A day in review

I've had a new bus driver this week. In fact he is the same one I had when I first started catching it from out here, but is relieving for our regular. He's awesome! No pissing around - just get on and get going. I'll be catching it with Rie in the morning as she has a student council meeting before school and has to be there early - nice to be able to spend some time with her.

Anyway had a good trip into town this morning, snoozed a little, watched some video podcasts - GeekBrief TV and StrongBad's Teen Girl Squad. Also listened to the Christian Comedy Podcast which is a fairly new one for me, but one I can tell I'm going to continue to enjoy.

While I was waiting for my next bus in town, there was an almighty bang outside which involved two buses colliding. Everybody swarmed outside to see the damage, except me and a few others. I wasn't that interested given that my bus was due to arrive and the more people gawking, the longer it may take to clear up and as the buses were blocking the exit of the bus exchange, I wanted it cleared up PDQ.

So I got to work in plenty of time - and checked the recovery of my HD on my PB. (Historical context insert: My PowerBook's HD gave up the ghost and although I have recovered some data from it, there is still plenty more I need so I have set it to do a "Thorough Scan" using Data Rescue II and now it is recovering the data.) It is a very slow process, made worse when somebody decided to come along and unplug it from the wall last time it was recovering data, so I had to start the whole process again.

The rest of the day went to plan and we had our weekly meeting after school and I stayed a little longer than my usual hour which meant I didn't get home until 6.15pm, so that was 11hrs 15mins away from home for the day. No wonder I'm feeling a little wacked.

Read an interesting thread tonight over on Mactalk about homophobia. Why was it interesting?

It never ceases to amaze me how people can get so strung up on what complete strangers say (or type), and how people can take offense at, what I see at least, the smallest things. We all carry prejudices with us, but we gotta be able to laugh about them. I am short, bald and rotund, only one of those characteristics I actually have any control over - short of surgery - and I could quite easily take offense at all those adverts that show hair replacement programs, or weight loss. Or feel aggrieved when somebody accuses me of being a Mac fanboy, or when somebody mocks my faith. I think we all need to grow thicker skins and get on with our lives, doing the best we can with what we have, wherever we are.

Tomorrow's hump day - then it is downhill to the weekend!
Take Care!

Remember:
"It is more blessed to give than to receive"
(Acts 20:35 NAS).