…was always “sick and tired of being sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Now, so am I. I spent three hours at the doctor’s office yesterday, all for them to swab my throat, tell me I had “an infection, probably not strep,” and prescribe me some antibiotics. Three hours, to learn absolutely nothing.

So today I’m taking it easy, laying around, drinking lots of liquids, and sucking on cough drops, all the while praying that God will ease my illness enough so I can be halfways normal for the first day of a new job tomorrow. Happily, since I’m married now, Lisa is doing a pretty good job of taking care of me.

I went back and deleted all my mp3s that I didn’t legally own, and it cut my music collection more than in half. Wow. I realized that there’s a lot of good music I loved that I never bought, and my one justification for having those mp3s was that I never would have bought them anyways, so I wasn’t hurting any artists/the music industry by having them. Guess what I did as soon as I deleted those mp3s? Went to Sound and Spirit’s website and bought a bunch of that music. (We sure are good at deluding ourselves, aren’t we?) The stuff that I didn’t go buy was mostly stuff that I realized (as I was deleting it) that it’s probably better for my moral state of being that I not have. Lyrics that would only be detrimental to me if they resided in my mind. Songs that I would never want my future kids finding in daddy’s music collection. Sure, some bring back memories and are fun to listen to once every two years, but do I need that? Do I want to live in the past, and is “once every two years” worth the ding in my integrity? I say a resounding “No!”

That’s all for today, folks.