Insomnia and General Ramblin'

It is just after 3am and I am awake again (or is that still). Today - technically yesterday - was a big day on a number of fronts.

First of all our church has decided to put in an offer for an acreage just south of Calgary - although now it is officially in Calgary. I am pretty sure that the city limit sign is attached to a cart on wheels. Every time I head out of town the city seems to have gathered up more vacant land. With all of this talk of a slow down it doesn't really feel that way. This potential purchase is a huge step for us. We are a small congregation and the price tag for property is pretty daunting. Yet there was a sense of faith and willingness to stand up to this challenge. I think Soren Keirkegaard or Steve Earle (I am forever mixing those guys up) once said "It isn't courage if you don't feel some fear first."

Secondly, I cobbled together the last of the funds required to get my student visa for doctoral studies in Philadelphia. Its too bad I couldn't have done this when Canadian money was at par. Although I should just be happy because I was beginning to think that this was going to be another PhD I would have to walk away from...and to be honest I wasn't too happy with that prospect. God is good and it worked out. I officialy start at Eastern University in September, although more and more emails are flying back and forth between the cohort members and faculty already. I am really excited about getting back academics.

Thirdly, and finally unless I wake up again, I have gotten my tablet PC back. More than a few times I have threatened to throw it across the room, out the window and even once I decided that I would throw it out the window across the room (I think that is why they call them a 'windows' computer). I managed to resist these temptations - but just barely. Although I don't want to sound like an obnoxious Mac-convert (but I am one), I don't know if I will ever go back to using a PC as my main computer. The exciting part of getting my portable Myocardial Infarction Catalyser (aka the Gateway M275) is that I like to do digital design and drawings on it and I have started to mess around with Photoshop and Illustrator to a greater extent. I am looking at illustrating a couple of children's books and may try my hand at a freelance writing/illustrating project in the near future (if time and opportunity allows it).

Well if this hasn't put you to sleep yet you have far worse insomnia than I do because I am now ready to attempt sleep again. This would make me happier if it wasn't for the fact that my alarm will be going off in three short hours.

Migwec,
Ehkosit