I also failed to update our Harry Potter reading. We did indeed finisht the book last Friday. It was good, but I’m not sure I really get everything. I mean… what was Dumbledore’s big plan? And how did not telling Harry about the prophecy screw it up?

Overall, I think the book was good. I don’t think it was the best, and I suppose it could be the worst (I’d have to look more into that…), but I don’t think I’d say I was disappointed by it. It seemed to be more a part of the series than an individual story, unlike the last two. The first two seemed to be more like individual stories than part of the series. I think book five had to give us a lot of information before things could get really exciting for the last two installments.

I hope they aren’t so far apart. It’d be nice if book six came out in a year, and then book seven a year or two after that.

Man… I’m gonna be an old man reading these books. I hope they’re all out before I turn 30. Not that it’s bad for adults to read Harry Potter… or anything….

A friend of mine was telling me about a recent lecture by Doug Wilson at a Classical Christian School conference about Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings. He also, briefly, compared and contrasted HP with Tolkien, and from what my friend said, it looked like HP was frowned upon. Something about the magic being a means to gain power, whereas in Lord of the Rings, the magic is to get rid of power (the ring). My friend bought the tape, and said I could borrow it when it comes in. I’m looking forward to it.

I forget to give an update on our electrical stuff. The guy from the power company came out yesterday morning, and after looking at the situation, didn’t know why a ‘mid-line tap’ wasn’t possible. He called around and discovered that it was possible. He said the technician that came out might have refused to do it because he didn’t have the equipment in his truck to do a mid-line tap. They’re going to cut out a few branches of a tree the powerlines run through, and the electrician is going to run the cable a bit further along the side of our house, but they should be able to connect it. And I think we’ll paint the powerline so it won’t stand out so much on the side of the house.

Hopefully it will get done this week.

If you happened to pray about any of this, we thank you and appreciate it.