Boy, how in the world did I spend the time today? Lots of sleep, eat, walk around in random places, read, pray, and tv...missing in the list: research. I just don't want to do research. Oh yeah, and there was an attempt made to find someone to go out for dinner, but that failed...

In playing and discussing warfish with David Lee, the term "finish (someone) off" often came up. And I feel kind of queasy whenever he mentions that, because that phrase has a meaning that is perhaps a lot more brutal and personal to me than him...

I'm grateful to God for...

• once again reminding me that this journey of faith and intimacy with Him is going to take some time to grow, and I should stop panicking;
• the comfortable weather and temperature which allow me to do random walking and soul searching (and God searching);
• the opportunity for the long-distance adventure this coming weekend;
• keeping me in a generally non-depressing mood today; and
• giving me this difficult exercise through Samuel, which revealed to me a lot of my deficiencies.