Defy The Gray

10 May 2009

Mother's Advice

Dear Mum:

You can have the note back now. I'm pretty good at ironing. I've come a long way since those days. Thanks for all the little things you've imparted to me over the years. My life is rich and full because of your love for me!

troy.

04 May 2009

Audio«»Visual

Photo by Trey Ratcliff [Stuck in Customs, Flickr]

Sufjan Stevens . Vitto's Ordination Song [follow link to mp3]

10 April 2009

29 March 2009

One Year

09 March 2009

enjoy the silence

Photo: Robert Stadler

"I think the devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds...Satan is quite aware of the power of silence."

-Jim Elliot

I challenge you to spend the next 5 minutes in silence -- "unplug" from your electronics, turn out the lights, close the door and simply stop whatever it is you're doing -- and then just sit and bask in the silence. I think it's safe to say that God is at work even when we're not.

Somewhat adapted from Mark Driscoll's, Sound Wisdom
RELEVANT Magazine . March-April 2009

27 February 2009

Home Alone

See what happens when my wife leaves me home alone on a Friday night...I go and redesign the blog!

Earlier this week it occurred to me that I needed to update the design a bit. I knew I wanted to go with words only (i.e. no pictures) in my redesign of the header. I tweaked the dark gray background color until it was perfect (probably spent a little too much time doing that!) And then I found the font -- it was pretty close to what I had in my mind's eye -- close enough that I didn't have to troll the internets to find THE PERFECT FONT. That saved me a few hours, no doubt. So then I like played with all kinds of textures for the header, but I just keep coming back to the clean and simple look of the gray by itself.

Then I tweaked some of the background colors to better match the header. I even experimented with some oranges and blues for the sidebar colors, but again, feeling the mono vibe tonight. Oh...and I so wish Blogger allowed you to pick whatever font you wanted for the main text areas, but alas, it doesn't -- so I play within their rules.

Do you even care about any of this?

Probably not, but what can I say, I got home from work at 5pm, changed out of my work clothes and have been messing with this every since. I'm just now starting to realize that I'm a bit hungry. Must take care of that...