One Geek

I don’t feel bitter about other people being in love or having boyfriends and girlfriends. In fact I am often quite excited for them and happy for them. I used to have a bit of bitterness and jealousy of people who were in relationships. Now however I don’t feel that. Just joy for people who are in “right relationships.” I am learning to be content in singleness. It gives one the freedom to go off to places like India which is cool.

However don’t get depressed ladies if you have a secret crush on me. I also am open to not being single if the right woman comes along.

How do you deal with abrasive people? I am having serious issues dealing with a group member. His one of those people who pretends he knows stuff he doesn’t. It really is starting to tick me off!!

I really really don’t like AIDS. If I ever hear anyone say its God’s punishment for homosexuals I am not liable for what I may do to them.

Take Lesotho, 30% AIDS rate. Not enough acseess to clean water, so children looking after their parents who have AIDS have to try and get around the problem. Cause if you have AIDS and you have unclean water your pretty much going to get sick.

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My friend sent me this list. I quite enjoyed it.

The fire alarm went off at uni today everyone ignored it. But then the evacuation alarm went off and I decided it might be time to get out. However other people in the computer lab just stayed. Eventually they got kicked out.

I love how little attention people play to fire alarms.. I also love seeing fire men walk into a building in their full atire. It’s fun..

I love it when other people get up and talk passionately about social justice. So nice to see. Two people did that at church.

My computer is fixed… It was just file corruption in a very bad place. The steps that were required to fix it are as follows.

1) Find a real XP CD, not one of those system restore disks Big Computer companies give you.

2) Boot from CD.

3) Wait 5 minutes whilst the CD loads all the drivers you don’t need. Then enter the recovery console.

4) Type CHKDSK

5) Type EXIT

6) Reboot.

7) All fixed.

My computer just died… Well kind of. My Windows is screwed at the momment. My computer had a blue screen of death and now Windows doesn’t boot. I think my filesystem is screwed.

Thankfully I have been able to boot my linux partition, and actually recover some of my Documents.. So handy haing a dual boot system.. I was able to sneek my way onto the windows partition and grab some of my important docs off. Including an 8 page document I have been working on and my email. Although I couldn’t view the root of my windows partition, I was able to enter directories under it. Very weird. Now the important stuff is all safely on CD.

http://onegeekpete.blogspot.com/

Pete now has a blog… How cool is that.. Pete’s my friend from India who is now back in the US of A. He works in DC.

Do we make Christianity too complicated.
Is it just me or what?

At it’s heart it has a very simple message, and requires a simple response. Somehow over the years we’ve over complicated the heart of the message. I think maybe because it’s all to radical and scary. To follow the Way is to be radically changed. Jesus’ example demands nothing less, but God provides his power for the change to occur.

And yet even though I say the message is simple I still don’t fully get it. Paradoxes abound.

I feel very icky when looking through Christian Bookshops. Even on the web they feel so tacky. I went to Koorong’s and Word’s online stores. I think Border’s will remain my favorite Christian bookshop. I can browse there without having to see the full covers of the books and not feel like I am in a getto.

“He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”
Micah 6:8.

It is so simple but so hard. It’s not something I find easy to do. I’d like to do it though. I think with God’s help I can do a much better job at it.

I walked home from Soul at St Ives Showground tonight just for the fun of it. A bit of 10km it took me a bit under 2 hours to do it. Whereis was showing 3.5 hours for the walk. 5km/h ain’t bad I think

Went to Soul tonight, it was very challenging.

How hard it is to give it all to God. To let go and put your trust fully in Him. To do what he asks, even though you know what he says will be good for you in the long run.

It can also be very scary.

The one girlfriend I have had is married and has just had here first child. It’s a weird thought. Another girl I used to like is also married with two children. I am getting old I think :-(.