1. What was I doing 10 years ago? Ten years ago I I was footloose and fancy free. A bachelor going to school at LCC attending institute and dating girls who had just graduated or in I think one case was just about to graduate from high school.
2. 5 things on my to do list.
Change the muffler on my car, figure out how the conference call feature on my phone at work works, finish, or at least start the articles of incorporation for Lorne's Blanket, teach the kids to roll over and play dead, clean out my storage room is is an absolute disaster in there.
3. What would you do if you were instantly a billionaire?
I would go back to university, someplace good with great scenery like Harvard or the University of Miami. I loved university the whole process of learning and discussing ideas is amazing, I would sell our crappy house here in Whitecourt and buy three or four really nice ones in places like the south of france, new zealand and malibu. I would help out my family get everyones debts paid off then set aside enough for my family to live off of for the rest of my life and for the kids to go to school and then the rest would go to the perpetual education fund. This fund is the most revolutionary idea and provides such amazing opportunities for people in difficult circumstances. I would love to know that because of me thousands of individuals and families would be able to become financially stable.
5. 3 bad Habits
Procrastination
Reading on the Toilet
tardiness
6. 6 places I have lived.
Bangalore, India
Grande Prairie, Alberta
Singapore
Las Vegas, Nevada
Whitecourt, Alberta
Magrath, Alberta
7. 5 Jobs I've had
Feed Lot Hand
menial labourer (cleaning out chicken barns)
Insurance Salesman
Lawyer
Gas Jockey
8. 5 things people don't know about me
-I need glasses, badly
-I love celebrity gossip
-As a teenager me and some friends developed plans (never used) for a hovercar
-I am a little OCD there are particular things that I need to do the same way every time (ie there is a desk I pass before I go in my office, I touch it every time I go by.)
-I am a compulsive reader of alernative history novels.
Have a great day
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Sunday, March 9, 2008
King Benjamin
I am just starting to read king Benjamin's address again and after reading through Chapter 2 of Mosiah a couple of things really struck me. The first is how King Benjamin seems to view his mortal body and mortality itself with, if not disdain then at least with a sense of remoteness. It is as if because of his age and infirmity he is more than ready to cast off this mortal life. Throughout the chapter he speaks of his life, work and ministry in the past tense as if he is already gone and done and finished.
This seems to be important because of the way that he approaches our mortality, as a gift given by a benevolent father to, at times recalcitrant, children. King Benjamins age and infirmity have given him a clearer understanding of who we are and the relative value that we should place on obedience and sacrifice. This perspective on mortality also reinforces the importance of subliminating our will to our Father in Heaven.
The second and somewhat related point is that I wish we had more from King Benjamin. More of his sermons. He is a wonderful teacher.
This seems to be important because of the way that he approaches our mortality, as a gift given by a benevolent father to, at times recalcitrant, children. King Benjamins age and infirmity have given him a clearer understanding of who we are and the relative value that we should place on obedience and sacrifice. This perspective on mortality also reinforces the importance of subliminating our will to our Father in Heaven.
The second and somewhat related point is that I wish we had more from King Benjamin. More of his sermons. He is a wonderful teacher.
Friday, March 7, 2008
After All This Time
I went in to the city yesterday and did a discovery on Affidavit. It was about as boring as it sounds. Luckily the office where I did the discovery at was like right down the street from a Red Lobster SCORE!!! That was a good lunch nothing fancy just some lobster and shrimp pasta very good. Unfortunately you cannot get good (or really any) seafood in Whitecourt other than fish sticks which, I am sorry mom, but are not sea food.
When I got back to the office I found that the overhead fan in my office had not dripped water on my desk. You might think that is was a given that the overhead fan in my office would not drip on my desk, you would be mistaken. Over the past four or five days the overhead fan that sits over the left corner of my desk has occasionally dripped and occassionally gushed out water. This is not good, to give you an idea of why consider this, all that I do all day is look at paper. Some of it is stuff that I wrote some of it is stuff that somebody else wrote and wants me to read. Much of it is not copied anywhere. the stuff on my desk is the only copy of this paper in the whole world. So if it gets soaked through with water that is bad, very bad. So far nothing vital has been dripped on, cross your fingers. Interestingly this is not the only place in my office that leaks water I have a skylight? like thing behind my desk in an alcove and it will occasionally for no discerible reason begin to leak. This is not so serious because it is not over my desk and I can put a bucket under it to catch the dripping but if it drips and I do not notice it it can quickly become a big wet spot on my tile floor likely to cause me to trip and injure myself at which point I would be forced to sue my employer, the builder of the house and any safety inspectors who signed off on this weird travesty of a skylight? or whatever that thing is.
When I got back to the office I found that the overhead fan in my office had not dripped water on my desk. You might think that is was a given that the overhead fan in my office would not drip on my desk, you would be mistaken. Over the past four or five days the overhead fan that sits over the left corner of my desk has occasionally dripped and occassionally gushed out water. This is not good, to give you an idea of why consider this, all that I do all day is look at paper. Some of it is stuff that I wrote some of it is stuff that somebody else wrote and wants me to read. Much of it is not copied anywhere. the stuff on my desk is the only copy of this paper in the whole world. So if it gets soaked through with water that is bad, very bad. So far nothing vital has been dripped on, cross your fingers. Interestingly this is not the only place in my office that leaks water I have a skylight? like thing behind my desk in an alcove and it will occasionally for no discerible reason begin to leak. This is not so serious because it is not over my desk and I can put a bucket under it to catch the dripping but if it drips and I do not notice it it can quickly become a big wet spot on my tile floor likely to cause me to trip and injure myself at which point I would be forced to sue my employer, the builder of the house and any safety inspectors who signed off on this weird travesty of a skylight? or whatever that thing is.
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