I am going to try to post on this site every day for two weeks (at least).
Now is the perfect time to make such a commitment, especially as I have a relatively light few weeks ahead, compared both to what comes after and what has come before. So if you are frustrated (like I am) at the rather sporadic level of posting I have done over the past few months, welcome back. Hopefully I can stick to the commitment.
So here is a digest of the past month's haps...
- A and I accepted a call (position) at a church in Mooresville, North Carolina. We are both really excited for the move. The last month has been largely consumed with trying to lock down a house, and last week we traveled on down to NC to check out some. We found two that were awesome; one that was perfect, but has another buyer that will likely take it first, and the other is near perfect, but about 10-15 minutes outside of town. Mah. It's weird looking at these houses, because your brain is trying to grasp the fact that you could potentially be in this place for the next 5-10 years of your life. Anyway, that's still going... Add the stress of a June 15th start date in NC, and that makes the house search pretty high priority.
- Adrien got me a new iPod as a graduation present. She is awesome. It is awesome. That filled me with too much awesome to handle, and I dropped the iPod. I felt like I had dropped a baby. It seemd alright, but again, I feel as though I dropped a baby that now seems alright - you never know if this drop is going to have cause some hidden damage that will come back to haunt me in the future.
- My computer died (well, the fan died, rendering it useless), and I had to go back to the old iBook Macintosh that is a good 8 years old. That made me realize a few things. One, Macs are awesome, and I miss owning one as my primary machine. This sucker, despite having sat dormant in a closet for three years, and being purchased well over eight years ago, still runs like a genius. However, I have also discovered that technology has done a lot of things over tha past eight years, and I was now limited to what was essentially a sleek looking word processor. In a lot of ways, that made me realize that, for as much as I really appreciate and utilize my laptop (good old chunky Compaq), I really don't need it. All I need is a word processor. Anyway, I got the Compaq pack - it was still under warranty - and it worked like gold again, but the technicians for some reason put stupid Windows Vista back on it (I had painstakingly downgraded to the far better Windows XP). In the process of putting Vista back on it, they also erased the entire hard drive. Way to go, guys. Fortunately, I had backed everything up, but it was a tedious chore to load everything back on (and find all of the XP drivers for the hardware again). So I finally got it loaded up, back to normal last night, and then the plug somehow got frayed and starte sparking. Hooray. Fortunately, the warranty extends to the plug, so they are sending me a new one. It does however mean a few more days with the Mac Daddy / Daddy Mac. 12 GB hard drive and all. No wireless, system 10.1. Go for it!- Lastly, I have apparently forgotten how to sleep again. I had insomnia in college, and any who have heard me talk about it will know that I remember it fondly, for whatever reason. I don't think that this is getting to that point again, but since I have had less rigor involved in my daily schedule this week, I have somehow decided that sleep is overrated. I have gotten an average of about 4 hours of sleep each night since Sunday. Not that I'm accomplishing anything real in that time. Mainly it's menial tasks, largely reloading stuff on the Compaq, loading stuff on the new iPod, etc. It's like 10pm hits and I suddenly lose all motivation to go to bed. We'll see how this develops...
Okay, that was a long one that wasn't all that flashy, but I was just getting up to speed. More to come tomorrow...
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welcome back, tyler.
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