Well, Hurricane Dennis is locked and loaded, and it looks like it’ll be headed my way.

Maybe not *exactly* – but it’ll be close enough to feel it, definitely.

Might put a damper (yuk yuk!) on Bethany’s moving plans this weekend, but we’ll see.

Oh, and the right front wheel seems to want to fall off of my truck. Isn’t that nice?

Even more template tweakage. I like, myself.

Except for that STUPID LINK GLITCHING.

Someone, please… tell me what that is.

When a link has not been visited, a mouseover will make it spaz out. It also spazzes during page load. Someone? Anyone? I’m annoyed, and I don’t have the time to track it down :/

I know what’s doing it. I just don’t know how to fix it.

Incidentally – Funky – check out the new javascripts. You might like them, because they don’t preload as the full list. They do have the annoying feature of setting everything over to the right, though. I like it, though.

Yes, I know it looks weird in IE. Sorry. IE is… weird, though. Or I did something really strange to it. I think it has something to do with those opacity masks in the CSS. *shrug*

Anyway, I reorganized everything. Again. while I should have been sleeping. or blogging something. I’m a terrible “tweaker”, though.

Oh, I’m going to a 4Him concert tonight. Cool, huh?

…how tired I’ve been.

I get off of work at 6:30 am. I usually go to bed fairly soon. I was running for a while, but then I discovered that running allowed even less time for sleep – so I haven’t done it in a while.

I tried to blog, for some reason, this morning – I wrote a small post for Vox, and added a few people to the Aggregator, and a small post for my own blog – while reading all of those blogs I promised I would check back to, to see if they were, in fact, blogging apologetics. Some I’m still checking, some I liked – and added.

However, that put me to bed about 9:30 am. I was supposed to get up at around 1:30 pm, so I can be up, take a shower, check comments/email, etc., and meet my girlfriend for lunch a bit past 3. I don’t know if my alarm didn’t go off, or I got up, went across the room and shut it off, or what – I got up at 6:30 pm. I was supposed to be at McDonald’s at 3:30 or so, and choir starts at 7. It’s a half hour drive to church, or thereabouts – so I’m late just waking up.

Gotta love it.

So, I actually got 9 hours of sleep today. Which is the highest in 3 weeks, by about 4 hours – sans last Friday (where I actually stood my girlfriend up again, because I just didn’t hear the alarm).

Why, oh why, do I feel like sleep is something I won’t discover again until I’m married and settled down, and in a 9-5 job? I’d almost forgotten what it felt like to sleep 8 hours. It feels just like 5 hours – except you are more refreshed, and it takes longer. Which is often diastrous. (The latter, not the former.)

*sigh*

All because I did something *else* I said I was going to do…

Blogging

All about blogging: General, Conceptual, or Technical

(Ignore this post – it’s for navigation/organizational purposes)

In my life, I have experienced sorrow. Not the sort of sorrow you experience when someone dies.

The kind of sorrow you experience when you know someone is alive – and you cannot see them, love them, or be with them. The type of sorrow a father experiences when he is separated from his children. I wrote a bit about it on June 21st of last year – and I transferred it to this new blog, when I moved. I got to re-experience a bit of that just this morning.
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I’ll bet some of you are wondering – what the heck has happened to me?

Well, it’s a long story, actually. Yet, to be honest, it’s one I’ve been scrapping for time to tell you. In fact, I’m transcribing from a notebook that I wrote it in, for transfer to the blog 😀 (Which is how I often write posts. I jot them down in my ever-present notebook, and expand them on the blog.)

So, anyway, as I referred to in my previous post – I met a girl. My pastor’s wife played matchmaker, actually. She was referred to me, because she had a computer problem. Or three. So, I fixed her computer, and she got my email address through that – which ends in razorskiss.net… My pastor’s wife saw us talking, and decided we made a cute couple…
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Same domain, new server, new database.

And there was much rejoicing.

My interview, as requested by Rey.

Hey Razor, here’s your interview questions, brother:
1. How did you get into apologetics?

Well, I’ve always been a big-time debate junkie. I love debates, I love the challenge, and I love the atmosphere of them.

However – when I “regained” my equilibrium (as a Christian), I found myself drawn more and more to defending the faith – partially because I debate so often, and partially because I tended to hang out in places where there wasn’t much, if any, of a Christian presence – specifically, gaming forums, communities, and the like. Most of those communities are made up of younger folks – and there really, really, are not many older, well-grounded Christians that play games. Gaming communities, as you may know, can be absolutely huge. So, I began “apologetics”, starting with general debates with non-Christians on forums. I’ve dabbled for quite a long time on talkorigins, and the usenet world as well – but primarily, my catalyst was gaming forums, and communities.

