Hello April

Why do I almost always fall for Google’s April Fools Day schemes? Last year it was about retrieving emails after you sent them (like days or weeks or even months after); this year it was CADIE, which was some kind of bot that would match your voice and automatically respond to your emails. I found myself nodding along to the description posted on the Gmail homepage and then finally realized at the end: oh. It isn’t real. Today is April 1. (It was worse last year; last year I think I believed the joke for about a week.)

My mom, sister, and I started a self-defense class today. Now I’m scared to park near vans, walk in parking lots by myself, or go out to the mailbox in broad daylight. Okay…maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration. We learned about five or six techniques today, and I hope we never have to use them…for obvious reasons, plus the fact that I am probably going to forget them all because we still have six hours of training left in which we will learn even more techniques.

I realize I must sound like a total geek, but CSS is really cool, and today I made an amazing unordered list. (Well, with the help of that book I was talking about in the last post.) Hopefully the following isn’t copyrighted — I did code it myself, but with the book’s images — but I want to show it off. This is just an unordered list with some images. SWEET!



This has been a really random post. The following is a lot less random, and more on the serious side, so it seems kind of weird to end this way. But I digress. I read this Proverb this morning and wanted to share. It’s something worth chewing on:

For the LORD gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 2:6

It just got me thinking…where do I usually look for wisdom? School, other people, the internet, books, television, you name it. Not that those things or people aren’t helpful; to be sure, they are, but where did they get their knowledge? Who gave them understanding? It struck me that I have never really considered God as being the One who has more wisdom than, say, a university (typing that out sounds ridiculous, but it’s what I thought!).

When I consider that God constructed everything — everything — it makes me realize that He has wisdom beyond what I can imagine. And He gives it! (Proverbs 2 talks about how you should look for it.) It’s a humbling and amazing thing. I’m not really sure where I’m going with this, and I don’t want to sound preachy, but I’m throwing this out there because this verse stuck to me today. Here’s hoping it sticks to you too.