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Well, I was going to blog in three weeks. Was going to jump to
three weeks ahead for the Bible stuff, but still ended up turning to today. And
admittedly, it’s a hard one to skip, so new blog today (yay you).
How’s life? Well apart from the slow start to the week, I got asked by
Thursday if I was okay… And after admitting I was having admin issues, I ended
up having a good, productive day. Bit of a slip Friday but three quarters of
the admin was already done, and it’s the weekend again.
Another thing, not the best given it was a slip (okay, a few slips), but
I realised I was scared and frustrated. Knowing it is something of a relief,
and the share that came of it is me getting out of passing things off as okay,
fine, not a problem – good old minimisation, what a beast it is.
Also got my dining table sorted out, soon I’ll have writing space in my
own place, plus somewhere to entertain peeps. And with the other half’s share
of friends, there’ll be time for that. Only I have to put it together so
there’ll be some frustrations (the entertainment unit peeved me off), not so
yay me. Oh well, onward.
What’s In the World/Oz
War in Ukraine continues, and I’ve been seeing stories of people from
Germany taking in refugees from the war-torn nation. But that said, there’s
things forgotten. Nobody seems to talk about Syria these days, or Yemen, and I
wonder if the attention put on Ukraine needs to go to these places just as hard
and visceral.
Back home, there’s an election in the air, and at least four of the
incumbent Government’s politicians are advertising in a way that doesn’t draw attention
to their party, teals instead of blues, no logos, It’s like they’re pretending
to be independent when they’re not. But, led by a pretender, it seems par for
the course. I only hope things end up with a turfing, because the lack of
climate progress, the years of debt disaster, the whole mess they made of Covid
and aged care, and the endless photo ops, amongst other things. Stay tuned.
Also, unicef sent me an email for the WaterWalk Challenge – walk 7km a
day for 7 days, because people, kids in crisis nations (Yemen, Syria,
Afghanistan, even Ukraine now) travel this far for clean drinking water, often
in danger to themselves. Alas, horribly out of shape, but as one of my yearly
charities, feel free to head over to your national unicef page and slip them a
fifty for the ongoing works they do around the world.
The Last Week in Writing
Well… Yeah, nothing done. This slog of a chapter isn’t writing itself,
and after hoofing about a fictional kingdom and starting to freeze to death,
nothing got written. I still don’t know what it is, or if I just have to leave
it and let it all unravel in time. It’ll come. I think I just have to give it
time. I hope I can finish, and the coming table helps with that.
The Gaming Experience
Things went up a notch as I made my umpteenth pilgrimage up the 7000
Steps to High Hrothgar. Only this time I started freezing to death – the joys
of survival mode. Yep, playing so I get hungry and have to eat, get tired and
have to sleep, get cold and, well, start to freeze to death. (Yes, there’s snow
in the game, so yes, areas can get treacherously cold). I got the frost troll
in a few hidey hits (yes, I rolled a stealth archer again), and Lydia has been
proving useful (my second horse got killed so on hoof now). Hoping she doesn’t
die next…
Right now I’m outside Ustengrav, the bandits outside are all deaded, and
I’m ready to delve in past the necromancers experimenting on the bandits, then
the draugr, and get that all important Horn of Jurgen Windcaller. Yes, I’ve
done this a thousand times, and about a thousand times as a stealth archer, and
little will surprise me. Okay, I am a bit squishy but, well, onwards!
Meanwhile, my train driving career took a stall when I tried Trans
Pennines, got in the cab of a 47 class BR diesel, and had to juggle throttle
and brakes. In a jaunting 200 metre trip to the station, I wobbled between 11
and 2.5 MPH, and passed a signal at danger, ending the session (yay me). Not
that I was going well in East Coastway, I missed my 600 yard cue watching an
approaching speed limit and sailed through a station at 30 MPH. Bad driver.
Today in Church
The Fourth Sunday in Lent, the NT gives to
us what we call the Parable of the Prodigal Son, a story many are familiar with
but don’t know the whole deal. (Similarly, David and Goliath gets our interest
up, a fight over in three seconds; David and Saul, that was the real party).
Jesus is receiving sinners, tax collectors,
and the Pharisees are peeved – isn’t the Messiah meant to tend to the
righteous? So, He parables: A land-owner’s son takes his inheritance, leaves,
lives the life, ends up broke; worse, a famine breaks out, he has to work with
pigs and would have to eat from the trough, and he realises his father’s
servants eat better than he does. He repents, goes home with prepared words0;
his father sees him, runs to him, embraces him before he can finish speaking,
and welcomes him back with a feast. Story over, right?
But there’s a problem. The man’s brother,
who stayed with his father, complains that he never got a feast in all the
years he lived there working hard, and rejects his father’s loving attitude, “your
brother here was dead and now has come to life; he was lost and is found.”
Part of the story is the relationship of
God with the sinner, He rejoices when one comes back to the fold, and exalts
them. Part is the righteous agog their faith isn’t taken into consideration.
Granted, God does reward their faith, but the joy of the one returning is a
greater celebration, and touches on other Jesus lessons – the lowly will be
raised and mighty humbled, the last will be first and the first last – stories
for another day.
Weigh In
The diet continues well, I’m getting used to the snacking, got the
powder/water ratio right, still have edges of hunger post dinners – and the
other night had a sugar craving that I not only identified, but sorted out with
an apple. It could have helped lead to the admin issues… but also the late
finish Tuesday, who knows. All I know is I’m committed, settled, ready to add
exercise to the mix, and Saturday’s scale results were 121kg.
Not sure how much is clothing related, still on the heavy side, but as
early steps in just a week, it’s a positive result. Plus it might be raining
this week, and I can’t find the upper body workout vid on YT, but there’s an upper
body and abs vid so… yay?
I’m calling yay.
And that’s it for this week, you can catch last week’s blog here, and my
next one… soon? Maybe two weeks, so I make an Easter post. Also, Deathnote the
anime is on Netflix, gonna throw some apples at Ryuk :D. Until next time, have
a good one!
T.M.
