interesting....

i'm not at all sure what day i'm on. and to be honest, i'm not that worried about it.

i did this sort of on the spur of the moment, the whole "no internet" thing, and it is great. i know i said before i suspected i would not go back to my old addicted ways, but i'm pretty sure of it now. my 'books i need to read' shelf has grown to a point where i have a several months of reading, thanks to a local christian bookstore going out of business, and everything being on sale. add to that, i have several i want to buy. i have plenty to entertain me.

weekends have historically been when i spend hours online (how sad is that?). this weekend, i spent much of yesterday just goofing off around the house. it was raining, so i didn't get a lot done, but it was a nice relaxing day. today, when we finally got home from church, and got lunch eaten, i finally hung the hammock up in the back yard (insert great lyric from the choir here; i DO have a yard! [sorry carl]). amazing what you find time to do, when you're not tied to a computer all day.

the rest of the week, honestly, i've been too tired to think about it very much. i've been putting in long days at work, which are paying off nicely, with new meetings set, and customers accumulating. again... amazing what you can accomplish, when you're not on a message board or news site all day long. sadly, the guitar has gathered some dust of late... though i did break it out yesterday to help my beautiful bride work on her harmony parts for today's service.

which brings me to a slightly different note. i also cut out XM radio, with my beloved talk radio. i've been listening to great music in the car, and have felt quite inspired by some of it. hopefully i can start working on getting something recorded soon. maybe if i start now, i can FINALLY finish that christmas EP by christmas! i'll probably start listening to sermons in the car again soon, but for now, i'm loving some great songwriters. when you drive just over an hour each way, you can really get into an album. bruce cockburn and todd agnew have been most of the playlist this week (and yes, i know, that's probably the only time they will ever be mentioned in the same sentence, ever). for the first time in years, i was literally brought to tears by a turn of lyrical phrase, while driving 75 miles an hour down I75. a well written musical lyric is a thing of beauty.

well i'm off to work on supper i suppose.... stir fried steak, and fried rice tonight. i forgot how much i love to cook. there's something about bringing a tasty meal together, from a bunch of dead plants and animals (are you reading michael? ANIMALS).

lastly, for those of you praying for my sister, she delivered her fourth child early this morning, bringing the total to 4 (i bet mom never guessed she'd be a grandmother of 8, from her two kids!). i got to 4 first, but i had to cheat. next christmas should be fun, with two tiny boys running around unsteadily. kelly named the little guy gabriel lee, though i suspect with a more creative spelling... i just haven't been informed of what quirky phonetic spelling she used this time. (and yes, i know 'lee' is an old family name, so it's probably spelled normally.)

ok.... done for now. does anyone know where i can get some help for my obsession with parenthetical statements?