the Unexpressed Advantage

Warning Title contains slight profanities

Yep, it's 1:11 am and I'm still awake. I drank my 4th cup of coffee (half decaf) tonight at about 8:30 during the break of my Christian Counselling¹ Class, thinking I'd be able to swing it and still sleep tonight.

WRONG.

So in addition to the fact that I wasted $6 on coffee today – although $2 of that was in Nickels, I'll get to that in a minute – Now I'm up way too late and I'm going to be a total wreck at work tomorrow.

So I guess I'll write a bit. That should be mentally soothing, plus it will give me a chance to use my nifty triple bold headings. Yep. This is a tidbits post.

Nickels are Worthless

In Canada there are a lot of coins. Most of them have a purpose. The Toonie ($2 coin) will buy you a coffee and the Loonie ($1) is good for parking and maybe a nice piece of fruit or bread. Combine the two and you could almost buy lunch. Quarters are nice, you can use them for parking, wallet lockers at the gym, and to get a shopping cart at Safeway. Dimes come in handy, mostly for parking (I have a Tupperware full of dimes in my trunk) and also you can use them to make copies or pay for the laser printers at school. Pennies even have a kind of purpose, in that you can put them in jars, mugs, and cups until they eventually equal the value of greater coins.

But Nickels are worthless. Worthless I say! I despise nickels, you can't do anything with them. And I have so many stinking nickels, you wouldn't believe it. If nickels were dollars I'd easily be a hundred-aire. So now all I can figure to do with them is throw them at things – like raccoons – or count up 40 of them and use them to buy coffee, which is really embarrassing when the cashier at starbucks is that cute redhead.

This is Dumb

This Article outlines an upcoming debate between renowned Atheist Richard Dawkins and a Christian Apologist named Lennox (wasn't he a boxer?), both Oxford professors. Obviously I've got nothing against apologetics or, to be honest, Atheists. If you really don't want to believe in God that's up to you. But I think debating the two sides is a bit ridiculous. From an Atheist's perspective, someone trying to convince them of God is about as likely as you convincing me of the existence of the Easter bunny. You could make your best case, but in the end I'm pretty sure that rabbits don't lay, hide, or colour eggs. And from a non-oxford educated Christian apologist, trying to convince them of not-God is even less likely. That's mostly due to the fact that there is God, and He rather likes to be believed in. Add to those that both sides speak completely different languages, and it's bound to be more frustrating than that time the captain Picard had to learn how to speak with that alien ship captain who only spoke in metaphors. "White-Beard, the waters rise!" I can hear it now.

If you got that Star Trek reference, I love you.

The Concert was Bad

"Bad" as in AWESOME. But my ears are still ringing. Literally. And its more than 24 hours later, so I'm a bit worried. Anyway it rocked. I'm kind of coming off of my MuteMath kick for a bit I think, but they still bring the house down. Hopefully I can get ramped up for Ben Harper in November.

Don't name drop unless you can do it with style

My Roommates here at Fun City have this really fun game. It basically goes like this: I name drop somebody famous and they act all impressed but they really don't care. I thought I was doing pretty cool by pointing out things like the fact that I know Mat Kearney or my buddy Dave used to be the guitar tech for the Newsboys or I've met Jeremy Camp or I rode in a car with Delirious? or had dinner with the mutemath boys or I bumped into Oprah Winfrey once in the Chicago airport when I was 12. Then tonight my counselling² prof drops both the fact that he hung out with Dallas Willard for two weeks and that he's friends with Brennan Manning in the same lecture. Friends. As you can see, I'm really lame and starving for attention. Did I mention that I've been using the same restroom as J.I. Packer for over 2 years now?

That's all I got(not the name dropping, the blog). Now that I'm tired I guess I'll go to bed, except for I'm not tired.

1. Canadian Spelling [ƒ]
2. Canadian Spelling [ƒ]