Happy Birthday to Me!

Ok, so my birthday was last Monday. But it was a great one. Here are some quick thoughts:

• Miranda and I used it multiple times as an excuse to go out to eat.
• She got me probably the best birthday present I can remember in quite some time. After I tell you, you will be confused. But I’m a simple man. Here’s the list:
  • A basketball. (Already had much use. Daily as of right now. We’ll see how long that lasts)
  • A soccer ball. (Ditto.)
  • My favorite: subscriptions to three magazines I read the most (Wired Magazine [tech], Paste Magazine [music], and GOOD [society]). She definitely knows my heart: straight through pages.
• As a plus, I got myself a combined graduation/birthday present: a blank Bible. What’s a blank Bible, you ask (I heard you)? Check it out here: TSS Blank Bible Index. I used one of our “table Bibles” (paperback ESV), took it apart, separated it page by page, inserted blank pages, and divided it in the following volumes:
  • Genesis (2 blanks between each page of text)
  • Exodus-Deuteronomy (2 blanks)
  • Joshua-Nehemiah (1 blank)
  • Job-Song of Solomon (1 blank)
  • Isaiah-Jeremiah-Ezekiel (1 blank)
  • Minor Prophets (Daniel-Malachi) (1 blank)
  • Matthew-Romans (2 blanks)
  • 1 Corinthians-Revelation (1 blank)
• Right now it’s at Staples being finished (spiral bound and covered). Total cost: $40 for all 8 volumes. Not too shabby.
• Also raked in some cash from the family…used to pay off bills.

Thanks be to God for allowing me to live in a time and place with the printing press and sports.