Don't mind me, I'm just being happy

Are you happy today? I'm happy. Among other things, I have as next to no money as it's possible to have, I had to postpone college until the fall, and I'm starting to hope that I can go then rather than being sure as I was before. I need to work on my "study ethic", because basically I don't have to study so for the most part it ends up that I don't, even though I should because I want to get my A+ Certification renewed and learn Perl before I start college in the fall. But I'm happy.

I wasn't happy earlier today, I was getting all anxious and stuff, something which has been trying to creep in for a fair while; not anymore. It could be that two great friends were just over for dinner and we had a really nice barbecue and a fun evening. It could be that I'm just that cool. It could be that Flogging Molly just has a great sound and you can't help being happy when you listen to them. However, I'm inclined to think that it's because I believe that God works all things together for good for those that love the Lord; and I do love the Lord. He's already started to work things out for me through the last couple weeks.

First, I was given a car by my friend David Hanson who lives in Wisconsin after my last one died horribly. Second, even though my last two checks from my former employer (The Melting Pot) have bounced, I have gotten in contact with the office of Senator Mike Johanns and a woman from there has told me that they will be able to help me recover the funds owed me. I didn't even know that my Senator (or anyone at his office) would be able to do anything like this until a friend mentioned it to me a week ago. Coincidence? I don't think so. Thirdly, I have been given another part time job to go along with my job at Borders and replace the one at the Melting Pot (which closed). Fourthly, well..no, this isn't everything, but it's everything I feel like sharing right now, and I think it's plenty to prove that God is good (as if that needed proving). Ok, there actually willy be a fourth thing that the Lord has done for me recently, he has given me chances to trust him!

Oh, also, if you want to pray for my "study ethic" as I termed it earlier..well, I would appreciate it, because I really do need to be working more on those things that I claim to be studying.

I came, I saw, I...?

So I was reading Jingo by Terry Pratchett the other day - well ok, to be quite honest, I was listening to it on the way to and from Wisconsin this last weekend - and I came across a little observation of Caesar's famous words "Veni, vidi, vici". I thought that it was too good not to share.

"It [Veni, vidi, vici] wasn't the sort of thing you came up with on the spur of the moment, was it? It sounded as if he had worked it out. He'd probably spent long evenings in his tent, looking up in the dictionary short words beginning with V and trying them out... Veni, vermini, vomui, I came, I got ratted, I threw up? Visi, veneri, vamoosi, I visited, I caught an embarrassing disease, I ran away? It must have been a big relief to come up with three short acceptable words. He probably made them up first, and then went off to see somewhere and conquer it."

And later on in the book, engraved on the plinth of an old statue:

"Ab hoc possum videre Domum Tuum"

Well... 'domum tuum' was 'your house,' wasn't it?...and 'videre' was 'I see'...

"What?" he said aloud. "'I can see your house from up here?' What kind of a noble sentiment is that?"