Oh, How I Miss Thee

Oh, How I Miss Thee

Snow, oh snow, where have you gone?
It has been so long

You came for a visit in the sweet month of November
And came back again in December
I thought for sure you were going to stay

You were clean and pristine for so many days
Earth was quieted by you
People went outside and played with you

Why did you leave?
I was not ready for you to go
I miss you sweet and beautiful snow

Please Take Your Seat

Who's throwing the tantrum here?

Hold on a sec...

Just happened to see a news article on MSN that caught my eye: "Faith in marriage". (Aside: of course, this article caught my eye, too: "Wife induces labor so hubby won't miss Bears game" - huh?!?)

Okay, back to the "Faith in marriage" article. It starts out all sweet and nice...and I was almost beginning to think they wouldn't try to pull it...but they did. Almost the last line of the article they get it in there: "We tell them that different people envision God differently and different people take different paths. But in the end all paths lead to God." Hold on a second...

We hear that in our culture today and a lot of people just accept it...even a lot of Christians. And even if we disagree, we may not even know why. It sounds wrong...but how do we unpack that?

Greg Koukl (Stand to Reason) has talked about it a lot and has a great article about it here.

Dread

On Saturday Sonja and I signed up for a gym membership. I don't remember being drunk, but I can't think of how else she would have gotten me to do something like that. Anyway, we paid a little extra so we get some one-on-one training. I have to be at the gym in 25 minutes for my first session. Dread.

Old Job, New Job

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks. As I posted earlier, going into the new year we weren’t really sure what was going to be happening with my job. Well, I found out on January 3 (along with 60 other Jobsterites) that my job was ending (or more politically correct…my position was being “dissolved”). That sucked. There was some good news, though: 3 weeks of severance pay and (more importantly) that I was going to get to stay on as a contractor for a short time. So, after getting over the frustration of being laid off, I realized that if I could get a job before my contract time was up the severance would be more of a bonus.

As a result, the last 9 days have been busy with sending out resumes, making contacts, and scouring the job boards (and, really, I even started doing that before January 3 due to all the rumors).

On Wednesday I had lunch with David, the owner of Tyrnstone Systems – an IT consulting company in Seattle. I had spent about 5 months contracting with Tyrnstone back in 2005 before I got hired on at Jobster. David offered me a full time salaried position at Tyrnstone and yesterday (Thursday) I accepted. (whew!) So Tuesday will be my last day at Jobster and Wednesday I’ll start at Tyrnstone.

Tyrnstone caters primarily to the SMB (Small/Medium Business) market and does some pretty cool work. I think in addition to Windows systems administrator stuff, I’ll also get to do some project management. My official title is “Senior SMB Systems Engineer”. I’ll still get to take the bus to work and when I need to visit a client site I’ll get to take the company car. There’s some other cool perks as well (like a Windows Mobile phone – I’m soooo ready to get rid of this Blackberry!).

All in all, it’s looking pretty good. Sonja and I are feeling truly blessed. And you can bet that the severance/bonus is going straight at some debt!

Need to start saving my pennies...

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/09/the-apple-iphone/

Love is a Fallacy

I’m reading a book called Why Good Arguments Often Fail by James Sire (Christian philosopher). It’s a great book and I highly recommend it.

He opens with a reprint of a short story that I thought was pretty good and wanted to share: "Love is a Fallacy" (originally from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis by Max Shulman).