Optimistic Obfuscation

What to do when you are bored at work

For those of you who sit in front of a computer all day and occasionally get bored. Here are a few things to keep you occupied.

Gridlock: I'm up to level 34

Yeti Sports: My highest single toss on Seal Bounce is 478

Extreme Ping Pong: Candy Stand has lots of games to keep you busy but this one has occupied the most of mine time the last couple of days.

Let me know what your top scores are.

If you haven't figured it out, I'm bored at work. I have finished the project that I have been working on for the past 8 months and I am just wasting time during my lame duck period until I'm out of here. So enjoy the fruits of my boredom.

Take Him to You I Will

I am Yoda

A venerated sage with vast power and knowledge, you gently guide forces around you while serving as a champion of the light.

Judge me by my size, do you? And well you should not - for my ally is the Force. And a powerful ally it is. Life greets it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us, and binds us. Luminescent beings are we, not this crude matter! You must feel the Force around you, everywhere.

Yoda is a is a character in the Star Wars universe. More Yoda information is available at the Star Wars Databank.

Thanks to Gosey

For Your Listening Pleasure

I find most of these humurous, though some are a little off-color. Please don't be offended, I'm not endorsing this product or any of these advertisements. They just make me laugh. So enjoy.

The Dreams of A Child

I know it has been a long time since I posted and I really don't have time to do it right now, since I have a couple of deadlines closing in on me. However, when I saw this I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to let everyone know.

I don't know about anyone else's childhood but mine was dominated with a few toys, none more important than Legos. With that in mind, the master model builder for LegoLand might just be a dream job.

Because I Have Been Silent

It has been a while since I posted anything. And I still don't have much to say. Work has been crazy. I spent most of last week in Columbia, SC and I was supposed to spend most of this week there as well. I say supposed to because it is still up in the air. We are waiting for several things to happen before it would be worth my going and those things haven't happened. So I wait. At any moment I could get a call and they might tell me that I need to go ahead and drive down there (5-6 hours away). I really don't like going, but waiting and not knowing whether or not I am going is even worse.

This coming Saturday, at 6:00am, my wife and I fly out of Atlanta heading for San Francisco for a vacation. We will be staying with my wife's family and are hoping to spend a couple of days in Yosimite. We will be there for about 10 days and then we will return to God's country, the south. So, I haven't posted much lately and I am probably not going to be posting much in the near future.

So as my parting thought for today I leave you a link for your viewing pleasure. I know that this has kept me going while working in the cubicle farm. If only I could be the Office Linebacker...

A Quick One

I thought that I would just throw a quick post up here because I haven't posted for a couple of days. I have been really busy the last few days with work and helping Josiah get the Bagpipe Online page up and working. I probably won't be posting for a little while after this one either. I found out yesterday that I am going to have to go to Columbia, SC for a week for work. And there is a possibility that I might have to go back the week after that. I really don't want to go for several reasons. I don't want spend that much time away from my wife, I don't really enjoy the work that I am going to be doing down there and I don't really have a great desire to spend a week by myself living out of a hotel. So basically I'm not looking forward to it. But such is life. I really can't complain because at least I haven't been fired for no reason and God has been very good to me through my job.

So all that being said, I leave you with this for your browsing pleasure.

A very cool Honda commercial:
Read about it here, and download a Macromedia Flash executable of the commercial here

A Quote

Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.

--Wess Roberts

(On TommyFranks.com)

W. and the Terminator Take on Canada

In light of the Outage of 2003 and the blame game that is going on between the U.S. and Canada as well as George W.'s visit to California, the land of the Terminator, I began wondering if the U.S. should take this opportunity to put Canada in it's place. So George W. and Ahnold should hop on that fighter jet and head off to Canada. The only problem is that "hasta la vista, baby" doesn't translate well into French. "Au revoir, hoser" doesn't have quite the same ring.

Highbrow Insults

For those of you in need of a good insult but too educated to take it from just anyone, visit this site. Let the William Shakespeare insult you himself.

Children's Ministry Position

New City Fellowship is beginning the process of looking for a Children's Ministry Director. I am on the search committee that is commissioned to find this person. Please do be praying for us in this search. Children's ministry is an important part of the ministry of New City and as with all church staff positions we need the grace of God in choosing the right people for the job. If any of you are interested or would like to know more, please let me know.

Signing Off

For anyone that actually reads my blog on a regular basis. (I know that is pretty high hopes for such a sorry blog).

I just wanted to let my loyal fans know that I will be out of town for the next several days. Therefore, don't worry about me if you don't see anything new appear from me on this blog. I will probably get around to posting again no sooner than Monday.

In other news... We got our living room painted. I should have posted this a couple of days ago, but I didn't. Get over it. We actually finished painting around 5:00am Saturday morning. At about 10:00am there was a knock on our door and our furniture arrived. So we now have one room in our house that is complete, for the most part. The color of the paint didn't turn out exactly as we had wished, or as it had appeared on the little color cards that you find at Home Depot. The bottom half of the room is a blue, which turned out a little brighter than we had wished, and the top half of the room is yellow, which turned out a little more pastel than we had wished. The two colors are seperated by a molded chair rail, which is white, like the rest of the trim. Our furniture is blue, but doesn't exactly match the color of the wall. (So I am told, I have no sense for things matching. My wife picks out my clothes every day). I am very happy with the furniture. It is very comfortable.

Sports and Therapy

I am a huge sports fan.

The first thing I do every morning when I come to work is log in to my computer and go to ESPN.com. I am also an incredibly loyal Atlanta Braves fan as well as a University of Tennessee fan. (Hey, I grew up in the south, sue me). At the same time, and perhaps because I am so loyal to a couple of teams, there are certain teams that I cannot stand, most notably the New York Yankees and Florida Gators but also including the L.A. Lakers, Dallas Cowboys, and whatever team happens to be playing the Braves or Vols.

My hatred for these teams can get so strong that at times I have uttered things like, “I would cheer for a team comprised of Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin before I would cheer for the Yankees.” I think there is something seriously wrong with me because when I first heard about Kobe Bryant being arrested for sexual misconduct my first thought was, “I knew he was a jerk.”

I think I need some therapy.