Okay, So I Promise...

This is going to be my last blog post where I start off with an apology or basically blog to fill air. But I concede that it is. Sorry.

So, quite simply: insurance people have been longer with my laptop than I anticipated, leading to Biblical manhood being demonstrated in authoritative tones on the phone interspersed with ridiculous hold music that clips and ruins phone speakers (result: because I hassled them they apoligsed profusely and are sending it at the end of this week, lesson: things get done when you take control, responsibility, leadership, etc.) and things like presentations and non-contributory essays taking longer and slightly more stress than usual (result: a lot more time spent in prayer with stuff like "Holy Spirit if you don't inspire me and go before me and open up the computer rooms before me I will genuinely explode", lesson: prayer works, God is good, essays aren't that hard). On top of this is a Birthday that is happening on Thursday but I've got my non-contrib deadline then, presentation day before, CCK student weekend away the few days after, next non-contrib to think about after then, so it's getting a bit lost in there. Oh well. Maybe I'll be 19 twice.

Anyway, I don't really have a lot to say, except I have a lot to say. Hence the non-blogging. Once the non-contribs are in, I will have lots of time to write more. So, I'm planning an adventure through some Psalms, and I'm halfway through writing a big essay for a friend on why we need the Wrath of God (short answer: because the Bible says so, so if we ignore it we#'re in idolotry, and because without it the cross becomes pretty pointless because while, yes, it's about our cleansing of sin it's also satisfying the law and the punishment and the justice of God - it is expiatory and propitiatory). So I'll probably post that up here, and that will probably be quite long. But probably more interesting than IPE. I was going to post some interesting stats on worship leading over the last year - a geeky graph to show how many times I used certain songs - but apparently I only ever used songs at most three times last year in a corporate setting. So that was both a waste of precious time spent tallying, and a weird shock. I thought I was far more predictable.

Back to the Stone Age

There are 3 things certain in life: death, taxes, and computers breaking. (That picture above is not my laptop, but it does look epic. I'd be proud if it was).

Not sure how, but my screen got cracked, which rendered it all somewhat unusable. So, while the insurance people are dealing with it, I'm in Arts C computer cluster typing away, feeling very very old school.

[Parents: Hello. Sorry. Don't worry. Really. DON'T WORRY. It's insured. the premium on the insurance is small. It won't take too long to fix. I can still get your e-mails. I can still do my work. I don't have deadlines this term anyway, and it should be back soon. But even if I did need to work lots on it, there is plenty of room in public computer rooms. So don't worry. Really. you don't have to worry.]

This laptop death (in that, it has gone somewhere I'm not entirely sure where is or what looks like, but is in actuality only an intermediatory state before all my house's longing is satisfied with its fully restored ressurection/glorification body after proper evaluation from an "expert") has, however given me some unexpected benefits. Here are 3:

1. Temporal benefits. Wow. It was insane how much time I wasted doing literally nothing on my laptop. Now I don;'t have it, I've got my reading done well in advance and have more time to mull things over, and be better prepared for classes. ~I nowe have more time for extra-curricular reading, which, ironically, has given me a whole load more to blog about.

2. Social benefits. Not that I was anti-social. But being laptop-less has got me to hang out, go for more coffees, more drinks with people, than I did before. Which is a lot more fun than Facebook chat (OMG LOL) was anyway. Score.

3. Focused benefits. Now, when I do make it into a computer room, I actually go with purpose and actually, get more done. I'm far, far more on task when I have to be.

That said, I can't wait to get it back. I miss the liberty brought with it, I miss my music collection, and I miss the fact that when I take notes, I could read them afterwards. But turns out that there was life before laptops...