The Story

So here's a breif explanation of the events around the time of the "incident."

i turned it on and it came up with a flashing file folder with a question mark. like a good apple person i went to apple support and followed their steps for disk utility and alas, we find problem #2. the hardrive is not mounted. regardless of their suggestions, the drive will not show up even in disk utility in order to repair. Shortly following, the online support suggests readers to call via the phone if these steps did not fix the error. So I called. after brief discussion with some fellow by a first name that began with the letter "g" he says that they will most likely need to set me up for repairs...in which all of my data will be lost and therefore i should seek a third party to access my data before calling again and setting up a way to get it back to them.

a frantic e-mail was sent to my steve, who kindly made time to work on my computer that evening, though all we were able to realy ensure was that we couldn't fix it.

if you did not already know, there's apparently a mac-certified service location in north canton, so i went by there wednesday morning to see what they could do. although they service macs on-site, they do not do repairs to my exent there (including fixing the plastic) so they shipped it out to the big apple service center. that is, the same one that compusa or the apple store would have shipped it to.

a guy with the a name coninsidentally again starting with the letter "g" said they do over-night shipping back and forth, and the earliest he's ever seen one come back is friday when sent out on wednesday but to prepare for about a week of computer-less time. (my ears apparently skim the last part of people's names when they tell them to me)

much to my delight, i recieved a phone call friday early afternoon informing me of my computer's safe return. they replaced the keyboard/palm area, the entire top case, hardrive, and logic board. earlier this summer applecare also replaced my battery. thus my weekend has been full of sorting through old photos and reloading applications...and of course backing everything up on a hard drive i couldn't possibly ever completely fill up.

Poor Corydon.

My computer died last tuesday. fortunately, to my delight...i was able to send it out to apple on wednesday morning and recieved it back friday early afternoon. thus my lack of updating...i have been frantically tring to recover and get things set for school to start this week (i lost everything on my computer). luckily, most of my information was backed up in various places such as external hardrives, flickr, ipods, etc. I did still lose some things though. I'd guestimate that i'll probably be able to access about 75% or so of the things i lost through those means. unfortunately, anything that was not backed up somewhere i lost. so pictures, artwork, and anything to do with rivertree is gone. i will update more later...but for now i'm heading off to rivertree for services this morning.

Books?

Does anyone know of any hiddent treasure local bookstores around? It's not exactly the easiest thing to gauge online, so i figured suggestions would be helpful. Thanks!

The Believer

Last night i watched the movie "the believer." I'm still not sure how to process the film actually. I love films like that because they leave you with this with this unexplicable unsettledness. it's not that there isn't a resolution either, it's just that it leads you to continue to think about it even after it's end.

the movie is based in modern new york and follows danny, a 20-something struggling with the dissention between his beliefs and his heritage.

this movie probes the questions of religion, family, and self-hatred and it's an examination into the forces of religion and intolerance both within the individual and for society as a whole. Danny is torn as he processes how to live in light of his jewish heritage and how he observes religion and faith in the world.

God is Green

I've been listening to a few podcasts lately, one of which is the Mars Hill podcast. Many of you have probably heard of that church, or atleast Rob Bell before i'm sure through noomas and the books velvet elvis and sex god.

the past few weeks they have been challenging listeners to think more about the envirionment and the christian responsibility to really be the church. not necessarily dealing with the environment, but one thing that was discussed that really struck me was that we often give money and donate material things to organizations that serve people. why do these organizations exist? perhaps, according to their suggestion, it is because the churchis not really caring for people the way it should. what do you guys think?

we have accountants, educators, and engineers. aren't these the same people that our donations go to support? so we are choosing to give our resources to people to do a job we can do in the church? should we be doing these things to further the kingdom rather than to promote celebrity.

what do you guys think about this? moreover, what are the practical implications for us. you and me. the people living in USAmerica? check out the one titled "Do you realize how far we are?" from June 3rd.

Rob Bell makes a great statement..."why do these agencies get to have all the fun?"

Pretty

Wow. I'm not even going to try and give some lame excuse for not updating my blog (though the work one from the previous post is truly quite honest).

Just some updates in my life as of lately. I'm working a lot. House-sitting a lot. Summer is flying by and i don't even know what it is that i've been doing. I'm designing my own shirts...that's probably one of my most intriguing endeavors this summer. nothing extremely complex, but just things that will make people think a little hopefully.

the whole inspriation for this was birthed sometime in the spring. not necessarily the clothing idea, but rather, what lies behind it. in a way i feel a little contradictory saying this because i work at old navy...but then again...i don't by much printed clothing from there. anyway....i've become sick and tired of how people (sadly often including myself) have fallen into the american trap that you have to look and be a certain way to be beautiful. this is just overall...i don't think it's a bad thing to want to look nice, but i'm tired of someone telling me what it means to be beautiful.

i think we need to redefine what that means. it might be doing something that is "trendy" it may be going against the grain. you know what....it's not even going to be the same for every person. be beautiful. be who you were created to be.