Archive for October, 2008
October 28, 2008 @ 9:59 pm
· Filed under Lausanne, Transportation
This is a big deal. Lausanne is getting its second Metro line. The first one runs from the center of town, then northwest toward the University of Lausanne campus. It then hooks around and has its terminus in the suburb of Renens.
The new M2 runs without drivers. There is no living person who understands how [...]
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October 26, 2008 @ 7:21 pm
· Filed under Running
Wife ran the Lausanne semi-marathon today. She took the train 21 kilometers away. (13 miles, Randy.) She took off her extra clothes, put them in a numbered bag, gave them to a man, who then loaded it onto a truck. She was then told, "If you want to get back to Lausanne and retrieve your [...]
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October 24, 2008 @ 2:33 pm
· Filed under Death, Healing, Ukraine
I am saddened by Rick P’s illness. I am a bit angry too. At 61 years old, his pancreatic cancer has spread to other organs. It’s all happened lightening fast. The Canadian doctors say there is no hope.
Rick has a heart for Ukrainians, having Ukrainian blood himself. While raised in Australia, he grew up listening [...]
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October 22, 2008 @ 2:48 pm
· Filed under Church life, Ministry
We caught a mid-morning train to Geneva. The following train on to Lyon had been cancelled, with a bus had been scheduled instead. Since it wasn’t quite big enough, one angry, mid-fifty-ish, loud American just kept yelling (in French): “My ticket is for 10:58. My ticket is for 10:58.†I felt sorry for him until [...]
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October 16, 2008 @ 11:41 am
· Filed under Prayer
Here’s my current prayer list. I go through it several times a week and the people mean the world to me.
Rick P.: He’s Christ’s servant who’s been in Kiev, always ready to give me a hand when I come through. He’s gotten terribly sick (no details) and is now in the hospital in Canada. What [...]
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October 10, 2008 @ 11:35 am
· Filed under Future, God, Investing
Yesterday, I got to attend a class in Time Management and Organization. I’d been bugging a consultant friend to let me follow his course (for free), given to civil servants from around Lausanne. He not only let me come (this time), but wants me to teach it (next time).
Great advice was given, lots of strategies [...]
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October 8, 2008 @ 8:59 am
· Filed under Museums
About 10 days ago we got to visit the Bodmer Museum (Bibliotheca Bodmerians) in Cologny, just next to Geneva. A friend who lives there paid our way because he knew I’d been wanting to go for a long time.
There, behind glass, under dim light, was P66.
I saw probably 15 of the small sheets on [...]
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