Long Time, No Post

[ZombiePete]

It's been a long time since I've posted anything here. It's kind of a shame because I used to find it pretty cathartic. Life, though, tends to dictate what you are and aren't going to be doing at any given moment, and writing posts on a blog that three people read dropped on the priority list about three-hundred places.

So what's changed that I decided to post something here again? Well, I guess the first thing is that I am smack-dab in the middle of a two week vacation. So it's 10am and I am still laying in bed with the laptop in its rightful place having just eaten a chocolate donut (the only kind I like aside from plain no-glaze) and a coffee brought to me by my adorable wife, still trying to figure out GRUB2 and wondering if my Pop tried to load Linux on his laptop yet. Wish we had done it while I was there to help!

I got back from Dallas on Thursday, where I spent the better part of a week just hanging with the family. I missed seeing my sister, brother-in-law, and brand-spanking-new nephew by just a couple of hours which was lame, but she and the kid will be back in March so it looks like another roadtrip is in my future. Driving I-35 through Texas has become old-hat as we do it at least four times a year. Nice being so close; if they decide to make the ironic move to Arizona it's going to tip my world out-of-balance. That move is ironic, by the way, because I basically moved to Texas from Arizona (with a three-year stopover in Iceland). God works in mysterious ways to be sure, and whatever He's got up His sleeve I know it's for the best, but it sure would be nice if someday we could all live within driving distance of each other.

Had a lot of fun in Dallas; we saw a couple movies (Avatar and Zombieland at the dollar theater). Avatar was really good but the 3D is not ready for me yet; my eyes felt like they were out of focus the whole movie. I would like to see it again in 2D; the effects were awesome and though the story was clichéd, as people say, it is so because it tugs at your emotions everytime.

Zombieland Hill and I had seen when it first came out (obviously, ZombiePete isn't missing a zombie movie) which even for the second viewing is hilarious and awesome. Woody Harrelson really stole the show in that one, and even though Pop said it was sick he had a big grin on his face the whole time. I knew my Mom would like it because, like me, she likes sick over-the-top movies (most of the time). Hey, she watched The Evil Dead with me, that makes her cool in my book.

Not much else to speak of; for the most part it was just enjoyable and relaxing. They did get me a book for Christmas about the differences between the New Testament church and the church of today, which I am finding interesting so far. I'm sort-of wondering if it isn't going to turn into a advocation for Communism (not political communism or Marxism, mind you, but the original sense of a community trading goods and services with each other). A lot of what it has said already flies in the face of a lot of what we as Americans have fought for and believed for years; but when you really think about it, can't the same be said for Christianity in general? The American culture has grown so apologetic and corrupt over the past sixty years; the tired yet stark comparison to the fall of Rome is even more apt today than I think it was even ten years ago. More and more people that I speak to agree with me that the United States has reached its peak, and is now on the inevitable decline. There's never been a better time to declare your citizenship in the Kingdom of God and cast aside your reliance on worldly governments and systems, because the worldly ones will die away. That is not to say that we should secede from the US or move to a remote island somewhere (though wouldn't that be nice...as long as they had broadband and coffee), but from a mindset perspective I get no satisfaction from our secular government any longer.

And it's not just because Obama is there either. Democrat or Republican or Independent, ultimately they may be using different rulebooks but they're all playing the same game, and it ends the same way.

Anyway, enough of that. I could go on all day and I should really get up and take a shower soon. Dang, I don't think I have any clean socks today. Should've done a load of laundry last night.

I am going to make an effort of keeping this site more up-to-date; I have an idea for another site that I may start in the near future with help of my old Bible study group which I need to start again. I also need to finally get serious and find a Church family to join and stop trying to be a lone wolf Christian; it doesn't work and I am living proof of that.

Until next time, kiddos, keep your thinking hats on.

ZP