health insurance is still in the process of approving my application, which is why i've practically been seen nowhere out of my house since tuesday. could get approved on tuesday, but could take til thursday or so. no phone calls yet. could be anything in between, so i could end up missing another bible study.

which is why i haven't really done anything for the past week or so; if i can't go out, i can't really do anything job-wise yet. the constant is that i've been getting back towards reading my bible a lot more consistently now. ever since summer 2006, i now take all my notes for the bible onto word documents; i used to take them on just plain paper. and i still have those pieces of paper, but it's so annoying leafing through them. and while i can read my handwriting, it's still annoying, because of the inconsistencies of handwriting, especially when writing hurriedly. plus, since i switched from the NIV to the KJV, i may glean different thoughts and reflections from the same verse. so. all the more reason to keep the notes on word documents. i basically have about 70 word documents, one for each book of the bible(66), each numbered. the other documents are for keeping track of which book i'm in, charting how long it takes me to read 1-2 chapters in the new and old testament each day(to see if i'm slacking when i'm reading or getting sidetracked), and 1 i have for writing down background information regarding how the KJV bible came to be. downside is of course, i need to be near my computer to take notes. but i think it's worth it. and the price of the printed paper would be free; just need to bring a disk to the local library.

i've been thinking though; i usually divide the reading plan into 1 new testament verse and 1 old testament verse per day. that sounds good. except the old testament has 39 books, the new testament has 27 books. at this rate, i would probably never get to ever diving into the books of the prophets by the end of this year, a place i have never gotten to; i've gotten somewhere into jeremiah the last time i was deep into reading the bible each day. hence, a better idea would be to divide between books 1 and 33, and 34 through 66. book 33 is micah, and book 34 is nahum. that sounds good, except most of those books are about 3 chapters long at most; a lot of the books of the OT are still much longer; isaiah places in at about 66 chapters, followed by jeremiah, which is pretty long too; ranging into the 50s or so. so i would argue making the cutoff at daniel(book 27); daniel through revelation for the "NT;" (which is good b/c daniel has a lot of antichrist prophecies as well), and genesis through ezekiel for the "OT."

i HAVE however, resumed looking into the whole KJV debate; i sorta ended up putting that stuff on hiatus somewhere in the summer of 2006, late summer. never got around to finishing the 2nd of the 2 books i had bought a long time ago. nearing the end, so that's got a lotta juices turning again. i'm thinking of buying 2 or 3 more books.

my mom checked out the entire simpsons dvd from the library, season 2 today. the simpsons of old is SO much better than the new ones; takes a lot more thinking, but the jokes are a lot funnier. i still love when homer tries to jump the canyon on bart's skateboard, falls, etc. doh xn. the lion in the water during the stuntman's routine was great too; couldn't stop cracking at that.

my laptop's sound card is totally messed up. if i'm not using the "iMIC," i can't hear anything; sound is very inconsistent; sometimes it'll come out like someone's trying to scratch a record on a turntable. really, really slowly. i knew someday i would eventually have to buy a preamp or something like that to my computer for making song recording better and easier, but didn't anticipate that the time would come a bit sooner than previous; i can still hear sound if i plug the iMIC in and stuff. however, i can't really record using the iMIC; the sound output and input is a LOT lower.

that's it for now.