Obviously, the fullness of each of my thoughts can’t be explored in 140 characters. But no matter how long I make this post (before I edited it, it was almost four times longer), its summary will always be simply the post’s first sentence (which is far less than 140 characters): “Twitter has helped me learn conciseness.”

Edit: I chose to change to the word conciseness. I prefer concision, personally, but conciseness is a better communicator–there’s much less of a pause between reading the word and understanding it, as conciseness has only one meaning and concision has multiple.

Ebook Web site on DSL Reports.com

Complaintwire.com folks reported on it here and here.

From what I can tell, the only thing to do is report it to my bank and have them do a “charge-back”–which apparently puts a negative tick on the scammers’ merchant account, which will hopefully eventually be shut down with enough charge-backs. Maybe. I think that’s what I read.

Most people say to cancel the account, but I really don’t want to deal with that.. we’ll see.

Essentially, I’m really excited about my birthday for the first time in a while–mainly because a few of my friends, most specifically Tereva, have been really talking it up and I’m getting all caught up in the excitement. She already gave me a gift–mini A&W root beers. But as to that list–its purpose, gift-wise, is to help people who want to give a gift and don’t know what to give. What do I really want? To see you, or hang out with you, or talk to you, or whatever. If you give gifts, then give what you want. If you make cards, do that. I’ve never been one to tell people “just give money to ______”, because I think gift-giving is a wonderful interaction between people, and by telling someone what to give me, I’m making it more about me and less about us.

I was out of town this weekend. Three-day-long area team meeting in Daytona Beach, half-day-long friends’ conference in Ybor, one-day-long Sonburst Practice in Ybor, and one-day-long hanging out with grandparents in Seminole. It was great.

My mom is visiting Florida in two weeks, and I’ll be out of town. This is killing me. I need to get this worked out. She may come to Sonburst for a day. That could be awesome, actually. Hm. Interesting.

There’s a new (short) post up at Stauffer on Staff.

My birthday is coming up soon, so I spent some time updating the wish list that I programmed for myself… only to stumble across Giftag the next day. I don’t know if I can completely give up on my program, but Giftag just looks so much better… This may be the end. I’ll need to compare Giftag with Amazon’s Universal Wish List, but I think between the two they’ll knock my weak little dude out of the water. Edit: Apparently Giftag is made by Best Buy, and they’re mailing all of the information to Best Buy marketing every time you choose something. Yuck. Maybe I’ll stick with my program or Amazon, then…

In other news, Berto’s moved into his new shop. Picture here and here from yesterday.

Anyway, here’s the deal: Matt’s Fixerupper

Anyway, I’d love to see your budget, and you’re very welcome to contribute it anonymously if you want to contribute but don’t want to put your junk out in the open. Basically, I’m trying to get some information together for the purposes of my budget… and for helping other young single people in Gainesville, FL budget (not that I don’t care for anyone else, but I know budgeting changes from place to place and from life status to life status).

My “budget”

Oh, and by the way–there is tithing/giving included in my budget, but I feel a little less comfortable putting that online here. That, and I wish WordPress would let me style that stupid table with CSS. OK. Done.

My first default is Sonny’s, because that’s what we did last time… so tentatively we’ll say Sonny’s on 39th. I’m open to other suggestions, but if I don’t hear any we’ll just do that. I’ll run over to Sonny’s to get us a table some time toward the end of second service, so if you’ll be able to make it, I’d love if you’d RSVP in the comments so I can get a decent numerical count. Thanks!

And, in the mail today came this little beauty, completely unexpectedly, from my good friend Brian Callaway. How much does he love me? A lot. If you don’t know what this is, check this out at Wikipedia.