More Randomnimity

I'm supposed to be very busy at work, because of my impending absence. But for the past couple of hours I've been waiting on other people-on-whom-my-tasks-depend, and so I've been reading through Common Room archives, all the while feeling slightly guilty because I should be doing better on company time. But like I just said, there's not much I can do. So I bring you a whole bunch of unstructured vignettes on a random smattering of topics.

Sometimes JunkFemale and I casually comment that we are poor and can't afford this and that. After reading some of Headmistress' musings on their times of destitution, we can't complain at all.

On TV service...
We don't have any TV service, and I'm not sure we ever will (although I will definitely be hurting when GT sports come up). The Radioshack guys tried to talk me into buying DirecTV, when all I wanted was to see if the rabbit ears would work where I lived. They asked where I lived, so I told them (my future kids, when you read this, don't ever do what daddy did right there). And because their brains are keenly aware of TV signal broadcast strength in every area of the Greater Atlanta area, they immediately said I would never get a signal there. I walked out of the store not having bought anything, ESPECIALLY not DirecTV. Maybe one of these days, I will "borrow" an antenna from the Harmonic family, to test whether the Radioshack brains were right.

On family...
We are not using birth control of any kind, and so hopefully God will bring us little blessings very soon. I've been praying that God would give us children sooner rather than later, since I can only imagine how horrible it must be to want kids but not be able to have them, for whatever reason. According to Harmony, she's never heard anyone say "We wish we waited longer to have kids."

On "weird" kids...
I can't wait to have kids and NOT put them in public or private school. Most of my younger years were spent worrying about the latest "cool" thing that lots of the other kids had. Most of my younger years were spent with kids from whom I did NOT pick up any good life advice. My last run-in with a "socialized" person was the last time we were in Charlotte, inquiring about sound at the church venue. I introduced myself to the awkward fellow who had done the sound that day, probably about 6 or 7 years my junior (which would probably make him about 17 or 18). He must've seen the third eye in the middle of my forehead, because that's how he seemed to react to me. I wondered, while I was asking him questions about the sound, "Is there something wrong with me?" Then I realized, "Oh, he must be one of those 'normal' kids who went to public school and now can only interact normally with people who were born within 12 months of him." And BTW, I got no useful information out of Junior. I can't wait to have really normal kids who can interact with non-peers.

On Churches of Christ and children...
Harmony and I think we might've found a home church in our area. It's a small church of Christ about 15 minutes from us. A while ago I got it in my head that age-segregated church was not for me, but I got discouraged upon finding out that most of these "family-integrated" churches are Baptist, which I am not. However, upon visiting two CoCs in the area, we found that at least on Wednesdays and Sunday evenings, a lot of parents had their children in with them. (We don't know about Sunday mornings because we haven't been to one yet) It's certainly much better than the way things are at our current church, where no children below middle school age are even expected to be in the service. The middle school kids are kicked out before the sermon (oops, I meant to say "let out"). So it doesn't seem like it'll be a big issue, having children and keeping them in the service. It'd be even better if we found a homeschooling family or two...

On one of the Greatest Inventions Ever (tm)...
A while ago I got a big huge box of plastic wrap from the wholesale store. Now, attached on this box is one of those automatic slidy-cutty things (you know?), instead of the serrated edge that is usually on plastic wrap boxes. Now, instead of awkward semi-triangular looking pieces of plastic wrap, I have rectangular looking pieces of wrap. They do not look like plastic wrap which these brutish and manly hands have ever produced.

Currently reading...
It Takes a Family, by Senator Rick Santorum. Have had it for about a month, but am only about a third of the way through. I'm going to bring it with me on the honeymoon, but I don't necessarily pledge that it will get done..

On kids these days...
I feel somewhat old. Some while ago, Harmony and I were babysitting 3 kids. I was playing Gamecube with the oldest (12 at the time). I commented that he probably didn't even know what the "old" Nintendo was. "Yeah, I know about the old Nintendo. The one with the weird thing in the middle of the controller?" He was referring to the three-pronged Nintendo 64 controller, which was a gigantic leap ahead of the old gray boxy 8-bit Nintendo I was referring to. Nintendo 64 came out when I was about 14 or so.
Another time, we were in a church kitchen with our wedding planner, who had brought her 8(?) year old son along. He says to his mom "Mom...that stove is FREAKY." Apparently he'd grown up a purely digital life so far and had never seen a stove clock with those rotating dials for incrementing time.