Tea, please

So today there was a whole pot of coffee made available for the office.

This isn't a totally typical occurrence; if the staff needs caffeine to function in their daily lives, they must get it elsewhere. I guess daily communal coffee just isn't a thing here.

I for one drink tea every morning with my breakfast before heading out the door, and subsist quite happily on that.

However, there was free, available coffee today - enough for all, as they say in Robert Lawson's "Rabbit Hill" (actually that was about garden vegetables, but never mind).

Snowstorms can bring out the best

This morning I awoke to see a nice hearty dosage of fat snowflakes falling from the sky, covering the still-existing snow from the many snowstorms prior, and caking the roads in a miserable mess of whiteness. (Yes, the wondrous joy at the sight of fluffy precipitation was lost on me several blizzards ago.)

Thankfully, I made it to church without any problem, and upon arriving in the parking lot, I was impressed to see a number of cars there.

Unnecessary caption. We all know what snow looks like.

I got to the entrance way, stomping snow from my boots (not that it mattered, since melting snow was everywhere), and proceeded to the main church.

The caller

"What kinda journalist are you?" asked the caller.

It didn't matter that the caller was an elderly and slightly hard-of-hearing individual, and likely calling because my number was one of the main ones on the list inside the newspaper.

Wait, that wasn't Christian radio?

I don't keep up with mainstream artists, so I guess I can't be blamed for thinking that, while browsing the stations on my commute to work, I had stumbled upon K-Love with a new inspirational song.

However, after looking up the song online with piqued interest, I was astonished to see that the the artist was none other than Katy Perry, and the song was called "Unconditionally." You may be laughing at me if you already knew this, but if this song is unfamiliar to you too, I'd suggest listening to it. (I've included a video with just the lyrics, so you don't have to sit through the trippy oddness of her official music video.)

It's January already?

As you may notice, I've revised the look of this blog. I was feeling a bit too crowded with the chunky colored shapes of the old template, so with my first (and greatly delayed post) of 2014, here's a brand new appearance as well.

(On that note, if anyone has any comments/criticisms/suggestions about the new appearance, let me know.)

Some basic thoughts on the relevant topic of new year's things: