Adieu, For Now

I'm off for a few days of R-n-R in the Ozarks. I'll be back at the end of the week, so make sure the party celebrating my absence ends by Thursday so that you can pretend you really missed my daily posts.

Seriously, have a great week, y'all!

Charades

I've always enjoyed games like Trivial Pursuit and Pictionary, but I had never played Charades. I am no longer lacking in that qualification. It is a long story for another day as to how I ended up playing Charades today in the middle of the day (and outside in the glorious spring weather, no less), but it turned out to be an interesting middle-of-the-day break.

We had some interesting things to guess, such as “bureaucrat” and “Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” — I'm sure you can imagine the difficulty of those two… Pictionary seems downright easy after this!

Busy-ness

• I had a 10 page analysis of Hamlet due that took a lot of time this week. Some materials I had ordered through inter-library loan took an extremely long time to arrive, which forced me to finish up later than I had planned. I also had to re-tool my thesis due to limited availability of material. Another paper was due as well, but I managed to get it in a few days early.
• I had a Greek vocab test, so I spent a lot of time going over the 150-200 words we've covered to freshen myself up on words covered several months ago, as well as to get down some newer words I had not yet really properly memorized.
• My grandfather and step-grandmother were in town.
• Continued computer issues that I've been trying to repair.
• Other stuff I can't think of right now.

It does not sound so bad, but I also had trouble sleeping this week, so I have been moving much more slowly than normal. I'm grateful that my clients did not need any work done this past week or I would have been going crazy.

Time Got Away from Tim

Yes, I did… it got away from me today. So, I guess y'all will have to wait until tomorrow to hear from me about what I've been up to. Sorry.

Better Late than Never...

In January of last year, my church started reading through the Bible to go along with a two year, all-the-way-through-the-Bible sermon series. To aid in this, we offered One Year Bibles, and I bought one of them. I intended to finish per schedule on December 31, 2004. As it turned out, I soon fell behind, and despite a few weeks where I read two days worth of readings at a time, I found it was hopeless. As it would turn out, I ended up three months and twenty seven days behind schedule.

Does that twenty seven days sound familar? If it does, that's because today is the day I finally finished. Sure, I should be over a quarter of the way through my second time around, but I'm happy to have made it through once. Tomorrow, I suppose, I shall start back on January 1; part of me thought maybe I should try a different reading schedule and return to this one at the beginning of 2006 (thereby again syncronizing my reading with the actual calendar), but I really liked how this Bible organized the readings and I don't think the dates matter all that much, so long as you can remember which one you did last (or use a bookmark).

At any rate, I'd recommend the One Year Bible to anyone looking for a convenient way to read through the Bible. I have the NLT version, but they have it in other editions as well. Even if it takes you the better part of a year and a half, I think you'll find it works out pretty well.

I'm So Tired I Can't Sleep

That sums it up. I'm tired because I've been working like crazy for the last few days, but my mind is racing from everything I've been doing and so I'm not really in the right state to get to sleep. I think I'm going to go read for a bit and see if that helps.

Though grand, the day does now grant to the night,
I call, 'Let sleep come on before the light.'

PhotoQuest

Well, I signed up last week to participate in Flip's PhotoQuest meme. I had good intentions to get the photos up a few days ago, but have not. I have completed the quest, but it is getting late, so I guess I'll have to defer for one more day… but tomorrow, prepare to be amazed. Or maybe not, after all, none of the pictures are amazing, so why should you be amazed?

Back Tomorrow

I didn't get any of my in-process entries finished for tonight.

Mostly Here

Pastor: Are you still alive?

Me: I think so…

That was at 9:00 tonight after a very intense day… the Great Big Move™ of the church office across the street. I got all of the computers running, although our new WAP isn't working quite as well as I hoped. I need to work on that (the high powered antenna I bought seems to decrease the signal).

Anyway, more tomorrow. I'm glad yesterday turned out to be such a nice day to get me prepared for today…

An Unplanned Day

Life comes in moments,
As the bold lightening flashes.
Enjoy the moment,
Savoring the occurrence,
Refreshing as post storm air.

Some days just work out much better than expected. Today was one of those days. I was walking out of my Shakespeare class, planning on doing some network (as in ethernet) planning, when I happened to run into my cousin. She's a high school senior who is planning to come to LU for a BA in Education next year, and today was the day she was suppose to register. I knew that; in fact, I helped her plan her schedule last week, but I did not expect to run into her. She wanted a tour of the campus, which I provided; what a week to do so — the various flowering trees were all in bloom and a warm breeze flowed through the air. Talking a stroll on a spring day like today just makes one feel better. I'm now wishing I had worn my “good” sandals (standard Birkenstocks' with the cork footbed) instead of my less supportive ones (rubber, washable Birkenstocks) today, for my legs are a bit sore, but it was nice.

Then this afternoon, I had an appointment to which the professor I was meeting was about a half hour late. No, this was not a bad thing. A friend of mine works in an office just down the hall, and happened to come in while I was waiting for my appointment. It turned out to be a nice opportunity to chat with her for awhile, something that would not have happened if the meeting had occurred on schedule. She's the type of person that always has something interesting to say, and today was no exception.

At the end of the day, I have not accomplished what I was hoping to (I was hoping to get some web design work done for clients and I needed to return some phone calls), but it worked out as a sort of “accidental vacation day,” which was just what I needed. It wasn't what I planned, but I couldn't have planned it to work out as well as it did had I aimed to.