Life of Pride
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Happy life. For the past week or so, Missouri weather has been over 100 degrees, sticky, and white-hot blazing. Sweat magically appeared the second we stepped outdoors, so not many people did. Driving anywhere made a person feel like taking a nap. But yesterday, the heat broke. Like a drink of water to a parched throat, a cool front arrived. Blessed, beautiful 80 degrees.
I feel caged if I spend too much time indoors, as though my soul is pacing up and down with nowhere to go. Last evening, after TKD class, I grabbed Lillie and Maddy and we went for a walk in our neighborhood in the burgeoning twilight. As pinks and reds overcame the sky, we walked slowly and reveled in our time together. We exchanged movie quips, and, as we came to the spot in our neighborhood where one can best see the sky, my soul sighed peacefully. Spontaneously, I thanked God out loud for the beauty. My little sisters grinned at me happily; they like to hear people praying.
On the way back home, Maddy announced that her mouth was watering for Skittles. She said it in the matter-of-fact way of someone who knows from long experience that she's not going to get the candy, since my family doesn't eat very much sugar. Luckily for her, I was feeling just the same way. So I snuck into the house to get my purse (to avoid the numerous stoppings and questions before any trip, no matter how small), and we zipped away to the convenience store around the corner. There we bought a medium-size bag of tropical Skittles, which we three split the rest of the evening as I read four chapters of John, three chapters of Daniel, and half of the story of Joseph out loud to them in my best dramatic style. They took turns on several of the latter chapters, since by then my voice was getting sore.
It was a lovely evening. After the sibs went to bed, I stayed up until 1am updating my website's "writing" section with some of last semester's best work, including an essay about people's traveling between China and the coast of South America. I've programmed an automatic system that makes it very easy for me to add new material, which reminds me - I'll be working on my website more over the next few weeks, and possibly putting together some of the other diffusion research I've done on the side for the past couple years. I've found some interesting, little-known topics that I would like to write down before I forget them. I also have my file box full of odd factoids.
One system I've been thinking I would like to program is a research paper note-taking widget. It wouldn't be so hard. I would just allow it to 'create a new paper,' with a password. Inside the paper, you would add sources and topic headings, and then you could add entries for each source, with page number and a topic flag. You could display all the quotes for a source or topic heading, with the quote on one side and your comments on that quote on the other. If I programmed this well, I might even put it into the "public" portion of my site and let other people use it. T'would be a lot easier to keep it in the private section, however, along with my other personal tools.
I like Thursday evenings. I have no activities, no commitments... I can nerd away for hours on things I enjoy.
I feel caged if I spend too much time indoors, as though my soul is pacing up and down with nowhere to go. Last evening, after TKD class, I grabbed Lillie and Maddy and we went for a walk in our neighborhood in the burgeoning twilight. As pinks and reds overcame the sky, we walked slowly and reveled in our time together. We exchanged movie quips, and, as we came to the spot in our neighborhood where one can best see the sky, my soul sighed peacefully. Spontaneously, I thanked God out loud for the beauty. My little sisters grinned at me happily; they like to hear people praying.
On the way back home, Maddy announced that her mouth was watering for Skittles. She said it in the matter-of-fact way of someone who knows from long experience that she's not going to get the candy, since my family doesn't eat very much sugar. Luckily for her, I was feeling just the same way. So I snuck into the house to get my purse (to avoid the numerous stoppings and questions before any trip, no matter how small), and we zipped away to the convenience store around the corner. There we bought a medium-size bag of tropical Skittles, which we three split the rest of the evening as I read four chapters of John, three chapters of Daniel, and half of the story of Joseph out loud to them in my best dramatic style. They took turns on several of the latter chapters, since by then my voice was getting sore.
It was a lovely evening. After the sibs went to bed, I stayed up until 1am updating my website's "writing" section with some of last semester's best work, including an essay about people's traveling between China and the coast of South America. I've programmed an automatic system that makes it very easy for me to add new material, which reminds me - I'll be working on my website more over the next few weeks, and possibly putting together some of the other diffusion research I've done on the side for the past couple years. I've found some interesting, little-known topics that I would like to write down before I forget them. I also have my file box full of odd factoids.
One system I've been thinking I would like to program is a research paper note-taking widget. It wouldn't be so hard. I would just allow it to 'create a new paper,' with a password. Inside the paper, you would add sources and topic headings, and then you could add entries for each source, with page number and a topic flag. You could display all the quotes for a source or topic heading, with the quote on one side and your comments on that quote on the other. If I programmed this well, I might even put it into the "public" portion of my site and let other people use it. T'would be a lot easier to keep it in the private section, however, along with my other personal tools.
I like Thursday evenings. I have no activities, no commitments... I can nerd away for hours on things I enjoy.
Comments:
Might help, except I don't want software. I want to be able to take notes on any Internet-capable computer and have them in a handy central location. Thus, I am programming a tool for my website. I'm halfway done already. :)
Post a Comment
