Worship works wonders

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It’s amazing what a Sunday can do for the soul. Service at church, lunch with a friend, and a night of worship and prayer with the Koinonia fellowship at MICA; now my soul is refreshed and at peace. Ah, but the challenge is to carry that peace beyond Sunday into the week, despite the temptation to lapse back into anger, blame, self-pity, or worse, apathy.

Move on, Paulo, move on. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Been Quiet

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I haven’t blogged lately because I’ve been an absolutely miserable emotional wretch all week, and I don’t want my feelings of betrayal and abandonment spilling over into my blog.

Well, that and, um, I’ve been too busy fiddling with my iBook to attend to basic needs like food, sleep, and blogging.

Lunch today with Valerie was a therapeutic joy. That helped a lot.

“Does Well at [Melting] the Poles”

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At the South Entrance of Dupont Circle Metro Station in DC, there’s a poster ad for the Hummer, showing one of those yellow consumer humvees in an Arctic setting, with the blurb, “Does Well at the Poles.” Someone recently scrawled the word “MELTING” between “at” and “the.” Heh heh.

Hnngh?

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Read today’s Foxtrot. If you don’t get the joke, watch

New iBook pricing

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The amount I paid for a refurbed G3-700MHz iBook last week could have gotten me a brand new G3-800MHz iBook this week. I bought mine right on the edge of a giant pricing tier, eh ngayon nalugi!

That’s how technology goes, I suppose; next thing you know they’ll be hawking iBooks from vending machines (iVend?) for a hundred apiece. Then they’ll get stuck in that coily thing and you’ll have to put in five more $20’s to get two.

The plus side: this makes Apple stuff ever more available to the Wintel masses, since pricing has always been one of the biggest obstacles to Apple’s market dominance.

Confusing Beast

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I’m in Interactive Design class right now, learning about Macromedia Director, the Message Window, “put” statements, and the difference between “dot” and “verbose” syntax. Whew. Director is such a huge, convoluted beast.