Blog of Josh Hall

well, personal updates have been lacking from me for a few reasons.  One is, the dragon game has been demanding more and more from me as more and more players are coming, and more and more players are advancing in the game.  A few other people have offered to pitch in with the coding aspect, and I have a few moderators in place to help regulate and answer questions, so that helps.  I am really proud of what this game have become.

Another reason is lack of motivation because i don’t have a job yet.  I ended up turning down the Academic Consulting job at pitt, for a few reasons, but mostly because it wasn’t something i wanted to be doing.  A good friend told me that life is too short to be doing something you don’t want to.  He also said that he has an easier time respecting a starving artist than a complaining suit.  I think i agree.  The job situation has taken a turn for the better though, hopefully i will have more on that this or next week.

It would also appear that i have a few unwanted patrons to the site.  I mean, this is a blog, on the internet, but i would expect the people who read it regularly (yes, believe it or not, people actually do) that they would atleast know me on a personal level.  People who read my site just to use any information about what i did recently, to police what others say, or to make sure i don’t say anything about certain people, is just weird.  Borderline stalkers if you ask me.  If you care enough about what i do, or who i do it with, post in the forums atleast, and talk to me or something.  Otherwise, I think it is just plain rude.

well, i am at home on dialup right now, so i will wrap this up.  i will also share something with you that i thought was pretty much the cutest, yet saddest thing i have seen in quite some time.  poor ducklings.

“I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.”

– Ray Charles  R.I.P.

I went home for keren’s graduation and brought deirdre back up with me on thursday.  took her to ultimate frisbee with the cornerstone crew, then off to the midnight openning of harry potter with her.  she hung out my place all day friday while i was at work, and then we just hung out friday night and went home saturday.  hung out there, then out to eat with dan and jaime, saw the day after tomaro, then ended up staying over jaime and dans and going to kev and drew’s church in the morning with them.  so the past few days had been full of activities.  i really enjoyed that.  got me out of my apartment and my mind.

mellon interview tomorrow at 2.  wish me luck.  i really hope it works out.

just trying to keep my mind under control and feet on the ground for a while.  too much going on to mess up now.  and, to quote something from church today, “I am too busy NOT to pray today.”  I like that.  Consider that your quote of the moment, thought for today, and thing in closing.

“A wise man once said don’t argue with fools, because people from a distance can’t tell who is who.”

-Thanks the_big_wiggle

well, i got the AC job.  Barb hooked me up with Mellon though, I am hoping to get an interview with them next week sometime.  I talked with AC, and they said they are fine with me trying to get the mellon thing before taking the job.

Jimmie’s Chicken Shack doesn’t have an email mailing list.  So, since the website and all that are fan driven now that they left their label, I set up an email list for them.  http://sixf00t4.com/lists/  Hopefully that will catch on and prove to be a successful way to promote the band.  I am talking with the guy who runs jimmieschickenshack.net now, to work out the domain name thing.  I feel important!

going in to touchtown friday to cover for pete.  that should be interesting.  Tomorrow i am on call all day for the same reason.  I could use the extra money i suppose.  Especially with mike being a queer.  read the forum message for more on that.

With all the hate going on right now, i thought i would post a thing of beauty and rarity.  This is a site that has pictures of the sun’s green flash.  Apparently it is a hard thing to capture, let alone see with the naked eye.

⁵ This is what the LORD says:

“Cursed is the one who trusts in man,
who depends on flesh for his strength
and whose heart turns away from the LORD .
⁶ He will be like a bush in the wastelands;
he will not see prosperity when it comes.
He will dwell in the parched places of the desert,
in a salt land where no one lives.

⁷ “But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD ,
whose confidence is in him.
⁸ He will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit.”

⁹ The heart is deceitful above all things
and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?

¹⁰ “I the LORD search the heart
and examine the mind,
to reward a man according to his conduct,
according to what his deeds deserve.”

Jeremiah 17:5-10 (Thanks Evababy)