rustypants speaks

youth pastor. husband. idiot. why should you care? it's beyond me.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

so harry potter and the half blood prince was good but much less impressive than book five. why? i think i'm growing tired of the repetition in the series - it seems that the same interactions with the same people spark the same reactions and it just drags on for me. i was all for some major character finally dying (yay!) but the book didn't actually CATCH me until about page 450. book five will remain my personal favorite for now.

i think i've put my finger on why i don't put much into this blog:

i'm a youth pastor - my life consists of two main things: my wife and my youth group kids. i love both of them to death.

as a husband, what lise and i go through, etc. is generally none of anyone else's business. and besides, one mans "interesting" is another mans "mundane" - why bother.

as a youth pastor, i don't get the luxury of (nor would i want to) spewing a lot of crybaby crap about how everything sucks all the time or conspriacies or other whatnot. seems like this is a lot of what blogs / livejournals / xanga / myspace / etc are used for. i suppose they serve a purpose, although what that purpose is, i don't exactly understand.

i guess what's gonna have to happen is that the three of you who read this blog will have to be content with what you get here. i don't expect to make this a daily or particularly revealing.

cool?