{"id":20004,"date":"2026-01-06T00:23:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20004"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:47:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:47:27","slug":"journal-of-the-week-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=20004","title":{"rendered":"Journal of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>01\/09\/2026 Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I learned from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1074511866251937\/posts\/2509981052705004\/?comment_id=2510681335968309&amp;__cft__[0]=AZZucTCRTsXJ-0ouX0cCqMX5DrHr5hkIInMHdWezWzNzL7GWHixlGcWlwDQzhmWVUIfpfubhUO_bsjVHnnFl9Onj7djJPZBtF-zvOv8heUH92CivTTo5BeI9Swm9gdd4prFcZTxXJJIb1HMP6mSSc69m&amp;__tn__=R]-R\">Facebook<\/a> that you can report public problem in NJ (i.e. traffic light problems, etc.) at this gov website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.njdotproblemreporting.nj.gov\">https:\/\/www.njdotproblemreporting.nj.gov<\/a>. So I did for the <strong>Eastbound traffic light closest to our home on Rt. 35<\/strong>, which constantly gets stuck at RED as if the sensor is not working. When it happens, we have to get out of the car to push the pedestrian WALK button or wait until the Westbound cars across the street to trigger their traffic light sensor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also called to leave a message at the Borough of Sayreville (As this is outside of South Amboy but part of Sayreville)<br>167 Main Street<br>Sayreville, NJ 08872<br>Hours: Monday - Friday from 8 AM - 4 PM<br>Borough Office Phone: (732) 390-7000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>01\/08\/2026 Thursday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First time attending <strong>Crossroads Small group<\/strong> with Nadia at Pastor Joe's house. First great impression. There's about 10 people. Nadia kept marveled at the level of education folks at this church hold, in comparison to GCC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>01\/07\/2026 Wednesday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Someone posted about <strong>Philip Yancey's affair<\/strong>, so I responded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zhao.bing.lin.2025\/posts\/pfbid027K18oAWPgBssYmd7dDg4gZc9s4u8d3gyiQJF4uFgs3WxHepNU35knXLgqwABEfJ6l?comment_id=1961414227738202&amp;__cft__[0]=AZYUVIj2zWncBzftKGwIvWu11YWKtVBTLRWyVit2q7X23xwKOL8Rkxvs-JUMBIMcG5U7s71e6DpFS92X8Bd1gSIPXk2FpVcVEN9XSVg0tLnSfEC48sc0o74QbwjYYwBHEDnEIhngMVY4Sagnm9qCNTpUdVLeqBrCSW3oOS2qnS9vQ81TPO_zR2PSIrepYyssTUM&amp;__tn__=R]-R\">this<\/a> on Facebook:<br>\u8cb7\u8b80\u4ed6\u4eba\u4e4b\u66f8\u7c4d\u5c31\u7b49\u65bc\u5df2\u8207\u4eba\u5bb6\u5718\u5951\uff0c\u8a8d\u8b58\u4e86\u55ce\uff1f\u9019\u8c48\u4e0d\u662f\u91cd\u72af\u7d04\u4f2f\u7684\u7f6a\u3002<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u4eca\u5929\u57fa\u7763\u5f92\u6700\u4e0d\u61c2\u600e\u6a23\u5718\u5951\u3002\u9019\u500b\u641e\u4e0d\u61c2\uff0c\u4e0d\u8ad6\u662f\u7f8e\u5973\u8a08\u6216\u662f\u6551\u7f8e\u5973\uff0c\u90fd\u662f\u63aa\u624b\u4e0d\u53ca\uff0c\u5728\u4e0a\u5e1d\u9762\u524d\u7121\u6cd5\u7ad9\u7acb\u5f97\u4f4f\u3002<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u8aac\u4f86\u4e5f\u662f\uff0c\u694a\u8153\u529b\u9019\u500b\u4eba\u6211\u807c\u90fd\u6c92\u807d\u904e\uff0c\u53ef\u80fd\u60a8\u5011\u90fd\u6bd4\u6211\u61c2\u3002\u6240\u4ee5\u4ed6\u7684\u66f8\u60a8\u5011\u4e0d\u8981\u71d2\u6389\uff0c\u5ec9\u50f9\u8ce3\u7d66\u6211\u5427\u3002\u4ec0\u9ebd\u6642\u5019\u6211\u5011\u4f86\u76f8\u6703\u5427\uff1f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>01\/06\/2026 Tuesday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Disabled printing spooler service<\/strong> on two NYGC workstations: 505, 509. So teachers can't print. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MBC Unhindered (Pastor Dave) brought up Charles <strong>Spurgeon <\/strong>vs. Karl <strong>Marx<\/strong>. Apparently they were both in London. It's interesting of this competing view of theirs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Into the Upside Down | Behind the Pulpit S4E17\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Og_11DBrRbY?start=1527&feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>CP: \"All that is mine is yours\"<br>KM: \"All that is yours is mine\"<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It's easy to google these two figures competing each other as they are contemporary of each other. My take is: <strong>One comes from grace alone, the other comes from justice alone. But since these are human agents, it's not surprising we would prefer the ones who practiced grace wrongly than the ones who did justice wrongly<\/strong>. But perhaps the one deprived of grace came from a foundation of grace, taking grace for granted and thus only see the enforcement of justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>01\/05\/2026 Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How Browser works<\/strong>: Someone took the effort summarizing, worth a <a href=\"https:\/\/howbrowserswork.com\/?utm_source=tldrdev\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/howbrowserswork.com\/?utm_source=tldrdev\">save<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/addyosmani.com\/blog\/21-lessons\/?utm_source=tldrdev\">Lessons<\/a> from 14 year <strong>Google developer<\/strong> - Addy Osmani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethan Evans. Former <strong>Amazon VP on <a href=\"https:\/\/read.highgrowthengineer.com\/p\/traits-of-the-best-engineers?utm_source=tldrdev&amp;triedRedirect=true\">Engineer Promotion<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>01\/04\/2026 Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2nd week <strong>Pastor Jeff Jou<\/strong> preaching at Crossroads. Looks like he'll be selected as the Youth pastor of the church. At the church's family lunch, Jou was put on the spot to be questioned by lunch eating audience. I asked \"<strong>Why Jersey?<\/strong>\", his answer was like the rest, standard. I don't really remember. Nadia seemed impressed by the whole session. More intellectual for her. As for the pastor himself, I think not bad. Started RUF from zero in Queens. Worked at prison ministry. Theology seems solid. But all these are only surface, I don't know well enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>01\/09\/2026 Friday I learned from Facebook that you can report public problem in NJ (i.e. traffic light problems, etc.) at this gov website: https:\/\/www.njdotproblemreporting.nj.gov. 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