no more posts here

SO, you'll find my move complete, even to the importation of posts from this wonderful freebie weblog. As I get the system with Wordpress figured I'll be tweaking it into something more to my style/speed, but until then and from now on, you'll no longer find the freshest thought/rambling from me on this website. Thank you for visiting, now here's the tone.....

THE NEW SITE IS UP, Click here!

I've decided to start doing my posting on the new site, even if the walls aren't painted, and the furniture isn't all moved in. The writing on the walls is easier and even "more-better" with the most basic Wordpress stuff, I'll do up the extras as I go along.

So so-long to my catch-as-catch-can readers that may stumble to me via the Blogger button ("next blog" in upper right-hand corner), and to the faithful few check out my new, mo-better site as hyperlinked in the title above.

So long blogger.com, no more entries for me here, It's been grand, and a wonderful way to catch the flame of bloggosity on a trial freebie basis, but time to move on to a new and wonderful existance on the inter"nets".

~ethan

Moving soon, so sad...

Actually, this blog is moving away from the blogger-kingdom and into it's very own .com digs, courtesy of my good friend Azin, and that's not sad at all! THIS LINKS to his web-dev/solutions company, if you are in the need for a high-end site design or web-optimization. His company puts out some really nice web "stuff" (sites, etc) and is worth the $ if you're in need.

Anyhoot, with the added tools i can utilize with Wordpress I'm super-thrilled to have nemafe.com up and running soon for your new source of fresh Ethan-thought. Don't rush to the new place yet, as I haven't moved in and have had barely time to set it up let-alone decorate. There is a lot for me to learn with the WP stuff I can plugin, so eventually it'll rock the block.

Stay tuned!

~e

So much to learn, so little time...

So I was doing my usual ritual of reading blogs here and there, and after catching up with Dan Phillips latest on Pyromaniacs I figured I'd check out what the Pyro team considers "Stellar" among the blogs they link to on their blogroll. THIS ONE is amazing.

The title of this post refers to the fact that I'd rather spend my days at the feet of such teachers as these, rather than do the duties my responsibilities entail with work/family/etc. There is so much we take for granted in our lives it's amazing. God is there for you, and has done an amazing work on the cross to redeem you from the sin that stains all of us from birth. Beyond that He calls us to get to know Him, and to do so by spending time with Him in prayer, reading the Bible and learning more about what instruction it gives us to live by. (Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth is one acronym I heard for the Word decades ago) With the blessing of the "internets" the doors are blown off all the offices of pastors and lay-pastors around the world. In the weblogs you can find teachings that will sharpen intellect and bolster faith, as well as interesting developments amongst the different perspectives that post their outlook. (Of course I've provided examples of some I peruse regularly If you click on and follow the underlined blue words found in this post).

Any comments are welcome, I'd love to read what you've been blessed by on the 'nets.

~e

Great blog, great post...

I've got to apologize to all of you (however few) for my lack of posting. I've been working, working, working, and have done more stumbling than posting when I get done with work-related internet use. This Site is one of my favorites, and today's post by Dan is painfully familiar. I hope to raise my Asher-kins like his kids, and get over my own idiomanumoragorophobia.

~Eth

Great Quote... "episode one"

From time to time as a "schooled" filmgoer I'm enchanted by the lines dreamt-up by those who penned them, and then how they are delivered by the character. Depending on the film, it's genre, and the type of audience they're aiming for, character-development can mean everything to the impact of the written word spoken. Not to say the actor's "skilz" don't matter, as I've seen decent actors get hammered by a bad movie, and the opposite (Streep) as well where the actor did well with what he had been given to memorize "act". That being said the script is everything, and bonus points go to actors who can ad-lib the changes necessary (in their minds) to better suit the scene/character.
With all that said, it brings me to today's quote. I found Wikiquote today and thought, hmmm... "do they have Ms. Wilson in there from Gosford Park?" They didn't then, but they do now as I've entered it for the rest of the wiki gawkers to admire. Gosford Park is one of many films I've bought as a result of enjoying it so much. To understand the full impact of these words as uttered by Ms. Wilson (played magnificently by Helen Mirren As I know you've got a Netflix account you never use, here it is at NETFLIX for you to queue as you really should see the flickie. Anyhoot, here's the verbage:

"What gift do you think a good servant has 
that separates them from the others? 
It's the gift of anticipation. 
And I'm a good servant. 
I'm better than good. 
I'm the best. 
I'm the perfect servant. 
I know when they'll be hungry and the food is ready. 
I know when they'll be tired and the bed is turned down. 
I know it before they know it themselves."
-Ms. Wilson

More cool quotes eventually to follow. Possibly I'm going to review a movie or two in the future, so stay tuned for that action, and thank George for bugging me about it from time to time as to not let my Media Arts degree go to complete waste.
~e

F O C U S...not frustration

So the past couple of days have been interesting. I've traveled out of the local area for a couple of days, almost been hit by a ignorant driver 2x in the metro area, and had a "wonderful" time attempting to straighten-out some things for some accounts of mine. The kind of days that make you wish for a trip to one of those Corona ads, leaving the yellow beer to someone else.
Frustration is not my friend, and unfortunately in these experiences I've had the past week or so we've met often. I hate this creature that often rouses me uncomfortably out of the semi-peaceful existance I try to maintain, and have been praying about how I can meet and address the source within myself - rather than just give a topical balm to the symptoms.

In the marriage counselling my wife and I went through we discussed this very thing: EXPECTATIONS. When we plan our day and set it in virtual concrete because "that's the way it works best" to us, and the smallest intrusion or change that comes up and adds too-much water to your concrete as it's setting up, your "perfect" path of a day is no longer perfect. IT's never going to set-up as you planned, and how you react to this says a lot about how you deal with expectations not being met. Obviously I've set concrete, and in the area of my expectations I've gotten way-too-easily frustrated when my expectations aren't met. You feel me? Comprende?

I've searched the resources-Biblical on the internet, and keep not-finding exactly what I want to find, (no expectation here!). The wise-words of Solomon hyperlinked above and here keep seeming to apply and speak to me in this quest to reset my "concrete-skills". In the area of my stupid expections, i need to move beyond, rise above, make allowances for things to not be as I planned. This post is starting to look/sound similar to my memory of my Trust post, from March 20. IN OTHER WORDS it's still about trusting God. He has His purposes to be accomplished for me, even when things don't add up like I had planned/figured. The idea is to set my plans for the day, commit those "works" to HIM in my quiet-time with Him and His Word, and watch to see His purpose revealed in my day as He sets the gears in motion.

Lessons in life don't come easy sometimes, glad this lesson isn't as much "train-wreck" as it other lessons have been.

Praise God.
~E