’s van. (Total travel time of about 16 hours).

It just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Last time we went, we had to spend $143 on Gas alone. Then when you translate the travel time to Man hours and salary, it comes out being about $600 more for us to travel by vehicle than by plane. That just doesn’t make sense to me… Rest assured though, your Tennessee tax dollars is not what is being wasted. We are funded by outside sponsors such as the federal government and private corporations.

Of all the driving that I have done, Virginia is my least favorite state so far. They have hills in the medians that are good disguises for their unmarked patrol cars. Their cops are in a variety of vehicles. About the only way you can tell them apart from a regular car is that they have CB antennas and don’t usually have bumper stickers. Of course, I’ve got to mention that radar detectors are illegal in Virginia. Also the speed limit is just 65 mph. All of these factors make it a very miserable experience to drive through Virginia.