BigCat’s Blog of DOOM

After my last bit on being lucky I’ve thought a lot, and have arrived at a few ideas or questions worth tossing around. I’ve been struggling with the idea of Kingdom blessings, or unearned grace that is realized on earth. It is easy for me to idealize heaven and understand that I didn’t do anything [...]

As many of you know our church is striving to be ethnically diverse. This is a slow process for a bunch of former white suburban-ites and farm-town kids. But one of my only concerns as we proceed in this endevor is forgetting that it isn’t a terrible thing to be white, and in a lot [...]

Why is it that sometimes feeling like I’m a super lucky person almost makes me sad? I feel like everything worthwhile I’ve done (or that has happened to me) in my life is something that fell in my lap. My my degree (I literally got into my major when I probably shouldn’t have, and I [...]

Man, so much happening lately, and my head seems so crowded. ( Randomness ) Really, if you think that is depressing or something, you should just realize I’m mostly clearing my head…and I want to get this down for postarity, cuz I like to go back and read my journals sometimes and see where I was oh [...]

Current Mood:  giddyThe president takes an MS attack as Alan Alda, who plays a Californian Republican Senator announces he is running for President. OHHH HOW SWEET!!! It smelled of old writing, the idealism that birthed a show with intollerable politics made tollerable by acknowledging the point of the opposing side as well as the necessity [...]

Current Mood:  groggyThought this article was pretty cool. Maybe I should do something like that on the Nichollete Mall or something. In other news, been married a year now. That has pretty much rocked. Had a nice time Friday night and Saturday with my wife. We kept things low-key, and it was nice. Maybe I’ll [...]

Man, I’ve been swamped lately with stuff at work. Normally I think that would be a good thing, but now I’m starting to wonder. Right now any time my boss doesn’t want to do some prototyping, or work up a diagram or anything he puts me on it. Well, that means I’m pretty much constantly [...]

Current Mood:  tiredWell, believe it or not, Aaron is actually married. Yes, my brother who constantly used to say “Women are too expensive” and “I would rather have a corvette than a girlfriend” is now married. ( Friday flying and driving ) ( Saturday in the Cave ) ( Wedding MADNESS ) ( Monday, Home again, home again ) And that was my [...]

Current Mood:  bouncyLast night I went out with Lauren to get a few things that we needed (and a few that we didn’t) before we left. I picked up a new pair of jeans for the upcoming winter since my favorite pair has a hole in crotch, and I picked up a new pair of [...]

Current Mood:  cheerfulWe saw some more condo’s last night. Lauren absolutely fell in love with the first one we looked at, and I thought it was pretty cool as well. So we are going to check into some things, run some numbers and try this again. This one is a little closer to Jeff and [...]

Current Mood: busyThe new job title has kept me super busy the last couple of weeks. I actually am going to have to post a spreadsheet of my current priorities on my cube somewhere, so people can see where their stuff falls, and make more formal requests for use of my time. It feels really [...]

Current Mood: artsyI was looking at some fan-art and found this cool picture under the “daily deviations” section of deviantart.com. Pretty good place to host art, I think evilpeopleinc hosts a bunch of his stuff there. Also, if you want to see my art, as well as Scotts art he isn’t hosting on deviantart, I [...]

Current Mood:  frustratedI hate being patient. I am generally very patient in very specific contexts and the rest of the time I’m extremely impatient. Does anyone every wonder when the “not yet” part of Kingdom theology is going to become the “already” part. I feel like I’m missing out on something there, and I’m getting [...]