{"id":237,"date":"2004-09-08T21:40:02","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T04:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bren.pintglass.org\/archives\/2004\/09\/08\/serve-day\/"},"modified":"2004-09-08T21:40:02","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T04:40:02","slug":"serve-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/serve-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Serve day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did a different kind of work today. Today was ‘Serve Day’ at the university. That means that everyone, and I mean everyone<\/em>, goes out into the local community and does manual labor. All kinds of stuff–painting, yard work, ditch digging, roofing, building stuff, etc… It’s a really big deal, since the school shuts down for a day to do this. The planning is a big deal too. This year there were close to 100 groups going out into the community. Each group numbers between a dozen to upwards of 50 people. My group was one of the bigger ones. We went up to our church (I put in a special request to get assigned there) and did all the stuff I mentioned before. I mainly did exterior painting, though I also did some weedeater work, some sweeping, and some asphalt repair. I’m pretty tired now, and I guess all the students I worked with are too. I’ll try to get some pictures up another day.<\/p>\n

Other groups were assigned to retirement homes, daycare places, individual homes, other churches, various parks around town, etc.<\/p>\n

On another, unrelated note, I think I’ll be ditching the Link Harvest pretty soon. I’ll still collect links and I’ll still post them on the sidebar, but I just won’t host the Harvest on pintglass.org anymore. I’ll be moving my posting over to del.icio.us<\/a> and the sidebar will stay populated from that RSS feed. I’ve subscribed to the ‘most popular’ del.icio.us RSS feed for a while now, and I really like the interconnectedness of the site (especially this hack<\/a>). I also like that when\/if pintglass.org goes down again, I’ll still have the Link Harvest. ‘Course, if del.icio.us goes down, I’m outta luck. I’ll risk it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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