It's all about who?

This commercial bothers ME



I have nothing against higher education. I went to college, education is really important.
Seriously.. everyone should have the opportunity to go to college.
And to go to learn something that they love.
But it's the message in the commercial that gets to me.

"It's all about me!"
Guess what.. it's really not.

Life is not "all about me."
But it's a message that young people on this continent hear constantly.
And it's dangerous.

I definitely believe that people should take care of themselves. Selflessness does not equate to "letting yourself go" or seeing yourself as less than anyone else. But it's also not about seeing yourself as greater either.

The most influential (for good) people in this world would never say "It's all about me."
There's something really special and important about knowing that you aren't the center of the universe.
When we lose that thought, life can get ugly and lonely.

Jesus said that the second most important commandment is to "love others as you love yourself." [Matt 22:39]
So yes, I am important. But so are you.

It's not all about me. And, sorry to say, it's not all about you either.

This is not the first time I've written about this topic. Here is a blog I wrote on the old site in April 2007.

39 Bluescreens of Death on the Wall, 39 Bluescreens of Death...

This is where I rant about my recent computer problems... enjoy.

Even though my machine is the butt of many over used jokes such as,
-"Is that a laptop or a desktop?"
-"I could charge my car with that power cord"
-"is that one computer or two?"
and the uncreative, "why is your laptop so big?"

I'm not phased.
I know my laptop is big.. I have eyes too.
But there is good reason. Place your laptop next to mine and the first thing you'll see is the size but it's only because it's a 17" monster with 2 cooling fans, an excellent sound system with built in subwoofer, 6 USB ports, hdmi, firewire and every other port you might need when you do the kind of work that I do.
It's a powerhouse and I love it.

so... yes it's big, but it's exactly what I was looking for.

Unfortunately even the most amazing laptops are not immune to the *clears throat* garbage operating system known as windows vista.
If you are a vista runner and think it's great and have never had problems... excellent.
I hope it continues that way for you.
As for me, apart from the irritating constant requests for administration confirmation on simple tasks like moving files around and downloading things, Vista wasn't giving me too many hassles for about a year.

Until, it started sabotaging me with faulty driver updates which lead to too many hours of backtracking and then the first blue screen. The first turned into 5 and then 5 turned into 39 and #39 was the straw that broke my Toshiba's back.

I'll refrain from telling you about my experience with the geek squad. I'll just say it was like babysitting, only I was paying the kids that I was watching.

Long story short, I'm a PC and Windows 7 was my idea.
I'm now back up and running, faster and smoother than ever.
My giant laptop is doing giant tasks with ease and apart from the occasional screen flicker (from not having a display driver that is fully compatible - apparently it doesn't exist yet) I'm pleased.

I edited my first video the day after my software was loaded and I've never edited with such ease before.
It's gonna be good.. it's gonna be really good.

I can't wait to start doing larger projects because now I can just work.. and not constantly have crashing to worry about.
I can't wait to get a camera dusty and start telling the amazing stories of people in Kenya.
I'm glad that all of this vista corruption happened now.
As inconvenient as it was, the timing was actually great.

And So It Begins

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Gettin' vloggy wit it.

So I had an idea...

While I'm away I will definitely be doing periodic video updates.
This is so that people can see what's going on in my ministry because I can pretty much guarantee that most days will look different. One thing I love about media is that it's not at all monotonous. And the flexibility given to me in my work overseas will pretty much ensure that I'll be working with many different people in many different places doing many different things.

Awesome? Awesome!

But on top of periodic video updates I thought it might be fun to reserve one day a week to take the camera out on my typical day.

For instance, I could do vlog Thursdays.
Every Thursday (or any day) having a camera with me and documenting whatever I am doing that day.
It could be editing, laundry, grocery shopping, hanging with friends, or setting up meetings.
It could be anything really, but one thing I think it would be... is interesting.

It would give people that have never been to Kenya and opportunity to see what it's like. And it would give people an opportunity to see what missions overseas (at least in my field) is like.



So the question now is when should I start?
I will probably need to work out some kinks and get used to the idea before I leave.

But should I start now? Or wait till after Christmas.

Any requests? I'm not sure my life is THAT interesting right now, but who knows, maybe it is to others.