Ok, those of you who frequent my site often (and I doubt that that is anybody) may notice a lot of posts missing. I have not updated my blog in a long time. So I’ve taken out of the date-sensitive posts (up-coming gigs from last year, etc) and I have decided to start blogging again. (Yes, the facebook novelty is starting to wear off).
Stay tuned,
Dick
PS. this post will probably disappear soon, too.
I think that God is constantly trying talk to us. I think that He wants to guide us. The tough part is finding time alone where life is quiet enough to hear him. One of the more successful ways for me to do that is to go fly a kite. I really enjoy flying kites. The kites I fly are “stunt kites” which basically means that they have two lines instead of one. That means that you can make them do loop-de-loops, dives, and all kinds of fun maneuvers. The bottom line is that you have a lot more control over the kite. And — I’ll admit it — I have control issues. Today, I had the day to myself and nobody to remind me of all my responsibilities and grown-up issues. So I took the time to go fly my kite. And I think God used that time to talk to me…
Well, I can honestly say that I never saw this one coming. I’m on facebook now. I have always avoided the social networking sites because I thought that they were a waste of time (and…well… they are). I do have a MySpace page but I pretty much ignore it. I only wanted it because, if MySpace ever became cool, I wanted to snag the page name “myspace.com/dickdonohue” (yea, it’s an ego thing). There are a lot of really ugly MySpace pages and that didn’t help the coolness factor. But now, with 90,000 sex offenders getting kicked off, it doesn’t appear that most people will be viewing MySpace as a cool place any time soon. Just to be clear: I’m saying that hanging out where sex offenders hang out is not cool. I’m not saying that now that all the sex offenders have left, the place has no appeal! 
But facebook has really surprised me. It started when a friend created a facebook group for the band I’m in (Great Buncha Guys). Then one of the other guys in the band invited me to join facebook. So I figured I would create an account and it would be just another social networking site to ignore. For the next 2-3 days my email was flooded! I’ve hooked up with old high school and college friends, friends from church and all over. I admit that it has been fun to go back and reconnect with some folks.
For me, facebook has proven to be an interesting adventure in social science. And it has me fascinated. I’ve been spending a lot of time on facebook lately. (I’m sure that it is an unhealthy amount of time.) Here are some observations that I have found particularly interesting: Continue reading
Ok, I know I’m a Johnny-come-lately to this game, but I just got an iPod. My birthday was last week and my wife surprised me with an 80 GB iPod Classic. I have to admit that I’m a little surprised by the effect it has had on me. First, I’ve got a ton of CDs that I have ripped & burned so that I can play them in the car… or at least I thought it was a ton. But the iPod has got me going through my whole music library. Turns out that I had maybe one quarter of my music on my computer. Now (and I’m not done yet, I still have about 15 more CDs to go), I have over 2,400 songs on my computer (and on my new iPod). And that has not even made a dent into the available space on that 80GB iPod. I sorta obsessed on iTunes all weekend ripping my CDs for hours at a time. But what really caught me off-guard with the new iPod was Continue reading
