Life Updates of a Larger Magnitude

Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem.... We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it AMBITION. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. (Amen)

Not to usurp my post about Marianne and Lance, but this made me laugh (as XKCD usually does).  Not that it's a comic, but to simplify... They were trying to get standardization about what color people really see on their monitors.  So they set up a survey that would show a color and you could write in what color you thought it was.  Aside from "red", "green", "blue", etc, there were some random answers...  People amuse me.

Today I found out that 2 of my friends from D.C. (circa 1998) just got engaged.   Since I'm quite shoddy at maintaining out-of-sight friendships, I haven't actually talked to them since our reunion 2 years ago.  I wonder if that's where they started dating?  I think it just might be.  In which case, I'm once again amazed by the awesome randomness of life.  I mean, these 2 people are from different parts of the country, and met when they were about 16.  Then we all go our seperate ways for 10 years (pretty sure Lance went off to doctoring school and Marianne is a fiesty little lawyer), come back to a random weekend reunion in D.C., and WHAM!  Meet the person you're engaged to 2 years later. That's just cool.  And it just shows that you have to be open to anything. :)

I am an analysis rockstar, and excel is my groupie.  (Hmm, I think that's a flawed analogy.)  Regardless, I am kicking butt and taking names at work this week (and last week too, for that matter), and it feels awesome.  Good work GOOD! Plus, about 2 years ago I started an internal effort to organize an engineering library and finally rolled it out to the rest of the engineers 2 weeks ago.... this week, an invitation to present it to the engineering manager's conference in June.  Woot!