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A Return of the Blog (Sort of)

One of my reasons that I stopped blogging is that I wanted to start designing website.  Well the site I had been working on for the last 8 months is almost done which is giving me some time to start working in my own site.  So this has been 2 hours of design sorry you can’t comment quite yet.  still working on all that stuff.

Why I’m not a Blogger!

Welcome to 2010 and as I promised a blog post.  A few months ago I began to realize that I am not a blogger, although I still have a few who faithfully check to see if I post I will no longer promise to blog often.  I am not getting rid of my unlinked media site but I will in no way try to keep it up to date with content.  I will share most of the reasoning behind it and leave it at that.

  1. I feel I am too concise.  I have never been a wordy writer.  If I can explain something in a sentence I’ll do it in a sentence.  I don’t like long explanations.
  2. To me blogging was a fad.  A friend of mine started a blog about the same time that I did, and for a while we were the only two people I knew who had them  it made checking other peoples post really easy.  Since then at least a dozen or two people that I know have set up blogs, some post daily, while others only once.  For a while it felt cool being a trend-setter, but it didn’t make me want to blog more often, in fact it became a hassle to read everyone else’s blogs and then comment on them, and the more I stopped reading them the less I posted.
  3. Web Designer.  Part of what interested me in blogging was the hacking of the themes and the personalization that I was able to get out of it.  And then helping others do the same thing.  My wife, brother, Tim.  I began to focus more on the themes and less on the content.  In the past 3 months I have undertaken a new project of building a website from scratch for Bethel.  I spend a lot of my free time working on that, (in fact if I wasn’t blogging right now I’d be working on it.  I wish I could send you all the link to give you the sneak peek but it’s far from done and I can’t show it off to the masses quite yet.  I foresee that project taking another 3 or 4 months depending on how much free time I have to work on it, but when it is done I’ll send word and the link.  On a side note if you are someone I know personally and are wanting more control over you blog and less restrictions let me know and I discuss options that I can offer you.
  4. My Life is not an Open Book.  Some blogger share way too much information in their blog posts.  I am not a person who feels it is necessary to do that.  I could fill my blog with funny stories that might happen throughout my day but those stories would generally be of students from my class.  And with as plugged in as my students are to the internet it could be pretty easy for one of them to find out that I was talking about one of them, which is something that I feel would not be beneficial.  So I don’t publish stories of my students.
  5. Because.

The list is not extensive, but those are my reasons.  I hope I don’t crush the feelings of the faithful unlinkedmedians.  I hope you have a Happy New Year.

- hold nothing back

It’s Up To You!

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So I’ve been working on my blog and I found a theme that I want to use. the one your looking at.  however I have come upon a problem.  None of my other themes that I used in prior times, had a place for a tagline and if it did it looked nasty so I would delete it.  The theme I’m using now does have a good place for a taglines to go that I like, however I don’t know what my tagline should be. So it’s up to you.  I would like you, the readers to create a tagline for my blog.  All you have to do is leave a comment with your best idea or ideas (feel free to leave as many as you want).  I’ll choose a tagline that is well liked by the readers and myself.

Psalm 24

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I read this Psalm this morning and really enjoyed the passage.  Read through it and let me know what you get out of it.

1. The earth is the LORD’S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.  2. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.  3. Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?  4. He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.  5. He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.  6. This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.  7. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.  8. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.  9. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.  10Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.

New Year and Everything That Comes With It

Happy New Year.  Welcome to 2009.  Last year is gone and there are only 365 days until 2010.  I have never been one to make New Year’s Resolutions, but have have decided to set some goals for my life that I would like to work on this year.  But before I start this year I would like to look back over the past year and hit some highlights.

2008 started of a little tough, Spencer my best friend, headed off to marine corps boot camp two weeks into the year with the promise that he would still be able to be my best man at my wedding, that same week I had to have some major dental work done and Renae had her wallet and computer stolen from her while she was at work.  Latter in February we had a scare, as Renae thought she might of had an infection in her feet, but fortunately it turned out to be nothing.  In March my parents visited during spring break and we went to visit Disneyland.  On April 30, 2008 I graduated from college.   I began working at Bethel Baptist School soon after graduation and God quickly lead me to an apartment in Garden Grove about 5 miles from Bethel.  On June 14, 2008, the love of my life became Mrs Renae Ashton.  Oh, and Spencer was able to make it to the wedding, barely.  I spent the summer working with the summer school program at Bethel and in September I began teaching 5th grade.  Renae and I are doing very well having just celebrated our 6 month aniversary of our wedding, we definatly enjoy married life.  For Thanksgiving we spent at Renae’s parents and Christmas with mine.  It was nice to have my whole family together for almost a week.

Well that was last year…  So this year what will be different?  What will be the same?

I have decided to set some goals some will be public, others private.  I hope that this will help me keep focused on the important things so here is a list of my public goals:

  1. Grow in my relationship with God
  2. Grow in my relationship with Renae
  3. Read my Bible all the way through this year
  4. Become consistent at journaling
  5. See at least one unbeliever come to know Christ
  6. Loose 10-15 pounds
  7. Stop being a procrastinator
  8. Read at least 4 Miscellaneous books
  9. Visit 2 MLB stadiums that I have not been to yet.
  10. Watch the SF Giants win the World Series.

So I think that will be my list.  So although I have never been one to make New Year’s Resolutions it appears that I have just done so.

hold nthing back.