Ah, the youth of today … Wait!  In today’s society I can’t take a joke.  Society tells me that this hurts my feelings.  I’m going to sue to get my way!  Scratch and ween baby, scratch and ween!  Here’s the YouTube video of the event.

What to do …

It’s amazing how one’s life can go from manageable to one seemingly bursting from the seams.  In a span of one week, a co-worker was promoted to upper management (good for him) but that meant the loss of his position and the distribution of his work to the rest of the team.  Following that two co-workers have put in their two-week notice which again means distribution of workloads and increasing the number of weekend work shifts.  How bad is that for a team of eight (soon to be seven) to lose three people in basically a week.  Our team was already pretty busy but now I guess we’re heading to the overworked stage.    So I know it looks bad in my mind but we’ll hire people … eventually.  Then everything will be normal again.  It’s just a matter of when that will happen.

The real issue at hand is about time and my potential use of it.  I’ve been asked to discern God’s will about serving on the church Board for the next two years.  My immediate response was “Thanks, but that’s OK.”  I had served on the Board for six years previously and honestly, that was a very draining experience physically, mentally and especially spiritually.  I learned a lot about relying on God and how my particular way of thinking doesn’t always mix with how the rest of the church leadership thinks.  Thankfully, through God’s grace I know the church leadership is changing and becoming more God centered in it’s thinking. (This isn’t supposed to be a discouragement to those discerning the same decision.)  I figured that currently I don’t have much time to spare.  That if I were to decide to be on the Board I would have to give up something such as leading our weekly Bible study.  Both are extremely time consuming but I felt my spiritual growth is much better served being a Bible study leader but what matters more is what would give more glory to God?  So unless I got a clear sign from God I would continue to stand fast in my decision to not be on the Board. 

We’ve been studying the book of Revelation and preparing study on the seven churches (Chapters 2 and 3) I sorta felt the Holy Spirit revealing certain things about these churches.  Especially the church of Sardis and the church of Philadelphia.  The church at Sardis was alive physically but dead spiritually.  Their routine was set, the church was not glorifying God in any way because the people had become complacent and smug.  They needed to be woken up spiritually.  Yet the church in Philadelphia was the opposite.  A small, yet vibrant church that Christ was pleased with.  Even in the time of opposition and trials they continued to glorify God.  Every opportunity to bring glory to Him they did.  Was this a sign that being on the Board was the best way for me to do bring glory to God?  To take the opportunities presented to our church and help ensure that we are not a spiritually dead church?

With more work looming, would that interfere with church or should the question be presented in a different fashion?  Is work interfering with church?  (And obviously I’m leaving out how all this would affect my time with the wife which I believe both would do so in a substantial manner.) 

What to do?  I have no clue …
I just wish I had some mac and cheese to eat. 

Redskins win on Saturday 13-7 over the Baltimore Ravens.  That’s one touchdown for the Skins.  A win for the Skins making that a two topping Papa Johns pizza for $8.99 + tax!  ahhhh It’s football season. 

• Know your civil rights.  But also determine how far you’re willing to go when you have to deal with the ignorance of others.  (It really would have been easier to just show the receipt.)
• Google maybe taking over the world but at least they release some really cool stuff.

Yes, I do have a dusty stack and no, I’m not part of the “ONE” out of four.  I’m just waiting for the movie versions. 

And as a sports fan I feel the need, like all other sports fans, to comment on Michael Vick.  Three words really.  What a stupid idiot.  (oops guess thats four words =)  Gotta keep it real.  Protecting my street cred.  Not forgetting where I came from or grew up at.  Listen to all the sports athetes that get into trouble and you hear similar comments.  These are not intelligent or commonsense comments.  Million dollar babies who rather worry about their ” street reputation” than bettering themselves.  Too many immature adults with more money than what they know what to do with.  It’s sad.  Really, really sad.

Happy Birthday to the Compact Disc.  I find it fascinating that they always try and attribute the downfall of the music CD because of file sharing / illegal downloads.  Bah.  Get real.  I doubt that the large percentage of people who used to buy CDs started to download music illegally.  If anything these are the same folk who used to copy CDs in the late 90′s and early 2000′s.  Personally, if you look at the music industry over the past 10 years a huge portion of the music thats been released has been crap.  Put something good out music industry and then maybe people would buy it.

I just don’t get it.

I was pleasantly surprised by a WMATA employee today.  As I was waiting for my train to arrive, a different one was just pulling away when it abruptly stopped.  Apparently a kid, he looked to be under 12 years old, had gotten onto the train without the rest of his family.  The family got the WMATA employee to stop the train.  Never thought they actually did stuff like that but kudos to them.  The train stopped, opened it’s doors and the family got on before the doors closed again.

On the flip side, it’s interesting to know what they do with their SmarTrip cards.  When I purchased mine I decided not to register it for obvious reasons.  Due to certain new circumstances it needs to be registered.   So I went ahead and tried to do so, only to find out I had to talk to a SmarTrip representative because of some “error” or “issue.”  After talking to the rep I found out that the card automatically gets registered whenever you use a credit or debit card to add more money to the card.  Pretty smart on their part (not on mine I guess) to do that.  Data mining is an extremely important commodity these days (If you don’t believe me what do you think Google does). 

There’s an interesting article about generic fees charged by telephone, credit card, etc companies.  Though I normally look at my statements I took another gander at our house phone bill.  Everything is very nondescript – the taxes, fees and various other charges are about 55% of the bill.  Maybe it’s time to ditch the conventional house phone and go with a digital, internet phone service.

The Bourne Ultimatum opened this past weekend.  Someone at work asked if it was the sequel to the Bourne Shell.    

Man are we some geeks.   

Another reason to lose some weight.  Well, in my case about 110 pounds but still.    And the fun just doesn’t stop there!  All this from one movie.  One movie that’s made over $500 Million worldwide.