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Had a few folks ask…So I thought I’d post this. You can grab any Austin Stone sermon from the website (as well as via iTunes). They usually hit by Monday or Tuesday.

http://www.austinstone.org/resources/sermons/

Have a very merry Christmas!

EMICH OUT!

Generally speaking, we like apartment life. It’s like living in a homey hotel. Accidentally smash the wall while moving furniture? Who cares. Refrigerator’s broken? They fix it ASAP, for free. And forget about taking your shoes off at the door, because guess what? It’s “apartment carpet.”

But it’s still an apartment. And quite honestly, we thought we were moving on last year. But it didn’t happen and that’s okay. We know that the right house is out there and we’re perfectly content waiting for it. We’re in no rush! In the meantime, apartment life is a life of humility.

What do I mean? In the past month, we’ve had two big adventures:
1. “The Apartment Lockout”
2. “The Mystery of the Upstairs Neighbor”

Trust me, these stories are way better than their respective titles may indicate. So be on the lookout for these coming up in the next few weeks!

EMICH OUT!

For those who don’t know, Cory’s been in Buenos Aires since August. He’s having a solid time teaching English in the city, but he’s also got the itch for more adventure…

So…He got hired on by Nervous Waters, an elite fly fishing group to lead fly fishing adventures down at their Santa Cruz, Argentina, location! Here’s the lodge he’ll be living in for the next few months, starting in January. Pretty wild stuff. (He’ll be the only gringo on staff.)

So I Google mapped this place…check it out:

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Any idea what that land mass is just south of him? It’s Antarctica. Yeah. Are you serious!?

EMICH OUT!

I’m two weeks into coffee drinking now.

Here are some of the most recent changes that have taken place in the Michner household:

• Created a laminated sheet of exact coffee measurements for grinding, brewing, etc
• Purchased a burr grinder
• Received a french press as a gift
• Started a spreadsheet of coffee reviews (based on the “MichRating of Awesomeness”…more on that later…)
• Tested nine different coffees in two weeks.

Life is good. And delicious.

EMICH OUT!

I have immersed myself in all things coffee this week.

I’ve devoured Consumer Reports’ material around coffee makers. I’ve discovered the difference between Arabica and Robusta. I spent two hours the other day learning about burr vs blade grinders. And now that I’m a coffee drinker, I’ve started searching for “my mug.” In fact, I’d say 95% of my sentences this week revolved around coffee.

Katie, of course, bears the brunt of my new-found obsession. The other day, Katie interrupted my monologue on the history of the coffee bean in Ethiopia and said: “Boy. When you do something, you really do it, don’t you?”

Of course. Did you expect anything else? Actually…

“Evan, I honestly didn’t think you’d go through with it,” she said. Really? My own wife doubted me? Apparently. Quite honestly, she’s a bit fed up with my coffee talk. Plus, I’ve now taken over “her thing.” Katie was queen of the coffee world in the Michner household…up until December 1st, 2009.

I am the King of Coffee!

EMICH OUT!

Reasons for not drinking coffee:

• It tastes like hot bark
• Coffee drinkers whine too much about being addicted to coffee
• It’s expensive
• A Diet Coke after 2pm keeps me up for days.

Reasons to start drinking coffee:

• I want to be cool
• I want to whine about being addicted to coffee
• The gadgets are endless.

So there you have it. Ladies and gentlemen, you heard it here first: I’m committed to drinking coffee. I want to join the masses at Starbucks. I want to know about the hip coffee shops around town. I want to be a part of society. I want to spend hours researching the differences between the brands, blends, and beans.

Maybe it’s the “cold” weather. Or maybe I just wonder what my morning workouts would look like after I down some coffee. Regardless, I’m giving it a go.

I start tomorrow morning.

EMICH OUT!

So it may be time to give the Michner brand a refresh. Given that we’re almost a full year and a half into marriage, are we still newlyweds?

Perhaps themichners.com becomes the hub of all online marriage advice, given that we’re experts. Or maybe it’s an advice column on being awesome.

Not sure. But I wanted to give our loyal readers the head’s up that we may give themichners.com a facelift soon…

But rest assured, you’ll still get your daily allowance of pictures, hilarious stories, and all-around awesomeness.

To be continued…

EMICH OUT!

Wow. It seems like we’ve been busier than normal around here. Or is that simply an excuse, since it looks like most of my our posts lately have been A) Extremely short and B) Extremely infrequent? Regardless, here we go…

So going back to May of 2008: Kate’s folks rented a lake house out on Lake Austin for about a week last summer before our wedding. It was an absolute blast!

They came back a few weeks ago and we relived the whole thing!

We had a few less people, but we tried to make up for it…Still did some serious lake jumping, sitting around, grilling, etc. Plus we were graciously given a few days of sun (smashed between crazy rain).

Enjoy the pics!

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EMICH OUT!

We had an absolute blast up in Connecticut with Mike, Heather and little Miss Gracie. She’s a real cutie, and a great sleeper (lately)!

Enjoy!

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