I've been trying to figure out for a while how to keep two blogs going without a whole ton of energy for either one. Well I've decided to start working harder at www.relevantpew.com so that's where most of my posting is going to be done.
Go over there and read the new post I just put up.
I wish I'd thought to take a picture today. I came home from lunch and was looking for Danielle and Jakob (our new dog) and couldn't find them in the house. I happened to walk out the back and found them both asleep laying on a blanket in the backyard. 80 degrees blue sky and sunny with a light breeze. How was your day?
I've been blogging for quite a few years now and now I have two different blogs and one probably needs to go. I'm trying to focus more of my energy at RelevantPew.com because I feel that project has legs and I've been encouraged to work on it to make it more of a voice. This blog has really just been about updating my friends about what I'm doing and I often feel like I don't really need to have it. So I'm thinking about shutting this one down and focusing.
I have a dead ipod. It's a nice one from about 4 years ago. It was the model right before they came out with the color screens. 40 Gigs of music fits on it and it holds a pretty decent charge. It was a gift from my youth staff at Bel Air Presbyterian Church when I left them and moved to San Diego. Well I don't live in San Diego anymore and my ipod doesn't work either. I found it in a box today in my garage, dusted it off and plugged it into my laptop. For about a minute it seemed like things were good and then both it and my laptop froze. Now it's sitting next to me on the table dead but not turning off. Just flashing a "Do not disconnect" screen although it's been disconnected for about an hour.
I remember how excited I was to get that ipod. At the time it was a huge expensive gift and I was so stoked. It was pretty, sleek and made me feel cool to have. Now it's dead, been in a box for a year + and has very little meaning.
I'm wondering what to do with it. I'm sure I could pry it open and order a new hard drive and bring it back to life. But, I doubt it's worth it. It has very little value anymore and I would rather buy a new one then pay for the parts to fix this one.
Funny how life is. Some things are timeless and never lose their value. I'm sitting at our dining room table that was given to us from Danielle's grandparents about 5 years ago when they were moving into a retirement community and couldn't use it anymore. This table is probably 40 years old and look sit but it still has a lot of value. Some of the chairs are loose but overall it still does what it was originally produced to do.
I wonder a lto about value and how things maintain their worth. As I've gotten a bit older I like to think about more than just stuff and things. I have a number of friends who I would say are a huge value to me. They have maintained their value over the years because our friendship is like this table. It still has a purpose and isn't outdated or easily broken like my ipod.
I like where God has put us. I like to think that this time in our lives has incredible value. For my kids they are growing up in an amazing community surrounded by great friends and a church community that is a good place to be. I like our neighbors and value both their friendship and their family. I like the people I work with and value them immensly.
Sometimes I feel like my broken ipod but that doesn't usually last very long. I'm looking at it now and wondering what to do with it. Thinking I may take it apart just for fun. Maybe turn it into a change container. It would be worth something then. Peace.
Saw this over at my friend Markos blog this morning and thought I'd pass it on.
The power just went out at Castle Rood. That means early bed time and me wishing my iPhone had more than 1/2 charge. Funny to hear my kids who have grown up in Suburbia and never really had to deal with power outages freak out. They are now all 3 in the same room going to sleep with one flashlight to share.
This picture is what I see with my eyes open.
I decided that one habit I could break this year is my need to buy whole albums when I want to buy new music. I know I do it because growing up my generation didn't have any other choice. We could not pick and choose songs like nowdays. We'd buy full albums and then create mixed tapes with our favorites. With help from Twitter, Facebook and great friends I have put together my first mixed tape of 2009.
Here's the Line Up:
1. Coming of Age. The Cobalt Season. Fragile Iconoclast
2. I'm Yours. Jason Mraz. We Sing. We Dance.
3. Electric Feel (Justice Remix) MGMT, Electric Feel
4. Shine On. Need to Breathe. Daylight
5. A-Punk. Vampire Weekend. Vampire Weekend
6. Me and My Girl. Theory of a Deadman. Gasoline
7. Skinny Love. Bon Iver. For Emma, Forever Ago
8. Crazy for You. ADELE, 19
9. Falling Slowly. GLen Hansard & Marketa Irglova. Once (Soundtrack)
