Saturday, May 30, 2009

Quick Announcements + Reunion

There are three quick announcements I wanted to make: Hi Isa! One successful week without an alarm clock! I'm working at a craftshow near Indiana this coming week!

In other exciting, though not so quickly said, announcements - the west coast family reunion is a little more than three weeks away! I'm flying out a bit early so I can visit Aunt Margaret and Uncle Jerry, and also get my teeth checked and cleaned and possibly whitened in Mexico. I'm not really sure of the schedule after I travel down. I'll spend two or three days in Yuma and then the three of us will drive straight to the timeshares in California where we're having the reunion.

I'm really looking forward to seeing all the cousins!

My nephew is nearby for the weekend and I'm going to see if he wants to wash the car this afternoon. It's a do-it-yourself spraying and I think he'll enjoy that.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Game Guru

I'm trying to figure out what a good job title would be. Gamemaster has too much history behind it. Software Developer is too plain. Game Guru is a bit on the recreational side. "L33t Gamecoder"? "Universe Manipulator"? "Instancer of Reality"?

I'm working with a start-up company "Nothing is Impossible Studio". I'm the main programmer for the game engine that we're working with. Just trying to figure out how to use the features available take about 95% of the work day. One other programmer is working, and he is developing some of the logic of the creation system. Two writers and John are the only other employees.

The company seems to be very dynamic and has a definite goal in mind. I have high hopes for a booming business!

In other news, perhaps the more important news, is the tapes I've been listening to and the encouragement I get from them. Andrew Wommack seems to have a definite blessing on him and I find encouragement and new insight on every sermon/teaching I listen to. What Andrew Wommack presents is not that earth shattering - it is all the basics of Christianity, but he covers topics that pastors don't preach on (at least in the churches I've gone to), and the conclusions he draws and how they should be affecting our walk in life are earthshaking.

One of the points that Andrew Wommack pushes a lot is that studying and searching out the Bible is not just a nice thing to do, but a necessity. It's encouraged me to read the Bible a lot more. A lot of my Bible reading is going over chapters and books that are mentioned in sermons, because I've read the same passages that are used to 'prove' a point, but I completely missed the conclusions that Andrew Wommack draws. I can't wait until I start seeing new insights on my own. It's exciting!