House Cleaning

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Borderlands Logo Background Android Wallpaper

This is going to be a generalized housekeeping post.  I've really been letting this blog slide for the past few months, which puts me in the company of about 80 percent of humanity.  Writing a blog is fun and rewarding, but on of the catches is that you get to set your own goals and deadlines for posts.  This keeps the writing from feeling any pressure about keeping up with posts, but also results in lots of times where the writer imagines what they're going to upload, without going to the actual effort of uploading.
So I've got a ton of great ideas for things to put here, but when it came time to do the hard work of typing the stuff down, I always put it off until later.  That is how we came here.
But let's work past the blame and start working on getting better.  So here are a pair of images that are formatted to be used as smartphone backgrounds.  They are taken from Borderlands and altered/modified/etc to look awesome.  And awesome they are!  The first one is perfect for the screen-lock image which greets the user when they first wake up the phone from sleep mode.  The second is a nice, clear background for the app tiles.

While these images sit here and do the function they are given to do, I'll give you a little fill in for the past few days.  I've been working on a songbook for St. Hilary's Church.  We have the typical hymnal which is a huge and heavy tome which every good Episcopalian knows by heart, but the church always likes to sing a few more modern (relatively speaking) contemporary songs.  For this purpose the church has a couple dozen hand made booklets with the words (sans sheet music) so that the congegration can follow along.  It's not the most elegant solution but it works just fine so no one has wanted to modify it in the past 25 years. 
But time waits for no man and no church. And I'm volunteering my computer layout skills to make a new booklet that is going to run about 50 pages and includes a batch of new(er) songs for the church.  It's been a great project but I'll admit it's taken longer than I'd expected.  When the project was proposed I thought I'd be able to crank it out in a day or two but this has been a weeks worth of work.  The thing which makes it a positive experience is that the results also look better than I'd imagined, so it's a pleasant surprise for everyone involved including me.