A Boring Update

Well, I haven't blogged for twenty days. What's with that? Am I being a lazy slacker? Well, yeah, pretty much. Here are some boring, uninteresting, why-would-you-want-to-know tidbits about life and stuff.

My friends and I have starting playing the Star Wars: Customizable Card Game that we played more before playing Lord of the Rings. I am going through all the cards and compiling a list of cards that I need, and I hope to go online and do some massive trading (both for Wars and for Rings). I have several Wars decks planned. I now have 15 - yes, fifteen - Lord of the Rings decks. They are wonderfully great fun. I am still losing though to my friend Tom, who has, get this... 28. Twenty-eight Rings decks. Holy cow.

I am finally starting to read the Purpose Driven Life, and I am somewhere around day 10. It is quite good. Our Bible study recently wrapped up the book Messy Spirituality by Mike Yaconelli, which was also good. Before that we read a book titled The Marketing of Evil. In other book news, I have started reading The Lord of the Rings books again. A few years ago, I had read Fellowship and half of Two Towers (and, of course, The Hobbit). But I never completed the trilogy. It's about dang time, eh? I am starting over with Fellowship. After this, I plan to either read the Left Behind prequels, or continue with the Harry Potter books (I have read the first two). Megan and I also may read The Five Love Languages together.

On the flip side of reading, I have done more story writing recently. I wrote a 2,000 word short story called Superhero, and I have just completed the rough draft on what is, by far, my longest story to date. It is called The Cage, and is currently over 16,000 words - 32 1/2 single-spaced pages in Microsoft Word. I'm hoping to expand it to at least 50 pages. The other stories I've written are The Crumbling, The Parachute, and The Great Day. I also wrote a few chapters in a story called The Storm of War, and little tidbits here and there of others. I'm not sure what will be done with them, but it is at least a fun hobby.

We are starting to try and eat a little healthier and exercise some, which is probably a good thing. I wouldn't mind losing some more weight. I am still about 25 pounds less than when I moved back to Minnesota, but I could probably stand to lose a bit more.

We have watched a few movies lately, including the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Never Been Kissed, and Fried Green Tomatoes. I'll let you guess who chose what. We alternate choices of movies, and I believe that viewings of Braveheart and Gladiator are soon on the horizon. On the flip side, I feel it is likely that I will be soon watching Titanic. Ah, the things we do for our wives.

I sent in a BBlooper that was posted to BBspot:
http://www.bbspot.com/News/BBloopers/2006/09/2297.php
Excited huh? Not really, but you know.

I can't believe you've read this far. Are you bored? Well worry not, I am done. :)

Why Elections Suck

Well, elections don't suck, but at my company, this time of year does. We'll basically be giving up our entire month of October (and the first week of November), due to the higher level of work created by the upcoming election. A lot of 16 hour days. At work on weekends. That in itself isn't the main reason why elections suck this year. Earlier, I had applied to work a TEC weekend - Teens Encounter Christ. I found out that I was accepted to work it. And my good friend Tim is on it as well, both on the Support team. Which would be great fun. However, that weekend is in October, and evidently it is impossible for me to go to it. FLS (my company) has a vacation lock on this time period, so no one can go anywhere. Fortunately, TEC weekends happen every 3 months, so there will be another in January, but I was really excited for this one. But alas, thus is life I suppose.

However much I like my company and my job, I do look forward to working for a company that I don't have to sacrifice a month of my life each year. That's really obnoxious and evil. :)