Just an Update

 Nothing really good to report for the past few days.  I have been having trouble getting to sleep on a natural schedule for some time, so I have been up all night and sleeping in the daytime.

In spite of my sleeping problems I have been doing, for me, a lot of yard work.

I have been watching quite a few lectures on YouTube, literature stuff, with Benjamin McEvoy, G K Chesterton, and Howard Bloom.  Chesterton and Bloom are very interesting, to me, in all aspects of Literature, Critique, Authorship, and Analysis,.  So, with my interest being what it is, I have acquired a couple of books written by both of them.

Another thing that has diverted my attention, other than procreation, is that I have been trying to de-clutter my office down to a minimalist configuration, but I am finding it difficult to find space for the stuff I am moving out of the office, I sometime think that I am a hoarder as well.

OK, enough of my trivial problems, over and out,

Philip

My Birthday Today 9/1/39

 Wow, my birthday today, I have made it to 84, I'm feeling good, feeling happy, and I'm satisfied,

I watched another Benjamín McEvoy lecture on reading Milton's book "Paradise Lost".  The lecture, as usual, was good and the book sounded very interesting, so interesting that I logged on to Amazon and bought it.  Now I have to knock off, Dante's Divine Comedy so I can get to reading it.

I also received today another classical novel, "Prometheus Bound".  I was expecting another 3" thick of a thousand pages book like most of the classical literature book are, it is only one quarter of an inch thick.  Maybe it requires slow reading, and a lot of contemplation to get through,

Well, this is all I have for today, so over and out,

Philip

Catching up After 5 Days

 Wow!  Has it been 5 days already?

I'm still excited with my Purpose Driven Journal.  My friend Fritz was visiting a couple of nights ago and looked at the journal and found it interesting enough that he ordered one from Amazon on the spot.

Yesterday I spent a couple of hours on OIT Campus reading and contemplating on some of the topics listed in the journal, as well as reading a little in Dante's Divine Comedy.  I also took a little walking tour around the campus just for the exercise and inspiration.  In fact I'm thinking visiting the campus on a regular basis, just for inspiration.  I'm also considering following OIT's Basketball team home games this season, fifteen years ago I was quite a fan for several seasons.

I found a secondhand junk store I had never noticed the other day, I went in and made a quick survey and found it very exciting with lots of useless goodies.  I plan to go back in tomorrow and give it a good going over.

I also have started the construction of a wooden model sailboat from a kit I bought sometime in the past, I hope I have the guts to finish it being the procrastinator that I am.

Well, this is all for now,

CUL8R

The Purpose Driven Life

 The Purpose-Driven Life Journal

Our local City Library has a used book store adjacent to the Library.  I went in there today to see if I might find something that interested me.  I found nothing of interest until just the last minute, it was a leather bound, gold gilded page edges, 6" X 9" Journal.  It is titled, "The Purpose-Driven Life Journal".  It's theme is, "What on Earth Am I Here For?".  It is a forty day long journal, with questions to answer relative to the theme each day.  I started it today with the question: "How can I remind myself today that life is really about living for GOD, not for myself?  I have contemplated the question and entered my answers in the journal.

Tomorrow, another question, my contemplation, my entry...

Rex

Nothing Important

 Nothing to report, I'm just filling in on what I have been doing.

The first thing I thing of is that somehow I got myself interested in collecting Doll House scale miniature books, along with the same scale Book Shelving.  They just look cute setting atop my monitor.

The other thing I have started collecting is, fake coinage.  I have accumulated some eighteen coins so far.  I'll keep collecting until something else catches my fancy.

Nancy is taking off tomorrow to go visit her friend in Roseberg Oregon.  She may not be back until after my upcoming birthday, September First.

I'm at the fifty percent point in my reading of Dante's Divine Comedy.  I have been procrastinating in my reading, I still trying hard to stop those behavers.

I have been doing, what is to me, a considerable amount of yard work this summer, mowing our front and back yards lawns, as well as collecting a lot of trash and junk to take to the City Dump.

Another activity I have started, that will please my Daughter, is taking an approximately half mile walk around my neighborhood three or four times a week.

Still another thing I have going, I'm CAD modeling the Tesla Pickup Truck.  I have a scale model of it that I am using for reference.  I'm about 90% complete with it, when finished I will post a copy of it on this blog.  Thinking of that, I have some older CAD models that I may post too.

Another thing I have been thinking about doing, to increase my reading motivation, is to go hangout an the OIT Campus commissary, to read in an invigorating atmosphere.  Maybe do some of my walking too.

Well, I guess this is all I have for now, so I'll say, so long,

RexPhilip

The Apostles After Jesus

 The Apostles After Jesus, Luke's Story of the Apostle Paul.

I just finished viewing this three hour long movie on Amazon Prime; it was a very good movie and very informative.  From this movie I learned many things about Paul, that I had not previously known.  Again, I strongly recommend this movie to anyone interested in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Amen,

RexPhilip

Dali Lamma

 Oh, I forgot to mention, I got the opportunity to meet the Dali Lamma here in Klamath Falls.  Ben Kerns, the leader and founder of our Great Books Reading club that we had here in Klamath Falls, at some point in his life had met and become friends with the Dali Lamma.  The Dali, Lamma having been on tour in Northern California, gave Ben the opportunity to invite him to Klamath Falls.  Believe it or not, The Dali Lamma accepted to invitation and came here for a visit.

During his visit he delivered a conference at the Oregon Institute of Technology, for any and all that wished to attend.  Many attended, including all of our Reading Group.  The highlight of the conference was that anyone wishing to personally meet and greet the Dali Lamma could do so, and I did!

With good wishes for all,

RexPhilip

Seven Years in Tibet

 Seven Years in Tibet, a movie.

I just finished viewing this film, made in 1997, staring Brad Pitt.

It was v very interesting and enjoyable film, a little over two hours long.  The story is of an Austrian, Heinrich Harrer who in mid 1939 went on a mountain climbing adventure in Tibet, during which WW II broke out.  He was arrested in Tibet as a war prisoner.  After a year or so he broke out of the prison and escaped into the province of the Dali Lamma.  While there, for a considerable time. He and the Dali Lamma became life long friends.  He returned to Austria 1n 1951. The entire film is a story of compassion, love, and major life living wisdom.

I feel grateful and enlightened for just stumbling upon this story.

With worldly love,

RexPhilip