Entries from November 1, 2007 - November 30, 2007

longing, redux

sigh.
Posted on Friday, November 30, 2007 at 08:53AM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments2 Comments

why?

i am about twice the age of their apparent target audience and i sort of feel like i need to wash after listening to their lyrics but MAROON5. DAMMIT WHY ARE THEY SO CATCHY. I CANNOT HELP IT.
Posted on Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 01:13PM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments8 Comments

still autumn

there's a serious lack of updateage going on here. i made it "home" and back again for thanksgiving / vacation, which covered everything from sleeping in every single day to running around the house making sure the nephews were not destroying things/others/themselves. really it was a mostly relaxing week and a nice break from the daily grind.
 
in lieu of any actual substance, i present a view of the street on which i grew up. just one block long, seven houses on each side, a modest neighborhood on the east side of town. if you squint you can see my car in the driveway on the right in the middle of the block. if you squint harder you can probably see my dad raking leaves. if you wish there weren't cars parked on the street to ruin the symmetry of the photograph, i'll have you know that i left five minutes after this picture was taken. don't complain.
 
it felt a little odd to be taking a picture of my street. sort of like... taking a picture of your sock drawer, or toothbrush, or something equally mundane that you see every day. i felt the same taking the picture in this post [which was taken on the other side of the brown building at the end of the street]. except that i don't see these things every day anymore.
 
as we turned the corner onto our little windblown late autumn street, i was momentarily surprised at the view. it's just my old street, but the bright yellow leaves scattered everywhere combined with the peaceful scene made me smile. it's a nice little neighborhood. nothing spectacular. but it will always be home.
 
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Posted on Monday, November 26, 2007 at 09:33PM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments2 Comments

out

okay, i've run out of potato-related posts. not sure if you should be disappointed or relieved.
 
also, i'll be out this week. i'm doubting there will be a terribly large amount of wifi in my parents' neighborhood, but you never know. tonight will be spent with kt, and tomorrow will be spent SHOPPING and meeting up with tb... somewhere. and the rest of the week will be spent tooling around nw ohio and surviving family.
 
happy thanksgiving if i don't see/speak/chat with you before then! 
Posted on Sunday, November 18, 2007 at 04:04PM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments2 Comments

WOE.

this post is just wonderful.

SWEET POTATOES. ARG. 

Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 at 05:26PM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments2 Comments

couch potato

forget television; laptop laziness is the new theme around here.

unfortunately, my furniture, electrical outlets, and general apartment layout are all conspiring against me in regards to finding a practical place to park the new distraction. the perfect outlet is, of course, wired to the light switch which controls my main lamp in the living room. so unless i want to leave my lights on all day [no], or start turning the lamp on and off manually [no!], that's out. for now i'll just let it charge through the outlet on the other side of the room and pray i don't trip over the power cord on the way to the kitchen one of these groggy mornings and drag the whole thing crashing down from the coffee table.

laptop bag has been ordered and i am certain that it will arrive next monday, after i am out of town for the week. come on, united parcel service, i dare you to surprise me! i'd like this before i take my little vacation! 

Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 at 11:13PM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments10 Comments

reminder

working on federal holidays is just another sporadic reminder of why i do not like this job.
 
trying to find parking is my daily reminder.
 
of course, today wasn't a problem.
 
rawr. 
Posted on Monday, November 12, 2007 at 08:13AM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments2 Comments

legos = imagination

i am really enjoying these lego print ads.

Posted on Friday, November 9, 2007 at 03:03PM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments3 Comments

redemption

oh God, let me back in
[from southeast engine's a wheel within a wheel, 2007]

if i return would you take me back
teach me to learn to face the facts
i'm so sorry for all i did
oh God let me back in

when i was a child i believed in you
what a simple thing for a child to do
i could see the sky and my mind was set
i could feel ok when i was so upset
but as i grew it was so easy to forget
oh God let me back in

cause i've taken for granted all that you gave
i threw away what i was supposed to save
so if you would erase my debt
let me appreciate what i got left
let me be here in the moment
oh God let me back in

cause i've been so selfish autonomous and cruel
i've done whatever i've wanted to
so if you would forgive my sin
i won't be who i have been
i'll put my stock in you not them
if you let me back in

and for so long now i've just laughed and yawned
but i sawed off the branch that i was resting on
and as i fell from limb to limb
i found i was no real exception
so here i'm begging for redemption
oh God let me back in
oh God let me back in

words and music by adam remnant

[30 second itunes clip here]
[full clip at free.napster.com... thanks, beth!]

southeastengine.com



i bought southeast engine's latest release, a wheel within a wheel, at their baker theater show on saturday. i'm finding this track more worshipful than many of the 'christian' songs i've sung lately. theologically deep? maybe not. but it's honest and it's simple; it doesn't try too hard. it captures the raw emotion of realizing our own fallenness. while we may not technically have been kicked out... there are times we feel the need to be let back in. i listen to this song and i can't help but think of bonhoeffer and of the beautiful brutality of true sorrow and repentance.

begging for redemption... aren't we all.

Posted on Wednesday, November 7, 2007 at 11:01AM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments1 Comment

brrmbpdpdmdm

thanks to ian, i spent the morning listening to mike doughty's "girl in the blue dress".
 
and sjw loooooves the lyrics. oh yes she does.
Posted on Monday, November 5, 2007 at 12:18PM by Registered Commentermdog | Comments1 Comment


there is a little punk even     
in the most conservative of people.