500th Post - digg this
I'd like to do something really profound here, this being my five hundredth and all, but I don't feel quite up to it. I thought about linking to some of my most commented on posts, but there was no easy way I could find to do that.
As it was the five hundredth was almost an Archangel podcast and that would have been fitting since it has become the biggest raison d'etre for this here site. I couldn't get the audio edited last night though so that didn't happen. Yeah, yeah I should have built a buffer. My apologies to those of you who are waiting on Episode 11, it should pop up tonight.
As it is I need to engage in a little writing as therapy. I know I should be writing interesting posts about spiritual stuff, since that's supposedly what this site is about, but frankly I started blogging as a way to spew my emotions and along the way picked up some readers. Thanks for reading. For some reason it's comforting to know that even crap like this isn't going into the ether unignored. I have folks that read this that I consider friends, some I consider brothers. For you and you know who you are, thanks in advance for the prayers and kind thoughts. If you know me at all you know I'm prone to bouts like this.
So why am I blue? Well, I suppose the primary reason is I'm freakin' tired. I was up at 4:30 this morning sending my wife to the mountains for three days. I'll miss her (reason two), especially when it comes to the more mundane things like putting a meal on the table (which she does so well) or helping brush the Rochelings' teethses, so there's that too. Where she's going is to a home schooling training session. She'll be tutoring our homeschool groups' kids in grammar starting in the fall. This will pay actual money, though not a lot, and I don't mind telling you that she's a bit nervous, in spite of the fact that she is hands down one of the best teachers I know. Still, nervous is not a bad thing.
There are a host of other reasons, including a sense of being overwhelmed both by things I want to do and things I don't want to do. The less details there the better so forgive me my crypticality (yeah I made that word up, go poetic license go!)
Still I've got good things going on. We're moving (eventually, living amongst boxes is reason three) to a much larger house in the same great neighborhood. Folks are listening to my podcast. I'm having a blast in an online RPG. My spiritual life is about the same as ever, but I am being challenged at church when it comes to thinking about how I can be involved in the community when it comes to matters of social justice. So while it is not "all good", I really should be counting it all joy.
So I end this entry, actually one in spirit with the reason I started blogging, a little better off than I was before I started it. Seems appropriate enough to me.
Total Number of Comments: 8
Hello Scott,
Hang in there, man. There's nothing wrong with being blue now and then. It helps us appreciate the good moods even more. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help in the mean time.
The James bit you linked to sounds down right Jobian (now I'm making up words too).
Jobian's a perfectly good word, made up or not.
And thanks! Make me some more of that purty music. ;-)
Congrats on making it to 500 posts Scott!!
Wishing you all the best of luck, to reaching the 1000 post plateau next.
Congrats on 500 Scott!!
..and don't do what I do when I am home alone ..like eating those nasty Totinos pizzas :)
'Sup Dude?
You should go see Hancock.
Thanks Lyndon and Bob. No Totinos, just good leftovers. Leigh did some extra cooking before she left.
Hey Rock, I heard it was TERRIBLE. Saving my movie money for Hellboy II and Batman. I'll catch Hancock on DVD like I did his vampire movie.
Congrats.
It's been too long since I did any MT template work, but I'm sure there's a relatively easy way to get the top commented posts in a list. Maybe taking a look at your recent comments section. But that would be in a template, not a post. Hmm.
If you think of anything let me know. I'd still like to do a "Biggest Comments" post soon.