Rufus Collar

So, i was using this blog as an outlet for some crazy stuff, but it’s just not working for me anymore. What about you? No? Thought so…

I’m going to start working to re-categorize all of the posts previous to this one. They will still be available (although I don’t know why on Earth you would care to go back and read them…I don’t even want to for that matter), but they won’t be showing up on the home page, or the normal part of the site (Archive only).

I will most likely re-attempt a theme project to make this a little more like a website and a little less of a blog. The idea I will be going for is more of an about me site that will touch on ideas and topics that I find to be relevant and interesting among other things.

If you were one of the very few who may have read any of my posts (regardless of whether or not you enjoyed them), then I you may (or less likely may not) enjoy the changes I plan on making.

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Thanksgiving was great! Spent time with my girlfriend and her parents, and my parents. Lots of relaxation, and overall awesomeness.

I picked up one of my favorite book, Ender’s Game, and read it in a record-breaking, marathon of three days! I haven’t read a book for leisure in almost 7 years! I have decided that I need to read more as it seemed to be a very cathartic and stress-relieving activity for me. I also bought a companion novel to Ender’s Game; Ender’s Shadow. I haven’t gotten very far in it, but have enjoyed the first chapter.

I also have taken up drinking hot tea. Last week, I did sound for a play that went up last Thursday, and over Friday, and Saturday I drank about 6 cups of flavored tea while doing sound. Also a cathartic and stress-relieving activity, one I plan on usurping more frequently.

At the beginning of last week, some news was broken to me regarding my work situation. My boss has been deployed with his Army National Guard unit, and will be leaving for a years tour at the end of January. We have until then to get several things accomplished: (1) Figure out how we are going to deal with his absence, for which we have several options. (2) Stabilize the network infrastructure so that things will be easily recoverable while he is gone (and when he gets back). Lots to do, and not much time to do it in, but so far we are making decent time.

Needless to say, this could very well throw a monkey wrench in what I had been planning, and is a prime example of God showing his child that his timing and plans are best even when we can’t see them that way. I am of the opinion that God’s will is being done here, and I am eager to see how God intends to let things pan out. Things may still work out the way I was hoping for (and had previously felt that God was leading in the direction of), but they may not. This next week will determine this for the most part, and so I will pray that I will be able to discern God’s direction for my immediate future.

Oh, just updated to WordPress 3.0.2. Not sure what is new in this update (or the last one for that matter), but I’m curious. Nothing that reading the release notes and change-log won’t fix .

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I find that there are only a few portions of my life at this point in time that I am content with. These being my relationship with my girlfriend, which in some ways I am not content with as I am always trying to move forward in it, my family, and my spirituality, again which I am determined to continue growing in. That leaves a good amount of things left in the other category. …

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