(Ir)religiosity

I don’t do this often, but I’m in the mood and lots of things have been going on lately, some of which pertain to my blogging.

First, my trusty iBook passed away last week.  It served me well.  The good thing is its been teetering for a while now so I had everything backed up.  After I lost all my music a while back I’ve been paranoid.  So I back things up often these days.  Leopard even has this cool timemachine thingy that lets you do that on the fly.  Which, brings me to the next thing.  I am now the proud owner of a Macbook.  And it is awesome.  I didn’t realize how old (and slow) my iBook was until now.  And I actually have a big enough hard drive!

Second, seminary is taking up way more time than I originally thought.  At this point I’m not even working (which I hope to be soon) and I’m barely finding time to get everything done.  Which is fine.  I like to stay busy and I am, for the most part, enjoying my classes and all the things associated with them.  But that means other things (like blogging) aren’t happening as often.  So I’m going to cut back a little.  I already have to some extent.  Even though I really like them, I probably won’t do any series for a while and my posting frequency won’t be as often.  I’m going to try and log one substantive post a week and maybe, if I have time or find something interesting, I’ll throw up some short thoughts here and there.

My RSS reader — just the blog section alone –  is bigger than ever and I plan on continuing to read things, but my commenting won’t be as often.  Now that I think about it, it wasn’t very often in the first place.  That will be something I look at once I start posting more often later on.

So basically my public presence (writing and commenting) in the blogosphere will be truncated for the time being.  Sad, I know.  But that just how it goes.

Friday
 

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Friday was a long day. Longer than we had anticipated and just shy of 500 miles.  We left Erie, PA in the morning and drove north of Buffalo, NY to see Niagara Falls.  Even though we didn’t visit the Canadian side — which would’ve been much more beautiful — it was still well worth the trip.  We were able to see American Falls which is the smaller one and we did the wet and windy Cave of the Winds tour.  Finally, we walked out to Terrapin Point to see the massive Horseshoe Falls. It was amazing. Here are a few pictures. Click here if you have problems with the slideshow. Read the rest of this entry »

Tuesday

 

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A little over 300 miles. We stopped in Hastings, Michigan to visit Bonnie’s aunt, uncle, and cousin. Got there late in the afternoon. The weather was absolutely perfect. We walked around town a bit and spent the rest of the day visiting and resting. Pretty uneventful, but very relaxing. Read the rest of this entry »

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Well, that’s it. That’s what day one looks like on the map. Right at 500 miles. And we only had to fill up once! Gas was $3.79 when we left Oklahoma, $3.86 in Missouri, and $3.99 in Indiana. I don’t want to think about what we will pay tomorrow.

We left around 9:30 this morning, said our goodbyes, and hopped onto the interstate. Tomorrow we’ll go other 300 miles or so through Indiana into Michigan to visit some family.

We have pictures, but I haven’t uploaded them yet. Hopefully tomorrow after some rest.

It has arrived.  Tomorrow morning Bonnie and I, with everything we own riding behind us, will bid Oklahoma farewell and begin the trip up to Boston.  It is the beginning of a grand adventure.  I’m hoping to update here every day or so with pictures, maps, etc.  I’ll be twittering for sure.  You can follow me there in the event we don’t have internet access.  Or you can do both.  

We’re planning to leave Vinita by 10:00 CST in the morning and stay somewhere north of St. Louis tomorrow night.  

I’m declaring this Dropkick Murphys tune the theme song for the trip:

It’s been a crazy weekend.  I mentioned a couple of months ago that Bonnie and I would be moving to Boston this summer.  We started the moving process this weekend.  And it is a process.

Later on in July I’ll be in a friend’s wedding.  Instead of hanging around and paying another month’s rent just for that we decided to pack up early and stay with Bonnie’s mother in Vinita for a few weeks until after the wedding.  That’s what we did this weekend.  It was pretty hectic.

Saturday we rented a Uhaul trailer and loaded up most of the stuff, made a trip to Vinita, unloaded and came right back to return the trailer.  Sunday was my last day at VUMC.  After all the church stuff we loaded up what was left in the apartment, cleaned, and headed back to Vinita from Oklahoma City for the last time.  We got in a little after midnight last night, unloaded and passed out.  We were both pretty exhausted.

So I’m hanging out in Vinita for the next three weeks until phase two (actually moving to Boston) begins.  I plan on blogging during this time, but probably not as much.  We’ll see what happens.

I’m going to try and blog the trip to Boston as well with pictures and everything.  We’ll see that goes.

So that’s the update.

One year ago today I married my best friend.  It seems just like yesterday and yet it seems so long ago.  So today I celebrate and I remember the vow I made. Yesterday. Today. Forever. I love you Bonnie. Happy Anniversary. Here’s to many, many more.

So, I’ve been really busy this week and haven’t had time to blog.  I’ve been at Annual Conference in Tulsa until yesterday.  For those that are unfamiliar, AC is basically a huge committee meeting for United Methodists. Anyway, I’ll be back to my normal routine next week.

Well, the good news is I’ve resolved my computer issues.  The bad news however, is that I am way behind due to said problems.  I wasn’t able to blog over the weekend like I normally do and I have 250+ unread posts in my RSS reader.  So, yeah, I’ve got some catching up to do. But I’ve got school behind me for the summer so hopefully I’ll be back up to speed by tomorrow.  

I’m having some pretty serious computer issues.  Hopefully they’ll be taken care of within the next few days and I’ll be up and running soon, but we all know how that goes. Blogging may be hit and miss for several days.