Mr. Bob's Weblog

Now that I’ve been unemployed for over a week, I found that looking for a job is actually more work than actually working. It’s quite a paradox. I’ve applied to quite a few automotive businesses along with a few other places. So far I’ve had two offers.

I went to the VEC on Monday or Tuesday, and found a few offers, and follow up on them. I got a letter from them just now. Apparently they have an automated search system, and they sen tme information for a job! Pretty cool.

I was so close to landing a a job at Canonical as a webmaster. I was a getting glazy-eyed until I came across:

Working knowledge of Python.

Not cool. I was so close! I wanted to learn Python over a year ago, but I ended up pushing it aside. Though the job will most likely be filled soon by some hillbilly or crazed nutcase (joke 😉 ), I’m adding a book on learning Python to my summer reading list. Python is a really good language to learn (so I’ve heard) and Zope, a founding
sponsor of Python, is nearby. Hey, you never know. 🙂

Along with my upcoming self-taught Python course, the summer semester has started at Germanna. I’m taking two distance learning courses, so I’m still free to have a vacation.

Anyway, that’s my current situation. It’s a good thing that I’ve got somebody on my side, or else I’d be done with. 😀

Well, my work for the semester ended last week when I took my last exam. Though I had trouble maintaining full-time thanksgiving, I survived through my first full-time semester while working. At times I thought that being a full-time student and working was going to tear me down, but I made it.

The funny thing about all of this is that at times I believed I would have to sacrifice my job for my schoolwork, or vice versa, during the semester. However, I gave my two weeks notice the day after my last exam. It seems very strange, even to me, as why I would wait until after the semester to leave my job. Maybe God just wanted to show me that I could survive it.

I sometimes feel that I could’ve done more to keep my job, but I don’t regret my decision. I would often find myself to entangled in work, even when I went home afterwards. I was starting to become bitter and cynical. I was starting to focus on worldly matters, over spiritual matters. I don’t want to end up that way. Losing my focus towards eternity with my Father isn’t in my list of goals. When the choice is between my job or my Father, I’m going to choose my Father.

Anyway, wherever I go from here, I must keep my eyes fixed on God, and not myself.

Have you ever remembered a passage from scripture, not knowing the exact verse numbers? I had this happen not too long ago. I was reading this post on a message board involving universalism (Jesus=Mohammed=Confucious,etc.) which mentioned seeking a human form of God for guidance. When reading it, I immediately thought of the many times the Bible mentions God and his Son dwelling in us in spirit, but couldn’t remember any verse numbers.

When I searched for a passage, I got a lot more than I expected. It can make a believer realize (again) that we are not alone.

Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
– 1 John 4:15 (KJV)

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.
– John 6:56 (NIV)

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
– 1 John 4:12 (KJV)

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you…
– Romans 8:9 (KJV)

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
– 1 Corinthians 3:16 (KJV)

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
– 1 Corinthians 6:16 (KJV)

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
– 1 John 4:16 (KJV)

But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
– 1 John 3:17 (KJV)

Him and his son are inside of me, and–if you believe, you too. It’s something to think about, isn’t it?

As some may have noticed, Dictionary.com’s Word of the Day is alacrity, a noun meaning, “a cheerful or eager readiness or willingness, often manifested by brisk, lively action or promptness in response.”

It made me think how I should serve God with alacrity. I should not only be willing, but cheerful. It’s just something I thought about.

WordPress by default adds < li > and < h2 > tages for each category header for the link menu/list in the sidebar. I found it annoying, because why would I want to have large < h2 > tags for the category headers for the links along with standard-size text for the headers of the other section of the sidebar. It ofsets the balance of the page.

But anyway, I fixed this imbalance, so it’s cool. Now I can sleep in peace.