I turned 50 recently and one of the benefits was I received a Kindle 2
as a present. Thank you to all those who contributed toward it.

The Kindle 2 has been my favorite toy since. I love reading. I love books from all kinds of genres. However, I don't like paying for them. The Library is a favorite place of mine, because I can find all forms of literature at the price I like. My habits have changed some with the Kindle. I get a daily newspaper delivered every morning except on Sunday and Monday. It is the Investor's Business Daily
so it only comes the days after a market close. Saturday is the day the Monday paper actually comes. I also get Investor's Business Daily
on my Kindle. For it I pay $1.99 a month. I like getting content pushed to me daily. I also get the Amazon Daily
blog, which is a very good blog. Amazon Daily is free. The advantage of having a blog pushed to your Kindle is that you can navigate it very quickly and don't have to wait for the browser to refresh.

I've been reading John Gerstner's Reasons for Faith. Today I came across this wonderful passage:

The world in which we live is a great whodunit. God made the world but left it for us to find out that He was the maker. But there is something unique about this divine whodunit—the perpetrator wants to be found. He has deliberately left clues scattered everywhere. He has made His authorship so plain that only the willfully blind can fail to see. He has not left Himself without a witness, that "happily men might feel after him and find him." He obviously wants to be the known, not the unknown God. We are morally certain that the God of this world would reveal Himself. The only question is where and when He has done it.

In other words, we know of the possibility, and even the high probability, of further (ed: special) revelation.

Lent is upon us. I hope you all find the obvious. And for those who apply themselves, may you find the special

I have been using Flex Builder for my flex and air programming, but decided to start doing some work in TextMate and compiling from the command line. I downloaded the Open Source Flex 3 sdk and the Adobe Air sdk. The flex sdk executables wouldn't run. After poking around, I discovered the Unix executables had Windows line endings. I used BBEdit to open each file and change the line endings to Unix line endings. BBEdit is nice for this. I think I'll build a little perl app to do this, though.

I found this interesting NFL bracket that you can make your picks. Here are mine: http://projects.nytimes.com/nfl2009/bracket/54762600

I decided to move into watercolor for a while. I was going to stay with pencil for a while, buy my girls talked me into painting with them. This was done on a very rough watercolor paper in a volume.

Doing a little sketching today, while I pass the time waiting for Christmas.

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