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1000 things and counting.

It’s been a good week and this upcoming week looks even better.

Here is week two of the Advent video series I mentioned last week:

Giving for the sake of community – Advent from Praxis Church on Vimeo.

I’ve decided to look around for a Christmas tree for my place. I don’t have any ornaments down here, just some keepsake types back home… so this endeavor might get expensive. We’ll see how it goes, I need to find something small and I don’t really feel like spending a whole day looking.

Last week my Pastor wrote a blog entry about a new philosophy he’s trying to live out. He is doing his best to live with only 100 possessions. He isn’t counting things like furniture or individual plates and forks or anything, but he does count clothing. He lists out the 100 things in the above link and reading through the list really hit me hard this week. I own a lot of stupid shit… boxes full. If I played by his rules or even if I didn’t count clothing I would not make it. It wouldn’t be close and honestly that’s just sad. I’ve taken my comfortable living and matched it up with a nerdy obsession for new gadgets and it’s just gotten to be too much. I don’t need two computers and literally enough parts for a couple more. I don’t need three cameras, I don’t need a tablet I never use and a few hard drives I’ve never filled. I don’t need half of my wardrobe and I don’t need to sit around and think about what furnishing my apartment needs next.
When I find the time I’m going to start going through my closets and shelves. I don’t need most of this stuff… it doesn’t just take up space or consume a part of my pay check. I really do believe that having excess is just going to make me want more excess. If I don’t learn how to live without now, I’m not ever going to get that down. There is something to be said for only owning 100 objects. Hopefully it doesn’t take my too long to get down there.

That being said there is an arcade machine (that’s so close to being fixed) that is absolutely yelling at me from the other room. :/

I must protect this house

It’s starting to look like fall here in Tempe. It’s 80 degrees, skies are blue, leaves hold firmly to the branches of the few dozen trees, and ASU has swollen the population of this city to the breaking point.
Work is still pretty slow, all though we are talking about some fun projects on the horizon. The audio I need to finish my current DVD is finally getting worked on. No word on exactly when it’ll be finished, the producer wants a vacation, but I want my audio before that vacation. We’ll see how it turns out, either way we should be ready for our spring release date this time around.

I’ve got another quick church project to share:

When Worlds Collide: Can Science and Christianity Co-exist? from Praxis Church on Vimeo.

It’s a good thing the interview cut together as well as it did, because I literally just threw some clips on a timeline for this one. He seems pretty smart, a lot of people around church are excited for him to come and speak. I honestly stopped caring about how my faith and science fit together a few years back. I’m not smart enough to understand it, and faith isn’t supposed to be logical anyway. Some of the young earth creationist stuff is pretty silly if you ask me, there is no reason to drastically over simplify things. I believe my God loves me, that’s all I need.

I bought a Tetris arcade game a couple Saturdays back. A guy on Craigslist had a few different games for sale including two Tetris cabinets, one working and one with a broken monitor. When I got ahold of him the working game was gone, but he assured me that everything but the monitor on the second machine worked. You never know how things will turn out with Craigslist, but for $50 I figured it was at least worth a look. He answered the door with a baby in hand and asked me to be quiet because he just put his older daughter down for her nap. We walked through his house to his workshop and there was my machine in front of a few others. The side art was ripped and it was covered in thick dust, but all in all it looked to be in good shape. It’s hard to not trust a guy who offers to shake your hand with his right hand while holding a baby in his left. He said everything other than the monitor was working, so I handed him $50 and the game was mine.
I got a monitor off of eBay last week and ordered new side art on Friday. I still haven’t decided whether or not I want to repaint it, it doesn’t look bad, but the sides are dingy and nothing I’ve tried has gotten them clean. It’ll be fun to have a game around for people to play, it’s two players so I’ve got to brush up on my skills. I refuse to be embarrassed in my own house.