Life as Geek

Disney Trip Report – Yes I’m Finally Doing One. Later.

2011-11-28T01:25:11Z

Every time I go to Disney World it’s the same thing. I start out with great intentions – “This will be a three-part trip report blog post, with helpful hints about how to do Disney on your own/as a newlywed/while pregnant/with a baby!” This degenerates into “I’ll do lots of Tweets from the parks with [...]

NaNoWriYe

2011-11-02T20:49:23Z

I’m going to start an experiment. I’ve been working on a book. Well, technically I’ve been working on about 8 completely different books at varying levels of completeness, but the one I’m thinking of right now is much more of a “thing I really want to get done” than an “idea that may or may [...]

Blog Update

2011-08-17T19:29:57Z

I haven’t messed with this for a while, so I figured it was about time I updated this. It’s a pretty big change. First, the theme is different. This might change yet again, as I haven’t decided if I like it or not. Second, I got rid of the “schedule” since we all know that [...]

State of the eReader

2011-06-05T02:48:59Z

When the nook first came out, I fell in love. It was the first e-reader I’d found that I could actually use and enjoy. I still have it, and though it’s suffered a hairline crack in the page turn button from sheer overuse, in many ways it’s better today than the day I bought it, [...]

Solving Depression

2011-08-17T19:17:56Z

Depression happens when you acknowledge the difference between your ideal and real life. This is most often something that sneaks up on you rather than something triggered by a particular event. You’ll be going about your routine, sinking lower and lower, and then one day your spouse or a close friend says something along the [...]

Aeryn’s “Stealth Geek” Blanket

2011-03-03T18:57:52Z

My husband and I are big on stealth geek. What is that, you say? Well, I’d be breaking the rules to tell you. … Yeah ok, all it means is very geeky things that don’t, at first glance, seem like very geeky things. For example, we named our daughter Aeryn. There’s a lot of different [...]

God Speaks (in free verse, apparently)

2011-08-17T19:18:12Z

(Note: This was a rant-turned-ramble-turned-kindafreeverseything I wrote at 4 in the morning. Just to warn you.) — God Speaks. He does. This is a very inconvenient fact, and we Christians have been doing our level best to work around this for years. In America, we’ve built up a whole defense system around the idea, feeling [...]

Hunger Games: Why in the world did I love this book?

2011-02-17T20:11:22Z

I’m confused. Not that this isn’t a normal state for me, but this time I have a reason. I loved a book that I wasn’t supposed to. I read fiction purely for enjoyment. That is, I never read a fiction book because someone said “you’ll really learn something from this” or “this was hard to [...]

Faith Through Logic

2011-08-17T19:18:28Z

This is not going to be everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s something I’ve been asked about enough times I though it’d be worthwhile to go ahead and post here. I’ve mentioned before that one of the main reasons I decided to follow Yeshua (Jesus) is that in college, I sat down and figured out [...]

nook: not a gadget

2010-03-04T17:12:36Z

Disclaimer: No, I don’t get any money from Barnes and Noble or anyone else for touting the nook. I spend most of my time giving money to them in exchange for still more books. I wasn’t planning on writing a post about my nook for two reasons: first, I kinda already did with my rant [...]