My Desk (4), originally uploaded by I’mEatingSupper.

After far too long of sitting the basement and doing nothing. I finished my desk. It is the biggest and most useful workspace that I have ever had at home and I’m very excited about starting to use it.

A big thanks to Ryan Poe and Tim Poe for helping me create such and awesome desk.

There are more photos of it on flickr

I made Jamie and I coffee at 8:00pm. Why? I’m not sure. All I know is that my heart is beating fast. Everything is driving me crazy. And I’m starting to belive that the moon landing never happenend and that Breck might be right that the British government has been trying to control British citizens by producing bad music since the 1970’s. Ok, maybe I’m mad as a hatter…or maybe the coffee was too strong…or maybe conspiracy theorists are just coffee addicts.

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My day started with a good and challenging theological conversation with my friend Chris at about midnight last night and today has ended with another theological conversation with another Chris. It is good to have these discussions with people you agree with and don’t agree totally. It has reminded me that I don’t know everything, and that the answers are not tied up in neat little packages for my consumption. And the journey continues…

Here was the rest of my day:

Had coffee with Paul Lewis this morning. Always interesting, inspiring and challenging to talk with him. I really like the guy to say the least. You should check out the Wounded Bookshop off of Caroline St., get a cup of coffee, read a book, enjoy the atmosphere of life and say hi to Paul for me.

Next I drove down to the Montpelier Wine festival in which my boss, Michael, had a tent rented for the company employees friends and vendors. We had a fun time, got to hang out with people outside of work, which is a really good change…it makes those relationships more communal and real. I bought a couple of bottles of wine which I intend to share communally with a few more friends.

On the way to the fest, I drove through rural VA attempting to get a good enough signal on my Treo to catch up with a few friends. I chatted with Jon, a college roommate and fellow artist. Had a great conversation until the technologically sparse, rolling country side dropped my call and my signal. So, it was back to quiet driving, sans my iPod (that is for another blog post).

All the while Jamie is in Maryland enjoying her wedding shower and spending some much needed time with friends. I missed her today Often times you just want to experience the good things in life with the person you love.

Emergent Logo Contest Update

Well, it was worth a shot. I kind knew that the few logos that I put together (I wasn’t terribly excited about any of them) wouldn’t be enough, and were really just small sketches to the bigger picture of what it is to set a visual brand.

People tend to think that having someone design a simple, quick logo is enough for a brand. But when they start looking at the whole process, they soon find themselves diving into the machinery that seemed so simple on the outside. I’m glad they have decided to get some professional help (hopefully from someone with branding experience).

I’ve been designing like crazy today. I worked on some stuff for the nameless church and then some logo designs for emergent. They’ve got a contest that I’m pretty excited about. I’ll post some logo designs when I get some done.

I get stuck in the swamps of life forgetting the rest of the journey. I worry about losing a boot, or getting messy in the marsh before me when the bigger picture is that I am on a huge adventure, a giant, exciting story. That I must remember when I get bogged down in the everyday nonesense. Design, art, expression is my connection back to that bigger picture, that beautiful story. I’m going to keep reading, it looks like it is getting exciting

I suddenly realized that whether or not my blog is a figment of my own imagination or the imagination of some supreme being, it doesn’t matter because, “I post, therefore, I blog.”

Take that Ryan.

Chris, Ryan and I went camping last weekend at Shenadoah National Park. It was a good relief from my busy, busy life. We got a chance to relax, be silent, use our boots as drink holders and just really allow ourselves to be still and quite before God.

We after the first leg of the hike, we snatched an opportunity to sit on the rocks at the top of the White Oak Canyon falls and read, read, read. Then we prayed together. It was a good regrouping moment. I’m glad I got to share it with Chris and Ryan.

Chris has some great pics from the trip on his blog.

Ron and I launched the Real Life Commuunity Church site today. It has a couple of issues with it and there are some more features to add to it, but I say it turned out pretty good overall.

In an attempt to design a CSS saavy site, I learned some cool CSS tricks, struggled to overcome the differences between Firefox and IE and real just tried to make a site that used the least amount as images and tables as possible. I’m happy with the results.

Let me know what you think of the site… I’m curious to hear some feedback:
See the RLCC Site.

Chris, Natasha, Jamie and I went to see Ben Folds on Wednesday night. Chris has a nice post about the show on his blog.

There were Wolf Trap employees vigilantly patrolling the seats to make sure people don’t take pictures of the show. The irony of it is that most people’s shots wont event turn out. I saw a guy in front of me setting up his cell phone to take a shot. He made sure to use his flash (which falls of at a bout 3 feet) and his 4x digital zoom to shoot a pic of Ben from about 30 rows back. But why should I judge them when I thought it wise to capture some less than compelling bootleg concert video* on my phone. Sorry, if my inner photojournalist just came out.

*You’ll need quicktime to play the vid.