• Ramblings | January 20, 2014

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    My boss asked me this morning what I did this weekend, and I responded with a “not much”, because thinking about big activities, I didn’t really do much over the weekend. I watched a Lobo basketball game. I cleaned out the litter box. I ran a circuit with Thorson on the Loop. I paid bills and filed a bunch of bill documents in a file cabinet. I went to church. Otherwise, I stayed home a lot. Activities wise, I didn’t go out and do much over the weekend. But when I really think about it, yesterday was a pretty constructive day, and I got a few things done.

    The chain of good events started after I read for a brief time in King’s “On Writing”, and I noted that he said writers need to read as much as they write. Still bumbling through my sabbatical January, I at least returned yesterday to the question of “What am I doing with this time off thing?”, and the writing call reached me.

    Inspired by King’s exhortation about reading, I then posted a question on Facebook asking friends to name the best stories they had ever read, and that thread picked up quite a few responses, which led me to select a mentioned book as one I wanted to read next.

    With that title in mind, as I was out running errands I then went by Hastings to see if a used copy of it was in the store. There was one, but I was mentally prompted as I stood in the checkout line to not spend money if I could help it because there is a library right down Wyoming from me- so I put the book back and headed to the Cherry Hills library.

    I was excited to realize a whole storehouse of free reading material was just a few blocks from my house, but as I went in the library, I also soon realized my library card had expired, and that I had had an old item out on it that I had no idea what I did with it.

    I ended up buying the item. But that was okay, because I got my checkout privileges back.

    Well, I finally went to find my selected title in the stacks, Ken Follett’s “Pillars of the Earth”, only to discover that there wasn’t a copy available. The location’s copy was checked out.

    I ended up picking up another title by this author.

    I then went home, library card activated, debt paid, book in hand, and started reading Follett’s “The Key to Rebecca”. A World War II action novel, it will do until “Pillars” comes available.

    After reading for a while, I then went and sat down at the computer and set the timer, and got an hour writing exercise in. I was doing so well scribbling that I even had a vague idea for a short story appear before me at the end of the writing session. An idea to mess with at a later time.

    The literary day went pretty well, all told. I was even able to go online to the city library website and put a hold on “Pillars”.

    Yay, technology! Yay, words! Yay, suggestions! Yay, Sundays.

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    A web programmer by day, I somehow still spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, God, and the significance of grace and love in daily events. I am old school in the sense that I believe in the reality of sin, and in the need of each human heart for deliverance to the Divine. I am one of those who believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that you can find most answers to life's pressing issues in Him and His Word, the Bible. I ain't perfect, and a lot of the time I ain't good, but by God's grace and kindness, I am forgiven and free.

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