So it hasn’t rained here in a while. I’m not sure how long, but it has been crazy hot (or more to the point muggy) and the grass is starting to turn yellow around my building. In general, some rain would be nice.
Thursday Lauren and I are going to look at places. Should be exciting. She filled out some forms, and I finished up a few more, and soon they should tell me what the gross value of my being is, in US dollars of course. That part freaks me out a little.
I got a call from a lady at Target’s Distribution center. For those of you who aren’t in the know, Target and Best Buy have their headquarters in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. The job description looks pretty sweet. You can look at that here.
I like that they have a section called “What’s cool about this job”, and another called “The Big Picture.”
I wonder why they want you to be “open to relocation.” I’m a fan of the idea of ownership. I.E. when you are involved in something, you start to feel like you are responsible for making it not suck. Church should be somewhat like that for most people, or at least that is what my Mom thinks whenever we discuss how I think no-one but the pastor matters too much in decision making. But, without some of that things usually degrade to apathy, and then get stupid. Ownership in a job, in a job at a certain place seems good to me. Corporate identities being applied to peoples lives seem to over the top. To much of America seems to have bought into the “What can I do to improve XXX’s stock price today” idea, and I don’t know if that is a positive thing. I’m more of the idea “How can I improve my little corner of XXX so I can feel good about my job, and good about my place in the company.”
Maybe that is just me.
I’m feeling a little drained lately. I think I need to be more regimented about praying and reading the Bible. Ever since I’ve started plowing through the old testament Bible reading has been a chore. It has been hard for me to read much of anything (not on a computer screen) since I got married. My wife manages to chew through a novel or two each week. Oh, the irony.
Also, prayer has been more and more frustrating lately. I would really like to hear more from God. It is disappointing to feel like I’m in an incrediblely one-sided relationship, and that seems to be a mental hurdle for prayer lately.
Well, enough rambling for now.