A RETURN TO NONCHEAP BLOGGING! YAY!
God woke me up this morning in time for Mom to take me into town today (7 AM). I am quite serious about Him doing it, because I didn't set an alarm, I went to bed at about 3:45 in the morning, and both Mom and Curran forgot to get me up. In the car, after a (civil) argument about whether or not she should be privy to my entire situation academically and financially, she dropped me off at Dad's apartment, where I watched yesterday's Smallville, Fullmetal Alchemist, and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. On the same tape is a CMT Crossroads with John Mayer and Brad Paisley that I am very much looking forward to watching. :D
Anyway, since I only had three and a quarter hours' sleep, I took an hourlong nap before waking up around 11 to help Dad pack for his planned afternoon hunting trip with Curran. It took us three hours to find everything and get it into the car. Of course, he never got the phone call to confirm that there would be anyone at the house to let them onto the lease, so that was canceled. :p
So around 2:30, we set out to get my errands done. First, we went to the bank, so I could cash my Christmas checks. Then, we went to Wal-Mart, so Dad could pick up some pictures he had dropped off for processing. I went to browse among the CDs and picked up The Best of Jethro Tull and John Mayer's Room for Squares. Then Dad came up and opened the picture packet. Lo and behold, they were my long-lost pictures from my Mexico mission trip! YAY! We then went to Target to return the small, wimp-speakered CD stereo/alarm radio Mom got me for Christmas, and looked at more powerful versions. I ended up buying the new Flogging Molly CD, within a mile of home, so I could try out the various players on display, haha. I bought a pretty nice one, I think. 5-disc changer, nice sound, pretty even response: much better than just listening on my headphones, although if I get a good pair of headphones, it has a headphone jack as well. Also, it has RCA line inputs, for either a cassette deck, or... dum dum dum, A TURNTABLE! One of which I would love to get. (but I also need some vinyl, baby!) Next, Dad took me over to the Campus Post Office, where my mailbox was empty as usual. :cry: So depressing...
When we got back, we ate some pizza and watched some Stevie Ray Vaughan Live at Montreaux Jazz Festival 1982 DVD. Then I came upstairs to make my mix for the CGR Mix CD Club and boy is it a good one, IMHO... the songs seem to flow and clash brilliantly, so it should be a major pleasure to listen to (this is the hoped-for result, anyway, as well as introducing some people to some excellent new music)... I didn't put any Phil Keaggy on there (major surprise) and neither did I put any songs by The Choir (another surprise). I meant to, but they didn't fit on this one. I will not post my tracklist now, but suffice to say that it includes Star Trek theme music, a song by The Prayer Chain, a Chicago song and a Blindside song back to back, and some Irish folk punk, among other things. While I was doing this, Dad went to go pick up Curran and Leah from Mom's house.
I imagine this was rather boring for you to read. I've returned to noncheap posts, maybe I'll return to some more interesting thoughts on Christianity like I used to post back in the day. What do I think started this off? Well, it may have had something to do with reading my old blog (http://christianguitar.org/forums/showthread.php?t=63313 ... I'm guitarfan01) yesterday and marveling at the difference in post styles, and in the difference in my attitude. And do you know what? I'm beginning to think I've been saved for longer than this last year. Of course, there was some deceit and especially exaggeration... but a lot of it was completely honest. I was much less controlled last year, I think... screaming obscenities and things at inopportune times... but God used all of that for good, as He does. He is so beautiful, this God we serve, this God that has redeemed us. Redemption is one of my favorite words... it means so much more to me than forgiveness, because redemption, to my mind, means not just the dismissal of sin, but the reparation of the conditions that led to it and followed from it... to redeem something is to exchange something of no value for something of great value, for example, silver certificates in pre-FDR times: every dollar bill was a certificate of ownership of so many ounces of silver or gold, and the paper itself was worthless. A person could go to the bank, and exchange the worthless paper for the precious gold or silver. Our relationship with God is much like that... through the Holy Spirit, God has given us the ability to go to Him and exchange our worthless, hell-bound, pitiful, poor, nasty, brutish, and short lives, and recieve a precious life, bound to the Holy Spirit, rich in love, beautiful in creation, and infinite in length. Completely amazing.
