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Sunday greetings everyone - and welcome to November!

Last night, when we were walking around trick-or-treating with our daughter, son-in-law and two of our grandkids, I remembered that October 31st was the anniversary of my retiring from pastoring local churches. I commented to my wife and daughter that it was eight years since I had retired, only to be corrected that it was nine years. If you've ever had one of those moments where you suddenly lost an entire year of your life, you know how I felt.

The good news is that missing year was one of blessing and growth, so I'll take it. I can look back and be grateful, even though somewhere my numbers have gotten a little out of whack.

Speaking of out of whack, as I've mentioned in the past, our province, British Columbia, is one of the western provinces in Canada that is no longer changing its clocks back an hour in the fall. So we are now permanently on UTC−7. It's the first time in my life that the clocks are not getting changed. I think it's pretty cool, and I'm looking forward to experiencing something new.

One of the first things that's new is that when I look across the Salish Sea to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, I'm actually looking back in time a whole hour. Not to be outdone, everyone on that side, when they look back at Vancouver Island, can see the future!

Today's video share will be good news for you if you've ever felt bad about Pluto being demoted to a dwarf planet and just orbiting out there all by itself. Pluto is not alone. It has a friend.
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Enjoy the rest of today's Digest.

~ Pastor Tim

Oh look, Chicken Thursday!

Grandma Cybersalt and I are getting our flu shots and COVID shots this afternoon, and we anticipate that we probably won't feel great tomorrow, which is kind of a nice reason to have an easy day at home. Feeling sick but not really being sick.

Today's video share is a pretty long one, and some people will not see the point in this race. But there's a lot of skilled driving going on in here, and my main reason for sharing it is because the driver of this limo is unbelievably talented.
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Enjoy the rest of today's Digest.

~ Pastor Tim

Sunday greetings everyone!

Grandma Cybersalt and I voted in yesterday's provincial election here in British Columbia. There have been a whole lot of elections happening up here in our neck of the woods. Last Saturday was the municipal elections for our province, where we voted for mayors, city councillors and school trustees. And last week was also the separation referendum in the province of Alberta. Even though that's not our province, their referendum was of great importance for all of Canada.

Winston Churchill once told the British Parliament, "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." I must say that I am grateful for the opportunity to vote. Speaking for myself, it's a great feeling to have the ability to cast a vote for the leaders you would like to have. And if you can't do that, I must admit it's somewhat rewarding to cast a vote in order to punish a leader you don't want to have.

Listening to the choir in today's video share is a heavenly experience. If I didn't know better, I'd say maybe they were angels singing all along the stairway to heaven. And if that were the case, this video would be a great argument that there are lots of balconies along the way.
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Enjoy the rest of today's Digest.

~ Pastor Tim

Oh look, Chicken Thursday!

Yesterday was a super busy day at Cybersalt World Headquarters. You are probably aware of the huge vulnerabilities that were found in PHP, the open source software that runs much of the internet. Patches were released, and I actually got up at seven o'clock in the morning to get to my computer because that was the time they were being released. Seven hours later everything had pretty much settled down and my hosting clients were all okay with their hosting secure. It was hard work, but also very rewarding.

Today's video share is an opera duet. I'm not a really big fan of opera, but watching this gave me a new appreciation for it and for the talent of the singers. You can tell these two like each other as they rehearse together, and when I did a little looking into things I found out that shortly after this video was taken, they got engaged. Overall it makes for a very fun and heartwarming video.
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Enjoy the rest of today's Digest.

~ Pastor Tim