It is the end...

...Perhaps! Google just anounnced the new "Beta Blogger" service, signifying a great upgrade for Blogger! While I am definately moving over to my new blog, I will probably tweak this one out a little just to see what all has changed, and so I'll still be able to provide help to my fellow bloggers still stuck with (admittedly) an easier blogging software. However, I still think Wordpress is the way to go if you don't mind getting under the hood a little.

My farewell!

Alright, it isn't here quite yet, don't freak out so much. Besides, I'll still have a blog, just not this one. However, I took the plunge, got a hosting service, a domain, Wordpress, and a whole lot of confuse-ed-ness, resulting in the production of whyiseverythingalreadytaken.com. Check it out! While not entirely completed, it is getting closer all the time. Use the interface, get a feel for it, find your favorite background, whatever, just go see what I've been up to. Remember, any comments you post here will no longer show up on the other, so anything you have to add to older posts, please do it there.

In other news, I got my fourth flat tire this summer. What the heck?

Oh yeah, I'm still looking for another domain name (something shorter), so if you have any ideas, let me know.

The BEST part of my job

Today was amazing. I experienced something that I never had before, something that six months ago would never have crossed my mind, something that very few people ever dream about. Today Joel took me up on the KGW Tower--a 6 foot equilateral prism close to 1,000 feet high. We worked--or rather he worked--at the 370 foot "platform," re-aiming an antenna that was pointing too far south. When we were getting back onto the elevator he showed me one of the things that he likes to do when he's up there. I decided to give it a try. Walking along one edge of the tower (really, as it is a triangle 6 feet per side, there isn't much but edge), I hooked onto a vertical bar with a static strap and put one of my scare straps around another support, just in case. Standing facing the inside of the tower, I leaned back, my body supported solely by the static strap, hanging out in mid-air, almost 400 feet to the ground. It was amazing, something I just can't describe. I cannot wait to get to the point that I'm completely comfortable up there, hanging in the balance of the forces binding the rope together and the unrelenting attraction of gravity upon my body, dependent purely upon God and the amazing rules that He's created to govern our universe, my life hanging with the faith that they will remain constant, unchanging in their properties, for the slightest deviation could result in devastating consequences. On a less consequential note, I am trying to come up with a domain name that is short and easy to tell to others. If any of you have any ideas, please let me know what you come up with. --Jerry

Update: Update in progress

For those of you beginning to wonder if I was serious in the original post, I have the answer, but probably not the one you want: YES. However, I am saving it. The update that is. For one, I need to find the time to add pictures. Actually, I need to finish writing it, but who really cares about that anyway. And when I'm two months behind (not that anyone's counting, right?), what's a week or two more? But why am I saving it? I am getting a new blog. Yes, that's right, a new blog. I am going to get some space on the Freewire server, a couple domains, and Wordpress. Yes, that means no more blogger, but what can you do? It is actually a bit sad in a way [cry]. (Alright, I admit it, I cry a lot--for stupid reasons.) I will still have all my old posts and all their comments, [hopefully] everything that I have now (sadly, I will lose the over 1300 unique IP's to have accessed my blog, but will start all over again, increasing faster than ever!). But I will get a new look, a new url, and [hopefully] increased functionality. I will break new ground with Village blogging, taking everything to the next level. Look out everyone!

Look, LIVE...

CHAT! What did you think I was going to say? If you just happen to be online at the same time as me, feel free to give me some crap over this oh-so-creative means of over-contactability. Don't forget to customise your user name so I know who you are, unless you're part of a covert ops group, that is. Enjoy!

Update in progress

I really am updating my blog! I have a huge post in progress detailing everything that has happened to me in the past month.5 (a month and a half, of course). I've just been really tired as of late and not really in the mood to blog, along with much more important things occupying my thoughts. It is on its way, trust me...