2. How long have you been a speed reader?

For as long as I can remember. I remember thinking “wow, that was fast” from about 11-12 years old onward. I was homeschooled, so I never really encountered a whole lot of comparison with others my age until that time. I thought everyone read fast 😀

3. What is your dream job?

I really don’t know, to be honest. I’d love to be a rock singer, or a pro web designer. Heh. Among other things. Those two come to mind, though.

4. How many books have you read in the last 6 months?

Honestly? I have no idea. It’d be in the hundreds, though.

5. What’s one of your pet peeves?

Words used incorrectly.

Here’s how you can play the interview game:

1. Leave me a comment saying “interview me.” The first five commenters will be the participants.
2. I will respond by asking you five questions.
3. You will update your blog/site with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. (Write your own questions or borrow some.)

~ RK

Well, I actually have the next post in my The Great Evangelical Disaster series written – but instead of typing it out, I have been doing some thinking on various directions I want to take on this blog.

1) I want, very much so, to get active, offensively minded apologetics into the forefront here.

2) I want to be answering objections, questions, and skeptics, instead of only defending the faith for Christians.

3) I want to invite more discussion and dialogue both here, and blog-to-blog, about moral issues without the political bleed-over that seems to be the primary focus of the blogosphere.

4) I want to fix whatever has been going on with the Vox Apologia lately.

5) I want to be accountable to some theologically sound bloggers – I shouldn’t be “out there on my own”.

So, to address these points:

A) I’m going to be working on collecting objections, Atheist/agnostic sites, and the like, and doing short pieces on them. I’m also going to be doing more pieces geared toward “offensive” apologetics strategy, as well as engaging in a few, so you can pick them apart at your leisure. I have several up on my main site, already, if you care to look for them. They’re on the left, in the block titled “Debates/Apologetics”. Which reminds me.. I have to update it. Quite a bit.

B) I’m going to start a new feature called “The Skeptic’s Corner”, which will feature posts, questions, and objections from readers, or other bloggers who are skeptical of, or hostile to Christianity.

C) I’m going to go looking for blog posts which match common objections to Christianity – and invite discussion on the topic. I may even do a more targeted sort of Vox Apologia specifically directed toward that. Vox Strateia? 😀

D) VA, as I’ve been seeing, is getting a lot of “general” topics lately – and not a whole lot of “targeted” topics. I’m not sure why that is – but maybe it’s just the specific subjects, and my own tastes telling me this. (Sorry Dory, Phil.) I don’t know. I DO know we’ve had 4 total posts entered, in the last two weeks of topics. Yeah, there was a bit of confusion, and late announcements – but still… that’s pretty low. Maybe it’s just because “defensive” topics never interest me as much as “offensive” ones. Heck if I know.

The next three week’s topics are more interesting (to me). “Evolution versus Creation” (always a hot topic), “The least of these” (Children and God, I assume), and my own topic – “Humanism’s Dangerous Claim” – my personal “hot target” of the past year or so.

I’ll send out the announcements early this week. Like, oh… today. I’ll send it to the decablog members this week, too.

E) So, if one of you residents of the theology aggregator want to volunteer – let me know.

In addition to all of the above…

I’ve been thinking. I’ll have a longer post tomorrow, concerning my new webhosting package… (bwahahahaha….. 15 full domains, 75 subdomains 7680 MB Disk, 192 GB Transfer 3000 Mailboxes… Dreamhost rules… (It’s “Code Monster.” I used them in my first big website project for a gaming group, and have liked them ever since… anyway. I’m still a web designer at heart.)

But, here’s the deal.

On one hand, I’ve been thinking about turning the current blog here into a group apologetics blog, and inviting a few people to contribute, and kickstart this sucka.

On the other hand… I like the “flavor” I have here – so I may do this AND a group blog.

On the Gripping Hand (name the reference!) … I’m really a bit undecided about WHAT I want. So, comments, questions, etc?

I almost always score INTP, or INTJ.

Why? I have no idea.

I usually don’t go for these… but I always, always get the same results. I’m tempted to over-analyze myself, and it shows, with how I always vacillate between INTP, and INTJ. It usually depends on which mood I’m in. When it comes to intellectual pursuits, I can be either the “perceiving”, or “judging” of the P, and J in those acronymns. It depends on the situation, and the problem.

But, anyway, here’s how I score, in case anyone is bored enough to read it…

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