tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-180105912024-03-07T01:54:42.885-08:00...Deep Thoughts... D. B. Wagner D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-80284757203722652362008-09-28T19:11:00.000-07:002008-09-28T19:20:21.151-07:00SaddnessIn looking at the state of the Church, I see great sadness. Men confidently get up and proclaim truths which they have no basis for, other than thier own selfish motives. Is there really no one in the church with enough discernment to tell that these guys are phony. The truth of God's word is never ending. It is solid, and cannot be distorted for the pride and arrogance of man. I begin to understand what Peter and the disciples felt, when Jesus said to them, "do you wish to leave as well". Peter replied, "where else would we go Lord, you alone have the words of eternal life". I am no saint, but at least I have the sense to remain on the sideines where the judment is less severe. But when you self-promote yourself to a teacher, you are walking a dangerous line where the standard to which you are held is higher. It is no wonder that the world laughs when it sees us, no wonder that we can accomplish so little on this earth. Our leaders puff one another up with vain words, and are concerned more about the praises of men, than the one who gave his very life for us. Have mercy on us, Lord Jesus Christ, son of God.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-32641286539781788852008-04-09T18:57:00.000-07:002008-04-09T19:02:28.306-07:00I wana be a rock starWhat a joke, actually I have spent an immense amount of money on guitar equipment this year.<br />It is actually pretty cool, because now i sound like ten foot tall when i play. Which is a pretty good accomplishment for a guy that is five foot six. I seem to be in a weird stage of life lately, and I'm not really sure which way is up, but i do know that life is changing; like i am entering a different era. Hopefully for the good, that is my hope anyway.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-30759400065220714292007-12-24T21:10:00.000-08:002007-12-24T21:14:47.589-08:00Three DaysWow, three days and I haven't had any computer related stuff to do. Sometimes I feel like I am just plugged into the Matrix. I just spend all my time either working on computer stuff (work) studying for certifications (just passed my CCNA) or working on websites in the evening (extra cash). It all starts to get old after a while, and three days of Christmas time with nothing to do but relax, spending time with my wife and kids has been pretty awesome. It is kind of nice to have a real life again.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-92114426275801994562007-11-05T08:21:00.000-08:002007-11-05T08:24:13.480-08:00PassedHey, I just passed my CCENT certification, the first of many Cisco exams i have to take. Now i only have 6 more to go. Zoinks!!<br />Thanks to my wife and kids who put up with me while i have been studying subnetting, and ones and zeros ever night...D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-5939625803503827622007-10-26T19:25:00.000-07:002007-10-30T19:27:42.432-07:00SickMy daughter was so sick last night, she was vomiting and shaking like i have never seen. The crazy part is she was up half the night vomiting, and stuff and didn't even remember any of it. The weird part is I submitted her name to the IHOP prayer staff the night before to have them pray for her asthma to be healed.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-54830818027610520672007-10-23T12:08:00.000-07:002007-10-23T12:19:34.212-07:00GomerI am constantly reminded that God's love for his people is great. The book of Hosea reveals just how much God really does love his people. As a husband who has been wounded by the sins of his wife, he forgives her time and time again. Hosea's wife Gomer gave herself to other men, and lovers, and yet God tells Hosea to continue on loving her. God willingly commits his servant to a life of utter humiliation, in order to demonstrate His great love for us. Why does God care, why not let his people go astray, and ultimately let them destroy themselves through their own wickedness. My guess is he can't. He can't because his very nature, very fiber of his being is love. That kind of love i simply don't understand, but I know when it touches me. I know that when i experience God's love it cuts through all of my sin and guilt, and the darkness surrounding me.<br />"even the darkness is not dark to Thee, and the night is as bright as the day" -psalm 139 There is no where i can go, where God's love cannot reach me, which is why he willingly humiliated his servant. To tangibly show his people the extent of his foolish love.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-71622076520731108962007-10-15T18:05:00.000-07:002007-10-15T18:08:01.635-07:00Long time no seeWow, it has been a terribly long time since I have blogged. I haven't really run out of things to say, just time to say it in. I have been really blessed with a great job, and couldn't be happier. Things are going decent at home, and all is on the up and up. It seems like things always look darkest before the dawn. Just when your eyes are strained and cant seem to focus any longer. Day breaks forth like a mighty chariot drawing for the sun, in splendor and glory. It is good, when things go good, and life is peaceful, and filled with light.