Two weeks ago I was in Seattle visiting family. It was nice, I had not seen them all since they came down to Sacramento for my college graduation. While I was there, I got to take a day trip to Port Angeles, Forks, La Push and all of the surrounding area. It was amazing. Lots of photos will undoubtedly follow at some later point.

For now I continue to study for catechism, as well as worry about the future studies.

Much more later, I promise.

Scott

Maybe this will turn out to be a blessing in disguise. If I do poorly I won’t be able to complete my degree in the two year time frame, unless I take some intensive Arabic courses. I am not opposed to such a thing, and I think that if I start from the beginning I will be able to pick it up a lot easier. Now that I am a graduate student, I will not be working. I spent at least 40 hours a week while I was in my undergraduate career at Sacramento State, and I know I would have done better in all of my courses if I had not worked and spent more time studying. So, Insha’allah, I will do better this time.

I believe that I am still on course ( I make it sound like a race) to be baptized this August. Hopefully it will be on August 15th, which is the Feast Day of the Assumption of the Blessed Mother. Being baptized on that day was not my idea, it was my Priest…and he only mentioned it in passing. But somehow, it seems right.

I’ve much more to say, mostly about my upcoming trip to seattle, but I have to go now. So, until next time…bye!

Yours,
Scott

The Holy Spirit on Pentecost

And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. (Acts 2:2)

Today is Pentecost Sunday, the birthday of Holy Mother the Church. Rejoice and be glad!

I initially had some issues getting the extension to work, however I believe it to be some type of operator error. I installed a package that did not contain the texts for the scriptures/ccc and tried to installed them afterwords. That did not work, so when I uninstalled and then reinstalled with a complete package from the Catholicism Computes website it worked just dandy.

A basic example of how this little ditty goes, is to follow. Say, for instance, that I wanted to remind you of how much God truley loves you. I could cite scripture and tell you to look up !John 3:16. Now, you would have to find your bible (it should be on your night stand!) find John Chapter 3 verse 16 and read.

But now, all you have to do is hover over the citation to John 3:16 that I gave you, and BAM! You’ve found God’s love.

It also works with the Catechism, as previously stated. Here’s reference to Apostolic Sucession, found in CCC 77.

In other news, I continue to fiddle around with this website on a daily basis. Now that I am no longer working (The Up & Up!) I have a lot of free time. Still have to get school stuff in order…which reminds me, I have a check to mail off and a Camcorder to order.

Later!

I recently stumbled accross this video after being reffered to it by the kindly souls at the SQPN Network. Please take a moment to view it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=th6Njr-qkq0

I remain forever yours,
Scott

Now that I have much more free time, maybe I will actually get to work on this website with some real gusto. Not sure how that is all going to pan-out for me in th end, but I will give it a try. There are some minor changes I want to make to the navigation. For instance, the photo gallery section…when I create a new Album in the gallery, I do not want it to show that Album in the main navigation of the site. Right now, it shows up as a sub-page to my navigation and I don’t like it. Death to sub-pages! Also, I would not mind taking some more pictures to add to my rotating main header. Have you noticed that it rotates yet? I have!

Not sure if I mentioned this in a previous post before, but I finally spoke to my Priest about getting baptized. It only took four years of discernment. But whatever. I meet with him every two weeks (tomorrow will only be the second time that I meet with him) to go over some literature about the Catholic Church. So far, I have gone through the “Inquiry” pamphlet that he gave me, and it really only had some basic information in it for me. Maybe it wouldn’t seem so basic if I wasn’t the type of person who wants to know everything. Also, Wikipedia traps me in its never ending cycle of clickable links.  Father Clooney also gave me a copy of the Handbook for Today’s Catholic. It is an interesting read, I knew most of the information in it but it also gives a little bit of background as to why we believe such things. It’s always good to know why we believe something, rather than blind faith. Unless it’s a Dogma. Then you just need to sit down and believe! No really, you should know why.

I think that is all I have for now. Still waiting on Egypt. I emailed both the Financial Aid and Housing departments and I’m waiting to hear back from them. I should leave the middle of August for Cairo so I can get settled in before school starts. My grandmother told me she wants to come visit while I’m there. That will be interesting…though she has been to Africa before. Curing Polio, or something like that.

See you around the bend,

Yours,
Scott

I have been assigned a new manager, and I do not like her. I do not see the need for her to be in my department. I’ve been a manager for the company before (literally just months ago). All she is needed for is corrective actions which I can no longer perform. Otherwise,  she brings nothing to the table. At least nothing which I wish to sample.

Star Trek comes out this Friday, and I am so excited about it that I can only manage to write one line about it!!!

I have a meeting with my Parish priest this upcoming monday to talk about starting summer studies for the RCIA class. I want to get baptized before I leave the country. Apparently RCIA is a year-long process that is just concluding and normally doesn’t start again until September. Sadly, I leave in August for Egypt and they celebrate a different rite than the one that is celebrated in America. I do not know what Father Mike is going to have me do, but it will work out Insha’Allah.

I really do want to write in this thing more often. I’ll try.

Always,
Yours