If you read news online, chances are you have heard about the nasty streak of viruses hurled at the Mac platform this week. It’s terrifying! It’s catastrophic! No one is safe anymore!!!
Or, not.
Really, they were very small malware scripts that do mostly nothing. That’s my summary. I found this article today, which I believe is appropriately titled.
Before you believe the hype, take a look at this article:
Just an update…
I spent a few hours last night compiling more stuff for the book to be released early this year. (Question: at what point does it no longer qualify as “early” this year?) 🙂 I am really enjoying putting this together. There is a lot of great stuff that I was thinking through (And in some cases, I still am!) and some well said articles that I hope will challenge, encourage and inspire folks who get to read them – either for the first time, or again, minus typos and with correct sentence structure and stuff. 🙂
(like that one, I guess…)
So, my hope is still that I would have the rough rough draft complete by the time the baby arrives. That grows ever closer however! If you’ve not had a chance to get your prediction in, perhaps you should stop by today, or… you might be too late!
More to come soon. Just wanted to give an update on the next book.
Today is February 20th. 20 years ago today, our niece (the first of her kind in Jen’s family, being the first child of Jen’s oldest brother) was born. That’s a good long time ago. But, imagine this… 32 years ago today, two of our other friends were born – in different, unrelated places. Yes, that makes three folks we know and do life with who were born on this day.
But it gets weirder…
Exactly one year ago today, our new friend Chloe was born bringing the total number of friends and family born on February 20th to a whopping FOUR. Four!!!
That’s crazy.
Happy birthday all!!! 🙂
If you’ve seen Jen lately, you have wondered that very thing. After a double take, or two (wait, would that be a triple take?) you compose yourself and realize that whenever it is, it’s quite soon… 🙂
The actual due date (3/17) is fast approaching, so, we have once again created a little page for you to guess the baby’s due date. I’ll post all the guesses and we’ll use that page as a place to share photos, movies, stories, etc once the baby arrives.
I’m pretty sure that I was dreaming this morning just before I woke up that I dreamt I was dreaming. Is that possible?
“I’m Popeye The Sailor Man! Toot Toot!”
I used to watch that cartoon, and I even watched the movie with Robin Williams in it a time or two. (Should I be admitting that?) 🙂 And I do recall, Popeye in his familiar sailor speak (or whatever that was) saying one of his famous lines, “I yam what I yam!” He said it lamenting that he could not be a better person for Olive Oyle I think, but that was a little deep for Saturday morning cartoons, so it was just a funny line.
But this week I have been marveling at a part of me that seems to be unchangeable. Something so built-in that it really is just “who I am”. I am not one to usually put credence in such a phrase. You are able to make choices, and decisions, which affect your actions, which can change in some ways “who you are”. But there may just be certain things that God has built into us that will almost predict (if that were possible) how we might react in a certain situation.
I was talking with a friend recently about wanting to get up early in the mornings again, and get a good jump on my days that way. But every time I think of that, I start getting in this sort of funk. It can be small, but it’s still there. When I set the wake up time on my alarm, I feel myself cringe a bit. When I slide the switch over to “Alarm”, I am tempted to utter my feelings through a mumbling grumble. When the alarm goes off in the morning, it just starts my day off a bit sour.
And it’s not because I am not a morning person! Seriously! If I happen to just wake up in the morning, I kinda like it. The problem is that I am being made to do something. Yes, even though it is my own choice to do it, I am making myself do it!
Now, you are definitely already thinking, “Greg, just get over it! That’s totally weird!” But this is my point. How could I think such a thing? How could I feel restricted by my own decisions? I have always been self-employed (in my adulthood) because I need freedom, as much as possible. I really don’t like any sort of restrictions, rules, guidelines, routines, patterns, regularity, predictability — to me that is monotonous, and living death.
I can’t recall as I write this the other examples of my insanity, but the thing I am pondering is what good can come out of such a built in weirdness? I mean, at one level I am complete flexible and spontaneous, and a go-with-the-glow kinda guy. That can be good, right? But, then, if there are any pre-set plans or routines… I start to freak out! That can’t be good, can it?
I wish I could just say, “Well, I just need to be more balanced.” I can’t. At least not so far. I really “Yam what I Yam”. That doesn’t mean that I give up and do not try to at least within myself resolve the restlessness that I feel whenever I have some boundaries or confinement placed on me. It seems that could be better for me, and for others.
Or, maybe God made me to be this way, and what he made fits perfectly with where he has placed me.
I am not certain of the answer to that. I’m not certain there is an answer to that. But I’ll keep listening to my Father, and see how he plans to shape this spontaneity in me.
Right now I have to go make dinner. We’re having guests over for dinner tonight. They’ll be here at 6.
And I’m really starting to freak out because of this schedule I’ve placed on myself!!!!
😉
There was an article on the web today suggesting (for real, I think) that Apple is moving toward dropping their OS, and using a version of Windows on their machines?!?! That’s the craziest thing I have ever heard. I think it really is.
The article has had too many hits, and so is down currently, but check it out tomorrow or late tonight. Here’s the link.
Crazy….
It used to be that I could edit the time that a blog was posted. I can not now. So, unfortunately I am going to have to go back through these drafts I saved, and create new blogs and paste them in there, or they’ll get interspersed among my other previous blogs.
It’s confusing. But, you will have to scroll down to see the one I just put up – My Burdens Are My Blessing.
You gotta love it when peoples go and change stuff on you! 🙂
In a recent news article, I saw a reference to a former college basketball player from the University of Providence, in Rhode Island. I actually can’t believe I didn’t remember, or hear more about this guy. I looked up his stats online, and there’s not much on his play on the court… just lots and lots of references to his name. And why not? It had to have been the strangest name EVER for ANY athlete EVER. I think.
So who was this crazy named player?
His name was Shamgod. God Shamgod. Seriously. That’s on his birth certificate.
And he played for PROVIDENCE.
Just a funny piece of NCAA history as we approach the month of March. 🙂
Well, I just checked again, and there are 6 blogs waiting patiently in my blog queue for me to finish (or in some cases START them.) Blogger gives you a Save As Draft feature which I never used to use, but find myself doing so a bit more these days. I am completely overwhelmed with other people’s deadlines at the moment. Seems everything is due all at once. I am not certain I was cut out for this type of customer service business. At least that’s how it feels right now. I don’t have a reason, in fact almost the opposite. I love that I get to create and work on computers – I love that. I love people, and I love helping them. I especially love helping them have a great product of something that I love (the web, computers, etc.)
But I just feel tired.
I am up early every day, up late every night… and I have a young family whom I love and who need me in between those times. So, I’m just feeling drained, even though my wife is great and helps me with all the other stuff that needs to happen around a home. As much as she can in her enlarged state, of course.
I really, really do miss blogging though. I miss writing. I only want to work on my book. But I have people who are counting on my web services. They also pay me $40/hr. So far, no one has paid me for reading my blog. 🙂 I did sell enough books last time to pay for the publication cost, but it can’t pay the bills just yet.
SO, I press on. Seriously, the tone of this blog is more negative than I feel. I think I am just tired.
That said, I’m going to try and pound out a few of those blogs in the queue before I leave the office today.. I just need a change of scenery, pace, something…
