I was looking for some pictures of the Jewish temples in the Old Testament, when I though about checking Google’s Sketchup program to see if anyone had made 3D modles of them. I found a couple great ones:

Temples

• Solomon’s Temple - This model is set on top of a map so you can see where the temple was in relation to the Dome of the Rock. If you zoom in you can see some tags that tell you a little bit about the surrounding area, but the black lettering on top of a black and white picture is difficult to see, so you have to look closely.
• Herod’s Temple- This model is amazing.

I did some more searching and found these two models of Noah’s ark

• Complete - This one is a complete model of the ark sitting in the water . . . but
• Incomplete - This model has a lot more detail to it. It isn’t complete yet but it’s pretty cool. There are a couple of figures inside the ark to help give you a sense of proportion. The figures look a little big, so I’m not sure if the proportions are correct, but the modes is still being built so he might adjust that later . . . or I could just be wrong.

Sometime this weekend someone broke into our parish office. They didn’t take anything from my office, which surprised me because I had my old Presario 1275 on my desk, and they didn’t take much from the other offices either. Apparently, they were only after cash and we don’t keep cash around. It’s still a little creepy to imagine someone sitting at my desk—exactly where I am right now—going through my drawers. My desk is covered in black soot from the finger print search.

I wonder where a person has to be in order to break into a church office for the few dimes we have in our desk drawers. Free food is everywhere in this town, and our church gives away tons of money to people who need help with utilities.

Our receptionist thinks the break-in was for drug money. I’m not a worldly person, so I don’t know much about that lifestyle, but I can’t think of any other reason someone would go through so much trouble for so little.

The police got a pretty good handprint of the guy, so they’re optimistic that they will find him.

Someone broke into our church’s office this weekend. I’ll tell you more tomorrow, right now I have to edit those programs.