10-Jun-2005

Currently Watching
The Lord of the Rings - The Motion Picture Trilogy (Special Extended DVD Edition)
By Elijah Wood
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5-Jun-2005

Currently Playing
Amazing Grace: Bagpipes & Drums of Scotland
By Various Artists
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4-Jun-2005

Currently Watching
Force 10 from Navarone
By Robert Shaw, Harrison Ford, Edward Fox, Franco Nero
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2-Jun-2005

Lets try this again.  I got on last night to blog, and never had time to finish what I was typing.  I'm gonna keep it short so I can cover all the bases.  Details to come.  Dana graduated May 7th from TNU (the semester is finally over).  She and I along with 19 other people from TNU left on the 9th for the Ukraine missions trip.  We did demolition and house visits and got to work with a children's home.  Flew back on the 20th (I was sick for the last half of the missions trip and the flight was no acception - I'll not go into details of how many bags I used... ok, you talked me into it.  It was 5).  Then I had a week and a half to get unpacked, sorted, and repacked to drive out to Denver.  I finally found a car (with a lot of help from Mom and Richard).  It is a 2002 Ford Taurus (with 93,000 miles on it after the 1200 mile drive out here).  I'm now in Denver staying with a family of 11.  It's so nice to play games with younger people.  I'm working at Computronix (computer stuff - info systems design).  That Info Tech degree is helping out more than I thought it would.  I'll be here till August 22nd when I drive back to Nashville.  Leave comments about what you want to hear more about...  More news later, I'm off to bed.

4-May-2005

Currently Playing
Fallen
By Evanescence
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22-Apr-2005

Work

Man, life is hard.   Something really bad happened at work yesterday.   Right now, it is the second to last think I needed to hear about my job, though it isn't any better than the worst thing I could have heard.   I've learned a lot about this school and how it works.

I'm really glad I took that position out in Denver this summer.   I was considering applying for summer RA here and working in CIT full time.   I found out yesterday that that wouldn't be possible, but I had already decided to go to Denver a month or two ago.   I can see the hand of God in directing me to pursue Denver and not stay here.   He knew what was coming and as usual was taking care of me.

Due to some reorganization of technology responsibilities on campus, my boss got laid off yesterday.   As a result, at the end of this term, my position no longer exists (I have about two weeks left).   I'm going to see if ITS (who is now responsible for web development) will have a position for me to do support for current sites and possibly develop anything new that is needed.   I don't know if they plan on hiring someone else to do web development or if they are going to farm it all out.   That will probably have a lot to do with whether or not they could use a student worker.

This is an exhausting ordeal.   I don’t know what I’m going to do next year if ITS doesn’t have a need for me.   I don’t know what I’ll do next summer when I graduate if the temporary position I have this summer doesn’t pan out.   All I know is that God will provide.   He has before, and I know He’ll continue.

Sidebar: for security reasons, when my boss left, passwords were changed.   I can’t access things I need to finish my work.

Pattern?

My life seems to be a pattern of one event after another.   About the time that I get over one problem (my last few blogs), another fills the empty space.   God has given me the grace to deal with each situation as it comes, but lately, I’ve had so much pressure with final projects, the end of the semester, and now this situation, I just want a break from it all.   I wish time could pause and I could stop and do nothing.   Absolutely nothing.   Sit around.   And perhaps a few fun things.   Swing dancing, working out, fly a kite, go to the beach, take pictures…

It’s Dead

My camera died sometime in the past few months.   I think the shutter is sticking.   I took 44 pictures at a student’s senior recital.   When I got the rolls developed and looked that the negatives, there were 26 pictures in all.   Talk about mortality rate.   When I take pictures, between 10% and 25% turn out really well.   I lost have of them, so about 5% to 12.5% will be good (statistically).   I wanted a new camera.   This one isn’t worth getting fixed.   Here’s my excuse.

Other News

My group project in E-Commerce is really coming along.   All that is left is the shopping cart and checkout sections of the site.   Those will be time consuming to write and get working properly, but the site will be complete and will look great.   We put the header image in it last night.   Very nice, clean look.   The menu should be done today or tomorrow.   Pop that in, finish the two last sections and bang.   One final project down, one to go.   Then I can work in the 10 page paper and take home final.   I’m making progress, and the goal seems a little more achievable, but I still want to quit.   Too bad I’m a fighter and refuse to give up.   One day, that will be the death of me.

18-Apr-2005

Man, if I have children down the road, I wonder how messed up they'll think I am when they read this stuff.  It feels like I have all the answers some times, but my life proves that I don't.

It would be cool if you could buy a book from Xanga that had five years' worth of blogs or so in it from your journal.  I think it would make a nice gift to my children.  A sort of story of my life for them to read when they start going through the same things.  That way they can read ahead and see how my story turns out and from that, have hope that theirs will too.