greetings mighty forum~~~ as my wife and I consider missionary work on the east side of europe, it's comforting to know that just about any classes I could desire are available through distance learning. thanks again to you. Blessings, Chris
Multnomah Bible, eh? But I was just wandering around their campus this very Saturday morning, looking for (and finding) an air conditioned place to escape from the heat and the raucous birthday party going on at my daughter's house, just a few blocks away. The temperature in the sun is, quite amazingly, 124 degrees F here in cool grey Portland.
You better watch it, buster. I have many relatives in cheery Balkan. If you become like them don't say I didn't warn you. Never discuss politics or history (same thing in Balkan), and you'll do fine. Next thing is you in sidewalk cafe in lovely downtown Zagreb with nice bottle of slivovica, nice sausage, nice ersatz French bread, a stolen bicycle you bought secondhand, and eight Croats splaining to you how Croatia is really part of western Europe, you know, like Portugal. Then your new friend Franjo gets beers for everybody, you pull out your Croatian-English dictionary, and by the end of the afternoon you're all singing Bill Gaither songs (although you're worried about a few of the words that Franjo suggested which aren't in the dictionary, mostly because everybody grins when you get to that part.) Hours later, you come home suffused in the scents of plum brandy, other people's cigarettes, and wearing a leather jacket you seem to remember trading your guitar for. To your wife's anxious inquiries, you mumble calmly, "I'm acculturating. It's just like Portugal." And sink gently to the floor, and slumber.
=== ?? I live nearby. It is not that hot! Dr. Bear, you are exaggerating , or else your daughter throws really HOT parties
Bill Grover: ?? I live nearby. It is not that hot! Dr. Bear, you are exaggerating , or else your daughter throws really HOT parties John: At the time that the official temperature (in the shade) was 103, the temperature on our Volvo's really reliable dashboard temperature, measuring the outside, at 43rd and Glisan truly said 124. Our daughter's patio Smith & Hawken thermometer, at the same time, was reading 122 (also in the sun). Spent most of the afternoon at 'only' 118.
Luckily with beautiful rivers and parks the heat is a good excuse to escape. Still 85 will be nice tomorrow.
[the temperature on our Volvo's really reliable dashboard temperature, measuring the outside, at 43rd and Glisan truly said 124. === John: Well, perhaps. I'm driving hatless a 1974 Blazer with the fully removable top off. The broad area of exposed skin, now quickly turning dark brown, around my much receding hairline , being my only thermometer, has been gauging the tempertature at only 103. But probably your Volvo dashboard and Smith and Hawken present more reliable data, though less involved, than does my forehead . Happily, here in the Willamette Valley, such extreme temperatures are not the normal experience. Chris: Very nice to hear from you. Best of "luck" in your venture.
