Today was the first day of 2009. I feel that 2008 was a really good year and I’m thankful to God for what he’s done in my life during that time. As I look back at what transpired in 2008, I can see His hand working in my life, so I wanted to share some of the ways God has blessed me in 2008.
I was blessed this week to be able to spend some time with the members of my family who live too far away to visit often. It was great to be together and to share the joy of Thanksgiving as a family.
Yesterday marked a historical moment for our nation. I am proud to live in a country that can elect someone to our most honored office without regard to race. The color of a man’s skin, though so trivial, has divided our country for centuries. I’m glad to be able to witness this great step our country has taken in the journey toward acceptance and inclusion of everyone, regardless of race.
My excitement and optimism ends here.
I’m afraid I’ve discovered that my current hobbies are apparently not only useless, but detrimental to my health (did you know you can get bad eyesight from programming in front of an LCD screen for hours at a time?!). Depressed by the thought that years of my life have been wasted trying to hone my coding instincts, I’ve decided to launch myself into a new discipline in the hopes that it will help me to more quickly forget the life I’m leaving behind. My new hobby?
Perhaps if I display a humble affect I can talk the school into making this a major. Couldn’t be much harder than Civil Engineering right?
Fall break turned into Christmas with the arrival of my new toy: an 8×6 graphics drawing tablet. It’s not got a display of its own, but it hooks up to my computer by USB where I can use it on the GIMP. I’ve already done some stuff with it, but I’m hoping to get better. As I use this thing more (if I get the time after classes start again), I’ll try to post some more of the stuff I do. And by all means, if you’ve got suggestions about how to improve (or even if you just want to tell me how bad these things are) please feel free to comment 
So Google’s got a cool program that synchronizes your Outlook Calender with your Google Calender. I installed it, so now you can see my class/work/church schedule online. The only complaint I have is that Google Calenders apparently doesn’t support different colors for different events. Maybe it’s something they’re still working on. Anyway, the settings should allow anyone to see the calender.
I received my mechanical pencils today. With twelve pencils for about 30 dollars, it’s quite a deal (compared to normal store prices). I’ll also probably not run out any time soon! Here’s a picture of them. I love the new silvery white color!
Anyway, I’m sort of geeky when it comes to pencils (and a lot of other things) but at least it keeps me off the streets!
