Finish what you start

Funny title to this post. Mainly because it's WAY past my bedtime, and I'm tired, etc. I even started to do a "real" post last night, but got interrupted. Tonight, well, it didn't happen. Mi Familia is up and leaving me all alone tomorrow morning through the rest of the week. Sooo. . . this is all I'm gonna write!

Sorry for the lack of recent decent posts. I'm so tired all the time, including right now. Also, I'm taking up the phone line. So. . . a few quick things. Mike was baptized on Sunday. It was a great time in church with my unsaved family members. They heard the gospel and hopefully they will continue to see it through Mike. I get a few days off from work soon to go see Amy in the Bay Area on July 8. I fly up that Friday and then back down on Monday morning. So, it's quick, but I can't wait.
The wood floor is in!! Today, two guys were taping off where they will paint the lines. Lacquer, etc., will go on later this week. Church will be outside on Sunday!! That will be fun. Pictures will be provided.
Out.

This is what happens to me every once and awhile. Looks beautiful, doesn't it? It's called Blepharitis 

This just might be the coolest hair of all time. This is Matt Telle. He's a cool guy. 

I have the most awesome girlfriend ever!!!! 

My life as a tired pre-RA

It's been awhile since I've left an official post (big surprise), but Amy's proliferation of entries today has somewhat inspired me.

It's only 8:30 pm, but I feel like going to bed already. Today started off in unusual fashion, when I woke up at 6:46, 46 minutes after my normal wake-up time. I've been using my cell phone alarm all summer since it doesn't wake Trevor up most of the time. Last night, at exactly 1:15 am, my cell phone went off. Why? I couldn't tell you. I reset it for 6, but apparently it didn't go off. This happened last week, so I'm ditching the cell phone alarm and going for my clock alarm, which requires me to get out of bed really fast to turn it off. Whatever happened to the good ol' days when a rooster woke you up? (No need to answer that ridiculous question)

Currently, I am trying to conquer the world as the Germans on my favorite time-waster: Civilization 3. Yeah, I know I shouldn't spend my few precious free hours playing a 4-year-old computer game, but it is really addicting!!

Well, I was gonna write more, but it's time to go to bed!

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Todd's Thoughts. . . Read the blog for today. It's funny. . . if you know your Bible, that is

Once again. . . Quickly

Today was a wonderful Lord's Day. After the morning service (the last one with the carpet in the gym! Tomorrow the wood floor project begins!), we came home and ate a leisurely lunch before heading over to Grace Baptist for Dr. Dunkin's memorial service. It was an awesome time of God's greatness revealed in this man's life. What a legacy he left behind! I hope that I can live as faithful a life as this man did. It was a lllllooonnnnggg service, but I was never bored or sleepy.

Just started a new book called Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. It's basically the author's (Daniel Jonah Goldhagen) doctoral dissertation and is a thoroughly stretching read so far. It is highly intellectual and very professorial but also extremely enlightening. Needless to say, this book will take me much longer than any other book I've read that is 630 pages long. It has 4 Appendixes and 126 pages of notes!! I hope I'm significantly smarter when I'm done reading it. Time to go! Have a good week.

Tired

Quickly: Saw Revenge of the Sith again with Mike on Thursday. Grandma, Aunt Tracy and Mike came up that day to see Trevor's graduation that night. Trevor won the Diligence Award, I think. Friday was a lot of hard work setting up for Senior Graduation which went well that night. Afterward, Mike and Scott and I went to the Pena's for a little party. Jodi won some awards and even though she doesn't read this blog: "Jode, I'm very proud of you!" The Santa Maria trio left this morning and I read a whole bunch before going to work at 1:30. I worked till 10 and it was sooo hectic but God is gracious and gave me perspective: namely, that it wasn't that big a deal and that I'll have to work hard for the rest of my life so I might as well deal with it. Bedtime, out. . . ZZZzzzzzz

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Does anyone know how to add cool links and other sidebar stuff? I want to add websites and such, but I can't figure it out.

Blogging

this is the third day in a row. Wear it Amy!

Star Wars

By the way, this blog is cool: darthside.blogspot.com. Go there and do some reading just for fun!

Listen to your mother!

My mom used to always tell me to walk my bike across the street. I remember doing it grudgingly and with some degree of impatience. Well. . . those words of wisdom came back to haunt me yesterday while on my way from my church job to Big Lots. I slowed down when I came to a crossing, but the walk signal was up for me. I kept slowing, to make sure the lady in the red SUV saw me. I thought perhaps she would use some common sense and look toward me before she pulled out, but alas, she did not. Right as I passed in front of her car, she pushed the accelerator and hit me. Not very hard, mind you. Just enough to knock me from the bike. She was horrified and I was irritated (read: angry). I picked up the bike, checked it for damage and saw none. Her front bumper had a nice scratch on it, so I looked at her in time to see her mouth the words: "I'm so sorry!" and then got back on my bike and headed for Big Lots.

Moral: Always listen to mommy's words.

Summer is here

It has arrived! That season of unending ease and boredom. . . Yeah right.

Summer is just another kind of busy, at least for me in 2005. Right now, I'm working two jobs at about 60 hours a week. Tomorrow, I will find out my unpaid assignment for working in the Sports Information program at TMC. Even though it adds more pressure and work for me this summer, I thought it wise to get my foot in the door in something that greatly interests me and could be my future job. That doesn't make it any easier, but it helps remind me that it's not in vain.

In other news. . . Amy left for the East Coast yesterday. Her trip went well, albeit a longer stayover in Georgia. I miss her already, but am looking forward to a new aspect in our relationship: long-distance communication. Fortunately, Amy changed her area code to a 661 code, mostly so that I wouldn't have to use calling cards all the time.

On Monday night, I saw Revenge of the Sith for a second time. Just for your information, it was even better the second time around. I hope to see it at least one more time, hopefully with my cousin Mike. We are both Star Wars aficionados (for the meaning of that word I would recommend reading Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Yes, that title does come from Ecclesiastes for anyone wondering), and had perhaps our best of many experiences together when we saw it at midnight.

I'm reading John Piper's The Pleasures of God right now, and it is very good. I like Piper's writing style. It's very functional and is mostly owing to his college days at Wheaton. The book explores aspects of God's character that had never occurred to me before, or at least never in such glaring obviousness.

Lastly, one goal in 2005 is to read through the Bible in a year, which Amy has undertaken as well. I'm significantly behind right now, but it is well worth the effort to catch up to where I should be. Another goal is to read 50 books this year. I'm at 21 right now, so I figure I need to be between 35-40 by the time school gets going in late-August/early September. Yap at me to find out how I'm doing and/or to keep me accountable. That's all for now. Live strong.