I was just reminded again today how valuable it can be to be of good humor ( Read more... )

My uncle went to be with the Lord last night. It was very unexpected. He'd had a scary operation for stomach cancer the day before, but the operation was thought to have been successful. It's very hard for his family, particularly my grandparents. He was married, had 3 kids and a bunch of grandchildren. Please, pray for his family.

Last night I resigned as guildmaster of Bhailigh Forsai, the leader of the most powerful alliance on our server in Dark Age of Camelot. For those of you that don't play, we had up to 300 people online on any given night.. thousands of people, all told. I'm not the leader type, I came to the position more by chance than anything, but I was still ( Read more... )

I've been doing some programming in Visual Basic at work lately. I'm a lot better at it than I was last time around, but I'm still a total noob. I am enjoying it some, more so as I begin to get a handle on things and start having a really fast turnaround on bug fixes. I wonder if I'll continue to enjoy it as time goes by.. its very challenging in ( Read more... )

What if a person could spend every moment of their life looking for God's will for that moment? I'm of the opinion that God will never hide his will for a particular decision from us when the time comes. If we really make our best call with the honest intention of doing what is right, he will orchestrate the situation to provide the right answer. I ( Read more... )

It's so easy to be comfortable being someone else. I can look at 3-4 people I respect, find qualities about them that I have or can emulate and feel decent about myself. But can I really feel good about myself, without comparing myself to someone or putting someone else down? No. At this moment I cannot. I can feel good about myself when I excel ( Read more... )

Last night I had a dream. Katie and I were with a few other people (oddly, some of them were people I haven't seen in almost a decade) in this house of horrors type thing. At first it was all crazy and jumbled (and a bit gory and scary) but it didn't have anything to do with us. Then it started to take shape. Each "thing" was a test for an ( Read more... )

right now.. at this very moment.. we're all dying for something.

This will be my first time not doing anything for my old friend's birthday. We had a falling out several years ago, but I've always called her or something let her know that I haven't forgotten her. This year it's different. She didn't come to my wedding. It wasn't that she forgot, or couldn't come- she just decided not to go. And it's not that I'm ( Read more... )

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