What’s Real When the House Is On Fire?

My best friend had her whole world fall apart in front of her when her semi-former boyfriend found a gift and messages she was sending to someone she was trying to reconnect with. The following is my (very long) reflection on what she’s facing from the POV of someone who’s been there:

hey babe… thursday evening… catching up on podcasts and trying figure out whether to keep Twitter on my blog (it really seems to be slowing down screen load times… can’t have that… ack). Anyway, i just re-read what Dan wrote to you after the afternoon from hell... There’s so much here that reminds me of the stupid things I’ve done (keep doing) over the years and how powerful all of this seems when it’s coming down (sigh). I don’t know, in the long run it’s really hard to tell what’s real and what’s just a lot of noise (and believe me, I’ve certainly generated a shitload of noise when it comes to this stuff). I’m just thinking that after having gone through what Dan describes in his letter and what I know you’re feeling for your former girlfriend right now… I’ve been there and it seems so weird to be where I seem to be right now.

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Another One Bites the Dust

My beloved “user friendly” denim shirt lost its battle with the dryer today. Is it just me or are all the favorite things in my life becoming frayed? I notice these sorts of things when doing laundry… JBB

Remembering Defining Moments & What Really Matters

I met with one of my pastors earlier this week to talk about what things can be done to improve the church website (I recommended doing something like Geeklog). Blah, blah, blah. Then he asked me, ” So Joe, what’s your story?” Let’s see, how many friends have I chased away with horrendously long renditions of my life story? Fortunately for both of us, he and I had to be somewhere else so that limited the breadth and “agony” of this re-telling of “what Joe’s been doing for the past five years.”

One good thing that came out of this conversation was that it reminded me of something I wrote on a web-page just as I was coming into this experience of Love that would so completely change my life. And even though the relationship seems to have run its course and I’m currently not with the person who was at the center of this very long whirlwind, the things that I was beginning to learn and wrote about still hold true. My struggle for the past few month has been to remember and hold on to all of the good things that I’ve learned despite how things have turned out. Some days are harder than others…

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Good for the soul

so much 2 do, no time at all. So i set it all aside and played some guitar. my fingers hurt but my soul is refreshed. JBB
Music: worship playlist….

Deadlines

Thoughts for a weekend when I’m working on the yearbook…

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by,” Douglas Adams

[thanks Geo & Jen for the quote]

Music: Security Now 62: Proxies - sponsored by Astaro Corp. from the album “Security Now!” by Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte

Because…

For some strange reason Wednesdays have been more than I can handle lately and I’ve been particularly stressed after the daylight savings change (’cause I’m staying up too late) and as I approach my next yearbook deadline. So today was another case of getting tired of explaining the same thing to my students for the millionth time in a row because they weren’t listening to me the previous 999,999 times while simultaneously trying to monitor students who interpret my giving help individual students as an invitation to re-enact the chariot scene in “Ben Hur” bashing each other in the head and running about the room. So my seventh period class, the next to last of the day, is a particular challenge because they are one of my largest groups but also need a great deal of individual attention, which isn’t really a workable situation. So there I was trying to quickly bring a couple students up to speed (because they’d failed to follow along as I gave the original instructions) and I turned to see a couple of my instructionally-challenge boys with no work on their computer screens bouncing around the room and annoying the girls around them. I called the “brighter” of the two to come over and bring a pencil and paper. He complained that he didn’t have anything to write with or write on. I told him to deal with it and to get over to where I was standing.

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Two Girls & Some Video Technology

I met Justine Ezarik*** at MacWorld and just heard the episode of the podcast MacBreak Weekly which featured her (and the TWIT boys). Leo mentioned her wacky video-weblog: mommy, pack my lunch (dot) com. Too funny… jbb

Two more videos…
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Hello world!

Welcome to my blog (reborn). New (and old) entries will be posted soon…. jbb

Wonderful Accordance Info-mercial

Accordance Training @ Fuller Seminary
Mac/Computer & Bible geeks in one space… how scary is this? Beyond the scariness of being among persons who qualify as geeks in two realms, this is a bit dangerous for me in that I’m feeling the pull of this life that I used to live over twenty years ago when I was a student here at Fuller. At lunch I walked around campus and downtown to get a sandwich. Alas, nothing was open on campus so I wasn’t able to go into the student center or cafeteria where I used to have lunch or break-time but the walk was nostalgic nonetheless. More than that, this visit made me pause and contemplate the course of my life.

Technorati Tags: biblestudy, faith, techtoys

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Lost in the Mix

I finally got around to straightening out my blog/web hosting situation. To recap: following my return from MacWorld I discovered that my main and ed-tech blogs were both offline. The blogs had been hosted for free through a pepperdine friend whom I’d also lost contact with. So I decided that I needed to control my own hosting and set things up with Godaddy for my main blog. I had also decided to use my dot-mac account to host my Ed-tech blog, JBB’s Desktop. So I spent the past week massaging iWeb to give me something approximating the kind of blog I had when I was using geeklog. In the process I learned a lot about iWeb (part of Apple’s iLife suite).

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