I have had something funky going on with my ear since August. It pretty much started a few days after I was done with Southwestern. I am thinking that my ears got accustomed to going up and down mountains every morning and night, and when that stopped and the right ear decided to get infected or whatever its issues is.
Read more…
Posted by David under Uncategorized | Comments Off
This past Sunday my family held a small memorial service for my Mom’s mother. We called her Granny for all of my life, so that’s how I’ll refer to her here too.
The service was in a small Presbyterian church in downtown Fort Myers. Only members of my family and the two pastors were there for the service. She didn’t have many friends here in Fort Myers, because she was from Texas. She had only been living here in Florida for a few years in a assisted living facility.
Read more…
Posted by David under Uncategorized | Comments (1)
In my room I have three posters of lighthouses. Each of these posters are similar to the Successories posters, in fact, they might actually be the real thing.
I picked lighthouses, because I wanted a theme and of the posters available at the time of purchase they were my favorite theme. I like the idea of lighthouses because of their purpose. They warn you of the coastline, light up the sea, and serve as landmarks to guide your path. They also make fun phallic symbols for when you’re in the mood for sexual jokes.
Read more…
I have been thinking about whether Joy and I should rent an apartment or buy a home for the time we will be living in Orlando. I know that we’d both be really excited about owning a home, but we’d need to make sure that it makes good financial sense to do so. I have been wanting some information on how to calculate the differences between buying a house and renting an apartment. I learned all of this over a year ago in my Real Estate class, but I lost the fancy calculator we had then, and I’ve forgotten most of the formulas.
This is where this cool website comes into the picture. They have a really cool library of information available to everyone, and I didn’t even need to sign up for anything. It had a calculator and after some reading I remembered a number of the formulas I had learned. I’m now so happy I wanted to tell someone!
Posted by David under Something New! | Comments (4)
I had a really, really great lunch today. In my search for ever spicier foods I have found these gourmet hotdog/bratwurst type things that are made with ground turkey, habenero peppers, and green chiles. I made one of those and put it on this whole wheat sub roll. Then I had some ketchup, of course, and Black Pepper Jack Doritos on the side. SPICY! Yum!
Posted by David under Uncategorized | Comments (1)
Jessica Brar sent me this e-mail today. I thought it was “funny as hell,” and a good proof that even Chemistry can be subjective at times.
I don’t know if the story has any truth to it, but I don’t really think that matters — it’s funny if its factual or fictional!
Read On!
Read more…
Posted by David under Laughs | Comments (1)
I can’t believe I haven’t posted about this yet! I had so much going on…
Well, nothing is stopping me now, right!?!
Monday morning I was working at Panera. It wasn’t such a great day, because people were being unusually grumpy that morning. I was in a pretty decent mood, so people kinda took their grumpiness out on the weird, happy guy.
That was all OK though, because in walks this guy, who was wanting to order some bagels for himself and his girlfriend.
Read more…
Posted by David under Personal News | Comments (4)
I have been doing a lot of reading lately for school, and I keep coming across this main issue of idolatry. I’ve had it defined, redefined, explained and Biblically referenced for me over and over again, and somethings have finally clicked with me.
I have idols in my life. We all do. Idols are the things that we worship or love instead of God. They bring us pleasure, but also pain when we are kept from having them. They are motivating forces in our lives that often get us to act the way God would have us act, but more often they motivate us to do things that we’d rather not do and things that are against God.
The idols I’ve identified in my life so far are –
Women and sexuality in general.
Approval and Respect
Money/Security/Financial Growth
Video Games/Movies/Entertainment Media
Astrology
Relationships
Read more…
Posted by David under Personal Development | Comments (8)
I guess the new word for this scourge is spamments. I was calling it blog spam, but one word is always better than too, unless you’re trying to tell someone that you love them.
I haven’t posted in over a week, because I have always been too busy with my time online trying to clear out all these spamments, which has taken longer than usual because there have been more than usual and because I am now closing the ability to comment on posts that have received a spamment. After doing this long enough I think almost all of my older posts will be closed to commentary and I will get almost no spamments. Sad, but that is how I am handling it. Now to write about something meaningful about my life.
Posted by David under Blogging | Comments (1)
In the last few years I have been noticing another pattern of behavior in myself. I get complacent. In fact, complacency is an extremely strong underlying motive for many of the things I do. I want to get to a place where I can be finished and rest. Anything that only requires one set of actions is extremely attractive to me.
The problem with all of this is strikingly clear to many people. Complacency is really, really bad and dangerous.
Posted by David under Me | Comments (2)