Yay, snot.
So, I have a cold, thus necessitating a day off work (so as not to scare the clients into thinking I'm going to give them pneumonic plague) and postponing my ortho appointment.
But I'm having a decent day regardless. Finally set up a sort of reading plan for the Old Testament, so we'll see how that goes. I've been looking forever for a decent reading plan online, but the primary problem with that is that I don't *want* to take a year to read the Bible. I certainly want to do an in-depth study later which will probably take that long or longer, but right now I just want to go over everything. So, I'm going to try to plug through the Old Testament in a month or so. This shouldn't be too hard, since I've found a way to read the NRSV online, so I can do part of it in the morning, part at lunch, and part in the evening before bed.
In related news: Evidently I am now a Muslim, to go from the number of times I've heard mentioned recently that Barack Obama must be. I don't know how I missed before that he's a UCC member. Makes me dreadfully miss my old church, now. There's no UCC in this area, so I'm going to a Church of Christ right now, largely due to proximity. I like the a capella singing, and it's interesting to be exposed to a different tradition. It helped that the pastor here was definitely an academic sort, but unfortunately he's since moved on. The guy filling in seems to be similar, at least, so the sermons are in-depth studies of things, not so much spewing hellfire about pop culture. (I don't care how satisfying a Ten-Minute Hate might be, I'm not going to participate in it.)
But I miss my old church. I'm starting to really hope that we do move back to Ohio, so I can go back again. I'm *pretty* sure that they haven't become Muslims in my absence.
But I'm having a decent day regardless. Finally set up a sort of reading plan for the Old Testament, so we'll see how that goes. I've been looking forever for a decent reading plan online, but the primary problem with that is that I don't *want* to take a year to read the Bible. I certainly want to do an in-depth study later which will probably take that long or longer, but right now I just want to go over everything. So, I'm going to try to plug through the Old Testament in a month or so. This shouldn't be too hard, since I've found a way to read the NRSV online, so I can do part of it in the morning, part at lunch, and part in the evening before bed.
In related news: Evidently I am now a Muslim, to go from the number of times I've heard mentioned recently that Barack Obama must be. I don't know how I missed before that he's a UCC member. Makes me dreadfully miss my old church, now. There's no UCC in this area, so I'm going to a Church of Christ right now, largely due to proximity. I like the a capella singing, and it's interesting to be exposed to a different tradition. It helped that the pastor here was definitely an academic sort, but unfortunately he's since moved on. The guy filling in seems to be similar, at least, so the sermons are in-depth studies of things, not so much spewing hellfire about pop culture. (I don't care how satisfying a Ten-Minute Hate might be, I'm not going to participate in it.)
But I miss my old church. I'm starting to really hope that we do move back to Ohio, so I can go back again. I'm *pretty* sure that they haven't become Muslims in my absence.