I intended to write this long, thoughtful, awe inspiring, life-changing post; one that would make you question everything you knew (ok, so it probably wouldn’t have been that great). But time escaped me. It’s been doing that a lot lately.

So here’s just a little update since I wanted to write something if only for writing’s sake and so those who’re interested can know what’s going on:

I’ve got High School Summer Camp coming up. It’s during the first weekend of August up in the Palomar mountains. I’m sure it will be another wonderful transforming experience and, just like last year, Calvary Chapel Alpine will be joining us for the crazy ride.

I’m going to visit my little sister, Amy, in Arizona from August 10th through the 16th. It’s been a while since I’ve been out of the state and/or had anything that could be considered a vacation. I’m planning on enjoying it immensely (don’t even try to stop me).

Work has been going well. I’ve started a new project and it involves a lot more creativity than the things I usually work on. I can’t say what it is, but it there’s lots of guns, swords, and ridiculous fight sequences, thus ranking it high on the awesome scale. Also, over the course of my employment at House of Moves, my position has evolved so that in many cases I’m the go-to guy for information, which is kinda cool. It’s nice to know I’m useful though it does sometimes make it a little harder for me to get my own work done.

Lastly, I’ve uploaded a few new pictures to my photo gallery, just for fun.

From what I can, tell things are running smoothly again (hold the Exlax jokes please), all malicious software has been eliminated and Google says my site is safe once more. Huzzah! I’ve also updated to the latest version of WordPress. I think that’s where the security issue was and it had been a far too long since I’d done an update. Sadly, I lost all my post categories in the process since they switched to a new system, but it’s not a big deal, and I’ll slowly build them up again. Thanks for your patience everyone. I’ll write again soon.

For some reason I’m getting strange warning messages when trying to access the blog and I suspect some of you get the same alert page when you try to visit. I’ve spent a couple hours trying to fix it, but to no avail. It seems fine in Safari, but not in Firefox, which makes me wonder if it’s a Firefox problem or there is actually some kind of outside malicious tampering with my site. Don’t be too surprised if things look a little messed up around here while I try to find a solution. Hopefully I’ll be able to fix it soon. Boy do I hate this kind of thing.

Yes, something’s definitely not right. I tested it in Windows on a PC and both Firefox and IE gave warnings when visiting the site. Still looking into it

***Latest Update***

Alright, thanks to some help from Brian, I believe the problem is fixed. I’m still waiting for Google to verify that the site is safe, so until then a warning page might still come up, but hopefully within a day or two things should be good again. Let me know if any of you are still having problems.

I’m taking a break from this regularly unscheduled blog to notify you that I’ve finally finished uploading pictures to my Flickr account (here). I pretty much went through my entire photo collection in chronological order and uploaded the ones I thought would be of some interest to the general populace. Check them out and feel free to add comments and whatnot. I’d say the best way is to view them as a slideshow and start from the very back and work your way forwards. Or you could just browse though the 10 pages of thumbnails if you wanted to get it done quickly. That’s entirely up to you.

Having that little project out of the way, my plan from now on is to upload new pictures to my Mac gallery through the brand new MobileMe service (formerly .mac). I’m not sure if I’ll still keep uploading to Flickr or not. The Mac way is, naturally, a much easier process and (being a service I payed for over a free one) is something I’m more inclined to take advantage of.

It helps me sometimes to remember then when I make mistakes and when I’m feeling less than inadequate, there isn’t this huge anvil of judgment hanging over my head, just about to drop. Instead, I am picked back up off the ground and given the command, “do better My son.”

Like in the Jars of Clay song, Collide, sometimes I feel as if I’m waiting for the axe to fall. If only I would look, I’d see it was lying on the ground. And in its place, a kind embrace. Yes, I will try again Father. And I will do better, I will.