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| 20 daysWell it's been 20 days since I have written anything on here. During this time I've done my usual things with AACF, Calvary, and work, except for a five-day trip to Orlando for a tech conference last week. That was a nice break from the routine and I promised myself I'd find more opportunities to break away from that which is my normal routine (even if my routine isn't very normal to begin with).
One routine I haven't maintained very well is blogging. I hope to pick up the pace once again. | | |
| ClarityI should not be surprised when I ask God for clarity on certain matters and He answers by revealing new information or reminding me of something that settles matters in my mind entirely.
I'm not being intentionally or unintentionally (I hope) mystical. This is just how God answers my inquiries.
Other random news...
I've been struggling all week to scrounge up a worship team for Sunday morning. Now I have a small team put together and, with my cold from last week finally on its way out the door, I feel confident again about actually being able to sing for church. What a relief. A different kind of clarity--clarity in my throat. *Ahh-hemmm*
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| High school reunionThe day after Thanksgiving, near my hometown. High school class reunion. I just don't know what I think about this.
I'd probably think it were cooler if I had tried harder to keep in touch with my high school classmates. Now I have a lot of awkward catching up to do!
Life has been good and I need to express that to people.
For some reason, for the first two or three days of this week, I just felt kind of angry. Then, on Wednesday, after figuring out that I was angry about nothing at all, I just decided not to be angry anymore. How fickle I have become.
The best times of my life are the times when I realize that God has put me on the earth to serve other people. The worst times are those when I have been focusing on my own needs, wants, desires, or problems. The meaning of life seems pretty obvious and simple when you put it like that. | | |
| Sipping the workaholMy boss is working from home this morning, and I'm trying to keep up with him and his e-mailed questions. We're working on an interesting task, so I don't mind.
I've spent some time lately thinking about my job and my career. A job is a current occupation and a career is a lifetime occupation. Both can change.
I realize my boss and anyone else can come along and read this blog so it's probably important for me to immediately say, don't worry. I'm not planning any major changes. I like the path I'm on. But I am determined to maximize along the way.
People hate their jobs or they burn out because their work doesn't interest them or they feel like they're in a rut. Some have to effect a job or career change to get out of that state. Those of us who enjoy what we're doing and like our career paths, we have to be intentional about keeping our work interesting and staying out of the rut. It's very possible to do this, and I think I've done OK with that so far.
I was commenting to my coworker that in a few weeks, it'll have been five years that I've worked at my current position. Five years! And it's been nine years that I've worked for Penn State, including three years of 15-20 hours part time.
To do anything for five, ten, 15, 25 or a whole career seems tedious. The secret just seems to be to enjoy it, and it won't be tedious. There are many factors in that.
Working in IT, you can't get too attached to any particular technology because it's going to go away in a number of years--maybe as few as a couple years or as long as twenty years down the road. UNIX has been around for 30 years or so and is still very much alive in one form or another. So one aspect of enjoying IT is to enjoy the changing trends.
I wonder what my work will look like in another ten years. Probably more of what I do now will be automated and I'll have other interesting things to do and a lot cooler interfaces to work with. ("You mean you have to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy!")
Enough musing, and enough work. Looks like the boss logged off and so will I. | | |
| Chicago reverts to segregation?City of Chicago considering reinstating a segregation policy?
Chicago may get 'gay-friendly' high school
It's even complete with the separate-but-equal fallacy: "Officials said Pride Campus would be separate physically but be attached administratively to the School for Social Justice."
Brown v. Board of Education doesn't speak to sexual-preference segregation but the idea behind the Supreme Court ruling should apply.
Chicago, welcome back to the '50s. | | |
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