So there was a Bible study yesterday. 6 people came, including me. Not too bad, I guess. We had some interesting discussions, and Francis just happened to sleep during the study. Oh well, not my problem.

After serving the Lord for so long, I gained the "insight" that unexplainable difficulties are bound to happen while doing work for the Lord. Today is another example. I tried to work on the audio files from the past weekends. I needed to edit them, essentially cutting off segments from the beginning and the end so that each has one sermon and nothing else. Well, the sound editing softwares that I found all have trouble dealing with one of the huge files: 120mb in mp3, but 1.2gb in wav (and apparently all of them turned the mp3 into wav before I can do work on it). Plus I don't have much disk space in my hard drive. So...after many attempts at converting the files, editing them, many times unsuccessfully, and about 5 hours later, I finally got it done. Really, it's as simple as chopping off small bits from the file, but it took that long. And surprisingly, I wasn't really panicking or gotten angry or anything. I was mostly calm, knowing from experience that this kind of thing happens a lot. So...I did indeed learn a lesson in my life.

It has been very warm this week, up to 27 degrees with the smog advisory. Really, 27 degrees in October? Yikes... Also I finally noticed a difference the high temperature makes with the sky. With the high temperature, the sky is grey, with no clouds in sight. With the low temperature, the sky is beautiful blue, with extraordinary cloud formations sometimes. So...smog bad, clean air good. By the way, I made another attempt to walk around the campus tonight. It was slower than usual, since my legs started to get a bit tense and I couldn't walk fast. I saw some fog developing, so that was interesting...