I was reading tonight and I came across something that got me to thinking about the original meaning of Christmas. So, the first thing I did was open up a search of the Bible. I tried several translations and failed to find the search term ‘Christmas’ anywhere in any of the most popular translations of the Bible.
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Merry Christmas everyone!
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One of our dwarf hamsters died today. It’s very sad. Joy and I both miss her very much — Joy especially — because she was Joy’s favorite hamster.
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It’s 34°F outside! Luckily, there’s a fireplace in here… we’ve had a fire going since early this evening and the whole house is warm from just this one fire.
It’s soooo nice, man. Joy is sleeping by the fire keeping warm and adding wood whenever she feels like it (or wakes up,) and I’ll be sleeping in my room, which is warm even with the fireplace several rooms away.
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I’ve realized over the course of the last few years that I like to have time to myself. I probably never really got much of a chance to know this until I had a long period of time that was not to myself. Lately, I’ve had that chance both in college and in having a girl friend during college.
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Tomorrow I’ll be leaving Gainesville, finally, and heading back home. Last year was a pretty dismal holiday experience, so I decided back then on a few things that I would change for 2003.
Call them resolutions if you will.
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Last night I saw a raccoon as I was driving home from Joy’s apartment-style dorm. Tonight I was driving to pick her up from studying, and I saw a roadkcoon on the same short stretch of road. It had only been hit once the first time I saw it, and I got a pretty good look at it, because it was close to this stop sign on University AVE.
I couldn’t help thinking, ‘Dead looks so weird.’ There was a cute and ugly all at the same time raccoon just last night, and here, in complete contrast is this uncomfortable looking dead one.
The whole concpet of dead is so weird. It’s different than just still — like in a picture. It’s haunting. So, I’m blogging.
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Saddam Hussein was captured early this morning in a small town along the corridor between Tikrit and Baghdad.
This is big news I guess, but I can’t bring myself to be excited right away. I am thinking ahead to the trial or whatever will happen to him next. I can’t help but think that even though we managed to capture him alive and reasonably well people are going to continue to find things to be upset about with our handling of this situation as well.
I guess that is just life though. No matter what you do (when you’re doing something important) someone will likely be unhappy with you. I am glad that he is no longer roaming free, but I wonder what court he will be tried under, and I wonder if it will really make a difference in the effort to calm and rebuild Iraq. I certainly hope so.
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I run into many sites that judge music, movies, plays… art in general, and I was wondering where the basis of their judgement lies. Also, I got to thinking that it would be pretty convenient if there were some universal measures by which all people judge art.
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I’ve studied a bit of astrology in my day, and in that time I’ve also mentioned my interest in it (or knowledge of some of it) to people here and there.
One typical question I’ve run across is the, “So, what are (enter astrological sign here — with plural marker) like?” question. It happens almost every time.
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