God bless you all.
Galen
Anyway, since I only had three and a quarter hours' sleep, I took an hourlong nap before waking up around 11 to help Dad pack for his planned afternoon hunting trip with Curran. It took us three hours to find everything and get it into the car. Of course, he never got the phone call to confirm that there would be anyone at the house to let them onto the lease, so that was canceled. :p
So around 2:30, we set out to get my errands done. First, we went to the bank, so I could cash my Christmas checks. Then, we went to Wal-Mart, so Dad could pick up some pictures he had dropped off for processing. I went to browse among the CDs and picked up The Best of Jethro Tull and John Mayer's Room for Squares. Then Dad came up and opened the picture packet. Lo and behold, they were my long-lost pictures from my Mexico mission trip! YAY! We then went to Target to return the small, wimp-speakered CD stereo/alarm radio Mom got me for Christmas, and looked at more powerful versions. I ended up buying the new Flogging Molly CD, within a mile of home, so I could try out the various players on display, haha. I bought a pretty nice one, I think. 5-disc changer, nice sound, pretty even response: much better than just listening on my headphones, although if I get a good pair of headphones, it has a headphone jack as well. Also, it has RCA line inputs, for either a cassette deck, or... dum dum dum, A TURNTABLE! One of which I would love to get. (but I also need some vinyl, baby!) Next, Dad took me over to the Campus Post Office, where my mailbox was empty as usual. :cry: So depressing...
When we got back, we ate some pizza and watched some Stevie Ray Vaughan Live at Montreaux Jazz Festival 1982 DVD. Then I came upstairs to make my mix for the CGR Mix CD Club and boy is it a good one, IMHO... the songs seem to flow and clash brilliantly, so it should be a major pleasure to listen to (this is the hoped-for result, anyway, as well as introducing some people to some excellent new music)... I didn't put any Phil Keaggy on there (major surprise) and neither did I put any songs by The Choir (another surprise). I meant to, but they didn't fit on this one. I will not post my tracklist now, but suffice to say that it includes Star Trek theme music, a song by The Prayer Chain, a Chicago song and a Blindside song back to back, and some Irish folk punk, among other things. While I was doing this, Dad went to go pick up Curran and Leah from Mom's house.
I imagine this was rather boring for you to read. I've returned to noncheap posts, maybe I'll return to some more interesting thoughts on Christianity like I used to post back in the day. What do I think started this off? Well, it may have had something to do with reading my old blog (http://christianguitar.org/forums/showthread.php?t=63313 ... I'm guitarfan01) yesterday and marveling at the difference in post styles, and in the difference in my attitude. And do you know what? I'm beginning to think I've been saved for longer than this last year. Of course, there was some deceit and especially exaggeration... but a lot of it was completely honest. I was much less controlled last year, I think... screaming obscenities and things at inopportune times... but God used all of that for good, as He does. He is so beautiful, this God we serve, this God that has redeemed us. Redemption is one of my favorite words... it means so much more to me than forgiveness, because redemption, to my mind, means not just the dismissal of sin, but the reparation of the conditions that led to it and followed from it... to redeem something is to exchange something of no value for something of great value, for example, silver certificates in pre-FDR times: every dollar bill was a certificate of ownership of so many ounces of silver or gold, and the paper itself was worthless. A person could go to the bank, and exchange the worthless paper for the precious gold or silver. Our relationship with God is much like that... through the Holy Spirit, God has given us the ability to go to Him and exchange our worthless, hell-bound, pitiful, poor, nasty, brutish, and short lives, and recieve a precious life, bound to the Holy Spirit, rich in love, beautiful in creation, and infinite in length. Completely amazing.
God bless you all.
Galen