Over the weekend I decided to do some math and see exactly how far I was through this current project of writing and publishing a blog post each week day for 30 week days straight. I was a bit taken aback at how long I’ve been doing this and how many more weeks it will be till I finish. Sure, it’s pretty basic math. If you write for 5 days each week and you are going to write for a total of 30 days… you simply divide 30 by 5. It’ll take 6 weeks to complete the project. I guess I didn’t do the math before I started. It’ll be the middle of June till I finish. Quitting Someone I know started a 365 day...

I was on the way to work one morning last week when I saw something that struck me as being a little peculiar. There was a guy pushing a lawnmower down the road. It wouldn’t have struck me as being strange except that the lawn mower was running. At full throttle. As I drove around him I realized what he was doing. He had mowed the yard beside the road and had blown all of the grass out into the road. After finishing the yard he was simply blowing those grass clippings off of the road and sidewalk back towards his yard. He was just trying to keep the road and sidewalk from having a bunch of hairy grass on them. Sometimes its the little...

I’ve not really talked about this much on my blog yet. So I guess its about time that I do. I no longer work at Liberty University. Tied into this post I thought I’d also tell you about some recent and future changes here on the blog. Note this part might get a bit geeky, I’ll let you know when we get there and if you don’t want to read about WordPress stuff you can stop reading then. A Quick Recap of my Job at Liberty I won’t get into too many details of my time at Liberty but here is a brief overview. At the end of 2014 I was offered a job in the verification and testing part of Liberty IT. I’d been...

This morning I read a verse that made me think a bit. “Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.” - ‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭9:6 Paul is writing about giving, and the importance of generosity. He is encouraging his readers to give generously of what they have. Although the giving aspect of this is definitely the point of focus, there is a very valuable and somewhat generic truth wrapped up in there as well. It’s a simple truth that I often like to forget about. (Because forgetting is the opposite of remembering, by not remembering I am forgetting. I like to forget it because I’m lazy. Or sometimes I feel like I don’t have anything to offer....

Email is taking over the world, or so it would seem. According to this article something north of 200 billion emails get sent every single day. Yes, that’s two billion with a b. That’s incredible. I don’t know the average number (couldn’t find it fast enough) of emails each email user receives on average per day, but it’s definitely not a small number. Dealing with the Deluge The more email we get, the more important it is to have a plan of how to deal with it. At least that’s how I feel about it. And I’m not alone. There is a concept of “reaching inbox zero” that I strive for. Basically this means trying to keep your email inbox as close to empty as possible....

Yesterday I said I’ve always wanted to grow up. What I actually meant to write about when I started that post was this, “what do you want to be when you grow up?” Then I promptly started wondering what it actually means to “grow up.” I have a nephew who has lots of ideas of things to do when he grows up. Some days he wants to be a wing suit pilot (yes, a base jumper). Other days he wants be an ocean diver (with sharks). Still other days he wants to do is shoot trick shot videos with Dude Perfect. I find it fascinating to think about how people look at the future versions of themselves and what they see themselves doing. Perhaps even...