BOOKS on my bedside table

Church In The Dark Ages Henri Daniel-Rops Mary And The Fathers Of The Church Luigi Gambero Mary Through The Centuries Jaroslav Pelikan Catholic Church : A Short History Hans Kung Triumph The Power And The Glory Of The Catholic Church H. W. Crocker Fine Disregard : What Makes Modern Art Modern Kirk Varnedoe

TUNES on itunes

Songs of Greg Brown Prudence Johnson One Beatles Old Futures Gone John Gorka Johnny Cash American IV   Radiohead OK Computer Milk of the Moon: Greg Brown Going Driftless Tribiute to Greg Brown

Blogs of note

Diary of an Arts Pastor Danny Schweers Open Book Ralph the Sacred River Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex Catholic and Enjoying It! Looking Closer Journal Get Religion JimmyAkin.org The Opinionated Homeschooler

WHAT'S UP

Link to One a Day Psalm Schedule   Austin House of Prayer Every Thursday Continuous intercessionary worship from 7AM to midnight at Hope Chapel My web site : archives of past work My web site of work for sale Comments to: j.janknegt@mail.utexas.edu

Who am I?

James (Jim) Janknegt 52 year old, husband of Lissa, father of Emma (almost 11), visual artist, christian (former episcopalian becoming Catholic), operations manager at UT Performing Arts Center, native Austinte, current elginite, and chainsawweilder. everything on this web site copyrighted by James B. Janknegt Blog

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April 12 of 12

My alarm goes of at 5:00 AM. I jump out of bed. Make coffee (french roast the stronger the better: I highly recommend Anderson's ) and breakfast. Retire to our chapel for 45 minutes of spiritual reading and prayer while the rest of the house snoozes except a cat or two. Today Snowey joins my spiritual exercises.

I commute from Elgin to Austin down 290 usually listening to my ipod. Itunes and ipod are the best things I have ever personally owned. Depending on the traffic it can take from 35 to 60 minutes.

I get to work at the University of Texas Performing Arts Center and check my email. I work from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM. I have a lovely iMac with a 20" monitor .

Every Wednesday John and Don and I have brunch at Trudy's. It is kinda like group spiritual direction. John always gets soup and Don and I get the Migas.

After brunch we have our weekly events meeting where we discuss what went wrong last week and what will likely go wrong this week. Today we talked about Lang Lang, David Sedaris and Elvis Costello as well as the Austin Symphony and Austin Lyric Opera coming up.

On the way home I stopped by Jerry's Artarama. It is a real art supply store. I can't tell you how happy I am to have a real art supply store in Austin. Thank you Jerry!!

When I get home I find my lovely daughter has made cookies!! Yum Yum!!

I whip up a delicious supper of chalupas with guacamole. Here is my guacamole recipe: 1-ripe avacado , 1/2 sqeezed fresh lime juice and lots of garlic salt.

After supper we spend some time working in the garden. My wife, recovering from knee surgery is watering sitting down. I was mulching the potatos. We got a real late start due to my wife's knee surgery. So far we have potatos, tomatos, onions, green beans, watermelon, canteloupe and asparagus.

It was a beautiful evening so we took a stroll around our property.

My lovely daughter is working on a science project looking at how different types of music, classical, rock or jazz effects the speed of a hamster going through a maze.

I finished a painting I have been working on for a friend of mine, Jason Haskins, that his parents are buying him to celebrate his being received into the Catholic Church. He took the name of St. John. So the painting is about Jesus seven last words where he gives his mother to John and John to his mother (Johm 19).