Wednesday, September 24, 2008

...diary of an occasional blogger

Guess what I've been doing?

If you guessed steroids, then you're totally wrong, but that guy on the side sure is creepy looking. Its been just over two months since my last blog. I have a sort of love-hate relationship with blogging. Sometimes I go at it with the passion of... something passionate... Other times, I just let it sit because life happens and you just forget about blogging in lieu of more important things...

In other news, my wife is now employed by one of my clients. We're both happy about that. Its the first time she has had a job in five years. She has been a stay at home mom, which is really a job in and of itself. Our youngest is now in kindergarten, and she seems to be very advanced compared to others. Not knocking any of the other kids, they're all great, but I really think that her staying with her mother during the most critical years of her development has molded her into quite the amazing kid! It makes a huge difference to be taught by your mom or dad before kindergarten versus being carted off to a day care and forced to watch hours upon hours of so-called educational television. Have you actually seen some of the crap on PBS lately? Some of it is good, i have to admit I enjoy Wordgirl and Sid the Science Kid. But Teletubbies and Boobah? Are they even speaking English, or any earthly language, for that matter?

Really don't have a lot to say this time, I just wanted to try to keep it fresh for my dedicated fan. I think I have at least one... Work is going okay. It has been a slow week for me. Its hump day and I have not done any income producing work this week. This kind of thing gets me down. I know I am supposed to trust God to provide. An really, He has. All our bills are current. My family is not hungry. Both vehicles are working. Got money in the bank. We're all healthy. I really have nothing to complain about. Perhaps God is trying to give me some rest before something bigger hits? All things considered, I think I should just be grateful for where I am, keep doing what I am doing, stop being afraid to step out even further, and just let "it" happen..

Always an opportunity to learning something, huh..

Later, and God bless,
-myk

Friday, July 18, 2008

"Dy-no-MITE!"


Its been a wild week. In contrast to my last post, seems like God is dropping little hints here and there now.. The sermon at church this past Sunday, the things we spoke about Wednesday night at church, things I have read in my devotionals, stuff in the news, in nature, things my wife, kids, and friends have said... Just about everything imaginable has pointed to the fact that God is still watching and listening. He is still speaking, too, just not quite so loud. One friend put it like this. He's being like a parent, He wants His child to learn how to do something.. He know's He can do it faster and more accurately Himself, but He also knows that the child needs to learn to fend for himself. Not that He's throwing any of us out to the wolves, but He wants to allow us to learn to trust that no matter what, He's got our back.. I guess kind of like how when you're teaching a kid to ride a bike. You hold on to the seat for a while, and the kid is VERY comfortable while he knows your hand is on the bike. But at some point, you're going to have to let go if the kid is ever going to be able to ride the bike himself. When he first realizes that your hand is no longer on the bike, most kids will immediately go into panic mode, much like I did last week. But, after a brief moment of terror, you see that you're actually riding.. You see that you're not gonna die, like you thought... You see that even though your Father's hand was no longer on the bike, He knew what He was doing when He let go, and was never far enough away to allow anything to happen to you anyway.
I guess God is teaching me to ride the bike....

So, what does Jimmy Walker have to do with anything? No idea, I just needed a picture for today's post.

Later, and God bless,
-myk

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

"When It Rains, It Pours...."

Dang it.... Its raining here today. Its raining hard...Not too long ago, some friends and I reroofed part of my house. We replaced 6 sheets of 4x8 plywood and put up new tar paper and shingles... Now I have a leak in the room we roofed over.. I don't understand... What sucks about this is I don't have the money to have it checked out again. I know we did a good job up there, but apparently something was missed.. What to do now?

The saying goes, 'When It Rains, It Pours..' And it is definitely holding true for the Robinson clan right now. Seems that it is one thing after another, and none of it good. Just really hope God has something up His sleeves that will manifest VERY soon...

I just want to go to sleep for a while...

-myk

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

"Moving at the speed of smell....."


Moving kinda slow... Its funny how things work out... I am (was) a technical manager for Chuck E. Cheese. I'm responsible for making sure that Chuck's head never falls off during a birthday party again. Apparently it happened on more than one occaision before I was hired... But that's neither here nor there. Anyway, I also run a business called Kingdom Computer Solutions. Pretty much a small mobile computer repair company. We perform onsite computer consulting, maintenance, repair, networking, etc. Do a lot of virus removal and the like.. And when I say "we", i mean me. My wife helps out some too, though. I have been in business for a little over two years now, and we have existed on word of mouth. Things are going okay, but not as okay as I would like. In other words, we're far from where I feel we need to be, but we're not dead either.. Like I said in my last post, I feel that this is the way God is leading me..
...Things were moving and shaking pretty good for the last quarter. This is the most sales tax I have EVER had to turn in, which is exciting. However, now things have all of a sudden slowed to a crawl. Two weeks from now, my employment with the Cheese will be a distant memory, and now I am faced with the reality of the possibility of no work...Trying my best not to fret and just trust God.. sometimes its hard, though.. No real point to this post whatsoever, just thinking out loud, really. I know that God talks to us. I know that He always shows up on time.. Just wish He would set His watch to match mine...

later, and God bless,
-myk robinson