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So, I have a lot to think about as far as jobs and comics and ministry. I figured I'd just write down everything I have up here in my head and come back to it later.

Jobs:
I figured that I'll just apply for that dish washer position and see where it goes. I'll also put out a bunch of other applications but I'm thinking that I'll just take the job that's guaranteed right now.

Comics:
Here's the plan as far as comics go. I'll draw one comic each weekday as well as a sketch on saturdays and sundays. That way I'm doing it all the time. This should keep me busy with stuff and I"ll keep up on things.


Ministry:
We need a bunch of tech people for Pipeline and Frontside. I'm not really sure how to recruit the people that we need though. But we need them. Ideally we'd have enough people to have two different people for each service each week. That would mean that we need six people each week. We have two. So we need four more. and that's just Pipeline. I don't know what frontside needs. Anyhoo.....


So that's what's there. I'll think about it al llater.

GAH! Frustrated!

So, I found out tonight that I really NEED a mac.  This program will do exactly what I want a program to do without being super complicated but I can't use it because it's for macs and I don't have a mac.  I've wanted a mac ever since I got the idea to do a comic because I knew that macs were better suited for things of a creative nature.  But I was always able to tell myself that I didn't need one.  Now I find out about this program and get all excited but I can't use it.  SUCK.  Oh well.  I still have something that works for me and I know how to use it.  It just sucks when you get your hopes up and then they're dashed away, you know.

But I've started scripting again and I have a plan for drawing and posting comics.  I know that I say this and then nothing happens, but this time it will.  I'm gonna have people keeping me accountable.  People keeping you accountable are a good thing.  So the first new comic should be up on the site on monday.

OH!  And there's a new blog in town.  Sheer Audacity by my good pal Nate.  Check it.

And that's it for now.  See y'all later.

mmmm....Fruits of Labour

So, I made some cheesecake and just tasted some of my wares.   Soooo delicious.  It would be better with a fruit topping though.  Or perhaps some chocolate sauce.  Mmmmm.

I really need to stay awake today.  I stayed up monday night in an attempt to fix my messed sleep schedule, but then I ended up falling asleep at noon thirty.  I woke up at 6pm.  So I've been awake for a little over 14 hours now.  I can make it if I find stuff to do though.  Stuff that will keep my mind occupied.  As long as I can keep my mind busy with something simple, yet engaging, I'll be able to stay awake with minimal issue.  Plus I'll be making myself take caffeine boosts at timed intervals through out the day, with the last one being at about 5pm so that it can work it's way through and be cleared out of my body by about 9 or 10.  At that time I'll crash and hopefully wake up 6 to 8 hours later feeling refreshed and ready for thursday.  That's the plan anyway.  Here's to hopin' it works.

So someone has recently (officially) joined in on this whole blogging thing.  She now has her own DOTblogspotDOTcom address now.  YAY!  So lets show her some love and bombard her with comments and such.  Tread Softly...You Tread On My Dreams is open for business.  WOOT WOOT!

short and sweet

So I'm at pipeline right now and I don't have oodles of time, but I figured I'd throw something up. We got our new mac book today. It's pretty sweet. There's a few things that we'll have to work out, but it should work out super nicely. We found a few background videos that we've never seen too. And apparently we've had them on our old computer for.......a really long time. It's rather interesting.
And now I must go work. ta for now.

Save The Internet

I hate politics and anyone who knows me knows this. But this is an issue that I've seen before and I know that it's an issue that will remain at large for some time. That issue is Net Neutrality. Basically, we need to keep the net as it is now. That's all that Save The Internet.com is trying to do. And I've decided to jump on the band wagon. I won't be all "OMG! my internets are being taken away!"*emo tear* But I'll be making occasional updates on information and whatnot.

if Net Neutrality goes away:
Blogs will virtually cease to exist. YouTube and MySpace will disappear. For some, this might sound like a good thing, but it's not. Google might live through it. Any site that allows Joe Schmoe to put up a web page will fall to ruin because no one will be able to access their sites; why use it anymore? This issue affects every single citizen of the United States.

Here's what Google has to say.
And for those of you opposed to reading through all these links, here are a couple videos that sum it all up fairly simply. There's a few things that are in here that are emotional and intend to rile up emotions, but focus on what is being said and not the emotional vomits.

Be sure to sign the petition so we can keep the internet free from corporate control.





Remember to sign the petition.

The first week back

As some of you know, I just gat back from Finland a week ago.  And now that I'm back, I'm feeling rather weird about being back.  It's like I'm a map that's been opened up of a few hours.  Even if you fold on the lines exactly the same way it was folded in the first place, it still doesn't feel or look the same as it did.  I'm too different to allow myself to fall into the same patterns I had before I left.  But how do I change things up?  This is my current conundrum.  So I need to stop distracting myself and sit and hash this one out, yeah?

Things I know:

-I need to really step things up at Pipeline

-I have goals set that I haven't even started to work towards

-I really need to pray more about a lot of different things

-I get distracted from things more easily than I'd like

A little girl in Finland gave me a "lucky moon".  I'm keeping it in my pocket notebook right now.  I don't know why I feel like I should keep it.  It's just a little paper moon that she cut out.  Interestingly enough, there have been many a night where the moonlight was very comforting and calming for me.  How could she know that?  She's only 10 or so.  Odd how my brain pulls these things together.  MAny a time I've made connections between things that may or may not have been mere coincidence.  Of course that brings up the classic question, "Is there such a thing as a coincidence?"  My answer: yes there are mere coincidences, but not as many as people think.  And there are more connections than people realize as well.

Take our team.  We were all there to do something.  We all had specific reasons we were there.  I don't know mine, because I never see what I contribute to anything.  Perhaps God blocks this from me so that I don't get a big head.  But a few of us were there specifically to talk to specific people.  A few of us were there to encourage our brothers and sisters across the globe.

And this is where my brain gets jumbled to the point that I'm too tired to really keep typing.  Plus I gotta get up in five hours so I can be at Pipeline.  So away I go folks.  I'll finish up later.  If I remember.

so.....it's been a while

when you leave something for a long time and then try and get back into it, it's really weird. You fee like you should be able to just jump right back in, but the abilities you had developed are no longer developed. Thus, you have to start over like you had never done it in the first place. I came to this realization today. I jumped into three things that I used to do a lot, but haven't done in a long, LONG time.

One of those things was exercise. I'm still a bit sore from what I did this afternoon. The only reason that I was able to move after doing all those sit ups and push ups was my job. Being a bus boy is very physical, so my new exercise routine didn't kill me from the start.


The next thing was my comic. I started drawing again. It took quite a bit of work to get the main character down. I had lost him and had to do a few takes before I had a semblance of him back in my mind and hand. So now I will draw everyday. This will do a number of things. One, my comic will start to be updated again. Two. I will start doing something productive that will give me a feeling that I've accomplished something each day so I don't feel like a total loser. Three, I'll be acting on one of my dreams.

And the third thing I jumped back into was this. Blogging. It's not as hard as the other things, but I had to get my brain to a point where it was able to just start expelling thoughts. I haven't done that in a while so that took some mental gymnastics for me. But by this point, I'm fully back in the game. So I blog on. I should try to blog daily. Will I ? I don't know. Maybe not. It's really not as important in my life as the other two things.

And now that I'm done with those thoughts, I look at the clock and tell myself, "Oh crap." I have to be awake in six hours so I'm gonna leave now. bye bye all. pray for me if you get an inkling.