Month of Birthdays

I can not believe that it has been over a month since I last wrote something in my blog. I was reminded of that because one of the church members that attends Grace fellowship by the name of John was asking me about how to connect with me on the Internet. I thought that he was wanting my email address but it turns out he is familiar with my blog but because I had not written in it since March 28^th he was wondering if he was missing me somehow. 

John is one of the elderly gentlemen in our congregation and I suppose he has more time on his hands than some of us younger folks and therefore he can surf  the Net and read this and that.  Somehow John ran across my blog and became interested in what is there.  Maybe John is curious to learn more about me and my family.  No matter what the reason for his reading of my blog I am honored that he would talk to me about it.

 

John’s question reminded me of the fact that I am just too busy.  Between the responsibilities of being a husband, father, employee, church member and several other things I seem to run out of time.  The truth of the matter is that I have allowed many little things to distract me from doing what I love to do the most and that is write.   One of the things that has distracted me from blogging is the world of tweeting.  If you visit www.twitter.com you will find the world of micro blogging.  Microblogging means that you have to write down your thoughts in 140 characters or less.  For people like me who love to write I am just finishing up my first introductory sentence at 140 characters.  Learning how to compose my thoughts with more brevity certainly is a good exercise for me.  It helps to prune out some of the useless fluff from my writing. 

Twittering or tweeting is the act of micro blogging and telling people what is on your mind or what you are doing at whatever point in time that you decide to tweet in.  In some ways tweeting is fun and addicting however I think that it has caused me to try and make it a substitute for blogging which it is not.

May is the month of birthday celebrations and a wedding anniversary.  Kristina “Princess” Moffitt turned 16 on Sunday May 4^th and Justin “bambam” Moffitt turns 13 on Tuesday May 6^th.  Katy and I celebrate 18 years of marriage on the 12^th of May and Katy turns 49 on May 21^st. 

Courageous Kidz organization that Katy and I support and volunteer for is gearing up for an event called Rattlin Pins which will take place at Sandpiper Lanes in July 2008.  We are excited about supporting this organization because we know that kids with cancer and their families are ministered to in a special way.  If you live in the low country area I would encourage you to try and participate in some way.  We are in need of bowling teams and lane sponsors as well as help for the bowling teams on the day of the event.

Just recently I decided to learn more about how to support  Apple OS  and hardware.  The college that I work at has quite a few faculty staff and students who use Apple products.  Because of that the support staff in our I.T. department needs to be able to support them.  Just recently we decided that in order to support  the products we need to start using the products.  There is no better teacher than hands on experience if you ask me.  I have a dear friend of mine that is echoing something in my head as a write this.  Her question would be “did you read the manual?”  There is something to be said about reading the manual. Sometimes reading the manual can shorten the learning curve somewhat and make the learning experience a little less painful. 

You can read more about my Macbook experience by viewing my Mac related blog at http://web.mac.com/chiefpropellerhead/Site/Blog/Blog.html

James Moffitt
http://www.lightourworld.com
james.moffitt@comcast.net