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-49530431963151621252007-05-22T05:33:00.000-07:002007-05-22T05:36:15.185-07:00The time is commingWow, I cant beleive it, a time is comming for me, that I have been waiting for for three years. I think I am about to arrive at a really great career oppourtunity. I am so psyched yet it seems surreal. I think that once this is completed, I will have some good job satisfation, at a job I really enjoy.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-51124839216746734632007-05-08T21:32:00.000-07:002007-05-08T21:34:58.867-07:00Almost a yearwow it has been almost a year since I have posted on my blog. I have been so busy I haven't really had any time. I have been doing web development in all my spare time. It seems like I get home from work, and then I just go to the computer and start hacking out the code. It exciting sometimes, but sometimes it gets frustrating. Anyway I might be looking at some new opportunities at work, and may be up for a promotion. That would be pretty sweet. Good talking to you again blog.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-28761202514044285812006-09-12T16:19:00.000-07:002006-09-12T16:24:50.558-07:00I hate youI hat you, you are the mennist did in the hole universe. Well, at least i am not the meanest dad in the whole universe. Whew that was a close one. It really sucks when you have to discipline your kids, and then they tell you they hate you. It seems like it is so much easier to just let them get away with whatever they want, and then blow up when you cant take it anymore. Sometimes I hate being a parent. Not that I hate having kids, I generally love that part. I hate the fact that I have to discipline them, it would be nice if they made self disciplining children. So they just did what they were supposed to do, and you didn't have to tell them more than once. But that would be a perfect world.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-1155873852158458902006-08-17T21:01:00.000-07:002006-08-17T21:04:12.166-07:00It is finqueHey i finally finished my website <a href="http://www.blueflamingo-media.com">blueflamingo media</a>, it is fairly cool so go check it out. and give me some money, cause lord knows I'm broke.<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><a href="http://www.blueflamingo-media.com"><br /></a>D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-1154703789569795302006-08-04T07:58:00.000-07:002006-08-04T08:03:09.580-07:00Life StinksMel Brooks was in a movie a long time ago called Life Stinks, in which he finds out what life is really like for most people. I sometimes feel like my life has been one continual disappointment. It is realy disappointing that I have never amounted to anything. In my idealistic youth, I thought I would be someone important, I would do something important. I have found though that everystep of my life has been one big devaluation. I just feel lost and hopeless about the world we live in. It seems like I have just spent most of my life at the point of tears, with no real sense of hope. Life Stinks sometimes, and wounds can be deep.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-1154104466130685222006-07-28T09:25:00.000-07:002006-07-28T09:34:26.146-07:00What to do, what to doI never really felt like the SAN administration job was the right thing to do. But now I am faced with two opposing problems. Do I work towards becoming a web developer, or stay in the techie field as a Web Analyst. I guess that either would work ok, but the Web Analyst at least comes with some finacial rewards. However the Web Analyst also comes with on call responsabilities. That sucks, how do you know what to do, I guess you looks at the doors that have blatantly come open to you, and you walk through them. That would be my best guess.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-1153766669182350722006-07-24T11:41:00.000-07:002006-07-24T11:46:19.990-07:00What to doDo you ever sit back and wonder if you are doing what you are supposed to be. It never ceases to supprise me how much of a failure I can be, at the things that are truely important. Sometimes I just want to know that what I am doing has meaning. Sometimes it feels like so much of what I am doing is meaningless. What is the point of all of the world we live in. It just seems meaningless, meaningless, meaningless. I wish I could know at every point along the way that I am doing what is right, and good in the eyes of God.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-1153402930919560822006-07-20T06:41:00.000-07:002006-07-20T06:42:10.930-07:00this is a testthis is a post made from Johnson countyD. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-1153142184943992052006-07-17T06:16:00.000-07:002006-07-17T06:16:24.956-07:00Stay focusI've got to stay focused, I've got to....D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-1152499124408586192006-07-09T19:32:00.000-07:002006-07-09T19:38:44.426-07:00Nothing certainWell, I basically have two websites completed. I have <a href="http://thevelvetstitch.com">the velvet stitch</a> and i have <a href="http://realunfinishedwoodfurniture.com">wood world</a>. Sometimes I don't know what I am doing, it seems like I spend all kinds of time on the computer in the evenings, and neglect the things that are important. I guess if I want to get into web development, I should keep after it. But is that my own desire? Nothing seems certain anymore.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-1151697018058902992006-06-30T12:46:00.000-07:002006-08-04T08:24:42.966-07:00Next weeks episode:Have you ever had somebody make promises to you. It really sucks when someone has the oppourtunity to fullfill those promises and doesn't. Actually they end up just shitting on you. Pardon my french. I am super disapointed in the lack of overall trust that I have placed in some people, who then turn around and just leave me in the dust. I guess the wounds of a friend of a friend are faithful, but the kisses of an enemy are decietful.