Vacation Bible School is this week at our church. I man the Deep Space memory verse station. The curriculum is pretty good. I am not known for my creativity but I follow the instructions, got quite a few glow-in-the-dark magic wands from the Dollar Tree stores as prize for the best kid from each of the five groups rolling through my station each day. They are quite a hit with the kids. I originally got 5 of them for five days but during the first day, it came to me to give them away as prize so I had to go back to the store, only one particular store of the three I tried, in Arlington has it.

Finally got myself a portable MP3 player. I am a technology guy but I won't be the one who are out there waiting in line to get the first release of anything. There will always bugs to be worked out in the first release of anything, hardware or software. And finding out that my mini Mac won't be supported for instant-play of movies from Netflix, I am not too eager to get the iPod. On Saturday, I was in Costco for some regular shopping and saw the tiny SanDisk Sansa 4Gb was selling for only $59 after $10 manufacturer instant rebate, and it can play secured WMA so I grabbed it. I need an MP3 player that can play secure WMA to start checkout eAudioBook from public library. It's working pretty well, I am listening to The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt, using in conjunction with my little FM transmitter in the car.