Aching - Saturday

Last night I went to bed rather late, actually, it was more like about 0030 this morning. Nontheless, I wasn't going to get up till about 0730 or 0800, I'd be fine. At 0200 there was a fight outside my room (on the grass) and due to the number of spectators, I couldn't throw water onto the participants to shut them up. For the next hour I endured someone swearing that they'd kill someone else, sort of makes me think they're either incompetant or just a liar. And due to the lack of corpses outside my room I'm assuming they failed (there wasn't blood either). I still managed to get up at 0800, though I did wake at 0630. I ate a half bowl of Cornflakes (I need to buy more, I've none left) and then walked two miles to Immanuel Baptist Church for the Christianity Explored thing. I took with me 4 bottles of fizzy drinks (I'd volunteered to bring drinks). Owing to the weight of them and my activities last night, it took slightly longer than expected to get them there. My hands are not too badly blistered. I had to wait for anybody else to turn up, I waited a whole half hour. On the plus side it gave me a chance to cool down (I'd somehow worked up a sweat from walking somewhere at 0830-0900). When everybody had arrived we started. The first topic was "The Church". Owing to my Christian upbringing and association with the CU I already had a good grasp of this area. Though we did cover an important aspect of "love". Not in the sense of boy meets girl, boy gives cookies, girl goes out with boy. No, this was in the area that Christians are called to love those around them. My definition for this type of Love normally comes under the name of "Supportive Friend" or "Close Friend". The second topic was "The Holy Spirit". This was a bit harder for me as I'm still having trouble grasping exactly how God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are three different things. However, with the aid of Lorna I managed to come up with something that allowed me to think of it fairly well. You have a rock, that rock is God. You take a slice off of that Rock. That Slice is Jesus. Jesus is God and God is Jesus, yet at the same time they are different. If that doesn't help, well, stage two is that there is a bit of sting connecting them making them one object yet two. After this we broke for lunch. Greg had to go so myself and Lorna played against Sam (relay worker) and Lizzie in Indoor Hockey (there was a set upstairs in the church). Owing to my compelte lack of competance at anything except being in the way of the other players Lorna and myself lost 3-1. Apparently I'm "Rough". The third topic today was "Prayer". Due to my recent religious talks with members of the CU I knew what it was about and as I want to be a Christian already it wasn't overly important (not the subject, the way the DVD covered it, it covers stuff as if you're completely new to it which is a great idea). The fourth and final topic was "The Bible". The DVD shows at the start of each topic what some members of the public think the Bible is. Most said "A rough guide as to how to live your life", or at least something similar to that. They're close, but they're as close to being accurate as you are to calling a Cookbook a book about food (my own analogy). The Bible is about how to get it right with God as it were and enter into the relationship with him. We finnished about about 1530 ish and I went over to Lizzie and Jo's house to attempt to fix their wireless router. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with it so we got Sam Groves to come over. It turned out someone had unplugged it and re-plugged it, but incorrectly. I felt a little stupid I'd overlooked something as common as the fact that only one of the five ethernet ports would be for input. I also installed some Anti-Virus software on Lizzie's computer (Jo didn't appear to need it for some reason) and also got soundly trounced by the two of them at Reflexorisor. I then walked back home and spent a while working on my Coursework for Internet Apps. It's basically an online shop, run off a Database. If you want to look at it (and even sign up and buy fictional Sellotape) then goto http://woarl.com/db_test/index.php and poke around. I've still got to add a search feature and I plan to improve the Purchase Screen so you can enter product name or ID and also your name or ID. Otherwise it's only lacking code comments and it'll all work and get me nice marks. It's 2212 and I'm going to grab and early night, looking at the size of today's blog, should I try writing it earlier in the night so as to write a longer (and probably more accurate/better) account of the day? Gripping? I borrowed a book from Lizzie today called "The Heavenly Man". I said I'd probably just glance at it at most because I had all this coursework to do. I took a break from the work and rather than do pushups (still aching) I read chapter 1. I'm now up to chapter 3 and plan to read to about chapter 5-6 before getting an early night. I'm not sure what it is, but there is something that is grabbing me and making me read on.