Waiting

I find myself playing the waiting game once again where it comes to employment. I talked with my contract fixers last week and caught wind of a potential three-month contract, but haven't heard back from them since; I'm not sure if that means that they're still gathering information or if the response from the requestor put the job parameters outside my defaults for acceptance. In the meantime, I've also submitted a writing test for round two of the interview process for an awesome writing/blogging job and I'm anxiously awaiting the status of that. I would really like to have that job and I'm unsure if the "no news is good news" adage applies in this situation. It's been a week and a half now, so I'm getting antsy - however, it was close to a month before I heard back from them on my initial application, so maybe they just move slower than the tech industry light speed to which I am accustomed. It is also quite possible that God is using this to teach me yet more patience and with that in mind, I'd better settle in and relax for the long haul.

But I'm not just sitting here on my hands doing nothing; nosiree bob! I've started on the F-14 model (pics of the ongoing build will be up soon) which is taking up a lot of my spare cycles - hence the dearth of blog posts in the last six days - and I also received my copy of Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology today and have started reading that. I've never taken a good, hard look at basic core theology before...I've read through a book or two, such as Lee Strobel's The Case for Christ, but they have been mostly apologetics or study methodology books more than core texts on theology. It is gonna be a hoss to get through what with being over 1,100 pages in length including appendices and such. As it is a text book however, the conclusions of the pieces and parts are independent of one another such that I can treat the book as more of a smorgasbord than a cafeteria line and hit the specific doctrines in any order that I choose.

I will also have to admit that the lack of regular posting on the BrainDrain is due in large part to the insertion of the Pre into my daily life. My laptop is on standby for much longer periods of time these days and I'm doing a lot more tweeting, IMing, and emailing on the Pre. Typing out long missives for the blog via the Movable Type interface in the Pre web browser can be done, but it is rather tiring and that has caused me to go all "single serving Jack" on my approach to bloggination by using Tweed to post my free associations in pseudo-real time. That should tell you just how compelling I find my Pre to be, because I'm telling you that nine times out of ten I'd rather use my smartphone to do internet-y things than to fire up my new Dell Studio 15 in order to chat or blog. It really is well on the way to becoming my major indispensable piece of personal electronic gear.

And now that you are all caught up, I now return you to your regularly scheduled life. Enjoy, and thanks for stopping by. No, really...go on. You need to pick up some milk before your wife freaks out, and don't forget to buy Toby a new tricycle to make up for the one you ran over last night after coming home late from spending too much time with "the boys". Shame on you.