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Ron | January 30, 2006

There’s nothing like getting tagged for a meme to get me to actually post something again. Thanks Jamin! Ok, here we go… the 4 things meme:

4 jobs I’ve had in my life

  1. Gas dock attendant on Tablerock lake
  2. Missionary
  3. Window washer cleaner
  4. Project manager

4 movies I can watch over and over

  1. Babette’s Feast
  2. The Princess Bride
  3. Lord of the Rings
  4. Gladiator – my son (Max) is now often called “General”

4 TV shows I love to watch:
(I rarely watch TV so this one is tough)

  1. um…
  2. yep…still thinking
  3. hmmm…
  4. nothing yet.

4 places I’ve been on vacation

  1. Italy
  2. West Virginia
  3. Tablerock lake, Missouri
  4. Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina

4 of my favorite dishes

  1. Spaghetti
  2. Smoked salmon
  3. A mountain of snow-crab legs
  4. brats and beer

4 websites I visit daily

  1. Bloglines
  2. Lifehacker.com
  3. ?
  4. ?

4 places I would rather be right now

  1. home
  2. Italy
  3. on a sailboat somewhere in the Caribbean
  4. home
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Better…

Ron | January 19, 2006

I dropped the Amazon link and am using LibraryThing instead - no big orange blob. I’m still not really happy with how it looks, but until I figure out how to change it using css, that’s the way it’s going to stay.

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Amazon

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Amazon seems to be having some sort of trouble right now. That explains the big flashing orange blob in my sidebar. Very annoying. It’s supposed to be Hannah Coulter.

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Just one more…

Ron | January 9, 2006

Ok, I know I said no more posts about nothing, but anyone who knows me well knows that I hate my job, so I found this little quiz interesting. It puts me about as far from what I currently spend my days on as you can get!

You scored as Journalism. You are an aspiring journalist, and you should major in journalism! Like me, you are passionate about writing and expressing yourself, and you want the world to understand your beliefs through writing.

Psychology

83%

Journalism

83%

Theater

67%

English

58%

Sociology

58%

Anthropology

58%

Philosophy

50%

Linguistics

50%

Dance

50%

Mathematics

42%

Art

42%

Chemistry

33%

Engineering

33%

Biology

17%

What is your Perfect Major? (PLEASE RATE ME!!<3)
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Resolved

Ron | January 4, 2006
I’m always reluctant to make New Year resolutions. Call it my native pessimism that doesn’t believe I’ll keep to it anyway, so why bother. This year however, I’m going to try to overcome that pessimism. And so in that vein here goes, in no particular order:

  1. Read 1 book each month. I was once an avid reader and was rarely seen without a book in hand. For the past several years though my tendency is to start and not finish books and/or fall asleep within the first couple of sentences. I think a book a month is a legitimate goal that I can actually accomplish. Keep an eye on the side bar to the right to see how I’m doing.
  2. Post less and better. I’ve been posting out here for a year now and gone through various posting flurries. I enjoy this, but my purpose in starting the blog was to actually encourage myself to write, not just regurgitate a bunch of links. My goal is to post once per week. Hopefully this will also help me to avoid the compulsion I have to have about 25 Firefox tabs open looking for random but interesting stuff. I think I’m seeking distraction rather than content and, quite frankly, I have enough going on in my life that I don’t really need to add a lot of distractions to it.
  3. Make another attempt at wrangling the perpetual chaos my life is in into at least a semi-organized plan so I don’t lose track of little things like, oh I don’t know:
    • Finances
    • Appointments
    • Tasks
    • Repair needs around the house
    • etc.
  4. Clean off my desk at work and keep it cleaned (see #3 above)
  5. Go to at least 1 Cardinals game this year.
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My name is Ron Nelson. I am a husband to a wonderful wife and a father to 3 amazing children. I am a follower of Jesus. I am a member of a wonderfully flawed, redeemed, struggling, beautiful, faithful community of believers that has often supported and encouraged me in my attempts to be a good husband, father and follower of Jesus.

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