Today’s Monday Update comes with some bad news. This past Thursday I was told that I am being laid-off, my last day is Wednesday the 31st. They gave me the option of whether or not to go in until then and today I’ve decided only to go in to get the last of my stuff.

I have been reading Matthew 6 and Romans 8 a lot. We’ll be fine. The Lord will provide and I will find another job. Prayers are welcomed and encouraged.

I did present my lesson on Wednesday about choosing sides. I’ll be putting that up later today or early tomorrow. I still need to edit the audio. Yes, I finally remembered to record it.

Other than those two highlights of the week, not much else has happened. At least in contrast to them, everything else seems unimportant.

One of the topics I’ve yet to really talk about here is my gaming hobby. I plan on doing some articles on some of my favorite games, as well as provide some links to several of my favorite blogs and sites related to them. This will definitely emphasize the “geek” side of DiscipleGeek. If you had any doubt, this should cement my geekiness in your mind. Even with all the job searching I plan on doing, I should have plenty of time to come up with the articles now that I’m unemployed.

Speaking of job searching, my resume is available at request through my Email Me page if you know of a place hiring.

This past week has been rather busy. My parents came down to work on the house renovation some more. While watching a plethora of HGTV, we were able to get tile down in our foyer and on our kitchen counter tops. Dad worked a lot on applying the first coat of mud to the newly sheet-rocked walls and we built out a closet in the empty space over our air return. That closet will make excellent storage for our board games. Dad also built out the framework to hold the cabinet and hood as well as some recessed lights over the stove. There’s still quite a bit left to do, but at least we have some new lighting and kitchen counter tops to fix our meals on.

I’ve updated the Noise to Signal article with a recording of my lesson. Unfortunately, because I keep forgetting to record my lessons, this recording was done in my office instead of  when I first gave it in front of an audience. I’m gonna blame my nerves again.  I have another lesson coming up on Wednesday (March 24th) and I think I’ve finally come up with a topic, I’ve just gotta get it on paper. That’s the 2nd hardest part of doing this. The first, of course, is actually giving the lesson.

Ooh, love hearing this news. It was definitely one of my favorite books as a kid. Of course so was Bridge to Terebithia, but this one doesn’t bring me to  tears every time I read it.

:: A Wrinkle In Time Finally Gets Vengeace For Crappy Disney TV Movie, With A Real Feature Film – A Wrinkle In Time – io9. ::

This image pleases me greatly. It has definitely made its way onto my desktop background rotation at work.

:: …The Game… on Flickr – Photo Sharing! ::

  This is a wonderful article about how all human beings are innately creative. Everyday we solve problems and deal with situations in creative ways. When we realize this and embrace it, we won’t need to learn an artistic hobby just to cultivate our creativity.

After reading this article, I started trying to think of how I’m creative outside of my attempts at logo and web design. I suppose the most common way I flex that creative muscle is finding solutions to some of the more unique computer problems that I get myself into.

This is how I began learning how to fix computers.

Back in the day, when AfterDark was a big deal, I noticed that it played actual sound effects through my PC speaker when everything else just used beeps and boops. I spent a good deal of time convinced that if it could do that, the rest of my system could do that. Each attempt at loading the sound drivers for the rest of the system brought my dad’s computer to a grinding halt and required a flurry of creative ways to get it back up and running before he found out. I don’t remember if I was successful in fixing it without anyone knowing it was broken, but I can say that I learned A LOT of how a computer works while trying to fix it.

Almost on a daily basis, I, or my co-workers or friends are still able to come up with some unique ways to break computers, and I’m required to come up with equally creative ways to fix them.

What are some ways that you use your creativity every day?

::  Everyday Creativity | Psychology Today :: via Felicia Day on Twitter