Who is this "jigawatt" - Part 2

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Eye Color: bluer than you can imagine
Hair Color: brown
Height: 6'0"
Right Handed or Left Handed: right
Your Heritage: French
The Shoes You Wore Today: brown ones
Your Perfect Pizza: Johnny's Sweep the Kitchen sans anchovies, jalapenos, and bell peppers
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: pass the phd qualifying exam
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: don't use im's much
Thoughts First Waking Up: take the dogs outside
Your Best Physical Feature: eyes
Your Bedtime: 23:00
Pepsi or Coke: Pepsi
McDonalds or Burger King: only if there's no other option
Single or Group Dates: either, so long as it's with my wife
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Mamaw's sun tea
Chocolate or Vanilla: Lindt 70% cocoa dark chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: no coffee for me, thank you
Do you Smoke: no
Do you Swear: no
Do you Sing: yes, but I'm no good at it
Do you Shower Daily: yes
Have you Been in Love: yes
Do you want to go to College: not after I finish my phd, unless teaching counts
Do you want to get Married: too late
Do you belive in yourself: what does "belive" mean?
Do you get Motion Sickness: rarely
Do you think you are Attractive: not really
Are you a Health Freak: no
Do you get along with your Parents: yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: yes
Do you play an Instrument: yes, guitar
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: yes
In the past month have you Smoked: no (didn't I answer this before?)
In the past month have you been on Drugs: no
In the past month have you gone on a Date: yes
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: yes, unfortunately
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: no
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: yes
In the past month have you been on Stage: no
In the past month have you been Dumped: no
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: no
Ever been Drunk: no
Ever been called a Tease: no
Ever been Beaten up: Me? Beaten up? Now you're just being silly.
Ever Shoplifted: no
How do you want to Die: lightning (when I'm old)
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: a college professor, or a research engineer
What country would you most like to Visit: New Zealand, The UK (not as much England proper) or any of the Nordic countries.
Number of Drugs I have taken: none of the illegal variety
Number of CDs I own: 100 to 150
Number of Piercings: 0
Number of Tattoos: 0

jigawatt's tip of the day

http://whocalled.us

Here's a pretty nifty website. Whenever you get a telemarketer call or a junk fax call, you can report it here. They publish the offending phone number and they allow you to make comments. The site is still young, and there's no censoring of the comments, so beware.

Of course, the best thing you can do to stop unwanted telephone calls is to register on http://www.donotcall.gov. One new feature of whocalled.us is that if your number is registered with the donotcall.gov list, you can report a violation right there from the website.

Currently Reading. . .

We just started attending a new Sunday School class at our church. We're discussing biblical answers to common troubles of life. One topic we'll be discussing is the problem of pain. Which made me get C.S. Lewis' book by that title off the shelf. I read the book about 7 years ago. It's been good to pick it up again. Lewis is not always an easy read, and this book is the most difficult of his that I've read so far.

Lewis doesn't pretend to be a theologian and he wasn't reformed. He was a member of the Church of England. He was a literature prof in England, and he was also a great Christian thinker. I don't agree with everything in his books, for example he has an interesting view of creation before the fall. I think he writes about it in this book, but I haven't gotten to it yet.

But with the disclaimer out of the way, I really like The Problem of Pain. Here's a quote for you:

"God is both further from us, and neared to us, than any other being. . .He (God) makes, we are made: He is original, we derivative. But at the same time, and for the same reason, the intimacy between God and even the meanest creature is closer than any that creatures can attain with one another. Our life is, at every moment, supplied by Him: our tiny, miraculous power of free will only operates on bodies which His continual energy keeps in existence - our very power to think is His power communicated to us."

At first it seems that statement doesn't make sense. We know how close we are to our spouse, parents, and families. How can the relationship between God and a murderer possibly surpass those familial relationships that mean so much to us. Well, wish was we may, we can't sustain the life of our spouse, but it is God who sustains the life of the vilest criminal. It is but His grace alone that I am not the criminal.