as some of you might have noticed (heck, some of you might have even complained; i don't know yet), this week's sermon is somewhat late. 2 calendar weeks have managed to slip by in the course of this single sermon week. i'm afraid this delay was unavoidable, as i've been moving.

yes, i've now made the quantum leap out of my parents' house. as you can imagine, things are a bit jumbled & disorganizized around here. one lone symptom of this affliction is that i have no internet access yet. in fact i'm composing this in notepad to be uploaded to the church via my father's computer later this evening. so if you've tried emailing me recently... no, i'm not just being aloof, & i probably do still like you. i'm just hard to reach through electronic means at the moment.

it's hard for me to even get time on my computer now, as one of my roommates has been hooked up to civilization ii as though it were an iron lung. i can't quite blame him; i too have been sucked into that pit more than once in my past. it's probably why i haven't played at all in some time. i was forced to quit cold turkey or else relapse into the civII dimension. i just don't have the time to invest in the game, since if you start playing you won't stop until forced or coerced. alcohol, cigarettes, heroin... they ain't jack compared to civII.

it's not like i have much need to get on the computer anyway. as i already mentioned, i have no internet access, & i'm not really involved in any creative projects at the moment. hell, i don't even have a phone long enough to reach from my modem to the remotest reaches of the living room where the wild & untamed telephone jack dwells. we moved into one of those old-school houses where things such as electrical outlets & phone jacks were luxuries that the common man couldn't afford. we're lucky someone was rich enough to install phone jacks in every other room in the house. i suppose they just couldn't afford to get around to this room. i'm also lucky that i do have one electrical socket in my room. that's enough to plug in an extension cord.

but things are looking up here at box city. pretty soon i'm sure i'll get an account with an isp & find a long-ass phone cord. & eventually we'll manage to get the gas turned on, too (the gas company has been yanking us around like a st bernard being walked by a toddler. if we had the resources we'd sue, or at least report them to the attorney general). these are the dark days before we hit the switch.

then again, all of our local friends seem to have abandoned us. oh well. we don't need them anyway. we'll just make new friends. we'll build them out of clay & popsicle sticks.

anyway, the page is just going through a slow period. a dry spell. something. i don't know; i'm writing this in notepad, of all programs. give me a break.