Saturday, social Saturday

Frisbee didn't happen, but I managed to drive around a little today. As I had little to do, I ended up writing another driver today; I've been working on saturday's to make up some for the vacation I'm going to take at the end of the month; more work now, less vacation days that need to be taken later, or at least that's the theory. Randy hosted game night tonight, to which I went, tied for second in "Puerto Rico", and fell just short in Sitting Ducks. Oh well, maybe next time I'll actually win.

For some reason, I have a clearer sense of purpose than I've had in a while, though I'd be hard pressed to know why. It's not so much of a "I know what to do with myself", but more of a "I feel the green light" kind of thing. No, Warren, it wasn't cause of what you said, ... happened a little earlier, but thanks anyways :-).

Ironically, I'm totally keyed up right now, partly from having just spent the most social hours that I've had all week, partly from said clarity, partly from having soul-fill-up day just a few hours away, partly from having just had cause to realize how many cool algorithmic tricks I know from grad school and thereby feeling useful in Christy's problem-solving, and partly for no good reason at all. It's like I just had a shot of caffeine, even though I haven't had it in months. Maybe that 7up _did_ have caffeine in it; strange.

After writing that, I realized that Cream soda has caffeine in it; I didn't think it did, which is why I had 2-3 glasses of it tonight. I'm going to get a splitting headache in two days from going back off caffeine, and I'm not going to get to sleep tonight for at least an hour or two. Caffeine didn't used to do that much to me, but when you're off it for months,... it makes you to haywire. I don't know what I'm going to do; I have no more work I can get done, it's midnight, and I need to be up in 8 hours. God helping me I will actually get to sleep before too long.

Great is Your faithfulness
to carry on with a sinner like me
--Newsboys

If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath
and from doing as you please on my holy day,
if you call the Sabbath a delight
and the LORD's holy day honorable,
and if you honor it by not going your own way
and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,
then you will find your joy in the LORD,
and I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land
and to feast on the inheritance of your father Jacob.
-- Isaiah 58:13 a.k.a. where the 4th commandment rubber meets the road