Posted on 06/29/2007 7:12:24 PM PDT by kinganil
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That's different. It's the whitish glare from the sky that I really hate.
Stepped out of the office on the way home... 65F and quite humid. Thought I was in Heaven!
Got home to find I have to update no less than 5 pages on the church website, with new documents to be processed and posted on 4 of them. I'm going to be busy for a while.
But it's worth it -- some folks are finding us and making their church home here as a result of the site and our three blogs. In some cases we're further away than they would normally have looked, but when they see us online they have to come visit. And sometimes they're nearing desperation -- just as LoM and I were when we stumbled across this little church.
Face has SAD, I have HAPPY. *\;-)
Growth is GOOD, but it sounds as if, based upon your parking situation, you might need to transition to having additional instances of the worship service if you grow much more.
This is like a double whammy. It happens with the morning commute, for those going east, and in the afternoon, it's much worse for those going west.
The sun glare of the hood of the car, and the reflection off the pavement causes LOTS of accidents, and even if you're walking into the sun, it is hazardous.
It's not so bad in winter, of course, because of the sun's position, but from April through October, you literally take your life in your hands if you have to drive toward the sun.
I can't open my shades enough to get all the light that I want. And there are no overhead lights in this place except in the kitchen. (I need to free up some space for another lamp!!)
I'll sometimes get "change of weather" headaches, tied to incoming storms, but the instant the storm arrives I feel *alive*! (Negative ions, they say.) Predicting possible thunderstorms tomorrow. I hope so!!
Migraines though... I used to have those. Not the truly killer ones, but enough that I'd have to lie down with the damp washcloth over the eyes, in quiet and doing nothing until it passed. (You had to know it was serious -- stationary without my face being buried in a book?) But about the time I reached 30 they went away.
Now that I think about it... they started sometime after my family moved to California, and quit about the time I escaped to the PNWet. Hmmm...
I think it’s the fact that during an overcast day, especially when the cloud layer is thin and it is a bright overcast, the constant brightness triggers the halo effect in my eyes, which starts the headache. At least nowadays I have medicine which somewhat lessens the effects of the headache. If it wasn’t for that, I would be in line for the medicinal pot.
BTW, your California theory doesn’t hold water...had plenty of migraines back in my Navy days.
I have been in at least one town where the city fathers had the foresight to “twist” the whole place 45 degrees with respect to the dominant compass points so that NO street in the “old” part of town runs due east/west or north/south. As a result, in this modern, automotive age, the problems you describe simply do not exist.
Welcome to Nampa, Idaho:
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My wife got those headaches when she lived over in Fullerton, then they went away when we relocated to Concord (SF East Bay). We didn’t really take much note until we went back to Anaheim to visit relatives, and the headaches returned about the second or third day we were there. Now, she knows to pack the Tylenol and expect to need a couple after 48 to 72 hours in the L.A. Basin.
Well dang....that’s right in my hood.
I’ve been through Nampa! Igor had an old navy buddy who lived there, so when we left Puget Sound for St. Louis, we stopped and visited. (I have cousins all across southern Idaho, and even lived for a bit in Burley, when I was a short person.)
I would rather drive in Nampa than in Virginia. The little towns there are more like rabbit warrens. I got lost SO many times, because I was used to the well-laid-out streets of the West.
I literally had to draw myself maps in VA before I could go anywhere.
The headaches are probably from the High Pressure areas that are so common in LA County. Some of them were bad enough to made my nose bleed, but I can say that in two years, I was never warm, High Pressure or not.
Yes. Our previous rector held two services, an 8 AM said Mass (no music) and a 10 AM regular Mass (with music); this is quite common, you could even say "traditional" in Episcopal & Anglican churches. A format found in larger churches is 8 AM said Mass, 9:15 and 11:00 regular Mass. I grew up in a church that did the latter -- a problem was that the three groups of parishioners often hardly knew each other.
But we're looking at a different solution, based on the fact that some of our folks come a long ways, either from the north or south. (Seattle geography dictates this.)
We're building up a group of "lay readers," laymen who are taught and licensed to conduct the services of Morning and Evening Prayer, and with such we will hopefully be able to form and serve a mission somewhere around the northern or southern limits of our range, with lay readers supporting them generally, and rector or deacon at least once a month for Communion.
The numbers of organists in our midst, for way too many years counted as "one", is increasing too so the music could also be covered until the mission grows sufficiently.
Yeah, ‘tis. You’re just around the way from “The Tragic Kingdom” aren’t you?
If/When I decide to finally yank the plug on CA, Idaho’s the destination of choice. I’ll buy two houses; live in one, lease the other one, and get a part-time job at Radio Shack, or something.
That sounds ideal! I, however, believe “snow,” and “cold” are four-letter words!
Hohwever, since I have cousins up thataway, I can always visit in the summer!
Glare reflected from hot pavement is one thing; that's why I insist upon having polarized sunglasses.
Glare from driving directly into the sun is another. I experienced that too much ("too much" can be defined as "at least once") when at school in Santa Barbara and working in Carpinteria, CA. Highway 101 leads directly into the sun too often there.
But the whitish glare is something completely different. If I don't don my (Polaroid) sunglasses, I will get a headache from it. And I don't recall encountering it so much from your near-equatorial climes as I do in Seattle. *\B-)
See, now there’s something I wouldn’t have thought of: all the logistics incumbent upon you owing to the liturgical format and the necessary denominational licensing required to make it a “spec” operation.
What’ll y’ever do if things get so bad we’re all forced underground into a house-church mode of operations?
Probably within 3 miles, as the Eagle flys (I hate crows....Ravens though, are something entirely different).
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