Minutiae

I wish that "Minutiae" was spelled without the second "i". I think "Minutae" is better. How do you even deal with the phonetics of "iae," and how does that become "shuh"? (I guess my way is no better for that question.) Poor people learning English as a second language...

My today was better than my yesterday, and for that reason it was great.

I was reading over a blog post from a few weeks ago today and I noticed several significant typos. I've never seen these before, even though I've read this post several times since putting it up! But I guess they must have always been there, because the only other alternative is that Blogger gradually is stealing my letters? Weird...

We're having staffing and payroll problems at work, and so as a result of all of this I am just a lowly cashier for about half my shifts these days. No super powers for me. I thought it would be hard to adjust (I've had lead shifts for the last nine months straight), but it's been okay. Sometimes I feel bothered that those with less supervisor experience than me aren't the ones on till - but the ones with more supervisor experience are in the same boat as me. Last week I felt kinda frustrated at the job and I realized that I like supervising much better, and it was nice to realize that. This week even cashing was fine.

I talked to Trevor about faith today at work. He's the one who wears the WWJD bracelet, and we've had some little talks about Christian things before, like Jesus fishes and whether they're copyrighted and whether that fish stick company knows that and who we would talk to to find out (the Pope?). Today we had a lunch break together and no one else was around. I don't really remember how it came up. I told him about the book I had with me (Josephus). And then maybe we talked about Easter? Yeah, that's it. I asked him a question about curling (there's a TV in our break room, and it's always on the sports channel, and lots of the sports that are on TV are dumb. My apologies if you like curling or TV poker), not realizing he was checking his cell phone messages, and then he told me about the message he had from a friend who wanted to hang out, but he's got something else planned for that time - he and his girlfriend are planning to watch the Passion of the Christ together this week, 'cause it's the only time they'll have to do it before Easter. He's going to be gone on holidays over Easter break, so it won't really be like Easter for him, especially since no one else in his family is Christian and he tends to spend the religious holidays with his girlfriend's family. I was surprised to hear that his family isn't Christian. At this point I only had two minutes left on my break, but I asked how he became a Christian if it wasn't through his family. Then he clarified, "You're Christian?" and I said yes quite unburdenedly and then I told him that my family is not Christian either and gave him my testimony-in-thirty-seconds (just the happy stuff), and then he told me his testimony-in-thirty-seconds. It was his girlfriend who brought him to church and to an interest in Jesus, and this was a recent thing - Sept 19. He told me about how he wants to get baptized and I told him to let me know when and I'll come. And then I had to go back to work. It was a really good talk, and afterwards when I was covering a break in the tobacco cage I wrote him an "I enjoyed that" note.

I want to pray, "May he never grow up. May he never grow out of his faith." But... I don't mean that. Growth is beautiful.
τελειoω: make perfect, complete
May he grow ever nearer to You.

Now it's really really really late at night. How did that even happen?
Aha! Daylight Savings Time! My computer automatically sets its time. No wonder I feel like I lost an hour!

Goodnight!