I almost never do these things, but I cound’t resist this one. I knew this a long time ago, but this test really spells it out:
As expected, I’m a science/math/technology/computer nerd. Not too into sci-fi or comics, although I dabble. I really don’t like History much, although I enjoy good books (mostly fiction though), and I’m not too terribly dorky or awkward. Yeah, that sounds about right.
If the rest of these videos are anything like the first one I watched, I’m going to be a busy man for the next few days. Why do I even need TV anymore. Now, granted it is summer re-runs, but we haven’t even seriously turned on the television in I don’t even know how long. To make it worse, we recently moved the TV back downstairs into our main living room and so it’s much more accessible, but still nothing. Sure we’ve watched some movies, and I finished playing Halo 2, but that’s been about it.
When the fall lineup kicks off, I’m sure there’ll be some more stuff I’m interested in watching, but for now, I’m officially tuned out. Of course, Halo 3 drops in just a few short weeks, so I guess I just have my seasons.
This is in response to a friends blog post (http://joshriebock.com/blog/?p=10) on the role of the Church in our lives, and whether or not that need is being met.
It’s funny…I’m on the bubble right now on this. I’m not about to leave my church by any means, but I’m struggling with my role in one of the myriad subsets of our church’s community. You see, I attend a larger church than I did growing up, and so at this church there are many subcultures. You know the 20somethings, the children’s ministry teams, etc. I straddle the border between a couple different groups and sit on the periphery of others and I wonder if that’s where I’m supposed to be.
All of these subgroups have a variant on the overall culture of our church. But, and this is important, they’re open, honest, & relevant. They are important to me, and I know this, deep down. I’m just searching for my niche. I’m searching for the core (small) group that will know me…the real me.
I think I’m beginning to find it thanks to the great folks around me, most importantly my incredible wife, Kassy. So thanks ya’ll, and stay tuned. I have a feeling it’s about to get exciting!
Not sure what just yet, but my mood has been off since the weekend. Could just need sleep, not really sure. Right now I’ve been spending quite a bit of time praying for direction from God. I know he was guiding us towards the new job, but what I can’t figure out is how I’m supposed to hold down a job, be present with my family, seek God’s will through prayer and Bible study, and have time for anything else (like serving in the youth ministry again, or keeping up with the technology news, or “honing my craft” :).
I guess that’s probably at least part of what it is that’s been gnawing at me. I know that there’s just so much that I could be doing, and I’m not, and I guess part of me is trying to figure out how to fit those things in again, or if they’re even supposed to be fit in at all. I don’t know what I expected out of this, but it has helped me to hear the thoughts bouncing around in my brain, so I guess that’s a positive thing.
For now that’ll have to do, I’ve got to get some sleep…
Tonight, for the first night since Saturday, the day “Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows” arrived I’ll be in bed before midnight. Not much before midnight mind you, but still, it’s progress. In previous years when I received the latest installment of the Potter franchise I would be known to read until the ultra-wee hours of the morning and cram as much in as possible over the weekend it dropped. This year has been a bit different of course, what with the new baby & new job. I’m not quite through with the book yet, but I have definitely crossed the 50% threshold, and there was never any choice of turning back. I’ve added Harry Potter to my now reading list, with the full intention that I will probably finish the book by the end of the week.
For a quick update on the new job, things couldn’t be better. I’ve been given some time to come up to speed on their version control, build, and other processes, meanwhile having a project that would give me the ability to inspect a large amount of code, and change relatively little. I feel pretty comfortable with the tool now, and I’m looking forward to some more challenging work. Tomorrow (Wednesday) is code freeze, so I’ll be pushing a bit tomorrow afternoon to make sure one last, very small tweak (changing some user permissions), makes the cut, but shouldn’t have to burn the midnight oil by any means. That is a far cry from every other release I’ve worked over the past year, and from what I can make of the process the testing and move to production should be similarly controlled and orderly.
Please tell me that multitasking is not the same thing as ADD, because I was just looking at the list of books I’m currently reading, and well…Tell me if I’m crazy.
That’s about enough to kill a horse I’d think.
Makes Jack a dull boy, and an ever growing dullness in his blog. I’ve actually been doing stuff lately, just forgetting to blog about my adventures.
We’re 2/3 of the way through Wedding Season ‘06, and so far both have been stellar. One was back near home in St. Clair, MO which made for a long weekend of driving, and a great chance to catch up with college friends we haven’t seen in a few years. Good times.
The second was here around Austin, and allowed friends now living in New England to come back for a brief stint, and again Good Times.
I guess the biggest news for me is that I’m getting involved in baseball (before the post-season) this year, and have begun to really enjoy watching as the St. Louis Cardinals start out what I hope will be a stellar season, but only time will tell. 154 games to go, and counting.
I talked to an old roomate tonight on the phone, regarding his wedding which I’m in. First of 3 weddings for Kassy & I this “season.” Anyway, and so when I sit down at the computer, I decide to drop an email to an old friend my mom happened to run into recently, and had the presence of mind to get his email address.
I hammer out the typical here’s what I’ve been up to over the last 8 years email, and ask him to do the same. Pop back to my inbox, and realize I haven’t emailed another old friend. So away I go to catch up with this one too. Same basic email plus or minus church stuff/house stuff/etc, and I realize I have a whole host of old friends I need to email and catch up with. Anyway, so now I’m copying/pasting what was once a personal letter, and dropping it here and there to all sorts of old acquaintances, friends, etc hoping to hear what they’ve been up to.
If you’re reading this and we haven’t chatted in a while…post a comment here, and I’ll drop you a line too!
Talk to you soon.
It’s been two months and I figure I ought to catch you up, so here goes: “I’ve been working.” That about sums it up. I’ve been putting in extra hours at work to finish a really big project for NI, but this blog isn’t supposed to be about work, so I’ll move on.
Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire was incredible. That was always my favorite book of the first four. I haven’t tried to compare it to number Order of the Phoenix or Half Blood Prince. I’m not entirely sure how you do that sort of thing, since they build on eachother so much, it just doesn’t seem fair. But this HP movie was far and away the best of the four so far. The acting was so much better, Fred & George are spectacular both in the books and in the movies, and they crack me up so much.
In the spirit of rambling through several topics, Thanksgiving is coming up, and we’ve got family staying with us for the week. It’s been so great having family here in town, La Madeleine, Chuys, all the great food. It’ll be a miracle if I don’t gain an absolute ton of weight this holiday season.
Well, I need to crash. I’ve gotta be at work at 7:30 in the morning. Things are slowing down there, so hopefully I’ll get some more time for this endeavor. Til then.
Been really busy at work for the last few months, and it probably won’t slow down until the end of the year. Although I did squeeze in a quick 1 week vacation to MO a few weeks ago, and that was very nice.
School’s back in session, at least for Kassy that is. She’s ecstatic to be teaching 6th grade math this year. She went through the RoboLab training, and I’ve asked to be her RoboLab volunteer, so basically, once a week I’ll get to leave work early to go hang out with her and a batch of Middle school students and play with expensive Legos. Very fun!
To be completely honest the reason I’m posting right now is that I emailed a friend (Dan) and gave him a bit of a hard time aboutn having not posted lately, so I figured I’d better post something quick or he’d return the favor. There we go, check that one off the list. Next up: SLEEP!
