Preposterousness
pre·pos·ter·ous [priˈpostərəs] adj : absurd; or ... how God's ways appear to man
worshipper. hubby. soon-to-be daddy. ex-pat Aussie. music lover. accountant. creator of electronica. ERP nerd. media+web for Exchange Church. owner of freaky thumbs.
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I only blog here occasionally, as most of my blogging energies go into the Exchange Church Blog, so you might also like to head over there for more of thoughts.
Time to Vote
I'm asking you to help me make a decision.
It's a decision that could radically change life as I know it.
Remember, radical is relative.
Ready?
OK...here we go:
Should I link all the additional posting I do on my Posterous blog to this blog?
Things to bear in mind as you cast your vote:
1. I don't really post here all that often, 2 or 3 times per week, and the only consistent post is the Sunday worship post.
2. Linking Posterous would increase the frequency and randomness of the posts. If it's possible to increase the randomness that is.
3. If you already follow my Posterousness you'd get all of this twice. That is overkill of the highest order.
4. All my posts are twittered regardless of what blog they're on...but I'd likely turn off the tweeting for Posterous if I linked them.
5. There should be a 5th thing to bear in mind, I'm just not sure what it is. All suggestions welcome.
Told you this was life-changing stuff...
Preposterous
I'm really enjoying how easy it is to use Posterous.
So, as a preparatory post for what I'm about to send out on Posterous...here's this preposterous post.
Sorry, I really have no excuse for how bad that is. It's 1.25am and we've been packing. What can I say.
Now go and check the latest over at my Posterous blog.
But before you do - enjoy this. It's not only in Diane's head :)
A Little More Randomness
- The theatre last night was awesome. And #livelove was lived lovingly. Or something.
- The weather has been amazing for the past few days. It's our mid-winter's spring.
- If you've never seen theatre sports (in this case, Spontaneous Broadway musicals), you really need to.
- Our new home, for at least the next year, is the one we wanted it to be.
- We are ever so slightly ECSTATIC about this.
- The musical we had written for us last night (at the Sydney Opera House, no less) was called The Simple Dapto Life.
- Our church changed its name on Wednesday, just in case you missed that in several other heavily signposted references over the past several weeks.
- The musical starred Paris and Nicole, Paris' greyhound Fingermuffin, and the centrepiece song "My Ex-Best Friend Is A B*tch".
- I'm not looking forward to packing.
- Writing B*tch makes me think of awful Irish 90s girl group B*witched
- I'm in awe of the pianist from the show.
- Anyone wanna pack for me?
- Now this song is in my head. Lord, let the rapture come now!
- A new financial year means lots of work for those in financial management. ie: me. "Hooray" for audits.
- I'm seriously in love with my wife.
- Seriously, hooray for soundly-executed audits, for they are the business world's equivalent of having an accountability partner.
- Why am I having so much trouble finishing songs lately? Or rather, songs that I'm happy having people hear?
- The amazing cast last night managed to incorporate French into the musical at every available opportunity.
- When preachers give a message as poorly structured as this post it drives me barmy.
- I executed a contract today that was 5cm (2 inches) thick !!!
- Does anyone use the word barmy anymore? Or did they ever?
- Accountability is still a problem if all parties are in bed with each other ;).
- Thanks for reading my 150th post.
Randomness
- It's Thursday, July 2, 2009. How did that happen? I might have tweeted about our financial year on the day, but I didn't get anything on here... Slacker
- We think we've found where we're moving to. We even have a back-up plan if this one falls through. We hope it doesn't though, 'cause we love the place we've found.
- Hillsong Conference 2009 is next week!! YAY!
- My dad is coming to stay with us this weekend.
- We will be moving during the week after Hillsong! Anti-yay ... to the moving process...
- Hyper-yay if our desired house is where we're moving to. And just mega-yay if it's the backup plan option.
- I've been writing lots of half-finished songs (read: electronica soundscapes), but I've nearly finished one I'm really happy with.
- It's been a few months since I did a proper song. And yes, I count 'Asian Cowboy' as a proper song. ;)
- My Our Creative Community commitment for June has slipped by. Hopefully this song happens so I can stay vaguely on track.
- The next recording session for our church album is coming up soon too. I thought May was busy.
- We had an all staff meeting following our annual stocktake. First time in over 6 years. Yep. This is some of the change I'm driving, and it's great to (a) see it happen and (b) be appreciated.
- The next song we're recording for the album is one of mine. It has a simple complex I-think-it's-simple sequenced introduction and line which runs through half the song.
- I need to wrap this up and get on with writing employment contracts, enjoying enduring end of financial 'fun'
- Now I'm really late for LifeGroup Online ... oops!
I did it ! ...but not what you might think...
...yes, the "Great Blog Transfer Project of February 2009" continues, but tonight I needed something not involving CSS/HTML/whatever.
So why, dear readers, did I choose to succumb the the Facebook 25 Random Things meme?
Well partly because I was kinda-sorta-indirectly challenged by Jenni to turn it into a song after her highly entertaining video version.
And partly, as a fun way to start Valentine's Day, Diane and I decided we'd better respond to the tagging together (though Diane did hers in the more conventional manner).
The MP3 is a bit long, a bit "midnight-recording-whispery", a bit crap really, but I think fitting it all into a 4 minute "song" (I use the word loosely) is somewhat impressive. Though not near as impressive as the one take vocals the whole way through...there's clearly no mistakes in there...oh no...
I'm also fairly sure I don't want to use this as my February entry for Our Creative Community...but let's see how the month pans out :)
And since the likelihood you can hear what I'm singing is small, here's the things :
1. I’ve only ever broken bones doing wimpy things, like playing handball.
2. One of my front teeth is fake.
3. It’s fake because it got smashed out by a flying metal ruler.
4. Toilet paper must be over, not under. I will fix it if it’s not.
5. The consequences of my nut allergy are a refreshing change to choking to death.
6. Depending what theatre production I’m in, I’m either God, Satan or Fagin.
7. The first time I used a non-electric razor and shaving cream to shave was when I was 24.
8. The first word I knew how to read was ‘Niacin’. Thank you Cornflakes.
9. I’m only 72% of the man I used to be.
10. I never bothered crawling.
11. The first song I ever wrote was called ‘Rock-a-Bye-Bra’ when I was 4.
12. It was full of nonsense words.
13. It shall never be spoken of again.
14. I usually change my hairstyle at least every two years.
15. The fact my dad says ‘prorably’ for ‘probably’ only stopped annoying me when I was 27.
16. I dance in the car.
17. I wrote an album of songs about being jilted. And called it ‘Catharsis’.
18. None of my real life friends Twitter.
19. None of my real life friends blog.
20. I once played Dead Or Alive’s ‘Brand New Lover’ fifty times in one day. I still love that song.
21. The sourer the sweet/candy/lolly, the better.
22. The most fun thing we ever did in Barbershop Quartet was sing Motley Crue’s ‘Kickstart My Heart’ or 'Dr Feelgood'
23. The second most fun thing we ever did in Barbershop Quartet was hide from our bass, usually in cupboards. Sometimes for up to an hour. In one cupboard.
24. I was upgraded to business class on my first international flight, but I was 15 and too young to appreciate it.
25. I think ‘inconsiderate interlocutor’ is the best phrase I’ve heard all day.
