Rock that candy shop

I learned this by growing up watching bill after bill that would bring my single mom to tears. She thought we’d never be able to pay & still she would give what God asked of her. We always had what we needed, not everything we wanted, but what we needed. In the end that’s all that really matters and that is all God is asking, trust Him with a little, since He’s already all-in on us, and He’ll make sure we have everything we need.

time with important people comes at a premium. Most notably—myself. By the end of most days, I spent my time on everything and everyone else and accomplished that by stealing time from myself. I really relax online. Learning unimportant facts from the web, increasing my skills as an employee through reading trade-related websites, or just catching up on news all make me feel like at some level I was a person that day & not just someone from whom others expect output. Also, I really need to keep in contact with people and the web seems a good venue for both corresponding with folks I already know (facebook, email, skype) and sharing life with people i could have never otherwise known (43things, blogs). So I need to do this. Here’s the steps I propose:

1. Read Wikipedia daily – To learn something random I might otherwise never get into (I should probably document what article i started at and which one i finished at and maybe post it as some digital trail of breadcrumbs)
2. Visit StackOverflow every day for the next 30 days – This will both earn me a merit badge and improve my coding
3. Check Facebook regularly – I feel like Facebook is a necessary evil, in the vein of clipping your toenails or killing the crickets in our cellar
4. Take at least 1 iTunesU class a week – I’ve been currently taking both seminary courses as well as signal processing courses from MIT. I think i want to learn about Economics next.

Here’s were i start…let’s see what happens with it.

Sorry so long between posts. Life is crazy…but I didn’t want to gloss over the way that God provided for me and really answered my prayer to get me food without money. In addition to the previous list of folks that gave me food there was about 6 others (including my mom, grandpop, my roommate, and my work). The one I wanted to accentuate was the free food I got from a Chipotle that wasn’t even open for business. They were having their grand opening about 2 days from when I ate there. I was walking along the street and asked a fella standing out front if they were open for business. He said they open in 2 days and they were still installing the furniture and stuff but to hold on a second. He ducked inside the restaurant for a second and came back outside and said to me (and my 3 friends) “come inside.” “We’ve been training our servers for a week or so but we need some practice customers so they can get a feel for what business is gonna be like.” So we went in, ordered whatever we wanted from the menu (steak fajita burrito in my case), and they paid for us, drinks and all. God has a special way of making me feel just like the adopted son He calls me in the Bible. He is so amazing!