My laptop was here today, but the folks upstairs didn’t get the door on time 🙁 But, yay for Purolator for arranging to deliver it again for free! 😀

Edit: Boo for Purolator for screwing up that request! It’s here in Waterloo but I can’t get to it!! 🙁

The day is early (for me), and so much has already happened.

When I walked out the door to go to the bus stop, I immediately noticed that my pockets were missing something very important: keys. As I noticed this, the door closed and, since it was an auto-locking door, I felt completely screwed for the day. I couldn’t call anyone, either, because my cell phone was downstairs beside my keys, too.

I was frustrated, but I did have my bus pass so I could just go to work and… dang! I needed my lab key! Ah zut! As I rounded around the house, however, I remembered that there was still another way back in: via the garage door opener! Victory is mine!

I made it to the bus stop with a good bit of buffer time, but it was awfully windy so I was hoping that the bus would show up really soon. 10 minutes pass… 20 minutes pass. No bus. A couple of people decide to turn back home, but I felt pretty sure that the bus would be on its way eventually… but nope.

As I was assessing the possibility of working from home, those same couple of people came back in a minivan and offered us a ride to school! I’m so thankful to live in a good neighbourhood with (apparently) good people… Victory is mine!

I realized that second chances are a constant reality for me and, most of the time, they go unnoticed/unappreciated. These two this morning were well-observed and documented on here, but the ones that God gives me day in and day out usually aren’t. And aren’t those the ones that really matter?

Every time I goof on God, He’s always there to give me that second, third, and umpteenth chance. If I wrote about all of those times, there’d be little else in this blog! Sometimes, I feel like I’m almost taking His love for granted. Brandon often says, however, that Christianity is “not about the past, but about what you’re doing now and what you’re going to do in the future.” Such is the truth behind Paul’s life, and Augustine’s life, and so many millions of other lives. So hope remains that I can really and fully make that commitment to God.

The next step begins now. Starting now, I am going to fast for at least one meal a week. During that time, I will do what I think God is compelling me to do — read the Bible (which I haven’t really been doing lately), pray (which I also haven’t been doing much), read a meaningful book, rest, spend time in silence… whatever.

Generally, this is not the type of thing that I’d write on here… but I think that I’ll need people, like you, to keep me accountable to this. So, please ask me about it from time to time. And if you’re up for doing something like this, too, let me know and I’ll be willing to help you.

I know that this is not the easy road, but it’s the right one. And I’m sticking to it.

I like Fridays, but I can’t say that it’s my favourite day of the week (like so many other people do). Actually, now that I think about it, I can’t really pinpoint one day that is the best. But Friday is a very good day.

This particular Friday is/was a particularly good one. For some of my friends, it’s Co-op Ranking day. While this can be a dreadful day for some, it can be a very relieving and exciting day for others. And since I’m saying that today is particularly good, you can probably guess what kind of day it was for my friends!

I hear that John, Rodney, and Keith have some very good results: John has a couple of offers, Rodney has one amazing offer, and I don’t know what Keith has (since I haven’t heard directly from him) but I assume it’s something pretty solid. I said to John that this term saw some awesome postings, and I’m glad that some of my friends were able to take advantage! (I guess I’m a little jealous, too 😛 )

As for me, I was able to do lunch with someone I haven’t really hung out with in a long time: Jenna!! I think the last time we spent any substantial time together was almost two years ago, when we were practicing for our performance at the Blackforest coffee house. It was really great to catch up and see where we are. It appears that she, too, is crazy busy on a week-to-week basis so it was reassuring to find out that I wasn’t alone! We even talked briefly about Blackforest and, who knows, maybe we’ll reprise that first performance 🙂 Hopefully it won’t be another 2 years until we get a chance to sit down again, though hehe..

My prof came by today and saw the progress that I was making and he seemed to be pretty happy about it. Score! Hopefully I won’t be unemployed by the time March rolls around (since I’m still way ahead of schedule)!

And for tonight, I think I’m headed up to John’s place to get in on some bbq action. I’ll probably get some more steaks from Zehr’s while the price is amazing and cook one up 😀 I should make a toast to great friends and great Friday.

I like Fridays.