Saturday, November 21, 2009

I used to blog.

I think I may have reached the stage where I have to say "I used to blog." I haven't posted in ages, and the last two posts were very brief.

I've been doing a lot more reading lately than before, that's probably a good thing. It's mostly been blogs and news articles that I've been reading, especially about the ecumenical developments of Catholics and Anglicans, and the new Apostolic Constitution. If you want to read what I've been reading, check out the Google reader feed here.

In other news, since I dropped Biblical Studies major to a minor, and dropped my Greek minor, I am graduating early: In 27 days. On December 18, Lord willing, I'll don that robe and red tassel, I'll walk across that stage, and they'll hand be that piece of paper. Three and an half years of work, culminating in a thirty second walk. Somewhat anti-climactic, but hey- that paper says "YOU'RE FREE" in big, bold letters.

It's kind of weird: I have two oral exams, two presentations, four daily work assignments, two five page papers, a fifteen page paper, and two mini-papers (1-2 pages each). Other than that, I'm done with college.

Wedding planning is going alright. I don't think it's supposed to be that much fun for the guy, but I'm excited. Only 140 days until we get married! Looks like the wedding will be at Westminster, our church here in Dayton.

Tomorrow I am heading to Chatt to pick up my old roommate, Nick, and we're hanging out for Thanksgiving break. I'll be trying to finish almost all of the aforementioned work while I'm home, so that I can just hang out with friends and stuff until School ends. Oh yeah, and pack up my stuff because I'll probably have to move.

Which brings me to my next point: Job. As of right now there aren't any job openings at Bryan, so it looks like I'll probably be moving home to Georgia until the summer (Bryan generally does there job cycling in the summer). Which will make wedding planning very interesting: Neither myself, Maribeth, or any of our family members will live within five hours of where we're having our wedding.

In other news, I just saw Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day. It's the sequel to my favourite movie, Boondock Saints. It was incredible! If you're not familiar with the first movie, it's about two Irish-Catholic Bontonian twins that become vigilantes after being attacked by Russian mobsters. The second movie is even better.

Speaking of Catholics, my good friend Mowery posts daily quotes, and some of them are pretty great. Some of them are lame, because he's Catholic. Check out his blog: You can get there by clicking on his name, either here or in the right hand menu of blogs.

My good friend Kat, who plays soccer at Bryan, partially tore her ACL during the championship game for our conference, against Union. We lost, which added insult to injury. Anyway, be praying for her. She has another season of playing left, but a torn ACL can be a career ending injury for a soccer player.

My good friends, the Cowboys, are having a baby. Well, technically she is, but it's their baby. The baby is due in less than three weeks. I'm betting it'll be born on my birthday (5 December)! And no matter what they say, I'm calling him "lil' Joe," because it's awesome. Anyway, be praying for them, and especially lil' Joe.

Other than that there isn't much going on. But for those interested, my Birthday/Christmas list is on Amazon, as always. Just go here: Amazon Wishlists.

Yeah, I guess I'll be around. I may post over Thanksgiving.

Ciao!
-R.T.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Engagement!

Maribeth and I have been together ten months; and we've been engaged three days. Yep. I'm engaged...

Life's been crazy. I'm up in Rockford with Maribeth for Fall break.

If you want to hear her story of how I proposed, check out: The Story...

We're already registered at Bed Bath and Beyond, and Target.

We're planning to have a small wedding in April.

I'll update with more news as it becomes available.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Computer Programs

This post is pointless, almost.

I use a lot of freeware programs to keep my computer running well. This is the great blight of Windows. I ran Linux for awhile, and loved it. But Windows is just more practical for day-to-day use. As for Mac lovers, well, for the price difference, one can afford enough extra ram and hard drive space to run a few background programs to keep viruses and adware off of their Windows machine to make the alleged security of a Mac pointless, and still save money.

So I am creating this post to send to people who ask me for computer help...

Here’s the list and download links:

- Use this for your browser, instead of Internet Explorer (this is safer) Download Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 - FileHippo.com

- This program defragments your computer quicker than Windows Defrafmenter, and can be set to do so on a schedule (weekly is a good frequency): Download Defraggler 1.10.143 - FileHippo.com

- This program cleans all the crap out of your computer, like the recycle bin, cookies, and temporary folders—it’s a lifesaver: Download CCleaner 2.19.901 - FileHippo.com

- This is a great, free, schedulable antivirus program: Download AntiVir Personal 9.0.0.394 - FileHippo.com

- Comodo is a great free firewall, highly recommended: Download Comodo Firewall 3.0.25.378 - FileHippo.com

- This is a great anti-adware program: Download Ad-Aware 2009 8.0.0.0 - FileHippo.com

- And this is a scan-style anti-spyware/adware program: Download Spybot Search & Destroy 1.6.2 - FileHippo.com

These programs are programs that I use all the time… I have Comodo, AdAware, Antivir all running in the background all the time. I have Defraggler set to run daily, and I have Spybot and AntiVir update and run system scans daily. I only use Firefox as my browser, and I have CCleaner set to run when I start my computer. AntiVir shuts my computer down after it’s done doing an antivirus scan every morning around 4AM (the last of the scans that I do), so when I boot up in the morning, CCleaner runs, and everything has been run, checked, defragmented, and cleaned between when I went to bed, and when I start using my computer in the morning.

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