Well, clearly I wrestle with issues of online identity, don't I? So I put the question to my best source of good advice, and she voted for friendly over formal and gave specifics, so I've changed my introduction back. So, faithful listener who commented, you're in luck, as long as you can handle listening to some fine piano before you get your "Hi, this is Random..." :)

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Greetings! I backed off on the Compression a bit this time, so we'll see how that does.

I have notions for an easier-to-listen-to-than-KJV edition of TWT, but nothing really to report just now. Stay tuned. :) I may be soliciting advice soon enough...

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Thanks for the recent comments. I think I hear some weird artifacting when it's just me speaking, at least when using headphones on my PC... I may ease off on the Compression effect next time and see what that does.

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Abject apologies for not having this up earlier. I had a migraine last night and just couldn't make myself do it. It's a short reading to finish out the chapter.

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Here's today's!

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Long reading tonight, which just happens to coincide with me doubling the resolution of the audio to 64kbps... so what I'm saying is, "Enjoy the 3 meg file!" Oh well.

I really really really would love feedback (to twt@godcast.org, thank you Craig) about any quality issues with these latest post-change installments. I'm doing the best I can to find a happy medium, but as I've said I'm growing short on time and will have to record quite a few in advance (say, a couple of weeks' worth) and hope to get the quality sorted out before getting that far ahead. But there's not much time left, no.

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A number of changes in today's TWT! I've been mulling a few things over and I finally got around to doing something with them (and had a lucky find or two.) So new music courtesy of Bruce Patterson, aka Mostly Piano on Soundclick.com, and, yes, my actual name instead of Random on the podcast and on this site. So, enjoy that. :)

(Oh yes, and apologies to Craig for jumping the gun on the email address at the end of this podcast -- I, uh, anticipated events somewhat when I recorded it. Please hold off using that address for now. Thanks!)

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Well, I was ahead, but now I'm not. Am I going to have to take a day off work to record all day? Or maybe get an evening or weekend day of babysitting...

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Continuing to have nothing to say here. Get used to it, I'm afraid. It's going to be a pattern with the India trip coming. :)

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Nothing to say today except enjoy!

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Busy weekend here; hope you're all enjoying spring by now!

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Okay, better late than never, here's the start of the Gospel of Luke. Enjoy!

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And this is it for the Gospel of Mark. Come back tomorrow and we'll plunge right into the Gospel of Luke! Ever onward!

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And now the fun begins of trying to get really really ahead on recording, because in the next few weeks I'll have to post-date several posts before going to India for a week or so. And then we'll have a baby to contend with. And... well, I knew this coming into this podcast notion. So I'm working on getting ahead. :)

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And yet another milestone! Well, for me, not quite for you. Last night I recorded the last of the Gospel of Mark, which you'll be hearing in a couple of days.

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And here it is, TWT #75. Neat!

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And to think, I just finished recording the 75th The Whole Truth! (Not this one, the next one.) Wow.

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I'm going to take time out here to say happy birthday to my wife. Happy birthday, hon! Thanks for encourage me on doing this -- it's kept me going more than once!

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Oops!

Yes, that's right, TWT didn't get posted around midnight like usual, for which I apologize. Here it is now.

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One more week! That's how long it is until we wind up Mark in preparation for starting the Gospel according to Luke. Amazing.

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Whoops, running up against the deadline in my recording! Here it is!

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Not so philosophical this time, so here's your reading. :)

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Here's a thing about podcasting; it's easy to start to feel isolated if you aren't going along with the In Thing. But isn't that sometimes true about the life of a Christian as well? This is the sort of thing sometimes on my mind as I do what I do -- podcasting not for money or for ego (at least, I hope not) and pretty much at odds with much of the prevailing wisdom, it seems like. But I believe in what we're doing here -- not just myself, but people like Craig Pratchett and Mark Taylor and whoever else has had a vision of the podcasting audience as a 21st century agora where people have gathered to hear what messages might be brought before them. And you know what? Although many in Athens did not take Paul seriously, Acts 17:34 says that certain men clave unto him, and believed. Paul may have been at odds with the prevailing Athenian wisdom but his time was not wasted.

That's the long way of saying that with 297 podcasts left to go for this year, I'm not only 100% committed to them, my list of podcast ideas features The Whole Truth Year 2. :)

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Nothing new to say just now. Hey, it's hard coming up with something to post every single day! :)

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Don't want to keep talking about how the recording's gone so instead I'll direct your attention to the change in the Podcast Alley box to the right -- they've really changed the way the place works so that's what's going on with that.

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Here I am saying it again -- sorry about the dodgy quality, but between the cold and a cranky five-year-old, well, anyway, life does happen to podcasts! Less than two weeks left of Mark -- Luke starts March 20!

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Whoops! Sorry about the roughness of the voice and the sniffles, and moreover the lateness. I was home from work with whatever it is I have on Friday, and I didn't get TWT done until quite late and had to go with what I could manage. Still, I believe the message is powerful and my voice is weak in comparison at all times, so I trust in the message and I hope you enjoy.

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My throat's feeling sore and I think I have a cold. Uh oh! I'll try to get ahead while I have a voice.

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Well, nudged somewhat by a comment to the previous post, I've stopped posting every night to openpodcast.org -- not because of anyone feeling tired of skipping podcasts (that's what comes with openpodcast, honestly) but because I've been pondering for a while about whether I need to be taking up their resources as well as my own. I've decided not, at least not as much, so this is the place to get TWT every single day, until the year is done, no copping out on my part. Do tell your friends, and your acquaintances, and people you meet on the street, and...

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Tremendously busy at the workplace this week so far. Trying not to get behind here, though.

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If you by some strange chance happen to read this, but listen via openpodcast.org, then I apologize to you for how late I was sending yesterday's reading to openpodcast -- I simply forgot. Sigh.

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