Wow, almost 2 months since my last post.
Well, let’s see, came back from Taiwan a couple weeks ago. My cousin got married, and it was good to catch up with family and meet some of Susan’s family, too. It was typically in the 90s when we were there, although the humidity made it feel worse. Supposedly it just started to get really hot in the week or two before we got there. First time at a traditional Chinese wedding ceremony – read and heard a lot about it, but never actually seen one.
It was there that Susan and I were asked to bow before our ancestors. No incense or anything, but it was still a little awkward as a beleiver; that my relatives might see that as worship, giving my relatives the wrong idea of what worship is. It made me think about what worship is at the core. I prayed about it and found Romans 12:1, “I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God–this is your spiritual act of worship.”. So, since it wasn’t like I was worshipping my ancestors, just giving my respect, much like I would do if I visited Arlington National Cemetery and paid my respect to fallen veterans. It definitely wasn’t like I was offering my body as a living sacrifice, as Paul writes in Romans.
Other than that, work’s been pretty busy. We’re working on getting some servers migrated to new racks, since we’re outgrowing the old ones. More and more of the management of these boxes is coming to us, and there’s always new projects coming down the line. We’re trying to get as much of this done as we can before football season starts – can’t have people complaining about not seeing a game. Guess that must bring in more than NBA or MLB games. Oh, and since I’m on call pretty much every other weekend, I’ve put in for a laptop. I hadn’t wanted it, since I value the time I’m not at work. But considering my new responsibilities, I figure it would actually give me more flexibility. Nonetheless, it would still be nice to get out one of these weekends in a park, far out of cell phone range, far from a Wi-fi connection, and without the Blackberry. 