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House Hunting

It’s been a great week for us here in Dallas. The weather has been darn near perfect, and a break to remember sacrifices paid made the week shorter, though bittersweet.

We’ve been busy of late searching for homes. Sarah and I would love to live closer to PBC, which would allow us more convenient access into life-events that build the fellowship. It would cause us to move away from downtown Dallas, but neither of us will miss the nightlife much. We may have even found a great place. All we have to do now is smile big enough to convince the bank that we’re good for the money. I thought a good argument would be that after taking on this loan we would still be in less debt than the federal government is in (per capita, mind you), but maybe that’s not the best idea.

[aside: this past weekend President Obama agreed that the federal government has too much debt. His solution: the government should spend more money for huge new entitlement programs. Does this sound crazy to anyone else?]

In other news, I’m enjoying reading books that aren’t assigned to me. I recently finished Amusing Ourselves to Death and was amazed at 1) how true the book was when written some 25 years ago and 2) how much has changed since first publication that showed how prophetic the book was. John Dyer notes this to some extent in his recent presentation, “Technology is not neutral.” He used this quote:

“I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information – and especially stressful information – is in fact affecting cognition. It is in fact affecting deeper thinking. I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something. And I worry that we’re losing that.”

The kicker is who said this quote: Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. Yeah.

That’s all for now, unless you want to loan me money for a house. I’m good for it. Really.

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