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-1151360308064649502006-06-26T15:12:00.000-07:002006-06-26T15:18:28.100-07:00weekly blues<p class="MsoNormal">I have been so stressed out lately; it seems like possible nuisance keeps repeating itself in my life. I get really sick of all the crap we have to put up with in this world. I just really want to be able to lie on a beach with white sandy shores. And every couple of days have the mail man deliver parcels from friends around the world. Maybe I should sell everything I own, and purchase a sail boat, and become a world trader. Might not be a bad idea, I am just tired of the daily rigmarole that seems so monotonous. Like a drip, drip, dripping of water on the forehead, but it never seems to escape. We never seem to get away from the constant mortality of life.<span style=""> </span></p>D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-1147379606114570792006-05-11T13:29:00.000-07:002006-05-11T13:33:26.133-07:00Blue grassSometimes it is easy to forget how stable and good you have things. Sure there are more exciting things in the world that I could be doing, more lucrative as well. But that doesn't account for the stability that I have in my life. It is so easy to long for the greener grass on the other side of the fence, that you forget it is really blue grass. Which turns its tail at the first sign of drought. It looks beautiful and plush when it is well watered, but it doesn't have the stablity I need in my life.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-1146154491814436632006-04-27T09:13:00.000-07:002006-04-27T09:14:51.826-07:00Dust in the WindSometimes it is difficult to find direction in life. It seems like time is wasting away, and that we are not really doing the things that we can, the things that we should. I guess I feel like a stanger here, but I guess that is a good thing.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-1145907870656078022006-04-24T12:40:00.000-07:002006-04-24T12:44:30.656-07:00Things that don't mean muchIt has been a while since I have posted on my Blogger site. I have been way to busy and havent spent enough time reflecting. I have been working on some webdesign for some people. I am actually getting pretty good at it. It allows me an oppoutunity for my creative juices to flow. However, it seems like I spend way to much of my life in front of a computer. I even journal in front of a computer. How sick is that. I guess that most of life is rushing by, I just want to forget about all of the problems that I create for myself and start enjoying life. I have two kids and a beautiful wife, who I neglect more than I should. I just want to start living again, and forget about all the things that steal my time. Things that don't mean much.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-1140724052103323782006-02-23T11:47:00.000-08:002006-02-27T08:13:10.600-08:00Latin the Language of Scholars<a href="http://www.yuni.com/library/latin.html"></a><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> "Asinus asinum fricat"</span><br />Man this <a href="http://www.yuni.com/library/latin.html">website</a> is a wealth of humor and wit. I would highly recomend it to anyone who has either too much time on thier hands, or not enough to do. You could spend hours learning tidbits of useful latin to impress your friends with. Most of all you can have the pleasure of speaking a language that was once, and still considered the language of scholars.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-1140660642590909982006-02-22T18:09:00.000-08:002006-02-23T05:54:55.256-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6844/1751/1600/me.1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6844/1751/320/me.1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6844/1751/1600/me.png"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></a><br /><br />I am really not just super egotistical, trying to litter my blog with flaunted pictorials of myself. I needed to post this picture somewhere, in order to reference it for the header on my blog. Hopefully soon it will disapear into archival haven, and never really be dug up again.D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18010591.post-1139360061137047532006-02-07T16:48:00.000-08:002006-02-07T16:54:21.143-08:00City Lights<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6844/1751/320/New%20Ones%20197.jpg"><img style="CLEAR: all; FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6844/1751/160/New%20Ones%20197.jpg" border="0" /></a> Did you ever feel like you weren't doing what you were supposed to be. I wonder sometimes if I have missed the boat, and the last call has been given. I find myself struggling with wanting to advance in my career, and having started so late; and conversely shrugging the trappings of a career driven lifestyle. I contemplated today, what would life be like, if I simply walked away from the rat race, and became a farmer. Certainly life wouldn't be easier, but is Agrarianism true? Are we devoid of our un-familiar roots, and have we lost the way. What do I want to do with my life. That is a question I still cannot answer? <a href='http://picasa.google.com/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a> D. B. Wagnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831732171996456648noreply@blogger.com1