Ideas

I've had some ideas lately about a potential blog "series."  I'd like to get started tonight, but that may not happen since I have some other stuff to do (and spent too long goofing off).  Maybe I'll get something up tomorrow night.

Stuff

Couple of things going on lately.

Got the bumper on my car repainted. When I purchased it, it had a few nicks and scratches in the paint, so as part of the purchase deal they agreed to get it repainted. It was quite an ordeal, but it's done now. That's the last of the car work I'll have done in a long time, hopefully.

In other news, I need to re-do the brake job I did on my car. The bolts tried to strip out whenever I put them back on, and now it's not braking correctly. I believe since the bolts aren't in right I'm losing some braking power. I got some new bolts from Advance Auto, as well as some new pins. Not sure how the pins go in there, but I'm going to figure it out. If I have the time I'll get it done tomorrow.

Speaking of tomorrow, I get to go with the church bright and early at 7:15 to go participate in helping restore a woman's home. Her husband built the house 30 years ago, but he has since passed away, and she has been unable to take care of it, so everything is starting to kind of fall apart. We're supposed to clean up the yard, repaint some stuff, repair the house, etc. I haven't gotten to do something like this in quite a while so I'm kind of stoked about it.

Tonight we had a women's event. I played bass for it. It was kind of a nightmare, music-wise. Someone started the first song off on a wrong note, so when I came in, it wasn't sounding right at all. I just stayed out and came back in when it sounded safe. Same thing happened at the end of the service too. Overall it went ok. The ladies seemed to enjoy it.

Lastly, I need a life. After I got car back I came home and played Counter-Strike, then did some other inconsequential stuff. I don't know how many weekend nights I've spent like this. I'm getting rather frustrated with it. Friends are always too busy, and I don't blame them for it, because they actually have a life. I don't "go out" because I don't know where to go, and most places available to go out to are probably not the sort of environment I would prefer to be in (in other words, I'm not going to go hang out on Dickson). So, if anyone has any advice for what a single guy can do on the weekends in northwest Arkansas (other than sit at the apartment and play video games), please enlighten me.

Stuff from today

I don't think many Christians take the idea of complete surrender to Christ quite seriously.  I know I don't.  It's incredibly difficult to engender an "eternal mentality" and come to this point of surrender when we live in a world that is so temporary and fast-paced.  It seems there are so many obstacles that prevent us from doing it, ranging from the seemingly inconsequential distractions we deal with in every day life to our own selfishly-bent natures.  I believe it takes a relentless pursuit of a relationship with God to facilitate overcoming these things and remaining focused on Him.

There's a lot of other stuff on my mind, but I don't feel this is the place to divulge it.

Things I've been doing for the past month

• Watched all of Lost, from season 1 to the most recently released episode.
• Dumped a ridiculous amount of money in my old car.
• Sold my old car (a '99 Mercury Cougar) and bought a new one (an '04 Hyundai Elantra).
• Got a new phone with a new service plan and everything.
• Did not blog.
• Played video games.
• Read a little bit.

That's pretty much it.