Blog of Josh Hall

In recent sports news, Grapevine Faith played Gainesville State School in football, but the fans from Faith rooted for the other team.  The formed a line for the other team to run through at the beginning of the game, the made a sign for them to bust through, and cheered for them throughout the game.  Was this some kind of reverse logic to the Yale "We Suck" prank?  Nope.  This was a good deed, since Gainesville is a correctional institution, and even those players deserve to have some cheering.

Why does something so right, seem so upside down?

Some text is clearly written. We consider this normal and expected.
If I wRiTe In AlTeRnAtInG-cApS oN a ReSuMe, It WiLl MoSt LiKeLy Be ReJeCtEd.
Some text we italicize to whisper quietly, but words never make a sound.
Underlining words makes sure what we’ve written is found.
When Jesus spoke, he apparently spoke in red.
All 2 cmnly, we abbrv. what u said.
I can ^say something without you knowing, by changing the <font color> to white,
Maybe a secret, an "easter egg", or just something to spite.
I’m fascinated at the replacements or tools we have in place,
To relay the intonations, hand gestures, or looks on a face.
Text to symbols of <3, :), :(,
But love, happy, and sad, aren’t as simple as that.
Just different people using different ways to express differences.
Whether boldly, quietly, OSTENTATIOUSLY, or whatever the variance is.
There’s no point here, or "." as some _say.
I hope I chose the right way(s) on the right day…

I watched this video about why never to talk to the cops, ever, even if you’re innocent, and I wonder how many people have been self-incriminated.  Then I look at a carton of goldfish snacks, and it says, "DO NOT PURCHASE IF CARTON IS OPEN OR TORN" and I chuckle at the thought of someone being that dumb to risk their health or life for a box of goldfish.  There are tons of stupid product labels and warnings out there, and I wonder what happened to make these necessary.  Usually there’s a lawsuit involved, but sometimes, like the 82 childlock tylenol bottles, companies recognize a problem and resolve it.  It just boggles my mind not how stupid people can be, but how much help people need to save themselves from themselves!

My family is the most important thing in my life.  Period, end of sentence.  This weekend, I missed a weekend with all of them because I had a project at work fail last weekend, and we needed to finish it this weekend.  It was suposed to be a minor inconvenience.  We’d start at 9am, be done and on my way by 1pm.  Everyone we needed was aware and ready to go; full exposure for success.  We can’t get the server to come up.  I was up until 4am last night on this call, had an 11am call with the Chief technology officer about how to proceed, and now we’re working on it again until 4pm today.  This whole time my family is together, exchanging presents, and spending time since we won’t be able to get together for a while.

I will never let work cross my family again.  I have a picture of my whole family on my desk here at home and the thought had crossed my mind to take it into work so i have it there to keep me happy.  I think that logic is flawed.  The hyperboly of that situation is to bring family to my work, and I don’t want that to happen.  I think I’m going to keep my bare gray cube walls as a sign of my temporary state at the office. 

At this point in my life, my work doesn’t do anything to help my family.  I’m not getting supported, paid, or encouraged enough at work to take time away from my family.  This is becoming an increasing concern to me, and I think it needs resolved.

Corporate whore no more.

"And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on his name."

 – Acts 22:16