petering out

Does anyone else feel like blogging as a fad is coming to an end? At least withing my circly of influence it seems like the once fruitful world of blogging is barren. Only Jon Kramer consistently blogs, and writes out his thoughts in the wonderful world known as the bloggisphere. But let me be honest, i haven't myself posted a new blog since June the fifth, which was over four months ago now, but i haven't missed it that much, until now. Over the last week or so, i have missed blogging, i have had things on my chest, which i have wished to get off my chest via: the world wide web, and until now, have yet to do so...although i don't know how heavy into everything i will get today....even though blogging is like riding a bike, you still want to take it easy at first, so you don't fall off and embarress yourself in front of all the people watching and in my case, that is pretty much no one, although there is a potential for people to start looking at my blog again when i admit via facebook status that my blogging has begun again. Essentially i have just felt the need to have an outlet to say things, to think things, and to communicate them with a imaginary world, which is the blog world. More to come....in the meantime, i need to acquire some lunch, and then i will return, possibly with my lunch to type and to blog my little heart out.

Ok, so i didn't type any more blog during my eating time...but it's hard to eat and type at the same time. It's also difficult when you are reading about and watching videos about hockey and wrestling. You see what my problem is, is that i lose the will to blog really quick. Like here I am, deeply into a new blog after a four month absence and already i have no desire to do this. What is my problem...it's not like i'm a committifobe or anything like that...oh well.

Life update: since June the following things have happened. I went camping twice, once in Alberta, and once in B.C., i'll probably do the same next summer since camping is not as expensive as other types of vacations. The rear passenger tire exploded for no good reason off of Cara's Ford Focus....and i know what you are thinking...thats what i get for buying a ford right, well fair enough. We raised a whole crap load of money for The Edge Youth Center here in Vermilion with a food booth at the Vermilion Fair. It was an exhausting weekend, but it was still really fun, we don't know if we will do it again this summer. We got an interim pastor at Parkview to help us out in the time being between the loss of Pastor Shawn, and who over our new full time pastor will be. It's working out pretty good so far. I've bought a few new cd's. Not too many though, because let's be honest, money is tight around these parts, most recently i bought the new Ben Harper CD, and also Wilco's most recent release "Sky blue Sky", i was not a huge fan of Wilco, but then Matt Kinniburgh burned me a copy of this disc, and i was immeadiatly entranced by it's awesomeness. Also, i bought Matthew Good's new CD "Hospital Music" he wrote it in the aftermath of his painful divorce and a suicide attempt. If his brother was Chaz Tenenabaum, Chaz would have asked him if his new CD was "dark" and Matthew would've responded.... "it's a suicide note....of course it's dark".....ok maybe it would not have gone exactly like that, but it's difficult to put a great movie and great songwriter together like that. Also, in the time since i last blogged, youth ministry restarted here in Vermilion, it started off really strong, but has dropped off in attendance because of athletic competition. And to think i used to think Sports were cool. What else has happened? Oh, i saw two concerts....Crowded House (Pete Yorn opened for them, he's the reason we went) and of course Keith "I don't really hate Canada" Urban. Keith's concert was magnificent, one of the best i have ever seen actually, and Pete's was good too, but he wasn't the headliner so he didn't get to play for as long as i would have liked him to. Anything else? I started my ordination process....read one book, and i was going to write the paper today, but why write a paper, when you can resurrect a blog? I think thats about it....oh no, also Cara and I have been renovating our place. It has been a lot of work, but we really have enjoyed the results....

So listen i'm not going to get into any of that heavy, actual thinking stuff today, i'll leave that for the next blog, four months from now (hopefully not that long, but you never know)

Anyway, peace and love to you and your kinfolk.