So i know i said i'd be updating more - but lets face it - work is ridiculous, i'm out most nights and if anything was going to get shafted it was this. Please don't throw rotten fruit at me if you see me in the street.
Just as a rhetorical; who writes a massive $65,000 piece of software that is well into it's
nth version, but is only viewable in the PC edition of
internet explorer. Ugh. Not only did they exclude mac, but they picked the most butt-ugly, slow and insecure browser i know.
ARGH!-Anyway-Today i learnt
why we don't see dead birds everywhere, among other things.
I have a parrot that is 900 years old.
I don't know if girls are going to want to read this but there is an issue that plagues all men, regardless of their background or where they're from. My experience is that women don't really have this problem but i gotta say it's something that every guy ends up wondering about sooner or later (even if they are too embarrassed to bring it up). I actually raised this issue when i was walking past a school in Germany with another Aussie, a Canadian and an Irishman. As soon as i asked them about it they looked really relieved that someone had brought it up.
"How many kids could you take in a fight?" Seriously, if there's no weapons and just waves of five year olds coming at you - how many do you think it would take to bring you down? According to this survey (below) i could take 23 but i reckon i would definitely put down more than that. After all, a five year old is really just going to take one punch then
K.O. little kiddy.
"Hey kids, meet 'Knuckles' and 'Chuckles'!"23
It's possible that i am currently working for the most generous employers that i ever will! Incidentally it should also be noted that i am possibly receiving the lowest wage that i ever will for full-time work. The generosity i am talking about is in reference to my new Tuesday schedule.
Backstory:Previous to working at
OM i was actively involved in youth ministry for quite a number of years, spent a year running programs in high schools and was having all these interesting faith conversations with people at uni.
Then i got a desk job.
As exciting as it is to be working at the forefront of mission, helping people/churches connect with God's missional heart through design i do miss being at the coal face, so to speak. I miss having those great discussions about what 'love' is, what is the 'ultimate truth' or even simply does God exist? I miss hanging out with teenagers (especially young teenagers), doing fun stuff with them and encouraging them to think critically about faith and the world.
This brings me to my new Tuesday schedule.
After discussing this stuff with my boss she gave me permission to join my church's ministry in a local high school. So now, each Tuesday, i work the first half of the day at home then head of to the school with two other guys and run games, meet kids, make friends and give a short talk about God. All of this
on company time :) It may not sound that special beaming off your monitor but let me say that 1) no secular company is giving weekly paid time to go and run an evangelistic program for kids. And 2) i have been craving to do something like this for at least the last six months, so needless to say i'm pretty happy about it. :)
Also, i can't get Laura Marling's
Ghosts out of my head.
I was just going through some of my very old blog posts, and i think i'd like to go back to posting things on here that better reflect me, you know, my thoughts, photos, work i'm doing - that sort of thing. Recently this place has become a bit more of a "hey check out this awesome web comic!" sort of a place, which is fine but maybe this will be... finer?
Of course all of that being said, do you think i have anything to post here? Nope. But soon. I'm working on some t-shirt designs, and i just got some scans back from the... scanning... dude(?) which means i'm now going to be able to finish off this kids book called Stick Your Neck Out, it's about decapitation. Ok, so it's actually about a giraffe (this is why i don't write kids books). Anywho, i guess this means i'm doing something with myself which is a welcome change from the feeling that i ain't.
Ok, well, i want to go home now so i'll write about the other stuff later.
Ok, so everyone seems to be doing this "smallest comic ever" thing, so here's my entry.
Doesn't look so small huh? Well try and find it on this
A4 page... duh, duh, duuuuuuuh!
Hint: look at the end of the text.I went a slightly different route to the others, making use of my savant-like technological prowess. No doubt the commoners will decry this with loud accusations of cheatery, but to them i say "Bah! None are smaller than I!"
Could i be the worst blogger of all time?
...seriously, could i?
Should i be weirded out that i went to uni with
this girl? This is most definitely the last place i expected to see her...
That said - it is a pretty good video.
