I mostly read on Friday. It’s a fascinating book called “First Theology: God, Scripture and Hermeneutics”. The chapter I read on Friday was about how the doctrine of the Trinity affects how Christians engage in discussions on theologies of religion. The conclusion of the author, to paraphrase probably very badly, is that God’s actions in narrative reveal to us a God who is defined by character, not by attributes (like perfect, all-powerful, etc.) Those attributes apply, but to start from them (like people pursuing a pluralistic theology of religion) renders a dull, impersonal God much different from the God who makes and keep covenant. God’s revelation of Himself within the biblical narrative then defines a character who is distinct and therefore incompatible from the boring pluralistic god.

Fun stuff, but a very slow read.

Thanksgiving was wonderful. We didn’t get home till ~11. It was a great time with friends that we don’t get to see much anymore.

After that, we came home, ate some more ice cream, and watched “Amok Time.” Amok. Time. Truly awesome Trek.

Da dunh DUNH DUNH DUNH DUNH DUNH da dunh dunh da dunh!

Were you waiting on a BlackBerry Storm? After reading “BlackBerry Storm Downgraded to a Depression”, I think you may have been wasting your time. Key quotes:

• “’I couldn’t send two e-mails on this thing,’ said one disappointed veteran.”
• When talking about the keyboard: “to type ‘get,’ you press the GH, ER and TY keys. Unfortunately, that’s also ‘hey.’ You can see the problem.”
• “I haven’t found a soul who tried this machine who wasn’t appalled, baffled or both.”

Sounds like the iPhone is still the best.

Speaking of which, I still need to download Google earth. Street View is pretty cool, by the way, but I was disappointed to see that there seems to be no Street View data for Northwest Indiana.

Here it is, folks. According to the US Treasury Secretary, the future of the economy depends on consumers going into debt:

“This lack of affordable consumer credit undermines consumer spending and, as a result, weakens our economy,” said Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson at a press conference.

I’m pulling that quote from http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/25/news/economy/paulson_consumer/?postversion=2008112514

So, go rack up more than the average $9000 per person credit card debt. What is wrong with us?

Made some progress at work. Fried a turkey and it was delicious. Much better than the one a week.5 ago. Then it was watch “Space Seed” and “A Taste of Armageddon.” Some good Trek.

Off to bed.

Today was a day off, mostly. Church this morning, then a refreshing lunch followed by some Christmas talk which ended when I could no longer stay awake. Then it was downstairs to watch to Star Trek, followed by dinner, and then some hanging out.

I’m still quite exhausted. Looking forward to going to bed soon. But first I’m going to update the software on the iPhone to 2.2 so I get Street View.

It seems like everything is late this week. Homework. Blog posts. Going to bed.

I like the sound of that last one.

I finally finished that book. Now I just need to crank out the report. After that, it’s drive down to school spend some quality time in the library getting some research done so I can work on the two other major papers that I have left this semester.

So very, very tired.

I’m going to bed before my head explodes. Then I can get up really early and finish this book. Ugh.

Well, I finally had to give in and take that Greek mid-term. I won’t know until I get it back, but I think I did “ok” for some definition thereof. Definitely not as good as the first mid-term. I have three weeks to get ready for the final, so time to get to it.

I’m about 1/6 of the way through Agents of Transformation on which I need to write a report for tomorrow night.

I got my Colossians paper back. 97/100. Not bad, but I can do better. I need to talk to the prof, though, since her notes don’t make it obvious what the point losses are for.

Time for bed! I have to get up early so I can finish reading this book!