Online Public Journal

So I’m driving home from Barnes and Noble earlier tonight and the phrase “online public journal” comes to me. It comes to me as I think about what I’m good about writing, and that is recording my life in a journal. I think. Well, who’s to say I’m not good at it? I believe I must be the judge. Anywho…yes, writing an “online public journal” seems to be something that I would be good at, in regards to blogging. I don’t know how popular in could become, but at least it’s something that I could do well and enjoy. And, what is life without a little enjoyment?

So, to start off, I want to mention that in my last blog post (a few minutes ago), I was talking about politics and it’s not something that I saw in this “online public journal,” however, if you can’t tell, the post seemed to kind of take on a life of its own, like it needed to be said for whatever reason. So, I said it.

And now I shall say something else.

I think of myself as a funny person. Even if no one else does.

Woke up today….

Was just interupted, thought maybe I heard a gun shot and went carefully to investigate but glad to say I think it was probably just a dumpster lid slamming down.

The thing about gun shots is sometimes you can’t tell. Especially if it’s only one. The thugs make it real easy when they pop off 5 or 6 shots, though this of course can be tragic if they are actually aiming at someone and hit.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve called the police for gun shots, and now I’m wondering if I should be writing this for fear of thugs tracking me down. Naw, they ain’t smart enough. I need to insult their intelligence, being that one who engages in violence for violence’s sake should know that their day is coming, the day when their violence will catch up with them. We all reap what we sow: sow well and reap well, sow poorly and reap poorly.

OK! May I fall back to what I was saying: I woke up today…. “Yes,” you are saying, “we all did.” But I wasn’t finished, I was going to say that I woke up today and cleaned the Mission. Wow! Fascinating, I know. Perhaps it was a good thing that I thought I may have heard a gun shot, makes for much more of an interesting story, no?

Not an unusual start to a Tuesday morning: cleaning. While cleaning I listened….

I can’t get a break. The church van’s car alarm went off, so I went to go inspect that. False alarm, which doesn’t surprise me. I might have just not even bothered, but some terrible thieves have been cutting off our catalytic converters and they are about $350 a pop to replace. They cut mine off my vehicle the other week ago, for the second time and I still haven’t had it replaced. Quite a bit of insanity having to deal with such things, but we do deal and are fighting back with alarms and a state-of-the-art electrocution exhaust system that delivers death upon touch. Just kidding about the second part. Alarms and hope to have some sort of camera security system soon.

Darn. Accidentally deleted a sentence or two again (see The Politics of Politics). That is more than annoying.

Let me stumble back to the beginning of my day, saying that “listened…” to…. What did I listen to? I forget the name of it and I don’t feel like getting up to check my phone. Something about “innovators” with Dennis Waitley. Ah, yes, Breakthrough Thinking. I’ve probably listened to it 5 times, but I just finished listening to The Habit of Now and so haven’t quite yet settled on what next.

After that, most of my day was consumed with DVD duplication. I’ve been looking for good DVD burning software to just copy a DVD as well as make a DVD with a menu and the such. It was so difficult for some reason, continually running into technical problems for one reason or another. However, I did finally find two free software programs: Windows DVD Maker (which actually came with the laptop I’m working on but was giving me problems for some reason before) to make a DVD with a menu, and CDBurnerXP to simply just copy a DVD (though technically I copied the DVD onto my laptop first, which may or may not be something that is always required and yet for me to find out).

Ooo, the van just chirped a little. Not the full alarm like before, but am not motivated to go check again in any case. Been out on that roof too many times tonight (already)!

SO! Finally found all the free software to finish up our “thank you DVDs” to all our Christmas supporters. Am happy about that, and that now leaves me with one final great task of putting together the last of the Christmas DVDs which I hope to have done by the end of today. Help me Jesus.

I think I may be closing this post pretty soon, but first I’d like to mention three things from service today: Pastor Tilly’s first reading from The Harbinger: The ancient mystery that holds the secret of America’s future (by Jonathan Cahn); A short prophetic word (about warhorses and the such) by Chuck Pierce; and a prophetic insight by Aquilla Nash (sorry, can’t confirm if this is the exact word or not from earlier today).

Finally I suppose I’ll close this post by saying that we continued our study on the book of Exodus tonight, of which I did record but have not edited and posted online yet. Soon.

Peace