It seems that in today’s culture of abundance, the one thing that we fall short of is time. We can apply ourselves to all sorts of tasks and interests and jobs. I’m 36 now, actually 36 1/2. I have not made a mark on the world amidst all my strivings, strivings for various seemingly important things. We, the collective culture “we”, are so busy with this and that, distractions, interests, paths, ladders, hobbies, extra curricular events, jobs, second jobs, parenting, spousing, eating, watching, that we really don’t get all that deep in any one thing. We are generally spread thin, running from here to there. Time is not spent in gaining full knowledge of anything or mastering a craft. Rather, our time is often spent learning enough to get by, grabbing a snippet here, learning a tidbit there, putting it together into something that really has no depth or meaning, especially in light of eternity. Read the rest of this entry »

I think that in the past I might have been a product snob. In some cases, I probably still am. I often want the best that I can get and sometimes that means that I look for a name brand. In recent years, and with ever increasing frugality, I still might look for a name brand, but instead of having to have the newest, most up to date, I often will look to past recent releases of products and possibly even manufacturer refurbished items. Used. or slightly. To take the auto industry’s term, pre-owned. Most of these products you can’t even tell that someone else used them, and so we come to this most recent acquisition, my a6152n HP Quad Core workstation. Read the rest of this entry »

Why? Hmmmm, that could take a moment.

Throughout my life I’ve chased things. Lot’s of things and I’ve expected that in attaining or acquiring those things, I would be satisfied. Not so. It took a while to figure out and I still find myself chasing things that are fleeting and temporal. Why? I’m made to pursue joy, to pursue pleasure. I’m programmed that way. But it seems that I get confused about what it is that will actually bring me that pleasure or that joy. I settle for substandard things. I get distracted. Read the rest of this entry »