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“Apple today introduced the new iPod®, featuring a gorgeous 2.5-inch color screen which can display album artwork and photos, and play stunning video including music videos, video Podcasts, home movies and television shows. The new iPod holds up to 15,000 songs, 25,000 photos or over 150 hours of video and is available in a 30GB model for $299 and a 60GB model for $399, with both models available in stunning white or black designs.”

Oh yes they did, and I’m getting one!

Plug in. Sia bene.

Currently Playing The Scientist A Rush Of Blook To The Head By Coldplay

This post is kind of a cop-out, in that it is merely a repost from a blog that I frequent… however, it spoke to me, and I felt I should share. The text is from John 6:26 & 27.

Circumstances. Aren’t circumstances just great? Whether they are good or bad, they always seem to be there and they always seem to have a profound influence on your day, your attitude and pretty much just generally how you feel about things. So let me ask you this. Is you perception of God based on your circumstances?

Jesus says some pretty profound words in verse 26, “The truth is, you want to be with me because I fed you, not because you saw the miraculous sign.” In other words, he says that the people were more interested in the blessings than they were the blesser. Their circumstance were what was important.

What if you found yourself in a really bad situation…maybe you had some control over it, maybe you didnt. Maybe you brought it upon yourself, maybe you didnt. Either way, you’re in it. Do those times make you see God any differently? Do you think he’d put you in a painful situation….like on purpose?

I fear that many of us put way more stock in God’s promises, or blessings, or what he does than we do in God himself. Here’s the thing. God is unchanging. If you believe that, then what do your circumstances matter? If you’re in a bad spot, God is who he is. If you’re in a great situation, God is who he is.

So. Think about this. Ask yourself this question.

Are you more in love with God? Or, are you more in love with what God does for you?

You guessed it. I’ll be at home in the Dallas area this weekend. Let me know if you want to “hang out.”

In other news… I continue to disagree with a certain professor who continues to believe that he should have control over an off-campus non-school sponsored event. Heck, we use our own cars and gas to get out there… oh well. At least things in that regard are over for now, maybe we can all calm down a bit.

The cold is coming to Abilene again this week. Should have lows in the mid-forties on Wednesday and Thursday night. Just so you know.

I’ve added the hours for the sub and the campus bookstore to my “Hours and Numbers” page. I put that stuff there because it’s not easily found (or in some cases, not found at all) on the HSU website.

Also - it appears the much anticipated video iPod - or whatever Apple is going to call it - may be on the way, with Apple inviting the media to a “special event” at the California Theater in San Jose next Wednesday. I won’t bore you with the nerdy aspects of what this might mean to you; just ask me if you really want to know - you know such things make me giddy.

Plug in. Sia bene.

Currently Playing Through The Fire Top Gun Soundtrack By Larry Greene

A great weekend.

Friday night, Hebron put the hurt on Frisco Centennial. Had a chance to hang around some of the high school band guys, and that was fun. The people I knew are grown up now, and there’s a ton of new faces, so it was a little stranger than last year, but still fun.

Saturday morning, me and my dad made our way over to the Ballpark, where Chrysler was sponsoring what they called an “Inspired Drives.” Basically, they had their SRT rides (the Crossfire SRT6 and 300C SRT8) and a couple PT Cruiser GT’s out there on a couple different driving courses. One was a simple dragstrip with a couple PT Cruisers… semi-lame, because even the GT version of the PT isn’t all that much fun do drive. Another course was a “professional course,” and a “professional driver” would drive the car (choice of Crossfire or 300C) around the course - that was awesome. They weren’t so much as driving the car, so much as they were powersliding every corner and burning as much rubber as possible. There was another course that was similar, but instead of a “professional driver,” I drove. Oh. My. It was amazing. I drove both the Crossfire and the 300C… to throw a car like that around the corners and at high speed… wow. Wish I could do that with my car… legally… oh well. So that was a blast - thanks, Dad.

Later on Saturday, I had the opportunity to go to IKEA for the first time… that place is massive. I spent about 2 hours there, and could have been there longer were it not for me and my feet getting tired. It was amazing though… I could stock my future house exclusively with IKEA furniture. No kidding. And it wouldn’t hurt my (future) bank account to do so either, since their stuff is not expensive at all.

For those of you worried about the meaning of the post title… heh. We (being me, my brother, and my dad) were walking around IKEA, and me or dad (I forget which) wanted to go a certain direction, and my brother says, “You can’t go that way, you’re going against the arrows.” But seeing as how it was so loud in there, and how I had just seen some Arabs, my brain heard, “You can’t go that way, you’re going against the Arabs.” Oops. Good for a laugh though.