Today, I am busy. Very busy. It seems as though I have a full plate. I am in the middle of building a computer for Carson’s dad, Butch Joyner and after that, I need to transfer files from his old computer…then, I have a class that I need to try to get into tonight at 5:30. Time is crunched, but I’ve been going all day. Steve and I met today for lunch and tossed around some ideas for his business. I’m not sure how much help I will be able to provide, but I sure would like to figure it all out and solve the problems that he will encounter with logistics. Anyway…windows install calls and I must go.
MAC Attack…
My first computer was an Atari, technically. My actual first personal computer, designed for personal computing, was an Apple IIc with a 5.25″ floppy disk drive. It was a predecessor to the GUI.
I played games on it. That was probably the only thing that I did, until I found that my new best friend, Chad Taylor, also had the same computer. I met Chad about 3 years after I had been given the computer for Christmas. We swapped hundreds of programs and games. Most of my time was spent in Zork, text based adventures; silly programs that you actually typed commands into like, “Pick up rock,” or “Take Jewell Encrusted Egg.” These were simple things. When Chad gave me Appleworks, I began my journey to typing mastery. I typed my MATH homework even. How ridiculous. My parents realized I needed a printer and bought one for me. Dot matrix baby.
A few years later, a handful of my friends ended up with the Macintosh! It had a MOUSE!?! I became creative. I never had one, but I always visited my friends’ houses to use theirs. And most of it was painting, or learning how to use spreadsheets…and an occasional round of Sim City.
As time passed, the IBM PC took over, and I ended up getting sucked into the technical aspect of computing, which led me to computer repair. I focused alot on tearing apart computers. My first IBM compatible was an IBM 8088 with a green monitor. It was with this computer that I wrote my first sequenced music pieces. They are long gone. And so was the creativity and freedom to simply use a computer for what it was intended. The next eighty three gajillion hours was spent on troubleshooting IBM crap! I’m 33 now, and I have recently acquired a Powerbook, and I have slowly migrated most of my creative efforts to that platform. I write music on it, I record on it, I blog on it. There’s nothing I can’t see myself doing on it, EXCEPT, all of the technical crap that my XP platform forces me to deal with. Bottom line, Apple has tapped my creativity and I will probably never use my PC for anything more than serving the web and running my accounting and personal finances. It’s just not as friendly as this beautiful PowerBook!
And just think, only recently was I a die-hard PC freak with words like Macintrash, and Trashintosh oozing from my mouth.
I write more, I create more, I desire more, now that I have the freedom to do so. Computing with a Mac is like driving a rail through the rocks at 100 miles/hour. Computing with a PC is like riding a tricycle on the beach.
(P.S. There’s a better analogy than that, but it’s freaking 1:30 in the morning and I’m tired.)
Good Night!
Late night slumming…
Do I want to hike in the morning with Kira and Lauren? Of course. Will it happen? Probably not. But maybe it will.
WordPress…coolio…
For those of you wondering what I’m using to blog with, I’m using WordPress, which runs on a database system at the hosting provider of my choice. The nice thing about it is that I have complete control over it and the data within. Hopefully I’ll become even more proficient at this stuff and be able to exploit my God-given talents for all the world to see.
God will give you something to do…
So, it seems that God answers prayers. The horrible fact of the matter is that He answers them when He wants to, and ninety-nine times out of tenty-ten, He answers them too dern fast.
I asked for something to fill my days. I want something to do. I need to network; I need to grow.
Wow, so, today I was bogged down non-stop with things to do. I awoke a bit late (snicker snicker for all you full-time folk), around 9:30, and groggled out of my sleep mode to find a message on my phone, etc., etc., I won’t bore you. Basically, I went non-stop all day, and I laid a laminate floor at Church for the Nations too.
The bottom line is, God will give you something to do if you ask Him to.
Registered for School
I’m 33. I don’t have a degree. It’s not required to be successful. My problem is that if I am not enrolled in some sort of program or a member of some sort of club with an itinerary, my level of motivation slows me down.
I am one of the most talented individuals that I know, but I have trouble believing that I can do things that are “nearly impossible” from my point of view. Others would probably think that to be ridiculous, but it’s a struggle for me. I am deathly afraid of confrontation, and it’s extremely difficult for me to ask people for what I want, because I don’t think that they would give me the time of day if I asked for it.
This is something I am asking God to change in my life. I want the courage to be successful in the areas I have been gifted without it being contingent upon meeting the conditions or expectations that I place upon myself.
I don’t know how to market myself.